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Evaluating multiculturalism: from fictive acts to solidarity
By JOSHUA BERTSCH
Let me begin this piece by stating that my purpose here is not to indict Macalester, the administration, the faculty or anyone who goes here—I love Macalester—but rather, I hope to provoke thought on an issue that I believe hurts the entire community. Even at the point where we have the inception of an entirely new office to overlook it, Multiculturalism is suffering at Macalester. I hope this does not come as a surprise to anyone; from President McPherson on down to us students it should be almost palpable. If you have not realized that multiculturalism is suffering at Macalester, you need to find a minority student, be they racial, ethnic, sexual preference, political, religious, or otherwise, and ask them about the state of multiculturalism at Macalester.
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A vocation found in Haiti
By JOELLE VITIELLO
When I go to Haiti, in addition to my academic research I work with a very small NGO that deals with children who live in the streets, especially little girls, most of whom live in a cemetery. When the people who started the NGO asked me to meet with the person to whom they entrusted the daily work of helping the children and young persons, I did so and met a Salesian priest, Father Stra. He was very able to articulate his vocation to me and took me to visit all of his projects.
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Student President responds to criticisms of MCSG
By HARIS AQEEL
Its good to know, Dan Ungier, that you are invested enough in MCSG to be disappointed with it. All the hard work we've put into MCSG is finally bearing fruit. Our community is taking MCSG seriously, which is my only goal for the organization. My aim will never be to convince people that they should agree with every decision MCSG makes. You can expect, however, that we, your representatives, will always think and debate a great deal before we make important decisions.
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A liberal guiltily confesses
By ASHLEY KILE
Last Wednesday, my boss Cathy became one of the bravest people I know. She did something so outrageous, so utterly profound that I had to write in and make an example of her. So what was this miraculous performance? Cathy wore a Coleman button to work.
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Reinventing one's self: An African Perspective
By AMET TSIKATA
"If you think education is
expensive, try ignorance."
Ghanaian Proverb
I frequently find myself disappointed after foregoing leisure to attend some "much-hyped" talk/lecture only to discover that the speakers thump heavily on popular rhetoric. Its like riding ten consecutive times on the same roller coaster; it can get pretty unexciting. Fortunately, I experienced a much more informative session at the "less hyped" Afrika panel discussion featuring Macalester's finest Africanists (a term I discovered only recently).
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New public diplomacy efforts: necessary but crude
By ROLAND McKAY
"Our music is American, it's hip and it's something everybody can be comfortable with …." Thus ends an article funded by the U.S. Government on a group of D.C.-area Muslim-American rappers that are "totally American." So dappled is the text with reminders that the three black Muslims are ‘American' that the article only devotes a single sentence to the content of the group's lyrics—shunning bars, discos, clubs, dancing, alcohol and wind and string instruments. The piece is only part of a recent campaign by the State Department to market to the Muslim world the idea that their American counterparts are living happily after Sept. 11. "I didn't see any prejudice anywhere in my neighborhood after Sept. 11," exclaims Rawia Ismail in a government-produced video set for release in Indonesia.
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In an attempt to be as boring as the trend-setting menus
By JOSH NISSENBOIM
I went to some rock show at First Ave. and I really wanted to be there early because I hate being on the floor at shows where everyone is so sappy and wet. I wanted to sit at one of the tables, elevated at the perimeter of the floor. The best tables were taken when we got there, so we had to sit at the wobbly table right behind where all these tall people were standing straight and high-up, in front of our crooked, low faces. Three of us were sitting at this table and before some band came on this guy Rob came up and asked if he could sit with us.
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Queer for a night; QU and my body as spectacle-fantasy
By GREGORY GESTNER
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If you go to the dance, the dance, this is what you will see. You will see yourself, magnified, multiplied and mapped onto collegiate bodies. You will stroll between pre-parties, saunter around campus in sexual glee, and present yourself at the door of Kagin. Guards will let you pass the entrance, you will be ushered up the stairs, you will dance, you will laugh, gather with your friends on the sidelines, get lost in the crowd, see the cute boy with his shirt off and want to touch him. You will smirk and flirt and hike up your skirt.
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Jessica Bullen '05 -- Women's Soccer
Macalester midfielder Jessica Bullen '05 played a couple of outstanding all-around games to lead the women's soccer team to MIAC victories in its final two games of the season. Bullen scored a goal for the Scots in a Wednesday (Oct. 30) 4–0 win over Concordia and in a Saturday (Nov. 2) 2–0 victory over Gustavus. Bullen and the Scots finish the season at 11–2–5 overall and 8–0–3 in the MIAC.
Emily Koller '03 -- Women's Cross Country
Emily Koller '03 earned all-conference status by leading the way for the Scots with a 10th-place individual finish at the MIAC women's cross country championships Saturday (Nov. 2) at Como Park. The team's top runner in every meet this season, Koller completed the difficult 5000-meter course in 19:30. She was 10th out of 249 finishers and led the Scots to a seventh-place finish out of 12 teams.
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