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Macalester graduates face below-average debt
BRYANNA LONGLEY-POSTEMA
The American Council on Education (ACE) recently released a study stating that the average student acquires $17,250 in loan debt after attending a private four-year college. According to the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), of all recent graduates, over half have debts higher than lender recommendations.
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Chaplain visits South Africa
By ALAYNA PINE
Macalester College chaplain Lucy Forster-Smith recently returned from a two and a half week trip to South Africa. Traveling as a representative from Macalester with a group of Twin Cities clergy, doctors, nurses, dentists and educators, Forster-Smith sought to explore the issue of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and begin to foster connections with the Macalester community. The group consisted of representatives from House of Hope Presbyterian Church, the St. Joan of Arc Parish and Open Arms Ministry, a hospice/meal delivery support service for people living with HIV/AIDS.
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Diversity Weekend: a celebration of multiculturalism
By BRENT HECHT
This weekend, members of the Macalester community will celebrate diversity by absorbing poetic pathos, eating fancy (and free) food, discussing cultural karmas and, yes, even shakin' their rumps.
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Environmentalism links issues of race, class and gender
By SUSANNAH HANSEN
I am constantly subject to the teasing of my friends that I am "earthocrunchy" because I print on recycled paper and bring a mug to the grille. Many of my friends believe that the environment is boring and that they don't have to worry about it, because they know somebody else is. But there is more to being earthocrunchy than saving a few sheets of paper, and this ties into our undeniable dependence on and connection to the earth. Power structures and inequality cannot be understood without looking at how we interact with the environment.
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Keeping anger in check: reflections on recent election
By DAN SCHWARTZ
After waking up last Wednesday and learning the results of our latest exercise of popular sovereignty, I got really mad. First I became angry with the GOP, for winning yet another election. Then I became angry with the American public, or at least the single-issue voters who, according to my efforts to rationalize all of this, seem to comprise a large segment of it. After stewing in these thoughts for a while, I got to thinking about anger itself and I began to wonder just what good it was doing. So, I offer the following musings for your appraisal.
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After McPherson: Professor Samatar looks ahead
By AHMED I. SAMATAR
Academic institutions, much like the human beings who create them, are historical phenomena. Inspired by a particular dream, their evolution and development are shaped by an interplay between the sustaining power of the original idea, the vicissitudes of every age and the caliber of those who succeed the founding cohort. The beginning conception, then, if it is not obliterated by time, is reverberative and the basis for the longue durée. Consequently, taking seriously the heritage of an institution is indispensable. As Hannah Arendt instructs us:
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Political idealists, liberals will get Democrats going again
By NICHOLAS MEYER
After the pounding the Democrats took last week, every liberal pundit in the nation is wondering "What did they do wrong?" Not wanting to miss out on the fun, I'll add my two cents.
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Introducing Macalester's underground gossip column
By ANONYMOUS
When I am provost, I want two secretaries. On my way into the office, I will take candy from both of their candy dishes. If my secretaries finish all of my work and I become bored, I will pit them together in a wrestling match for my own amusement. I will never make coffee.
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Let's let these circles be unbroken
By BILL RAGALIE
Mr. Gus Wiznewski, in accouterments that could have well been fashioned by a gloomy Norman Rockwell, felt the slow, slurred rush of embarrassment for the first time in these last few days. Amidst his inner organs, within the torso a far cry from glabrous, amongst a plenitude of cellulose accrued from the reluctant "I've-got a-six-pack-it's-just-in-the-cooler" mentality in regard to his physique, and by dint of his daily intake of couple a' beers (in keeping with a staple diet of matter contrary to the recommendations of health professionals), he, mid-sentence, while verbally paraphrasing-though not in the manner of today's most enamored of sportscasters–the struggle which his neurons had waged, namely, to lay out the connection between himself and his cousin, his cousin's brother, or no, his cousin's lover who had once held residence in Soho, yes he, in a style like the early, puerile humor of Adam Sandler, farted dans une maniere gauche.
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Eminem performs, acts in 8 Mile: Doing movies so self(less?)ly
By BILL RAGALIE
In his two previous films, L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys, director Curtis Hanson took different stabs at Americana, first with a quintessential film noir set in mythical 50s Hollywood, and then with a "wouldn't it be funny if this happened" tale about the stereotypically rigid world of academia. 8 Mile, which opened last Friday, is the most realistic of the three, an unsentimental depiction of Detroit's underground hip-hop scene. Hanson, though, doesn't make his directorial presence particularly apparent; he relies on conventional techniques which shift most of the attention to the film's lead actor.
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Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven: The past is in trouble
By BEN SACHS
At two separate moviegoing experiences in the span of less than one week, I heard audiences burst into laughter during what I considered serious moments of films I admire. The first occurred during the Oak Street's revival of director Nicholas Ray's noir romance They Live By Night, which opened in 1947; the second was during an advance screening of Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, which opens at the Uptown today. The two movies may not seem to have much in common, but the fact that audiences felt compelled to laugh at both is particularly telling of how audiences react to movies today.
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Wallace, housing students since 1905, embodies the "Macalester Saga." Photo by Peter Bartz-Gallagher. Click here for the full article
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