The Educational Studies minor has undergone several changes since the last academic year.
Instead of completing their teacher licensure during the four years at Macalester, students must now spend at least a semester at another institution after graduation in order to meet state standards for licensing.
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Macalester College officials have turned down a request from the Minnesota Thunder, the local minor league soccer team, to play 10 of 16 home games at Macalester’s stadium.
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All quotes taken from past issues of The Mac Weekly
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1915 – Young Mac women beware! The Mac Weekly printed a stern warning to all first year women. “Freshmen girls are hereby given warning that it is a serious violation of the rules to accept dates with Senior boys or to allow themselves to be escorted home from class parties by an upperclassman.”
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Executive Director of the National Association for People with AIDS (NAPWA) Terje Anderson spoke Tuesday evening in John B. Davis Lecture Hall about changes in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV prevention programs.
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Sixteen teams of mostly first-years and sophomores participated in the annual Macalester College Bowl tournament held Sunday in the Campus Center.
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Alice Pedersen ’05 was walking on Selby Ave. Wednesday evening when three pre-teen girls attacked and attempted to rob her. The incident occurred in front of the J & R Cleaners and Laundry on the corner of Aldine and Selby at around 5:40 p.m.
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While Eileen Fitzpatrick’s Oct. 31 article “Organic farming shouldn’t be uncritically embraced” importantly raises the need for careful reflection of the growing organic food movement, I thought that her focus on “the blind following it has acquired” dismissed both the significance and problems of the rise of organic foods. Rejecting the simplification and glorification of the organic foods movement should not rebuke its value altogether, but rather provoke deeper thought about how to reform what is today a deeply diseased agricultural system.
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A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from someone in Admissions asking me if I would speak at a student panel for the first Fall Sampler, back at the beginning of October. That same week I was had also been chosen as a participant of a focus group for a new study Macalester has commissioned from a research institution. Apparently, I am the perfect little representative of the Macalester College community.
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This week, 20 Macalester students car-pooled to Miami to oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas [FTAA], that hemispheric expansion of liberalized trade enshrined in the existing North American Free Trade Agreement [NAFTA]. At the time of writing the protests had not started, though police had begun to arrest organizers. I was entrusted with statements written by several members of the Macalester delegation in advance of their leaving; I’d like to share parts of them here. The full statements, with any updates or links I happen to come into contact with are available online at http://www.macalester.edu/~ jmortenson/ftaa.html.
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The men’s basketball team hopes to improve dramatically on last year’s dismal season which saw them finish second to last in the MIAC following nine losses in their final 10 games.
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The BCS
The BCS, short for Bowl Championship Series, is college football’s poor excuse for a post-season. The BCS rankings, which determine the top two teams to play in the BCS Championship, are not as complicated as people like to believe. The two most important components of the BCS rankings are the poll average and computer ranking average. The poll average is an average of the Associated Press poll (mostly sportswriters who obsess over college football all the time) and the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll (mostly college football coaches who use bias, incomplete knowledge, popularity contests and voodoo to rank the teams).
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The men’s cross country team turned a summer’s worth of hard work and preparation into a much-improved season that leaves great anticipation for what this young team will accomplish next year. The improvement was obvious from the beginning when the team showed up in better shape then they had been in a long time.
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I attended this event as a wavering Dean supporter. Here, a few shades from Minnesota, I wanted to explore how Iowa Dems felt about the candidates and whether or not the other candidates were, as Kerry claimed he was, the “Real Deal.” Was Dean “unelectable?” Was his campaign composed of “West Wing” liberals and ignorant Internet kids? Or was it a collection of typical liberal causes uniting around someone more forthright than the Washington “centrists?” Did anyone’s partisan enthusiasm translate to support of the whole party?
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In what appears to be a sick twist of events, once-lovable Icee Bear, Hans “Happy Fingers” Izleman (imported from Brig, Switzerland to the Como Zoo in 2002 for purposes of breeding), violently attacked local Golden Valley infant Louie Goldberg last Friday, Nov. 14. According to zoo officials, Goldberg enraged the bear by crying and crapping himself. “Ye cannot blame thee bear!” Ernst Viezenshnoodle, professional foreigner and impromptu bear trainer reportedly yelled at paramedics at the scene. “Blame the wee bairn!”
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They’ve barely made it across Ohio when Billy Crystal turns to Meg Ryan and informs her that relationships marked with the possibility of romance can never work since “the sex part always gets in the way.” But what about when you willingly let it get in the way? After sex and maybe even after love, can sexual relationships transition to friendships?
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If you’re not playing Call of Duty right now, you’re wasting your time. Screw classes, homework, your job, and any social obligations. Get yourself a copy of this game and plug into the most intense computer game experience of your life.
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For the past three weeks, the Walker Art Center has paid tribute to documentarian Frederick Wiseman with a 12-film retrospective of his work. The series culminates tonight at 8 p.m. with a Regis dialogue between Wiseman and independent director Jim McKay. Wiseman has been frequently named the greatest living non-fiction filmmaker in America; regardless of whether one agrees with this description, few can deny the innovation and artistic integrity that mark his prolific 35-year career.
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Although I’ve now lived in the Twin Cities for over two years and attended numerous plays and music events, before last weekend I had sadly never attended a dance performance in the area—even though dance is probably my favorite form of artistic expression to watch. Maybe I knew I’d get depressed that I’d stopped dancing after 15 years of ballet, but no excuse suffices: I’ve missed dance.
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Food, Irish dancing, legs, deconstruction and sass—what more could a person ask for? The week after Thanksgiving break, the long-awaited fall dance concert, Straight Up, will take place. Ten Macalester students will present their own choreography in 11 dances. This show is very different from others because it is an entirely student-produced performance, so come support your fellow students!
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Last Thursday I was perplexed. I had just been informed that afternoon a concert designated as “all ages” had a 10 p.m. curfew. I was worried that my fantasized two nights of “indie rock bliss” were foiled. Both acts, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and The Shins had two opening acts and doors opened at six, logistically stunting any inspirationally epic performance.
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Some music is all about livin’ the crazy life. And don’t worry, I’m not referring to La Vida Loca. Ricky Martin can take a long walk off a short precipice in my opinion. Anyway, he’s not what I’m reviewing. This week, it’s all about Boston newcomers Apollo Sunshine. After two long years of prepping, on Oct. 7, Apollo Sunshine released their official debut album Katonah. The musical wisdom and capability contained in this album rejects the stereotypical image of a safe, boring debut. Simply put, Katonah speaks of experience. It’s an album that’s full of, for lack of a better word, craziness. But what would you expect from a band that once handed out over 200 pieces of gum to the audience just so they could chew in time to the rhythm?
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For those of you who miss the heyday of distortion-soaked alternative groups of the 1990s, Show Me Your Tears is not going to fill the void. When Frank Black struck out on his own after the demise of The Pixies and picked up his band The Catholics, he left that sound behind him. The music Black plays now is far from the creaking, distant strains of his famous past work such as “Where is my Mind?” and closer to that of others his age. Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits and other classic and blues-tinged rock ’n roll influences are present on Show Me Your Tears. Black himself states in the press release for the album: “There isn’t a happy one in the bunch.” But there is some fun to be had here.
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