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Solutions for Grand Ave crossing in planning stages
LAURA CESAFSKY
Amid reports of an impending crackdown on disruptive jaywalking by the St. Paul Police Department, Macalester and the City of St. Paul are in the advanced stages of planning a project aimed at minimizing the nuisance created by the combination of heavy vehicle traffic frequent pedestrian crossings on Grand Avenue.
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Exiled leader of Chechnya to speak
By DANIELLE LANGONE
Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Ilyas Akhmadov will speak on campus at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5. History Professor Peter Weisensel and Political Science Professor Andrew Latham will also be speaking.
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Program Board plans ice skating rink
By PETER GARTRELL
Framed by the sidewalks between Olin-Rice and the Macalester Stadium, just a couple meters northeast of the baseball stadium is a drainage ditch, the bottom of which is filled with sand; busy with pawprints, this depression looks very much like a giant litterbox. With a little help from mother nature, the Program Board will soon have the City of St. Paul flood the site, turning the sandy bottom into the foundation of a new ice-skating rink. The effort to build the rink, spear-headed by Miguel Nieto '04, Chair of the Program Board and Nate Abbott '05, Chair of the Program Board Special Events Committee, began to evolve earlier this fall.
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The cycle of life: reflections on a gardener's labor of love
By DANIEL UNGIER
Thank you, grounds crew, for raking the leaves all over campus and bagging them for us gardeners. Last Sunday, I dragged about ten bags of maple, elm, ash, and other leaves to the campus MULCH garden and spread them over all the exposed soil, laying down a good layer of bedding for the winter. I was performing what is really the last act of the season, acknowledging that it is finally winter. For both the garden and me, it was the last day of the year and it was goodbye.
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Dia de los Muertos on Lake Street
By RACHEL TENNEY and JULIA EAGLES
On November 2, a group of Lives of Commitment students visited Lake Street for the Dia de Los Muertos celebrations. Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday, is when family members pause to remember dead loved ones and celebrate the continuity of life. Traditionally ofrendas, or shrines, are created, featuring photographs and mementos of the decreased.
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Fusing Christianity, history and empowerment
By SENAM GBEHO
We moved to Ghana when I was almost seven years old. Though I was young, the extent to which casual conversations used a language scattered with biblical clichés was still apparent to me. The universal greeting "How're you doing" frequently followed up with a courteous "By God's grace I'm fine" were adopted from the languages and religions of the descendants of Portuguese traders and Christian missionaries who inhabited southern Ghana.
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Lucy's Love Column: The teacher-crush imaginary
By LUCY DINSMORE
Teacher crushes. Don't we all have them? If not here at Macalester, then at some point during our high school or middle school days? No? Well, if you have never had one, I suggest you try it. It goes something like this. You have a crush on this certain professor. You're walking down a hallway and you see your teacher sauntering, shuffling or plodding in your direction. They are out of the classroom context. You look up, you look down, you look up again just as they're passing and say, just audibly enough for them to hear, "Hi, Professor Smith," or "Hey Jo" or "Yo Teach." They may even respond and strike up a conversation. And you think this is a memorable moment. Then, you'll shift uneasily and say to them, "See you in class," and then you can't wait to get to class. After too many unsuccessful crushes on Macalester boys, I figured, I might as well start crushing on my teachers.
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The new Harry Potter? Yeah, it's pretty good, I guess…
By DANIEL BURGESS
Ah, sequels. Is there anything more spiritually fulfilling than watching a character you previously admired thrown once more into the Hollywood breach, emerging to fight evil again, this time with a wacky sidekick and a ditzy blonde by his side?
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Ideological constructs: Notes on the new Bad Comedy show
By DANIEL SWORD
This morning, I witnessed a rather remarkable event. A young, impatient student, presumably a First-Year, crossed Grand between Macalester and Snelling without yielding right of way, forcing oncoming cars to stop. A police officer witnessed this blatant disregard for the law and attempted to ticket the student for jaywalking.
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I am an anarchist: The early films of the Marx Brothers
By BEN SACHS
Along with the Reagan-era interpretation of Frank Capra's scary, self-denigrating It's a Wonderful Life as a feel-good Christmas movie, the re-discovery of the Marx Brothers' comedies––perhaps the most dangerous of their era––as family entertainment ranks with the weirdest trends in cinematic revisionism. Imagine if Salvador Dali's paintings became mandatory learning material in every grade school art class, and you might have an idea of how strange it is for so radical a talent to gain so lasting a mainstream success. While I don't resent the Marx Brothers' continuing popularity for an instant, I do find it a telling example of how comedy remains a misunderstood art form in this country (On a side note: The fact that Bill Hicks, the late, great stand-up comic whose commentary is now more vital than ever, was never nominated for a Nobel Prize blows my mind).
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Cuban Ambassador Dagoberto Rodriguez Barrera spoke on November 19. Photo: Renee Lepreau.Click here for the full article
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