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Democratic responsibility on a local level
As we’re all aware, President Mike McPherson is leaving at the end of the year and the process to select a new president has begun. While many of us may not have had much (or any) personal contact with President McPherson, it is important to remember that the selection of the person who will ultimately represent the College is a vital one. It’s easy to go through the everyday motions; we all commit most of our time to coursework. When we’re not struggling to keep up with our workloads, the last thing we want to do is worry about who’s leading us as a body of students, faculty and staff.
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Weekly Allowance
By ERIK MORALES
I am a Macalester student,
Defined by my own dreams but labeled with a hyphenated identity,
Yet still solicited by Multiculturalism with a life-time warranty,
To guarantee a token in promotions,
Luring others….
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From first-year agnostic to Associate Chaplain
By EILY MARLOW
If I would have been told as a first year student at Macalester that I was going to have a religious vocation and return to Macalester five years after graduation in the role of the chaplain I would have fallen down. I would have probably dropped out and transferred to Reed or Oberlin in an effort to ensure that I would not have to live out such a dreadful fate.
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Young Clark Wohlferd’s letter to Santa Claus
By CLARK WOHLFERD
Dear Mr. Claus,
My name is Clark Wohlferd; I’m currently a senior here at Macalester. In a recent conversation with some friends I let my cynicism get the best of me by criticizing you too harshly. You see, Macalester is a diverse school that opens the eyes of its students to many worldly problems. Seeing as I had not received any presents from you for about ten years or so I felt it necessary to explain what I deem to be a social injustice. But being a good, proactive college student, I thought that rather than complain about my individual problems, I would actually take action to correct the wrongs against the world.
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Whole Foods is earthy, but not union-friendly
By SAM WORLEY-EKSTROM and DANNY SCHWARTZMAN
All around the country and the Twin Cities, workers are employed at low-income jobs that don’t pay the bills. Many companies value corporate profits over the well-being of workers. While CEOs are paid millions of dollars, some workers are not even paid living wages. Health benefits are often minimal or non-existent. Workers injured on the job often lack fair compensation. They have little or no job security and can be fired at the whim of their employer.
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Henry at the helm again: controversy over Kissinger
By ROLAND McKAY
In the past week since President Bush appointed elder statesman Henry Kissinger to chair the new Sept. 11 inquiry commission, Washington columnists’ hardest job has been to come up with new witticisms (much like the one above) that attract readers to the text below as they exchange journalistic salvos across the bows of the nation’s most influential newspapers. The interminable icon will make a return to Washington from his private political consulting firm in New York to lead the long-awaited investigation into the causes of the U.S.’s inability to predict the terrorist attacks. No sooner had the announcement of Kissinger’s selection been made public, that The New York Times issued an acerbic editorial (‘Henry Kissinger’s Entangling Ties’) followed by a steady stream of by-lined op-eds- ‘The Secret Life of Henry Kissinger’, ‘He’s Ba-a-ack’, and ‘Well, Hello, Henry.’
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Somebody please get that squirrel some hair
By ROBERT SPURLOCK
What is wrong with this dude? What is he anyway? A rat? A squirrel? A nutria? A lizard? Some say he’s a creation of Psychology Department lab experiments, while others have theorized that his hair fell out as a result of ChemLawn. The high levels of nicotine in his diet from foraging for cigarette butts and the ceaseless taunting he faces from the Black Squirrel and other larger, healthier squirrels surely haven’t helped matters.
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Women’s swimming and diving crush Tommies to keep winning streak alive
By EMILY ANDERSON
The Macalester women’s swimming and diving team continued to show that they are among the top teams in the MIAC Saturday, Nov. 23 at Leonard Natatorium, when they beat St. Thomas, 131–95. The women earned first-place finishes in 10 out of the 13 events to top the Tommies, improving to a perfect 4–0 on the dual meet season and 3-0 in MIAC duals.
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Men’s basketball drops two of its first three
By EMILY ANDERSON
The men’s basketball team, now 1–2 in the year in non-conference play, fell to the Falcons of UW-River Falls, Tuesday, Nov. 26 by a score of 86–73. The Scots got off to a slow start, falling behind 16-6. However, they soon went on a 16-6 run of their own to grab a two point halftime lead. Unfortunately, just five minutes into the second half the Scots saw their last lead of the game slip away as the Falcons went on an 8–0 run. The Scots could only manage to pull within two, 65–63, before the Falcons went on a nine-point run to put the contest away.
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Deer viscera, anesthesia, and Jenni-B: A Holiday road trip in the Midwest
By PETER BARTZ-GUACAMOLE
When one thinks about the Midwest, only one thing comes to mind: ROAD TRIPS.
This is obviously because in other parts of the country, there is too much to see when one drives in a car and thus the experience is tainted by regret and shame at not experiencing whatever metropolis or natural wonder you pass. But in the Midwest, with its ample helping of fields, plains and empty space, an early winter road trip is just the thing for bonding with friends. Nothing outside the automobile should distract you from the goings-on inside, and if it does, it is probably something lame like one black cow in a field of brown cows, and it is quickly forgotten. With this tradition of Midwest driving pervading our hopes and dreams, Josh, Helen, Hannah, Peter and I set out from St. Paul to St. Louis for Thanksgiving. This article will be my account of the trip (approximately 20 hours in the car round-trip) with quoted comments from other journeyers when appropriate to illustrate the atmosphere of that particular part of the drive.
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A genius has graced us with another Gossip Column
By ANONYMOUS
I have made a startling discovery: I can write. Not in an artistic or poetic way—but in a functional and academic manner. I can translate my ideas into sentences, my sentences into arguments, my arguments into paragraphs and my paragraphs into an overarching thesis.
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My Lady Baltimore: Little More than a Lady, Little More than a Cake
By KATHERINE TYLEVICH
I was never much of an outdoorsman. I was never much of a man, come to think of it. But lord knows, my old lady was. Figuratively speaking, she was a world renowned pheasant hunter. But, in reality, she was little more than a convicted exhibitionist. Now days, she remains locked up in a maximum security Siberian Gulag on three counts of indecent exposure, and I can’t help but feel a little responsible.
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