Coca-Cola Enterprises filed a police report Wednesday in an effort to stop vandalism of Coke machines by Macalester students and to catch the students responsible.
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Ruminator Books must raise $500,000 by Jan. 31 or close its doors and surrender its assets to Macalester College. The deadline for the independent bookstore was set by Macalester, Ruminator’s 33-year partner and largest creditor, after debts to the school exceeded $600,000 in September.
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The faculty will vote by mail-in ballot on the Educational Policy and Governance Committee’s [EPAG] proposal to discontinue the Russian Department, following a heated third and final debate at this week’s faculty meeting.
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The future of Central Asia is the subject of a symposium to be held Feb. 5-6, 2004. The four sessions will address water issues like the Aral Sea, Islam, global implications of Central Asian security problems and the future possibilities for the region in light of all these issues.
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The United States finds itself at an ultimate nadir. We occupy hundreds of thousands of square miles of central Asia’s most historically fractious territory. The nearly-forgotten Taliban has sprung back from Pakistani strongholds, and Saddam is finally free to join the audiotape-jihadist club.
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By ALICE HACKER, MAGGIE GRIBBEN, SOPHIE DALSIMER, JAY BOWMAN and PERRY BELLOW-HANDELMAN
We are a group of Macalester students who have been involved in the initiation of a boycott of Coca-Cola products on the Macalester campus. We were in no way involved in the recent acts of property damage to the Coke vending machines and we feel that the results of these acts have been completey negative. The resulting atmosphere is that people feel the views of others have been forced upon them, extra work has been created for those who had to clean and repair the machines, and dialogue concerning the actions of the Coca-Cola Company has shifted away from a dynamic conversation about workers’ rights and consumerism. We hope to reinitiate that dialogue.
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I was placing a book on a shelf in the library when he tore apart my stomach with a mail-order assault rifle. I was binging and purging with my girlfriends when my ass-hugging denim was splattered with intestines. The armed and angry schoolboys exacted their vengeance upon my American cliché inside a normal suburban high school. I died on the TV news and America’s teeth chattered rapidly, coked up on the taste of vulnerability.
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