The Mac Weekly - Student News from Macalester College

This year's winner of the Coca-Cola Scholarship at Macalester is Mai Youa Xiong '04. This $5,000 Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship is awarded annually to one student from each of Minnesota's private colleges. The 15 winning students were honored at a luncheon at the Governor's Residence last fall.....

McCurdy to Retire; 5 other professors say good-bye

by Anishka Jayaswal

David McCurdy, Professor and Chair of the department of anthropology, will be on leave for Spring 2001 and will retire at the end of the academic year....

Opinion

The code of conduct: Macalester wins, children die

by Evan Acharya

I was going through the pile of papers I had received in my SPO when I came across a memorandum from the President. It was about a college apparel purchasing code of conduct and I must say I was shocked to read its content. I come from Nepal, a third world country, where people worry more about meeting basic necessities than recounting the presidential ballots, so my perspective on the "Standards of Behavior" put forward by the memorandum may sound rather radical to many of my friends from the more developed nations. I understand that the people who came forward with the idea of such a "code of conduct"

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