Inside this Issue: Volume 93 • Number 14 • February 9, 2001
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Students enjoying a delectable lunch in the new Campus Center (photo by Chris Cotrell)
Campus Center opens doors, dialogue
By Nick Berning and Sarah Fazio
The much-anticipated
opening of the college's 18-million dollar Ruth Stricker-Dayton Campus Center
ended a two-year period that left students without a central gathering place
and, many said, without a sense of community. Most students responded with
excitement and enthusiasm to their new digs, though many find the transition
into the new building awkward and bewildering...
Fire Department uses French House for training
by Jonathan Beland
On the afternoon of January 25, 60
firefighters from six different engine companies showed up at 169 Vernon Street,
also known as the French House, with the intention not of stopping a fire,
but of starting one....
Schadenfreude sketch comedy group to perform Saturday
by Shannon Keough
The discipline of sketch comedy -
like, for instance, Sociology - is suspect terrain. Like the often-maligned
slacker major, sketch comedy is often unfairly marked by the legions of schmoes
who enter the field....
The Mac Weekly staff, Spring 2001. Top row (left to right): Anna Thompson, Megan Roy, Jane Turk, Kitty McCarthy, Federico Helfgott, Alex Koles, Robin Rich, Chris Berry, Nick Berning, Rob van Alstyne. Bottom row (left to right): Curtis Gilbert, Brent Nichols, Emily M Anderson, Danielle Maestretti, Jeff Jones, Jane Yager, Shannon Keough. Not pictured: Stephanie Davila, Sarah Fazio, Sarah Galbraith, Anthony Gonzalez, Kagabo Ngiruwonsanga, Ilya Winham.
Front Page News
Campus Center opens doors, dialogue
French Language house bids adieuFire Department uses French House for training
News
Student's travel to D.C. to protest Bush's Inauguration
News Briefs
Opinion
Helping
reconstruct the images of "Dear old Mac"
Students should take an active role in making of the
new Admissions video
Letters to the Editor
What's really going on at Mac today?
Our Perspective
Features
The
Cure for Winter Blues
Carnival temporarily thaws out St. Paul
Top Ten: World's Greatest Lovers
Music
Oh
Canada, we rock on guard for thee
Weakerthans bring potent blend from up north to tiny
Ascot Room in Minneapolis
Straight
out of France and into your ears
Tahiti 80 keep it fun and danceable for the people
on new 'Extra Pieces' release
Arts
Macalester Art Professors shine at gallery opening amidst amphibian boys, good wine
Shadow
of the Vampire:
Malkovich and Dafoe in a film that won't suck you dry
Schadenfreude takes pleasure in other people's sketch comedy
Sports
Men's
Basketball has up and down stretch
Scots win 4 of last 12 conference games-3 games
back from conference tournament berth
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