by Ilya Winham

President Michael McPherson kicked off the school year at last Friday’s Convocation. The ceremony was held inside the Chapel, a break with the tradition of holding it on the lawn near the flagpole. Student attendance was low and many of the students who attended the convocation were required to do so as an assignment for a class. President McPherson began the event with a speech that emphasized what he believes to be Macalester’s purpose: cultivating citizen-leaders. He vowed to move beyond the “lofty heights” of examining core values, to more “practical questions” about strategic choices, directions and actions....

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Macalester's risky schemes: Mcpherson, Hornbach reflect on future direction for college
At Tuesday’s strategic planning forum, President McPherson and Dean of Faculty and Provost Dan Hornbach initiated a planning process that will continue throughout the year. With the help of the newly appointed Committee on Strategic Directions (CSD) and the rest of the Macalester community, McPherson hopes to make decisions that will map out the future directions that Macalester should take....

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by Jonathan Beland

Macalester’s Republican Revolution was born this past April on the 3rd floor of Dupre. That’s where Stephanie Seidl ’03, Richard Laukitis ’02 and Brent Nichols ’03 all lived, and where they, in the midst of sweatshop protests and core values discussion walkouts, first conceived of the organization known as the “Students for a Republican Revolution.”
Up until the official chartering and recognition of the organization, Macalester had been without a Republican student group for some time. However, by the end of last year, Seidl estimates that they had 15-20 people in the organization. Seidl and Nichols reported an influx of about 12 new members following the student organization block party, and the revolution continues to gain support. “We hope to have 30 [members] by the end of the year,” Seidl said.

Scots volleyball off to hot start

by Christopher Mitchell

Macalester’s women’s volleyball team won the Bethel Invitational Tournament last Friday and Saturday. This victory is just the latest highlight in a great start for Mac Volleyball this season. The weekend of Sept. 8 and 9, they placed 3rd in the Augsburg Invitational Tournament. It was during this tournament that Macalester beat the College of St. Benedict for the first time in 15 years. That victory also marked the 600th victory for head coach Stephanie Schleuder.
The team also recently faced St. Olaf, a long-time conference powerhouse, and lost the match after winning the first game.
At the Bethel Tournament, Macalester defeated Northwestern-Roseville and Wisconsin-LaCrosse on Friday. In the 3rd match, the Scots lost to Bethel. Macalester advanced to the championship after a tiebreaker because Bethel had lost to LaCrosse. In the championship, they faced St. Thomas, which had defeated them last year. Though St. Thomas won the first game, Macalester rallied to win in the ensuing 3 games with scores of 15–12, 16–14 and 15–10.

Fire closes Hamline library

by Curtis Gilbert

At about 11:15 last Wednesday night, the two to three dozen students in Hamline University’s Bush Library had their studies interrupted by an alarm: “Fire!”...

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by Ben Strauss

Last week I was heading back to my room to start on some work for class when I bumped into a friend who had just recieved the three page memorandum from President Mike McPherson in his SPO. We talked for a moment about the discussions last year regarding Macalester’s core values and he remarked that is seemed to him as if Macalester was changing. He argued that the composition of the student body, as far as he could tell, was getting more moderate politically. While he agreed that there were still students here who could be referred to as the traditional “bleeding heart liberals,” the activist part of our school that is so valuable seems to have lost some of its heart. One might characterize Macalester’s liberalism...

A major forgotten

by Stephanie Davila

Last spring Macalester sophomores found themselves rushing to the registrars office to finally declare their majors. It was a momentous and exciting time for most students, but for Gretchen Wolf it was a very frustrating time. Wolf, who is currently a junior, came to Macalester in hopes of majoring in Japanese Studies, however on that April afternoon when she went to the registrar’s office they informed her that she was unable to declare that major because it did not exist. Since she was in high school, Wolf has had her mind set on majoring in Japanese Studies....

Wild, wonderful word-tripping

by Suzan Morris

Have you ever let an ice-cool word slip to slither-spine from nape, to nestle gently in the welcome warmth of the delicate down there? Have you ever felt the mind-tickle-type-giggle of a new word wriggle from the nape of the neck to down deep in the middle of a spark of a mass of a bit of gray matter? Did you then fling your mind open wide for the sparklingly singular sensation to then thrill from therein, that the whistle-bang-pop-zither of that energy might form to push and then to smush the self-wrought limits of the very human mind to ecstasy and inspiration? If you haven’t...