by Jane Yager

Citing their frustration with Macalester’s resistance to their programming and goals, the board of the Dismantling Racism Group decided this week to disband DRG. In a statement announcing their decision, the group wrote that “institutional resistance on many levels has repressed growth to a point where the model of DRG has ceased to be effective.....

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Profile of first-year class

by Kat McLellan

The class of 2004 is smart. According to Nancy Mackenzie, the assistant dean of admissions, the first-year class has the highest median SAT score a class has had since 1967. The Admissions office does not currently know its median ACT scores.
Admissions compiles the statistics of the entering class into a report every year.....

Women in science and math group revitalize after lull

MCSG Election Results

Feminist scholar speaks on gender, globalization

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Billy Bragg = one man Clash?

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Jews are not sheep

Giving life to the Macalester activist scene

Taking the money out of computer science

Gore: the thinking man's vote?

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by RJ Maller

Economics professor Peter Ferderer recently added his signature to a letter criticizing sweatshop-monitoring organizations including the Workers Rights Consortium. Macalester joined the WRC this spring after extensive student protests, including an occupation of Weyerhaeuser Hall.
The letter, written by the American Consortium on International Trade and signed by economists from about 75 schools across the nation, is addressed to the presidents of universities and colleges. It requests a careful re-examination of the process by which sweatshop code of conduct decisions are made by schools like Macalester. The letter calls for careful discussion of sweatshop issues based on “the views of scholars in the social sciences, law, and the humanities … or of a broader campus constituency of fellow students and the entire community of faculty members.”.....

Inside the Campus Center

by Jonathan Beland

It cost 18 million dollars to build, required the destruction of two campus buildings, and has deprived the student body of a common meeting area for a year and a half. It’s the Ruth Stricker-Dayton Campus Center, and in a few short months it will open, but what will it give the campus?
The main floor of the center will have most of its floor space taken up by the new eating facilities. Previously, the food services were not scheduled to move into the building until the summer of 2001, but Bon Appetit now plans to move into the building in early January. According to Brian Wagner, head of Campus Programs
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Taking the money out of computer science

by Nicolas Lindgren

In almost every class I’ve ever taken outside of Olin-Rice, the first day of class always has that awkward introduction where the teacher asks everyone to say something about themselves. Almost every time I’ve said “I’m Nicolas Lindgren, I’m a [insert previous class title here], and I’m majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science,” I could almost feel an icy glare. When I meet people for the first time and tell them what my majors are, they almost always say, “So you’re going to make a lot of money when you graduate, right?” And I usually say, “Well, maybe.”
But that was never the point. I like CS because I like solving problems and creating new ones. I like analytical thought. And until recently, I never realized that CS is fraught with so many political problems.
“With the Internet, people everywhere have an opportunity to work, talk and play together.” We’ve been hearing that for a long time, and, obviously, it hasn’t exactly come true. Except for the computer geeks. From the birth of the Internet, geeks of all stripes have been able to share computer ...

Our secret agent on the move: Hamline and Summit

by Suzie Lindgren

I jumped as the phone shrilly interrupted my thoughts in the smoke-filled, windowless office. “Yes?” I answered.
“House in question on the corner of Summit and Hamline,” a gravelly voice drawled. “Seems to be a continuous party going on there. High society people moving in and out at all hours of the day. For the good of St. Paul, find out what’s going on there.” Click....