by Nick Berning

A program implemented in September named Zero Adult Providers is funding St. Paul police to stop underage drinking in the city. The extra money is adding to the number of officers available to respond to noise complaints, which gives officers more time to deal with individual calls. ....

NEWS
After a slow start, CMA elects new members

by Curtis Gilbert

The student body elected its twelve representatives to the Council for Multicultural Affairs on Wednesday, more than a month after Macalester College Student Government first began discussing the election process. ....

Días de los Muertos celebrated by students

Kristin Gore on the campaign trail: an interview with WMCN

Rally attracts stars who are not Kofi Annan

Local congressional results

NEWS BRIEFS
WPI hold forum
Holiday gift lists now online
Hunger & homeless week
Nominations for 2001 Internationalism Award
EnviroThursday

SPORTS
Men's soccer loses heartbreaking game to Gustavus Adolphus in double overtime

Women's soccer toppled in playoffs

Volleyball finishes high in MIAC

Football falls again, to Hamline

FEATURES
Spotlight on Ben Davis '01

Open house held at Walker and Guthrie

Mad about Mickey's

Kihn Do is a must-do

ARTS
Life is hard at the top of the pyramid

Amusing Republicans

MUSIC
Adams breaks heart, makes great album

OPINION
Reparations: what America owes to Blacks

The Mid East 'Peace Process' and the second Intifada

It's "first-year," dammit! Gender and the politics of language

OUR PERSPECTIVE
Election strange, confusing, important

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Vote for peace with your daily coffee consumption

Global warming: problems and solutions and MPIRG

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It's "first-year": gender and the politics of language

by Katie Kauf

I don't use the word fresh[man]. Awhile back in a Mac Weekly article, a columnist poked fun at the "political correctness" of substituting "first-year," saying roughly, "I don't buy that whole first-year nonsense." Well, if inclusivity is "politically correct" and somehow uncool, count me ultra-PC. I'd rather be inclusive than cool. When I talk about the use of the word fresh[man], I'm attempting to highlight a larger trend–that of the masculine universal, or he/man language. It's referring to groups of unidentifiable gender as "congressmen" or always using hypothetical examples about a "policeman" or even "mankind" or quaint sayings like "man of the people." It's also the use of the pronoun "he" to refer to the singular when speaking in the hypothetical. Maybe I just don't like this language, because, as a womyn, I'm excluded by it, and I really don't like the idea of there being activities that I can't participate in,...

Volleyball finishes high in MIAC

by Adam Johnson

The women's volleyball team finished off the 2000 campaign with a 22Ð8 record and a third place finish at last weekend's MIAC conference tournament. The 22 wins were the most the team has earned since 1985. The overall record and third place finish in the MIAC conference tournament was the team's best finish since going 40Ð11Ð1 in 1982. After earning a first-round bye by finishing 9Ð2 in conference and claiming the No. 3 seed, the Scots went to battle with Concordia. They came out and won a hard-fought first game 15Ð12 before losing the second 11Ð15. Tied at one game apiece.....

by Danielle Langone

"Drink blood, smoke crack, worship Satan, go Mac!" This is just one of the chants heard at men's and women's varsity soccer games most recently. Derogatory chants such as these have merited complaints from referees, opposing teams, and parents who attend these soccer games. "For the most part our fans are loyal and vocal and they really support the team," Dean of Students Laurie Hamre said, "but it has happened over the years that some of our fans have started cheering against the other teams instead of for our team." Some of the chants are directed towards the other school's religion or their intelligence, or towards the referees......

Reparations advocate to speak

by Jane Yager

Randall Robinson, a prominent human rights advocate and African American leader, will visit Macalester on Tuesday, Nov. 14 to discuss the possibility of reparations for slavery. Robinson is the president of the TransAfrica Forum, a think-tank specializing in African, Caribbean and African American issues. ...