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English Professor James Dawes shares his experience about interviewing Japanese war criminals, who were responsible for some of the greatest atrocities of the 20th century. "We never get the chance to talk to the perpetrators," says Dawes, who wrote That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity. "They agreed to talk to me because they're sorry." Here, he talks about that experience.

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July

Macalester Women's Basketball Coach Resigns [more]

June

Macalester names new athletic director [more]

May

Macalester Names new VP for Advancement [more]

Four students received Fulbright Fellowships Anna Plumb, Breanne Goodell, Emily Griswold and Roland McKay.

April

World Press Institute Announces 2005 Fellows-Award-winning print, news media reporters among 10 international journalists [more]

Macalester College Theater and Dance Department Presents Muhammad Maghut's The Jester [more]

Macalester awarded W.M. Keck Foundation Grant [more]

Cottonwood Student Wins 2005 MN State Geographic Bee Three Years Running- A First in MN State Geographic Bee History [more]

March

Macalester Hosts 2004 MN State Geographic Bee Friday- 100 Fourth - Eighth Graders Vie to go to Nationals in May [more]

Athletic Director Irv Cross to take on new position at Macalester [more]

Diane P. Michelfelder named provost [more]

Macalester Professor Don Celender Dies; Was Renowned Conceptual Artist [more]

February

Black History Month Events [more]

Macalester Sponsors Discussion on Human Rights Conditions in Haiti - February 28 [more]

Macalester Hosts Sixth Annual Japan Festival Featuring Japanese Drumming Group Mu Daiko February 20 [more]

Macalester College Theater and Dance Department Presents Molière's "The School for Wives" February 25-27 and March 4-5, 2005 [more]

January

K - 12th Graders to Attend African Music Ensemble Concerts Jan. 18 - 20, 2005 [more]

Macalester College Trustees Approve Financial Aid Changes will be Implemented for Fall 2006 Incoming Students [more]

Sixth Annual African American Studies Conference at Macalester "Incarcerated Intelligence: African Americans and the Prison Industrial Complex" February 11-12, 2005 [more]

December

Four College Choirs to Perform in the Annual Macalester Music Department Choirs' Concert [more]

November

Maxwell K. Hearn, Curator of Chinese Art, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will speak on "Art, Artifice, and Identity: Imaging the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-1795)" [more]

Macalester Students to Discuss 2004 Election at National Periclean Program Conference; "I Have a Dream Foundation" Founder to Receive Honorary Degree [more]

Macalester College Theater and Dance Department Presents Elizabeth Swados' "Runaways - The Musical" [more]

International Journalists talk about their impressions of the U.S. at the World Press Institute's "What's News?" Forum [more]

October

Macalester's Eleventh International Roundtable Explores
"America and Global Power: Empire or . . . ? [more]

Macalester College Theater and Dance Department Presents the Twin Cities Premiere of Ellen McLaughlin's "Tongue of a Bird." [more]

September

Robert Putnam to Speak at Opening Convo Sept. 7 [more]

Former Rep. and Civil Rights Leader Louis Stokes to Discuss 2004 Election at Macalester [more]

"U.S.-Japan, A 150-year Relationship" Conference Explored at Macalester [more]

August

Macalester Professor Receives ACLS Fellowship [more]

Macalester is 26th in U.S. News rankings [more]

Gainesville, Fla., Native Awarded National Scholarship [more]