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Dear reader, have you ever dreamt of Olympic glory? After extensive research, I have compiled a list of the easiest Olympic sports ordered from easy to extremely easy. Capitalize on this opportunity ...
Much as the end of summer might signal a closing of a door, it also opens another for many students each year: the beginning of their time in college. At Macalester, there has been a great deal of ...
Mac students were especially songful in 2024; the listening average increased from 46,670 minutes when The Mac Weekly did this survey in 2023, even though that year’s average included a monster ...
Say you were born into privilege, born into a well-educated and financially stable family. Say you chose to attend a private high school. How do you reconcile your upbringing with your fight for ...
Brian D. Lozenski is an associate professor of urban and multicultural education in the educational studies department. His research explores the intersections of critical participatory action ...
To begin the meeting, Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) Chair and MCSG president-elect Joel Sadofsky ’25 and committee-appointed student member Riley Hodin ’25 presented updates on the Educational ...
More than eight years after Macalester students first launched an organized fossil fuel divestment campaign, the Macalester Board of Trustees has decided to end all college investments in publicly ...
Edward Duffield Neill, the founder and first president of Macalester College, was a white supremacist and eager participant in the settler-colonization of Minnesota. Neill moved to St. Paul in 1849 as ...
How do I start this? I suppose the best way to venture to tell this story is by starting with what got me thinking about this in the first place. I always pick up a print copy of the paper on Fridays.
This week’s MCSG meeting began with a presentation from a potential new student group, Sunrise Movement at Macalester. “Sunrise is a climate org,” Dakota McKnight ’22 said. “We work specifically about ...
As the Israeli public begins its ninth week of massive protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s concentration of power, the far-right government is murdering Palestinians in the cities of ...
As the Campus Race to Zero Waste competition continues, Macalester’s sustainability department is re-evaluating their short and long-term goals. In collaboration with facilities, sustainability is ...