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As is our yearly tradition, we spoke with The Mac Weekly’s graduating seniors about their time on the paper. These seniors have been talented writers, editors and leaders. The following interviews ...
Thank you to the Macalester community for 7 great years in St. Paul. Coaching at Mac has been a privilege and I am grateful for the ups, the downs, and everything in between. To have had the ...
The desire to see memories in advance. The fear that you’ve lived an ordinary life. The mesmerizing nature of a nighttime drive. The human experience is marked by these little awarenesses, oftentimes ...
On Saturday, Oct. 12, 1996, Macalester’s men’s soccer team was losing to nationally #2 ranked Amherst College. They’d managed a goal, but still faced a deficit at the half. Mac’s biggest soccer ...
In most debate programs — and in the broader world around us — rhetoric is primarily seen as a tool. Using rhetoric to argue a point better than anyone else, its value is derived from beating someone ...
When the weekends grow cold and dark in the Minnesota winter, many Macalester students pack into the A-line bus to ride the three stops up to the Charles M. Schulz-Highland Arena to watch their men’s ...
Last Wednesday, the Twin Cities woke up to streets blanketed with snow. After experiencing a long and cold winter, students ventured outside to capture the season’s “spring snowfall.” Here is how some ...
As audience members filed into the theater to see Macalester’s spring production of “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really,” the show had already begun. On an elevated platform between the two ...
Entering the final day of the MIAC Swimming and Diving Championship Meet, the swimming & diving Scots had already won five events, rewritten 10 school records and acquired one national qualifying time ...
On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the Macalester Undergraduate Workers’ Union (MUWU) made history. With a vote of 406 to 61, plus 26 challenged ballots, Macalester student workers unionized, officially ...
On Friday, Feb. 14, the majority of Macalester’s track and field squads prepared for a Collegeville, Minn. meet that would serve as a dress rehearsal for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic ...
Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began patrolling neighborhoods like mine, on the West and South sides of Chicago. The air feels heavier as ...