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Women’s swive dives into battle • Women’s swim and dive opened their season at the Rochester Aquatic Center for the MIAC vs. WIAC Border Battle on Saturday, Oct. 17, a new tournament designed to show the best of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) and Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC). • Ainsley Kashatus ’29 dominated.
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#1 Best student support and counseling services, #3 most politically active students, #7 LGBTQ+ friendly and — not to toot our own horn — #13 best college newspaper. These are all rankings Macalester boasts having received from The Princeton Review. What’s more, U.S. News & World Report ranked us #12 in study abroad, #9 in...
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Babani’s Kurdish Restaurant offers guests a moment to rest — a place where the day’s baggage is left at the door and, for the duration of a meal, they can relax. I recently visited Babani’s to take my own vacation from the mid-semester pressures and Cafe Mac-induced doldrums. Upon entering the restaurant, the warmth produced... The post Babani’s Kurdish Rest
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On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Sean Forman, Founder and President of Sports Reference LLC, held a Q&A session with Macalester students about his path in sports statistics. The event, advertised in an email to student athletes and in the Mac Daily, was organized by Executive Director of the Hamre Center Jen Jacobsen, a college friend of... The post Founder of Sports-Ref
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If you’ve interacted with the online BookTok community at all, I’m sure you have heard of the prolific and controversial romance author, Colleen Hoover. “Verity” is the latest film adaptation of a Hoover novel, and the first to feature a thriller plotline. After seeing the varied responses to Hoover’s work online, I knew that I... The post “Verity”: A thrill
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This month, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis premiered “Beyond Materialism: Design and the Search for Spiritual Transcendence,” a celebratory design triennial exhibit that focuses on balancing aesthetics and functionality. The event invited 26 designers from 13 countries to present tables, chandeliers, fleshy shower stalls and so many chairs to examine h
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On Friday, Oct. 9, Mac students presented their summer research findings and internships during the Academic Summer Showcase. Students presented to their peers, professors and visiting families who made their way down rows of newly set-up posters in the Leonard Center Fieldhouse. This years-old Macalester tradition was once exclusively natural science- and m
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On Oct. 8, the Legislative Body (LB) of the Macalester College Student Government (MCSG) elected its speaker and approved the semester’s omnibus bill in its shortest meeting of the semester so far. Vice President Liv Peterson ’27 opened the meeting with a land acknowledgment before discussing “the highly anticipated results of the speaker [of the... The post
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Over the past five years, Macalester College’s staff and faculty health premiums have increased well above the rate of inflation. As outside pressures in the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries have forced healthcare costs up for the college, Macalester’s staff, including Art and Art History Department Coordinator Gwen Comings, have felt the impac
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