Dec 5, 2024 · The average student listened to 48,059 minutes of music 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 outlier of over 443k minutes. This year’s top listener clocked in over 300,000 minutes, potentially...

Sep 19, 2024 · The image of a student up until 1 a.m. working on an essay has long been the representation of a traditional college experience. Macalester’s DeWitt Wallace Library aims to change this interpretation of college academic culture through adjustments to the library’s hours and spaces. New this academic year, the library’s hours of operation are from...

Dec 5, 2024 · For the fourth year in a row, the U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) ranked Macalester College as the 27th best liberal arts college nationwide. However, with increased questions and criticism from universities regarding the validity and importance of the report, Macalester itself is wondering how to best respond to this ranking and narrate its...

Nov 10, 2022 · The show at the Ordway is a part of the Broadway on Tour series, where a cast travels across the U.S. to perform at different major theaters for a short period of time. There are currently two casts on tour performing “Six! The Musical”: the Aragorn tour and the Boleyn tour, the latter being the one which performed at the Ordway.

Oct 10, 2024 · On Thursday, Oct. 3, Macalester College Student Government (MCSG) convened in the Harmon Room of the library to call check on Mac Chess Club’s travel fund request. Their agenda also included voting on MCSG’s edited Bylaws, approving nominations for the Judicial Council and discussing the implementation of a “Class Leads” system.

With all the talk about this year’s contentious presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, down-ballot elections often go overlooked. According to U.S. Vote Foundation, despite local governments helping build consensus and having a greater impact on our day-to-day lives than the federal government does, at least one-third of voters...

Dec 5, 2024 · Molly Nuckolls’ ’28 200-yard butterfly was the fastest ever for a Scot, while Tommy Moore ’27 took part in three record-breaking swims, individually breaking Macalester’s 100-yard freestyle record and swimming a leg of both the 200- and 400-yard medley relay races that also broke previous Scots’ bests.

Sep 26, 2024 · “Community.” That’s the word Owen Suelfow ’26, Kyle Suelflow ’26, and Dylan Lian ’25 consistently returned to as they described the culture of the Macalester Flat Earth Ultimate Frisbee Team. Respectively, the three are the President, Vice President and On-field Captain of the team. “We have just such a great group of people who play...

Dec 5, 2024 · This fall semester, 40 students and one faculty member packed into a sociology classroom to take a course that was originally meant to be half that size. On Wednesday, Sept. 4, with a double-digit waitlist and every seat filled, Macalester sociology professor Khaldoun Samman welcomed students to his course entitled “Palestine.” For students, the start...

The 2023-24 academic year was one of the most tumultuous years for American higher education in recent history. As anti-war protests swept across college campuses following the outbreak of war in Gaza, American colleges experienced a long overdue reckoning with their identities. The ensuing Republican-led congressional hearings on antisemitism and …