Opinion
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Sharing a degree with your rapist
What does a college degree mean when it’s shared with your rapist? This is a question I’ve been asking myself recently. In the beginning of my sophomore year at Macalester, I was raped by
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Are you as moral as a 7th grader?
Since graduating last May, I have been working in my hometown of Oak Grove, MO as a full-time special education paraprofessional. My job consists mostly of reminding 7th graders about the difference between their,
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KWOC deserves respect for putting activism into practice
Last week, the Macalester community witnessed the culmination of KWOC’s yearlong campaign to demand that the administration move its p-card money from Wells Fargo to Sunrise Community Banks. As many of you already know,
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Staff Editorial: The future of this newspaper’s publications
One of our proudest achievements this semester as a paper has been our new website and improvements to our web presence in general. Our WordPress-hosted website, designed and implemented by our own Kyle Rosenberg
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Having worked at Wells Fargo
Dear Editor, The Mac Weekly: I was encouraged to hear of Mac students protesting Wells Fargo. Kick Wells Fargo Off Campus made news across the state. As a former employee in Wells Fargo’s Eagan foreclosure
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Asking my mother for money: Discussing donation practices
My time at Macalester has been a roller coaster of self-discovery and finding my voice, and in all honesty I am ready to leave. I’ve learned so much, but I also learned that my
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Parting palabras: A Chicana’s Macalester Reality
Four years here and I am grateful, blessed really, to have learned so much, met so many inspiring people, and accessed so many resources. I have met those who will remain lifelong friends and
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Take a jelly bean and move on
Over the past year, several recent Mac alumni have followed the controversy regarding Macalester’s banking relationship with Wells Fargo, brought to light by the students involved with KWOC. Although the alumni we have spoken
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Institutional citizenship & Wells Fargo: A Civic Engagement counter-narrative
These opinions expressed are solely those of the authors. We wish they reflected those of the Civic Engagement Center but any further reading will clarify that they do not. Quiz: Who said it, KWOC or
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Memo to KWOC from David Wheaton and Kate Walker
The following memo, sent to students of KWOC on Monday, April 22, 2013, explains the administrative decision to maintain Macalester’s current banking relationship Wells Fargo.
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