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The top three teams in this year’s Macathon. Photo courtesy of Ciara Calleja.
24 hours of innovation in Macathon ’24
Justine Ballard, Editor-in-Chief • November 14, 2024

Since the start of the school year, Laurice Jimu ’27 knew he was going to win Macathon. “From the get go, I knew that I wanted to … do Macathon, and … I would tell...

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[Comic] Inside me there are two wolves
[Comic] Inside me there are two wolves
Gabby Simpson, Media Editor
Robert Grace IV ’25 drives against Wartburg. Photo ourtesy of Mac Athletics.
Men’s hoops endures difficult opening stretch
Noah Riccardi and Anya Armentrout November 20, 2024

Against University of Northwestern (MN) on Nov. 19, the Scots finished the fifth game of this new season with a loss, 83-72. A furious comeback saw them cut a 25-point deficit...

This Week In Sports: 11/15/24
Noah Riccardi, Sports Editor • November 20, 2024

Football loses final match Against College of Saint Scholastica on Nov. 16 in Championship Week, the Scots lost their final game of the season, a 44-41 shootout in Duluth.  ...

Xander Hall ’26, the Black Bears’ second try scorer. Photo courtesy of Bailey Inch.
Men’s rugby crowned league champs
Noah Riccardi, Sports Editor • November 14, 2024

On Nov. 2, against University of North Dakota, Macalester’s men’s club rugby won 10-5, officially winning the developmental league in the Northern Lights Conference, confirmed...

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“Pavements” brightens the corners on iconic 1990s band
Sam Kennedy, Staff Writer • November 20, 2024

Much like the band that inspired it, the 2024 film “Pavements” defies classification. The film, directed by Alex Ross Perry, provides a glimpse...

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The most mysterious song on the Internet is no longer mysterious
Linnea Joanen, Staff Writer • November 20, 2024

On one fateful day in autumn of 1984, a teenage boy named Darius S., living in Northwestern Germany, recorded a song off of the radio onto a...

Ain’t no party like a Super Mario Party Jamboree
Ain’t no party like a Super Mario Party Jamboree
Scarlet Dunning, Editor-in-Chief • November 14, 2024

After three long years, a new installment in the Mario Party franchise, Super Mario Party Jamboree (SMPJ), was released on Oct. 17, 2024. Mario...

Photo story: snowstorm snowball fight
Photo story: snowstorm snowball fight
Rory Donaghy, Photo Editor • March 2, 2023

Last Wednesday, Feb. 22, the Macalester Outing Club extended an invite to other clubs and members of the Macalester community across campus to...

Felicia Winfrey ‘25 and friends on Overalls @Mac Day. Photo by Grace Xue ‘23
Student’s idea thrives on campus: overalls at Mac
Grace (Ziyue) Xue, Staff Writer • October 27, 2022

Blue denim, brown corduroy, pink and white floral patterns, flannel jumpsuits … overalls of all kinds of fabrics and designs bloomed all over...

Our Neck of the Woods: Up North
Our Neck of the Woods: Up North
Katherine Irving, Media Editor • April 8, 2022

Wolves are everywhere and nowhere; they live on pretty much every continent in the Northern hemisphere, but only the most intrepid have seen...