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Following last-minute agreement, MUWU to hold union election
Ella Stern, Features Editor • January 30, 2025

On Dec. 6, 2024, after hours of last-minute negotiations, the Macalester Undergraduate Workers’ Union (MUWU) and representatives of Macalester staved off a National Labor...

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[Comic] Inside me there are two wolves
[Comic] Inside me there are two wolves
Gabby Simpson, Media Editor
Head Coach Abe Woldeslassie ’08 huddles up with (left to right) Robert Grace IV ’25, JP Kerrigan ’28 and Berke
Arslan ’27.
Men’s basketball alters lineups, shows signs of MIAC life
Daniel Graham, Sports Editor • January 30, 2025

When they departed for winter break, the outlook for the Macalester men’s basketball team was bleak. They were 2-9 overall and winless in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic...

Mac men’s club soccer joins Division I league
Mac men’s club soccer joins Division I league
Anya Armentrout, Associate Sports Editor • January 30, 2025

Macalester, despite some claims to the contrary, has Division I sports. Spring 2024 saw Women’s Club Lacrosse join the North Central Women’s Lacrosse League’s D-I...

Women’s basketball: it’s showtime
Women’s basketball: it’s showtime
Anya Armentrout, Ad Manager • December 4, 2024

For Macalester’s Women’s Basketball team, every tip-off means showtime. It’s a word the coaching staff chose as emblematic of the season, and it’s one the players...

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“Nosferatu:” a flourishing Gothic nightmare
Olivia Worcester, Arts Editor • January 30, 2025

Winter break marked a seminal occasion for insufferable horror movie fans such as yours truly: the release of Robert Eggers’s long-awaited...

2024 Scot-ify Wrapped
2024 Scot-ify Wrapped
Emily Hueser, Olivia Worcester, and Noah Riccardi December 4, 2024

The average student listened to 48,059 minutes of music Mac students were especially songful in 2024; the listening average increased from...

“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...

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...