By Kasia Majewski [email protected] The Mac Weekly is continuing its profiling of some of the illustrious founders that we commemorate on Founder’s Day. Esther Suzuki is another Macalester founder and woman of color who helped build Macalester’s principles of multiculturalism and service. Suzuki was the first Japanese-American student to attend Macalester. One year after the…
Personally, I have never given much thought to Founder’s Day. I figured the Founders were simply the (old, dead and white) men who founded the college and several Macalester presidents mixed in for good measure. However, this is not entirely the case. Over the next few weeks, The Mac Weekly will be running features on…
by Katrin O’Grady [email protected] It’s not uncommon to get a glimpse of a large, enthusiastic, bearded man in a kilt, walking around the Leonard Center or cheering at Macalester home games. Otherwise known as Mac the Scot, our mascot is a beloved face on campus, and one that will literally always be wide-eyed and smiling….
To quote Taylor Swift, the old Macalester logo is indeed deceased. The gear and gadgets at the Highlander, the banners on the flagpoles and even humble Macalester pens welcomed students back to campus sporting a new, sleek and cohesive Macalester brand. Clearly, Macalester has received a blue-and-white facelift, shedding its red and white, its purple,…
There are a couple of things that indicate “spring” at Mac: hammocks on Old Main lawn, chacos — a.k.a. Macalester students’ favorite warm weather footwear — a longer line at the Café Mac soft-serve machine and, of course, Springfest. April 15, 2017 marks the 45th celebration of everyone’s favorite spring festival and all of the…
Usually, this column dwells entirely in olden days, the yesterdays, the years past, past lives and general times of antiquity — you get the idea. However, this week we’ll come back to the future (actually the present, but that opportunity was too good) to see how a student is engaging with Macalester’s history. Current senior,…
Black History Month in the United States originated in the mid-1920s with Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard graduate and historian, who along with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History established the first Black History Week in February 1926. The week in February was strategically chosen to include both Fredrick Douglass’s and…
It is a make-it or break-it for your final grade, a main course in a feast of anxiety. “It is the time of victory or failure; it is the end of a long journey,” as a 1956 Mac Weekly article stated. And what is this mysterious menace? Why finals time of course! Finals are finals…
Scrolling through The Mac Weekly archives proves that Halloween has always been an exciting and eventful affair here on campus. Students seem to almost always get excited about all things eerie in October whether it be pulling pranks or disguising themselves in spectacular costume. Read on (if you dare) to discover some facts about Halloweens…
On March 17, 1987, a certain mayor visited Macalester Campus and spoke to an audience of 200 packed into Weyerhaeuser Chapel. If this same man visited campus today, the spectators would fill the chapel, spill out across the Campus Center lawn and all the way onto Shaw Field as well. Any ideas? Hint — he…
