This week’s MCSG meeting began with a discussion of the changes that the Legislative Body (LB) plans to make during the 2018-2019 academic year to better connect with the entirety of the student body – especially students of color. Leading the discussion, MCSG president Malik Mays ’19 expressed an interest in cultivating a stronger relationship…
On Saturday Jan. 23, students and staff from Macalester and Carleton College gathered in Weyerhaeuser Boardroom for an annual civic engagement training called Debating for Democracy. Debating for Democracy workshops are designed to “introduce a systematic framework to help participants identify solutions to problems they are concerned with and then build winning strategies to make…
Macalester Women’s Swim and Dive competed in their final meet of the first academic semester last weekend, Dec. 1 and 2. They took the trip down Grand Avenue to participate with other MIAC teams in the University of St. Thomas invite. Highlights of the meet included second- and third-place finishes by Francesca Gillis ’20 in…
In the last few years, mass shootings and campus shootings have become all-too-familiar sights on our TV screens and in our newspapers, across the country and throughout the world. In response to this, the Macalester College Incident Management Team is subscribing to a new procedure model for the community in the event that an active…
For Macalester Triathlon Club captain Natalie Heneghan ’14, the swim is the best part of a triathlon. Meanwhile, the opposite can be said for co-captain, Maddy Blain ’15. However, despite their divergent views on swimming, the two women joined together this year with the goal of revamping Macalester’s little-known organization. In Blain’s first year at…
