Since their first year at Macalester, Dan Szetela ’19, Lily Hannaher ’19 and Matthew Howland ’19 have been involved with WMCN. Through different series of shows and staff positions at WMCN, Szetela and Howland took management roles in the fall with Hannaher joining in the spring. As managers, Szetela, Hannaher and Howland have pushed for…
After winning this year’s Battle of the Bands, student band The Big Ones are set to open up Springfest on Saturday, April 13. Comprised of five members — Hannah Hoffman ’19 on vocals, Jack Libresco ’19 on guitar and vocals, Geneva Gaukel ’19 on upright bass, Robbie Cahoon ’21 on drums and Mac Doherty ’19…
WMCN airs over 70 student-run radio shows throughout the week. I talked to Allegra Berman ’21 and Vivian Bauer ’21 about their show, “Across the Universe with Allegra and Viv,” which they started last semester. TMW: What can a listener expect when they tune into your show? AB: Each week we pick a city, state,…
When I sat down to interview WMCN’s radio show host Phoebe Alley, I took it as an opportunity to learn something new about my friend’s music taste. I asked for the name of her radio show and theme, but could not get a definitive answer. By the end of the hour, I realized that the…
WMCN station managers Dan Szetela ’19, Phoebe Mol ’20 and Matthew Howland ’19 have initiated a series of restructuring efforts this semester in a campaign to make the school’s radio programs more accessible to all members of the community. The most notable change will be requiring DJs to move from one-hour to two-hour shows. “The…
This week’s meeting of MCSG began with a presentation by Mara Steinitz ’18 and Malik Earle ’18, who proposed a new initiative to connect Macalester students to the College’s administration in response to November’s Walk-In. Steinitz said that the Walk-In seemed like the first space created for students to speak openly regarding frustrations that they…
This week The Mac Weekly sat down with the five WMCN senior staff members. Catie Bell, Yafiet Bezabih, Theo Jacobson, Daniel Shinbaum and Noah Stieglitz come from a variety of backgrounds, but can all agree on the value of community radio. The Mac Weekly: I just want to say, that right before we did this…
By Jacob Hill As most Mac students know, Facebook has recently become the preferred forum for Macalester dialogue. Between the resurgence of Mac Confessions and the Meatless Mondays controversy, social media has housed more open political discourse than my poli sci class during the last few months. Earlier this week, one of these arguments began…
Each week The Mac Weekly speaks with a DJ on Macalester’s radio station, 91.7 WMCN. This week we sat down with Franki Gillis ’20 to talk about her show “Alphabet Soup.” The rapport cultivated between DJs whose shows sit side by side is a special one. The handoff — an entanglement of aux chords, mics…
Last week FAC Chair Sydney Keiler ’17 proposed a bill to the MCSG Legislative Body (LB) to change the funding structure of The Mac Weekly (TMW) and WMCN. They will now be funded biennially in block payments. This week, on Tuesday, November 15, the bill passed. TMW will receive a total of $14,084.24 per year,…
