Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s seminal nonfiction work “This is Not a Film” is, in fact, a film. It was made in 2011, while Panahi was under house arrest. His crime: political speech opposing Iran’s ...

Are you ready for it? Students in a brand-new English class certainly are. Taught by DeWitt Wallace Professor of English and Creative Writing James Dawes, “Emily Dickinson and Taylor Swift” provides ...

Mac for Palestine hosted the Film Festival for Global Justice in Mairs Concert Hall, showing five films across two days. The festival was conceived to raise money for Macalester’s “Relief in Areas of ...

She’s only a first-year, but Ainsley Kashatus ’29 will be the first woman diver in 12 years to represent Macalester at the ...

On March 5, Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel delivered a lecture titled “Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico.” The event, held in the John B. Davis Lecture ...

Opening night of Dinosaur World Live started off with a big bang. Or should we say, a roar!  On March 6, Dinosaur World Live ...

On March 3, Macalester College hosted Combatants for Peace — a binational organization of Israelis and Palestinians seeking collective liberation through nonviolence — for a public panel discussion ...

The Macalester community celebrated Founding Day on Friday, March 6, bringing food trucks, carnival games and Pushball, a 100-plus-year-old campus tradition, to Shaw Field.  The event, planned by a ...

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On Thursday, March 5, the Macalester College Student Government (MCSG) met in the Weyerhaeuser Boardroom to discuss funding for student organizations, attendance at the first-year community gathering ...

Spring break is here, and many Macalester students are packing for a week of freedom. Those who are flying out of Minnesota this weekend may not realize that, whether going home or on a vacation, they ...