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It’s day one of orientation. Sitting in a circle on the grass, you’re asked where you’re from or — as it’s more recently been phrased — “where do you call home?” Most people answer without a second th...

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On Aug. 17, 2025, I watched a video of Ritchie Torres, a congressman from the South Bronx who speaks in short monotone stabs, coldly staring down a crying nerd in a suit. That nerd is Adam Friedland, ...

On March 12, Macalester’s religious studies department welcomed Dr. Jasbir Puar to campus as the speaker for their annual Rev. Arnold H. Lowe Endowed Lecture. Author of two award-winning books, Puar a...

When I arrived at Macalester nearly three decades ago, I had just finished my Ph.D. in Canada and was crossing the border to take up a job in political science. I thought I knew what universities were...

On Thursday, March 5, Minnesota’s Free Speech Coalition, a new activist group in the state, called on legislators to repeal the state’s anti-boycott laws during its first day on the hill. The laws pro...

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 ab...

Macalester alum Amanda Janoo ’10 announced on Tuesday, March 10, that she would be entering Vermont’s gubernatorial race. She’s the first Democratic candidate to announce a bid to potentially challeng...

On Feb. 10 of this year, faculty approved the first comprehensive update to the college’s curriculum since 1981. In June 2024, Macalester’s newly elected Curriculum Implementation Committee (CIC) met ...

Last Thursday, Feb. 19, approximately 25 student union members gathered at the flagpole outside of the Weyerhauser Memorial Chapel to deliver a petition demanding open bargaining to Macalester Vice Pr...

Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has played an increasingly large role in higher education. In a 2025 survey by Higher Education Policy Institute, a United Kingd...

Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that bargaining meetings will be open to the public. Bargaining meetings are exclusively open to MUWU members and Macalester representatives.  The...

Since President Donald Trump announced Operation Metro Surge, Trump’s immigration enforcement operation, in Dec. 2025, 3,000 federal agents have been deployed in Minnesota. For the past two months, fe...

On Saturday, Nov. 15, 15 students in five interdisciplinary teams gathered in Kagin Commons for the third annual MacGPT: Generating the Policy of Tomorrow, a full-day public policy hackathon. The pre-...