On May 7, the St. Paul City Council will hold a final vote on a new rent stabilization ordinance that will eliminate what is often referred to as “rent control” for housing built after 2004 in the ...

Macalester is an institution with a 151-year history, with many buildings on the campus dating back 50 to 100 years. The age of the campus’s buildings, however, brings concerns, as time causes ...

This is the second article of a two-part series on American cycling’s past, present and future. A new generation of young American riders have begun to make waves over the last few years. Sepp Kuss, ...

As is our yearly tradition, we spoke with The Mac Weekly’s graduating seniors about their time on the paper. These seniors have been talented writers, editors and leaders. The following interviews ...

For two and a half years, some staff members at Macalester have been organizing a union under the banner of the Macalester Advocacy Coalition of Employees (MACE). As MACE’s unionization efforts ...

Of the 41 tenure-track professors hired at Macalester since September 2019, all but three were women or people of color. According to the 2019 faculty salary audit report, there are no peer-to-peer ...

Last Wednesday, the Twin Cities woke up to streets blanketed with snow. After experiencing a long and cold winter, students ventured outside to capture the season’s “spring snowfall.” Here is how some ...

When the weekends grow cold and dark in the Minnesota winter, many Macalester students pack into the A-line bus to ride the three stops up to the Charles M. Schulz-Highland Arena to watch their men’s ...

In September of 2024, the state of Texas sued then Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra along with the US Department of Health and Human Services itself in an attempt to put an end to ...

The average student listened to 48,059 minutes of music Mac students were especially songful in 2024; the listening average increased from 46,670 minutes when The Mac Weekly did this survey in 2023, ...

With all the talk about this year’s contentious presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, down-ballot elections often go overlooked. According to ...

Throughout the 2024-25 academic year, Macalester will be hosting a series of events to counter-commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the United States’ war in Vietnam. On April 30, 1975, the ...