Waitlist changes elicit reactions

Beginning in the Fall 2006 semester, students will bid farewell to the traditional online wait-list system. The new policy will require students to individually request that professors add them into at-capacity classes based on need or priority. The policy was adapted after a series of frustrations with the old policy, according to University Registrar of Undergraduate and Graduate Schools Laurie Herbrand.

Mac marijuana festival busted

Its 4:20 p.m. on April 20 outside of the Macalester Campus Center and someone says something about smelling the justice in the air. Not cheap justice eitherčit smells like a skunk died out here. Maybe smoking joints enmasse outside the campus center is a way for students to stick it to the man after their marijuana festival was cancelled. Maybe it was planned to happen even if they did get their scheduled bands to play, a bouncy castle, and chili cookoff to occur. Either way, the administration harshed everyone’s buzz when they “just said no” on April 19 to the festival, just hours before the event was to occur.

Crime puts university resolve on display

Last Wednesday, first-year Will Grant was assaulted and mugged while walking alone near the Hamline United Methodist Church to Super America. He spent that night and most of Thursday in Regions Hospital.

While reporting the story, students were visibly shocked when asked if they knew about the crime. They appeared scared for their safety.

A college student's dream

At first glance, the Summit Brewery of St. Paul may be deceiving; it may look too formal to be a factory for producing beer. I certainly did not expect to be welcomed by this level of grandeur at the brewery as I drove into the adjacent parking lot.

I was very excited for my early afternoon tour, and walking into the brewery I had many assumptions about how the tour would be conducted. I imagined the tour would have an unlimited amount of free beer, though in my case this did not matter since I am only 20 years old (this would haunt me later on). I also hoped to witness exploits of the mythical Summit brewery drunk who frolics in the waterfalls of porter.
Upon arrival at the brewery, I entered and sat in a large room called the “Ratscaler” which had 20 green picnic tables inside a tiled floor, 40-foot ceilinged room. “This place could hold its own Oktoberfest,” I thought to myself.

Tennis ends season with honors and improvement

The Hamline womens tennis went into the MIAC Championship with high hopes. They figured the contest to be an uphill battle, considering they entered as a sixth seed. This meant the road to a possible championship would start without a bye to the quarterfinal round. Some would think an extra match to open the tournament would be a burden, but the six-seeded Pipers breezed past eleventh-seeded Concordia 7-0. There was little Concordia could do that the Pipers couldn’t do vastly better.

Under the Covers

With Liz Engle

Dear Under the Covers,

What are “safe words” and how do they work? I’ve heard this term used and I’m really not sure what it means. I only know that it relates to sex.

Just Wondering