The Mac Weekly

When I arrived at the folk-jazz-rock-fusion South Korean band Sangjaru’s Sept. 20 show at the Cedar Cultural Center, I was angry. I wasn’t the only one. I know this even though I didn’t really talk to anyone in the audience, because this was Minneapolis, in America, in 2026, and everyone there was a sentient human being. I know that we came to that concert angry, and we came tired, and then we discovered halfway through that we hadn’t actually come to a concert at all, but an exorcism. A ritual.

On June 16, 2026, the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, Daniel Rosen, announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had charged 15 Minnesotans for actions it claims they took during Operation Metro Surge. The defendants are alleged to be members and associates of Direct Action Minnesota. Among the 15 defendants is Erik Davis ’96, a religious studies professor at Macalester.

October 8, 2026 Women’s golf tee-rifically ties • The women’s golf team headed to Edina, Minn., over the weekend for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Golf Championships. • The MIAC Championships ran from Friday, Oct. 2 to Sunday, Oct. 4. The Scots tied with Gustavus Adolphus College for second out of ten teams. • Yangyang Gu ’29 placed third individually with a score of 220 (+4) after three rounds. A three-round score of 229 by Ava Austria ’28 placed her in tenth.

October 8, 2026 On Thursday, Oct. 1, Macalester College Student Government (MCSG) met in the Weyerhaeuser Boardroom for a Q&A session with President Suzanne Rivera, to vote on a new speaker and approve funds requested by the Macalester Health Professions Student Coalition (HPSC). Owen King ’27 opened the meeting with a speech explaining why he believes he should be elected as the speaker and distributed anonymous voting forms to be completed before adjournment.

October 8, 2026 This season’s Macalester volleyball team is not like the last, and it’s easy to see how. Whether it be the nine first-years, an improved record or early successful conference play, it’s clear that this team has a new goal in mind: winning. Macalester volleyball has not had a winning record in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play since 2003, when Mac went 6-5 inconference. They have also not begun their conference play 2-0 since 2001.

It’s hard to review “Digger” without spoiling it, because it’s really two movies crammed into one. The first movie is the “Strangelove”-esque climate disaster black comedy that all the trailers hinted at. The second movie is so unlike anything I have ever seen that I struggle to conjure a single point of comparison. For nearly its entire runtime, “Digger” is engaged in a precarious balancing act between these two movies. And yet, it works.

Let’s be honest for a second. “Twilight” isn’t good. The special effects are janky at best, the dialogue is laughably corny, the plot is strangely Mormon and the main conflict of the saga is a romantic choice between a vampire who is technically not a pedophile and a werewolf who is 100% entirely a pedophile. So why is it that everyone loves this franchise so much? And why does it seem like everyone I know has made the sudden choice to revisit the movies and the books they’re based on?

Macalester’s white progressive movement others people, even when that is not the objective. The alienation of students from diverse cultural backgrounds turns solidarity into an overtaking of underrepresented voices by placing whiteness at the center in the attempt to outperform and appear as the biggest ally. Whether in class or outside on the Great Lawn, white students often presume to know what is best for a community that is not theirs, in a struggle they have never felt.