Volume 14, Issue 3 - The Yearbook Issue

THE MACALESTER HEGEMONOCLE

THE YEARBOOK EDITION Volume 14, Issue 3

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Macalester

HEGEMONOCLE Probably Macalester’s First Humor Magazine Volume 14, Issue 3 Spring 2016 The Yearbook Issue

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Jamie Goodin ’17 Austin Parsons ’17

EDITORIAL HEGE GRADS Spencer Carter ’16 Anthony Granai ’16 Liam Downs-Tepper ’16 Bailey Polonsky ’16 Mo Usavage ’16

EDITORS EMERITUS Lydia Karlson ’16 Tom Wakin ’16

Managing Editors Sarah Coleman ’18 Danny Ochoa ’18 Head Writer Sean McDonald ’18 Social Media Editor Marissa Heim ’17 Radio Editor Yafiet Bezabih ’18

DESIGN

STAFF Coat Rack ’99 Myles Ambrose ’17 Eli Lilleskov ’17 Kate Garrett ’18 Thali Zikos ’18 Elena Santarella ’19 On Sabbatical Xander Gershberg ’17 Declan Cummings ’17

Head of Production Noah Mondschein ’18 Production Associate Will Milch ’19

SHOUT OUTS DuckTales Blunt Privilege Classic Pool and Spa for employing Lydia Surly Brewery for obliterating our senior staff Revolutionary men who shop in the women’s section Founders: Mikey Freedman ’11 & Dan Rocklin ’11 Contact us: hegemonocle@macalester.edu @hegemonocle facebook.com/hegemonocle

The Macalester Hegemonocle Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55105

Most characters appearing in this work are fictitious.

Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely satirical.

The Hegemonocle is published four-ish times per academic year.

All content, except what we’ve stolen from elsewhere, is © The Macalester Hegemonocle, 2016.

Editorial Dearest citizens of Macalester College, It is that time of the year again. No, it is not Turkish oil wrestling season, nor is it time for your annual checkup (which you missed by over a month, by the way). It is not even time for another controversial and poorly argued op-ed in the Mac Weekly.

It is the time you have been anticipating for months. The time your dad told you about every night before bed.

The time when dreams become real.

It is the time when the Hegemonocle joins all of campus in saying goodbye to its archaic seniors and hello to the bright future ahead.

We, Jamie Goodin and Austin Parsons, are part of that future. As the newly minted Editors-in-Chief of this esteemed publication, we will lead the Hegemonocle into its most prodigious era yet. Absolutely colossal. Mondo.

We have dreamed of this moment for 3 years. As bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, 18-year-old, junior-varsity, first-year Editor-in-Chief-wannabes, we imagined a world in which we could write Hegemonocle editorials with several consecutive hyphenated words in one sentence. A world in which we could do shit like that and no one could tell us no, because if they did we would fire them.

That world is now real. Our dreams are now real - and as leaders of this magazine, we will not rest until your dreams become real as well.

We would not have made it here without Lydia Karlson. Her dedication to the Hegemonocle rivals anyone’s dedication to anything at any point in history. Lydia, you have taught us well and we will not let you down.

And who but Tom Wakin could so skillfully alleviate the raucous commotion that is inevitably conjured at every meeting? Sure, he may have usually been the one to instigate it, but we appreciate it all the same. Without you Tom, we might still be in CC 204 desperately trying to one-up each others’ jokes.

To our other departing seniors, we say thank you. Without you as members of Hege, the magazine would have had fewer members.

And to you, Hegemonocle reader, we say welcome. Welcome to the future. We’re glad you’re here with us.

Sincerely Yours, Jamie Goodin ’17 Austin Parsons ’17

DARWIN’S THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION CONFIRMED:

SPRINGFEST 2016

Macalester’s annual Springfest brings the Mac Groveland community together for four hours and provides it with a live show to be remembered.

But it’s perhaps best known for the devastating intoxication of its attendees. Students regularly ingest cocktails of substances that no rational human being would agree to take if they thought about it for more than two seconds. A pair of biology seniors realized the untapped potential for scientific research sitting in their hands and took to the field to conduct a Darwinian behavioral study. Their results were conclusive: natural selection is very real.

“Just after arriving at Shaw Field, we found a couple of ‘molly’d up’ students digging pitfalls because the drug made exhuming soil a euphoric experience,” said Christina Lambert ’16, one of the researchers. “We later found several students trapped in these holes, the loud music drowning out their cries for assistance. It suggests that these folks were certainly not filling any ecological niches.”

As always, a student had to be transported to the nearest hospital due to a condition known as Advanced Dehydration - a classic case of a lack of adaptation to the surrounding environment said Tim Park ‘16, another researcher on the team. Park overheard the fascinating phone call from the student who called 911.

“He started off quite responsibly, checking the terminally inebriated student’s vitals and communicating calmly with the emergency respondent. But as soon as he was told an ambulance would be coming, he started hounding the operator to replace the vehicle’s wheels with kegs of Miller High Life.

We are still working out what to make of that one, but we felt that stepping in to help would’ve been bad science,” said Park.

Students were dropping like flies by the time Thundercat took the stage. According to a draft of the paper written by the researchers, many were heard slurring “I’m so wavy right now” just before face planting into the ground. The researchers note that the resilient students who stayed conscious were likely able to do so due to significant advantages in their ability to maximize their rate of useful energy transformation. In other words, their body could quickly metabolize even the most heinous mixture of chemicals.

“Their genetic algorithms are impressive,” Lambert said. “Their propensity to thrive in these kinds of abject circumstances really speak to the wonders of evolution. If Darwin were here and somehow not revolted by the behavior of the entire college, I bet he’d be smiling.”

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Brian Rosenberg Spends Entire Endowment Terraforming Mars

ST. PAUL, MN--Last October, Macalester College received a gift of an additional three trillion dollars to its endowment from DeWitt Wallace’s estate. After countless board meetings and Dickensian misery, President Brian Rosenberg has decided to spend one hundred percent of it on terraforming Mars.

“This whole ‘No Waste by 2020’ thing is cool, but isn’t everyone is doing that?” Rosenberg asked in a phone interview from his spacecraft, seemingly uninterested in an answer. “That’s why I have decided to deliberately modify Mars’s atmosphere, temperature, and topography to make it a habitable planet for Macalester students.”

In order to show his commitment to the project, Rosenberg has led the charge and actually launched himself to the Red Planet. And he is adamant that he do it alone.

“If this act of altruism doesn’t get people to stop asking me about my salary or misuse of funds, I don’t know what will,” Rosenberg said. “I’ve never really understood that line of questioning, but what I do know is that after three days on Mars, I am confident that I will be able to finish this project in my lifetime.”

The project poses many logistical difficulties and, as per usual with Macalester events, has received skepticism from several minor news outlets. But Rosenberg insists that this is the natural evolution of the college’s place in the world.

“Your business here is still to learn,” Rosenberg said. “It’s just that the ‘here’ will soon be the fourth planet from the sun.”

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AREA MIDDLE SCHOOL JUST CAN’T DEAL WITH THIS SHIT TODAY; CALLS IN SICK FROM STUDENTS TINYSOTA, MN–After waking up inexplicably horny and in an angsty haze, Westlake Middle School decided to fake being sick to avoid a long day of dealing with his pain in the ass students.

Most days of the week, School wakes up, groans for five minutes, yells at his mom to get out of his room, thinks about masturbating, masturbates, and then finally slides into his black Quiksilver hoodie. However, today he was just so “done,” he didn’t even have the energy to groan.

“I’m just over it,” said School while blasting “Wake Me Up Inside” by Evanescence from his P.A. system. “What do I even need to have kids in me for anyway? Do they all think they’re better than me or something? I’ve got way more drywall than them; none of them know shit about drywall.”

On his day off, School says he plans on expressing himself, being himself, just being himself, and expressing who he is, amongst other forms of self expression. “You can’t make me be something I’m not, OK?” School exclaimed completely unprompted.

When asked about his drop from a grade B building to a grade C building, School began to pull tighter on the drawstrings of his black zip up hoodie. “Those grades don’t matter, they don’t mean anything,” School ejaculated. “Do they think they can just define me with a letter? I’m so much more than that, I’m a fucking safe environment for student enrichment, inside and outside of the classroom!”

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BREAKING NEWS:

Giant Can of Natty Ice Discovered in Hole.

This photo details the dilapidated landscape of a once great Soviet Union. People would come from all around to gaze into this hole and its devastating deepness. Upon discovering the giant can, the populous came to worship it as a new deity. Natty Ice became the most imported beverage in all of Russia. Things were great for many moons. Until the slaughter. Photo by JKOH PHOTO

MURMANSK OBLAST, RUSSIA - This past Wednesday, scientists at the prestigious Russian branch of the Let’s Look In Some Holes Institute (LLISHI) completed their deepest survey yet. Granted permission to work with the Kola Superdeep Borehole, an old Soviet Union project, students were able to explore a really deep hole. Like, the deepest of holes. It’s super deep! What they discovered really threw them for a loop! At the bottom of the hole they found a giant can of Natty Ice. Their interests sparked, the students continued to survey the bottom of the hole. By Friday morning eleven other cans of similar size were uncovered. Gregory Ziglett, the project supervisor, stated that he believes the cans to be “some kind of ancient twelve-pack.” A few hours and extensive carbon dating later, Ziglett’s theory was proven to be correct, and it was discovered, that, as he put it, the cans had been there for a “long-ass time.”

Today, the story has developed even furthered. A giant hand appeared out of the sky and took all twelve of the Natty Ices. Our reports tell us that a disembodied voice could then be heard echoing throughout the surrounding areas. Our on the scene report, Derny Ryan, says the voice seemed angry, saying, “What the hell guys!? I was trying to get those cold, and now you’ve shaken them all up? Not cool. Not cool. I’m definitely sending most of you to hell. Except for Alexei Popov, dude kills it at beer pong and I want him for my team.”

There’s only speculation right now on what this phenomenon was, but the Hegemonocle is staying on the case.

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Rejected “Environmentally-Friendly” Macalester Projects

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step 3: Remove water, use for bath later

step 2: Delicately slide in the pasta, cook until tender like the heart of a young maiden

step 5: Light candles and hire a violin player for ambience

step 4: Season well for that gourmet effect

step 6: Enjoy!

K A E N S WAYS TO C A M É F INTO CA Detonate small explosive on Bateman Plaza Trojan horse Trojan squirrel Never leave Tunnel beneath cc Parachute from balcony Pretend to be with facilities, carry a lot of keys with you Wait until cashier beings marathon of Star Trek: The Next Generation Seduce cashier Gather a team of 11 skilled accomplices, over next few weeks create elaborate plan to rob casino vault, rob casino vault, realize you don’t need Café Mac, all you want is your wife back Ask nicely Climb through the grille Steal ID of a first year, kill them, get facial reconstruction to look like them, live their life, you disappear mysteriously, parents never know what happens to you, you can never reveal your secret until your death bed Take a job as a food service specialist and dismantle the system from the inside. Feast on the remains.

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MCSG Members Found to be Embezzling Org Money Recently, The Hegemonocle went undercover to investigate the origins of the 20% base cut to all approved student organization budgets, only to discover that some MCSG members have been embezzling thousands of dollars for their own personal exploits.

Your trusty Hegemonocle Watch-Hogs discovered that $14,000 of student activity fee funds has been spent on ornate, full-length mirrors so that MCSG representatives could admire their glorious administrative forms. These representatives have also used funds cut from student organization budgets to buy personal tape recorders and state of the art sound systems allowing representatives to hear the auditory perfection of their own voices going through legislative procedure at all hours.

“You know, confidence is part of being a good leader,” said first year representative Joey Bard ’19, while stroking his pectorals and making sensual eye contact with his own reflection in a gold-framed trumeau mirror. “MCSG thought that it was in the best interest of the students to foster self-esteem in their government. Unf, you sexy beast, I move to vote that you are the most devilishly handsome person on this campus.

The ayes have it!”

The various Checkbook-related budget cuts were also allegedly to be used to buy funnels that would allow MCSG members to indulge in the smells of their own farts. However, many appeals to these cuts have were successful, much to the chagrin of various representatives and committee chairs.

Many org leaders around campus have been in an uproar in light of these budget cuts.

“This is a complete abuse of the system,” said August Blake ’17, leader of Macalester’s Panini Press Awareness Org. “Who is MCSG to say that we can’t have $6000 dollars for a Belgian chocolate slip-n-slide? They also cut the money for our Cognac progressive. This is fucking tyranny.”

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Hello students, I wanted to call your attention to a string of new spam e-mails which have been trashing the Macalester servers recently. We have sent along a few scam and real e-mails for you to quiz yourself on to make sure you are up to date on all the latest trends: REAL: Hello fellow student i am look 4 house can i sublet w/ u i am cleanish Increase your tail length and your GPA with this miracle pill!!1!

Hey it’s David Sisk and I need all your passwords Make up to $500 a week by pretending to be my pet cat (auditions this Monday) SCAM: Please turn in your midterm essay, it’s almost May PACKAGE PICKUP REMINDER [Dailypiper-l] The Daily Piper for Friday, April 29, 2016 Please Take my Psych Survey so I Can Graduate!

Be sure to stay alert for these dangerous e-mails that you may get, and remember: ITS staff will ALMOST NEVER ask for your password via email!

David Sisk

WORD BREAKS

ya know, when you break up a big word to make two smaller words. it’s the opposite of how babies are made.

Scarface - scarf ace

Catastrophe - cat as trophe

Nowhere - now here

Repairman - rep airman

Artscraps - arts craps

Notebook - not e-book

Important - import ant

Weeknight - wee knight

Appointment - app ointment

Budget - bud get

Carpet - car pet

Hispanic - his panic

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Moah Nondschein An hour ago

Zhali Tikos

Mean ScDonald

Mill “MILF” Wilch April 4 at 2:00pm

Mill “MILF” Wilch April 20 at 4:20pm

Mill “MILF” Wilch Yesterday at 9:00am

Mill “MILF” Wilch 5 minutes ago

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Gamie Joodin Today at 4:20pm

Kydia Larlson Yesterday at 4:00am

Oanny Dchoa 2 minutes ago

Carah Soleman 1 minute ago

Bvy Iardaglio Just Now

Pustin Aarsons Always

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H AM M E R Lîîk, ²’vå hàmmåråd à lît îf ¼àñk¾ ànd ²’vå ¼àñkåd à lît îf hàmmår¾. ²’vå båån àrîund thå blîñk, ànd whån ² wྠdînå ² ¾tuñk à ¼àñkhàmmår ³n thàt blîñk ànd hàmmåråd unt³l thårå wà¾n’t ¼àñk låft ³n ¾³ght. Ðåîðlå hàvå thrîwn îb¾tàñlå¾ ³n mó wàó, ànd ¾urå, ¾îmå îf thåm ¾lîwåd må dîwn, but whån óîu gåt dîwn tî ³t ànó ¼àñk ñàn bå hàmmåråd ³f óîu ¼u¾t buñklå dîwn ànd råàlló ¼àñk frîm óîur ¾îul. Nîw ¾îmåt³må¾ óîu màó wànt tî qu³t, óîu màó fåål l³kå óîur hàmmår hྠgînå l³mð ànd thå ¼àñk ³¾ àll ¾hr³vålåd uð, but thàt’¾ whån óîu’vå gîttà ¼àñk thå hàrdå¾t. À lît îf ðåîðlå à¾k må, “Âut Frànçî³¾, ¾îmåt³må¾ ² ¼u¾t ñàn’t ¾åå thå l³ght àt thå ånd îf thå tunnål, åvån thîugh ²’vå båån dr³ll³ng ³ntî ³t w³th à ¼àñkhàmmår fîr l³kå, màóbå 4, 5 hîur¾. Dîå¾ ³t råàlló màkå ¾ån¾å tî kååð ¼àñk³ng mó hàmmår ³ntî à hîlå ² ñàn’t åvån ¾åå ³ntî?” Ànd åvåró t³må ² à¾k thåm thå ¾àmå th³ng: “Dî óîu wànt th³¾?” Íîw hàrd àrå óîu w³ll³ng tî wîrk tî hàmmår thàt ðårfåñt ¼àñk, tî ¼àñk ¾î muñh hàmmår thàt óîu gåt bl³¾tår¾ în óîur ¼àñk¾ ànd blîîd în óîur hàmmår¾? Yîu màó wànt tî låt ¾îmåînå ål¾å ¼àñk óîur hàmmår ànd tàkå thå åà¾ó wàó îut, but låt må tåll óîu, ³t’¾ nåvår ྠgîîd. Whån óîu tàkå ñàrå îf óîur îwn ¼àñk ànd óîur îwn hàmmår, kååð ³t lubr³ñàtåd, kååð ³t ¾turdó, thàt’¾ whån óîu råàlló knîw óîu’vå màdå ³t. Whån óîu hàmmår thàt ¼àñk ¾trà³ght ³ntî thå ñînñråtå ànd h³t à wàtår mà³n ànd ³t bur¾t¾ àll îvår óîu ànd thå àwå¾truñk hàlf-nàkåd ñîn¾truñt³în wîrkår¾ wàtñh³ng în, ³t’ll bå thå bå¾t fåål³ng óîu’vå åvår fålt. Wà³t, fuñk, whàt wྠ² tàlk³ng àbîut? Nî, ¾îrró, ² dîn’t knîw whàt t³må ³t ³¾. Whî åvån à¾k¾ thàt ànómîrå?

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COMMONLY MISHEARD SONG LYRICS

1. Hey Jude - The Beatles -Incorrect Lyrics: “Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better.”

-Correct Lyrics: “Hey Jude, don’t give me the bees. I suffer from hyperglycemia.”

2. Started From the Bottom - Drake -Incorrect Lyrics: “Started from the bottom now we’re here.”

-Correct Lyrics: “Started from the bottom now my party of four is in the VIP line at Splash Mountain.”

3. Anaconda - Nicki Minaj -Incorrect Lyrics: “My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun.”

-Correct Lyrics: “Help, my anaconda, thinking they were tapirs, swallowed seventeen light bulbs and has been hospitalized with mercury poisoning.”

4. Timber - Pitbull (feat. Ke$ha) -Incorrect Lyrics: “It’s going down, I’m yelling timber. You better move, you better dance.”

-Correct Lyrics: “It’s going down! Do you hear me!? It’s finally going down! My father waited his whole life for it to go down, and his father before him, and his father before him. At last, it is down and our family is free from the curse. May my ancestors rest in peace knowing that, praise be, it is down.”

5. Creep - Radiohead -Incorrect Lyrics: “I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.”

-Correct Lyrics: “I’m tired of ad-creep, I simply will not tolerate it, it’s detrimental to our contemporary media landscape.”

6. It Wasn’t Me - Shaggy -Incorrect Lyrics: It wasn’t me.

-Correct Lyrics: It was me. My bad.

7. Come on Eileen - Dexy’s Midnight Runners -Incorrect Lyrics: “Come on Eileen, oh I swear what he means, at this moment, you mean everything.”

-Correct Lyrics: “Come on Eileen, you’re slowing us down, if we don’t get there by six we’ll never get a table. This is so fucking typical of you, get your shit together, Eileen.”

8. Mr. Roboto - Styx -Incorrect Lyrics: “Domo arigato Mr. Roboto.”

-Correct Lyrics: “落語は今から三百年以上前の江戸時代に始まりました。この 時 代にた くさんの人の前でおもしろい話をして、お金をもらう人がいま した。このおもしろい話 を落語と言い、落語をする人を落語家と言いま す。落語家は一人でいろいろな声や身ぶ りを使って、おもしろい話をし ます。今でも落語はとても人気があります。” 9. Nothin’ But a G Thang - Dr. Dre -Incorrect Lyrics: "Never let me slip 'cause if I slip, then I'm slippin'."

-Correct Lyrics: "Never let me slip 'cause if I slip, then I'm slippin'."

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HOW TO WORKOUT Learning from the Pros

1

Find a time to go to the LC when the sports teams won’t be grunting in unison as you wheeze and groan over that stitch in your side entire body.

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Wear your fancy new workout clothes and those tennis shoes that were labeled as “totes prime for cross training and glute stimulation,” whatever that means. Feel overdressed in comparison to all the people who are only wearing a tattered t-shirt and sweats because they’re not here for fashion, they’re here for gainz.

Then feel underdressed in comparison to the people who are wearing color-coordinated spandex outfits that come in a set and advertise their sweat wicking capabilities. Great, now you’re gonna be the only person there who’s sweaty and gainz-less.

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Freeze. Immediately regret this decision. Consider how easy it would be to just turn around and tell people you forgot your water bottle in your other gym bag and then don’t come back. Aw, fuck! You brought your water bottle with! That’s a no-go. You’re trapped like an easily-winded rat.

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Try to walk casually over to the weight racks and appear like you know what you’re doing. You will probably forget how walking normally looks. No, you’re swinging your arms too much. Move your knees, idiot, what is this, marching band? No, too much knees now. You’ve ruined it. Oh well, you’re at the weight rack.

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Pick stuff up! Put it back down! Now pick it up again! Put it down now! Now you should do this until you can’t bear it anymore. Three poorly executed reps will probably be your limit. Look at your flushed, sweaty complexion in the mirror and experience first- and second-hand embarrassment for yourself.

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6 Go over to one of those machines. Do you know

how it works? Hell no you don’t. But there are two diagrams of a beefy lookin’ guy on the side showing you how you’re supposed to manage this thing without fucking up your entire skeletal structure beyond repair. Google how you would use this thing using a vague description of the machine because you do not know what it is called. Scroll until you find a picture of the machine in question, or at least you think that’s it? Find the same two static images of the same guy, but this time sections of his muscular system are colored red and they’re labeled. What are those parts? Do you have those? Hell if you know. Wait, biceps, you know those things. Time to get ripped in the areas highlighted by the diagram.

7 Begin to use your muscles, then realize that the weight is set much too high for your baby hummingbird-

like physique. Set the weight to the third lowest setting and try again. Oh nope that’s too much still. Set it to the lowest weight.

8 Get off that machine now, feeling what you think is maybe the beginning of buffness acquisition. Now go

over to the treadmills. You know what the treadmills are from all those hilarious videos you’ve seen of people trying to run on them at the highest speed and then tripping and flying off. Get on and set it at a steady walking pace. Walk a little bit and realize that you’ve probably been walking wrong your whole life. Set it at a casual jog.

You’re jogging! Good job. Oh, wait, no, now you’re wheezing. You take your headphones out because you need to be able to gauge how loud your raspy panting is because you’re concerned people will think you’re having a medical emergency if you don’t keep it in check.

9 Feel like your respiratory system is on fire. Oh god, your throat mucus is thickening. This is just like the

mile run in middle school all over again. You try to hack up some of your throat mucus but you’re gasping inward for air at the same time and you start to choke on aforementioned mucus. Get off the treadmill and suddenly realize through the tears streaming down your face from the intense coughing fit that your knees feel awful.

10 Overhear somebody behind you mention to his buddy that “Cardio kills your pump, bro”. Ah shit! Your

pump! You wonder what a pump is while cursing your naiveté. Decide you’ve had enough gym for the day and go home.

11 Feel proud. Toss your workout gear in the hamper and take a shower, relishing the endorphins that you

will completely forget about when you wake up the next morning and feel like you have been thoroughly run over by a bus full of other busses. Think about what kind of exercises you’ll do tomorrow.

12 Take 28 rest days in a row. Repeat from step 1.

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A comprehensive analysis of the similarities and differences between people who menstruate and werewolves 1. Something happens to each group once a month 2. They can get angry and/or hungry during that time 3. Neither was born experiencing their symptoms 4. Both would probably die if shot with a silver bullet

Don’t fall in love with me. I will use dark magic to turn every outlet in your house upside down, and it’ll be confusing at first, but eventually you’ll get used to it and you won’t even mind. But then you’ll go to a party at a home that is not your own, and they’ll ask you to plug in the speakers and you will be confused and initially position the plug the wrong way. You will be embarrassed. Don’t fall in love with me.

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Hot New Subreddits:

r/helpimdyingofheatexhaustinon Not the liveliest new subreddit, but very popular with the growing community of those currently dying of heat exhaustion.

r/forresttrump ­The­only­subreddit­for­fans­of­Forrest­Gump,­Donald­Trump­crossover­fanfiction.­Forrest­Trump­runs­for­president,­then­wins­ but just keeps running, prompting his confused staffers to appoint VP Lt. Ivanka Dan to the presidency. Forrest also bankrupts a shrimp company after borrowing 200 million dollars from his parents.

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WHY BAGELS ARE GREAT Good source of carbs

Becomes deadly blunt instrument when stale

Can be sweet or savory

Spongy texture soaks up tears

Acceptable to eat any time of day

More exciting than bread, less intense than doughnut

Gives cream cheese a reason to exist

Can be enjoyed plain or with an assortment of toppings

You can tear it in two and use half as a pretend phone

Your cousin said it was a good representation of what a vagina

Impromptu hockey puck

actually looked and felt like

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My Speed Dating Notes 1. Make eye contact, just like your mother told you to, albeit not so aggressively. a. Maintain eye contact even though she looks uncomfortable. i. Keep maintaining eye contact until you feel weird about it.

2. Look down at your lap for the remaining two minutes. a. Ignore her when she asks if you are okay, all while wishing you were back at your mom’s place. b. Keep looking down even when the bell rings.

3. Don’t get up until the man leading the event comes over and tells you that you have to move over to the next table. a. Fantasize about fighting this man who came over and had the gall to tell you what to do. i. Just get up and do what he says.

4. While moving over to the next table trip over your own shoelaces. a. When rushing to the ground think about how your mom told you this would happen if you left your shoes untied. b. Hit the ground. Hard.

5. Try not to cry. a. Try not to cry. i. I swear, if you cry1. Cry a lot.

6. Before getting up, wipe the tears off your face. That way no one will know that you were crying.

7. Repeat, “I’ve got this,” to yourself under your breath.

8. Finally, make your way over to the next table.

9. Try to ignore the stares. a. You can do this. i. You’ve got this.

1. Oh no, everybody’s looking at you.

10. Stare at your lap for the full five minutes this time. a. But the next table will be different, you’re sure of it.

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11. Stand straight up as soon as the bell rings.

12. Rush over to the next table.

13. Engage in pleasant conversation, like the kind in all those dramas you watch.

14. She will ask you what you do for work. Lie. a. Tell her one of the following: i. You are a businessman. ii. You are an owner of a small business. iii. You are a superhero.

1. Actually, not this one. iv. You are an engineer. b. Under no circumstances can you let her know what you are currently unemployed. i. Or that you live at your mom’s house.

15. Lie even more when she asks what a day on the job is like.

16. Realize you’re in too deep and just answer everything with a lie.

17. Feel the weight of all of your lies pushing down on you.

18. Feel sick.

19. Sprint to the bathroom. a. Thankfully you ran track in high school.

20. Throw up in the toilet. a. You don’t remember eating that much peanut butter.

21. Try not to cry. a. Try not to cry. i. I swear, if you cry1. Cry a lot.

22. Call your mom on the phone and ask to be picked up.

23. Go home and take a nap.

24. Repeat this next week.

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SPRING 2016

SENIOR CAPSTONES

Russian Studies

WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE?: Yelling Russian into the Void

Political Science THE RISE-ENBERG OF ROSENBERG: Macalester’s shift towards an authoritarian regime

Environmental Science

GO GREEN: How loudly one needs to yell at someone to get them to use fewer paper towels in public restrooms

THE ART OF TITLES

Geography

NAH, HAGUE IS FOR SHUUUUR THIS WAY: The art of making maps while drunk

History

THAT’S DEFINITLY MOLD: A multicultural analysis of the origins of what is in my fridge

English Literature THE ART OF TITLES: An investigation of self-referentiality

Math

Psychology

SNIFF SNIFF: Social effects of smelling your hand in public and then looking concerned but intrigued

Classics

PORTRAITS OF POWER: From Plato to Palpatine

SORRY TO REMIND YOU: The Calculus of your student debt

Neuroscience

“WHY DON’T YOU CALL MORE OFTEN”: Neurological patterns of being 22 guilted by grandma

Computer Science

YOU CAN REPLY ALL TO THE DAILY PIPER!: Crashing and fixing Macalester’s servers

Creative Writing

TO PEE OR NOT TO PEE: A modernist novella chronicling the struggle between needing to urinate and staying in bed

Signatures g a Give your do ! ;) kiss from me

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HEGEPERLATIVES

LYDIA KARLSON

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AUSTIN PARSONS

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NOAH MONDSCHEIN

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SARAH COLEMAN

Most likely to buy a used Honda Accord

IVY BARDAGLIO

Most likely to have a name that’s also a plant

ANTHONY GRANAI

Most likely to intimidate you while wearing jean shorts

LIAM DOWNS-TEPPER

Most likely to end up on a no-fly list

DANNY OCHOA

Most likely to be in a video with his grandmother and hate it

TOM WAKIN

Most likely to show up blazed to all meetings

JAMIE GOODIN

Most likely to start a yarn buisness

SEAN McDONALD

Most likely to be a gecko farmer

WILL MILCH

Most likely to fall asleep on Lydia’s couch every night