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Although CHEEBA received $2,300 from the student government, it was for an event "designed around the legal activity of advocating for marijuana legalization, not the illegal activity of smoking marijuana," he said.

Evidently, that expensive Mac education doesn't include a course on how to recognize bullshit when you are stoned.

Hey, way to wait until the last possible moment to nip it in the....no, I won't. I won't, I won't, I won't say it.

In the Bud Jr.?

But I was gonna play harmonica with my friend's jam band at that thing tonight! I'm no jam band fan, but I'm a playing harmonica with friends fan!

Not when there's late night Skinemax on.

wonder what those little Macalester brats would do if the boys involved in the upper end of the supply chain and busness development showed up at their little playground

And I wonder if pot were legal whether the guys higher up the supply chain would perhaps be out of business...or working for ATF in enforcement.

It's not "you guys," it is "those guys" - but definitely check them out. I've been friends with their bassist for years and he stops by my band's shows and sits in now and again and has so graciously extended the same invitation to me and my harps.

I'd rather bitch about the people shooting at each other's cars downtown.

hhhhmmm i'll bet there's a connection (6 degress of separation or less?) between the downtown shootings and the little baggie that some Mac student has stuffed in his backpack

I like how the hippie girls dance: all wavvy armed. The hippy girl dance hasn't evolved in over 30 years. It's as classic as the foxtrot.

I'd rather bitch about how I couldn't even get to macalester if I wanted to because no one will build a train down University Ave.

or maybe the shooting cars thing, too. That's pretty local to me.

For those of us who havent lived in the Twin Cities all our lives can someone provide a stereotype primer. I am picking a lot of it up here in bits but it would be helpfull all at once so I can refer back. Someone can start with a description of the student bodies at each college. In the perfect stereotype world how does a "Mac" student differ from a St. Olaf, Carleton, U of M, Hamline, Augsburg, Concordia, or St. Thomas student (did I miss some)? Maybe after colleges we can get to highschools, neighborhoods, religions, political parties, and races.

Co-worker had KQRS on and we were listening to Bob Dylan's Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. :-)

I'll be at the Summit Scandia release party tonight at the brewery. Not sure how complicated it'd be to get in without a ticket, but I'm sure they'll have it there, and probably a lot of it. I can't imagine it'd be too hard if you were there with your camera and wanted to "promote it" on some random local vlog. :-)

Here's a start:

Mac - Priviledged hippie, self-righteous and better than you. In my way when I'm driving down Grand Ave.
St. Thomas - MBA wannabe or blond airhead. Always getting in my way on Summit, bastards.
St. Olaf - big boned with the feeling of insecurity
Carleton - like Mac, but -5% rastification and +10% of the priviledge
U of M - um, Asian? I dunno.
Hameline - hard to clasify although according to the press racial oblivious
Concordia - isn't that kind of like Central High but costs money. heh.
Augsburg - they have a tennis court next to hwy 94.

Please, feel free to add and expand.

St. Olaf - nerdy but pleasant achievers who went to third-ring suburban high schools; wanted to get "away" but not too far away. Still close enough to come home on weekends so mom will do the laundry.
Preferred major: anthropology.

Carleton - politically liberal but conservatively dressed navel gazers who have the financial means to do so without having to do work-study.
Preferred major: political science.

Macalester - The urban Carlton, just not as well-dressed. Carleton students' parents are just as left as the students themselves; Macalester students are rebelling against their parents' conservatism.
Preferred major: self-directed liberal studies.

Hamline - Never made varsity anything in high school but had good enough grades to get in. Think the "fraternities" there are a pretty wild place to "party."
Preferred major: econ.

Augsburg - Same as Olaf, except they migrate in to the city from small towns and drink a lot more.
Preferred major: accounting.

Concordia - Perfect attendance at Sunday school throughout their youth.
Preferred major: divinity.

St. Thomas - Football and cheerleading captains all intending to major in "business," though if you ask them what they want to be when they graduate they won't have any idea. Will end up inheriting dad's car dealership.
Preferred major: I already toldja.

U of M - everyone else. And lots and lots of furriners.
Preferred major: survival.

I'm afraid to see what people would come up with for Dunwoody/Century/MCTC/Brown.

The U *does* have some requirements. It's the state schools that barely require a pulse, especially St. Cloud. Nobody's mentioned St. Catherine -- but it's nice to see everyone else has St. Thomas pegged.

In the words of NOFX... don't call me white. Shit, I'm not even professional. Literally.

Good god, DaveM has it nailed perfectly. He must be an insider somehow with that kind of insight. And don't forget St. Kates. Nice catholic girls who are too shy to attend a mixed gender school. Highest virgin-to-student ratio of all the city schools.

Chewbacca? The Jewish Festival of Lights?

Seriously, I hate St. Thomas. Those are always the guys with the baseball cap + polo shirt + sandals look going on.

hey Will -

St. Olaf alum here...poking fun.

and a bunch of Carls too on this board

Man do you guys have good pot.

go with it, my man. all in good jest. we love you people. you college people with your brains and brawn and unblemished psyches. we need you. without you we turn into sarcastic quasi-journalists who sit at home at night with a vodka/coffee/Bailey's martini while our kids watch Chronicles of Narnia (didn't I take an interim C.S. Lewis class? Chronic-WHAT-cles of Nar-nia) and post with reckless abandon to a web site that will surely prevent any of us from running for president.

Did I say that out loud?

Augsburg/UofM here...I guess that makes me the Michael Chang of local college graduates.

The guess the good thing about Augsburg is that nobody knows anyone who went there well enough to form a stereotype.

Some Carleton kids once stole a 1 ton rock from Mac's campus that had "Macalester" engraved on it and mailed it back COD from Illinois. That pretty much sums up Carleton's character.

It's funny because my brother made a comment not too long ago that was very hilarious, but kind of true when describing certain students and the school they go to.

"You can always tell what students come from what school around here without ever really knowing, Mac students are always scruffy, hippie or hipster like and look very studious. St.Thomas boys always have the prep look with a baseball hat tapped off to the side while the all the girls look like they are dressed to go to a club everyday, even if it's just for class.St.Kate's girls are chicks who looked like they just rolled out of bed, don't care about how they look and have attitude about the littlest things or try to hard to look good and instead hoochie up. Finally, U of M students, all school spirit gear all the time."

It could have been the guys at the FDA. They were so stoned, they forgot to go to science class.

And the Mac spokesperson's name is "Stone." My God. Did Scorcese write this script!?!

Whoops! There goes your Medical Marijuana!

FDA Release

At least we've still got Tony Danza.