Tensions at MCTC have been mounting throughout the semester. Faculty vs. administration, black vs. white, students vs. everybody. As this tension has grown, the conversation across dividing lines has grown angrier, and more like shouting. Within the editorial board, we talk about everything that you’ve said to us. We’re students too. We’re black, white, Latino, [...]
A lack of focus seems to pervade many of the courses here at MCTC. A science course that turns out to be about the politics of medicine. An English course that turns out to be about the wars in the Middle East. A general poli sci course that turns out to be about racism almost [...]
Social mores are the accepted, expected ways of behaving in a culture. In America, these are things like saying please and thank you and telling the truth. Violating these social rules is abnormal and rude for most of the year, but not on April Fool’s Day. On April Fools Day many of these accepted rules [...]
MCTC, and all public schools, are the middle of a very tough battle. A battle which, to most people, is invisible, except for its end result. At MCTC, the end result is in the incredibly long lines at Financial Services and Counseling and Advising. It’s in the eyes of harried staff who never seem to [...]
The Accuplacer test is designed to ensure that colleges are able to meet students where they’re at – where ever that may be. From math to reading to writing, all MCTC students take the Accuplacer to get on appropriate path to get to college-level learnig if they’re not there yet. The concept is a great [...]
It’s the communication age, but outside the realms of sci-fi, we seldom stop to consider what that means. What does it mean to be a citizen of the internet? The internet has become a sort of second home for many in our society, and our world. We have identities, personalities, hobbies, and friends, but it’s [...]
“We need more and better advisors!” say the students. “The tuition is too high!” we shout. The thing is, while all of these statements are true, you can only choose one option. Perhaps it’s unfair, but such is the cruel game of life: you can’t have it all. ‘You can’t have your cake and eat [...]
Recently, members of MCTC’s Student Senate went to the Minnesota Student Leadership Summit 11. In a program book given to all attendees, various school’s accomplishments were listed. MCTC’s Student Senate boasted of Higher One, a ban of plastic bottled water sales and student textbook donation. But, where is this financial aid service? Why are water [...]
How many students really know what’s going on in their classroom? How much of a professor’s content is actually being processed and committed to memory? The answer to these two questions is found in the most traditional and uniform way, dating back to the beginning stages of evaluating or assessing any sort of knowledge, procedure, [...]
We at City College News want to welcome everyone back to another semester at MCTC. As the student newspaper, it is our job to make sure the voices of MCTC students are heard, as well as to make sure that the students are well informed about the current happenings around campus. In their book “The [...]
