MACALESTER WINTER 2020 Today CL I M AT E ANXIETY How the looming threat of global catastrophe is galvanizing today’s students to take action and seek solutions. SEE PAGE 24 MACALESTER Today WINTER 2020 12 14 20 FEATURES Welcome to Minneapolis 12 Climate Anxiety 24 Michelle Rivero ’94 shapes how Facing fears about a warming the city supports immigrants planet, Macalester students and refugees. are responding with education, organizing, and growing activism. Second Act 14 How alumni are finding meaningful How Macalester work and service in the second half Made Me the Republican TURNER; J. DAVID LEFT: FROM of their lives. I am Today 30 RJ Laukitis ’02 parlayed debates Curtain Call 20 on campus into bipartisan Before he retires, Dan Keyser collaboration on Capitol Hill. ON THE COVER: walks us through more than a MARIA SIRIANO; Generation Z grew up century of Mac theater. Lecture Notes 32 worrying about what will We asked Michael Griffin how happen to our warming news has changed in the twenty- ARCHIVES COLLEGE MACALESTER planet. Now channeling their climate anxiety into first century. action, these activists seek solutions to halt climate change. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHARLES JISCHKE STAFF EDITOR Rebecca DeJarlais Ortiz ’06
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