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Let’s talk disordered eating and rape culture

Samantha Powers, audio engineer • June 15, 2021

Internalized misogyny is everywhere, and it’s a big deal

Samantha Powers, audio engineer • June 13, 2021
Expanding Black History Month activities have been a positive step, but those activities should be accessible to all Mac students and should take place throughout the year.

Celebrating Black history should be a year-round thing

Theo Roe and Bobby Currie • April 21, 2021
The panelists agreed that encouraging diverse perspectives in the classroom is essential but also that such exchanges need to happen organically to avoid tokenism and putting minority speakers uncomfortably on the spot. Mr. Myers said the pandemic has actually helped create safer spaces for this to happen by allowing more indirect ways to communicate in the online classroom.

Being actively anti-racist is sometimes uncomfortable

Theo Roe and Javier Vela • January 23, 2021
In the debut episode of MacJournalism's new podcast,

New podcast covers equity, the AP classroom and more

Theo Roe and Javier Vela • November 16, 2020
During his in-depth interview on the Feedback Loop, senior Jay Mathis discusses the influences that together helped him create a new sound for his first EP Vampire. Photo by Brooke Ellisor. Graphic by Theo Roe.

Mathias’ new sound all about experimenting, having fun

Evelyn Griffin, Theo Roe, and Alysa Spiro • October 18, 2020
History teacher Greg Anderson and former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider smile for the camera at a VIP event during Snider’s solo show in Dallas. After Snider signed Anderson’s copies of the Twister Sister albums You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll and Stay Hungry, Anderson told Snider how much he admired him for his role fighting censorship in the Parents Music Resource Center U.S. Senate hearings. “He made a joke about how funny it would have been if Bob Denver had been at the hearings instead of John Denver,” Anderson said. “He asked if I wanted to make tough guy faces in the picture, and I asked him if we could smile instead. He was very nice and everyone was walking away very happy from the experience.” Anderson also told MacJournalism that he first became a fan of Twisted Sister after seeing the band’s appearance in the final chase scene in the 1985 movie Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and that he caught a guitar pick during Snider’s show.

Greg Anderson’s musical anthology includes Green Day, the Foo Fighters, Devo and the Ramones

Marley Angle, Anna McClellan, Grace Nugent, and Theo Roe • October 7, 2020
Anderson's Spotify metal playlist is 34 hours long, and his chart showing different metal genres and their relationship to each other looks like a constellation of stars.

Turns out you can judge a band by its album cover

Evelyn Griffin, Anna McClellan, Grace Nugent, and Theo Roe • September 28, 2020
Senior Marlee Foster, AKA Merlin, released

Merlin pairs powerful lyrics with upbeat, laid-back style

Theo Roe, Evelyn Griffin, and Alysa Spiro • August 28, 2020
Interim principal Nicole Griffith wasn't the only new voice in our first podcast of the year. The audio engineer and the hosts were also new. The episode allows listeners to travel from Texas to Chicago, to Australia, to Paris and back to Austin without leaving their homes. Graphic by Theo Roe.

Griffith: Authentic tasks create best student experience

Theo Roe, Alysa Spiro, and Elisha Scott • August 23, 2020
The custodial staff begins a deep clean of the Mac campus on Friday March 13, wiping down the tables in the cafeteria. Originally the deep clean was to take place during spring break, but because of the districtwide cancellation of school on March 13, administrators decided to start the deep clean early. Photo by Dave Winter.

Hosack discusses COVID-19 concerns, current plan for senior class events, rest of school year

Stella Shenkman and Julia Kay Smith • March 20, 2020
TAKING

New music podcast gets right to The Point

Tomas Marrero and Stella Shenkman • November 20, 2019
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