Dees, in tradition of King speak at Herrick
L: You had a very successful business and law career before founding the Center so can you tell me a little bit about your inspiration for founding the Southern Poverty Law Center? M: I...
This week in SGA
President Kington paid a visit to SGA Joint Board this week, addressing questions and comments from senators and students. Kington spent a large amount of time discussing his commitment to the humanities, after Senator...
10/10 goes down as smooth as a cold drink
Administrators, organizers, and students agree that this year’s 10/10 was a resounding success for the majority of partiers, with new policies enacted by the Harm Reduction Committee providing a better atmosphere for the...
Slate’s ‘Gabfest’ to cover caucuses in Grinnell
The online general-interest magazine, Slate, will be recording a political “Gabfest” podcast on Grinnell’s campus on Dec, 7, at 6:00 p.m. The show will focus on the Iowa Caucuses, set to take place on January 3,...
College names Reische as VP of Communications
There’s going to be yet another new face on campus this year and this time it’s the new Vice President of Communications. Jim Reische, who formerly worked with the University of Michigan’s Office of University...
Young innovators accept Social Justice Prize: James Kofi Annan
For most of us, childhood evokes images of T.V. shows, swing sets and grade school. But at age six, Social Justice Prizewinner James Kofi Annan was sold into slavery in his native Ghana and forced to work in the fishing industry...
Kington mandates substance free college trips
The administration enacted an interim policy that stipulates all college-funded trips are subject to the same rules and that all participants must be substance-free for the entirety of these trips, for the first time...
Blackboard gets updates to increase utility, speed
What do you use PioneerWeb for? For most people, this amounts to just two things: checking for your homework, and stalking people via the database. To be sure, these are both necessary functions, but isn’t there...
Student Affairs Pushes to Compensate Student Staff
Should we pay our student advisors? The issue flared up in force last year after Cyril Afeku ’13 and Sarah Mayer ’12 brought a petition to Andrea Conner, the Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residence Life and...
Student initiatives begin to take shape
Grinnell will not be getting a foam machine or build an outdoor ice rink, but Bucksbaum may install a printer and the Outlook email system may switch to Gmail as a result of this year’s student...
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