Breaking bread bursts the bubble
Grinnellians have a maddening dedication to their ideal of a free world in which food, resources and power are fairly shared. We affirm almost daily our dedication to eradicate hunger, stop genocides, destroy infectious...
Grinnell’s future: Do as you say, not as you bash
What do you want to happen to Grinnell in the next five years? Thursday morning, Grinnell President Raynard Kington presented this year’s inaugural convocation—“Choosing Grinnell’s Future”—with the...
Better know a dining hall
Welcome back, fellow Grinnellians, to another wonderful year of Dining Hall adventures. We will embark on a culinary journey, mixing and matching ingredients from the Dining Hall to form spectacular, previously unimagined...
Pioneering education
This past summer, the American Psychological Association (APA) released an article entitled, “More students are hospitalized for mental health problems,” which reported a 47 percent increase in hospitalizations...
Human Readable: tech tips for human beings
Have you ever wished you could just tell your computer what you wanted it to do, instead of searching through hundreds of menus to find just the program you want? It turns out that you can, using a powerful tool known as a semantic...
Get out there and show support!
Well, we’ve reached the end of Week 2, and our lives are beginning to fall into their recognizable routines. We now all know which off -campus house names suck, which classes are going to push us into some obscure corner of an...
Reprint from 1996: InterVarsity promotes homophobia, not Christianity
This letter to the editor was published by the S&B in 1996 when a campus religious group known as the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship prohibited homosexuals from holding leadership roles in their group. InterVarsity lost...
Open discussion necessary for healing, support
As there has been much discussion about the role of Grinnell’s Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the new student organization, Grinnellians Seeking Christ, I wanted to chime in as Chief Diversity Officer and as...
SGA upholds non-discrimination policy
Dear Grinnellians, At the end of the last semester, the Student Government Association (SGA) decided to revoke the official student group status of the Grinnell College Christian Fellowship (GCCF). The decision was...
Staff ed: Many harmed by exclusive policy
Each Grinnell student has the right to any belief and to any sexual orientation. Both of these rights are personal and together they can be contentious. However, our values as an institution compel us to uphold both, side by...
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News While students were still on break, all on campus was not idle. The Strategic Planning team, in particular, was working...
Why Occupy Grinnell matters
Opinion Since its inception last fall, the reaction I receive most frequently from my fellow students when I tell them about...
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Community Eyes flicking downward as he grinned shyly, Dean Bakopoulos charmed the crowd of community members and students that...
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