Plans unites campus, beats Facebook
While a number of colleges have Facebook pages and Twitter feeds, Grinnell boasts its own social network. GrinnellPlans, a text-based social network, has grown from its origins on an old computer system into a part of Grinnell culture. Plans originated on the...
A Gay in the Life: Sejan Miah
8:03 a.m.—Wake up in the morning feeling like SeyJuicy. 8:09 a.m.—Check weather, realize it’s 75 °F and brainstorm ideas on how to make my tunic from Sierra Leone more revealing....
Paranormal Cat-tivity
The first floor of the Brande, an apartment located at 1001 4th Ave. Apt. A., houses Bogdan Krstic ’12, Hannah Shepherd’12 and Phoebe Currier ’12. As I walked to the house, I passed a...
Mellon Mays Fellowship Supports Minority Students
On Monday, April 23, the five Grinnell College Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows of the class of 2012 presented their senior research papers during an hour-long program in JRC 101. The papers were the culmination of two long...
Alternative language study option offers students broad opportunities
Claire Moisan, French, took over the position of the Alternative Language Study Option (ALSO) Director earlier this school year. While she has kept the basic structure the same, Moisan is planning many long-term changes to...
Mediation Program grows
Aurora Quinn-Elmore ’12 made her mark on Grinnell College when she began the Peer Mediation Program last year. Quinn-Elmore received training as a mediator in 2010 and contacted the Peace...
Liberal arts in prison celebrates expansion, gears up for Fall term
The Liberal Arts in Prison Program is wrapping up its ninth year of teaching in Iowa correctional facilities and its fourth year with a full-time coordinator, Emily Guenther ’07. This also marks the inaugural year of the...
DefJamily keeps it awkward, yet athletic
The two apartments at 934 High Street are actually a single crib—DefJamily. Inside this duplex’s plain white walls reside five individuals who are united by Pub Quiz steez, rec league...
Om your way out of a stressful week
If there is anything that you and I may have in common, it would be a heavy workload, one that leaves very little time to worry about ourselves. In the past, I have let the stress and exhaustion get...
Day in the life: Peter Aldrich ’15, Presiding Officer of Joint Board
6:26 a.m. — Wake-up attempt #1. 6:30 a.m. — Wake-up attempt #2. 6:38 a.m. — Wake-up attempt #3. Success! 6:42 a.m. — Walk to shower; forget towel. Retrieve towel. 7:22 a.m....
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