Imagine Grinnell receives community award

September 3rd, 2010 | By

“Leave it better than you found it,” Claude Ahrens challenged the Grinnell Community in 1994. Ahrens’s words have since then become an annual award given by the Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation to the individuals, groups and organizations that leave the community better than they found it—whether through projects, programs or collaborative efforts with...

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New friends splash together at NSO pool party

September 3rd, 2010 | By

The red pill or the blue pill—that is the question. Choosing between sliding into nearly four feet of water via a red slide or a blue slide is a much more exciting choice—and those were the options at the New Student Orientation (NSO) pool party on Monday August 23. In the midst of educational lectures...

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Nathan Clubb ’11 runs for office

May 14th, 2010 | By Marcus Eagan

There are more than 150 student organizations for Grinnell College students to choose from, but one particular club at Grinnell hopes to garner a lot of attention and support in the final days of the semester. That club is Nathan Clubb ’11, a rising senior and native of Sigourney, Iowa, where he is set to...

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Students talk bias-motived incident in all campus forum

May 14th, 2010 | By Max Calenberg

On Thursday, May 13, students, faculty and staff gathered in Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center 101 for an all campus forum to discuss their thoughts on the recent bias-motivated incident (see S&B 5/7). President Russell K. Osgood began discussion by emphasizing the importance of hearing what others had to say. “I welcome this opportunity to listen and...

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SGA calls for gender-neutral mission statement

May 14th, 2010 | By J. Francis Buse

In their final act of the semester, Joint Board hopes to make Grinnell a more accepting institution by encouraging change at the most basic level: by updating the College’s mission statement to be gender-neutral. On May 12, Joint Board passed a resolution proposed by Administrative Coordinator Ethan Struby ’10 calling for the College’s mission statement to...

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Beekeeping club finalizes plans

May 14th, 2010 | By Carolin Scholz

Bees are polarizing creatures—while loved by some, others are deathly afraid to go near a single one. And they’re coming to Grinnell. A student initiative passed at the beginning of this semester proposing student-run beehives on campus. Four beehives are already in Grinnell­—just not on campus. The club’s founders, Ian McCallum-Cook ’12 and...

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Town to host first annual Grinnell Games in June

May 13th, 2010 | By Darwin Manning

Grinnell will certainly be bringing out all its tricks for the community showcase during the first annual Grinnell Games, a rare event featuring action and alternative sports. The event will begin in grand fashion with the opening of the new Aquatic Center—located at 80 8th Ave between Bailey and Lions Park—on Thursday June 3 at...

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Community braves the weather to fight cancer

May 13th, 2010 | By Ali Sargent

While many Grinnell College students were pampering for Waltz last Saturday, around 300 members of the Grinnell town and campus community braved the winds for a walk at Ahrens Park. The walkers were participants in the 12th annual Poweshiek County Relay for Life, a team-based walking marathon in which one member of each team must...

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Remnants of on-campus party lead to administrative action

May 7th, 2010 | By Jai Garg and Solomon Miller

According to various sources, bowls used for a party in Clark Lounge on Saturday, May 1 were found to contain derogatory language, including misogynistic, racist, ableist and pedophilic terms, individually directed at over 50 female members of the Grinnell College community. Responding to the events of Saturday night, students make posters with affirming messages in Younker...

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