Why Occupy Grinnell matters
Since its inception last fall, the reaction I receive most frequently from my fellow students when I tell them about Occupy Grinnell is something along the lines of: Really? What’s the point? And that is completely understandable. Superficially, the prospect of...
Need for diversity in the curriculum
This semester marks the first time since the 2008-2009 academic year that Asian American Contemporary Issues has been offered at Grinnell. Before that, the College never offered this course and, when the professor of both...
Free the S&B archives from PWeb and loggia
This summer, the administration took the Scarlet & Black archives down off our website, www.thesandb.com, and uploaded them instead to PWeb and the Loggia, granting access only to current Grinnellians and alumni...
Constituting social justice
Throughout this semester, this column has attempted to offer reflections about how the values that Grinnellians espouse relate to the real world. The premise was to restrict my lens to conversations in the dining hall: our...
Football: brain drain
Even with one of the largest per-student endowments of any university in the country, the question remains: how can Grinnell College save money and plan for a long term sustainable budget? Recent college developments...
Maintaining computer relations
Would you get in a car that hadn’t had its oil changed, its tires filled with air, and its brakes checked? Probably not—so why should you trust your computer to run without maintenance? Consider the amount of data that...
Cutting the cord: allowing technology to take flight
For all their sophisticated designs and hefty price tags, how useful are mobile devices? Tablets and smartphones can travel with us where a conventional computer can’t, but what you gain in portability you often...
Tipping the scales: Grades (in)effectual
My good bud Austin Frerick ’12 likes to say that at among the handful of taboo subjects at Grinnell, talking about our GPAs is at the top of the list. In light of upcoming finals week, I’d like to talk a bit more about how grades...
Mistry dishes up dining hall delights
With another week comes another round of meals in the Dining Hall. For some, this means crushing boredom with their meals. For us, however, it means another few days to experiment and play with our food. Let us make unusual...
Staff and Beer
This semester, the jump in alcohol-related hospitalizations already broke the previous record for an entire academic year, set in 2008-09. Whether or not the increase is statistically significant, we know that some...
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