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More than 1,000 protestors gathered in Des Moines to protest anti-trans legislation on Sunday, March 6.
Rally to Resist: Grinnellians protest anti-LGBTQ+ legislation
Evelynn Coffie `24 (Left) and Bethany Willig `23 (Right)
BSU distributes mutual aid to Black students
Nicole Cabe `23, Spanish major and community engagement coordinator.
Year-long Spanish course innovates MAP structure
Cullen Hendrix, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, gave a talk about climate change and security issues.
Visiting speakers spread awareness about climate change through Rosenfield Program
UGSDW bargaining: March 9 bargaining update
Drake Community Library offers oral history workshop on March 13
Drake Community Library offers oral history workshop on March 13
Vonda Earnhart is the owner of Vondas Flowers and Gifts.
Vonda’s Flowers and Gifts makes Grinnell’s creativity bloom
Grinnell College makes monetary donations and contributes props to Grinnell High School for theatrical shows.
Grinnell High School presents “Crimes of the Heart”
Troy Kingery (left) and Chris Mcvay (right) are two of the bartenders at the Fraternal Order of Eagles bar located in Grinnell.
Meet the Bartenders: Eagles Edition
16 Grinnell businesses are participating in an initiative to collect period products to be distributed amongst Grinnell Middle School and Grinnell-Newburg High School, Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) Food Pantry and Drake Community Library.
Grinnell businesses kick off Women’s History Month
From left: Zoe Nechin `25, Theo Deitz-Green `23, Rabbi Sarah Brammer-Shlay, and Livia Stein Freitas `25 perform a spiel.
Celebration and resilience in the month of joy: Purim at Grinnell
Some students with dietary restrictions struggle to find options in the Dining Hall.
Meal plan price increase raises questions about Dining Hall quality
GWSS fourth-years adopted the position of historical pro-sex and anti-sex feminists for the Sex Wars debate.
Graduating GWSS majors explore ‘bad feminists’ in Sex Wars debate
The Campus Quaker Meeting Worship Group holds silent meetings on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month in the CRSSJ Prayer Garage.
Campus Quaker Meeting Worship Group hosts silent meetings to encourage reflection
In this photo, all women students at Grinnell lived in South Campus residence halls prior to dorm integration in 1968.
History Takeover: The winding path of coeducation at Grinnell
Hai-Dang Phan, on the left, and Phan Nhiên Hạo, on the right, sit in two simple wooden chairs on a red carpet looking at the camera. Their heads are tilted slightly towards each other. Their knees are spread and their hands are clasped in their laps. The chairs are part of a row and another row is visible behind them, for audience seating, but no one else is in frame. A blank whiteboard is visible on the wall behind them.
A poet in exile: Phan Nhiên Hạo with Hai-Dang Phan at Writers@Grinnell
Five people sit staggered on three rows of benches, backs turned to the camera. They face a person wearing a mask, jeans, and a pale blue collared shirt with a darker blue cardigan over top. This person is standing, facing the camera, and appears to be reading from a book. Behind them are vertical white boards that come to a point, imitating a slatted wall inside of a church with a pointed roof, with what appears to be a round stained-glass window near the point. The ground is brown and fades to a mossy green near the left side. A seated figure, barely visible, sits far away in the shadows on the left.
Fear, faith and hope in “Arbor Falls”
Clarks debut poetry collection (pictured) was published in 2022.
“To write and create are not the same thing”: Writers@Grinnell welcomes John Lee Clark
Aubrie Torhorst `23 stands between her pieces A Body Touched (left) and One Needs to be Embraced (right).
“Autonomy” at Smith Gallery explores intersection of medicine and identity
From left to right: Dylan Laurianti `23, Nick Parker `23, Will Sweek `23, Henry Gold `25 and Kenny Atlas `23.
The many aliases of Soi Disantra
Sam Rudenberg `25 (above) and Henry Bridgers (not pictured) beat Cornell College in a doubles match 8-0 at the March 5 match. Grinnell won 9-0.
Men’s tennis extends 19-year MWC win streak
Ian Clawson `26 (above) broke the school record for the weight throw with a 54-5 1/12 toss at the Midwest Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship on Feb. 24-25. He placed third in the event.
Pioneers break records at indoor track and field championships
Aiden Gilbert `23, guard, drives the ball down court in the Feb. 14 game against Beloit College.
Buzzer sounds on men’s basketball season in OT loss
Ian MacMoran `24 (upper left), Ivan Kwei `24 (lower left), Yoel Hooper-Antunez `24 (middle) and Phukao Prom- molmard `25 (middle-right) all competed in the Feb. 25 tournament hosted by Smash at Grinnell.
From fist bumps to knockouts: Smash at Grinnell hosts tournament
Sabrina Tang `23 was ranked 13th nationally in women’s Division-III tennis.
Women’s tennis returns to play after stellar fall season
Lucia Cheng 23 sitting in HSSC.
If you’re reading this, would you understand me?: A look back on four years at Grinnell as an Asian American
Caleb Elfenbein posing in his office
Office Hours: Caleb Elfenbein, Religious Studies & History
Beauty of Nature: American Robin
Beauty of Nature: American Robin
Bertie the frog: Volume #3
Bertie the frog: Volume #3
Oh Deer Volume #6
Oh Deer Volume #6
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Alumni support trans athletes at Grinnell after NCAA removes LGBTQ+ protections
Members of Chaverim Elizabeth Collinger, Batyah Selis and Nick Raphaelson (left to right), all 21.
Letter to the Editor: “Pioneers” no more
Letter to the Editor: The climate crisis
Letter to the Editor: The climate crisis
Letter to the Editor: SGA’s BLM Solidarity Statement an example of overzealous elevation of identity
Letter to the Editor: SGA’s BLM Solidarity Statement an example of overzealous elevation of identity
Beauty of Nature: American Robin
Beauty of Nature: American Robin
Bertie the frog: Volume #3
Bertie the frog: Volume #3
Oh Deer Volume #6
Oh Deer Volume #6
Bertie the Frog: Heres a hug
Bertie the Frog: Here’s a hug
Beauty of Nature: White-breasted Nuthatch
Beauty of Nature: White-breasted Nuthatch
The signs on Valentine’s Day
The signs on Valentine’s Day
Horoscopes: What should your goal be this semester?
Horoscopes: What should your goal be this semester?
Horoscopes: The signs as first year party fouls
Horoscopes: The signs as first year party fouls
Graphic by Shabana Gupta.
Horoscopes: The Signs in a Zombie Apocalypse
The Signs on a First Date
The Signs on a First Date
Episode 6: Behind the Story – Millie Peck on “It’s time to talk”
Episode 5: The Costa Rica Semester pt. 2 — The Student Experience
Episode 4: The Costa Rica Semester pt. 1 — Behind the College’s Decision
Dorm Cats of Grinnell
Hot Takes: Grinnell Edition

The Scarlet & Black

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Ashley Baek

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer

Ashley is a second-year English and political science major from Vestal, NY. In her free time, she loves baking sweets, talking about cheesy romance novels, sipping on the various monthly Saints Rest specials, and overusing exclamation points!

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Cullen Hendrix, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, gave a talk about climate change and security issues.

Visiting speakers spread awareness about climate change through Rosenfield Program

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
March 12, 2023
Maia `23 (left) and Quinn `23 (right) began dating in high school.

Couples Speak: The first dates that started everything

February 13, 2023
Sabrina Tang `23 was ranked 13th nationally in women’s Division-III tennis.

Women’s tennis returns to play after stellar fall season

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
March 5, 2023
Nick Leedom (middle) and Abby Martin (right) are two of Grinnell Craft Brewhouses bartenders who give the Brewhouse its essence.

Meet the Bartenders: Brewhouse Edition

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
February 19, 2023
Sawubona House, located at 1318 East St., will house 5 students in single rooms.

Sawubona House accepts first residents

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
February 13, 2023
Students volunteer at the University of Iowa Mobile Clinic

Students volunteer at the University of Iowa Mobile Clinic

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
December 5, 2022
The international student monument has been reinstated after it was vandalized and repaired.

Vandalized international monument returns to campus

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
November 7, 2022
Silverbergs writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among others.

Writers@Grinnell: Amy Silverberg

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
November 7, 2022
On a rainy November day in 1961, members of the Grinnell 14 paused for a moment outside Burling Library before starting their long drive to Washington, D.C.

History takeover: Grinnell 14

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
October 3, 2022
Rose Mary Pirkle decorates every one of her art pieces by hand, using a painted dot technique stylized in a mandala pattern.

Grinnell Artists: Rose Mary Pirkle

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
September 26, 2022
Jocelyn Krueger, Collections Manager and Registrar at the Grinnell College Museum of Art.

Grinnell Artists: Jocelyn Krueger

Ashley Baek, Staff Writer
September 19, 2022
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