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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: Each sign as a holiday Hallmark movie trope
Horoscopes: Each sign as a holiday Hallmark movie trope
The signs as first year party fouls
The signs as first year party fouls
Horoscopes: Why does everyone want to know my big three?
Horoscopes: Why does everyone want to know my big three?
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

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Jonathon Kellogg, pictured above, is one of the new exchange students at Grinnell College.

[Photo] Exchange student program comes back to Grinnell after 10 years

September 26, 2022
Relishs owners will continue to cook and host events from the building of the pior Relish restaurant, located east of Central Park.

[Photo] Relish closes after over a decade of service

September 12, 2022
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[Photo] Institutional Memory: Upperclassmen Speak

September 12, 2022
The residents of 1021 High St. stand in front of their plant-filled home. From left to right: Amanda Ramirez `23, Zoe Robinson `23, Mia Overvoorde `23 and Samantha Morrison `23.5.

[Photo] Cribz: 1021 High St. wants to buy your furniture

September 19, 2022
The proposed Learning Spaces Policy would allow individuals to report incidents they perceive to be harmful to the learning environment.

[Photo] Academic freedom concerns arise over proposed Learning Spaces Policy

September 19, 2022
Professor Laura Ng, anthropology.

[Photo] Record-breaking number of new faculty hired

September 26, 2022
Edo Biluar `23 is a community advisor for Main Hall.

[Photo] CAs face increased workload compared to previous years

October 10, 2022
The Connecting for Women event series included two socials, one at the Periodic Table and one at Solera.

[Photo] “Connecting for Women” event series encourages networking among women

October 31, 2022
1033 Elm Street poses with the portly cat Mercury. (From left: Kaya Matsuura, Lucien DeJule, Lily Thornton, Will Donaldson, Isabelle Madorsky and Maren Gingerich, all `23.)

[Photo] Cribz: The Nightmare on Elm Street

October 31, 2022
The Nightmare on Elm Street lives in a hoaders dream.

[Photo] Cribz: The Nightmare on Elm Street

October 31, 2022
Silverbergs writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among others.

[Photo] Writers@Grinnell: Amy Silverberg

November 7, 2022
Moffetts novel is a murder mystery set in a fictionalized Iowan county.

[Photo] Professor Emeritus Sandy Moffett releases debut novel “The Ghost of Craven Snuggs”

November 7, 2022
The international student monument has been reinstated after it was vandalized and repaired.

[Photo] Vandalized international monument returns to campus

November 7, 2022
Dean Mazlish `23 (left) and Lexi Mueldener `23 (right) can now offer bystander training to fellow students.

[Photo] Two Grinnell students certified to offer bystander training

November 7, 2022
Several floodlights were installed on campus, including on the corner of 10th Avenue and Park Street.

[Photo] College and city mobilize in response to racist attacks

November 7, 2022
Professor Masashi Harada teaches courses which would be included in the proposed Japanese major.

[Photo] Japanese major proposed

November 21, 2022
Prior to bargaining, members of the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers rallied outside the Joe Rosenfeld Center to protest the closing of bargaining to an audience and to support Just Cause for Academic Workers.

[Photo] UGSDW rallies, negotiations continue behind closed doors

November 14, 2022
Julianna Vajda `24 studied abroad with Grinnell-in-London.

[Photo] Third annual International Education Week broadens horizons for off-campus opportunities

November 21, 2022
Members of the College’s team just before the Nov. 10 collective bargaining session. From left: Clark Lindgren, Marc Reed, Germaine Gross, Jana Grimes, Brad Lindberg and Frank Harty.

[Photo] Collective bargaining yields first tentative agreement

November 21, 2022
The Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers held a rally before the Nov. 10 collective bargaining session in support of Just Cause for academic workers and keeping negotiations open to an in-person audience.

[Photo] UGSDW and Grinnell College collective bargaining proposals, side-by-side

November 21, 2022
While Tilly Woodward holds two degrees in sculpture, oil painting has been her medium of choice for the past two decades.

[Photo] Grinnell Artists: Tilly Woodward

December 5, 2022
Caleb Elfenbein posing in his office

[Photo] Office Hours: Caleb Elfenbein, Religious Studies & History

March 13, 2023
From left: Zoe Nechin `25, Theo Deitz-Green `23, Rabbi Sarah Brammer-Shlay, and Livia Stein Freitas `25 perform a spiel.

[Photo] Celebration and resilience in the month of joy: Purim at Grinnell

March 12, 2023
Mollie ODell, owner of The Lily Lou Company, hopes to help Grinnell build a sense of community.

[Photo] The Lily Lou Company gifts itself to Grinnell

February 6, 2023
Keely Miyamoto `26 was named National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III All-Academic Athlete.

[Photo] Cross Country keeps pace with another award-winning season

February 6, 2023
Rabbi Sarah Brammer-Shlay is facilitating three discussion sessions on Jewish identity and experiences.

[Photo] Rabbi Sarah Brammer-Shlay leads discussions on Jewish identity

February 13, 2023
Solera offered free wine to period product donors and those who donated over $5 to the supply drive.

[Photo] Grinnell businesses kick off Women’s History Month

March 6, 2023
Lucy Polyak `23 directed a musical production for her MAP.

[Photo] Faculty struggle to justify MAPs due to change in compensation

March 6, 2023
Grinnell can only store approximately 23% of its daily chemically treated water production.

[Photo] Corrosion threatens Grinnell water supply

February 20, 2023
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