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  1. Diversity and Unity

     

    The International Student Organization’s annual Food Bazaar (one of my favorite events of the fall semester) is an obvious celebrations of Grinnell’s diversity. But for me, what stands out…

  2. Two Grinnellians use theit laptops in the Grill on bright yellow and red chairs

    Art We Won’t Forget

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Directly in front of me as I sit in The Spencer Grill, four banners hang from the second- floor balcony. Eighteen feet tall and four feet wide, the banners are covered in pictures,…

  3. Editor’s View: Finding Diversity in Surprising Places

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    When I applied to Grinnell, my admission essay opened with the line, “I am a 17-year-old, Caucasian, upper-middle-class suburbanite from a public school.” I knew that colleges were looking…

  4. Interpreting Test Scores

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Interpreting Test Scores

    To interpret an individual student's standardized achievement test scores, please refer to the following concordance table…

  5. If You Can't Visit...

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    You can learn a lot about a college by reading its brochures, web pages, and magazines, but these resources cannot fully convey everything that makes Grinnell College such a wonderful…

  6. Why a bill proposed to sell Pollock's "Mural" is a bad idea

    Jan 04, 2013

    Posted by:  Lesley Wright

    State Rep. Scott Raecker, a Grinnell alumnus, has introduced a bill in the Iowa Legislature to…

  7. Pioneer women's cross country team back on top in the MWC

    Jan 04, 2013

    The Grinnell College women's cross country team is back on top in the Midwest Conference.

    The Pioneers, who had won four league titles in a row before surrendering the crown last year,…

  8. Snowperson and real person

    Wise and Weathered

    Jan 04, 2013

    Author:  Sunanda Vaidheesh '12

    What puzzled my Indian friends and family the most when I decided to go to school in Iowa wasn’t how I was going to survive outside the…

  9. Community

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    It was like trying to believe in Santa Claus. Was it really true? Would she remember? Would she really get up early on a Tuesday, walk from her cozy off-campus house all the way over to…

  10. Religion in the Cornfields

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    I’ve been a Unitarian Universalist all my life. I’m used to people asking me “What’s UU?” all the time, so by now, I’ve got the speech down. But what I didn’t know was that by coming to…

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