With warmer weather, students adapt campus events to COVID-19 guidelines
April 21, 2021
Shanna Kang 21, Jacey Birkenmeyer 22 and Eli Calalang-Lacroix 22 (left to right) perform at The Grinnellian in Spring 2019, the last time the event was held. Photo contributed by Saketan Anand.
By Malcolm Galpern Levin
galpernl@grinnell.edu
As the weather warms up and the sun shines over Mac Field, Grinnell College students in a typical spring semester enjoy a wide range of exciting events and campus traditions every weekend. This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions that discourage large group gatherings, students are getting creative to figure out which events can and cannot be salvaged.
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The first hint that the green, two-story house off the corner of Broad Street and Seventh Avenue isn’t quite what it seems is the light that radiates from the house at night. Not just the twinkling Christmas lights hanging from the porch, still left up from December, but also the purple lights from inside.
Most rooms in the house have fairy lights draped along the ceiling. If not, the overhead light fixtures shine blue or purple rather than white.
“Very few rooms have overhead lights because we’re artsy kids. And artsy kids hate overhead lights,” said Tess Kerkhof `21, one of five residents in the house.
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