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I’ve loved semiprecious stones – or “rocks and minerals,” as my favorite Scholastic Book Fair hardback referred to them – since I can remember. The East Coast of the United States, where I grew up, had plenty to offer: thick chunks of glittering mica, rough mottled pink granite, pale quartz ovals and dark-grey slate slabs were an endless fascination for me on hikes and camping trips. A family friend also owned a rock tumbler, a rotating cylindrical box filled with stones and grit that, when spun for a day or longer, gave the stone pieces a near-mirror polish. I found those tumbled stones even more interesting. Their polished surfaces allowed a closer inspection of hairline fractures and fissures within the stone and even views into the interior of the piece for clear minerals like quartz, whose surface is cloudy when the stone is rough.
Grinnell College announced today that it will be offering the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to anyone affiliated with the College and currently living in or around Grinnell. The clinic will take place on April 7th and April 8th in Darby Gym in the Bear Athletic Center, with follow-up doses to be given on April 28th and April 29th. Sign-ups close this coming Saturday, April 3, at noon CST (detailed instructions on how and where to sign up can be found in the announcement email sent out by Harris this evening).
There will be over 1,100 vaccines available, and doses will go first to students and College employees before being distributed more widely, depending on dose availability. If students or staff have already been vaccinated, they can register for a second dose through the College clinic.
All of Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, went eerily quiet.
On that cold November afternoon in 2019, there was no sound in the school’s hallways except for the echoing of footsteps, going door to door between classrooms. Students and teachers crouched in the corners of the rooms, concealed by darkness. One young girl covered her mouth with her hands to prove she was keeping quiet.
Michael Thompson, assistant director in the Syracuse City School District’s Security Department, unlocked one of the doors and peeked into a third-grade classroom where some students huddled behind a teacher’s desk.
February 25, 2021
The HSSC interior will eventually feature a total of 12 new names inscribed on the walls of the enclosed Alumni Recitation Hall. Photo by Andrew Tucker.
By Eva Hill
hilleva@grinnell.edu
Five new names to be inscribed on the interior walls of the Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC) were released to the Grinnell College public today. The upcoming inscriptions will honor James Baldwin, Steve Biko, Octavia Butler, Rachel Carson and Frida Kahlo.
The five new plaques will join the inaugural name, that of Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, inscribed in spring 2020. Morrison’s name was chosen by former Grinnell College President Raynard Kington who initiated the project. The inscribed plaques form a dialogue with a much older set of honorific inscriptions on the outside of Carnegie Hall, now part of the modern HSSC, which list the names of classical theorists and artists (Homer, Dante and Plato frame the building’s street-facing entrance).