Every Monday morning for the past year, I have had the chance to see Grinnell in a new light. As I walk my paper route, hands stained with ink from the editions I carry, I get to see the campus as it slowly opens its eyes and comes awake. Every Thursday night for the past.
Between voice lessons in Bucksbaum Arts Center, a mid-day meal in the Joe Rosenfield Center (JRC), or an anthropology class in the Humanities and Social Sciences Center (HSSC), an average day for a typical Grinnell student has the potential to include a range of locales. According to a recent survey, Grinnell students feel least welcome.
For many students, classes couldn’t start soon enough this fall. On Aug. 24, in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave that brought indices of 110 degrees Fahrenheit, classrooms became an air-conditioned escape from unbearably hot dorm rooms. The intense heat, which returned again over Labor Day, left some students questioning the College’s preparedness, as.
Phan Nhiên Hạo’s poems are short, sincere bursts of life which in simple language capture precise impressions of incredibly complex feelings and emotions, intimately portraying the history of a country, a man and his journey into exile. During the second Writers@Grinnell event of the spring semester on March 2, Hạo and Hai-Dang Phan, associate professor.
Nina Baker bakerni@grinnell.edu Before the Spanish colonized the Caribbean in the 15th century, the Taíno people were the principal inhabitants of Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the Lesser Antilles. The Taíno peoples held a strong artistic tradition and thrived on matrilineal systems of kinship and inheritance. However, at the hands of Spanish imperialists, 90 percent of.