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By Abraham Teuber
teuberab@grinnell.edu
Grinnell College has remained unique in its commitment to paying students for creative work on student publications. Now, a new student employment policy is testing that commitment.
The recent formalization of student employment practices has left many publications struggling to adapt, forcing them to reconsider their traditions and priorities in finding a way through the pandemic.
The closing of campus last March interrupted the typical period in which publications’ new media heads are hired and trained, leaving new media heads to figure out how to adapt on their own. After starting the fall ready to pick up where they left off in the spring, media heads learned from Student Publications and Radio Committee (SPARC) – the committee that funds and oversees all student publications – that they
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