BĀDPHAYÁK, one of Grinnell College’s most popular student bands, kicked off the second week of classes with an open rehearsal and jam session in Bucksbaum Center for the Arts on Sunday, Jan. 28. The band members, which includes string, brass, percussion and vocal musicians, have high aspirations for their upcoming music-making this semester. Next up?.
By Ryleigh Hayworth hayworth@grinnell.edu This summer, Germaine Gross will join the College as chief financial officer and vice president of finance, taking on the titles on July 1. Gross comes from Tulane University in New Orleans, where she served as chief business officer (CBO) for the School of Liberal Arts. “I always say I didn’t.
By Ryleigh Hayworth hayworth@grinnell.edu For her entire first semester of college, Lex Baumann `22 could not earn a three on her weekly three-point calculus I quiz. You got one point for putting your name on the paper, one point for trying and one point for accuracy. She passed the class, although not with the grade.
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For students in Iowa, it s not just masks and online classes that have changed school during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an instant, you could have all these activities taken away, you could have your school taken away (the pandemic) just made me value a lot of the little things that I d never even thought of before, said Sky Weber, a senior in the Keota Community School District. Even just going and eating lunch with my friends, or going and watching a movie in a movie theater, it made me value those things so much more.
The half a million students in Iowa have all experienced a different version of school from the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the changes go beyond differences in how classes are conducted: High school activities such as band, sports and talking with friends at lunchtime have been turned on their heads. And the students have noticed.