Issue Date: 
January 5, 2008

Edited by Erin Sindewald '08.

  • Coming Out as a Republican
    Derek Bates ’08
    Looking back, I’m glad I have been open about my values and beliefs, since it has forced me to challenge them and make sure they are what I truly believe.
  • Editor’s View: Finding Diversity in Surprising Places
    Erin Sindewald ’08
    Not until we were all thrown together in small-town Iowa, originating in countless different places, did we notice our own eccentricities that seem so peculiar to others.
  • A Place of My Own
    Smita Elena Sharma ’08
    I remember my first time gallivanting about town. I liked it immediately. I liked how personable it felt, how quiet and restful.
  • Good Conversation and Dining Hall Food
    Language Tables at Grinnell
    Patrick Busch ’08
    I didn’t plan it ahead of time, but I noticed that German table was starting and decided to go in and sit down.
  • Religion in the Cornfields
    Ariel Herman ’09
    You may have heard that Grinnell is a pretty liberal school. And that’s true, but it certainly doesn’t mean that people here don’t believe in anything or don’t have values or don’t like to talk about religion.
  • HIV Testing and Drag Shows
    The Resurrection of “Queer People of Color”
    Lindsay Robinson ’09
    Even with all of the opportunities to be active, sometimes there can still be something missing — as I discovered.
  • That Swing Thing
    Julia Bottles '08
    Swing dancing is a reactionary dance, one that can’t be learned simply by going through the steps. It has an organic quality that makes each dance as individual as the people who dance it.
  • German and Russian and Arabic — Oh My!
    Patrick Busch '08
    78 stickers make my computer keyboard tri-alphabetical by arranging red Cyrillic letters and neon green Arabic letters around the white Roman letters.
Attachment: 
Winter 2007 Ins & Outs