Spring 2012
For more information on (or to respond to) the following The Grinnell Magazine stories, please following the links:
- Editornotes — Page 2
- Download The Grinnell Magazine Spring 2012 (PDF)
- Email the editor
- Update your contact information
- Contact the College about your ideas for Grinnell-related events in your area
- Join Grinnell in Foreign Policy
- Tell us how humanities study influenced you
- Letters — Page 3
- Submit a letter to the editor.
- Read Stephen Bright’s comments on Morris Dees
- Read “The Church of Morris Dees”
- Can China Save the World — page 6
- Read a sample chapter of As China Goes, So Goes the World
- Strategic Plan Update — page 8
- Find updates and information or submit comments
- Send questions or comments regarding the strategic planning process
- A Global College — page 11
- Request information about or contribute to a fellowship or scholarship programs
- Not For Grinnellians Only — page 13
- Request information about using college facilities
- Sun Storm — page 15
- See Solar Flare-Ups for more information about solar storms
- Grinnell Expats — page 18
- Tell us if you live in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, or Syria
- “American Bill” — page 34
- Tell us if you’ve experienced unexpected fame or notoriety while studying abroad as a Grinnell student
- Classnotes — page 35
- Submit your classnotes
- Visit the Alumni site
- Dave Loewenstein ’88 — page 37
- Occuprint, with more of Loewenstein's posters
- Alumni Magazines Should Come with Antidepressants — page 38
- Read more by Vikki Reich ’92
- Emily Bergl ’97 — page 38
- Emily Bergl's site
- J.R. Osborn ’97 — page 39
- Glitter Dust: Finding Art in Dubai
- Book Giving Day — page 40
- International Book Giving Day
- James Dinnerville ’01 — page 40
- The Beverly Art Center of Chicago
- The Do-It-Herself Watson — page 42
- Unexpected Learnings, excerpts from Sarah Casson's blog
- In Memoriam: Philip L. Kintner
- Find more information or leave a remembrance
Winter 2011
For more information on (or to respond to) the following The Grinnell Magazine stories, please visit the following links:
- Editornotes — Page 2
- Download The Grinnell Magazine Winter 2011 (PDF)
- Email the editor.
- Letters — Page 3
- Read more letters to the editor.
- Submit a letter to the editor.
- Explorations: Self-Governance — Page 8
- Read more about self-governance at Grinnell.
- Climate Change Is Here and Now — Page 10
- Read the full text of the letter David Campbell signed.
- Learn more about the ACUPCC pledge that President Kington signed.
- Assessing Student Learning — Page 11
- Email the Assessment Task Force.
- The Grinnell Prize — Page 13
- View videos on the winners’ visit to campus.
- Learn more about the Grinnell Prize.
- The “Grinnell Soul” — Page 20
- Comment on Grinnell’s distinctiveness or on the strategic planning process.
- Learn more about strategic planning at Grinnell.
- Read the full text of the “Inside Higher Education” post on a survey of 130 liberal arts college presidents.
- A Liberal Education — Page 26
- Read the full text of Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s Grinnell speech, From Eternity to Here , on which this article was based.
- A Better Way to Teach Science — Page 30
- Read the full text of the article by Tom Cech ’70, on which this essay was based: Science at Liberal Arts Colleges: A Better Education?.
- The Father of Silicon Valley Sidebar — Page 33
- Read the full text of the article, by Tom Wolfe, quoted in this sidebar.
- Classnotes — Page 38
- Email to submit a classnote.
- Visit the Grinnell College alumni website.
- Meet Your Meat — Page 40
- Learn more about Kol Foods.
- Bookers to the Bands — Page 42
- Learn more about Ground Control Touring.
- Learn more about the Windish Agency.
- In Memoriam — Pages 44-48
- Contribute remembrances about Grinnellians.
- Read additional remembrances about Grinnellians.
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Winter 2010
Fall 2010
Summer 2010
- Tips for Surviving the Recession
Selah celebration reflects on the past- Nine Years of Kevin Cannon '02 Cartoons
- The Scarlet and Black turns 115
Spring 2010
Video of the Announcement of Grinnell's New President- Grinnell College Welcomes a New President
- Timeline: A Presidential History of Grinnell College
- A Baseball Family
- Pfitsch’s Pfishes
- Haiti Post-Earthquake
- Immortal Emilie, by Erika Graham ’10
- Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
Winter 2009
- 150 Years — A Historic Postcard Slideshow of Campus
- Holbrook — Reports from Baghdad: Some Excerpts
- Holbrook — A Grinnellian's Story
- Holbrook — The Magical Place
- Holbrook — Images of Vietnam
- Holbrook — Iraq Project Update
- Challah-Making Workshop
- Jewish at Grinnell: My Experience by Deborah Rabinowitz Ericson ’71
- Jewish at Grinnell: My Experience by Naida C. Tushnet ’61
- Inside the “Death Panels”
- Pittsburgh to Grinnell to Help Plan My 50th College Reunion and Back
- Reviewing Tosca
Fall 2009
- Building Excitement: Phase II of the Athletic and Fitness Center
- Priming the Pump: Models of Group Culture, Conceptions of Power ...
- Wrongfully Convicted?
- 150 Years -- A Look at Historic Grinnell in Grinnell
- 150 Years -- A Historic Postcard Slideshow
- 150 Years -- J.B. Grinnell: Abolitionist, minister, land speculator
- 150 Years -- Joanna Harris Haines 1865: Grinnell's first woman graduate
- Bonnie Tinker '69 -- Unforgettable Grinnellian
- Judge James R. Wilson '68 -- Unforgettable Grinnellian
Summer 2009
Spring 2009
Winter 2008
Fall 2008
- Fun on Wheels
- Our Correspondent in China
- Crimson Stain
- Roller Derby
- Hope Amid Destruction in Chengdu
- Grinnellians at the Beijing Olympics
- The Art of Learning
- Confucius Resurrected in China
- Steerage: From Alien to Citizen
- Samuel Elbert '28 -- Unforgettable Grinnellians
- The Dining Hall
- PenguinShare
- Former music faculty member Denis de Coteau -- Unforgettable Grinnellians
- The Life of Mary Ellen Paine Parsons 1887 -- Unforgettable Grinnellians
- My Search for the Duclod Man
Summer 2008
- On the Road to El Silencio
Podcasts of Listen Hear - Images of Costa Rica
- How High - Outtakes from The Grinnell Magazine
- Survival: Outwitting Evil
- Defying Darkness: Three Children Who Survived the Holocaust
- One Man's Odyssey: John Stoessinger's Flight from Hitler Leads to Grinnell
- Remembering Denis de Coteau
- Simchas Torah
