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  1. Furry Little Friends

     

    While most colleges have some sort of mascot, a select few have unofficial ones that are even more popular amongst the student body. Here at Grinnell College, our unofficial mascot is…

  2. We’ve Got Each Other—and That’s A Lot

    Jan 04, 2013

    Author:  Erin Sindewald '08

    As an oh-so-recent Grinnell grad who has oh-so-recently experienced the final ticks of my college…

  3. A Film Festival Spectacle

    Jan 04, 2013

    Let me tell you a little about Titular Head, Grinnell’s own homegrown film festival. Now don’t get the wrong impression. We’re not sophisticated filmmakers. We don’t watch in silence and clap…

  4. Students happily converse as they listen to the band Millard Fillmore in the Pub

    Ye Newe Pub

    Jan 04, 2013
    The year is 1984. The legal drinking age in Iowa rises to 21. The state’s largest vendor of beer, according to legend, loses three-quarters of its customers. Two years later, the Grinnell College…

  5. Opening up with Grinnell Monologues

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    I am not a theatre person by any stretch of the imagination. I have terrible stage fright, I cannot memorize lines whatsoever, and once, I even threw up while giving a presentation in…

  6. An Idiot’s Guide to Procrastination

    Jan 04, 2013
    Author: Patrick Laine '08

    Going to college is a big step. When I arrived on Grinnell’s campus as an enthusiastic first-year, I was filled…

  7. Student taking notes

    Write On

    Jan 04, 2013

    The Grinnell writer dropped her forehead onto her arms in abject despair. She lay there, limp and hopeless, like a corn doll abandoned in the rain. The husks of her notebooks lay about her,…

  8. Take Back the Night

    Jan 04, 2013

    Take Back the Night is an event focused on collectively speaking out against — amongst many other social problems — rape, sexual violence, domestic violence, violence against children, and…

  9. Rediscovering Your Inner 12-Year-Old

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    "These kids are truly barbaric!” my mind screamed as I walked into the child-infested art room of the local middle school. Fifteen paper planes were flying, a rental clarinet was honking,…

  10. Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    My armpits dripped with the stinkiest of all sweats: that of the “I’m-really-stressedout” variety. My heart raced, and I struggled in vain to fight back tears. Here I was, the day before…

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