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  1. Grinnell College News

    Bare Feet and Name Brands

     

    Many Grinnellians pride themselves on adopting countercultural attitudes, breaking social constructs, and going against mainstream fads. More important, we also pride ourselves on being…

  2. Floored by Read Second

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Sometimes in college residence halls, there are floors so great their inhabitants are designated by floor name. My first year, there were “those kids from Loose Second.” The next year, it…

  3. Editor’s View: Finding Diversity in Surprising Places

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    When I applied to Grinnell, my admission essay opened with the line, “I am a 17-year-old, Caucasian, upper-middle-class suburbanite from a public school.” I knew that colleges were looking…

  4. Coming Out as a Republican

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Prior to my arrival at Grinnell, I was brought up on the basic principles of conservatism — I’m from a “Republican” family. For those of you who can (secretly) relate, Grinnell College can…

  5. A Place of My Own

    Jan 04, 2013

    Being from a foreign country and knowing little about Iowa or the Midwest, I thought of Grinnell as a little campus in the middle of the tall prairie grass. Indeed, I chose to come here not only…

  6. Religion in the Cornfields

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    I’ve been a Unitarian Universalist all my life. I’m used to people asking me “What’s UU?” all the time, so by now, I’ve got the speech down. But what I didn’t know was that by coming to…

  7. Good Conversation and Dining Hall Food

    Jan 04, 2013
    by Patrick Busch ’08
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  8. HIV Testing and Drag Shows

    Jan 04, 2013

    Author:  Lindsay Robinson ’09

    As a first-year student, I dabbled in a little bit of everything. I went to half a dozen meetings every week and signed…

  9. That Swing Thing

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    A tall, smartly dressed man with slicked-back hair and gray suspenders slides up to me, hand outstretched. I smile and place my hand in his, accepting his silent offer. He walks me out to…

  10. German and Russian and Arabic — Oh My!

    Jan 04, 2013

    by Patrick Busch '08

    I got my laptop a few weeks before I…

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