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The Grinnell College natatorium was evacuated Wednesday evening, Oct. 7, after the fire alarm went off in the building. The evacuation occurred at approximately 6:15 p.m., prompting a large response from campus safety, local fire, police and emergency medical services departments. The Grinnell Fire Department has not yet confirmed what caused the alarm sound
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Poet Maggie Milner explored the relationship between personal experience and poetry at her Oct. 1 Writers@Grinnell reading, sharing work from “Couplets: A Love Story” and her forthcoming book, “My Funeral.” The “real / this quicksilver and fanged” poetry in “Couplets: A Love Story” is set on the streets of Bed-Stuy, following the speaker’s desires and...
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Before the first event of the annual alumni swim and dive meet this year, the lobby of the Osgood Natatorium received a new name — the Coach Erin Hurley Natatorium Lobby, honoring the coach who led Grinnell’s swimming and diving teams for 28 seasons, before retiring in 2023. The dedication ceremony occurred on Friday, Sept....
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Torrential rain covered Springer Field as the Grinnell College men’s soccer team faced Ripon College on Saturday, Sept. 26. Despite starting the season undefeated and controlling much of the game, the Pioneers fell 1-0 to Ripon, ending their seven-game streak. Grinnell outshot Ripon 17-2 and recorded 11 corner kicks compared to Ripon’s three. However, Ripon.
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The Grinnell College men's football team defeats Knox 31-7, marking their best opening to the season since 2011.
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For film and media studies students, the collapse of the Knapp Center for Film and Media Studies earlier this month means another delay in getting a dedicated space for film production, especially for some who had expected to use it before graduating. Announced in 2022 with a planned 2025 completion, the project completion date had...
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Aries (March 21 – April 19): Anna Kendrick and the cup song This week, you’re on the cusp of invention. You have ideas you’ve been toying with and now is the time to see them through. Like Anna Kendrick showed us in “Pitch Perfect,” it doesn’t have to be perfectly polished to take the world...
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Grinnell College is beginning phase two of a capital project to install security cameras across campus. Cameras were first installed along 8th and 10th Aves. in April 2023, following a series of racist harassment incidents on campus in fall 2022. In 2025, cameras were installed in the North and West Campus loggias, the first cameras...
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Ever since America’s founding, the United States has been extremely politically charged. From the civil war in the 1860s, to the civil rights movements of the 1950s, America has always had politics at the root of economic, social and institutional change. So then why do Americans care so little about it? In 2024, about 63.9...
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Inside the house on 1007 East St., a mounted deer head stares across the dining and living room at a working traffic light. Polka dots cover the outside walls, Buddhist flags hang from the doorway and two staircases lead to opposite ends of the hallway above. The glass front door reads “Dramatization: Do Not Attempt.”...
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