Last updated: December 14, 2007
Volume 124, Issue 12 [Download PDF]
Former President Bill Clinton speaks to a filled audience of students and community members in Darby Gymnasium on Monday. Clare Patterson

News

by Chris Neubert

As Vice President for Student Services Tom Crady spends the last two weeks of the semester cleaning out his desk, students and staff on campus will continue to welcome the three ...

by Matt Zmudka

SGA President Megan Goering '08's State of the College address, held last Tuesday evening, entertained about 70 students who braved the icy weather with a recap of the progress she ...

by Matt Zmudka

The Saturday after Thanksgiving was supposed to be an ordinary night for Megan Niffenegger '08 as she walked home from a downtown bar. As she neared home around midnight, however...

by Paul Carlson

Before going to the Winter Waltz last Saturday, hundreds of Grinnell students gave up their dining hall meal to fund charities through Fogfast. This year the annual event, in which two ...

by Sarah Mirk

As another semester comes to an end, students are once again treated to that moment when professors awkwardly exit the classroom and leave students to anonymously fill out evaluations ...


Features

In the last Grinnell Cribs this semester, the S&B conducted a room/residence holiday decorations contest. Earlier this week a group from the S&B visited rooms to take pictures ...


Sports

Mark Japinga

If men's basketball head coach David Arseneault (Coach A) gathered the System naysayers in a room to explain the motivation behind his son's (Kid A) 34-assist bonanza-a crowded room,....

by Jai Garg

David Arseneault '09 is known for his ability to find the open man, owning Grinnell's assist record as a junior and averaging more than almost any other player in any division. ...

Matt Zmudka

Straight honesty. It's something that a journalist rarely hears from an athlete. We've even created a category of clichŽs to describe the way athletes say something, ...

Caucus

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Can't make it back to caucus?
On Jan. 3 go to the S&Blog for live updates throughout the night. We'll be the first to give you the Ward 1 results, as well as observations and photos of the caucus.

After the caucus, check out this website for a special, web-only caucus issue with a complete rundown of what happened and perspectives from those who were there.
by Abby Rapoport with a lot of help from Poweshiek Democratic Chair Don Smith

When you arrive at the Harris Center, you will see a series of registration tables organized by alphabet. If you are already registered, go to the table where your name would be....

by Julia Bottles

Former President Bill Clinton's voice reverberated through out Grinnell College's Darby Gym on Monday as he spoke on behalf of his...

Senator Chris Dodd zipped into Grinnell Thursday after the Democratic presidential debate hosted early Thursday afternoon for a brief talk and questions from the audience. Speaking in ....

by Sarah Mirk

The entrance to the Eagles Lodge on 4th Avenue is filled with eagles on plaques, eagles on flags and eagles on beer steins. John Edwards made his last stop in Grinnell before the caucus here...


Opinion

by Addy Najera

I don't know when they showed up. One day the beanbags were there, without warning or pretense, just waiting to be slept on. They are my new favorite objects on campus....

by Kevin Marcou

During my run on the hallowed pages of the S&B, I've received quite a few comments/compliments/letter bombs regarding my column. I'm finally starting to appreciate how a rock star...

-Ben Schrager '08

Yuki Goto was in a car accident with three other Grinnellians on Feb. 26, 2006.
It still doesn't seem so long ago to me when every week Yuki was on the front page of the S&B ...


Arts

Ian Young

If you loved the first two movies in the Bourne trilogy (Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy), you will find plenty to like in The Bourne Ultimatum. If those two failed to excite you,...

Chris Neubert & Caitlin Wells

The press quotes for Caesar Pink and the Imperial Orgy's Gospel Hymns for Agnostics and Atheists suggested that the album would leave us with "a spiritual and sexual tingle" or possibly ...