This year's off-campus study application process has brought both students and Off-Campus Study staff surprise and frustration after 52 students applied for only 35 spots in the Grinnell-in-London program. This means that, for the first time since the 1980s, students will be rejected.us to meet with students, faculty and administrators.

Every three to four years, the trustees consider whether to increase the percentage of the endowment the college spends per year. Currently, the college spends four percent of the endowment's value per year, a decrease of .5 percent from 2005 levels. Three years later, the trustees have begun to consider future endowment spending.

SGA Student Environmental Committee (SEC) has entered Grinnell College in the National Campus Energy Challenge (NCEC) for the month of February, a contest among colleges, universities and high schools from across the country to see which school can most reduce their energy usage in a month.

After well over a year of plannimg, Lyle's, the Grinnell's campus pub, will have an "experimental opening" this Saturday night before its grand opening on Feb. 23.

Grinnell will host a Rosenfield symposium over three days next week on school reform and the concept of accountability, centered around an analysis of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.

Brief summaries of this semester's proposed student initiatives.

The new museum, slated to open in Grinnell in 2009, will aim to educate people about the history of transportation, as well as invigorate Grinnell's economy by enticing new visitors to the town.

The Center for Prairie Studies (CPS) is presenting a new series of talks this semester which will focus on the link between agriculture and the city and avenues to strengthen and expand this connection.