On March 14 the Grinnell Police Department issued an arrest warrant for former Grinnell student Gregory Rosic '11 in connection with the homophobic vandalism that occurred in Haines Residence Hall on Feb. 22. Greg Rosic is charged with one count of Criminal Mischief in Violation of Human Rights, a Serious Misdemeanor under Iowa's Hate Crime Statute.

Over Spring Break, Campus Security and Student Affairs installed two security cameras in the post office as part of the ongoing investigation into the homophobic acts that shook the campus in February. While Joint Board members had expressed a desire to be involved in any decision on camera placement, administrators say there was an urgent need to install the cameras without consulting Joint Board given the nature of the ongoing investigation.

At the end of November, residents on the third floor of Cleveland Hall spotted a mouse. Since then sightings have been reported in the pit and on the first and second floors. For weeks, residents complained about the mice but to no effect as communication problems stymied efforts to resolve the problem. Since then, lines of communication of opened up and there have been no new reports of mice sightings in the hall.

While most of us are barely managing to get all the readings done on time and make it from deadline to deadline, some students are stretching the academic experience way beyond the designated classroom boundaries.

When most people think of issues of global warming and its impact on the arctic, they usual focus on a narrow set of environmental consequences. This week's "Critical Issues for the Arctic" Rosenfield symposium seeks to expose some of the numerous other issues involved.