After years of activism, Staples revises paper policy
The members of Grinnell’s Free the Planet have reason to celebrate.
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Administrators seek diversity
Only seven new African-American students came to Grinnell in 2002, only a third of the same figure last year. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education recently ranked Grinnell as 24th among the nation’s 24 top liberal arts colleges in African-American student enrollment.
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Discussing diversity
Black-Asian American may be an unusual label in Grinnell, Iowa, but Steve Andrews, English, is just that. After spending most of his life in the Pacific Northwest, a relatively racially diverse region of the country, moving to Grinnell has required some adaptation. Though this is his fourth year here, Andrews is “still making adjustments to the environment that surrounds the college,” he says. “Sometimes I find it bleak, I find it desolate, I find it empty, I find it all kinds of things except the kinds of things that I want to find. And I’m still getting used to it.”
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A year of one’s own
A Japanese woman recently told Mike Abel ‘02 that it’s good he played baseball in high school.
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