Dining plans moving along
Imagine having at least ten food kiosks, each offering distinctly different foods, available at every Grinnell dining hall meal. Such variety will be the main dining option for Grinnell students in 2006, when the new campus center, including the all-campus dining hall, is expected to be finished. Though administrators are now focusing on smaller details of the plan, students on the campus center committee are still encouraging student input.
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Merit pay based on service, scholarship
Mark Montgomery, professor of Economics, chair of the faculty and member of the Faculty Budget Committee, confessed to doing a lot of reading over winter break. Specifically, Montgomery and the other three members of the Faculty Budget Committee read extensively about Grinnell’s 131 other faculty members and their accomplishments during the previous year. While Montgomery called the process “inspiring,” it was not exactly leisure reading: the committee’s annual review of faculty was conducted to determine the merit-based pay raise each member will receive.
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Destruction to creation
Poets opposed to the developing war in Iraq are arming themselves with poems calling for peace. Last month, First Lady Laura Bush invited writers around the country to a White House symposium entitled “Poetry and the American Voice,” featuring the work of Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman.
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Oyarzabal sums up first semester as president
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What systems went down?
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