Drugstore closes: Two weeks after the Grinnell Pharmacy moved into Hy-Vee, the remaining downtown pharmacy announces that it, too, has been purchased
“My daughter is going to be so upset,” said one woman as she sat at the soda fountain.
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Making connections - and cash - with alums
“Pledge!”
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Trustees meet this weekend in Arizona
Grinnell’s Board of Trustees will discuss next year’s budget and the college’s ongoing strategic planning process at one of four annual meetings this weekend in Carefree, Ariz.
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Shorthand
DEREK MITCHELL ‘05 left Grinnell for Kuwait yesterday when his unit of the Arkansas National Guard was called into action. Mitchell, who told the S&B last week that he has doubts about war with Iraq but has a duty to serve his country, could remain abroad for as long as two years. The G-Tones, the male a cappella group he co-founded, sang “Lean on Me,” “Stand by Me,” and “In the Heat of the Night” in a crowded Loose Lounge at a going-away party Wednesday night . . . Triple H will battle Scott Steiner for the WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT CHAMPIONSHIP this Sunday, and you’re invited to 1429 Park St. to watch it. The SGA-funded pay-per-view showing will also feature Steve Austin and “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan . . . Students can win one of two $25 gift certificates to the college bookstore by visiting blackboard.grinnell.edu and filling out the bookstore survey on that site before 8 a.m. next Monday, Feb. 24 . . . Students can exchange opinions about Grinnell professors online at RATEMYPROFESSORS.COM. The website asks users to rate professors from their colleges on “easiness,” “helpfulness,” “clarity” and “physical appearance.” Twenty-three Grinnell professors have currently been posted to the site, though the most-commented-on professor (Ira Strauber, political science) has only been rated by six students to date . . . Enrollment at Grinnell’s branch of the IOWA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE jumped 70 percent in the last year, from 139 to 242. The college, which collaborates with New Horizons Alternative High School as well as offering continuing education classes and two-year degrees, moved in January 2002 from downtown Grinnell to a new location on 6th Avenue West . . . Statements of intent for SGA president, vice president, and SPARC are all due by today at 5 p.m.; the first SGA debate is Tuesday at 4:30 in the Forum.
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Finding the funding
Most students spend their last weekend of winter break heading back to Grinnell. This year, five members of the SGA Films committee spent it in Sundance, Utah, watching movies and rubbing elbows at the best-known film festival in America. Two of them were there at their own expense, but the other three had received a total of $2000 from the committee’s coffers to scout out promising independent films to bring to Grinnell.
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The myth of private life?
It can be easy to forget that the Internet is a very public world where anyone, anywhere can see what anyone else posts. This weekend Grinnellians were reminded of the public nature of the Net when they found their so-called privacy compromised in the web-based Plans system.
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