Peerless: S&B staffer Elisa Lenssen treks to Central College for some anthropological observation
I am not an anthropologist, but I play one for the S&B. On a Tuesday in March, I traveled to observe Central collegians in their native habitat about 35 miles southwest of Grinnell. Central is a liberal arts college in Pella, Iowa with about 1650 students and an affiliation with the Reformed Church of America. It is ripe for study due to its potentially very different culture yet intimate geographic proximity. Below, I have organized my field notes. My study is not without fault, nor is it complete. But after six hours on campus, I was able to conclude Central is not Grinnell: it is very different.
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A Day in the life
Saurabh Saraf '05
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Hair weaves and more
Grinnell College students volunteered to help dress the mannequins scattered around the first floor of the Grinnell Historical Museum. The museum has an extensive collection of historical clothing, including military uniforms from the Spanish-American war, both World Wars, Korea and Vietnam. Other highlights of the collection: a copy of the New York Herald from Abraham Lincoln’s assassination; a four-foot-tall portrait of Lincoln in a dramatic pose; a three-foot-tall stationary bicycle, circa 1960; a pegboard of 75-year-old nails and other, more mysterious metal implements and a Grinnell-built, leather-lined Spaulding horse-drawn carriage.
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