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Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA | January 30, 2004

Campus center cuts
In the middle of last semester, the planning committee for the future Campus Center came to the unpleasant realization that the projected cost of the building was approximately $3 million over budget. In order to cut costs, the committee opted to eliminate the Craft Workshop from the basement of the Campus Center plan. [more]

SACC considers legal music downloads
As the music industry cracks down on illegal downloads, the Student Academic Computing Committee (SACC) is trying to find a way to make on-campus file sharing legit. [more]

INSLab computers, internet access recently slow
Students checking email between classes may find themselves in a time crunch as INSLab experiences technical difficulties. Since the return from winter break, connecting to and opening email has sometimes taken longer in INSLab than in other labs on campus. [more]

NewsBrief
Ballet-goers were treated to an unexpected second intermission during Wednesday night’s sold-out performance of Giselle. Five minutes into the second act of the Moscow Festival Ballet’s production in Roberts Theatre, fire alarms went off, bringing the show to a halt. The likely cause of the alarm was a fog machine that began running at the start of the second act. [more]

Elections
Students voted for SGA senators on Blackboard all day Thursday. Due to changes to the SGA constitution, senators were elected from clusters of dorms rather than individual dorms for the first time. [more]