Trustees to decide on tuition increase
Next weekend the Board of Trustees will convene on campus for a variety of meetings and to approve the 2004-‘05 budget, which includes a proposed 5.25 percent increase in the comprehensive fee, a four percent increase in faculty salaries and a two million dollar increase in the base budget, according to Jonathan Brand, vice president of institutional planning.
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Working as One
“We have three teachers of color that are tenured, or depending on how you count, four. That’s a shocking number to me,” said Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites (CARW) member Rick Coriell ‘04. CARW initiated the Grinnell Alliance Project (GAP) so that students in social justice groups could converge to fight institutional inequality at and outside of Grinnell College.
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Speaking of Japan
What brings ambassadors, mayors, presidents, Nobel Prize winners and other lecturers to our tiny corn-farming hamlet? It’s the Rosenfield program, a series of talks held four times a year on a variety of international issues. “The issues cover the whole waterfront,” said Wayne Moyer, Political Science, director of the program. “Anything that can be fit into public affairs, international relations and human rights.”
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A lofty goal:
On Sat., Jan. 31, Grinnellians witnessed the first—and probably last—second story to exist in a Grinnell College dorm room. Pat Tipayamongkol ‘04 had opened his large single, turned apartment, in Building D to all who would like to come to his loft-warming party.
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