In the running
The applications are in, and the candidates for next year’s SGA President and Vice President are in full campaign mode.
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Applications for admission up
As applications for the class of 2008 come in, the Office of Admissions faces the largest applicant pool in years.
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Eating disorder awareness
The student-run group Healthy Body, Healthy Mind (HBHM) hosted a series of activities and study breaks this week designed to increase awareness of the threat and prevalence of eating disorders. Eating Disorder Awareness week began on Monday and continues through today, featuring study breaks, films and events designed to help students cope with eating problems and learn how to take better care of themselves, whether or not they have eating disorders.
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News Briefs
SPARC funds low, Tuition petition
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From Grinnell to Palestine
In the film The Killing Zone, a documentary about the Palestine-Israeli conflict in the Gaza strip, former Grinnell student Laura Kraftowitz is shown plugging her ears to drown out “sound bombs” while other members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) place themselves between bulldozers and a Palestinian home as human shields. Tom Harndel, a fellow activist, is in the same scene wearing a fluorescent jacket that identifies him as a protester. Approximately two weeks later, Harndel was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper while trying to get Palestinian children out of the line of fire. Kraftowitz saw it happen. Harndel spent nine months in a coma before he died.
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Trustee talk
Students and members of the Board of Trustees met at an open forum held last Thursday in the South Lounge. “I have never seen this high student attendance before,” said Robert Musser ‘62, who was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1995. About 35 students attended the meeting and broke in to four separate groups, each with at least one trustee. The S&B opted to listen to the dialogue of Musser’s group.
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Students confer at Kansas State
Ten Grinnell College students were among the approximately 800 attendees of the Big XII Conference on Black Student Government, which took place at Kansas State University Feb. 19 through 22. Grinnell students in attendance had mixed reactions to the conference, ranging from ambivalence to disillusionment to excitement.
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