Friends remember Andrea Schmidt
Nocturnal. Quiet. Funny. These are some of the words friends frequently mentioned when describing Andrea Schmidt ’03.
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Community recipes
Every Tuesday, the Community Meal offers “delicious food, warm atmosphere and good company” that Laura Mason-Marshall ’06 said fills the Davis Elementary School cafeteria with 100 to 175 college students and Grinnell residents who meet there to laugh, talk and make new friends.
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Newsbriefs
Trustees want ideological diversity, Worker absenteeism at Cowles, Dorm trick-or-treating tonight
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Watson nominees are announced
Out of the 15 seniors who applied, Coco Downey, Kaavya Asoka, Qi Zheng and Devan McGranahan are the four Grinnellians that have been nominated by the college for the Watson Fellowship this year. Any or all of them could receive a $22,000 fellowship to conduct an independent year-long research on a topic of their choice.
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Challenges of comfortable integration
Grinnell College publishes shiny brochures depicting mixed groups of international and American students strolling down the loggia. Students publish the GUM and accusations of prejudice and hate fly.
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Trying to find common ground
“Grinnell College is a melting pot of cultures where students from 49 different countries interact on a daily basis,” claims Admissions material. It’s true that Grinnell College draws students from 48 countries other than the U.S. and international students make up 11 percent of the student population. But what do these numbers mean to the domestic students who make up the rest of the population if they only observe the group from a distance?
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Your move
“I totally just forked white,” said Adam Lake ‘06 after moving the black pawn into place to simultaneously threaten two white pieces on the chessboard. On Monday, two chess sets appeared on the benches outside of the computer labs on the first floor of ARH. Some students speculated that the boards had appeared for a class experiment or installation project while others thought that an underground chess appreciation group had placed them there.
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