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Volume 122, Number 19 | March 10, 2006




Darfur "die-in"
David Kennedy

"Die-in" for Darfur not deterred by downpour

More than 40 students lie in twisted and prone positions on the ground in a cold rain during the Students Taking Action Now: Dafur-organized "die-in" at noon on Wednesday outside of ARH. The students hoped to draw attentnion to the ongoing genocide in Dafur region of the Sudan. Upwards of 200,000 people have died in the region in the last several years.


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News

Relating race and religion
"Segue" series of events sponsored by Grinnell College Christian Fellowship (GCCF) explores "racial reconciliation" through the lens of Christianity

Hall, Billups look forward
After week of campaigning and runoffs the new SGA president- and vice-president-elect sa they want to focus on reform

Four Younker student staff dismissed since start of year

Mixing Bush and biology
Professors often bring their political views into classroom discussions, to illustrate ideas or just make jokes. Does this create a hostile learning environment?

Activist Dimon Liu on China
Dimon Liu, a chinese-born human rights activist has been advocating human rights and democracy since 1972. She is currently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

New head librarian Fyffe brings passion and love of the prairie
Richard Fyffe said he became a librarian almost by accident. He emerged from University of Connecticut with a degree in philosophy and no clear career path. The one thing he knew was that he wanted "to be in an academic environment where scholars and learning mattered." Now, 20 years later, he will enter Grinnell's ivory tower as the newly hired Librarian of the College.

Glitch kept KDIC off air
College radio stations across the nation are often accused of being plagued with problems because of technical malfunctions and employee inexperience. Last week KDIC had a technical problem that went a bit beyond the usual.

Arts & Entertainment


Movie Reviews
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit, Thumbsucker, Memoirs of a Geisha

Quilting with the Jewel Box
The Jewel Box Quilt Guild meet monthly to learn, show their work anf arrange charity projects

Video made the Plastics
Feminist, one-woman band performs tonight

Every step she takes...
Boy Gets Girl, by Rebecca Gilman, "is about stalking , why it happens, how it happens and how it transforms the victim's established life and identity into a cage," said director Christopher Connelly. "While we at Grinnell, both the college and the town, may feel removed from the central problems of the play, the recent incidents of the use of ?date rape' drugs reveal that we are not."

Students write, direct, act in one acts

Opinion


Faculty Guest Column
Remembering children living in poverty

Resolved: The U.S. should withold aid from the Palestinian government until Hamas moderates its ideology
Pros and Cons

S&B Staff Editorial
Explaning staff ed's role

Mounting the Jewel
Finding a prize at local flea market

Letters to the Editor

random rants

Features


War: what is it good for?
Conscientious Patriots and the Peace March struggle with low student participation

Sports


Perfect season slips away from men's tennis
On March 4, two tennis teams met in Burnsville, Minn., to play for something much more important than another win on a team record.

Spring sports previews: Over the break
Four spring sports will kick off their season duing the break, looking for competition and a little sun before returning to their regular conference schedules

Sports Briefs

 


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