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Volume 122, Number 21 | April 14, 2006




Umoja
Margaret Toomey

A celebration of African Heritage

Last weekend, Grinnell hosted the Umoja Conference, which was founded by African student groups at midwestern colleges. As part of that conference, the Grinnell College African Students' Union hosted an "African Cultural Evening" on April 7. Above, Grinnell students dance in Roberts Theatre as part of the event

 


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News

Networks and Coffee
Design for ITS usage of the Forum has focus on usability, but also some critics

The Amazon and I-80
Grinnell is a finalist for an indoor rainforest project with educational and economic benefits, but some criticize funding as pork-barrel excess

Chron: We're rich, so what
According to higher education source, Grinnell is the richest liberal arts school, but what does that mean for poor students

Police offers new drug, alcohol punishments
Grinnell police, the local prosecutor's office and college officials are in the process of developing a program that would provide alternative sentencing for minor alcohol-related offenses.

The 'Huck Finn' of biochemistry
Dr. Peter C. Agre gave the Scholar's Convocation Thursday. Agre won the Nobel Prize in Chemisty in 2003 for his discovery of aquaporins, a cell structure used in osmosis.

Serbian democracy activist shows movie
Millions of people around the world who believe in non-violence resistance movements follow the guidelines that Srdja Popovic, the distributor of Anatomy of a Revolution, authored.

Arts & Entertainment


Movie Reviews
The Squid and the Whale (R), Syriana (R)

Stepping up to Grinnell
Diamond Lou of step group Black Diamond comes to teach students a new form of dancing

Opinion


Mounting the Jewel
Grinnell's den of secrets explored

Resolved:
The U.S. Congress should support the president's plan to develop India's nuclear program

random rants

Faculty Guest Column
Running up America's tab

Letters to the editor

S&B Staff Editorial
Stop typing, start talking

Features


This is your lizard on drugs
Clark Lindgren, Biology, is conducting research on lizards to further investigate how nerves in the brain communicate and discovered that endocannabanoid occurs naturally in the human body

Sports


Grinnell is the team to beat as conference approaches
The men's tennis Pioneers had a busy but successful weekend last week. The team kept up a winning streak in three matches over the two days.

Softball has a lot to prove
The Grinnell College softball team is on a roll, keeping up their strong performance on the road and winning three of the five games it played at the Midwest Crossover Tournament last weekend.

Baseball struggles with slump
Every sports team struggles to overcome tough losses, but some defeats are easier to accept than others.

Men's golf running out of time
The Grinnell men's golf team got off to a rough start at the Wartburg Invitational last Friday


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