News
Carroll, Palmer on the issues
The S&B sat down with both Carroll and Palmer and asked them about their positions on key issues facing the state.
This Week at Joint Board
CDO head Langerud resigning
After 12 years of helping Grinnell students and alumni find careers, Steve Langerud is moving on in his.
Wonky, clonky political blogging
Steve Clemons is the author of thewashingtonnote.com, a foreign policy blog. He was also the New America Foundation's former executive vice president and is now a fellow there. The S&B met with him at Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City on Sept. 11.
News Analysis
Joint Board elections feature mixed voter turnout
Arts & Entertainment
Movie Reviews
This week's movies.
Exhibit showcases vivid indigo dye
Take heart, casual dressers: since indigo dye is a traditional sign of wealth, your worn-out blue jeans may actually be the snazziest thing you own.
Grinnell's utility poles appear in photo series
The exhibit by German artist Frank Breuer contains photographs taken in diverse locations from across Europe and America, but you can't tell by looking at them.
Colorful Funkadesi plays benefit concert
World beat group Funkadesi will perform a New Orleans benefit concert at Harris Concert Hall on Saturday
Jazz orchestra going strong a year after Katrina
At the turn of the 20th century, New Orleans oversaw the birth of jazz. One year ago, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, decimating the city. Despite the costliest natural disaster in American history, the band plays on.
Opinion
Letter to the Editor
Make friends and influence people
The dream of a ridiculous man
How Rumsfeld gets his history wrong, and why we should care
Random Rants
Staff Editorial
Last week, every student waited with baited breath. We shredded napkins into tiny strips, impatient to hear the results ... of SPARC elections?
Socially awkward for minimum wage
I spent the majority of this past summer working as a cashier at a Safeway Supermarket in Portland, Ore. Though I could pretend that my tenure at this particular establishment was actually part of a larger sociological field study on the circumstances of the American minimum-wage earner, this is not the case.
Features
Meet the new Residential Life Coordinators
A different battle of sexes
Aiming for equal faculty gender ratios
Day in the Life:
Sam Tang'07
Sports
Volleyball team drops four matches
Following Saturday's 0-4 showing in the University of Dubuque Tournament last Saturday, coach Tom Sonnichsen wants to see the Pioneers get better at receiving serves and show "a gradual increase in consistency" heading into the conference season.
Women's golf finishes ninth of 16 teams at Knox
According to head coach David Arseneault, the women's golfers are posting the best scores the school has seen in a handful of years, and they have a good chance to finish near the top of the Midwest Conference.
Soccer Briefs
Women's tennis drops two to tough opponents
Losing two out of three matches in one week might be cause for alarm for the women's tennis team during conference play. But the Pioneers are not hanging their heads after hard-fought losses to two teams from the tough Iowa Conference.
