Salsa club puts a new spin on dance

By George Kosinski kosinski@grinnell.edu

tended the meeting.

Dawood and Hong (Pinkie) Doan `24, another ICCO cabinet member, said they submitted the International Dinner budget two months prior to the event. They said that Student Involvement staff did not notify ICCO of budget concerns until Friday, March 17, immediately prior to spring break.

In the meeting, Dawood said one reason ICCO events have been suspended is because members of the group do not hold food preparation licenses from Iowa, which Doan said will be a requirement for organizations next year. Neither the 2022-23 student handbook nor the spring 2023 student organization funding procedures mentions food safety training.

Doan said each member of the cabinet was willing to undergo food preparation training to host future events, but the College employee responsible for providing licensure was on leave the entire semester. Doan added that she does not know of other student organizations penalized for not yet having food preparation licenses.

Dawood also alleged that Adams told ICCO that next year, student organizations will be unable to acquire clothing, including cultural clothing,

Grinnell College students eager for instruction in salsa and bachata dancing were all out of luck — that is, until just over a month ago when Nina Ranalli `26 and Tomoyoshi Sato `23 together founded the Salsa and Bachata Club.

At meetings, which are held every Saturday from 4-6 p.m. in the Charles Benson Bear `39 Recreation and Athletic Center (Bear) dance studio, students pair up with one another and receive instruction in salsa and bachata, two dances originally from

“The Glass Castle” faces possible K-12 ban

By Taylor Nunley nunleyta@grinnell.edu

Over 60 students, educators and community members gathered at Drake Community Library to debate the fate of Jeannette Walls’ memoir “The Glass Castle” in Grinnell-Newburg community school classrooms this past Wednesday, April 19.

The committee meeting was the first of two in reconsidering the current instructional materials accompanying the book in ninth-grade English classes. At the next meeting on May 3, the committee will deliberate and submit a proposed decision on the teaching of the book to the Grinnell-Newburg Board of Education.

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