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Volume 135, Issue 7

Trustee starts policy program

October 12, 2018 • Grinnell, Iowa

Grinnell students host annual 10/10 celebration

By Lauren Miller millerla@grinnell.edu A lot can be done with $840,000.

Trustee member George Moose '66 and his wife Judith R. Kaufmann have gifted the College that amount to establish the Program for Experiential Learning in Public Policy. Moose is developing this program for students to further their education in a different environment, with the ultimate goal of contributing to society in a meaningful way.

“What Judith and I hope to accomplish through this fund is to promote the development of ethicallyinformed, public-minded student leaders and College graduates, to encourage students to consider careers in public service, and to help ensure that students can afford to participate in career development opportunities that will enable them to achieve these goals,” Moose wrote in an email to The S&B. With an extensive career in public policy, Moose personally understands the dedication and sense of fulfillment that comes with serving others.

Throughout his career he has traveled to many places in his involvement with the U.S. State Department as a diplomat. Moose eventually achieved the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service, career minister, from which he retired in 2004. He currently serves as vice chair for the U.S. Institute of Peace.

The grant will give students the opportunity to develop their knowledge in public policy and provide them with the tools they need to expand their career opportunities.

It can allow students to take part in programs they may not be able to pursue without funds, like unpaid internships or unfunded travel prospects — gateways that proved pivotal to Moose and Kaufmann in their professional development. The >> See George Moose page 2

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Students in off-campus houses on High Street hosted the annual 10/10 festivities.

By Shabana Gupta guptasha@grinnell.edu Last weekend, Grinnell held the annual progressive party, 10/10, off-campus. A long-beloved College tradition, 10/10 was originally held on-campus, with students traveling from dorm to dorm to socialize throughout the day and night. However, changing alcohol policies in recent years have pushed festivities away from campus.

While this year was not the first time the event was held offcampus, organizers claimed it was more highly organized than in past years. Ranging from tabling to harm

reduction training to notifying the Grinnell police department of the party, hosts and helpers participated in extensive planning and preparation to carry out a successful series of parties.

The Class of 2019 are the last students at the College to have experienced an on-campus 10/10, and therefore, they claim to understand how they event has evolved over the years. Cecilia Bergman '19 said that the experience of an on-campus 10/10 and offcampus 10/10 are nothing alike.

“On campus it felt to me more like there was a community vibe,”

said Bergman.

Despite the different type of atmosphere that comes with an off-campus event, several students still regarded this year’s 10/10 as a triumph. The Class of 2019 organized the party through a Facebook group that is made up of students living off-campus who would like to host parties. They used the chat to sign up for times to host during 10/10 and made a full schedule of parties. Days before the event, coordinators sent out the schedule that listed exactly who would be hosting at what time.

Additionally, they provided detailed >> See Despite page 2

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UGSDW aims to expand

By Julia Anderson anderson14@grinnell.edu

The Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers (UGSDW) has worked towards bringing all oncampus student workers into the union, rather than just student employees in dining services. While the group has made significant steps regarding benefits for workers in dining services, members of the USGDW board say that there has been resistance from the College’s administration regarding the union’s expansion.

Members of UGSDW have collected signatures of non-dining student workers to join the union.

They received signatures of more than 30 percent of the student population, allowing the union to file a petition with the federal National Labor Relations Board. This is the first step towards ultimately having a union election to allow UGSDW to expand and represent all student workers at the College.

“From the beginning, this administration indicated its opposition to the expansion of our union into non-dining positions, citing these positions’ educational nature and how the process of organizing a union and collective bargaining will harm such an educational nature,” said Sam Xu '20.

Recently, the UGSDW board asked College President Raynard Kington how exactly the expansion of the union would harm the educational relationship between students and Grinnell College. According to the official UGSDW Facebook page, President Kington responded, “It redefines the nature of those positions, and the relationship between the people in those positions and the institution, and to the extent that it therefore, sort of can impact those positions, and how they’re overseen, and how they function, and how they interact with the persons in them, it affects our >> See Dining page 2

KDIC staff expresses concern about non-functionality

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The KDIC recording studio hasn't been up and running since the summer.

Grinnell College’s radio station, KDIC 88.5, has been nonoperational both on radio and Internet broadcasting services since May of this year.

KDIC staff sought the assistance of Jim Davies, a radio engineer from

University of Iowa, through the Director of Campus Center Operations and Student Activities Michael Sims.

KDIC studio managers Steven Duong, Sarah Phillips and Lydia James, all ‘19, are uncertain as to the exact cause of the station’s nonfunctionality.

“There were a lot of storms last spring, and there was one major one

where JRC lost power. [Davies] has not completely determined what has caused the issue. He thinks the FM transmitter was fine for a while, but that power blow may have fried the console,” said Phillips.

“It’s about 20 years old, so it really needs some serious rewiring … what we know of the repairs right now is that with all of the rain right now

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there is some flooding in the Iowa City area, and he has two AM stations he’s been helping out with. He’s been working with the transmitter a little bit … but he’s never had one malfunction like how ours is right now, so that’s causing a lot of issues,” said James.

KDIC management had hoped the station would be functional in time for radio applications this fall semester.

According to Phillips, Sims indicated over email that a technician would be brought in over the summer, but had trouble contacting a specialist. KDIC staff maintained correspondence with Sims over the summer, and believe their emails got lost or deprioritized

by Student Activities.

“We were under the impression over the summer that this would be a thing that Michael Sims and other people not in our realm would take care of … before the school year started,” said Duong.

Updating KDIC’s technology has long been a goal of management, given the age of its soundboard and pre-existing technical issues like a broken headphone jack and wiring issues. KDIC management may have no choice but to invest in a new soundboard given the uncertainty of what caused the station’s nonoperability or what the specific issues

are with its technology. According to James, the station set aside money recently for a new soundboard that would come out of its official budget, which they indicated at a recent SPARC budget meeting.

“They haven’t told us how much it’s going to cost, and it comes from our budget and our wages,” James said.

“SPARC in general is pretty slashed because of the new [activities manager],” Duong said. Phillips was quick to add that SPARC budget cuts were stressful for KDIC in particular, since their budget was essentially halved.

“And we don’t have any quotes, not even a ballpark,” James said.

KDIC staff remains hopeful that the station will be returned to working order soon, though they are wary, given unanswered questions.

“I think it’s just a matter of time waiting for the equipment to get fixed. We still have the recording and listening rooms … I don’t want to say it will take all semester to get KDIC FM back online, because it could be that Jim fixes this next week and we get all our systems right. But we had this expected timeline and when it’s not being met, we’re wondering why,” Phillips said.

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Dining workers strive to spread union benefits to others

Continued from Front Page core mission, that’s the whole — it’s sort of circular, it’s part of the core mission, because it’s part of the core mission, that’s why we like — we think it’s important to maintain the status as a status consistent with our core mission.”

The board believes that the President’s response was too vague and did not convince them to halt their mission of expansion.

Despite any opposition from the College’s administration, the recent successes in dining services led by UGSDW have fueled their goal.

“Our primary drive has been the response that we’ve seen in dining services as well as the reactions we’ve seen from people who have left dining services,” said Quinn Ercolani '20.

Recently, the union successfully raised the wages of student dining workers to a starting wage of $9.76 and a maximum of $11.53 for student leaders and students with longer experience working for dining. Ercolani also cited an improvement in understaffing in dining services, as a success.

“People are enjoying their work experiences more, they’re getting paid more and being able to afford to live in Grinnell and go to a very expensive institution,” he said.

Despite progress in dining services, students in different jobs across campus experience a variety of issues that the union wants to resolve. One pressing issue is that many transgender students feel uncomfortable with coming out

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UGSDW members debate on how to spread their influence to other student workers despite administrative pushback. in the workplace setting due to fear of discrimination. Another issue is discussing mental illness in the context of how it may affect students’ ability to work. According to general surveys conducted by UGSDW, 4.2 percent of respondents said that they had experienced harassment and 16.7 percent experienced discrimination in the workplace.

“These concerns are not isolated instances, which would only require minor fixes. We think that these issues are recurring themes, are an experience in Grinnell, and these problems are emblematic of the larger structural problem that

student workers do not have a say in their workplace,” Xu said.

Ercolani furthered Xu’s point, citing the need for the College to recognize the distinct concerns and multiple responsibilities of student workers.

“We are multifaceted human beings who need to be able to function both in an academic setting but also in the workplace.

We believe that the union can really give a voice to these concerns and make it so that the administration at the very least has to hear what is actually going on,” Ercolani said.

By joining the union, there is no requirement for participation;

Security changes bring new P-Cards

By Eva Hill hilleva@grinnell.edu Over the past couple of weeks, the College has started updating the Pioneer One-Card system. In the coming months, everyone who is not a first-year will receive a new P-Card before all card readers are replaced in January of 2019. This week, Director of Residence Life Joseph Rolón did his part to dispel some of the confusion surrounding the P-Card renewal in an email to The S&B. According to Rolón, the current building access system run by Millennium Security Services was installed more than twenty years ago. Therefore, the software that the College uses “is no longer available commercially,” making it difficult

to find support when issues arise.

Due to the age of the system, issues occur more often than not.

Older software is less secure due to the lack of updates that results from the software no longer being sold.

In contrast, the new system will provide benefits to administrators working to make the access system work as smoothly as possible.

“The new Symmetry system is up-to-date; has a modern and intuitive interface; includes greater capabilities; communicates more securely than the old Millennium system; and is fully vendorsupported,” Rolón wrote.

First-year students have already received the new multi-protocol cards that will be standard starting this winter, while older students

Despite police presence, 10/10 succeeds

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guidelines with the schedule with information regarding sexual consent, responsible drinking and respect towards the party hosts.

Further efforts to plan 10/10 included harm reduction training with Director of Wellness and Prevention Jen Jacobson and fundraising for hosts to put together packs of snacks and non-alcoholic drinks for their guests, colloquially called “rescue packs.”

As the last official hosts of the night, Addi Gould '19 and his housemates took on the responsibility of closing out 10/10.

Despite taking on the task of distributing the all-campus shot, they felt as though most their guests were behaving appropriately. All the drinks they provided had a low alcohol content, even if guests had potentially consumed alcohol earlier in the night.

“We didn’t have anyone who was troublesomely drunk, no one was throwing up in our house, which was nice,” Gould said.

In preparation for the party, Gould and his housemates moved the tables into one room and duct taped their refrigerator shut. The event also gave them an opportunity to utilize their new speaker with a microphone attachment.

“[It] proved really useful to address 200 people at once about how we’re going to distribute the campus shot,” Gould said.

Even though most guests behaved respectfully, Gould and his fellow hosts still expended a lot of energy in making sure the party ran smoothly.

“Pretty much the entire two hours I was running around inside and outside the house making sure people were not having open containers outside the front, making sure people weren’t going through our cabinets,” Gould said.

Gould committed to staying sober after around dinner time, so that he would be able to deal with any problems that occurred later in the night. This proved to be a wise choice, as around 10:45 p.m. a couple of police officers showed up at Gould’s house to remind them of the rules and ask everyone to go inside the house instead of crowding the yard.

Another house also had a visit from the police due to a student caught smoking in front of the house, which caused a few issues, but was eventually cleared up.

While the presence of police officers concerned multiple students in the days following the parties, only minor problems seem to have arisen.

will have their single-protocol cards replaced by the end of this semester.

Currently, card replacement is organized by residence cluster: students living in CaNaDa and off-campus housing turned in their old cards the week of Oct 1, and students in Clangrala were invited to replace theirs this past week.

Students who live in the remaining clusters will receive invitations to get a new card over the next several weeks.

After all student invitations have been sent out, faculty and staff who have not yet received a new P-Card will receive invitations to get a replacement for their old one.

Replacement cards can be obtained in the Office of Dining Services.

Because the system transition is occurring at the same time as the card change, both types of cards should continue to work normally this semester. Rolón wrote that if anyone’s card continues to fail after two attempts, they should call Campus Safety at extension 4600 or (617)-269-4600. In January of 2019, all of the door-access card readers on campus will be replaced, and only new P-Cards will provide access to campus buildings.

rather, joining the union authorizes UGSDW to be student workers’ collective bargaining representative.

Students can become more involved by coming to monthly meetings or by running for a position on the board. For students uninterested in high levels of participation, signing up as a member can be beneficial by demonstrating their support for other student workers.

“The practical side of becoming a member is that you’re saying that the union is something you think is helpful to student workers on campus,” Ercolani said.

UGSDW emphasizes solidarity among student workers. Though

some students may be unsure about personally joining, UGSDW members urge students to participate in order to show their support to student workers who would benefit greatly from the union.

“By unionizing, we can put in a lasting structure of workplace democracy and accountability in which our student workers can come together as a community and talk about our own experiences and work out a list of goals we want to achieve and have an equal say with the college administration in negotiating some parameters and terms of what our workplace experience would be,” Xu said.

George Moose funds public policy program

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experiences that they gained through seeking experiential learning in places like Brazil, Tanzania and Washington D.C. ultimately helped push them towards careers in public service.

“Those experiences greatly expanded our understanding of the world, and how this world is impacted by public policy,” Moose wrote.

In particular, Moose and Kaufmann have drawn three key lessons from their time abroad and the interconnectedness of the world they witnessed first-hand.

“The first is the importance of substantive, academic preparation, which Grinnell is justifiably famous for providing. The second is that while academic preparation is essential, it cannot substitute for direct engagement and experience.

Lastly, we have come to appreciate that substantive knowledge and experience must always be informed by ethics,” Moose wrote.

As for Moose’s particular interest in public policy issues, it was largely shaped by two major political and social issues that were going on when he first arrived at Grinnell in 1962:

the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

“I chose American Studies as a major because its inter-disciplinary approach provided an academic framework for studying and understanding the historical, cultural and social backgrounds of both issues,” Moose wrote. From there, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service soon after graduating from the College.

With the aid of his gift, Moose hopes to see students put their Grinnell education to use in a practical manner.

“I know that internships, educational travel and other forms of experiential learning have become hugely important for today's students … [among other things,] they help students learn how to navigate the world of work, and they give them needed experience and confidence in building relationships and networks,” Moose wrote.

With the Program for Experiential Learning in Public Policy, students will be able to maximize their reach in the world. They may even be able to reciprocate the generosity that Moose and Kaufmann have granted to Grinnell.

JRC revamps security due to theft

By Zainab Thompson thompson8@grinnell.edu In response to thefts that occurred outside of the Dining Hall last spring, Campus Safety and Dining Services have worked together to strengthen security in the Joe Rosenfield Center (JRC). Efforts have included installing security cameras and lockers outside of the Dining Hall.

As Dining Services does not allow large bags and bottles during meals, students generally leave their belongings outside on the shelves when entering the Dining Hall. While students ideally operate under the philosophy of self-governance in regards to other people’s property, a number of items were reported stolen last semester and began to raise concerns in the campus community.

The recent addition of security cameras came largely to address those concerns and discourage potential thieves. There are seven of the cameras posted throughout the JRC, at the exterior doors to the building and the lobby area outside of D-Hall.

“The footage captured is stored on our servers and available for review when necessary. Camera footage is reviewed in support of investigation into reported crimes in the building, such as theft or for risk management and insurance purpose, for instance damage to college property,” wrote James Shropshire, director of campus safety, in an email to The S&B.

The footage is recorded and saved for 15 to 30 days “depending on the established protocol,” he added.

In addition to the cameras, lockers were installed just outside the D-Hall this past summer over a four to fiveweek period, according to Rick Whitney, assistant vice president for facilities management. According to Director of Dining Services Jeanette Moser, who wrote an email to The S&B, the idea for installing lockers came from a group of administrators on campus including past Associate Vice President of Student Affairs, Director of Campus Safety, Director of Facilities Management, Associate Director of Facilities Management.

In the time since the lockers appeared, some confusion has arisen regarding students “reserving” lockers for longer periods of time than they

should. Ideally, a student would put their belongings in a locker, eat in the Dining Hall, then come back and take their stuff, leaving the door unlocked for someone else. When asked to comment on this, Moser wrote, “The intended use of the lockers is for short term storage of valuable items while guests of the JRC attend meetings and/ or events, use the game room and dine in the Marketplace.”

The lockers also come with the added responsibility of remembering codes so that students can retrieve their belongings. Moser wrote that students have an obligation to respect that “others want to store valuables in the lockers for short term use. Thus we hope that everyone would limit their use of the lockers to the times they are in the JRC and are not able to have their valuables with them.”

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The newly installed JRC lockers aim to keep belongings safe.

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Lights, Camera ... Serve! Grinnell athletes in the arts

By Lily Bohlke bohlkeli@grinnell.edu

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Hannah Taylor '21 bumps the ball during a volleyball practice.

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Sam Stickels '19 acting at rehearsal on Thursday, Oct. 11.

Athlete Spotlight: Jasper Yang

By Elena Copell copellel@grinnell.edu

On Sept. 22, Jasper Yang '21 scored a total of four goals against Beloit College, the the best figure for Grinnell since Antonio DiMarco’s '18 four-goal accomplishment in 2015 and the ninth-best figure in the history of the Pioneer soccer program.

Only three months into the season, Yang has already positioned himself as a valuable player after scoring a whopping seven goals for Grinnell’s Pioneers.

Though soccer is in the forefront of Yang’s athletic career now, this has not always been the case.

“I think I started playing soccer when I was younger because my parents made me. I used to hate it when I started because I liked baseball more,” said Yang. However, his talent for soccer in his formative years overrode Yang’s preference for baseball. “I think I was a little bit better at soccer,” Yang said, when recounting his decision to commit to the sport.

After playing soccer for 15 years, the distance between Yang’s natural ability for the sport and his enjoyment of the sport is virtually nonexistent.

“I’ve always had a lot of energy, I’ve been that guy who has a lot of energy, and I still do now. So being able to play soccer every day, being able to run around outside, that’s something I love. And I’ve realized that I need that,” Yang said.

Just as he needs soccer to burn off energy, Grinnell’s Pioneers need Yang for their team’s success. The reciprocal nature of Yang’s relationship with soccer is evidenced by the flurry of praise and respect garnered from his coaches and fellow teammates.

“He’s been on fire and is essential to our success as a team,” said Evan Sorenson ‘19, one of the soccer team captains.

Head Coach Brian Jaworski, or “Jaws” to members of the men’s soccer

team, echoed Sorenson’s sentiments and added, “Jasper, in my opinion, is someone we rally around.”

Speaking on Yang’s character, cocaptain Noah Fluharty '19 stated that “...most important to me is the type of person he is. I have never heard Jasper be frustrated on the field, and his verbal contributions are always positive. Not only this, but he is an outstanding student who is popular not only on our team, but across campus.

Jasper is a very special player.”

Co-captain Thomas J. Pflipsen ‘19 predicted that Yang will “undoubtedly” emerge as a team leader in the future.

In Yang’s perspective, the athleticism and physical strength he has gained from playing soccer are just a fraction of the overall benefits of the game. Yang said that soccer has allowed him not only take criticism but to “be able to work with it [criticism] to improve myself and those around me.”

Yang added that Grinnell’s friendly and supportive team atmosphere allows for a culture in which each team member “holds each other accountable for their mistakes” while being understanding, recognizing that mistakes are an inevitable part of the development process.

This positive environment has considerably influenced Yang’s experience not only as a soccer player, but also as a Grinnellian. “My experience with the Grinnell soccer team has been incredible — most importantly the people that I’ve met doing it, but also the memories that I’ve made, the experiences I’ve had, both in practices and in games. I’m really grateful for them,” Yang said.

Outside of the realm of soccer, Yang is an aspiring biology major and hopes to work with biostatistics in the future. He doesn’t intend on quitting soccer anytime soon. “I know some people can get burnt out [playing soccer], but I can’t see that happening to me,” Yang said.

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Jasper Yang '21 fighting off two Illinois Wesleyan players on Sept. 15.

While many may consider the arts and athletics very disparate interests, some Grinnell students passionately embrace both, bridging the great physical distance between Bucksbaum and the Bear. Varsity athletes practice daily and attend competitions and many forms of the arts require large time commitments as well. For example, being in a theater production entails daily rehearsals and, eventually, numerous performances.

Maddy Smith '20 is both a varsity volleyball player and a theater and dance/English double major. Because of the intense time commitments involved in both volleyball and theater, she must work hard to find ways to split her time between both.

“These two things are just so important to me, so I have to do whatever I can to keep everything else afloat,” said Smith.

Fitting both theater and volleyball into her schedule requres Smith to make some sacrifices. She typically splits her schedule by the season.

In the fall, she focuses on volleyball, opting out of the two mainstage plays for the semester. In the spring, she opts out of volleyball captains’ practices and coach contact hours to focus on theater, participating in the mainstage play.

This year, she added a musical, “Spring Awakening,” to her fall semester schedule. She was able to make an agreement with the director, Nolan Boggess '19, that she would only be called twice a week until the volleyball season ends at the beginning of November.

“For the auditions and callbacks

process, I went to practice, and I immediately showered, stayed in the locker room to do makeup and warm up, and then grabbed a to-go box really quickly and went to the callback,” Smith said.

Sam Stickels '19, a member of the varsity tennis team, is also cast in Spring Awakening. During his second year, he acted in the musical “Godspell” while playing tennis in season. Stickels manages his schedule by keeping his classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays so that he can devote Tuesdays and Thursdays to homework.

For Stickels, both tennis and theater rely on connecting with the audience.

“In tennis, I think I play the best when I have a big crowd watching and people to perform for, [that] makes it a lot more fun,” said Stickels. “And same with theater, the audience and the connection you have with them is crucial.”

Theater is not the only form of arts that athletes participate in. Hannah Taylor ’21 lives in Art House, intends to major in studio art and plays on the volleyball team. She says that volleyball often does not affect her ability to do art. Sometimes, though, there are conflicts, such as a pop-up art show at her house on a recent Saturday, when she traveled for a tournament.

Taylor appreciates having athletics as a daily activity, while being able to go home to people who enjoy making art. She said that while many people may not think that studio art and athletics share any similarities, in some ways they do.

“I think really investing time towards a common goal might be a

common thread,” Taylor said. “Sometimes it seems like they don’t overlap as much but … it seems like my team is very supportive when I have work up, they go and see it if I let them know, so that’s kind of cool.”

However, Smith says that she has noticed that her friends who are athletes often support non-athletic extracurricular activities, such as theater performances, while her friends who are not athletes less frequently attend her volleyball games.

Smith also sees connections between the arts, theater specifically, and volleyball.

“They’re both team sports,” she said. “If I’m not on my A-game [playing volleyball] and I let a few balls hit the floor, then we lose some points and that’s not good for my team. If I’m not on my A-game on the stage and I’m paying attention to the other academic things that I have in my life, then I’m not gonna be fully present with my scene partner and they won’t be able to give me their 100 percent.”

For these students, another connection between sports and the arts is that they can become integral to students’ social experiences at the College. Taylor lives with other artists in Art House. Stickels and Smith enjoy spending time with their fellow cast and crew members. All three say that they value the community aspect of getting to know their teammates.

“It’s been nice being able to be a part of theater at Grinnell,” Stickels said. “I do most social things with the tennis team and we go out and do a lot of things together, but it’s nice to also meet the people in the theater department, … so it’s been a great way to meet those people who I otherwise wouldn’t have.”

Women’s golf dominates Midwestern Conference Championship

By Lauren Miller millerla@grinnell.edu On Oct. 7, the Pioneer women’s golf team received its sixth consecutive Midwest Conference Championship win and was ranked eighth by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association, its first ever top 10 national ranking in NCAA Division Three.

In addition to the team-wide success, Grinnell saw impressive individual success as three women placed as the top three finishers in the Midwest Conference Championship. Nina Kouchi '22 and twins Vrishali and Vidushi Sinha '19 were the top finishers this year, leading their team to success in the regular season and on their trip to the National Fall Preview Tournament that took place in Texas this year.

These awards are “a testament to the women’s hard work and their commitment,” said the team’s coach David Arseneault Jr. '09.

In Arseneault's first year as head coach, he won the Coach of the Year Award, voted on by all the coaches in Midwest Conference. Arseneault had previously been the team’s assistant coach and is a lifelong player himself having grown up on the Grinnell College Golf Course.

Traditionally coached as a more individual sport at the College, Arsenault shifted golf towards collaboration, creating incentives like a trip to Starbucks if the team scored at least 15 collective birdies (meaning a score of one stroke under par, or expected number of strokes to complete a hole).

At the beginning of the season, the team showed promise to an extent that surprised everyone: “When I took over … I thought we had a chance to be pretty good, but I did not realize we had a chance to be quite this good,” Arseneault said of the team’s outstanding success.

Grinnell women’s golf was invited to participate in the tournament this year against other nationally-ranked teams, and they seemed to surpass even their own expectations by placing first at the tournament this fall.

“We didn’t have many expectations going into tournament at all …

I think all of us just wanted to get a feel for what it’s like to play with some of the top teams and play at a course that is hosting Nationals,” said Vidushi Sinha. The women

described how even though they won, outcompeting some of the top Division Three teams in the country, they were not performing at their best. The goal of reaching their full potential has become a huge motivator going forward.

When I took over … I thought we had a chance to be pretty good, but I did not realize we had a chance to be quite this good.

Coach David Arsenault Jr. '09 Coach Arseneault did not win Coach of the Year for nothing: his coaching method was felt on both a team and individual level. “A large part [of our success] was with our coach. He gave everyone positive

and constructive feedback after every single game … every player knew exactly what to work on [going into tournament],” said Vrishali Sinha.

With so much success, the relaxed nature of the team may come as a surprise to many. While every shot is important in scoring, at the end of the day the team does not want to get into their heads too much.

“It all comes down to just doing the best you can, you have the team to help you,” Kouchi said.

Continuing with this attitude, the team is looking forward to their spring season and the prospect of Nationals. “[We will have to work on] keeping our momentum and confidence, but also not letting it get to our heads is really important,” Vidishu Sinha said.

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Vidushi and Vrishali Sinha, both '19, placed first and second at the Midwest Conference Championship.

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Julia Echikson '20, Vrishali Sinha '19, Nina Kouchi '22, Vidushi Sinha '19 and Danielle Oberlander '21, pictured after their win at the Championship.

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True Grinnellian: Betty Moffett Moffett explores living a small-town life in her new book, “Coming Clean”

By Chloe Wray wraychlo@grinnell.edu Apologizing for the interruption, an employee of Saints Rest Coffee House tells Betty Moffett that someone is on the phone. They’re asking where they can purchase a copy of Moffett’s new book. Moffett asks the employee to tell them it’s available at the Pioneer Bookstore.

Moffet took this brief interaction in stride. The use of Saints Rest as a directory for community information, an interest shared by many Grinnellians in supporting the work of fellow community members and the fact that Moffett just happened to be in the cafe all stood out as a nod to the interconnectedness and coincidence which defines small-town living.

Released on Oct. 5 by Ice Cube Press of North Liberty, Iowa, “Coming Clean,” is a collection of 19 short stories authored by Moffett. Based on Moffett’s memories of North Carolina and Grinnell, Moffett introduces readers to the characters who have dotted the communities she has called home.

For Moffett, small exchanges have made small town living in the South and the Midwest alike. “There are funny little relationships that you have in a town this size, and you can’t push those boundaries, you can’t overstep,” said Moffett. This advice is echoed in her story “Mirror, Mirror.” A reflection on the relationship between hairdresser and customer, Moffett explores an imagined friendship between the two. Moffett claims that the small-town boundary provides comfort, establishing a standard for the relationship that must grow patiently with time. Moffett came to

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Betty Moffett signs copies of her new book, “Coming Clean,” after a reading hosted by Pioneer Bookstore on Wednesday, Oct. 10. Copies of the book will continue to be sold at Pioneer Bookstore.

Grinnell with her husband, Professor Emeritus Sandy Moffett, theatre and dance, about thirty years ago. As a member of Too Many Strings Band and a former director of the Grinnell College Writing Lab, Moffett’s interests intersect with different art forms — writing, theatre and music — all platforms that can transport someone into the experience of another.

The stories are set in the communities Moffett has called home, and the characters in her books are people who the reader may imagine nodding to on the street. The book grants readers knowledge of the characters’ shortcomings and a fondness for the peculiarities Moffett poses as strengths.

Communicated through dialogue, the development of characters is given priority: lines of description detailing

the setting are forfeited in favor of creating three-dimensional characters. It is through these characters that the reader gets a sense of the book’s setting. Once the reader knows the subject of the story they are equipped with a notion of how such a person might surround themselves, what setting would best suit them.

“I’ve never been particularly interested in when or where,” Moffett said, explaining her focus on dialogue and the piecemeal nature of the stories’ chronology. It is here that Moffett’s stories become recognizable not as memoir but as fiction.

There are some things Moffett does not remember and some things she is not going to tell. Some things she will lie about. For her, the lines between memoir and fiction are permeable. She cannot make up the basis for

Deceased Grinnellians walk again at the Hazelwood Cemetery Walk

By Zainab Thompson thompson8@grinnell.edu

“Lemme’ get my years right … when you’re dead, your memory goes right out the window!” joked Eliza Ann Bartlett Howard at the first stop on the Hazelwood Cemetery Walk for notable women in Grinnell.

Mrs. Howard, of course, has been dead for 55 years. She and five other women on the walk rose from the dead just for the sake of seeing the sky and sharing mini-autobiographies of their lives with the living cemetery-goers. Elsewhere in the cemetery Grinnellians with a notable history in the military also rose from their graves to reminisce about their lives and their community.

“I was heartbroken when I found out it was a sod house,” Mrs. Howard said, recounting when she moved into her first husband’s house. “It’s a brick made of prairie sod, hard packed grass and dirt. The floor is just dirt with a rug on top, and the rest is just grass and dirt. It gets everywhere, and I mean everywhere.”

Outside of the trip back in time,

the Grinnell Historical Museum worked to organize the walk for months.

“Summer and fall, we worked on a lot of research to get this done, ’cause that’s the thing,” said Barbara Lease, one of the event organizers.

“You want it to be right.”

Their hard work showed; from a dentist with years of unlicensed experience, to a proliferous photographer with thousands of images to her name, the museum managed to find interesting and little-known people.

One attendee commented that, “I was surprised there were so many people that I’d never even heard of.”

Any Grinnell student walking amongst the gravestones would recognize names of families the College residence halls are named for, including Gardner, Rose and Cowles. One resurrected women on the tour was Joanna Harris Haines, who loved recalling stories of her family’s role in the Underground Railroad.

The tour was originally planned for Sept. 29, but bad weather postponed it until the next week. As a result, a couple of the actors and

actresses couldn’t make it, but their last-minute replacements did a great job filling in the roles. If not for the scripts the replacements were reading from, cemetery visitors likely wouldn’t have realized they weren’t originally meant for the role.

The last time an event like this took place was “around twenty years ago,” Lease said. “We would have loved to do costumes, but 12 period costumes … we just couldn’t do it.”

The actors and actresses wore black clothing for the most part, though one actress managed to find a beret for her character Isabelle Beaton, who studied in France for a large portion of her life. Lease expressed hope for more appropriate period clothing in the future, ideally when the weather wasn’t cold enough to chill both the living and the dead.

Overall, the Hazelwood Cemetery Walk was a success, and the undead visitors have gone back to rest. Hopefully, in the spring Grinnell students can visit the next set of Hazelwood Cemetery residents that the Grinnell Historical Museum will resurrect.

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The Historical Museum hosted a Cemetery Walk at Hazelwood Cemetery Saturday, Oct. 6.

Haunted Halls coming to Grinnell at Iowa Valley Community College

By Kelly Page pagekell@grinnell.edu For Grinnell students staying in town on Oct. 27 and 28, there will be an opportunity to get thoroughly frightened just in time for Halloween.

Iowa Valley Community College, Grinnell (IVG) will host a haunted house, dubbed “Haunted Halls of

Horror” at its campus, located at 123 Sixth Ave. West, Grinnell. From 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. For $5, anyone can experience “ghosts, zombies and gore galore,” according to the IVG website. The event will also feature a kids’ section, which the website says includes “pumpkin painting or cookie decorating and face painting, beanbag toss, ring toss, and other games.”

The IVG website quotes the community college’s event coordinator, Jodi Blackford, who said, “We encourage everyone to wear a costume, but that’s not required. It will be a fun and unique opportunity to celebrate Halloween a little bit early with friends and family. We hope it’s a tradition that might even become an annual event!”

what she writes about, but she is not opposed to changing what does not fit, what she does not like, and reworking the story in hopes of resolution.

“Somebody said once, and maybe particularly with short stories, ‘Start from the hurt.’ It doesn’t mean disaster, it doesn’t mean tornado, it doesn’t mean murder, but start from something that hurt you,” Moffett said. “And if you feel something, then it transfers from wherever feelings lie into your mind and your memory, and you remember those things.

Sometimes the hurt gets resolved, sometimes you find a way around the hurt, and sometimes the hurt is not resolved."

“Brothers” is one such story exempt from resolution. Professor Ralph Savarese, English, wrote in a statement printed on the back of the book,

“By holding back, [the stories] reveal life’s mysteries all the more, and they pay homage to the laconic dignity of the people Betty Moffett writes about.

The final story called ‘Brothers’ will break your heart in the best possible way.”

One of the first stories Moffett ever wrote is the collection’s opening account, “The Store.” Written about thirty years ago — around the time she moved to Grinnell — she had just begun meeting with a group whose membership oscillated between four and eight writers who shared poetry, short stories and encouragement.

“That was my daddy’s story … he never told it the same way twice.

Nobody did, nobody told stories the same way — they added things, it was expected, it was entertainment,” Moffett said.

Years ago, when she first asked him to read the story, he replied that it sounded familiar, but he did not recognize any of the characters. Somewhere along the line, between his telling and her filtering it through her mind, the interpretation changed.

The stories of her childhood have undergone evolutions and revolutions, a process Moffett says steeps her stories in nostalgia. Growing up in a family of storytellers, family tales were committed to the “Ferguson Family Anthology,” a source of collective memory. Such is the nature of storytelling; such is the nature of memoir becoming fiction.

Moffett will read from her collection at the Grinnell Arts Center on Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. alongside the music of violinist Professor Tammy McGavock, economics. Her book is available at the Pioneer Bookstore.

Civility panel brings together Republicans, Democrats

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The event, hosted by the Grinnell League of Women Voters, featured panelists Rachel Bly (left) and Chris Varney (right).

By Shuhan Yi yishuhan@grinnell.edu To promote better civil discourse between the Democratic and Republican parties during the 2018 Midterm Elections, The Grinnell League of Women Voters hosted a panel on civil discourse on Oct. 9 at the United Church of Christ in Grinnell.

Terese Grant, the President of the Grinnell League of Women Voters and the moderator of the panel, said in an interview with The S&B that even though Democrats and Republicans have perspectives that are fundamentally different, “It is essential that both parties work together in order to make mutually beneficial decisions.”

“I think this [panel] shows we can work together if we sit down and just talk to each other and listen,” said Grant.

At the beginning of the panel, Bly and Varney were asked what they appreciated most about living in America. For Bly, it’s the democracy an American is exposed to — the right to vote and elect leaders — along with the right to speak openly and the educational resources that are provided by the government.

From Varney's point of view, “The thing that I love is the melting pot. I have been through the plains to the North, to the South, and I can appreciate this country and the people – everybody that lives in it. It is very difficult for a country, because we are so diverse.”

When asked whether the country is heading in the wrong direction, Bly’s and Varney’s views differed.

Varney divided the direction of the country into two parts: economic and social.

“I believe our economy is naturally improving and rolling, but clearly from a social angle we are not communicative with one another. We are not talking to each other,” Varney said.

From Bly's perspective, “The negativity [and] the lack of conversation,

the lack of ability to relate, is heading us in the wrong direction and is gonna tear us apart as a nation.” Bly also mentioned that unsolved issues like poverty and the government being unrepresentative of its people concern her as well.

Discussing the impacts of the deep political divisions on the U.S. and its people, both Bly and Varney expressed similar concerns.

“You can't get better policy unless you really look at all sides. So in some ways, I think that's important to have some divisions and some disagreements. However, I think that it is to a point now that it's heading in a direction that is not healthy for the nation.

We are fracturing ourselves as a nation and becoming less civil as we do that.

So I think that this also leads to bad policy and bad behaviors because we cease to listen,” Bly said.

In the same vein, Varney expressed his concern about the political division he experienced in the community surrounding the recent school bond election, during which there were fierce arguments between voters and no effective plan was achieved.

“I don’t like when this town, when this community is just divided right down in the middle, and it was divided I think because there is mistrust on both sides. Basically [because of] our refusal to compromise … we’ve accomplished nothing.” Varney said.

After the panel both Bly and Varney agreed that the discussion on civil discourse was a step in the right direction. “Actually I think it is the first time that we have really done something like this, that is focused on sort of positive political discourse,” Bly said.

“I have only been here for two years,” said Varney, “and I sort [of] asked the question to some people in our parties like, ‘When was the last time anyone of our chamber has met with the Democratic chamber?’ and we couldn’t remember the last time.

So I think Rachel and I are treading on a new ground in Poweshiek County.”

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out high school, but I stopped doing Suzuki method in fourth grade.”

As well as being classically trained in piano at an early age, Eber began to compose piano pieces in middle school.

“In seventh or eighth grade, I would, without even meaning to, write little songs while I was practicing because I would hit a wrong note and then get kind of distracted and fool around. I showed my teacher the stuff that I made, and he was like, ‘That’s so cool! You should keep doing that.’

So I got into songwriting, just like piano songs without lyrics.”

Her high school band experience also furthered Eber’s interest in songwriting and creating her own music.

“In high school, I took a music class and met some people. We started a band, and I played keyboard in it. We were really bad, we were called the Barbie Dolls. We all wrote songs together in that, so that was the first time I’d ever written songs, and we all sang. It was fun for a while, but eventually I got kind of frustrated and realized that I actually wanted to write my own songs,” Eber said. “It was

my friend Jory’s idea to be a radical feminist punk band, which was kind of cool, but all of the songs we were writing, I felt like they had to be really angry because we had some image we were trying to uphold. I realized I wanted to write songs about my feelings so I started doing that by myself.”

Despite her piano-playing past, Eber now plays the guitar and sings for her band. She explained that she began by playing the ukulele in late middle school, but her brother inadvertently inspired her to begin playing guitar.

“My brother had this mini guitar that we got on a road trip, and that is the guitar that I learned how to play on. I was hesitant to start playing guitar. I’d been playing ukulele because my hands were small. That guitar had five strings on it, I’m not sure since when, but it lost a string before I started playing on it. I taught myself how to play guitar on that because I figured it had only five strings so it would be easier. I played only that guitar for the first two years of my songwriting which made it difficult to ever play other guitars. But it made me excited to write songs because I felt like I had this really unique instrument that only I had, so only I could write the songs that I was writing.”

Eber described how she first recorded an album before she even got to Grinnell at home in Brookline, Massachusetts. With her second album, she is very thankful that Grinnell gave her another chance to do what she loves doing at KDIC. “[KDIC is] a pretty small studio and there’s only one microphone, so I record the guitar tracks first and then the vocal tracks. And then later I’m gonna go in and have my friend Lily Dawson ['21] play bass, and then add some more vocals. So, I’ll do some harmonies and have some of my friends add vocals.”

With one recording done so far and another in progress, it will be exciting to hear the final product.

Jacob Leder '20, an actor in the production, says that although he had trouble getting used to the idea that his role was subject to change, it eventually became his favorite part of the process. “It was new for me, and reaching a point where we were all comfortable with bouncing ideas off each other, letting go of things when necessary, and supporting each other’s choices was really great,” said Leder.

Malcolm Davis '21, another member of the cast, echoed this sentiment. “It was extremely fun to see how everyone’s ideas structured what we did and influenced everyone’s roles,” said Davis. The audition for “soft lights” piqued his interest because it posed as a chance for Davis to develop his skills as a performer.

Its devised image-based format is a stark departure from typical high school and community theatre, both of which Davis had previously done.

Though the prospect of constructing a completely original work may seem daunting to some, Quintero relishes the challenge of building something wholly unique. “I think that this type of theatre is more like an experimental laboratory, in the same way that in science, you do an experiment because you’re not sure what the conclusion is … We don’t

need to repeat the same show that we’ve seen a hundred times. That’s been done, and it works … but I’m more interested in asking new questions and exploring new performer-audience relationships … so that each time we do a show, it’s starting with a question rather than an answer. I think that inverts the whole creative process.”

“Most of the time we go to see theatre, and it’s a very passive activity, and we sit in the theatre and watch a show,” Quintero said. “This is a more engaged process … And it’s the opportunity to not just look at an artwork but to walk through it, to smell it, to taste it, and touch it, and to be engaged fully … I think the show engages all of the senses.

You’re not just seeing a work of art, you are a part of it.”

Grinnell community members can immerse themselves in the world of “soft lights for sleepless nights” at 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on both Friday, Oct. 12 and Saturday, Oct. 13. Showings will also take place on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. The production runs 30 minutes, and takes place in the Flanagan Theatre, and is limited to 16 audience members per performance. Tickets are available in the Bucksbaum box office.

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Rachel Eber is working on recording an album in the KDIC studio.

By Sarah Licht lichtsar@grinnell.edu For many aspiring musicians, the chance to create an album would be a dream come true. However, for Rachel Eber '21, this dream has become a reality twice. Eber is currently recording a new album for her band Ragu and the Boys at College’s KDIC studio.

“I started playing piano when I was four-and-a-half,” said Eber. “That was my first exposure to music, and I just did that because my mom suggested it, and I was four-and-a-half, so I was like, okay. So I took classical piano for five years.”

Eber went on to explain how she learned using the Suzuki method, a 20th century Japanese musical philosophy where students are taught how to play by ear before learning how to read music. This ensures that players have a good sense of tone when playing later in life.

“I hated [the Suzuki method] at the time,” Eber continued. “But it was very intense. I think it really trained my ears. I’m grateful for that. And then, I kept taking piano all through-

"soft lights for sleepless nights" to debut in Flanagan Theatre

By Andy Pavey paveyand@grinnell.edu

Associate Professor Craig Quintero’s originally-devised, image-based piece “soft lights for sleepless nights” makes its debut this week at the Flanagan Theatre.

Quintero stressed that “soft lights” is first and foremost original and experimental, having undergone a series of dramatic revisions during the rehearsal process. “A lot of the work is based on improvisational exercises with the actors, [and] over the rehearsal process, we were able to find the different talents or skills that the ensemble brings to the table and see how that altered the production.

So, on the one hand, it’s kind of exciting, because we know that we’re headed somewhere, but we don’t have a set destination. It’s this process of stepping into the unknown.”

Quintero attributes much of the piece’s originality to the talents of the cast as well, saying “I’m very impressed with the ensemble of actors a lot of them have acted in high school and some of them have done some college work where they are given a role, where they are given a character. So, it’s my goal to help them reach a point where they feel confident and comfortable to experiment and try and then try again.”

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"soft light for sleepless nights" is an original work from theatre professor Craig Quintero. It opens this weekend.

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Writers from Russia, Spain and Germany visited campus this past week to share their work and writing processes with Grinnellians at Hotel Grinnell.

By Shabana Gupta guptasha@grinnell.edu Four internationally-acclaimed writers from non-English speaking countries, Salah Badis from Algeria, Adriana Borja Enriquez from Ecuador, Rasha Khayat from Germany and Alisa Ganieva from Russia were featured in the College’s Writers@ Grinnell’s “Celebration of Global Writing.” Writers read small sections from their writing, ranging from poetry to chapter sections, and read in the writing’s original language and in English. Badis read a poem while Borja Enriquez read a fictional story of a child with her grandmother.

After the readings, the panelists answered some questions posed by coordinator and the College’s writer-in-residence, assistant professor Dean Bakopoulos. The questions focused on their experiences as writers and some of the reasons why they write. Ganieva described how the political atmosphere around writers in Russia generates an expectation of writers to be experts, and how fiction writers are becoming more and more popular.

Ganieva wrote her first book in what she describes as “broken Russian,” a regional dialect. She described how she wanted to draw attention to areas of Russia that are less represented and can be portrayed by other Russian writers as exotic or militant.

A tornado warning was sent out as panelist Khayat answered a question on writer activism. The panel was in the perfect room for a tornado shelter, allowing the discussion to continue.

Because many people in the audience were tense after the warning, Bakopoulos stopped the panel and moved everyone’s attention to the food area, where attendees could mingle with the authors while asking questions.

Previous “Celebration of Global

Writing” panel members recommended Badis, Enriquez, Khayat and Ganieva to join the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa. The program sent the four to Grinnell for the day to give their talks and interact with students during school times. Khayat was impressed by the German students, even those in the beginning level classes.

Through IWP, the writers stay for three months in Iowa City, share stories and participate in different panels. They sometimes travel around the area.

Writers@Grinnell has been looking to expand their programing to bring in more international writers, but has not managed to make that happen on a regular basis. In recent years, they have sponsored a Grinnell College resident to teach a six week short course, and this year is the first time there has been a partnership with IWP to have multiple authors at once.

Many of the language departments helped make the short course happen by expressing interest in having students meet writers whose native language corresponded to their courses.

Creative writing courses may expect to see more international writings being used in the future. “Creative writing doesn’t mind so much if the stories are in translation; it doesn’t feel weirdly outside our discipline,” Bakopoulos said in the panel. “We’re teaching the story and the narrative and the craft, so the translation certainly is a part of it.” It is harder for other areas of the English department to integrate translated stories because they need to be more focused on form as opposed to content.

The next Writers@Grinnell event will be one of Grinnell College’s own, English Professor Ralph Savarese, who will read from his newest book, “See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor.”

Ella Williams '18's art grapples with tumor

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Ella Williams '18's latest work draws on a childhood marked by a tumor.

By Clara Larson larsoncl@grinnell.edu Smith Gallery will host an exhibit by Ella Williams '18, titled, “Beans, Bone Tumors and Baseball: A Study in IM/Mobility”, until Oct. 18. On the walls hang circles and ovals, spaces that, to Williams, are both empty and filled.

“At age 5, I was diagnosed with a massive tumor in my right femur, near the growth plate. I spent the next four years in and out of casts and wheelchairs, undergoing several surgeries and literally hundreds of x-rays.”

Williams vividly remembered seeing the x-rays of her tumor, a recollection so strong that it inspired her art even over a decade later. “On the x-rays the tumor looked like an empty circle, or not empty, but full of some

transparent material that was undoubtedly not bone,” she wrote. “I remember being moved by this image.”

The exhibit features pieces that reflect her own experience dealing with the tumor. “Part of the ripeness of the idea of the 'tumor' is that it references both my own body and corporal memory,” she explained.

The pieces in the exhibit are a collection of Williams’s work from 2015 to today. Over these past few years, painting with health as a sub “has been a process of remembering and unpacking … of uncovering memories and images,” wrote Williams.

Williams says she enjoys mixed media work. “The work in the show is made of both acrylic and oil paint, embroidery floss, canvas, wood, metal wire, nails, fabric paint, beads, ironing board, plastic trophies, glitter glue.”

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Fourth-years make time for MCAT preparation

By Alanis Gonzalez gonzalez@grinnell.edu With fall approaching, the autumn chill signifies the beginning of baggy knit sweaters, pumpkin-flavored desserts and standardized testing. The test looming over the heads of many pre-med Grinnell fourthyears, and possibly third-years, is the notorious Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) exam needed to apply for medical school.

Gwen Holtzman '19, a chemistry and Spanish double major, is currently studying for the MCAT that she plans to take in January. She’s currently taking 12 credit hours at the College instead of the typical course load of 16 in order to use the remaining time for MCAT studying.

“With those extra, essentially, time slots a week, I hit ten hours a week at least … I actually go to Saints Rest two times a week and do three-hour chunks.”

I wasn’t having to teach myself things; it was more just reviewing things that I had already learned.

Joy Suh '19 On the other end of things, Joy Suh '19, a biochemistry major, has already completed the MCAT. Joy used resources such as Khan Academy and the fee-assistance program to study for the exam in April. “If you qualify for the fee-assistance program, … it helps a lot ‘cause they give you free study materials like

official study materials and practice tests.” Suh said.

The MCAT can be a serious source of pressure on the students taking it due to its weight in the medical school application process.

Holtzman noted the stress of the competitive nature of the medical school application process.

Applying for medical school in itself is really inaccessible.

Gwen Holtzman '19 After Suh took her exam in April, she had to take a step back from thinking about the MCAT all the time. “I didn’t touch anything related to med school, I didn’t look up things, I didn’t think about my test at all, I just had this breather break, but that might be hard for some people if you’re taking it and going to apply right after,” Suh said.

Aside from the stress of taking the MCAT, the test also carries serious financial implications. “Applying for medical school in itself is really inaccessible … The MCAT itself is like $350 to take, the applications, they all have a primary fee, they all have a secondary fee and you have to fly out to your own interviews,” Suh said.

When asked about what the financial implications of the MCAT were for her, Holtzman responded, “It's definitely something that is going to come into play. So I’m taking my first practice exam during fall break, so the question is, if I per-

form, let’s just say, ‘poorly,’ then do I push back the test date? Because, unlike the ACT, you don’t just take it again.”

Despite these stressful barriers and burdens, both students affirm that College has adequately prepared them for the both the exam and the stress accompanying it. “Grinnell science classes are really hard and you won’t realize it until you start to study … I wasn’t having to teach myself things; it was more just reviewing things that I had already learned. So Grinnell does a really good job,” Suh said.

Although both students plan on taking gap years, both have plans in mind for their future medical careers. Holtzman is interested in going into emergency care or obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN) in her future. When asked why she wants to be a doctor, Holtzman responded, “I think it’s something that I’ve always really wanted to do …

I love interacting with people. It’s the reason I’m a Spanish major … I want to be able to communicate with people specifically in the U.S., it’s so diverse.”

Suh has plans with Americorps during her gap year before heading off to med school. After med school, Suh plans to combine her interests in social justice and medicine. “I’m from rural Oklahoma. I want to work for underserved populations, so I want to either start my own non-profit clinic … or I would want to do gynecology or something and maybe work for Planned Parenthood.”

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From top to bottom: Gwen Holtzman and Joy Suh, both '19, have taken and are taking the LSAT respectively.

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History of Goodnow Hall: from astronomy to anthropology

By Charun Upara uparacha@grinnell.edu Much of the College’s current landscape, including Goodnow, the current home of the Anthropology department, did not exist before the late 1800s. In a hot summer day in 1882, two tornadoes struck and swept across Grinnell, destroying the entirety of the college campus.

“The college campus consisted of two buildings: a beautiful stone building, and a rather nice brick building.

The brick building was absolutely flattened,” said Byron Hueftle-Worley, a native Grinnell resident and City Council member who studied the tornadoes for decades. Later in the same night of the double tornadoes, the chemicals in the stone building caught on fire. “That building was utterly gutted by the fire,” Hueftle-Worley said.

Edward A. Goodnow, a wealthy industrialist from Massachusetts who learned about the disaster from a friend who was on the Board of Trustees, donated $10,000 to the College to build a new library that would also

house an observatory. A few years later, Goodnow Hall was completed and led Grinnell into a new era.

“Within two years after the storm, Iowa College had arisen phoenix-like from its ruins,” wrote Joseph Wall in the book “Grinnell College in the Nineteenth Century,” Dean of the College in the 1970s.

However, Goodnow’s vision of the building as a library and observatory did not last long. By 1905, Carnegie Hall was constructed as the new and larger library, and Goodnow was converted to the home of the science department. The observatory later closed in 1928.

“The telescope was there until the 1930s. The tower used to be occupied by a staircase going up to a platform … and then there was an iron telescope stand. Those things were there when we renovated the building [in 1995],” said John Whitaker, anthropology.

With the opening of Carnegie, Goodnow underwent its first major renovation, which resulted in the building becoming the home of the

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Taken from Park St., Goodnow Hall stands proudly as one of the oldest buildings left on campus, constructed shortly after the historic 1882 tornado.

physics and mathematics departments.

This era of Goodnow was marked by numerous individuals who contributed significantly to the College’s reputation in science. In Goodnow, Robert Noyce '49 received his trainings in physics before becoming a co-founder of Intel.

The golden age of Goodnow was superseded by a period of neglect in the 1970s-1980s when newer buildings replaced its prominence on campus. Eventually, the fire department decided that the building had deteriorated past the point where it was safe to hold classes, so it instead served as a building for faculty offices and storage for the science division.

As the College approached its sesquicentennial celebration in 1996, members of the anthropology department petitioned the administration to move the department from a run-down house on Park Street into Goodnow.

The College, partially motivated by the celebration to showcase its finest pieces of architecture, eventually agreed, and in 1995, Goodnow underwent its largest renovation since its early days. Since then, it has been the home of the anthropology department.

“When we started looking at it for renovation, it had remnants of psychology. The upstairs here had been chopped into little cubicles. There was an isolation chamber in the basement, and there were rat cages. It was a mess,” Whitaker said.

The building’s history is still etched in its walls, from carvings by students on antiquated pillars in the first-floor classroom to the offices at the base of the former observatory tower. With the construction of the new Humanities and Social Science Complex, it is unclear whether Goodnow’s role will once again be redefined to accommodate the college’s needs, but for now, it remains the oldest and, arguably, most captivating building on campus.

S&B Cribs: La Casa Matta

By Tommy Lee leeguhn@grinnell.edu A short walk south from campus and across Sixth Avenue takes one from the Burling Library to High Street. Situated amid the contrast of weekday studying at Burling and weekend High Street partying, “La Casa Matta,” 1021 High Street, the home of Mithila Iyer, Sofia Mendez, Vivien Makos, Mariam Nadiradze and Ana Segebre, currently studying abroad, all '19.

Tinged in beige and brown, La Casa Matta stands out from the other houses on High Street due to its comparatively small size and proximity to campus. With walls of vibrant red, purple, green and more within — upon which hang several artworks created by Mendez — the house of these fourth-years produces a warm, artistic feel.

“A good friend of mine lived here last year, and I thought it was a really cute house when I visited,” said Iyer.

“I think, you [the other housemates] can also speak for this, it is very close to campus as it is right across the Burling, Bucksbaum. I do a lot of theater, Sofi [Mendez] does a lot of art.”

“And I am an art history major,” Makos said. Nadiradze, despite being a computer science major, also agreed with the others on the benefit of living so close to campus by citing a relatively close distance to the Noyce Science Center.

Regarding their reasons behind choosing to live off-campus for their last year at the College, the housemates had their own unique reasons,

one of which was the money saved not paying room and board.

“I moved here because I wanted to move in with my friends, but also, my family wanted to save some money,” Makos said. “It is much cheaper to live here; I have saved my family about a thousand dollars just by living here for a semester, and that was very important to them.”

“Even by cooking for yourself, you save so much money,” Nadiradze said. “Plus, the whole cooking-for-yourself is just, like, very good or very frustrating.”

For other house residents, the draw of communal spaces filled with friends was an important reason to venture out of dorm living for their final year.

“I really like having common spaces, the living room and the kitchen,” Mendez said. “In dorms, you are in your room, and I like having spaces where you can hang out and work.”

“Something that I also like is that senior year is a really stressful time, all across the board,” added Iyer. “Coming home at the end of the day and seeing these good, comforting faces can be really nice.”

Living off-campus has provided the house mates with a taste of what awaits them in the world post-graduation.

“Backpacking off of that, as a senior, it’s really nice to have your first experience in living in your own place with multiple roommates before you go off and potentially have to do that in a bigger city or a smaller living situation,” Makos said. “It has really taught me about myself and what my

pet peeves are, and what I should look for a roommate in the future.”

However, moving off campus also comes with a cost; in fact, it is called “La Casa Matta” or “the crazy house” in Italian, for a reason. In preparation for settling into the house, several exterminator visits were needed to deal with a cockroach infestation. Mendez, who had stayed in the house for the summer, gave the house the name in honor of this and other initial house mishaps.

“We found a bat!” Iyer recounted.

When students consider moving off-campus, there are often these unexpected costs that pop up that were not previously responsibilities of students living on-campus, such as cleaning supplies and furniture.

“The con of moving into a house is the prep of it,” Makos said. “I’d say that anyone considering living in a house should think about what is something that the entire house might generally need that you are going to have to pitch in for.”

All housemates of “La Casa Matta” have not only been close friends since their first year but also have had experiences of living together in previous years. Their chemistry helps create a sense of community and enjoy doing things together.

“We try to do meals together every once in a while,” Mendez said. “We also watch movies and shows together.

‘La Casa de Las Flores;’ it’s a Netflix show.”

With several months remaining in their life at Grinnell, the residents of “La Casa Matta” are looking forward to more memories to come.

Empty nester: Joel Fenton

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Joel Fenton, father of Grinnellian Max Fenton '19 [fentonma] and nonGrinnellian Alexandra Fenton, cuddles with his new son Louis in his empty nest.

5:45 a.m. — The duck call alarm on my iPhone starts to wake me up. A few snooze taps later and I am out of bed at slightly after six.

6:36 a.m. — Start listening to 538’s podcast on Kavanaugh hearings.

6:40 a.m. — Picking suit and tie combo, toy briefly with a bow tie, but no patience to tie it a second (or third) time if it doesn’t come out correctly the first time.

Charcoal and plum tie.

6:59 a.m. — Dachshund puppy Louis stirs and needs a trip outside. I set him in the family room to eat or drink and he starts the plaintive whining/chirping sound that means he’d prefer to play with Dad. 7:40 a.m. — Stop for coffee and bagel on the way to the Warren County, Iowa Courthouse for an expected plea hearing for one of my clients.

8:33 a.m. — Checking phone to see who has been arrested and taken to Polk County Jail overnight. After doing criminal defense work for a number of years, it’s rare not to know someone in the 20 to 30 person group that is typically taken into custody.

8:42 a.m. — Review three memes sent by Grinnell senior son [fentonma]. Batting average of about .667 in comprehending memes he sends me; true to form two are funny and the third is surreal absurdism I cannot fathom at this early hour.

8:45 a.m. — Client has still not shown up. County attorney recommends an arrest warrant be entered by a judge to bring him in at some point.

8:59 a.m. — Checking voice mail on way back to Des Moines office. Try to call a client but their voice mail is not set up.

9:35 a.m. — At office checking mail and calendar for rest of day and week. Two more hearings in Polk County this afternoon; hopefully clients will show up.

10:22 a.m. — Draft and file appearance and motion for discovery in felony forgery case. Large adult son calls, inquires about Louis’ status. I hypothetically speculate he is napping in his crate.

11:42 a.m. — Venture to grocery store near house and pick up cheese sticks and 8-ounce container of three bean salad for lunch. Freshman daughter at U of Iowa texts in panic about mid-term grade in general psychology test. Calls me directly for encouragement. Thinks score is low, she finds out from friends as call progresses the grade is curved and other friends in the class had even lower scores — anxiety subsides.

11:56 a.m. — Return home to let dog out of crate, let him frolic for 20 minutes and then head back to Polk County Courthouse.

1:33 p.m. — Deal with county attorney forged to keep client with addiction issues out of prison and on probation so long as she keeps up with treatment.

3:12 p.m. — Juvenile Court hearing, client father and mother are both maintaining sobriety and the case is progressing well toward reunification with their children.

3:47 p.m. — Son sends some piece of astrological lore by e-mail. I disregard it as empirically unproven pseudoscientific woo-woo.

5:16 p.m. — Driving home, finish 538 podcast and start Marc Maron’s podcast interview with Slash.

6:59 p.m. — Do quick pass over daughter’s mini paper for her mythology class.

Suggest two minor revisions.

9:35 p.m. — Both college children check in via FaceTime to see how dog is doing. Louis cocks head to one side as he hears each voice. I mention my sore knee and my health and well-being are summarily considered and disregarded by both children.

TOMMY LEE

The housemates of "La Casa Matta" gather on their porch. From left to right: Sofia Mendez, Mariam Nadiradze,Vivien Makos and Mithila Iyer, all '19. Not pictured, Ane Segebre '19.

10:40 p.m. — Wife and I sit on couch with sleeping dachshund to watch a couple of reruns of M*A*S*H before bed. *Maxwell Fenton is the co-editor in chief of The S&B.

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This Week in Wellness: The importance of high-quality sleep

By Eva Hill hilleva@grinnell.edu If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance that you’re one of the estimated 60 percent of college students that get insufficient or poor-quality sleep each night. Lack of sleep can cause impaired learning and thinking, poor coordination and other negative mental and physical effects — yet with heavy workloads and full schedules, how are college students supposed to get our seven to nine hours a night?

One important thing to consider relating to your sleep schedule is that it’s not just the time you spend sleeping that matters, but the quality of sleep as well. REM sleep, the deepest sleep stage, is believed to be

the part of sleep in which important brain development occurs. You can do several things to maximize your REM sleep: first of all, try to stop your screen usage 30 to 60 minutes before you go to sleep. Even on “night shift” mode, screens still suppress melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles. One way in which some students may be able to reduce screen exposure is to organize your homework schedule each day so that the last thing you do before going to bed is an all-paper assignment.

In addition, your sleep quality will be much improved if you can avoid being woken up during the night. Try setting your phone to silent or “do not disturb” mode (and keep it out of reach while you sleep, if possible). If you’re a light sleeper who’s woken up by ambient noise, try listening to white noise on headphones while you sleep (I recommend the free White Noise+ app for this). Finally, try not to go to sleep while intoxicated. Being under the influence of a substance will decrease your ability to get high-quality sleep, even if it feels like it’s eas-

ier to get to sleep.

If you take naps during the day, you can use the length of your nap to maximize its effectiveness. If you only have time for a short nap, set your alarm to go off 20 minutes after you fall asleep — this will allow you to remain in light sleep, so you won’t feel groggy when you wake up, but you’ll still feel refreshed and alert. On the other hand, if it’s not too late in the day and you have time for a longer lie-down, a 90-minute nap should take you through one full sleep cycle, so you’ll get some restorative REM sleep but you’ll wake up during light sleep, again avoiding the groggy effect.

This week’s book: Welcome in the spookiest month of the year with a short story collection with no shortage of creepy-crawlies. Despite its slightly awkward title, Stephen King’s The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (his sixth and most recent collection) shows off its author’s ability to switch genres while maintaining a distinctive voice. Mile 81 and The Little Green God of Agony are vintage King

horror, with demonic cars and murderous slime, respectively, while other stories range from near-comedic plots (Ur) to poetry (The Bone Church, Tommy) to Raymond-Carver-inspired darkness (Premium Harmony). In addition, each story comes with an introduction written by King himself, detailing the circumstances in which each story developed.

This week’s music: During this rainy week, keep your spirits up with Kelly Clarkson’s Meaning of Life. Clarkson’s eighth album moves from the pop-country sounds of her earlier career to a more R&B-influenced soundtrack, with confident, soulful vocals that demonstrate her impressive range and agility. There are few to no dud tracks on this album, even if the lyrics occasionally wander into cliché territory, the songs succeed simply due to the strength of their melodies.

This week’s recipe: Warm milk with spices Trouble getting to sleep? Try this recipe for a warm, soothing drink with plenty of calcium, to

calm down your sympathetic nervous system, and vitamin C to support serotonin synthesis.

You’ll need: 1 mug milk (I recommend dairy milk, soymilk or almond milk, but pretty much any kind will work) -Vanilla extract -Sugar or honey -Your favorite spices (I like to use nutmeg or cinnamon, but cardamom, cloves and anise are also good) -A saucepan or microwave Heat the milk on the stove until warm to the touch (or heat for one minute in the microwave), then add vanilla and sweetener to taste (I’d suggest two to four drops of vanilla extract and a teaspoon of honey or sugar per cup of milk). After that, add the spices (start small and add more as needed – you can always add spice, but it’s difficult to take away) and continue to stir over medium heat until milk is at the desired temperature, or microwave for one minute and thirty seconds. Pour into your favorite mug and enjoy.

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Queer Eyes: Lumberjack flannels and other gay fashion

So, now you’ve had to put up with me for like two separate columns (lol sorry). But still, you’re back for more! I thoroughly believe I am here solely because no one else submitted a column, but nevertheless I am so glad I get to subject you to my absurdity once more. This week, I would like to bring everyone’s attention to a real concern of mine. Is anyone else out there worried that no one likes Bobby from Queer Eye? Bobby has the hardest job. I love Antoni with all of my being but cutting up an avocado is not the most complicated of endeavors, whereas Bobby has to redesign an entire freaking house in like 2.3 days after knowing the homeowner for approximately seven minutes. Yet, I still find myself wooed by the bomber jackets and pomade and taking dear Bobby for granted. But I do love him — I’m just so easily distracted by chukka boots and french tucks.

I also want to bring the discussion of fashion back to Grinnell. My same friend, who last column we discussed because she thinks there’s an arts and crafts side of the Grill, this week fought me on whether flannels are gay. Granted, anyone can wear a flannel, but you cannot take flannels away from the lesbians. Our lumberjack essence is one of the only ways we communicate. If a lesbian falls down in the forest, not wearing a flannel, then did it really happen?

I completely understand that tons of non-queer individuals wear flannels, but this static confuses my gaydar.

It's like the use of cellphones on an airplane—it messes with instrumentation but everyone still does it anyway. I would like to point out that this flannel infatuation is merely a pattern that I have observed, and from my extensive background in science, I can tell you that correlation does indeed imply causation, so.

Argue with them apples.

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I really enjoy curating the outfits of everyone around me to be as gay as possible at all moments. This can mean walking up to anyone in the Grill and just rolling the sleeves of their long sleeve shirt, or just sitting on the ground in the dinning hall to cuff the pant legs of someone’s skinny jeans. As a sporto, I unknowingly turn people’s hats backwards just so they look a little tiny bit more gay.

But I don’t tell them why — I just pursue my own gay agenda subconsciously at every opportunity.

Sometimes I’m tempted to do this to people who I don’t even know, but I also don’t understand why I have this urge. It’s like I am trying to convey a secret message through clothing symbols that only the gays understand. But why do I feel like everyone needs to embrace these symbols?

As a sporto, I unknowingly turn people's hats backwards just so they look a little tiny bit more gay.

But I don't tell them why — I just pursue my own gay agenda.

In other fashion news, I’ve really been feeling the tie and sweater look for work. I think this human tried to hit on me at this party (still very unclear to me) and I panicked and handled it horridly. I started talking about bolo ties, the national neckwear of Arizona. So now I can’t tell if I should (a) go hide under a rock (a warm rock with Netflix) for the next six to nine years, (b) wear exclusively bolo ties every day for the rest of my human life to confuse the party-goer or (c) never again adorn another neck accessory for the rest of my young life. All decisions are obviously final, and I am full of gay panic yet again. So that’s what’s new with me. I will accept donations for the purchase of joggers, bomber jackets or bolo ties at this time to help me cope with the awkwardness which is my life and constant curse.

Thank you all for your time and truest sympathies. #retailtherapy(andChipotle)ismylife —Gaylord Phoenix

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Sports are for white Americans in Grinnell athletics

When I was younger, I believed that sports were indeed universal. I remember playing tag with kids that I didn't know, chasing each other around the playground for a while and exchanging flushed, slightly outof-breath goodbyes when our parents finally took us home.

Now, after three years of being a part of Grinnell College athletics, I believe that sports can only be for white Americans. When you look at the roster of Grinnell athletic teams, it’s predominantly white and American. If we’re talking about international students, only 7.6 percent of Grinnell athletes are international, whereas 18 percent of the entire student body is international. The proportion is particularly low with upperclassmen.

There is a reason for this phenomenon. The Bear is a white space.

The team is a white space. I can’t completely be myself there. So, I amp up my American accent a little more, ask people about their day and feign excitement about every little thing to appease the white audience. I can’t be too different, otherwise, they’ll “other” me. I need to fit in to survive in this kind of climate. And of course,

I don’t constantly think about white dominance when I’m in the Bear — I would’ve quit the team by now if I had. But today, I was forced to confront it.

I went to see the trainer to get permission to start doing hard-demand workouts again. I had recently undergone a surgery, which was unrelated to running, and was slowly getting back into cross country with my doctor’s permission. The trainer told me to take it easy and gave me a progression to follow.

Now, after three years of being a part of Grinnell athletics, I believe that sports can only be for white Americans.

Meanwhile, another trainer in the room, one whose name evokes a certain tentacled monster in the Odyssey, came over to me and started asking about my physical activity in the past month. When I answered her, she looked at me with an expression of weary disbelief and advised me as though I had a physical injury. She made me feel guilty for running, even though my doctor had already given me permission to. I was confused, and frankly, upset by her response since the transition back to cross country from a running-unrelated surgery and from a physical injury, such as a stress fracture, seemed to me like two completely different processes.

So, I made the mistake of asking her, “What?” She then started speaking to me in an agonizingly slow manner, as if I were a very young child or incapable of understanding English. She spoke slowly to me until the end of our interaction. I don’t know what her intent was, but she obliterated my self-esteem and made me feel stupid. I wondered if she acted this way because I am East Asian and I was frustrated that I even had to ask myself that.

This was one of the more aggressive encounters I’ve had but there are many subtler instances that I’ve repressed. Being treated as the spokesperson for POC by my white teammates. The uncomfortable silence after I spoke about exclusion in sports in a room full of white athletes.

Microaggressions go by unnoticed, or worse, dismissed.

I am genuinely very grateful for my teammates and love running with them. I also love being an athlete and travelling the Midwest for meets. But I still feel like most of my teammates don’t understand me and that I don’t really belong in Grinnell athletics.

And although I keep trying to be optimistic and to strive for improvement, I am getting worn down by people’s ignorance and complacency.

Because, unlike sports, prejudice is never out of season.

—Nana Okamoto '20 Editor’s Note: Nana Okamoto is the Video Editor for The S&B.

Tresther’s Tru-pinions: I don't want to write this week Alone as a(n Asian) Woman!”, which I wrote at a time when I felt inspired and empowered as a woman. It was about fighting back and kicking butt if people try to come at you. In the wake of Kavanaugh’s confirmation I feel much less comfortable with the world.

By Esther Hwang hwangest@grinnell.edu I couldn’t think of what to write for this Op-Ed so I looked back at old snippets of my writing. I ran into an article I wrote on “How to Travel

In the wake of Kavanaugh's confirmation I feel much less comfortable with the world.

I am frustrated and I don’t want to write.

Lots of love to survivors and ev-

eryone who cares about women. Here is a snippet of my journal from today: “Last night I bathed and watched my belly inflate and deflate as I inhaled and exhaled. There was more of me in my middle than I’ve ever allowed myself to have. I saw my big belly as neither bad nor good, something neutral. I was impressed with myself. I breathed again. Thoughts arrived on how my belly could be smaller if I only ate less. If I put some effort into my appearance. Breathed again. I saw my belly as big and good. I loved my body deeply. In and out. Up and down.”

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6:15 p.m. Shabbat Table @ JRC 209 7 & 8:30 p.m. soft light for sleepless nights @ Flanagan Theater 7:15 & 9:08 p.m. Phoenix @ Harris Cinema

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1. The positions for a single digit in the whole number 2. A graph that uses bars to display data 3. 19th century woman cyclist related to 20, 23A, 2D 4. And, to Caesar 5. Greek letter used for pressure in physical sciences 6. “Rocky” actor Michael 7. To run, in a military context 8. Recent referents include Benedict and Francis 12. I am 13. Every Iowan child must drink daily 14. Procter & Gamble common cold and cough cure 15. Pacino of Me, Natalie 18. A soft, cow’s-milk cheese 19. Coal with impurities burned away has been 20. To worry frivolously 21. American military campaign against dogs

6 p.m. Water Polo Regionals @ BRAC Pool 8:30 p.m. Mesonjixx and BXTH Concert @ Gardner Lounge 10 p.m. ISO Rave @ Harris Center

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This week, Diana Chege and Sara Licht, both '22, polled 100 students asking: Egg roll or Enema?

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Across 1. Punctuation; an asshole, to Kurt Vonnegut 8. PG Wodehouse “leave it to” 10. Civil rights watchdog 11. Blacksmith’s tool 13. Prolific American inventor Thomas middle name 16. Behold!

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20. Cross country training technique 22. County in England, origin of the Kingmaker 23. Currency of country of origin of 20 across 24. 11-across-falling verb common to Wile E Coyote and the early pages of the phonebook

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Carbs D-hall is trying to kill us, I swear. Chicken alfredo broccoli pizza and chicken parm on the same day?! problems

- Graduating with cholesterol

Anachronistic Bring back feudalism - #borninthewrongcentury