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Firsthand stories from Standing Rock

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By Andrea Baumgartel baumgart1@grinnell.edu

Unequal Funding in Athletics?

The S&B investigates why 67 percent of athletic recruitment funds are directed at men given that Title IX mandates equal oppportunities in collegiate sports.

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s required by Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA), the Athletic Department of the College released The Report on Athletic Program Participation Rates and Financial Support data to all current students via email.

According to the report, Grinnell spends 69,177 dollars on men’s teams and 33,784 dollars on women’s. In other areas of athletics, such as coaching salaries and

money spent per student, the numbers are closer.

The report is intended to make students aware of how the College achieves gender equality in athletics, from the student athlete population, to coaches and to budgets. In whole, the report comes out of Title IX, which states that male and female athletes must have equal access to participation, recruitment, scholarships and other benefits if their institution receives federal funding.

Although Grinnell is on par with its peer institutions in many categories, the College

does poorly on recruitment. So what accounts for the large disparity in recruitment funds?

Ben Cooprider, assistant athletic director and assistant baseball coach, offered some explanation for the differences.

One of the key reasons is due to how the College generated the report. Recruiting expenses come in two ways: through the money set aside by the College for athletics and from money raised by alums and current student athletes. >> See Title IXpage 8

This past Monday evening, JRC 101 set the backdrop for a panel of speakers from Standing Rock, representing the still-growing resistance against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) South Central North Dakota. The high probability of pipeline breakage would result in contamination of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation’s water supply, located just a half mile from the pipeline, as well as the water of surrounding tribal nations and U.S. states such as Iowa. Although the water protectors’ nonviolent protest is being met with intimidation and violence, all of the speakers attested to the transformative love, healing and strength that is Standing Rock.

The speakers included multiple Native American activists and educators, including Tyler Lasley, Mary YoungBear, Quinton Pushetonequa, Bewan Wanatee, LaVern Jefferson and Leah SlickDriscoll from the Meskwaki Nation, as well as Jenna Thomas from >> See Protests page 2

GWSS students request tenured professor

Warren Kington vocalizes Buffett hosts support for undocumented students students in

Student activists demand more action

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Kyle Lindsey '19, Hannah Boggess '18, Julia Marquez '18, Gabrielle Matthews '17, Jackie Abing '17 and Armando Perez '17 comprise GWSS SEPC.

By Michael Cummings cummings@grinnell.edu Students hoping to major in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality studies (GWSS) at Grinnell have dealt with a number of complications over the past couple of years, as the College is currently facing a shortage of tenure-track positions in the GWSS department. To address this deficiency, GWSS SEPC (Student Educational Policy Committee) published a letter to Dean of Students Mike Latham on change.org on Nov. 15, urging the College to hire a new tenure-track GWSS professor.

“We have two tenured faculty but neither of them are teaching right now,” said Julia Marquez ’17, a member of the GWSS SEPC. “So we have Lakesia [Johnson], who’s amazing, but she’s working in an administrative position right now.

And then we have Astrid [Henry],

who’s also amazing, but she can’t work right now, she had a stroke.”

Currently, the GWSS department is getting by through the combined efforts of a few visiting professors, as well as help from professors in other departments whose research and classes have a GWSS focus.

"We have two tenured faculty but neither of them are teaching right now."

Julia Marquez '17 Unfortunately, according to Marquez, while these professors are able to cover the minimum number of required classes for students to complete the major, it’s difficult for students interested in GWSS to find a reliable advisor. >> See Petition page 2

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President Raynard Kington signed two statements in late November affirming the College’s continued support for undocumented students.

The first statement is an open letter to President-elect Trump, published in “Inside Higher Ed” on Nov. 18.

It asks Trump to condemn the hate speech that is performed in his name and has received signatures from 110 college presidents. The second statement is a letter in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a policy that delays deportation and provides eligibility for work permits for undocumented students. The letter was facilitated by Pomona College and has received signatures from 441 college presidents.

“The two topics of the letters — the broad issue of the values that we stand for and the specific issue of undocumented people and particularly undocumented students — we thought, given the outcome of the election, required us to give some statement,” Kington said of college presidents’ decision to create and sign the letters.

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Trump issued promises about policy changes that could jeopardize the status and safety of undocumented students.

These promises included the repeal of DACA and the elimination of sanctuary cities. Until policy changes are actually implemented, however, the College can do little to change its own policies toward undocumented students.

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prepared to understand our options as an institution if the Trump administration chooses [policies] that would have an impact on our students,” Kington said. “But we’re a long way from that. Nothing, at the moment, has changed.”

Five days before Kington released his all campus email about the two letters, a group of Grinnell students published a petition in The S&B, which urged the College administration and Board of Trustees to implement new policies protecting undocumented students. Abdiel Lopez ‘18, Alexis Acosta ‘18 and Alfredo Villalobos-Perez ‘19 organized the petition under the guidance of Professor Tess Kulstad, anthropology.

As of Tuesday, the petition has received over 320 signatures.

“We wanted more than just a display of support to the community.

We wanted the school to ensure safety,” Lopez said.

The letter includes a number of demands, including the explicit dissemination of resources for undocumented students, the establishment of local churches as sanctuary churches and an increase in tenured faculty of color.

“I don’t see many resources for atrisk, undocumented or unauthorized students, and that needs to happen as soon as possible,” Lopez said. “I hope I and other students can organize and really pressure the administration to do so with confidence and support their own commitment to social justice.”

Although Lopez, Acosta and Villalobos-Perez’s letter urges immediate action, Kington explained

Twenty Grinnell students travelled to Omaha on Nov. 18 to meet Warren Buffett, who has been dubbed the "Oracle of Omaha" and has previously served on Grinnell's Board of Trustees. During the Center for Career, Life and Services (CLS) trip, students talked with Buffett about financial investment and professional success. Grinnell was part of a group of eight academic institutions, including Yale and Columbia’s business schools, that attended. The 20 Grinnell attendees were the only undergraduates present.

Berkshire Hathaway, the Buffett-owned company that hosted the event, required that one-third of attendees be women in order to promote equality in the traditionally male-dominated field of finance.

According to Mark Peltz, Dean of the CLS, there was no shortage of applications from women.

During a question and answer session, the Grinnellians had the opportunity to ask Buffett about his longtime friendship with Joe Rosenfield, the Grinnell alumnus known for his generosity and dedication to the College and the namesake of the JRC. Buffett served as a trustee of the College because of his friendship with Rosenfield.

Participant Gargi Magar ’17 said that Buffett was very kind and offered valuable life advice.

“Someone asked ‘What’s the most important thing you need to succeed?’ and he said ‘Unconditional love is the greatest force in the world.’

I don’t think anyone was expecting that answer because that just seems very Dumbledore,” Magar said.

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Petition urges College to address GWSS professor shortage SEPC asked Dean Latham to expand department Continued from Front Page “The biggest [issue] for majors is we need to declare with a faculty member. There have been people who declared with [Professor] Sara Sanders [History], she is also a senior lecturer in GWSS … and Lakesia still will be your advisor, but it’s just a lot more reassuring to have an advisor who’s actively in the department and

"The biggest [issue] for majors is we need to declare with a faculty member."

Julia Marquez '17 teaching classes.”

The letter to Latham, which garnered significant support from students, alumni and even former visiting professors in GWSS, prompted Latham to reach out to the SEPC and offer assistance.

“Dean Latham saw it and actually reached out to us,” Marquez wrote in a follow-up email to The S&B. “Though (as he pointed out) he is not the person who actually makes faculty hiring decisions — that task lies with the Executive Council, which decides on faculty positions in the spring — we’re meeting with him this Friday to talk over the issue with him.”

Marquez stressed her gratitude at Latham’s response to their letter.

“We’re not trying to pick a fight with anybody in the administration, especially Dean Latham,” Marquez wrote. “We’re grateful for his support and his willingness to meet with us.”

Overall, Marquez and the rest of the SEPC are excited to work towards hopefully bringing a tenuretrack GWSS professor to campus next year.

“We’re doing this because we really need another GWSS professor and this is our effort to make it happen,” Marquez wrote.

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Mears Cottage, which holds GWSS faculty offices, is missing some of its previous professors.

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Tea Cakarmis '17 represented Palau at COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Earlier this month, the international community gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, for COP22 — a climate change conference following up on the agreement reached one year ago at COP21 in Paris. Grinnell’s own Tea Cakarmis ’17, who previously worked with the UN agency on Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) was invited by UNESCO and the nation of Palau to participate in the conference. This week, The S&B’s Michael Cummings sat down with Cakarmis to discuss her experience in Marrakesh and the future of climate change policy.

The S&B: What is COP22 and how does it relate to COP21?

Tea Cakarmis: COP22 was intended to be an explanation of how the implementation of COP21 will take place. COP21 in a lot of ways is an ideological promise, we've agreed that climate change is human-caused, that it is something where the science is very conclusive and also something that we need to act on. However, the way you go about it has consistently throughout the COPs been where a deal breaks or makes. In Marrakesh they were discussing how to actually put COP21 into action.

The S&B: How did you end up going to Marrakesh this year?

TC: I was [working] with UNESCO and I was working with the delegation of Palau. Since day one of my internship, the Paris Agreements were just signed. I started working in February, so it was really, really fresh. The agreement is indisputably one of the biggest accomplishments that have been done since the forming of the UN framework on climate change, [but] the small island states still did not feel as if it was reflective of how alarming the situation is.

We talk about 2 degrees Celsius and small island states formed their own sort of aspirational alliance for 1.5 degrees because that's really the only thing that they find could even maybe possibly be satisfying. So we started working on how we could represent them, creatively, outside just the actual official delegations in Marrakesh. Then we came up with a project and when my internship ended they were like, "Oh, how about you join us in Marrakesh?" I didn't really think that that was even possible, and it was in the middle of my school year and everything, but then it just sort of worked out. It was amazing.

The S&B: What were your responsibilities while in Marrakesh?

TC: I personally was in charge of decorating the booth that the delegation of Palau had. … We were trying to bridge the gap of distance, and so before the conference started I concluded a partnership with Disney France. We actually got them to create a clip for the small island nations specifically for COP, where they featured their new cartoons, animated movies, where it's either an endangered species or just generally island people who are featured in it.

It's four spin-offs of "Finding Nemo."

The other part of it is, we wanted to keep it as digital as possible, but we couldn't do that all the way. We had a partnership with Fondation Cousteau — that's Cousteau the oceanographer — their foundation sort of represents data visually really successfully.

What we wanted to show is the human consequence on the ocean.

We wanted it to be both engaging in terms of the beauty of the ocean, but also the extent of the human impact on the ocean. We had 10 photos that were the size of one and a half by two meters, so the size of me and bigger, that were placed around — we had our own improvised exhibit space.

What I did was basically arrange that space, arrange for the materials to be shipped, the logistical part of that.

The S&B: How will a Trump presidency affect international climate change policy?

TC: The U.S. delegation [at COP22] was very firm in saying it is business as usual, meaning business as Obama left it. They were very deliberate in saying that Paris is formed in a way that even if you want to pull out of it, you already made your promises that you're going to have to uphold for at least three years, which is luckily how much [Trump's] mandate takes.

So even if Trump wants to pull out of Paris, he won't be seeing the benefits of it, or what he believes the benefits can be, until the end of his mandate.

So unless he is reelected, pulling out of Paris will not do anything for him as a president.

College to adjust policies for undocumented students as needed

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Kington joined hundreds of other college presidents in signing the statements. that the College must first be advised by its legal counsel and greater College community before going

forward.

“Many of us [college presidents] are engaged in a question of the

legality of sanctuaries,” Kington said. “We’ll decide if we need to do anything based on more information coming from our lawyers and our member organizations who are already engaged in the discussion: the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, the Council of Independent Colleges, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. … It’s really complicated, and it doesn’t make sense for each of us to figure this out. We’re going to do this as a community in many ways.”

Although Grinnell College does not have as many undocumented students as other colleges and universities, they do make up a portion of the student body.

“We treat undocumented students the same we’d treat any

other student,” Kington said.

“In essence, those students are international students. The difference is their special status and the fact that some of these students aren’t eligible for some types of financial aid, for example.”

Although undocumented students do attend Grinnell and are treated equally by the administration, Lopez stressed that campus resources and discussions should consider undocumented students more.

“I think students and faculty and staff really overlook the [undocumented] community because it’s not as visible as other identities.

There is a risk in coming out of the shadows,” Lopez said. “Because of that, there hasn’t been much mobilization around the issues that affect undocumented students. …

I’ve talked to many undocumented students on campus and they feel left out, or they feel like they have been sort of put on the margin.”

Beyond the Grinnell campus, Lopez hopes to put support structures in place for undocumented persons across Iowa.

“We’re also trying to contact student organizations in order for us to host ‘Know Your Rights’ workshops across the state, like in Marshall [County] and Tama [County],” Lopez said. “Those two counties have large undocumented populations. …

I’m in this hub of privilege here at Grinnell College, and there are many undocumented people in the state. I would do a disservice to myself and to the community at large if I didn’t put into practice what I’ve been learning.”

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Water protectors speak on their experiences

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the Rosebud Sioux, Rev. Wendy Abrahamson of St. John’s Episcopal Church and Prolific the Rapper, an indigenous musician who has used music and film to spread the Standing Rock message. All of the speakers have been to Standing Rock multiple times, often in subfreezing conditions, to engage in peaceful protest and help sustain the morale of the camp, primarily through cooking, community building and prayer. In addition to the panel, the event also featured a short film from Grinnellians who have visited Standing Rock to provide water protectors with supplies.

"When I showed up to Standing Rock, the people there took care of us. We were prepared to be on our own in this fight, but we didn't need to be."

Tyler Lasley, the Owen Valley Payahunada camp DAPL has met resistance since the pipeline’s initiation nearly nine months ago. Recently, Standing Rock has become, in the words of Professor Deborah Michaels, education, "the epicenter of an international, spiritual and political movement."

“Most Americans are unaware of what is going on in our country in regards to environmental injustice,” said Slick-Driscoll, who teaches social studies at Meskwaki Settlement School. She defined environmental injustice, specifically in relation to indigenous rights, as “taking the needs of one group over the needs of another group.” Not only does the threat of the pipeline

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violate multiple laws, including the Clean Water Act and the National Historic Preservation Act, but it also would cut through sacred tribal burial grounds. If — and when — the pipeline were to spill, the oil would severely contaminate the water of Native Americans and others who rely on the Missouri River source.

“Many people in America believe that not talking about these things [like the pipeline] is an act of patriotism … that it would make the U.S. government look bad … but this is simply creating an oligarchy,” Slick-Driscoll continued. “There is a need for a higher level of humanity.

People outside need to talk about these issues because it affects all of us.”

Although DAPL only runs through certain tribal land, its implications hold potential consequences for all people.

“They are using eminent domain for private gain,” Wanatee said.

“This pipeline doesn’t run through my land [Meskwaki Nation], but there are still 1.5 million people I am concerned about.”

Wanatee spoke about her experience of running across the nation to Washington, D.C. in protest of the pipeline, as well as experiencing the frontlines at Standing Rock. “If you can’t go to Standing Rock, call your legislators,” she implored. “Make your presence known to them.”

"Tell your school to divest.

Call as many legislators as you can. This is everyone's fight."

Prolific the Rapper Jenna Thomas of the Navajo Nation traveled with her husband, Quinton and their two children from Arizona to Standing Rock.

“As a Native American, awareness for environmental justice has been at the forefront of what I’ve been taught [throughout my life],” she said. “I had to be part of what connects all of us. All of these tribes, all of the others who have come here — [what connects us] is the environment and prayer.”

Tyler Lasley of the Owen Valley Payahuuada camp echoed Thomas’s emphasis on the interconnectedness that lives alongside the fight for a common cause. “When I showed up to Standing Rock, the people there took care of us. We were prepared to be on our own in this fight, but we didn’t need to be.”

Mary Youngbear works for the Meskwaki Cultural Center and Museum and has been to Standing Rock twice, assisting with cooking for hundreds in addition to protesting.

“Although [law enforcement] presence was always made known by the helicopter, it made us feel the opposite of scared. It gave us strength and fortitude,” Youngbear said.

The final speaker was Prolific the Rapper, who shed additional light on the injustice from law enforcement that protestors face. Prolific has risked unjust incarceration for filming the events at Standing Rock with a drone. He has made numerous music videos — posted to his YouTube channel — with his footage that has exposed the true experience of the pipeline resistance.

Afterwards audience members asked questions that raised awareness about Grinnell College’s current investment in the fossil fuel industry.

“Tell your school to divest,” Prolific said. “Call as many legislators as you can. This is everyone’s fight.”

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JRC 101 was packed with community members drawn to the Standing Rock story.

Disability and Accessibility Town Hall

Two years ago, President Kington tasked a group of faculty, administrators and students with developing a “comprehensive response to serving students, faculty and staff with disabilities.” The efforts were motivated by regulatory compliance concerns and a push to adopt universal design principles that reflect and represent the College’s core values.

On Thursday morning, these findings were summarized and discussed at a town hall in JRC 101, dedicated to informing the campus-wide Grinnell community.

The Disability and Accessibility Task Force is chaired by Angela Voos, vice president for strategic planning and Joyce Stern, dean for student success and academic advising. They collaborated with Autumn Wilke, coordinator of disability resources and over 50 other individuals across six subcommittees to raise awareness, discuss accommodations and develop numerous forms of access for disabilities at Grinnell.

The Task Force emphasized accommodating “invisible” disabilities and implementing universal design concepts, specifically in the College’s new social studies building under construction, the Digital Humanities

Joyce Stern focused on "invisible" illnesses during Thursday's Town Hall in JRC 101.

Continued from Front Page Philip Kiely ’19, who also attended the trip, said he was surprised

by Buffett’s humble demeanor.

“I was expecting that he’d walk in and there’d be a big whooshing sound because all the air just rushed out of the room, but no. … He was very professorly. It just sort of seemed like he was a visiting professor from another school that you should be respectful to, but no one to be afraid of,” Kiely said.

Peltz emphasized that the CLS is committed to providing opportunities for students to explore many careers, not just finance.

“This is certainly a transformational experience for the students who are able to participate and what CLS is really interested in doing is identifying other ways that we can provide similar transformational

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“Disability is a giant umbrella that covers a lot of different identities, a lot of different people,” Wilke said during the Town Hall. “Many things are related to mental health and many physical disabilities such as chronic fatigue … are invisible. Advancements in accessibility … are also having great benefit for people with invisible disabilities.”

A major issue is the perception of what disabilities look like or how most people envision “disability” and the specific accommodations that must be provided.

“Disabilities don't always look like what we expect to them to look

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like and we can't judge what it is and is not accessible for others,” wrote Emily Howe ’17, who is actively involved with the disability community on campus, in an email to The S&B. Some forms of compliance are necessary to meet legal standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which governs the minimum requirements Grinnell must meet.

For example, professors must begin providing course syllabi much earlier in the semester, areas of refuge that meet certain accessibility requirements must be established and faculty/staff offices on campus should be accessible to those with wheelchairs and service animals.

“Knowledge and action about accessibility and inclusion and are the most important aspects of disability at Grinnell,” Howe explained.

“Oftentimes Grinnellians, including professors and administrators, just don't think about where their events are being held or how they're designing their Powerpoints.”

The way that syllabi and assistive technologies are implemented, particularly with educational programming, can significantly impact the way that students with disabilities are able to participate in class, Stern explained.

“More than providing accommodations, accessibility and individualized experiences must be available from the get-go, so that one day it … just feels normal,” Stern said. “Everyone wants to … fully participate, without a modification for their benefit. If those things aren’t in place, we need to make sure that those

accommodations are made.”

As such, the Task Force is eager to reframe disability and accessibility issues on campus as issues of difference, rather than of lacking.

“We start thinking about this more as a diversity issue and not as a disability issue and an accommodation issue,” Wilke said.

Notable accomplishments were described, such as increased training and education for faculty, a renovation of the classroom technology catalog and making assistive listening devices more readily available. Task Force members highlighted NetNutrition, which makes allergy information easier to access and the efforts that campus members have made in being more conscious of disability accommodations. Audience members praised the prevalence of service animals, less stigma surrounding fidget toys or “tinker toys” and ramp access at Bob’s Underground Cafe.

However, gaps in awareness are still persistent. Students are often careless with leaving their backpacks in walkways or their bikes on sidewalks, which impedes accessibility. Encouraging students to be proactive rather than reactive, Howe suggested that student leaders must be instrumental in changing campus perceptions and Stern noted that it takes a campus to go all in on this effort.

“This form of inclusion is everyone's responsibility,” Stern said.

“For example, ‘Open to all students’ may not actually be open to all students. What can we do to change that?”

A buffet with Buffett experiences in other areas of the world of work, not just investment,” Peltz said.

"I was expecting that he'd walk in and there'd be a big whooshing sound because all the air just rushed out of the room, but no. ... He was very professorly."

Philip Kiely '20 Although Peltz is not sure whether Grinnellians will get to visit Buffett again, he says he would certainly organize another trip if possible.

“It’s an opportunity that I hope we have again. … I mean Grinnell, was at a table 15 feet away from Warren Buffett. There are shareholders for Berkshire Hathaway that never get to shake Warren Buffett’s hand. We did.”

Buffett's special relationship with Grinnell is rooted in his longtime friendship with Joe Fosenfield '25.

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As winter approaches, MICA can help

Combating poverty tends to conjure images of food pantries and clothing drives, but winter brings additional problems for low-income households. As the temperatures cool down, many Iowans are forced to choose between rising heating bills and other living necessities.

Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) helps administer a federal program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEA), intended to lessen the burden of these energy bills.

Just last year, 185,000 Iowans received heating assistance from LIHEA — nearly 50,000 in

Grinnell’s congressional district alone. More than simply reducing the cost of heat, LIHEA can help some recipients receive a moratorium, which legally prohibits an energy provider from shutting off heat during the winter.

Despite helping so many Iowans keep their heat, MICA receives few applications from Grinnell students, according to MICA Family Development Center Manager/Volunteer Coordinator Danielle Wonderly.

“For Grinnell College students, I really, really encourage them to apply for heating assistance,” Wonderly said. “It doesn’t mean that you have to be low income. Basically, a household of one making 20,790 dollars or less a year would qualify, which is probably all of you. I know some people get help from their parents but a lot of them don’t.“ Wonderly has seen a dramatic increase in the number of applications MICA receives from college students over the last several years, which she credits to increased outreach from MICA. However, she feels that there is, “still a good population that we’re missing.”

College students would not be alone in applying for MICA’s most utilized program. According to the most recent census, the median household income in Grinnell is 45,079 dollars, just above LIHEA’s cutoff limit for a family of four. And LIHEA helps both seniors and family households, both of which face different challenges staying safe and warm in the winter.

“The elderly … they’re on a fixed income, so obviously their needs are high” Wonderly said. “But when they have a household of one, they might not get as much assistance. But families have great needs too because they’re providing for more people. Even if their income is a little bit higher than minimum wage, that means often that they cut off from assistance from other government programs, and they rely on assistance [from MICA] more.”

For the 2016 cycle, MICA has received around the same number of LIHEA applications as it did last year, despite this year’s warmer temperatures. This year, MICA began accepting

Wes Finch helps skate park get closer to completion

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The Bailey Park Skate Park currently features only basic equipment and hopes for a new updated look soon.

By Lily Bohlke bohlkeli@grinnell.edu After winning Wes Finch Auto Plaza’s Facebook charity contest, the Grinnell Skate and Bike Motocross (BMX) Project is 1,000 dollars closer to becoming as good as new.

The Bailey Park Skate Park has been a second home to many youths in Grinnell who like to ride BMX bikes or skateboards. However, a renovation is needed to combat the short lifespan of wooden skate equipment. Local charity Imagine Grinnell has taken up the skate park renovation and is still raising funds to meet the cost of 250,000 dollars.

“We’re taking a two-pronged approach,” said Rich Dana, director of Imagine Grinnell. “We’re reaching out to some of the bigger businesses in the area and hoping to have them donate some larger amounts, and then we’re also working on a grassroots campaign, trying to get everybody involved so they can all help.”

“We’re taking a two-pronged approach” Rich Dana Earlier this fall, Tony Hawk donated 5,000 dollars to the project.

Wes Finch Auto Plaza has made an additional sizable donation, through a Facebook contest they run about three times a year. The contest typically features 15 to 20 charitable organizations competing for votes, which are Facebook likes. At the end of the monthlong contest, a marketing company tallies up the votes and Wes Finch donates 1,000 dollars to the winner.

The Grinnell Skate and BMX project mobilized during the last week of

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the contest to get in some extra votes.

“Wes Finch Auto Plaza, we strive to help everybody who walks in the door and asks us for help and presents a good case, and particularly one that involves youth. My coworkers have kids in school as have I, and so we tend towards the youth whenever we can.”

Jeff Finch “We could have one organization be ahead with 50 to 100 votes midway through the month, then all of the sudden you get some organizations to get their people engaged and the votes going from the leader having 75 or 80, to a leader having 175 or 180,” said Jeff Finch of Wes Finch Auto Plaza. “And that’s what the BMX Skate Group did, they made a big charge the last 5 days and won.”

Although Wes Finch Auto Plaza leaves the decision all up to voters, even bringing in an outside team to count the votes, Finch said he is pleased with the outcome. He recalls the skate park as an important part of Grinnell youth culture, so he is glad to play a fundraising role for the project.

“There were a lot of [skate park] participants who after school or in the summer spent a lot of time up there,” Finch said. “Wes Finch Auto Plaza, we strive to help everybody who walks in the door and asks us for help and presents a good case, and particularly one that involves youth. My coworkers have kids in school as have I, and so we tend towards the youth whenever we can.”

applications from seniors in September, a full month before the usual October deadline to prepare for the high volume of applications they expect to receive.

“It doesn’t mean they get the funds earlier — it’s just so we can get those folks dealt with before it gets busier,” Wonderly said.

MICA also helps with long-term energy saving investments for families receiving LIHEA. Since the mid 1970s, MICA has offered weatherization services.

Using National Energy Audit Technology (NEAT), MICA workers can inspect a home and determine the best investments for the home — those that provide the greatest energy saved per dollar.

Some of the most common investments include increasing wall insulation, replacing outdated or inefficient refrigerators and appliances and installing high-energy efficient bulbs.

In the winter months, MICA does not just take applications for programs but also volunteers. The agency frequently works with the CLS to coordinate work-study positions for Grinnell students to provide support for MICA. “We can always take volunteers at the office to help with the food pantry,” Wonderly said.

For more information about how to volunteer, contact Danielle Wonderly at Danielle. wonderly@micaonline.org or call the MICA administrative office at 641-752-7162.

Festival of Trees brightens up downtown Grinnell

By Louise Carhart and Teresa Fleming carhartl17@grinnell.edu, flemingt17@ grinnell.edu

If you’ve walked in downtown Grinnell since Thanksgiving break ended, you might have noticed the decorated Christmas trees that have sprung up. As part of the Festival of Trees, they were decorated by various groups and businesses around Grinnell and will be on display for most of the holiday season. This year, the Festival of Trees in downtown Grinnell was held outside, moved from its previous spot at Drake Library. Louise Carhart and a team of experts were dispatched to the downtown area to praise and critique some of Grinnell’s most treasured trees.

Saints Rest Tree This tree plays up on Saints Rest’s spot as the premier coffee shop in Grinnell. Decorated with a red and white color scheme, the tree features original Saints Rest coffee cans printed with the names of various roasts.

Festive green and red garlands add a variety of colors, while a sheer red ribbon truly wraps this tree up. Great work by one of our favorite downtown haunts!

Temp Associates One of the team’s personal favorites, this tree truly makes use of the medium. Incorporating many strains of Christmas cheer, the tree is decorated as an imposing but friendly snowman. Blending together the troupes of Frosty and Rockefeller Center in a nuanced commentary on our intersectional world, the snowman tree is

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The trees stand on the corners of integral downtown streets. brought together by a friendly face adorned with a jolly plaid scarf and even includes large black buttons.

White sticks act as the arms and really bring together this coniferous creature!

Bates Flowers by DZyne Just as Bates Flowers and Flowers

by DZyne combined to create a single downtown floral destination, so too did the various disparate elements of this tree come together in a mélange of holiday spirit. Accented with red and gold patterned ribbons, this tree brings to mind traditional December celebrations. With so many bows on the tree, you might not even need to wrap the presents beneath! The strings of pearly silver beads truly bring elegance to this dressed up diva.

Genesis This truly sparkles with a frosty

aura. Covered in gold and silver, it recalls the Snow Queen of Narnia fame. Just as her castle sparkles with the statues of hundreds of frozen Narnians, this tree makes use of unconventional ornaments in spectacular display. A golden ribbon winds through the branches and as our team of experts approached the tree glittering flakes began to fall from the heavens. A true Genesis of winter indeed!

Grinnell College A large ornament tops this tree off in a festive explosion of color. Taking a funky turn, white ribbon is wrapped around the tree on a diagonal, as opposed to the more common horizontal angle. Sizable balls are scattered across this conifer while an Honor G rests against the front. You’d think given the size of our endowment, we wouldn’t have to overcompensate!

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The Honor G is the theme of the Grinnell Christmas tree entry.

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What did Grinnellians do over the last short break?

Despite being the shortest break of the school year, Thanksgiving break allowed Grinnell students to have a variety of experiences — both on and off campus. Some went home to spend time with their families, others went to friend’s houses perhaps a bit closer than their own hometowns and some relaxed in their dorm rooms in Grinnell. The S&B’s Philip Kiely asked students in and around the Grill what they did over Thanksgiving break.

16-hour plane ride “I flew to Tokyo on Thursday and I came back on Monday. [Tokyo] was part of a job interview selection process for a company.” — Takahiro Omura ’17

Art house meal and Fantastic Beasts “I made some food at Art House with some friends, and we had a nice meal full of sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, all sorts of carbs, and then we saw 'Fantastic Beasts' the next day, which was pretty awesome.” — Dylan Welch ‘19

“I got to see my grandma again and speak with her in Japanese. I took my friend home for Thanksgiving and kind of embarrassed him because he met all 18 members of my family who came up to MN. I got to make fun of him because it was too cold and there was snow covering the ground then.” — Dani Tiedemann ’19

Family and TV

Marxists and sheep give advice

Sports and family bonding “I stayed here, I play on the basketball team, so we just did a big dinner with all of the teams and a bunch of the families came into town so that was really nice. I didn’t know a lot of the parents of the other kids that I’m playing with, so I talked to them a little bit, found out what they do and got to know my teammates better by knowing their families better.”

— Michael Porter ’17

Embarassing friends

“I went back home [to Chicago], and saw family from Jamaica and Cuba. I finished way too many TV shows (Breaking Bad and a bunch of Netflix originals).” — Christian Morris ‘18

“I talked to a Marxist and I talked to some sheep.

The Marxist was making jokes about the bourgeoisie over turkey, and the sheep told me to be nice and eat grass.” — Ella Williams ’19

All photos by Mayu Sakae

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Judith Darrh

By Steve Yang yangstev17@grinnell.edu It is not every day at Grinnell that one has the opportunity to learn about a past Grinnell College, a time before the JRC or the Bear had been built and when the school still had horse stables on campus. Students can read about older eras in yellowed issues of the Grinnell Magazine or other publications in the Burling archives, but sometimes the best way is to hear it directly from the source.

For Judith Darrh ’62, an art major, the early 60’s were a time of tumult, rapid cultural change and the last of the “innocent generation,” as the Cold War and protests against the Vietnam War were just coming into focus. Beyond the buildings that didn’t exist, the campus’s trees were almost wiped out: caught in the throes of Dutch Elm disease, the campus was relatively bare.

“What you see today is 55 years of regrowth,” Darrh said.

One of the most significant differences, Darrh noted, was the campus culture. For instance, there were many forms of hazing, which were almost always perpetrated by upperclassmen onto incoming underclassmen.

“You dodged upperclassmen as much as you could because you didn’t want to be forced to sing a song that you hadn’t learned the lyrics to yet,” she said, referring to “Sons of Old Grinnell.” “There were these silly little red and black beanies that you were required to wear for two weeks. If you didn’t have your beanie on, you had to sing the song.”

Sometimes, however, the hazing got more violent and physical.

“I guess the biggest political issue then was this protest to Washington, and the new students coming were coming in with long hair, just on the cusp of the 70’s,” she recalled.

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“Some of the upperclassmen would tackle them and shave their heads.”

Dating was regulated by numerous taboos, as was staying out late and failing to make curfew, especially for the women of the College.

“Grinnell has never been conservative, but as far as our attitudes to stuff, it was a big deal when they allowed us to be in a boy’s room or a boy to be a girl’s room on a Sunday afternoon — but the door had to be open,” she said.

Darrh recalled a time when she appeared in a yearbook picture with her boyfriend in his room, which she was sure would have shocked the conservative Dean of Women, Evelyn Gardner. Gardner, whom Darrh described as “straight out of the Victorian Era,” required the incoming first-year women to be in their rooms by eight o'clock at night for the first

two weeks of school, and then by 10 o’clock for the rest of the school year.

Students who stayed out after hours were locked out and made to appear before Gardner the next day.

“Upperclassmen would come to check and make sure everyone was in their room, except on Saturday, [when you had] until midnight,” Darrh recalled. “They were very strict about separating males from females. Males were on North, and females on South.”

Campus geography, in many respects, was determined by these social boundaries. Darrh recalled that the student union building was a converted World War II military barracks, which was nothing more than a “snack bar, a ping pong table, a jukebox, and a space to dance.” Just as Burling’s higher floors indicate less noise, the different levels of the

student union building were associated with greater romantic pursuits, or “necking,” as they called it back then.

“Upstairs, there were smaller rooms, … and if you snuck upstairs, you meant business,” Darrh said with a chuckle.

Although Grinnell had moved past the sex-specific walkways of the early 1900’s, campus dating was still very much defined by strict traditions. Upperclassmen men would buy photos of the younger years and look through it for girls to date. In an effort to find a girlfriend, North campus men would often recruit their entire hall to serenade a girl from South Campus, not always successfully.

Darrh mentioned that on occasion, she would feel trapped by these codes and desperate to escape this degree of gender separation, a sentiment that was common amongst her

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female friends.

“Walking the loggia, I would feel like I was in prison. Just absolutely frantic, wanting to escape this jail that I was in,” she said. “A lot of the girls figured out ways to go out the windows, I was just never brave enough to do it.”

But Darrh eventually found love. After graduation, Darrh met Roy Simpson ’60, an economics major whose roommate was dating Darrh’s roommate at the time. After their respective roommates got married, Darrh and Simpson were married for 23 years, until they got divorced. “[Roy] passed away in April, [but we had] remained good friends despite the divorce,” Darrh said.

Although none of their children attended Grinnell, Darrh’s grandson Tyler Anderson ’16 graduated from the College with a degree in psychology. Darrh noted that upon revisiting the College for her grandson’s graduation, she was awed by the changes she saw at Grinnell.

“We organized constitutional convention[s] trying to get the College to go to co-ed dorms,” Darrh said. “They had a stable, and people could board their horses there. Some of the kids had their horses there at the College. And there were no cars — the College just had a couple of cars that you could check out if you needed to see a doctor in Des Moines.”

Through the ups and downs, Darrh concluded that her time at Grinnell provided some of her best memories, and advised current Grinnellians to take it slow and enjoy the ride.

“Treasure your moments. It all goes so fast: it’s here today and it’s gone tomorrow,” she said. “Life really does speed by. I have friends, lifetime friends that I made at Grinnell, and it’s a real gift.”

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Mark Redito, Great Dane and Mike Gao to finish up Concerts

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Student directed One Act Play Festival opens tonight

Halley Freger fregerha17@grinnell.edu Grinnell Concerts is hosting the last show of the semester tonight at 9 p.m. in Gardner Lounge. The fall lineup concludes with LA-based producers Mark Redito, Great Dane and Mike Gao. DJ and producer Mark Redito makes music that is powerful in its ability to be playful and hype as hell. His 2013 release “Desire” concludes with the track “Forgiveness.” The song ends with an infectious combination of twinkling 8-bit and chips. By “chips,” I’m not talking about sound chips, but actual chips. Redito flawlessly blends the sound of someone eating chips into a hard-hitting beat. But this was years ago when Redito still went by Spazzkid. In the past couple years, he has shed this moniker and undergone a period of personal and artistic reflection. It was during this time that he launched Likido, an event series that showcases POC, women and LGBTQ artists and DJs. As an artist and activist, he passionately creates space for these marginalized communities.

This fall he released the first single under his own name “You’ll Only Love Me When I’m Gone.” The track hints at Redito’s melodic J-Pop sensibilities but mainly showcases his advanced, futuristic production style.

Chopped vocals flutter throughout the bouncing track. And he still maintains a sense of playfulness — his recent remix of 21 Savage’s “SKRRT” samples Squirtle from “Pokemon.”

"Like many artists in this scene, Dane constantly pushes the boundaries of electronic music. " Great Dane’s music similarly pulls from a diverse range of influences. Great Dane is the project of Dane Morris, an important figure in the LA beat scene that has become increasingly popular in the past few years, with the success of acts such as Flying Lotus. The beat scene is a unique community with connections to both experimental electronic music and underground hip-hop.

Like many artists in this scene, Dane constantly pushes the boundaries of electronic music. In addition to having releases on the well-known beat scene label Alpha Pup, he founded the music collective TeamSupreme, which has been an important site of artistic growth and innovation. The collective often creates music under specific constraints — composing a one-minute beat in an hour, making a beat with only an 808 drum kit or adhering to odd time signatures.

"The song ends with an infectious combination of twinkling 8-bit and chips. By 'chips' I'm not talking about sound chips, but actual chips. Redito flawlessly blends the sound of someone eating ships into a hard-hitting beat. " Unsurprisingly, Great Dane’s own music is exceptionally imaginative. His most recent release “Lost & Loved” is a four-song EP with a distinctive darkness to it. Each track is packed with an emotionality that comes out of a bold blend of melodic synths and pulsing beats.

The evening will conclude with producer and music technologist Mike Gao, another Alpha Pup artist. Mike Gao is truly an audio innovator of the beat scene. In addition to his music, Gao has created iOS apps and plugins and completed research for Native instruments. As an artist, he explores the past — such as the idioms and conventions of hip hop and bass music — but is constantly using technology to look towards the future.

Don’t miss this exciting show from three artists pushing the boundaries of electronic music and the communities surrounding it. Learn more about their innovative work at a production talk and panel discussion in the DLAB in the Forum tonight at 4 p.m.

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The One Act Play Festival will commence tonight at 7 p.m.

Zane Silk silkzane@grinnell.edu After months of studying direction, planning auditions, selecting plays and holding rehearsals, this semester’s directing class will showcase their work at the One Act Play Festival this Friday and Saturday. The festival will include five works directed by Luis Rojas ’18, Ben Charette ’17, Lauren Fenton ’17, John Kim ’18 and Ayo Bowman ’18.

The directing process began for each student with a search for the perfect play. For Ben Charrette ’17, finding the work that spoke to them was tough.

“I sat down with several books of one acts and couldn’t really find anything. … So I went online and started looking up different playwrights and dug through archives of plays, and there were a couple where I mentally bookmarked them as one of the possibilities.

And then as soon as I got to ‘Heart in the Ground,’ I stopped dead in my tracks, and said this is the one. There’s this real raw emotional honesty in it.”

Set in the Midwest during the 1920s, Charette’s play tells the story of a husband and wife who are devastated by the death of their infant and must try to rebuild. Several other directors also opted for more relationship-focused pieces; Fenton’s play, “Post Its (Notes on a Marriage)” explores a relationship over time through the post it notes shared between the pair. And “Guys” directed by Kim, is a buddy comedy that explores friendship.

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for this semester’s directors was casting their shows and finding the best way to translate their vision to the stage.

“This is the first play I’ve directed, but I’ve been in a couple dozen, … and I’ve seen enough directors trying to get this one particular thing out of an actor who’s just not understanding,” Bowman said. “I came in with the knowledge that this is not going to be what I’m imagining in my head, that doesn’t really exist.”

For some, it was the logistical aspects that were most challenging. Bowman said it was difficult to find times that worked for all five of his actors, while Charette talked about struggling to juggle the many responsibilities, especially those usually handled by stage managers. Now rehearsals are nearly over and each production’s different pieces are coming together.

“A director who feels entirely confident at this point is a foolish one … there’s always something to stress about,” Charette said, who added that that unlike actors who have the stage, directors lack an outlet for the nervous energy that builds as the performance nears. “You have to channel that into your performers beforehand, and once the actual performances comes about there’s nothing you can do but watch.”

The One Act Plays showcase will be performed on December 2nd and 3rd at 7 p.m. in The Wall in the Bucksbaum Center for Arts. Patrons will be seated on a first-come first-serve basis, and no tickets are required to attend.

Dance Ensemble's Borro(we)d emphasizes community

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Mark Redito, Mike Gao and Great Dane will finish up Grinnell Concerts for this semester on Friday.

From the start, Rojas limited his search to Latin American theatre, because he felt their bold, political messages are too often overlooked. Rojas read 26 scripts until he stumbled upon “March,” a play inspired by Argentina’s “Dirty War,” the military dictatorship’s ruthless campaign against dissidents that left over 10,000 missing. “March” features the characters One, Two and Three, who tell their stories as they are marched off to their deaths, only for the actors to return as new characters — Four, Five and Six — in a cycle that repeats.

“I like that there are no names in it,” Rojas said. “It shows the way these people were stripped of their own identity, stripped of their voice, stripped of their name, … especially when it’s your government doing it to you — I think it’s very important to think about that in this political climate and also on this campus.”

Bowman, on the other hand, turned to more a more alternative work, in order to provide a meaningful experience for his audience. Bowman directs “The Actor’s Nightmare,” which features actors siting amongst the audience and follows the character of George who is backstage and must perform a play with no preparation.

“It’s very much a play that people who are invested in theatre will enjoy, … but everyone’s been on the spot … everyone’s had that feeling of, ‘I don’t know what’s going on,’” he said.

After taking special care to choose their perfect piece, the next challenge

Themes of community, love, friendship, trust and intimacy will all be explored this weekend through the Theater and Dance Department’s Dance Ensemble performance of Borro(we)d. Artistic Director Waewdao Sirisook led this semester’s Dance Ensemble.

At the beginning of the semester, the ensemble sat down to discuss themes that they would like to explore in their choreography.

“A lot of the work leading up to our performance was … talking about issues that we really cared about, so a lot of it is about community and being together, but also celebrating individuality, celebrating our bodies, ourselves,” said ensemble member Ceci Bergman ’19.

The group found these themes to be particularly salient given the current political climate, and specific causes like the No Dakota Access Pipe Line movement and awareness campaigns advocating for acceptance and inclusions of Muslims.

One particular campaign, wherein Muslim men stood in busy areas with blind folds on and signs that said “I’m Muslim and I’m not a terrorist,” and invited strangers to hug them, was particularly important in Sirisook’s conception of community.

“When people did not participate in that it broke my heart. I myself did a short performance on that too, and … I believe that every performer is in a very vulnerable place when they become that person who depends on other peoples trust, and … when I talked with students and they wanted to work with vulnerability and love and relationships, I immediately thought of this theme that I have experimented with before,” Siridook said.

After deciding on a theme, the dancers worked together in groups and pairs to develop their own choreography. Sarah Schlax ’17 said that unlike previous semesters, the dancers had much more influence on the final outcome.

“I think we’ve been given more leeway than in other instances to really choreograph our own piece,” she said. “And the theme of the piece is community and love and friendship and putting more of ourselves into it and our interactions with other dancers really lends itself to that theme really well."

“Having more freedom to express ourselves makes the piece more intimate and I think more raw so it’s much more of an introspective piece I think,” Charlie Rosenblum ’18 added.

Sirisook’s unique style of teaching and choreographing complimented the piece’s theme as well. Along with the original student choreography, Sirisook

incorporated traditional Thai dance.

“We included a lot of Thai dance, both the philosophy and aesthetic in that also in the movement, and we also have a lot of individual movement from each student,” Sirisook said.

Each member of the ensemble contributed something unique to the piece as well, especially because the members have varying levels of dance experience. “[Working with new dancers] was a bit difficult at first but I would say that what I’m looking for is not … perfection,” Sirisook said. “What I’m looking for is people to share and to be yourself, be your best of that moment and finally I think I find that each person has that quality within themselves even though they might not be a professional dancer.”

More than making the piece perfect, Sirisook hoped that the themes of the work would transfer to the group.

“What I wanted them to gain the most was the love and trust of each other because that … leads to a good work. If they do not love and trust each other, the work will still become very awkward.

You can dance and you can memorize the dance very well, but this kind of work that we do now if you see the show, it involves a lot of intimacy and real feeling,” Sirisook said.

Borro(we)d will be performed tonight and tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Flanagan Theatre in Bucksbaum.

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The Cost of Equality Continued from Front Page

cording to Andy Hamilton, there are 13 “laundry lists” of standards that must be met in order “In years past this has been a much closer to prove full compliance with the third requirealignment in money, but this year one of the ment of Title IX. Recently, the athletic department has bethings that we polled was any designated gifts to recruiting purposes and allocated that in [re- gun to poll all student athletes to determine cruitment] and not in others,” Cooprider said. how players feel about their time here at the “We have a number of men’s programs that College, specifically if they believe the Colhave a much longer history than our women’s lege has been fully committed to its progresprogram and that’s not the fault of our wom- sive ideas to equality and of course, to see if en’s programs.” After all, Cooprider pointed the College has met its chosen Title IX requireout, the women’s team have had a very suc- ment.

“Within the sports that we have, we just cessful run in the last few years as their records want to make sure that we’re covering demoncontinue to improve.

Because of the longevity of men's teams, strated need,” Hamilton said. He is confident in the connections established by former players that the College does meet Title IX standards and coaches are believed to run more exten- since coaches have not expressed dissatisfacsively than the women’s, resulting in the dis- tion with their recruiting resources and stuparity in gift money. The athletic department dents have not advocated for additional sports has begun to delineate plans to remove the dis- teams or other changes. However, there is always room for improvement. parity between funds.

“I want our coaches to recruit at their op“We don’t want to remedy it by lowering the amount of money spent by the men’s timal levels,” Hamilton said. “We want to get teams; we in fact want to raise the amount of student athletes that can excel at [the College]."

Hamilton does admit that rosters across money,” said Cooprider. “I know it will be something that [Andy Hamilton, Director of all sports, regardless of gender, could be inAthletics & Recreation] will be taking up with creased. To get more student athletes however people in trying to supplement the women’s would entail increases in the athletic departbudget because they don’t have the designat- ment staff. As an experiment, the department ed gift funds readily available as some of our has offered a post-baccalaureate position for cross country and track, which has proven to men’s programs.”

Cooprider believes that with a new ath- be a success in getting more student athletes letic administration headed by Hamilton, the who are top athletes and students.

“If we can make sure that our budgets are College as a whole will improve its Title IX filled and do better in recruitment, we could in record. “[Hamilton] is a great person to tell the fact have more women student-athletes,” Hamstory of Grinnell athletes,” Cooprider said. ilton said.

For female student athletes currently here, “He’s an alum, he taught [and] he coached two women’s sports — basketball and tennis — so there are campus organizations that aim to foshe understands the changes we need to make.” ter strengthening their presence. Head women’s Since he began his new position, Hamilton softball coach Amanda Reckamp created the has met with other members of the department Female Athlete Leadership Series (FALS) in to address the College’s Title IX failures. As 2012 with head women’s soccer coach Kirsten a result, the department has hired a Title IX Koester to encourage athletes to become conconsultant to conduct an independent review, fident in their leadership abilities. Both coachlaunched and gender equity task force over- es were inspired to create this organization after attending a seen by head swimNCAA-sponsored ming and diving Title IX has dramatically women’s coaching coach Erin Hurley increased academic, athletic academy. The event and have started an and employment opportunities was created offer internal department women, a minorireview, which will for women and girls. ty in the coaching lead to an external world, a multitude review done by repDear Colleague Letter, of networking, proresentatives from the Department of Education fessional developCollege’s peer institutions. Hopefully the efforts will explicitly ment and other opportunities to their underrepshow what other areas the department needs resented group.

“I kind of wanted to go a little further and to be improved on in time for the next review.

The College must follow one of three of offer that same opportunity to [the College’s] Title IX’s core requirements: providing athlet- female athletes,” Reckamp said. “And so we ic opportunities for all genders, having athletic started FALS. It’s basically a workshop once a population reflect the population makeup of the month, bringing female athletes in to strengthstudent body and complying with demonstrat- en the women’s athletic community, to come ed needs of underrepresented athletes. In this in a shared experience of being female athletes case, the underrepresented group is women. and troubleshoot and discuss any issues that Like most institutions, the College complies come up on our teams and kind of problem with Title IX through meeting demonstrated solve … how to become better leaders in real need among women athletes. However, ac- situations within those teams.”

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Once a month, the members of FALS must be aware of the inequality.

“When they handed out [the survey], one meet to discuss various topics, such as leadership development and failure recovery of my teammates was giving out the cards and conflict management. To be a part of FALS, we wondered what are we supposed to write women athletes must be recommended by and then she started listing off the things in their coaches. The four years that it has been which things weren’t equal,” Kessel said. a part of the College has been a success, in “Then all of us started going, like, wait a sec, Reckamp’s opinion. The athletic department yeah, that’s not all that fair! So it’s as if as in has been nothing short of supportive, and this the moments when those stuff are happening year’s group has expressed greater interest in you get a little ticked off, but we hadn’t been solidifying FALS’ presence. In turn, the ath- musing over it as a team until that moment. I letes have grown confident in their leadership can’t imagine that if the women’s team had to abilities and thus team culture surrounding the collectively get together to talk about it, that the men’s team do.” women’s sports have improved substantially.

Although she trusts in Hamilton’s abil“Sometimes I think that the people in ity to work actively to that room aren’t achieve gender equality sure where or within the athletic dehow to make an partment, Kessel is not impact, but hopefully these ses of the $102,961 sure if her efforts will actually come into fruition. sions empower recruiting budget is Many colleges struggle them to have a to fulfill these Title IX conversation to used for men's teams requirements and in their hold a teammate efforts to do so, have let accountable and to know that they have the skills and abilities down some student athletes.

“Do you add another team, [or] do you and to know that it’s okay to do those kind of make the women’s teams have more players? things,” Reckamp said.

As a coach, however, Reckamp believes Those are two things that are unrealistic to ask that she has not felt like the department has for,” Kessel said. “There are just not a lot of sports you can add. Then there’s a disproporfailed to meet her goals.

“I take advantage of the lots of recruit- tionate members of teams so it’s really hard in ing opportunities available,” Reckamp said. allocating funds proportionally well. A team “Some of them that are beyond my given of 14 players against a team of 25 basketball budget line, so I take advantage of several players do not need the same amount of fundacademic recruiting showcases. The adminis- ing, numbers wise.”

Even current players could be affected by tration has been nothing but supportive of me finding opportunities to recruit top-level stu- efforts to comply with Title IX. Cooprider and dent athletes to come play softball here, so … Reckamp are adamant about recruiting athletes I don’t think I’ve been hindered by a budget, that are not only outstanding in their sport, but [and] I don’t feel like I don’t have the same also can thrive in a prestigious school.

“As a basketball player, I don’t want to opportunities regardless of gender and sport to have 25 players,” Kessel said. “It’s less playrecruit top-level athletes and students.”

Hanna Kessel ’19, a women’s basketball ing time for me — I think it’s absurd that the and track student-athlete, is one of the newest men’s [basketball] team has so many players!

But I also don’t want to take those positions FALS members.

“I expected to come out of it with a kind away from male athletes.” Kessel pointed out behind the scenes look at what leadership how colleges have, for example, been removmeans, not only to athletes on their teams but ing wrestling from varsity competition as a to coaches and what they expect of leaders on way to follow Title IX. As well, Kessel stressed that it partly detheir teams,” Kessel said.

In light of the College’s current Title IX pends on the student body to voice their disviolations, Kessel hopes that FALS will take satisfaction. One of the elements of Title IX on a more central role in the discussions on is that colleges must meet the demonstrated demand for athletic participation. That entails how to solve them.

“I definitely think that FALS is an import- working towards a women’s lacrosse team, for ant organization to work with the groups that example, if students advocate for it.

Throughout the year, there will be opporare trying to respond to these disparities because like FALS has got representation from tunities to discuss this aspect of Title IX. It is all the female teams on campus,” Kessel said. important for the student body to participate “[FALS] can represent a collective voice that in these conversations for a few reasons. Stucan discuss all those overarching issues that dents like Kessel were only knowledgeable of we are experiencing as an athletic department. the College because of recruitment. The athletFALS' role in this process has been pretty lim- ic community makes up a sizeable percent of the student body population and thus contribited and it should be increased definitely.”

Kessel, however, is skeptical if anything ute to the legacy of the College. Given the Colwill come out of it. As she pointed out, to even lege’s progressive image, it will be interesting begin to work on changing the dynamic be- to see how the College tackles gender equity tween male and female athletes, the students and Title IX in athletics.

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percent of students who participate in Grinnell's athletic program are men. Title IX requires schools to offer equal athletic opportunities to men and women based on demonstrated interest.

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No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

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45 percent of students who attend Grinnell College identify as men.

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Burning Tweets, Burnt Flags

Max Fenton In 1984, the communist revolutionary Gregory Lee Johnson set fire to an American flag at the Republican National Convention held in Dallas and was promptly arrested.

Texas had a law on the books that prevented the desecration of any “sacred object,” one of which was the American flag. After a series of legal appeals, the case eventually made it to the the Supreme Court in 1989.

The Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that flag-burning was protected speech, and thus invalidated anti-flag-burning statutes in 48 states.

Though the Court has made it abundantly clear that flag-burning must be considered a form of symbolic free speech, as late as 2013 legislation had been proposed in the House and Senate by several members to re-criminalize the act nationwide through a Constitutional amendment. All of these appeals have failed, and rightfully so. Flag-burning remains a hot-button issue, but the writing seems to be on the wall when it comes to its legality. Even so, our president-elect decided to weigh in on the issue, offering his hot take in a late-night Twitter storm: “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag — if they do, there must be consequences — perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” (Donald Trump on Twitter, Nov. 29, 2016) Where to start? Isn’t “dissent the highest form of patriotism?”

You’d think a president would be familiar enough with his forebears

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5 Shades of Gray

Creativity Tops Monotony Finals week is the perfect reminder for many starving students that schoolwork saturates our minds in pools of self-doubt, anger and dread. In these last weeks, our frustrations often coagulate into D-Hall conversations about how much work we have. Many students, including me, participate in this ritual to patch up the symptom of a larger disease: a culture of overworking students. After all, in a competitive private school that isn’t ever going to place a maximum limit on homework, we’re left to our own devices to find time for our own personal enjoyment.

Tommy O'Donnell

Here is a list (in no particular order) of the ten best “under-the-radar” albums of 2016.

Joyce Manor — Cody: On their latest release, the Californian punk quartet present a far m o r e develo p e d and mature sound.

They ditch the teenage, angst-ridden tracks

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lished was wrong, the paper would still be protected as long as it was unaware of the information’s inaccuracy at the time of publishing.

Justice William O. Brennan’s opinion in that case sums this principle up quite well: “[public discourse] may well include vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” The Court’s decision was a bold proclamation that freedom of speech and the press are the cornerstones of democracy. But our current president-elect just doesn’t seem to share that sentiment.

In his ideal world, expanded libel laws prevent newspapers of record from publishing information he considers to be mean and libelous. Considering his record — failed business ventures, sexual assault allegations, accusations of racism during property development — coupled with his pitifully fragile ego, it should be no surprise that the press gets under his skin.

The concern now, however, is that he has the power to do something about it. I fear that with three or more absences on the Supreme Court in the coming years that our freedom of speech will be slowly, but surely, eroded by reactionary justices in the coming 25-30 years.

Though his screams about hot-button issues like flag-burning and libel may just be attempts to whip up his electrified base into a fever pitch, it still suggests the horrors his presidency may bring for freedom of speech and anyone who asks loaded questions.

For better or for worse, Grinnell College charges us as individuals to strike a school-life balance, all while staring up a mountain of homework.

But how do students temper the rigor of academics? The answer lies in one’s free time. To a group of three Grinnell students I posed the question, “What is your creative outlet and why is it important to your daily life?”

Alex Schmiechen ’17 is a biochemistry major at Grinnell who makes time for right-brain activities after a full day of lab work. She explained that art has been with her for a long time and that her current project is “mainly ceramics. I’m taking ceramics classes but I also do it more for myself.”

When asked why ceramics was important to her daily life, she responded “Ceramics helps me to relax after a long day of homework and it’s meditative. It’s nice to use a part of your brain that isn’t schoolwork related. Most of the day I’m doing bio-chem stuff,

which is mostly analytical and it’s nice to use that right brain side at the end of the day.”

A student who wished to remain anonymous agreed, “If I’m ever lagging in a class, I’ll take out a notebook and start writing down ideas for my story. Writing starts to refresh my mind, and I look forward to when I can finally make time for my book. Then, because I’ve changed my mindset to feeling passionate instead of bored, the class is manageable,” they said.

Alex Turner ’16 chimed into the topic of creativity as someone who studies languages for personal pleasure. “For me, [my creative outlet is] language. I often find myself thinking interchangeably in three languages — English, French and Japanese, sometimes all at once. Each language has its own personality and often I experience sentiments unique to one language. It’s not just a matter of different vocabularies. It’s an entirely new way to experi-

ence the world!”

Each student had wonderful things to say about the impact creativity had on their daily outlooks. Allotting time in their day for the sake of creation diversifies their world perspectives, provides a feeling of self-purpose and gives them a quiet refuge from an environment screaming bloody deadlines into their ears.

But is this the best way to strike a work-life balance? Some might say that working more as a solution to being overworked seems to be a troublesome answer. But for many students, this “work” doesn’t feel overbearing.

In fact, the creativity puts tools in their belts that can be used to tackle academics.

An analogous way to understand creativity’s role is a laborer using multiple muscle groups to work a physical task. We give ourselves strength and endurance when we spread the burden. Driving ourselves to exhaustion

through a mono-work culture of academics is a surefire way to burn out — leaving our academics a pained, one-dimensional drudgery.

To support this idea, I turned the conversation towards free time usage.

I asked Schmiechen if she saw her creative expressions as relatively valuable compared to watching Netflix at the end of the day.

Her answer seemed divided.

“When I’m watching Netflix I’m hardly using any part of my brain at all, but both [art and Netflix] are good in their own way. The difference, for me, is that ceramics is productive relaxing.

When I watch Netflix I sometimes feel guilty, but with ceramics I’m actually producing something.”

I asked Schmiechen to elaborate on the value of Netflix. “Creating art is like breathing. You need to exhale and inhale. You can’t just be creating all the time and you need to take time to be absorbing information.”

of greater commercial attention.

Sunflower Bean — Human Ceremony: Arguably the hottest new act to emerge in 2016, with their uncompromising blend of raucous psych-rock and indie pop, Sunflower Bean delivered a debut album that simultaneously feels both nostalgic and new. This album received significantly positive reaction from Grinnellians when they played Gardner Lounge in November.

Parquet Courts — Human Performance: The New York Garage Punk quartet deliver their most vibrant and melodic album to date, sending a clear message to the alternative scene that they are a force to be reckoned with. Highlights include the brooding and beautiful “Berlin got Blurry” as well as the six-minute punk jam “One Man, No City”.

Skepta — Konnichiwa: The North London artist dropped what has turned out to be a highly significant album for the burgeoning grime scene. This album sent shockwaves around the music industry when it was named “Album of the Year” at

the Mercury Awards ahead of the likes of Radiohead and David Bowie.

This unanticipated recognition propelled the relatively unknown rappers onto an international platform where I am sure they will continue to flourish.

Death Grips — Bottomless Pit: The infamous hardcore hip hop trio once again dropped a surprise release to the delight of their small, but infatuated, fan base. It would be hard for any Death Grips listener to imagine an even more twisted and unusual sound than on their previous release “Jenny Death,” yet they are once again able to deliver a unique sound that pushes the limits of hip hop.

Preoccupations — Preoccupations: Formerly known as Viet Cong, the band chooses not to change their sound as well as their name for this new release. A dense and powerful collection of post-punk and alternative songs, this album simultaneously challenges and rewards the listener while offering a revitalized version of their distinctive sound. They also feel no need to stay within the normal

constraints of songwriting, creating the 11-minute epic “Memory.”

Underworld — Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future: On their ninth album, Underworld have created some of their most vital work yet, all without compromising their unique sound that a modern audience might label as dated. The songs here are long, dramatic, forceful and linear in their motion. Songs like “I Exhale” sweep the listener away rather than make them groove, demonstrating a level of transition in their work. Few believed Underworld would drop potentially their most fulfilling record this late into the game, but none can argue that they have achieved something special with this release.

MONEY — Suicide Songs: This album sees the trio perfect what they started to build on their debut record “The Shadow of Heaven.” The gritty, grey backdrop of Northwest England continues to be the prominent aesthetic, yet on this record they have the confidence to shed more light on what was previously kept quietly in the shadows.

of their previous record “Never Hungover Again” for more conventionally written songs that explore themes such as parenthood and unemployment.

Touché Amoré — Stage Four: This is the album that the young D.C HarDCore movement was waiting for. On this new record, Amoré transgress the boundaries of both genre and lyricism, creating an end product with the melodic satisfaction of The Smiths intertwined with the unhinged passion of Jeremy Bolm’s vocal delivery.

Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition: On ”Atrocity Exhibition,” Brown delivers a refreshing blend of experimental and hardcore hip-hop that both challenges and rewards the listener. Since his last full length release “Old,” Brown has transitioned from underground party starter to progressive hip hop pioneer, a side he had hinted on during his early career but had seemingly dropped in search

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to recognize that Jeffersonian quote, but we certainly live in different times. Rhetoric such as this demonizes dissidents and re-sanctify sacred symbols that have long been the subjects of protected speech.

The idea that the proper response to flag-burning is not only time in prison, but removal from political membership suggests that there are dark clouds gathering on the horizon for the First Amendment.

But our president-elect hasn’t just weighed in on flag-burning.

He’s also concerned himself with freedom of the press. In October, after the New York Times published an article detailing various allegations of sexual assault against him, Mr. Trump’s lawyers issued a statement which was as ignorant of constitutional law as it was indignant.

It called the paper “libelous” and “defamatory,” and claimed that the publication had absolutely no right to publish such a story. While the Times was completely in the right, considering Trump is not only a national figure but (then) a presidential candidate, this instance is further proof that we must be concerned with the prospect of slowly eroding First Amendment rights.

It was another Supreme Court case that gave the Times and other papers license to print such information in the first place. In “New York Times v. Sullivan”, a unanimously ruled 1964 case, the Court elaborated that speech of “public interest” — that is, about a public figure (like a presidential candidate), could be published by said newspaper without fear of libel charges. But say that the information the paper pub-

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So, we tried to write a small list of helpful tips for surviving finals, but writing that sort of thing is no easy task.

The thing is, we all get through difficult times in different ways. There is no exact formula for success during these challenging times — the simple truth is that you need to practice self-care in whatever way makes the most sense for you as an individual. That’s the thing about self-care; it’s all about you, not what works for anyone else. So, if you take anything from our column this semester, it should be to use the resources around you to take care of yourself in a way that works for you.

1: Be realistic Take a step back right now. What do you have to do? How are you going to do it? When does it need to be done by? If you don't think you'll be able to complete all your work, perhaps look into taking an incomplete (due Dec. 9).

It doesn't show up on your transcript and if you're in a bind it gives you two extra weeks to finish your work. Also, if you are thinking through your next couple of weeks and realize that you might need some help, reach out to other resources now (see #3)! Be realistic with your aspirations and limitations — it will help in the long run.

2: Sleep Whether you take cat naps at four in the afternoon or go to bed at three and wake up at 10, figure out a sleep schedule that means you’ll actually sleep and which will allow you to do work, show up to class and literally stay woke. Sleep tends to be the first thing to go during stressful times, yet

it is absolutely critical to maintaining your health, academic success and general well-being. We understand that sometimes it’s necessary to stay up a little later or wake up early, but just try and remember that sleep does matter.

3: Utilize your resources Find the people who are paid and trained to listen and help you. This is a stressful time of the year and utilizing resources around you could make a big difference. Also, remember your friends have a lot on their plates too right now.

Although it’s important for your friends to know what’s going on, they can’t always commit their full energy to you.

We have an abundance of resources on campus — lots and lots of paid professionals who care about your wellbeing.

Reach out to them, and use your resources as best you can.

4: Try not to compare stress levels and workloads We (Grinnellians) have a nasty habit of engaging in a culture of competitive suffering. We often compare our stress levels and workloads making it into a needless competition. Or if we’re not doing that, it’s easy to assume that your peers are doing just fine and have their lives in perfect order. But the truth is none of us really have it together and we all live and work differently. There is simply no comparison. Trying to compare stress and suffering doesn’t help anyone; not you nor the people you’re comparing yourself to. Just do what you can, regardless of how you think everyone else is doing.

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Keli Ravioli changed my life. Together, we passed many a long night, braving the depths of the windowless Pubs room. Keli, if not for you, I might have gone completely mad. Your sharp wit caused me vague fear at first, but as time passed and we comiserated over hours of sleep lost to copy, I found a comrade in the pursuit of publishing. Stay villigant in your hunt for typos, my friend.

This is a rave for all my columnists this semester. Whether the topic was politics, music, philisophy or just life, they were able to comment on it with thoughtful analysis and playful prose. It was a joy to read and a lot of fun to edit.. Thank you.

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