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Mohammed Khan Technology and Human Rights speaks about being Symposium features Opal Tometi Muslim in America

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On the left, Opal Tometi, Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, was the keynote speaker in this symposium. On the right, Belrusian author Evgeny Morozov spoke on whether we have a right to our data.

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Mohammad Khan, Executive Director of the Masjid An-Noor Mosque in Des Moines, spoke on what it's like to be Muslim in America, and specifically Iowa.

By Jon Sundby sundbyjo17@grinnell.edu A recent spate of bias-related incidents, including the shooting of two Indian engineers in Kansas and a string of vandalism at Jewish cemeteries, have brought hate crimes back into the forefront of America’s consciousness. Especially for Muslims, who were a rhetorical target for President Trump during his campaign, the threat of discrimination and violence can feel like a part of a daily routine. On Monday, March 6, the Center for Prairie Studies, the CRSSJ and the Religious Studies department invited Mohammed Khan, the Executive Director of the Masjid An-Noor Mosque in Des Moines, to talk to campus about the issues facing Iowan Muslims.

While the Center for Prairie Studies, which usually hosts events related to the environment, may seem like an odd sponsor for the presentation, Professor Jonathan Andelson ‘70, Director of the Center for Prairie Studies, explained that the Center “deals with almost anything going on in the prairie region.” The rise of Trump’s brand of populist nationalism in Iowa warranted sufficient attention for the center to deviate from its usual focus on nature and environmental sustainability.

Professor Caleb Elfenbein, religious studies and history, whose current research focuses on mapping instances of Islamophobia across the nation, introduced Khan and gave some background on the Islamophobia currently present in Iowa.

“In the months following September 11, the incidents of antiMuslim hate crimes increased by 1,500 percent. In the years between 2001 and today, the presence of hate

crimes has leveled off. However, the new normal following September 11th, still is a 400 percent increase above levels pre-September 11,” Elfenbein explained.

When Khan took the stage, he began by explaining the core principles of Islam. He described the origins of the religion, its central tenets and the practices of modern Muslims. He also stressed the relationship between Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

“Islam is one of the Abrahamic religions, and there is a lot of lap over between Judaism and Christianity … and you can see how much there is in common. The Quran, the book of Muslims, mentions the children of Israel,” Khan said.

There seemed to be a little confusion over the content of the talk, though, as Khan once stopped his lecture to ask Andelson if he was speaking on the subject that they wanted him to. Andelson replied that, while anything he wanted to touch on was fine, the talk was supposed to be geared towards addressing current issues faced by Muslims in Iowa.

Khan nodded and quickly transitioned into addressing the spectre of Islamophobia. While he said that he could not recall any incidents that had occurred within Des Moines, he acknowledged that discrimination may be more pronounced in the surrounding regions.

“In the suburbs and rural areas, where you don’t have many immigrant students, there you have more problems. The other students will say ‘you go back to your country,’ they will bully them and do some things to them that tell them ‘you don’t belong here.’ So you see this in the rural areas but not in Des Moines proper,” Khan said. >> See Khan page 2

By Michael Cummings cummings@grinnell.edu

While the benefits of recent technological advances are frequently touted in the media and in society, such tech also has its drawbacks. This

week, the Rosenfield Program dug deep into both sides of this coin with a symposium on technology and human rights. A diverse array of speakers came to campus to discuss technology and how it relates to everything from privacy to refugees to art.

The symposium kicked off

Tuesday afternoon with Belarusian author Evgeny Morozov. His work is concerned with perceptions of the internet as an unequivocal force for spreading freedom throughout the world.

Morozov’s talk, entitled “Do >> See symposium page 2

Stonewall Resource Center revamps SRC Coalition activist group

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The SRC Coalition will be back after a four year hiatus as a group dedicated to LGBTQ+ activism.

By Kate Irwin irwinkat@grinnell.edu

The Stonewall Resource Center (SRC) provides numerous resources to Grinnell students such as a GWSS lending library, a library with queer literature, a clothing closet with free clothing for use by transgender students, a space for identity based support groups to meet and is also a place for students to just relax.

Recently, a group of students who are involved with the SRC decided to create a new group, the SRC Coalition, otherwise known as StoneCo. StoneCo is not a new group to campus, however. The group ended

four years ago, but students decided to revitalize it due to what they saw as a need in the community. Unlike the SRC’s provision of material resources and spaces, StoneCo is an LGBT+ action group, and is run solely by students.

"We want to work on improving life on campus for LGBT students and for everyone, but it's a non-identity based group, where people can come and fix things that they want fixed on campus and work together," said Erin Gaschott '17, who is helping to restart StoneCo. StoneCo is a group that is open to anyone — members don't need a history of queer activism in order to be a member or take part in its actions

on campus.

While the group’s efforts center on campus change, they do not focus on only the College community.

"We're not necessarily limiting ourselves to campus,” said Ian McConnaughay '17. “If people come to us with issues they want to take on, beyond that scope, we're definitely willing to consider it."

Goals of StoneCo include getting more speakers on campus and providing teaching and training sessions for professors about transinclusivity and important gender issues.

The members of StoneCo also plan to review insurance policies and examine current health care and mental health care providers.

"We're going to try to figure out the degree to which those people are queer and trans friendly," McConnaughay said.

A longterm goal of StoneCo is to make the SRC itself more accessible.

Examples of this accessibility would be obtaining a ramp at the entrance of the SRC and ensuring that events hosted by the SRC are open to people beyond the campus.

StoneCo also wants to make the LGBT resources of the SRC more visible at Grinnell. This would mean making the resources known >> See SRC coalition page 2

Campus council discusses protests CRSSJ prayer spaces

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This week's campus council held a discussion on student protests last week.

By Reed Essex essexree@grinnell.edu SGA representatives at Wednesday’s campus council meeting continued to discuss the student protests of a talk given by Ken Adelman ’67 and the subsequent meetings of President Raynard Kington with the student protesters.

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SGA Senator Riley Murphy ’19 began the conversation by explaining each of the events related to Adelman’s visit. Protesting students attended Adelman’s talk, sitting quietly and holding signs during his presentation.

During the Q&A session after the presentation, students questioned him about his role in harassing a black woman and her legally blind partner, Saturday Book Talk with Karen Hoelscher Johnson Pioneer Bookshop, 1 p.m.

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as well as his apology, which many students found insufficient. The end result, Murphy stated, was a series of conversations between President Raynard Kington and the activists that occupied the room during Adelman’s talk.

After the event, Murphy continued, Kington had office hours with SGA Assistant Treasurer Zach Steckel ’18, and Murphy and Delegate Lily Bohlke ’19 attended. Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Andrea Conner reached out to SGA President Anita DeWitt ‘17 by text message to organize a group of students to have another conversation with Kington. DeWitt, Bohlke and a few other students attended this meeting in Nollen House.

In each of the meetings between students and Kington, Kington responded to the student’s action in a >> See campus council page 2 Saturday Americas3 Harris, 4 p.m.

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Grinnellians demand Muslim and Hindu prayer spaces in the new

By Zane Silk silkzane@grinnell.edu

Since news broke on Feb. 16 that the new site for the Center for Religion, Spirituality and Social Monday Tom Meglioranza '92 Voice Master Class Sebring-Lewish Hall, 4:15 p.m.

Justice (CRSSJ) would feature much less space for Muslim and Hindu students, there has been strong public pushback from the affected students and the College community.

Behind the scenes, members of the administration have been working to correct the lack of space allotted in the plan. Now, new plans for the building are being evaluated which will ensure that no space is lost, but students are still skeptical of the administration’s intentions.

When students from the Hindu and Muslim community found out about the new plan, many were hurt by what they viewed as disrespect by the college.

“I read that article right before I went into class, and I couldn’t concentrate at all … I just remember felling horribly let down and upset >> See CRSSJ page 2 Tuesday Book Talk with Danielle Lussier Burling Lounge, 12:15 p.m.

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Khan spoke about the core principles of Islam and being Muslim in Iowa.

Continued from Front Page The initial disconnect about the subject matter may have been a product of how Khan, and many Muslims, view their role in American society today. Ever since 9/11, many Muslim-Americans find themselves constantly defending their religion and clarifying many of the misperceptions

that American’s have of Islam, according to Elfenbein.

“I can’t emphasize enough how much Muslim-Americans have taken on in terms of outreach … What I’m seeing more and more is that the lion’s share of participation is in outreach efforts, inter-faith dialogue … [which serves to] humanize the work, saying ‘we are human, please don’t be

scared of us’ … so I think we need to understand [Khan’s] presentation in light of that,” Elfenbein said.

Perhaps continuing in his role as an ambassador for Islam, Khan stressed the importance of interreligious dialogue in mending the wounds produced through terrorism and divisive political rhetoric. He is currently a guest speaker at several local churches and synagogues, and his mosque implements an open-door policy, in order for the community to witness the peaceful worship of his congregants and learn more about the religion.

“Because we are close to Drake University and the Des Moines Medical University … we get a lot of students from them, and not just Muslim students,” Khan said. “We have Muslims students come for prayers, but we also have a lot of classes … people can walk in anytime, the door is always open.”

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Morozov spoke on data and and privacy.

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Data Ownership and the Inequality Debate,” focused on the morality of data collection by Silicon Valley tech companies.

One of Morozov’s main points centered around the way targeted advertising works. He used the example of a person who may be considering becoming vegetarian.

“So if you’re contemplating becoming a vegetarian … that is something that can be inferred from your Gmail conversations, or from your chats or from your Google searches, right, a lot of that can be inferred about us just by looking at all sorts of data points that we leave online as we browse and as we communicate,” Morozov said.

The symposium entered into day two with a lecture by Mark Latonero, a professor at the University of Southern California.

Latonero’s talk focused on research he has done into the ways refugees use technology Europe. He said that while most people writing about refugees discuss the physical passage they take from place to place, narratives miss the technological aspect of the story.

“I started investigating what I would call a digital passage. This sort of passage, these technologies, the sweeter technologies that are mingling and are facilitating this movement again from the Middle East to Northern Europe,” Latonero said.

Latonero explained that while many people in the west might not associate smart phones with refugees, a variety of online tools provide invaluable service to refugees making their way through Europe.

Latonero cautioned that, while technology has become essential to the modern refugee, the data left behind in their digital footprints makes their privacy a growing concern.

“These types of systems have a way of potentially stigmatizing an already vulnerable population,” he said.

Later that evening, the symposium continued with a talk by Sarah Labowitz ’04, who studied history as a student and has gone on to hold

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a variety of positions related to technology and human rights.

After Grinnell, Labowitz worked on labor rights in the fashion industry before getting a job working on internet freedom issues in Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Most recently, Labowitz served as the co-director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University’s Stern School of Business, the only human rights-related organization at any business school in the country.

Labowitz’s talk, “The Robots are Coming: Technology, Work and Labor Rights” investigated the role that automation will play in the world in coming years.

She discussed a panel she was on at the end of last year in which other members spoke of the seemingly inevitable total automation coming to the labor force. “… Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University, argued in a 2015 paper that by 2045, machines will be able to do much of the work that humans do,” Labowitz said. “But I’ve spent a lot of time in a lot of factories, where humans work for very cheaply, doing things that robots are bad at.”

Labowitz went on to explain why the clothing industry in particular is difficult to automate.

“Fabric is flexible, soft, and has few edges. Constructing a garment requires integrating a large quantity of unpredictable variables ascertained primarily by touch. The substitution costs of robots for humans is especially high when workers in Bangladesh are willing to sew t-shirts for 68 dollars a month,” she said.

Labowitz concluded with a prediction that automation may result in the widening of a gap between rich and poor.

The keynote address of the symposium took place Thursday morning at Convocation. Opal Tometi, the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, spoke on “The Role of Technology in the Black Lives Matter Movement.” Recording was not permitted at this talk so no exact quotes are available.

Tometi began her talk by asking the audience if they remembered where they were when George Zimmerman, who had been on trial for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was acquitted. That event was a powerful catalyst for Tometi, because Martin reminded her of her own younger brother and the possibility that he could be killed simply for being a black teen.

Shortly after the acquittal, Tometi read a Facebook post by Alicia Garza, another founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, in which Garza first used the phrase “Black Lives Matter.” From there, Tometi, Garza and other activists began to organize the movement.

One of the most striking aspects of the movement, for Tometi, was the tools being used. Different activists in different time periods have used whatever tools are available to them, and Black Lives Matter is no different: much of the organizing going on, including arguably the inception of the movement through Garza’s Facebook post, was happening online.

While Tometi praised the role technology has held in the Black Lives Matter movement, she expressed concerns over privacy issues associated with modern technology. In fact, Tometi was recently been forced to throw away her Amazon Alexa following reports that they have the ability to record your daily life even when they are not in use.

The final talk of the Symposium was an Artists@Grinnell Gallery Talk in Faulconer with Joan Linder ’92.

More information about that talk can be found on page four.

The symposium will formally come to an end Friday Night with a Human Rights Wikipedia Edit-athon in the basement of Burling from 4 to 8 p.m. Students interested in participating are asked to create their own Wikipedia account prior to the event.

Professor Sarah Purcell ‘92, director of the Rosenfield Program, thought that the different talks intersected in a valuable way with regards to the benefits and drawbacks of technology in a human rights context.

“There are a lot of liberating qualities for human rights of various technological applications and then also ways that human rights can be imperiled in brand new ways that no one ever thought of before,” said Purcell. “And so to see the way that those two things go hand in hand and to really unpack that relationship I think is really compelling.”

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way that many of them found personally offensive. The dissonance between the administration's response after the fact, and the text sent by Andrea Connor, created a strange, liminal space in which the administration both agreed and disagreed with the same problem.

Murphy then reached out to Dean Michael Latham to discuss how to approach creating a dialogue with speakers about past transgressions and the role that students play in discussing how people overcome their own faults.

While Murphy maintained that the action against Adelman was not focused on his political ideologies, Senator Jenkin Benson ’17 argued that we could not ignore the “political reality of [Adelman’s] neo-conservatism” and

the role that it played in both the talk and as the catalyst for the harassment incident in 1967.

While many students agreed that the assertion that Kington and the administration had acted inappropriately, the dialogue shifted to the possibilities for in-person reflections with speakers who come to campus, holding them responsible to their previous actions, allowing actual discourse between polarized political perspectives and providing constructive criticism on the student action itself.

Kahlil Epps ‘18, president of Concerned Black Students [CBS] and senator, raised the issue that a majority white activist group acted on behalf of the black population in Grinnell without reaching out to CBS

and other students of color to address the Adelman concern. Epps noted that the efficacy of the action was impacted negatively due to the lack of communication between the protestors and CBS, and that going forward with a focus on communication between communities can provide the most effective solutions to problems on campus.

The conversation finished with a proposition by Steckel to write a resolution about next steps to be discussed at Reform Committee’s meeting next Wednesday. Steckel encouraged students to reach out to him and members of Reform Committee if they would like to provide input on next steps.

—Lily Bohlke is a News editor of the S&B

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SRC Coalition a forum for LGBT+ acticivism Continued from Front Page to prospective students and adding information on the college's web page about resources the SRC offers.

StoneCo works to provide resources and information for transitioning students as well. Some of these resources include locating both laser hair removal clinics and informed consent clinics, and collecting qualitative data on these clinics, such how sensitive the clinics are towards transitioning students and correct gendering.

The recent election also provided the students incentive to revitalize StoneCo. "It felt like something we could do to make the world a better place, because it's just so easy to feel powerless," Gaschott said.

StoneCo was officially revamped this semester.

"It was an attempt to feel galvanized into action," McConnaughay said.

In terms of group organization, StoneCo itself aims to be egalitarian in nature.

"It's a nonhierarchical group so

everyone's on the same playing field.

Everyone can get help if they need it,” said Narz Nore '20. “There might be people who take on more tasks, but they are no means higher up."

StoneCo will not only be a resource for Grinnell students, but for the Grinnell community as well.

One of the group's goals is to provide resources to students at Grinnell High School. These resources could be as simple as advice, or even a mentorship program.

The easiest way for students to get involved with StoneCo is to come to the meetings.

"If there's an issue that [students] want help with, or something that they see a problem with, even if they don't know how to fix it, come to the meeting," Emma Kalkowski-Farrand '19 said.

If students are afraid to bring an issue up in person, StoneCo offers access to an anonymous app, Candid, where students can voice their concerns. Students can download Candid and select StoneCo to use this resource.

StoneCo meets Thursday nights at 8 p.m. in JRC 227.

CRSSJ move update Continued from Front Page at the lack of the respect that the school had for religious diversity, and I definitely know that while those feelings were valid, that what I could do… was to have a concrete action plan,” said Mithila Iyer ’19.

Iyer was one of a number of students that took action, forming the Intercultural Coalition for Religious Rights (ICRR) in the following days.

They created a petition addressed to Kate Walker, Treasurer of the College, demanding a new plan with space for both Hindus and Muslims.

As of March 9, 304 people had signed the petition. The group also spoke at Campus Council and has met with Reverend Deanna Shorb, Dean of Religious Life.

Even before student response to the plan, the administration anticipated pushback and had begun to act. On Feb. 14, Shorb spoke with The S&B for the first article on this issue. According to Kate Walker, it was on the following day that Shorb emailed Kington with concerns about the plan, who then passed on Shorb’s concerns to a group of senior staff.

Among them were Walker and Mike Latham, Dean of the College, who were authorized to change the plan and have been working to do so.

“Last Thursday, Dean Latham, Deanna Shorb, Rick Whitney [Assistant Vice President for Facilities Management] and myself met with the [initial] design, so that we could look at doing something different … with the understanding that we’re no longer talking about this being a temporary home,” Walker said. “So we looked at doing an addition on the back of the house, and [creating] two new spaces, one for the Muslim prayer room and one for the Hindu prayer room. And we’ve got two new designs that we’ve got out for bid and if the bids come in within a reasonable range, then we’ll go ahead and proceed with that.”

The goal is to have plans finalized by the end of March, and Walker said that if two designs currently being considered are too expensive, the college would work with the contractors to create a cheaper option that still had spaces for Hindu and Muslim students.

The college has presented an image of itself as welcoming and protecting cultural diversity. However, many students have long felt that was not the case, and the news about the CRSSJ only confirmed those feelings.

“You don’t show that you equally value all cultures and all religions when you propose a plan that

diminishes our already tiny presence on campus,” Iyer said. “I’ve seen people cry, I’ve seen people just say, ‘what is the point?’ because they’re just so tired of having to fight to for cultural diversity in this place.”

Walker is aware that the announcement of the initial plan has tarnished the image that the College has worked hard to protect.

“This is a place that champions inclusiveness and diversity, and to demonstrate by behavior something completely different is such a disconnect. We don’t want that to ever happen again,” Walker said. “I hope that folks will give us the chance to demonstrate that we are really true to our word and we made a process mistake.”

What exactly that process mistake was remains to be determined.

On Feb. 15, Director of Facilities Management (FM) Rick Whitney, who was in charge of finding a new space, said that he was not aware of the existing Muslim Prayer Space.

“We’re able to basically accommodate each of the types of spaces, and the quantities, that are currently in 1233 [Park St.], into the new house,” Whitney said.

Walker is planning on conducting a post-mortem once the new plans are finalized, which is currently her main focus.

“There are definitely lessons to be learned in terms of how to go about this discussion, how to ensure that we’re listening to all the right voices,” Walker said. “I’m guessing … there are things we could and should have done differently.”

One thing that Iyer points to as going wrong in the process is a lack of student involvement.

“I think definitely what they could have done to avoid this is to go along from the beginning with student input,” Iyer said.

However, Walker is aware of how student involvement might prevent a similar crisis in the future.

“I have asked whether there was a possibility that we should have more students involved in these kinds of processes … so that it’s not a matter of putting something forward and having it critiqued but it’s a collaborative conversation from the start.”

In the meantime, Iyer and the other concerned students are trying to meet with President Raynard Kington to ensure that, at the very least, the second version of the plan meets their needs.

“What we are asking for… is knowledge of what is going on [about] how those spaces are being determined,” Iyer said.

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The plan for the new CRSSJ will include Muslim and Hindu prayer spaces.

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True Grinnellian:

Angie Story

By Mira Berkson berksonm@grinnell.edu “I don’t like to talk about myself,” said Angie Story.

Luckily, though talking about herself may not come easy, elaborating on her passion for Grinnell and her work in the Assistive Tech lab seems to spark Story’s passion, as her decades of experiences with the town and college come with a lot of good memories, excitement and hope.

Story has lived near Grinnell her entire life, having grown up in nearby Malcolm, IA, attending Grinnell College during her undergrad and continuing to work at the College in the Assistive Technology lab. Having been at the College for nearly 40 years, she’s gotten to see many waves of changes.

“When I was a student, we smoked in class. It’s a very different vibe from what there is now. The interactions with faculty were different. We hung out more, I guess, with the faculty. It’s a culture shift,” Story said. “The drinking age was different back then, we used to go out with faculty and it didn’t seem as much of a big deal then. ... It’s just a sign of the times.”

“I don’t see us as you can only come in and use the lab if you have accommodations. I want it to be a more inclusive place for everybody."

Angie Story Some social aspects on campus seemed more relaxed in the late 60s, though students still faced high levels of stress at the college. Especially with her current role working closely with students, Story has insight on how student stresses have changed.

“The pressures and the stresses are a lot different now than they were then. It’s our society, and things are different. There are a lot of things that you all have to be concerned about that I don’t feel I had those same pressures,” Story said. “And it worries me, it worries me for my kids, growing up in this time and seeing the changes that I do.”

Working at the College is very fulfilling for Story. She currently has two roles: supervising faculty as a coordinator with Academic Support and for the past 3.5 years she has worked with Assistive Technology.

This has been especially fulfilling for Story, as it has given her the opportunity to work one-on-one with students.

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Story's time working and attending the college gives her a fresh perspective on how to best aid students.

“I love working with the students. I love seeing how we can help them with giving them the same access as everyone else, and it’s really rewarding. … I really want students to know that there are those of us who really care about students, we really want to help and help you be successful. That you shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help and it isn’t a sign of weakness,” Story said.

Moving forward she hopes to expand the range of students that the Assistant Tech Lab might reach.

“I have students come in that don’t have accommodations, but they’re wanting to know about study skills or apps that they can purchase on their own that would help them and I’m more than happy to talk with students about that,” Story said. “I don’t see us as you can only come in and use the lab if you have accommodations. I want it to be a more inclusive place for everybody.”

“That’s what’s hard for me, is to realize that you’re young adults, and you’re not my kid and I can’t fix everything."

Angie Story Motherhood is ingrained in Story’s identity, and she has to remind herself not to slip into that role with students.

“That’s what’s hard for me, is to realize that you’re young adults, and you’re not my kid and I can’t fix everything. And to leave my mom hat at home, I guess,” Story said. “I try to keep that separate, and to re-

member what it’s like to be your age. ... Sometimes you have to let them make their own mistakes.”

Having much experience with both the College and the town of Grinnell, Story has insight on how the relationship between these two groups might not be so divided after all.

“I think it’s a great place to raise families, and I think that’s probably why I’ve never left.”

Angie Story “When I was younger, in high school especially, we were the ‘townies,’ even not living in Grinnell but in the neighboring communities. And there was a very distinct separation, it’s like ‘them’ and ‘us’…I have felt over the years that there’s not such a divide, the lines aren’t so rigid.”

Story’s life in small towns never left her feeling like she was missing out on something else, and her busy life has never provided any reason to think it should.

“We have our own kind of hustle and bustle here,” Story said. “I have never really felt isolated here, and I know some people might. I think it’s a great place to raise families, and I think that’s probably why I’ve never left.”

Story has grown strong roots in Grinnell and shows great pride for the place she calls home, and carries that with her everyday as she works to create a comfortable environment for the many students and staff she sees every day.

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Conservative bills survive the legislative funnel

By Carter Howe howethom@grinnell.edu After eight weeks in session, the Iowa state legislature has created a variety of predominantly conservative bills that have cleared the legislative “funnel.” The funnel is a key deadline at the statehouse after which bills that have not cleared committee are rendered “dead” for this session. The aim of this process is to reduce the number of bills introduced and allow lawmakers to focus on bills that have high support. Some bills have not only survived the funnel but have been signed into law by Governor Terry Branstad, including one severely limiting the collective bargaining rights of public employees. Here are a few notable bills to pass through the funnel which will be debated in the coming session on the house and senate floors.

20 Week Abortions Senate File 53 would ban most abortions after 20 weeks. Under this bill, unless in a medical emergency endangering the health of the mother, most abortions could not be performed after 20 weeks, and before performing an abortion, a doctor would first have to determine the post-fertilization age of the fetus. The bill is similar to legislation passed in fifteen other states.

Defunding Planned Parenthood Senate File 2 would block state money from being sent to abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood, even when funding does not go towards those services. As most abortion providers also provide other reproductive and female healthcare, Republican legislators say the state would establish a network of 221 clinics to administer the other medical care currently provided by Planned Parenthood. Republicans say this will expand care to many rural women that currently have to drive long distances to access reproductive health care. Democrats say this state-run network will not be able to provide the same kind of reproductive healthcare and access to birth control currently available through independent providers.

Minimum wage and local regulations preemption House File 295 prevents cities and counties from setting their own minimum wages. This would nullify minimum wage increases in Johnson, Polk, Linn and Wapello counties. Iowa’s minimum wage is currently set at $7.25, the federal minimum wage and the lowest possible minimum wage that states can set. The legislation also includes other preemption clauses that prevent local governments from insti-

tuting policies such as plastic bag bans, soda taxes and requiring paid family leave. The final version of the bill includes protections for landlords who do not want to rent to tenants who use federal Section 8 housing vouchers.

Sanctuary Cities Senate Study Bill 1172 prohibits local jurisdictions from adopting “sanctuary” policies that prevent local law enforcement from asking arrested persons about their immigration status. The bill requires that local law enforcement comply with federal immigration detainer requests for people they have in custody. It also prevents local police from discouraging the enforcement of immigration laws and prevents state, city, county and public university law enforcement from enacting policies that prohibit the collection of data about the immigration status of individuals.

Voter ID law House Study Bill 93 would require all voters to present a government-issued ID in order to vote. The bill would also provide money for precincts to buy electronic poll books and other provisions meant to modernize the election system and prevent fraud. The forms of identification voters could present include a driver’s license, passport or military ID, and if a person registers to vote but does not have the necessary ID, a free copy would be mailed to them. Republicans say this law brings Iowa voting into the 21st century, prevents fraud and ensures the integrity of elections.

Democrats say these laws make it harder to vote and disproportionately affect minorities, students and the elderly, who are most likely to lack ID or the proper documents to obtain one, and are meant to ensure Republican election victories by preventing these predominantly Democratic groups from voting.

Firearms laws rewrite House File 157 is a broad revision of Iowa’s weapons laws. It includes a strengthening of 'stand your ground' laws that allow people to use deadly force in some cases of burglary, in contrast to current laws which only allow deadly force if lives are in danger.

The bill also makes it easier for Iowans to challenge restrictions on firearms if they feel they have been adversely-affected by them. The bill allows children of any age to use handguns under adult supervision. Existing requirements that Iowans obtain permits to acquire and carry firearms have not been changed. This bill won House approval on Tues. March 7 and will now go on to the Senate.

New conservation strategy continues fight for Monarchs as population dwindles

By Vincent Benlloch benlloch@grinnell.edu

In response to deeply concerning population decline for the eastern monarch butterfly, a consortium of over 30 groups and organizations introduced a statewide strategy to strengthen conservation efforts for the possibly endangered species.

“The Iowa Monarch Conservation Strategy” acts as a strategic and policy platform aimed at gathering both the information and resources necessary to push monarch butterfly conservation forward. Members of the consortium span industries from business and agricultural sectors, to government commissions and local-grassroots organizers.

The consortium has arisen in response to the over 80 percent decline in eastern monarch populations over the last two decades and the surrounding petition and conservation efforts put forward by various research centers and groups across the country.

In a petition filed in 2014 calling for monarchs to be registered under the Endangered Species Act (ECA) filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Food safety, petitioners likened the scale of the monarch’s decline a hypothetical slashing

of the U.S. population, stating the loss is proportional to the loss of every living person in the United States except those in Florida and Ohio.

According to the Strategy, much of the loss can be attributed to the decimation of common milkweed habitats across Midwestern cropland due to the prevalence of herbicide glyphosate that is used in many largescale corn and soybean farms (brand name Roundup). Milkweed is integral to monarch life as it their host plant for laying eggs and the food source that allows for caterpillars to mature into butterflies. It is also the main source of food for migratory monarchs across the U.S. In a recent interview with Elizabeth Hill, Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Prairie Studies and Manager of the Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA), she summed it up best in saying, “If we love monarchs we need to love milkweed.”

Iowa is pivotal for monarch migration as it is the site of their summer breeding range, hosting over 40 percent of the total population of monarchs that winter in Mexico. The large agricultural industries that have defined Iowa economically have decimated milkweed habitats and growth across the state due to the implemen-

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tation of the aforementioned Roundup herbicide.

Recognizing the central role that Iowa plays in monarch conservation and population recovery, the Strategy outlined five imperatives that Iowans, both individuals and organizations, can follow immediately: take advantage of the Farm Bill programs to establish monarch breeding habitats, volunteer to establish habitats on local farms, more closely follow pesticide labels and state regulations when apply pesticides as to avoid unnecessary exposure to monarchs, use monarch-friendly weed management for roadsides and other rights-of-way and establish monarch waystations, gardens with both nectar plants and milkweeds, where monarchs can stop while summering to find food and reproduce.

Even before these measures were recommended, community members as well as local area farmers and organizers have already been putting these measures into action. CERA, as an experimental and conservation site, has hosted student research, most recently conducted by Amanda Bressoud ‘17 and Jane Jordan ‘18 this past summer, which has led to the planting of over 1,000 milkweed plants across four species in order to test egg laying

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rates and caterpillar health.

There have been monarch waystations established all around Poweshiek county, from right outside of Drake Community Library and Grinnell Regional Medical Center to across Grinnell’s campus, as found in Macy House’s prairie field. According to Hill, our own local Grinnell Heritage Farm has refused to use pesticides harmful to pollinator health and makes a variety of land management decisions as to aid pollinator health on the farm.

A particularly Grinnellian initiative to help monarchs was implemented by Kelly Guilbeau of the Center for Careers, Life, and Services that is focused on milkweed planting across Iowa’s roads and right of ways. The initiative called “Milkweed Matters” seeks to increase pollinator habitats by distributing seedballs into roadsides during large-scale bike rides.

Iowa, being home of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) is the perfect testing ground.

“We have focused on RAGBRAI so far, which attracts over 15,000 riders from across the country to ride from the Missouri river to the Mississippi river, over 400 miles, during a week in late July,” Guilbeau said.

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“We hold educational seedball rolling events across the state during the spring of each year, engaging thousands of Iowans. Last year, we rolled over 52,000 seedballs.”

Milkweed Matters also has a riding team that competes in RAGBRAI every year to raise awareness and gather more people to the cause.

“I even wear sturdy Monarch wings as I ride so people recognize me“ said Guilbeau.

Outside of RAGBRAI, Milkweed Matters, partnering with CERA and the Center for Prairie Studies, will be hosting a variety of milkweed seedball-making workshops this spring, one on April 20 on campus, and another on May 6 at CERA All of these intiatives, in typifying the efforts put forward by the Consortium’s strategy, highlight the collaborative and community-wide force that will lead to the change necessary to save the monarchs. As Hill succintly stated, “Yes we have a federal strategy and statewide strategy, but monarchs are only going to be saved by local people and local work in local populations. The best place to do any kind of work for monarchs is in your backyard.”

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Grinnell Artists:Nolan Boggess '19

"If I was to look at myself in the mirror, and everyone does this, you're self conscious of things ... but when I'm on stage, I'm not self-conscious." got the VHS of 'Cats', and I still have it,” Boggess said. “It was just so entrancing seeing these people dance on stage.”

The first live show Boggess remember seeing was a college production of 'Godspell' when he was six or seven.

“I was super into the movie.

It’s like this cool hippy, like getaway movie… and then I saw it live, and I remember not liking it at all live,” he recalled.

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Zane Silk silkzane@grinnell.edu I met Nolan Boggess ’19 in the Wall theatre in Bucksbaum, and from the moment we began talking, I could tell he is at home here. In the Wall alone, Nolan has rehearsed for many shows, per-

formed with the Improv troupe Infinite Coincidence and participated in the 24 Hour Theater project.

Though I have seen plays since I was a kid, and acted throughout high school, it soon became clear to me that this is his world, and I was just a visitor.

Boggess was two years old

Heartland Marimba Quartet to perform tonight

By Alice Herman hermanal17@grinnell.edu The Heartland Marimba Quartet — self-dubbed HMQuartet, or HMQ — will perform at Grinnell College on Friday at 7:30 PM in JRC 101. The concert will represent one of many on their semester-long “Spring Tour” of the Midwest.

Matthew Coley, Michael Jones, Joe Millea and Andrew Veit have toured as HMQ for a year following their month-long artist residency with the Heartland Marimba Festival Organization. Coley, artistic director of the HMQ, has enjoyed an acclaimed career as a percussionist. Lauren Warnecke of the music and dance and music review board “See Chicago Dance” described Coley as “delivering virtuoso...exquisite soloing on the marimba.” Coley has traveled to thirty states and internationally as a soloist.

His most recent album, Souvenirs, was released in 2012 and features 80 minutes of percussive delight.

Millea, who describes himself as interested in “finding new ways of exploring sounds through traditional,

extended, and electronic practices,” has performed throughout the US and in Latin America and Europe. He has performed solo and in chamber orchestras. When he’s not on tour, Millea works as a music lecturer at Sam Houston State University. Millea is the co-creative director of the HMQ. Co-creative director Veit works as a freelance marimbist and music educator. He has taught seminars in various states of the US. Jones, co-creative director of the HMQ has traveled extensively in the US as well, and has performed with acclaimed marimbist Keiko Abe at Yamaha Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

The marimba — a wooden xylophone — is a descendent instrument of the balafon, a West African instrument that has been played since the 14th century. The marimba, which was invented in Central America in the 16th century, is the national instrument of Guatemala and Costa Rica.

The instrument is widely enjoyed internationally, and the HMQ is anticipated to delight the College with mellow tones.

when he watched his first stage show: "Cats." Even though Boggess had watched a prerecorded performance, he was hooked on the magic of live theater from the moment he saw the stage in person.

“All I asked for Christmas [when I was two] was a monster and the VHS of 'Cats'. And so I

"What I really like and [the] times [when] I feel really into the role is [when] I can feel my hesitations as Nolan leaving me in a way, and me just totally embodying this character."

Yet, rather than being turned off of theatre, Boggess dived in.

With parents who were supportive of his passion, his childhood was filled with different performances.

His junior year of high school, he auditioned for his school’s annual musical, but was dismayed that he did not get a role because he could not tap dance. That summer, he tried his luck again, and was cast in a community theatre production of the 'Music Man'. Since then, Boggess has been losing himself in characters, testing his hand at method acting and even venturing into directorial roles.

“If I was to look myself in the mirror, and everyone does this, you’re self-conscious of things… but when I’m on stage I’m not self-conscious, because in a way [the audience is] not seeing me, they’re seeing me portray this character,” he said. “What I really like and [the] times [when] I feel really into the role is [when] I can feel my hesitations as Nolan leaving me in a way, and me just totally embodying this character.”

One particular role that stands out to Boggess is performing as Piggy in 'Lord of the Flies' directed

by Sophiyaa Nayar ’17 last spring.

Boggess said that Nayar’s direction was a critical component of what allowed him to embrace his role.

“Piggy’s is the little weasel-y, nerdy boy, kind of chunky, loser boy that they kill… and so she had me take deep breaths in and let Nolan leave my body and Piggy enter my body… and then we did this interview as Piggy and really built a backstory,” Boggess remembered.

“I was terrified every night of this performance, because [Nayar used the same techniques] for all the others actors, and so the moment when they’re trying to kill me, it’s really horrific on stage, because I think we all embodied this actual

terror, this childhood terror.”

After finding his place in the Grinnell theatre scene, Boggess dedicated himself to a loftier goal: producing consistent musicals.

When visiting Grinnell, he was told that there had not been a musical put on for a couple years, and decided putting one on was a longterm goal of his.

“It was a pipe dream, and I was aiming for my fourth year,” he said.

In his first semester, Boggess met Hannah Lundberg ’18 and they quickly bonded over a shared love of musicals. Deciding not to wait another three years, Boggess boldly asked her if she wanted to produce a musical with him. After she accepted, they spent that fall planning a production of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," while Boggess simultaneously acted in Professor Leslie Delmenico’s, theatre, production of "Translations".

“The next semester, I was in 'Lord of the Flies,' 'Putnam County Spelling Bee,' 'The Tempest,' an acting showcase, 24 Hour theatre … and I killed myself with how much theatre I did, so this year I’ve kind of pulled back.”

For Boggess, pulling back has meant joining Infinite Coincidence, acting in Professor Delmenico’s production of "Constellations", and bringing another musical to campus, one that has always been in the back of his mind: "Godspell".

Though Boggess was sufficiently motivated to put on the show, he was worried about how it would be received on campus.

"All I asked for for Christmas [when I was two] was a monster and a VHS of "Cats.""

“This show scared me … because people could scoff at being, a … stupid show that schools and churches put on,” Boggess said. “[I’ve heard], it’s cheesy, it’s gimmicky, it’s gamey, it’s just goofy on stage, and I think we definitely have those goofy fun elements, but I think … we’re really trying to ground it in this human quality of this community forming, and make it more serious in some parts.”

“I think being scared is good in theatre… I want them to change their perceptions [of] Godspell, hopefully.”

While he has already made strides in Grinnell theatre community, Boggess hopes to continue his work, and ensure that musical theater is well established by the time he leaves.

“My goal is to make sure musical theatre to not die when I graduate, and to just keep passing the baton.”

Operation Sunshine's Joan Linder talks something and something in Faulconer

By Michael Cummings cummings@grinnell.edu Faulconer Gallery was packed Thursday afternoon for an Artists@ Grinnell talk with Joan Linder ’92, the department chair of art at the University of Buffalo in New York. Linder, whose project “Operation Sunshine” focuses on the environmental impact of toxic waste in the former neighborhood of Love Canal near Niagara Falls, was also speaking as part of the Rosenfield Program’s symposium on technology and human rights.

Linder began with a brief history of her professional life as an artist, in which she has experimented with many different artistic styles. One style of drawing, which makes up a significant portion of Operation Sunshine, involves copying printed documents by hand. Linder first began experimenting with this technique in 2008.

“I started to think about my mail, and my mail as a kind of self-portrait … and thinking of print as this kind of dying form and so I decided I was gonna draw mail.”

This technique would later lend it-

self to meticulously copied drawings of Government records, propaganda put out by chemical companies and even Wikipedia pages about the Love Canal.

The Love Canal incident occurred in 1980 when people living in the Love Canal neighborhood, who had been complaining of high incidences of medical issues such as cancer and miscarriages, found out that the land they lived on had been used as a toxic waste dumping ground for Hooker Chemical company in the first half of the 20th century.

“Eventually, the community organized … [and] brought the EPA in, and

had a lot of testing done … And Jimmy Carter agreed to move … the people to be relocated,” Linder said.

Linder’s work examines the Love Canal incident, as well as other incidences of human exposure to toxic and radioactive environments, in great detail. In fact, the name of the exhibit is derived from Project SUNSHINE, a US Military operation in the 1950s intended to test the effects of radiation on humans. In addition to drawings of important documents, the exhibit also features drawings of the relevant locations.

Operation Sunshine will remain in Faulconer Gallery until March 19.

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Women in computing ads vandalized

Grinnell CS Department, especially the faculty, is supportive of women computer scientists. Many professors use random name generators to call on names and avoid implicit bias in class; the Department Chair, Professor Sam Rebelsky, supports WIC and has sat in on a meeting; next semester, the male-dominated Department is hiring an additional woman professor.

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Women in computing meets weekly to support inclusivity in the department.

By Andrea Baumgartel baumgart1@grinnell.edu Elizabeth Zak ’18 is one of the co-leaders of the Women-in-Computing club (WIC). When she wanted to advertise a meeting, Zak did what one would normally do: she wrote “Women-in-Computing, Tuesday, 7 p.m., CS Commons” on a white board on the third floor of Noyce.

The next day, the “Wo” in women had been erased, the board read “Men-in-Computing, Tuesday, 7 p.m., CS Commons.”

Thinking it was just an accident, or perhaps a dumb joke, Zak re-wrote the “Wo” in “Women”.

The next day, the board read “Men” again.

This has occurred not once or twice but every single time Zak has attempted to advertise a WIC meeting.

So last week, Zak took a white t-shirt, wrote the time, day and place of the meeting on it, and wore it to the dining hall. “If anyone tried to erase that, well, that’s Title IX,” she said.

“Honestly, who has time to just sit around and think, ‘hmm, how can I be an asshole today’,” joked WIC member Elise Brod ’20 at last Tuesday’s WIC meeting.

The other women and a few quietly listening men laughed in between slices of pizza.

When the group complained to a faculty member about the recurring incident with the whiteboards, the faculty member “basically told us to keep our head up,” Zak said.

There has yet to be further action taken on the issue.

"Honestly, who has time to just sit around and think, hmm, how can I be an asshole today?"

Elise Brod '20 Zak and Gemma Nash ’19, another co-leader of WIC, are familiar with the challenges of being a woman in computer science.

“It’s a real test of self-esteem,” Nash said. “When you’re starting out, you really have to earn people’s respect. You never automatically get it.”

“Being a woman in CS is like getting a sandwich made at the deli. Depending on any given day, you might get a sandwich that has enough meat and cheese. You might get a sandwich that is 90% bread, or too much mayo. But every single day, you can’t go and expect the same thing or the same kind of treatment,” Zak said.

“Or they call you a 'bitch',” Brod said. “I just try to swap around partners as much as possible so that I always work with women.”

Still, the attendees at the meeting emphasized that overall, the

"Being a woman in CS is like getting a sandwich made at the deli ... every single day, you can’t go and expect the same thing or the same kind of treatment" Elizabeth Zak '18

Men are welcome at the meetings.

“We don’t think that the men create such a disturbance that a safe space can’t be established,” Nash said. “Most of the time, the men who come just sit in the corner, eat pizza and listen.”

For the rest of the meeting, the group went on to discuss t-shirts, the upcoming Grace Hopper conference for women in computing, their days, frustrations and goals.

Despite the instances of misogyny and erasure, the computer science women are even more resilient, even more determined to foster “a supportive network of awesome, powerful network of women in computing and their allies,” as WIC aims to do.

"It’s a real test of self-esteem ... you really have to earn people’s respect."

Gemma Nash '19

But by getting rid of the ‘Wo’ from Women-in-Computing, some Grinnellians are sending an implicit message.

"That message is: ‘I do not care about women in computing and I do not want a safe space for women in computing,” Zak said. “And that is wrong.”

Background Noyce: Professor Damian Kelty-Stephen

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Professor Damian Kelty-Stephen is a professor of psychology at Grinnell. His research examines the ways in which we respond to stimuli.

By Andrea Baumgartel baumgart1@grinnell.edu

In “Background Noyce,” a staff writer investigates research, projects or otherwise interesting happenings in Noyce Science Center. This week, the S&B’s Andrea Baumgartel ’19 sat down with Professor Damian Kelty-Stephen, Psychology, to discuss motor coordination, nested systems and what humans have in common with honey bees.

The one word that best describes Kelty-Stephen’s research is “nesting.”

“I think [my research] goes up and down the psychological rungs.

It can go down to neuro, up to cognition, up to social interaction and even group behaviors,” Kelty-Stephen said.

" [It showed] real belongingness to one group of another in individual behavior dynamics."

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According to Kelty-Stephen, the root of understanding our motor reactions in relation to any particular stimulus lies in the way we move on our way to experience said stimulus.

These movements have all sorts of seemingly random, but very much “nested” levels of organization - a patterned, invisible, netted grid that binds together perception, action

and cognition. And these fluctuations and the movements themselves can often be predicted, which is what Kelty-Stephen investigates.

“I do a lot of time-series analyses of how stuff moves, what sort of statistical structure there is in that movement, and then use that to predict what organisms will do in that movement,” Kelty-Stephen said.

"We all appreciate that we’re part of a social network. We all act to conform, but we also act on our own, " Professor Damian KeltyStephen , Psychology Honeybees are an unlikely but useful model organism, according to Kelty-Stephen.

“We all appreciate that we’re part of a social network. We all act to conform, but we also act on our own,” Kelty-Stephen said. “Honeybees are similar: there’s a respect for roles in the community, but there’s also a lot of autonomy.”

This past summer, Kelty-Stephen and Nicole Carver ’19 researched the colonization habits of honeybees and found that they exhibit a complex network of microfractal organization when it comes to how, when and where they share information.

When it is time for a honeybee

colony to build a new hive, scout bees go out to find and propose new locations.

“There’s no peer pressure … they don’t need a majority, but a quorum vote.” Kelty-Stephen explained. “So as soon as you have 10, 20 bees all liking the same place, the entire colony just goes there. …

There is a communication across organizational scales where you can think of individual bees as the finest scale and the colony as the coarsest scale. In between there are clubs and cliques of bees engaging in their own roles, but often times we don’t think about how we take in information from one level of organization

"There’s no peer pressure … they don’t need a majority, but a quorum vote."

Professor Damian KeltyStephen , Psychology to another.”

Kelty-Stephen and Carver examined a group of bees that had been tagged with RIFD tags, which are like P-cards for bees, that signaled every time a bee passed the threshold to the hive and quantified their naturally occurring cycles of influence across different scales.

“We could test for underlying structures in individual bee time series of P card swipes.” Kelty-Stephen said.

Their time series data showed characterized, “cascadelike” movements of the bees, which were mathematically correlated with their interactions across time, spreading systematically through the environment. “[It showed] real belongingness to one group of another in individual behavior dynamics. So that was fun,” Kelty-Stephen said.

“I saw it as a natural extension of my interest in motor coordination where you have a lot of different parts, each mostly doing its own thing. We think of the brain as controlling everything, but it’s actually too slow and not specific enough to be controlling everything. The brain leaves a lot of blanks for the rest of the body to fill in.” Kelty-Stephen

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United formed to connect activism groups

By Mineta Suzuki suzukimi17@grinnell.edu Words like “action” and “solidarity” are on the tip of the tongue of most Grinnell students. But a new student activist group, United, offers a fresh perspective on the ever-growing demand for social justice.

“What makes us stand out is that we focus more on bridge building.

We are trying to bring different activist groups on campus together, so that students can have a clear idea about how activism is going and what they can do to promote these causes,” said Zijun Xu ’20, an organizer of United.

As the poster advertises, United stresses community building as a form of resistance. In their vision, such a community recognizes both the urgency and diversity of the students’ concerns.

“There are a ton of issues that directly affect the students here and that students want to work on. I feel like a lot of student groups … would focus on one issue at a time, but there needs to be a place where these [issues] are constantly being talked about and worked through,” said Gracee Wallach ’20, a co-founder of United.

As they develop relationships with existing organizations and recruit more members, they also reflect on the current landscape of student activism.

“There are a lot of groups coming up with ideas … but there is a lack of organization. So this is more like a way to get all these people together, all the voices to be heard, but in an organized manner,” said Indira Kapur ’20, another organizer.

"What makes us stand out is that we focus more on bridge building. We are trying to bring different activist groups on campus together," Zijun Xu '20

Their interest in forming a new club grew in the aftermath of the election. Some critics argue that social media largely influenced the election, but many protests and organizing also began on social media, including United. “[In November,] Gracee [Wallach] posted something on Facebook … she was really passionate about getting together a group of people who are interested in the same cause. I remember just individually sending her a message and next day she made a Facebook group with all the people who reached out to her,”

Kapur said.

Although the post-election chaos helped form the group very quickly, the organizers have taken their time to decide what to do.

“We were originally thinking about doing … workshop-type things like facilitated discussions and teachings. After the break, we came back and met up to reevaluate our goals,” Wallach said.

In order to pin down their approach, they discussed their own experiences as well as diverse sociopolitical backgrounds.

“I’ve been a part of a lot of community talks. I’m Jewish, so I’ve been to a lot of Jewish bases that have dedicated talks to racism or justice like that. I think that those have been really powerful tools for building a community,” Wallach said.

“Back in India, I did a lot of protests and activism. But coming to America as an international student … I want international students’ voice to be heard. That was my whole motive,” Kapur said.

"There are a ton of issues that directly affect the students here and that students want to work on. " Gracee Wallach '20

In fact, three of the seven organizers of United are international students, a unique composition for a student group not explicitly related to the needs of the international student community.

“I also did some activism and organization back in China. And it’s a fine line in China. I wish to bring my experience to the group to tackle the new hostility in this [current] political context,” Xu explained.

Their inspiration comes from within the College, especially from the classroom. Many courses at Grinnell encourage students to apply their knowledge to the real world.

“This semester, I’m taking Politics of Congress. So we get to learn how congressmen think about their constituencies and how they react to the concerns of a district. That’s very helpful in trying to do call-in events or participating in town hall meetings, because you get to know what these legislators you are trying to influence are thinking about,” Xu said.

United has already hosted a callin event and a general meeting, in which they gauged students’ engagement and issues of concern.

“We are just excited for people to come and have this be a space where people can bring what they want to see on campus … and individual issues are going be heard, acted on and supported,” Wallach said.

Day in the Life: Nandita Banik

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7:05 A.M. – Why did I think waking up early to study statistics would be a good idea? I should have done this last night.

7:30 A.M. – There are so many admitted students all over campus. They have no idea what they’re getting into.

9:32 A.M. – The statistics quiz wasn’t that bad. The Dining Hall coffee was though.

10:37 A.M. – In GWSS; forgot to print my English essay for class. Will have to run to the library in the 5 minutes between GWSS and English. The struggle.

11:55 A.M. – Running to lunch. Will I manage to get lunch today? They have chocolate brownie cookies for lunch! Okay, I also need another cup of coffee. (I know, it’s unhealthy but it was a crazy day) 12:55 P.M. – In Calculus class. I don’t like this lesson – related rates are not fun.

3:26 P.M. – Sometimes I wonder why I procrastinate so much…even when I know the consequences are terrible. A friend mentions mangoes. Now, I am craving mangoes.

4:01 P.M. – Running to South to do laundry.

4:14 P.M. – Running to production meeting – ahhh, I do not want to be late.

4:33 P.M. – Running back to South to move my clothes to the dryer. I need to get my laundry done before dinner.

6:00 P.M. – Running to D-hall to eat dinner. There is stir-fry special tonight, yesssss. Food makes me magically happy.

6:55 P.M. – Running to the rehearsal.

Today is a crazy day.

10:10 P.M. – Finally, I’m back in my room. I’m so exhausted. I should sleep, but before that, let me watch one youtube video.

12:32 A.M. – Wait, what? What have I done? Ok, I need to sleep right now.

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Women's distance medley team breaks school record

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From left to right: Zoe Schmiechen '17, Shannon Young '17, Anna Ahrens '19 amd Mikayla Fujiwara '20 broke the previous relay record by 12 seconds.

By Michael Sundby sundbymi@grinnell.edu At the Wartburg College Indoor Qualifier on Saturday, March 4 in Waverly, Iowa, four members of the Women’s Track & Field team broke the Grinnell College record in the distance medley relay (DMR). Zoe Schmiechen ‘17, Shannon Young ‘17, Anna Ahrens ‘19 and Mikayla Fujiwara ‘20 broke the previous school record set in 1997 by an impressive 12 seconds.

The DMR is a four-person relay in which each runner runs a different distance. It starts off with the 1200 meter, run by Ahrens, which is followed by a 400 meter run by Schmiechen, an 800 meter run by Fujiwara and concludes with a mile run by Young. At the end of each leg, runners exchange a baton with their teammates.

The record breakers only found out they were to run the DMR together on the Monday before the race.

“We thought we were done with our season,” Young said, referring to the indoor track season.

Track runners often train so that their fitness culminates at a certain point in the season, for one or two big races. For the DMR runners, this meant holding that level of fitness for an extra week.

“Holding a taper [can be] really hard,” Young added.

However, after the coaches crunched some numbers, they concluded that the four runners could probably break Grinnell’s record and decided to have them run the race on March 4. According to Schmiechen, the coaches were confident that the record would be bro-

ken. The only question was by how much.

“And I don’t think any of us imagined that we would beat it by twelve seconds,” she said.

While it was the first time all four athletes ran the DMR together, Ahrens and Fujiwara were also accustomed to different races. “Anna and I were long distance runners, so we were training for the 3k and the 5k,” Fujiwara said. “It was … a surprise to be thrown into these mid-distance races with no experience whatsoever, so we just tried to hit our times.”

“We went off too fast,” Ahrens added, half-jokingly.

“But you held on,” Schmiechen responded.

Schmiechen,Young, Ahrens and Fujiwara were chosen for the DMR because of their individual talent and promise.

“We were put together because our coach saw that … if we put our numbers together, we could do really well. But I also think that each of us is a very consistent runner, and that’s really important,” Young said.

“An extra factor in a relay [is that] everyone has to have a good race.”

While the distance medley relay is a uniquely indoor event, the four runners are optimistic for the outdoor season, which starts in Florida over spring break. “As a team, we really train for outdoor,” Young explained. “Our coaches … stress that indoor’s [for] building our base in outdoor we really start to break out.”

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SALSC connects athletics and activism

By Jon Sundby sundbyjo17@grinnell.edu

The College’s department of athletics has always prided itself on producing well-rounded student athletes.

Whether a part-time musician, scholar or thespian, the athletes at Grinnell work hard to be a multi-dimensional part of our community. One of the ways they do this is through the organization Student Athletes Leading Social Change (SALSC), a young group on campus that is looking to place athletes in volunteer and advocacy roles.

The group was founded by Ariel Keller ‘17, a member of the women’s basketball team, who was both inspired by the work of other student athletes across the country and aware of the unique challenges that civic-minded Grinnell student-athletes faced. Due to inflexible practice times and large academic workloads, Keller explained that it was hard to find ways to help better the community.

“After attending a longer, week long service project with other student athletes from across the US ... I was motivated to do something similar at Grinnell, at a micro level. To have a platform for athletes to engage with the community,” Keller said.

“Since our practices run from 4-7, there’s not a lot of time to volunteer after that, since a lot of volunteer organizations meet after classes ... so

were teaming up with Advocates to help organize Sexual Assault Awareness Week and to host a field day for local children where they can work on their athletic skills with Grinnell athletes. The SALSC committee, which currently has around thirty active members, decided to divide the group and have each person focus their energies upon whichever project they felt passionately about.

In addition to their collaboration with Advocates, the group helped organize an awareness walk around campus last semester, which informed participants about the reality of sexual assault on our campus - both through statistics and from stories by survivors. They also participated in the Clothesline Project, part of Sexual Assault Awareness Week, a communal artistic piece which documents each sexual/domestic assault through the hanging of different colored t-shirts.

Looking forward, the group says that their next project will focus on making the Bear and Fitness Center more inclusive to everyone on campus. Queer Athletes and Allies (QAA) recently contacted the group to ask for a partnership in creating a space that was more welcoming to students who didn’t fit the mold of a traditional athlete. Keller explained that QAA reached out to them because SALSC is uniquely positioned to confront the

Politics on the playing field

By Jack Schulte schultej@grinnell.edu At the beginning of the 2016 NFL season, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick stirred up controversy for sitting during the National Anthem. Critics claimed that sitting out disrespects the flag, and the debate raised the question of whether or not athletes should be able to use their privileged platform to express their political beliefs.

Nonetheless, Kaepernick started a nationwide movement. Athletes at every level, in every sport, have been sitting or raising a fist during the National Anthem to express political frustrations. At Grinnell College, activism is nothing new. Considering the recent national attention brought to athlete activism, The S&B caught up with coaches Nate Kolacia ’16, Paige Madara and Queer Athletes and Allies co-chair John Gallagher ‘17, to talk about how athletics and politics collide at Grinnell.

Nate Kolacia ’16, assistant Track and Field and Cross Country coach, was able to provide the unique perspective of a coach who was a student-athlete at Grinnell just last year.

“There’s definitely a platform for politics and athletics to work together, given the historical influence that athletics has provided for our country.” Kolacia said.

Kolacia has also noticed, in his time as both a coach and an athlete, that Grinnell student-athletes are organically politically active. “A lot of people on campus happen to be student athletes, naturally. The campus is natural-

ly politically active. You can draw an indirect correlation between the two.”

As for a specific action he’s seen, he noted how the football team paints its field rainbow colored for one home game in solidarity with the LGBTQIA community. As far as Kolacia is concerned, there’s no reason to impede on anyone’s right to express themselves.

Like Kolacia, head Tennis coach Paige Madara is open to political expression in athletics. “I think it is important for all individuals, regardless of their athletic or celebrity stature, to feel comfortable voicing their opinions,” Madara said. “So long as those opinions are not expressing disrespect towards other individuals or groups.”

In the same vein as Kolacia, Madara sees Grinnell College athletics as a perfectly acceptable place to express political views, as long as no one is hurt in the process. Both Kolacia and Madara gave examples of acceptable political action in the sports world. When asked about Kaepernick's national anthem protests, Kolacia said “It’s not directly interfering [with the game] at all, and I think it’s totally great if he wants to support his cause.”

Madara noted that professional tennis player Nicole Gibbs has used her status as a platform for political action.

Madara mentioned that Gibbs “makes a point to not only have educated and informed statements, but also to engage in conversation on both sides of the spectrum to further the conversation.”

Though Kolacia and Madara do not represent the entire athletic department, they make it clear that

Grinnell athletic teams should be a safe environment for discourse. Posted on locker room doors in the Bear Athletic Center are signs that read “safe space.” In fact, making Grinnell athletics a safe space for people of all beliefs has become a crucial mission for student-athlete groups like Queer Athletes and Allies (QAA).

In Gallagher's role as the co-chair of Queer Athletes and Allies, he helps provide support for student-athletes in the LGBTQIA community. As a fourth-year captain of the track team, Gallagher knows firsthand how tightknit athletic teams are at Grinnell.

“In a similar vein to the hesitation people feel about ‘coming out’ on a sports team, there is always a fear that being seen as different would be detrimental to being a part of the team or being welcomed,” Gallagher said.

Along with coaches Kolacia and Madara, Gallagher sees athletics as a place where people should be able to express themselves freely. Gallagher is apprehensive to say that respectful discourse actually happens, though.

“At Grinnell, athletics can serve a very social purpose as well, so expressing a different opinion politically, personally or academically is something people definitely avoid for the sake of feeling included.”

Coaches like Kolacia and Madara make it clear that athletics are a valuable platform for political expression.

Student-athlete Gallagher’s perspective, though, reveals that perhaps using Grinnell athletics as a political platform is not often put into practice.

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The SALSC team works to connect athletes directly with with causes and political action. we wanted something that you could commit to, but it wouldn’t be too much to balance school, athletics and engagement with the community.”

Athletes are already required by the College and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to complete service hours, but Keller and her co-chair, Daria Guzzo ‘19, say that these hours are mostly funneled into a couple of projects per semester, usually organized by the athletic department.

“If you want to do more it’s kind of hard in that realm, so I think the group gives a nice opportunity to be continuously giving back in some capacity,” Guzzo said.

SALSC usually tries to focus on a couple big projects per semester, then supplement these programs with several smaller activities that occur more often. Their two projects this semester

issue.

“We almost have one person from every sports team on our committee, so being able to use those people to facilitate conversations within their teams and kind of acknowledge what they do in the weight room and how that may be kind of intimidating and also reaching out to faculty and staff at the athletic center because a lot of them are our coaches,” Keller said.

In addition to the different perspective they bring to many issues, such as sexual assault and inclusivity in athletic spaces, the leaders of SALSC also believe that athletes tend to have certain strengths that lend well to success in activism and advocacy.

“Athletes are pretty dedicated to anything they’re part of a group of.

Our members show up and are really ready to do stuff, they don’t like to sit around,” Guzzo said.

Let's learn about water polo!

By Philip Kiely kielyphil@grinnell.edu Water polo, a contact sport, is known for bloody Olympic games and being incredibly hard. Because the game is played in the pool, players wear no safety equipment, only swimsuits and col-

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The women's water polo team practices.

ored caps that identify their team.

“It’s a pretty physical game, generally,” Tristan Knoth ‘17, a captain of the men’s water polo team, said.

The teams field six general players and a goalie. Players are only allowed to catch and throw with one hand and must tread water the entire time. At the club level, there are four seven-minute quarters in the game. To score, a player must throw the ball into a cage, which is a large floating net.

“Water polo is like a mix of soccer and basketball. It’s similar to basketball in the way we play offense and defense, where we are with our person at all times or doing plays to try to get the ball into the goal. It’s like soccer in the way that we have to travel pretty quickly and have good…ball handling skills,” said Beth Tsuha ’17, a women’s water polo team captain.

At Grinnell, the men’s team competes in the fall and the women’s team in the spring. Women are also allowed to play on the men’s team.

Tsuha and Shannon Ellery ’18 are the captains of the women’s team, Knoth, Kyren DiMarzio ’17 and

Zach Laird ’17 head the men’s team.

"Most of the people on the women’s team are either doing it for the first time or doing it because it’s fun, so I don’t know how the team dynamic would change if it was a varsity sport” Beth Tsuha '17

Grinnell water polo is not a varsity sport, and it falls under the same category as Ultimate Frisbee. The teams compete in the Heartland Division Conference.

The men’s team is division three while the women’s club water polo is not divided into divisions.

“We have a conference, we’re in the Heartland Division Conference, and that includes Knox, Carleton, St Mary’s and Washington University,” Tsuha said.

The men’s team won the conference and went to nationals this year.

“We won the Heartland Division, which meant that we qualified for nationals, which were at Hamilton in

upstate New York. We went there and I think we got fifth. We lost the first round to Carnegie Mellon, we played Tufts, lost to them, but we beat Middlebury. It’s a lot of fun to go to nationals; we’ve gone to nationals every year that I’ve been here,” Knoth said.

The captains of the men’s team have taken a more active role this year than in the past.

“In past years, it’s been more like coaching by democracy, which was just a huge shitshow.

We got a little bit more organized this year, which I think worked out really well,” Knoth said.

“It’s a pretty physical game, generally,” Tristan Knoth ‘17

Water polo includes a net, like soccer.

The teams practice three times a week and have games regularly.

“If you know how to play basketball or soccer you should come to our games because water polo is very fun to watch, very engaging, especially if you know how those two sports work,” Tsuha said. “My

junior year there was a push towards making it a varsity sport, but I think it’s fine the way it is. Most of the people on the women’s team are either doing it for the first time or doing it because it’s fun, so I don’t know how the team dynamic would change if it was a varsity sport.”

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Casualties of Grinnell's Decorative Allyship

When the first travel ban was instituted, President Kington sent an email to the entire campus and a second email to the impacted students. In addition, countless faculty and staff members reached out and, of course, there was that incredibly touching video that reminded international students that they are welcome here. I was moved and humbled by the support we’ve re-

They are getting rid of a space that makes many current students feel welcome.

ceived. It was a reminder that with all its flaws, the College is still a welcoming environment.

So, you can imagine my shock when an S&B reporter approached me just a few weeks later asking me how I felt about the move of the CRSSJ and the fact that the new building wouldn’t have a Muslim prayer room. The CRSSJ is going to move to make room for the construction of a new admissions building. It will move to the blue ranch house on 8th Ave, which as it stands now, would not have a space for a Muslim prayer room. And for a while there were talks about renovating a bathroom for Lord Ganesha.

Most of our Hindu and Muslim students are international students who already

feel targeted in this current hostile political climate. And it is deeply ironic that a new admissions building is being built to make prospective students feel welcome when they visit, but to build it they are getting rid of a space that makes many current students feel welcome.

We have been trying to meet with the administration to voice our concerns. A week ago, a student government cabinet member who met with Vice President for Finance and Treasurer of the College Kate Walker reached out and assured us that the administration in no way intended to make Muslim and Hindu students feel unwelcome. Although we appreciate the message, the fact that they did not consider the lack of adequate space for Muslim and Hindu

students in the first place is not reassuring. On the contrary, it highlights that providing a prayer space for Muslim students wasn’t a priority for them. As for good intentions, well, that matters little.

In addition, the SGA member mentioned that the blue house is a temporary house for CRSSJ, but if they invest resources in it, it would become a long-term home for the CRSSJ. This means that Muslim students are indirectly forced to choose between having a prayer room now and potentially jeopardize the possibility of the CRSSJ moving into Mears Cottage in the future, or giving up their prayer space now for the hope that they would move to a better house in few years. It is an implicit threat and a position which they shouldn’t be

forced into.

It is disappointing that we are still fighting for religious recognition on this campus. It is disappointing to explain to administrators why consider-

It is disappointing that we are still fighting for religious recognition on this campus. ing to house a God in an old bathroom, even if renovated, is offensive. It is disappointing

that international students gain recognition on this campus only when discussing percentages, displaying flags or consuming our food and culture as entertainment. It is disappointing that we must cite incidents of hate crimes and Islamophobia to legitimize our right to a prayer space.

The College needs to decide: is it going to be intentional about its support for international and students of color, or is it going to continue with the current decorative allyship? I am tired of administration that cries with me when Muslims are banned, but takes away our prayer space. In our meeting with the President tomorrow, I hope he offers us more than just a sympathetic ear; we need concrete action.

-Farah Omer '19

The R(ead)sling List: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Emma Soberano

Yaa Gyasi's “Homegoing” is more than a collection of short stories shaped into a novel: it is a family tree, whose trunk is split at the base but which rises, strong, for generations. At the root of the story are Effia and Esi, Ghanaian half-sisters separated by the eighteenth century's burgeoning slave trade.

While Effia and her descendants remain in Africa, Esi is captured and sold to the United States. Every chapter tells a piece of the next generation's story, alternating between the two sisters' kin, so that as soon as we have come to know one character, their chapter closes and we are shuttled across the ocean to hear from their parallel. In this way, we come to know seven generations, 14 men and women, and several centuries of history.

Gyasi weaves a tale that is both sweeping in its scope and intimate in its humanity. Through “Homecoming,” Gyasi recaptures a history which has been lost, denied, and deliberately destroyed, and returns it to the two sisters' progeny, and to those whose families share similar stories – Africans on one side of the slave trade or another.

To read “Homecoming” is to bear witness to history, to the twenty-first century results of chance and small choices made back in the eighteenth century.

... we come to know 7 generations, 14 men and women, and several centuries of history.

While each new chapter brings with it a new voice,

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new troubles, laughter and sorrows, twining threads of love and longing link the whole novel together.

“Homegoing” is at once a love story and a eulogy. The characters in Gyasi's stories find strength in their love for family in its many forms: children, grandparents, partners, self, community. And every character is, in their own way, mourning the loss of a land untouched by white hands and cruelty.

To write a review of “Homegoing” is to inherently fail to do it justice. I cannot capture the full enormity of three centuries, the task Gyasi set for herself and achieved so beautifully, in a few hundred words. What I can tell you is that this novel moved me to tears, and made me smile at its cleverness.

Gyasi's writing is clean and comforting, the prose itself easy to read even when the subject material is painful. A sorrowful undercurrent runs through the novel’s pages, but Gyasi takes time to appreciate the sweetness, anger, frustration, sensuality and joy which give each life

its texture. Every character is fully fleshed out, and reading their stories is like hearing from long-lost friends or family members. Some stories are familiar, others new and unexpected, and all are beautiful and heart-wrenching. These are the stories of two families, but also of two countries, whose people weave in and out of each other’s lives, meeting and separating in surprising ways.

What I can tell you is that this novel moved me to tears, and made me smile at its cleverness I knew almost immediately what wine I wanted to pair “Homegoing” with.

Gewurztraminer is a rich and flavorful white wine, made from cool-climate grapes,

and thus is sweeter-tasting.

It is typically paired with spicy food, to help balance the heat, and so I thought of it when trying to balance the heartache so prevalent within this book.

Gyasi takes time to appreciate the sweetness, anger, frustration, sensuality and joy...

The wine I chose, Fetzer's 2014 Shaly Loam Gewurztraminer, does not have as much of the variety's typical lychee scent, but maintains the characteristic sweet taste and floral smell. While there are definite tangerine notes, I was hoping for a tiny bit more acidity to go with the novel's zing. Instead, the tangerine present is sweet, like a California Cutie (which may be appropriate, as this is a Cal-

ifornia wine). In addition to tangerines, peach is also very forward, and a hint of warm spices make up somewhat for the low acidity. Gewurztraminers often taste honeyed, and Fetzer is no exception – the honeyed sweetness of the wine pairs well with the affection Gyasi shows for her characters, and that which they show for each other.

And every character is... mourning the loss of a land untouched by white hands Wine: Fetzer 2014 Shaly Loam Gewurztraminer, $10 at HyVee Alcohol-free alternative: Go treat yourself to a smoothie from the Grille.

Did you know you can mix flavors? My favorite combinations are peach mango and raspberry mango.

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