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Gina Clayton awarded the Grinnell Prize

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By Alice Herman hermanal17@grinnell.edu This week, the College awarded Gina Clayton, founder of Essie Justice Group and longtime civil and human rights activist, the $100,000 Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize (Grinnell Prize). The Prize honors “social innovators” who approach issues of social justice from angles that have been less explored by well-funded and established nongovernmental organizations and nonprofits. The Grinnell Prize was created in 2011 to fund the work of social justice activists and to then incorporate the recipients of the award into the Grinnell College community. Susan Sanning, Assistant Dean and Director of Service and Social Innovation, worked with a committee comprised of faculty, alumni, trustees and students to nominate and eventually identify the recipient of the award. According to Sanning, the award was created, “to honor people who were doing really innovative work soon after their bachelor’s.” The $100,000 prize is special in part, Sanning >> See Clayton awarded, page 2

Standing Rock activists open Little Creek camp in Iowa to fight Dakota Access Pipeline

By Jon Sundby sundbyjo17@grinnell.edu

Many of the activists who have started a camp at Little Creek, a new community of water protectors in Jackson County, Iowa, have stories about Standing Rock. Smudge Bear, one of these activists, traced his flashlight across the cloudy sky above the Little Creek encampment. “I remember back at Standing Rock, we used to do this in search of planes.” “Everyone here has faced rubber bullets, has faced tear gas, we were all on the front lines,” said J.B., one of the founders of the camp. Started in early March, the camp at Little Creek has collected several activists who were displaced once the encampments at Standing Rock were razed by the National Guard. Their new goal is to both fight the DAPL pipeline from here in Iowa, as well as to establish a community which is environmentally sustainable and indigenous-led. The camp’s members originally hail from all around the nation, many of them coming from Native American reservations. Several of the people at Little Creek expressed how inspired they were that Standing Rock was able to facilitate a pan-Native movement, something which they hadn’t seen before in their lifetimes. In this spirit, the founders of Little Creek organized their camp around some traditions common to several tribes, such as a sweat lodge and sacred fire. Activists with indigenous roots are encouraged to take part in the established camp rituals, and then share their own traditions with the group. But beyond just a cultural exchange, many of the people at Little Creek have the specific goal of

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A group of students visited the camp at Little Creek last Friday to talk with the activists at the indigenous-led camp. keeping the energy of the movement alive. There have been several of these camps established across the nation since the dissipation of Standing Rock, and a few of the activists have already travelled around and lived in some of them. They recognize the challenge of trying to bring together a movement that is geographically fractured, but hope that that their presence and the constant transfer of knowledge amongst the camps will help them rebuild the movement. “I’m usually up at a camp in South Dakota, but was asked to come down here to coordinate with this camp,” said a visiting member who chose to remain anonymous. “Really, it’s like little city-states everywhere, but they’re all trying to do the same thing …[but] all the camps have their different advantages and ways of doing things.” With pseudonyms like “The

Piece of Grinnell history unearthed after 103 years underground

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The "Peace Rock" was brought out of the ground this week, thanks to Professor John Whittaker, anthropology and his Archeological Field Methods class. By Jon Sundby sundbyjo17@grinnell.edu On April 25, 1914, a gang of students reportedly snuck out into the dead of night to finally finish the job they had been trying in vain to accomplish — to rid campus of the “Peace Rock.” Angered over the suspension of the campus “scrap,” these students wanted to eliminate the symbol of the tradition’s destruction, and on that night they laid the rock to rest in a hole on the campus’s southwest lawn. And there the rock rested for 103 years. However, after its long absence, the Peace Rock has finally Sunday 20th Year Celebration of Black Church at Grinnell Herrick Chapel, 10 a.m.

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been brought back up. On Tuesday, which was the anniversary of the burial of the rock, John Whittaker, anthropology, and local historian Byron Hueftle-Worley presided over a brief ceremony to welcome the rock back to the surface. “I want to thank all the many people who made this possible, and it’s mainly Byron’s fault,” quipped Whittaker. “He did all the research and got me interested.” Whittaker went on to thank the McGough construction company, the administration, his fellow faculty members and of course, the students who helped him unearth the historical rock. During the three-

week dig, students from Whittaker’s Archeology Methods class, as well as some interested passersby, formed Whittaker’s excavation team. While the archaeological process does take longer than a backyard dig, Whittaker expressed how impressed he was with the original team of students who buried the large boulder. “I want to have some students get their hands on the rock and see how many of them it takes to move the thing,” Whittaker said. Although the Peace Rock is now out of the ground and rests on the sidewalk near its burial site,

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Planter,” and “Smudge Bear,” many of the activists chose to stay anonymous, to both counteract government surveillance as well as to represent the new identities that they have developed within the movement. Vanessa Dundon, known at Little Creek as “Suzy,” says that she and many of her fellow activists found purpose at Standing

"Everyone here has faced rubber bullets, has faced tear gas, we were all on the front lines." J.B., founder of Little Creek camp Rock, and that the experience has changed their outlook, disposition and direction. “We weren’t perfect going in. Many of us have histories, but that’s why we were so good on the

frontlines. I don’t know how long a sheltered person would have lasted out there,” Dundon said. “These experiences gave us strength.” For Dundon, this strength was both metaphorical and physical. Earlier this year she was hit in the right eye by a tear-gas canister while out on the front lines. By her telling, it was only through a string of good luck that she was able to see a physician in time to save it. But even then, she still has only 10 percent of her vision on that side. “She truly has sacrificed herself for the cause,” J.B. commented. Influenced by the mission and energy of the camp, several Grinnell students have started a campus organization called the “Little Creek Movement” as a way to bring the water protectors’ positive message of activism and social change to their peers. The group >> See Students start, page 2

Fighting overpopulatiuon with reproductive rights

By Carter Howe howecart@grinnell.edu

Population expert John Seager delivered a talk on Monday about the importance of access to family planning in the fight against overpopulation and the challenges presently facing family planning efforts. Seager is the founder of Population Connection, a “national grassroots population organization” that seeks to educate the public about the threat of overpopulation and ensure greater access to family planning resources, particularly for women in the developing world. Seager has previously worked in Congress and at the Environmental Protection Agency. Seager began his talk by explaining the causes of recent massive population growth and the threat posed by overpopulation. The dramatic decline in child mortality in the developed world that started in the early 1800s is the reason why population has grown so much in

recent history, he said. According to the UN, global population is expected to growth to about 11 billion people by 2100, which could put a strain on natural resources, exacerbate climate change and lead to greater famine and war if not dealt with properly. “The way to make population challenges evaporate is by focusing on reproductive autonomy, on removing the barriers that prevent women and girls and couples from achieving their own chosen reproductive destiny,” Seager said. He then criticized the Trump administration for cutting off US funding to UN family planning programs as well as reinstating what is known as the “global gag rule” or “Mexico City policy,” which prevents clinics abroad from receiving US funds if they perform abortions or refer patients to other clinics to receive them. “A lot of programs around >> See Family planning page 2

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Students start "Little Creek Movement," in solidarity with Little Creek activists

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The founding members of "Little Creek Movement" hope to bring "loving activism" to Grinnell. Continued from Front Page plans to collaborate and participate in protests and actions, as well as to organize trips to the Little Creek community each month. “We were really inspired by what was going on there,” said Dylan Bremner ’20, a founding member of the club. “Personally, I really just felt that there was something there at Little Creek, and in the Standing Rock movement in general, that’s not represented at Grinnell at all. ...

People there were just so optimistic and idealistic about the country.” After an initial tour of the camp in mid-March, Bremner was struck by the commitment to “loving activism.” Harkening back to the tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., “loving activism” aims to win over their adversaries through the cultivation of empathy and respect. Bremner said that by bringing other students to Little Creek, he hopes to help convert more Grinnellians to this outlook,

and away from the cynicism that he believes is embedded in much of the current activism on campus. “I think Grinnellians can benefit so much from going there,” Bremner said. “Activism here is just a little unhealthy, I think. The Grinnell community is amazing, but there is a lot of unhealthy parts of it too, like, the pervasive stress culture and a general cynicism. I think for so many people going to [Little Creek] is going to feel like coming home. It’s a deeply spiritual, idealistic community.” After being removed from Standing Rock, the organizers of Little Creek meant for it to be a place where activists and those interested in sustainable living could come together to listen, share, learn and take action. While it may never completely recreate the intense communal energy which emerged on the frozen North Dakota tundra, Little Creek aims to foster a similar form of activism focused around our environmental needs here in Iowa and across the world. For, as an elder at a sacred fire during the Standing Rock protests once said, “This is bigger than a pipeline. This about our mother — she’s hurting.”

"Peace Rock" buried long ago exhumed and celebrated by students power, even though the “scrap” has long been lost in Grinnell’s collective memory.

"Remember, this is before World War I, Word War II, Korea and Vietnam. We now think of a 'Peace Rock' and peace for all times in a little bit broader context than they were at the time."

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Grinnell Singers sings "Sons of Old Grinnell" at the "Peace Rock" ceremony this past Tuesday. Continued from Front Page Whittaker said that more excavation of the site will still take place. Earlier in the process, the group stumbled upon a blank of the first mass-produced American military cartridge, probably from a drill conducted in the area. Whittaker hopes that a little more digging

will reveal some equally interesting objects. As for the rock itself, there are no concrete plans regarding it. Both Whittaker and HueftleWorley would like to see it remain a prominent part of our campus, and think that it could fit somewhere in the redevelopment of the ARH. They believe that the symbol has staying

Primary Health Care offers rides to students to Marshalltown medical center Beginning in April, the Primary Health Care Clinic will offer shuttle services to Grinnell students and other community members in need of reproductive health care. After Central Iowa Family Planning shut down last November, Grinnell has been lacking reproductive and sexual healthcare options for several months. Students and community members can call 641-753-4021 to schedule appointments. In addition to transportation, the Marshalltown clinic offers a variety of medical services: • General women's health (including pap smears and pelvic exams) • Contraception management • STD testing and treatment • Pregnancy testing • Title X (family planning services) • Prenatal care Rides are available on the first and third Saturdays until July and will leave from the Drake Community Library Library (on the Park Street side) at 9 a.m.

Byron Hueftle-Worley, local historian “They called it the ‘Peace Rock’ because it meant peace between the classes for all time,” said HueftleWorle. “Remember, this is before World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. We now think of a ‘Peace Rock’ and peace for all times in a little bit broader context than they were at the time. But maybe now that it’s here now, since we’ve changed our way of looking at it, we can rededicate it to peace in our time.”

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Jacobin editor discusses "Life After Capitalism" By Saiham Sharif sharifsa@grinnell.edu Peter Frase, an editor at Jacobin Magazine, came to Grinnell on April 24 to give a talk called “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism,” derived from his recent book of the same name. Multiple departments and faculty members, including Professor Patrick Inglis, sociology, sponsored the talk. Frase prefaced the main segment of his speech with the driving question: “Who owns the robots?” His presentation discussed the rise of artificial intelligence and its dangers to society. The anxiety is everpresent now with popular headlines such as: “Bill Gates says robots that steal jobs should pay taxes.” This fear of losing jobs to technology relates to some aspects of the 2016 presidential election, in which Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both supported withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in fear that outsourcing would cause American wages to decline. Frase, however, said that “this question goes back to capitalism itself.” He does not trace what he calls “automation anxiety,” the fear that robots will steal jobs, to the Industrial Revolution, but rather to the invention of “rationalized time” and automated clocks in the seventeenth century, which first allowed employers to measure worker productivity. Although technology can both benefit and harm workers, Frase focused on the disadvantages of technology in the workplace. He made it clear that Luddism, which most think of as “abstract rejection of technology,” is actually a targeted response to the looming anxiety that workers will be out of jobs due to technological advancements. Technology is helpful in that it can help increase productivity for workers, and if wages increase with productivity, then workers can benefit. In reality, wages and productivity haven’t positively correlated since the 1970s. Frase talked about the folklore story of John Henry, the “Steel

Driving Man,” and how it exemplifies the conflict between the worker and technology. John Henry uses a steel drill on rocks to make way for explosives. He wins in a competition against a steam-powered hammer, but dies of a heart attack. This story conveys the ultimate weakness of workers. Frase then mentioned other stories and examples from popular culture such as the movie “Metropolis” and Michael Moore’s “Downsize This.” These anecdotes culminated with Frase’s belief that the number of jobs will continue to decline due to technology. Moreover, Frase pushed this idea that there is no solution to the ecological crisis. Although current developments in technology help mitigate human damage to earth, they are only temporary solutions. He talked about “Frankenstein,” which he believes is really about the scientific abandonment of monsters. Frase believes that if Frankenstein's creator did not abandon him, then Frankenstein could have become human. Drawing a parallel to this story, he said that “this system we have made, including the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle and so many other things is a Frankenstein monster.” Frase believes that complications of capitalism — the ecological crisis, population growth and more — will ultimately contribute to four potential futures, which are socialism, communism, extremism and rentism. Frase believes that socialism will occur without hierarchy, but with scarcity of resources and everything will be distributed equally. Conversely, extremism occurs with hierarchy and scarcity — a system analogous to the one we have today, in which the wealthy dominate and the poor suffer. Communism, however, will occur without hierarchy, but with an abundance of resources. “[I drew] on social and natural science as a way to motivate a series of ideal types, simplified futures that illuminate the interaction between different factors.”

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Peter Frase, editor at Jacobin Magazine, talked about the four futures after capitalism: socialism, communism, extremism and rentism.

Clayton awarded for criminal justice reform Continued from Front Page emphasized, in that it does not carry the usual restrictions and “strings attached” that grants often do. “50 percent of [the funds] go to the winner, 50 percent go to the organization. Many of our social innovators put their whole life savings into what they do. So this is a way of recognizing that you may have college debt to pay off. There are ways that you might need assistance to live to keep doing the work that you’re doing. We have winners that use it for those things and we also have others who funnel it back into their organization.” The open-endedness of the grant is mirrored by the flexibility of the Prize description: “We purposely don’t define social innovation or social justice. That’s part of what the committee has to decide each year... we’ve asked the nominators to identify

what is the need and the context of the need that the nominee is addressing. What is innovative about the way that they’re addressing that work?” This year’s Grinnell Prize winner, Gina Clayton, has developed what the Prize Committee identified as an innovative approach to criminal justice reform. Essie Justice Group, the organization that Clayton founded in 2014, aims to address the problem of mass incarceration by providing women with incarcerated loved ones the necessary resources and support to become legal advocates for individuals ensnared in the justice system. Since its founding, 45 women have graduated Essie’s program in California; these graduates, now members of the “Essie Sisterhood,” will go on to work with lawyers and advocates at Essie partner organizations. Lucia Tonachel ’18, the Grinnell Prize intern who researched Gina

Clayton’s work with Essie Justice Group, described Clayton’s work as “exemplary of how you can marry social justice work and very strong academics … [Clayton] gave this clearly academically-based justification for a question that I asked her about the orientation of her organization, but bookended that with real experiences of herself and other people.” Clayton’s history of social justice work extends far beyond Essie; she has worked to address issues of injustice through the course of her life, working as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and serving from 2006-2008 as a board member of the NAACP National Board of Directors. In addition to the Grinnell Prize, Clayton has received the Soros Justice Fellowship and Echoing Green Global Fellowship for her work with Essie Justice Group.

Family planning posed as a solution to rising population rates Continued from Front Page the world, the last time this was imposed by president George W. Bush, felt that they could not in good conscience accept these restrictions and so they said ‘we’re going to have to stop getting US funds since we can’t stop all these other things,’” Seager said. “Here’s what happened in Nepal: 60 health workers were laid off, they closed down mobile clinics.

Then, President Obama took office, lifted the gag rule, Nepal’s maternal mortality roughly fell by a third, and there’s example after example around the world.” Seager then urged the audience to support the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights (HER) Act, which prevents the president from initiating a “Global Gag rule,” using the hashtag #FIGHT4HER In the end, Seager said that ensuring access to family planning

for every woman and couple is within our reach and that the cost of providing reproductive health services for every woman in the world would be just $25 per woman, per year. He urged audience members to be optimistic in considering the future and fight for the well-being of all people. “If you stand up for people who are in difficult situations,” he said, “you will not decades later look back and regret having done that.”

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True Grinnellian: Katie In

“I believe that the arts are for everyone, not just a select few.” Katie In mouthful.” “I loved the work that Tiny Circus does. I had been looking for something that was in the intersection of arts and community engagement for a while, and that seemed to fit perfectly,” In said about her time with the organization. Through organizations like Tiny Circus, the Arts Council and the Grin City Collective, In found her place in

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In's work at the Grinnell Area Arts Council helps her bridge the gap between the college and broader Grinnell community through art. the community as an artist and organizer, and she’s been dedicated to the town ever since. As time passed, In has grown less connected with the college and has shifted to become more involved with the community. She said this started as a student when she spent a summer on campus. “Once I spent a summer in Grinnell I was already making that shift in my mind.” Her summer in Grinnell gave In the opportunity to experience the area with a fresh perspective that wasn’t centered on the academic community, and she suggested that any students given the chance to enjoy Grinnell should take advantage of the situation. “It allowed me to get to know the town and the community members that have nothing to do with the college in a new and meaningful way,” she said. Since then she has been an advocate for expanding the arts throughout the community and college. Part of her work at the Grinnell Area Arts Council has been focused on making the arts appealing and available to all

in both the college and town community. “We really try to market to as broad of a population in Grinnell as we can. I believe that the arts are for everyone, not just a select few,” In said. As both an alumna and a citizen of Grinnell, In has a dual understanding of what kind of place Grinnell is, and she has seen the ability for art to combine the two worlds. The Arts Council has been a headquarters for Grinnell community and student artists, and part of her role with the organization has involved bringing those two spheres together as a member of both. “I try to figure out how I can use that to be someone always bridging the gap,” In said. In the future, In is considering the option of graduate study, even though it would mean leaving Grinnell. For now, she’s focused on balancing her job in Grinnell and her own artistic development, with a love for her music and a dream of further pursuing her music duo with fellow alum Erik Jarvis ‘12, in a group called Pink Neighbor.

in the Grinnell area, and worthy causes, that really are in great need of more financial assistance, and we could each individually write them a check of a $100. But by pooling our resources, we can do a whole more good by giving them a check for $5,000, $10,000, whatever it’ll end up being,” Ricks said. Tiger Packs, the winning organization, is seeking to expand its provision of food packs to low-income children and will receive roughly $5,500. At the next meeting in July, a new organization to support will be chosen, and a representative from Tiger Packs will give a rundown of how the previous donation has been used. Ricks hopes that members do not divert funds from other giving they are already doing to support the group, but rather supplement their philanthropy. “We have said to our membership that we hope that they will still continue to give to the other organizations that they have already been giving to. My sense is that people are going above and beyond what they are giving to other organizations,” Ricks said. Through word of mouth and local media, 56 members have joined the groups, though as its name implies, the goal is to surpass 100 members eventually. “We are growing and I think we will have our 100 members by the time we meet again,” Ricks said. “People will read about it in the newspaper, they’ll see what’s happening and want to be part of it.”

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100+ People Who Care collective philanthropy

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Grinnell, and Poweshiek County more broadly, have many different organizations working in social justice to help those in need. After realizing that these organizations are frequently underfunded, two couples joined forces to start 100+ People Who Care in Grinnell last December. Al and Donna Ricks and Christine and Dennis Day were inspired by similar groups in Pella and Marshalltown to start a group, in which all members commit to donating $100 to the organization chosen by the group at meetings four times per year. Most recently, the group met on April 25 to determine the recipient for their first pooled donation, and Tiger Packs was selected as the winning organization. “Any member can nominate an organization or a cause, and then they write that on a card, and those go in to a bag,” said co-founder Donna Ricks. “Last night we had four, and so we drew three out. Last night, the three that were drawn were Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell and then also the MICA Food Pantry and then Tiger Packs. So those were the three that we heard presentations on, and then we voted.” The organization’s method of pooling resources allows them to provide one charity group the potential to do a lot more good than smaller, dispersed donations individuals could do. “There are so many organizations

20-week abortion ban passes Iowa Senate By Kate Irwin irwinkat@grinnell.edu

By Riley Murphy murphyri@grinnell.edu Katie In’s ’13 first role in the Grinnell community was as a sociology student at the College with an interest in art and music. Now she works at the Grinnell Area Arts Council in education and operations management, teaching children and keeping books for a hub of art and community in Grinnell. Coming from a suburb of Chicago, when In moved to Grinnell she was reminded of life outside of the city, where “you can’t find food after 10 p.m.,” as In so rightly put it. But she decided to come back to Grinnell after she had graduated and travelled across the country, “because I like it. I know it’s a really simple answer,” and it helped her want to stay as she learned that “there’s a solid community in the arts here.” Following her studies at Grinnell, she went on tour with a group called Tiny Circus, a community-based organization based in Grinnell and New Orleans that teaches art across the country. With Tiny Circus, she travelled from Grinnell to New York to Florida to lead all ages from elementary school to college students in workshops she described as “non-hierarchical collaboration using stop-motion animation. … I know it’s a

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100+ People Who Care met on April 25 to decide where to donate this session's $5000 went to Tiger Packs.

The Iowa Senate recently passed Senate File 471, which bans women from receiving abortions after a pregnancy reaches 20 weeks. This bill does not include exemptions even in cases of rape, incest or if the baby will not survive after birth, but does allow abortions in certain circumstances where it has been demonstrated the health of the mother is at risk. The bill also establishes a mandatory three-day waiting period for any woman seeking an abortion. All of the "yes" votes for this bill were cast by Republican senators and one Independent senator who was registered as a Republican until last summer. The "no" votes were all cast by senate Democrats. The bill passed 30-20. Once this bill is signed into effect by Governor Terry Branstad, the threeday waiting period will be one of the strictest measures in the nation. This waiting period will particularly impact women in rural areas, as they will now have to make at least two trips to the clinic to receive an abortion, often 30 minutes or an hour from their homes. The bill also requires that women receive an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion to ensure that the unborn child is within the 20-week limitation, a process many pro-choice activists consider emotional trauma for women receiving abortions. Many worry about how this bill negatively affects women and their choices regarding their bodies. According to the Des Moines Register, multiple groups voiced opposition against this bill, such as Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Family Planning Council of Iowa and the American and the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault. The Grinnell League of Women Voters (GLWV) was one of these many groups in opposition to the bill. The local and state level LWVs do not take a stance on abortion, but they are advocates for women's access to healthcare. "At the State level, this is one of

our stated priorities for the 2016 Legislative session," wrote Terese Grant, Co-President at the Grinnell LWV, in an email to The S&B. According to Grant, the priority for the State level GLWV is to "enact policies that guarantee access for all residents to comprehensive, uniform and affordable health services including a full range of reproductive services." At this moment, the GLWV does not have any steps planned in order to fight the bill, but there is the possibility for future action. "This restrictive abortion bill is something that the League may take a serious look at in the near future," Grant wrote. This bill comes at an unfortunate time, as the Iowa Senate recently passed a budget bill that blocks state funding to Planned Parenthoods and other clinics that provide abortions. The passing of this abortion bill holds ominous questions for how women will be able to seek reproductive healthcare in a state that is quickly taking away their access. Unfortunately, Iowa is not the first state to pass restrictive legislation such as this, 17 other states have passed 20week abortion bans. Despite the fact the Iowa Legislation is committed to making access to healthcare increasingly more difficult for women, organizations like the GLWV will not stop campaigning for women's rights to their own bodies. "I do know that the League will continue to fight for women's health care rights, as this has always been a priority for the League at the local, state and national level," Grant wrote. Despite the multiple opponents to the bill, it was passed. Organizations like the LWV are now wondering what to do to fight this oppressive legislation. Options are rather limited as this point, as it is expected Governor Branstad will sign the bill and put it into effect soon after. But women's health groups and those committed to the right to bodily autonomy will not be silent to the injustices women are facing at the hands of Iowa’s legislators.

Leopold Center for sustainable agriculture loses funding

Proponents of sustainable agriculture in Iowa were dealt a heavy blow at the end of Iowa’s recently closed legislative session. Iowa State University’s Leopold Center, which has spent the past three decades advocating for sustainable agriculture on campus, fell victim to budget cuts in the Iowa Legislature this year. Mark Rasmussen, Director of the Leopold Center, expressed confusion over the rationale for the cut. “There are many theories as to why the Leopold Center (with its relatively small amount of appropriations) was targeted specifically, but they are all speculation,” Rasmussen wrote in an email to The S&B. “Some legislators stated that the Center’s work was completed and farmers know what they need to do to keep soil in place and reduce nitrogen and phosphorus entering Iowa’s water bodies. … That runs counter to trends in Iowa’s water quality and data provided in the state’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy.” Allies of the Leopold Center are coming out in force, including many here on campus. “The repercussions will reach far beyond Iowa,” said Professor Jon Andelson, Director of the Center for Prairie Studies. “The Leopold Center is nationally recognized for sustainable agriculture. Their programs, their publications, all have been very important in advancing the cause of sustainable agriculture. With those programs and publications coming to an end, it will set back sustainable agriculture, I think, seriously, particularly in Iowa, of course, but also nationally.” This hits close to home for Andelson, as the Center for Prairie Studies has benefited greatly from help provided by the Leopold Center. “Just a couple of years after … the Center for Prairie Studies was established, which was in 1999, we received a grant from the Leopold Center to promote our exploration of creating a local food system in Grinnell,” Andelson said.

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Director of the Leopold Center Mark Rasmussen enjoying Iowa agriculture. Professor Shannon Hinsa-Leasure, biology, is also currently using a Leopold Center grant to do research. “Without the support from organizations like this one, it would be challenging for labs like mine to afford to do the research necessary to successfully compete for larger NSF grants,” wrote Hinsa-Leasure in an email to The S&B. “The funding I have from the Leopold Center has paid for student assistants in my lab, materials necessary for research and sequencing , and supported my summer salary. … The loss of this center will reduce the opportunities I have for students to conduct research in my laboratory.” While it seems likely that the Leopold Center will be eliminated, it’s not yet a done deal. The legislature passed the bill cutting the program, but Governor Branstad has not yet signed it. Rasmussen expressed some optimism that the governor may choose to save the Center. “Governor Branstad signed the 1987 Groundwater Protection Act that created the Leopold Center 30 years ago this year. We do not know what

he plans to do regarding the Center’s future. However, many Iowans have contacted his office and hold out hope that he will use his line-item veto power to keep the Leopold Center and its funding intact,” wrote Rasmussen. Rasmussen is adamant that a lineitem veto by Governor Branstad is in Iowan’s best interests. “The agricultural industry in Iowa, especially the next generation of farmers, will lose a great deal [if the Center is closed]. The Center has always been ahead of its time supporting research for improvement in agricultural methods that save soil and protect water bodies,” Rasmussen wrote. “Ultimately, I believe that the closure would be an embarrassment to the citizens of Iowa," Rasmussen wrote. “It sets a bad precedent for legislators, farmers and landowners to walk away from exploration and education about sustainability while the rest of the nation is embracing it. The Leopold Center’s demise will be a loss to Iowa citizens, a loss for our soil and water, and a loss to our shared future.”

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Incoming class sets record for early decision committment By Philip Kiely kielyphi@grinnell.edu The Grinnell College Athletic Department has used a variety of recruiting strategies to attract student athletes for the class of 2021. While each head coach is partially responsible for recruiting for their own team, the department works with the Office of Admissions to ensure a balanced incoming class of academically qualified student athletes. “Like the way we operate our athletic program in general, each sport program and head coach has their own autonomy … we need to fit the principles that the admissions office and the college put forth in terms of who we can recruit, in terms of their academic background and their admissibility,” said Andy Hamilton, the Athletic Director. The process generally starts when prospective students are juniors in high school.

“We’re not going to sell something like ‘sports come first.’ A lot of students that look at schools that are the caliber of Grinnell want to prioritize their academics and they’re getting that same feedback from us and that’s a recruiting advantage” Erin Hurley, Assistant Athletic Director “We work with juniors in high school. Once they become seniors,

they come do overnights, hopefully apply, hopefully get in and hopefully attend some of our admitted student programs and ultimately deposit,” said Erin Hurley, the Assistant Athletic Director.

“With the class of 2021 we received more commitments through the early decision process than we have in past years. That’s a goal and an emphasis of the admissions department" Andy Hamilton, Athletic Director Hurley, who is also the liaison to Admissions, emphasized the importance of getting students to campus. “It’s some travel, a lot of internet and on the phone, but ultimately its important to get them to campus so they can experience what it would be like if they were a student at Grinnell,” Hurley said. While the final numbers aren’t in yet, the class of 2021 appears to be following the established pattern of about 25% student athletes. However, the class has set a record of student athletes matriculating through early decision. “With the class of 2021 we received more commitments through the early decision process than we have in past years. That’s a goal and an emphasis of the admissions department … we try to align with the institutional goals,” Hamilton said. The department employed a broad base of strategies in recruiting

the class of 2021. “We utilize our alumni base, our former student athletes out in the world teaching and working might come across someone who they think might be a good fit for us and make that connection. We work with high school and club coaches to help identify top students who also could contribute to our athletic program,” Hurley said. Prospective students learn about the various unique benefits that Grinnell sports offer. “At Grinnell, most of our head coaches are faculty members … by and large, that doesn’t happen at other division three schools in the country. Another piece is that our facilities are outstanding. Not every Division III school can say that,” Hamilton said.

At Grinnell, coaches understand that academics come first, which is a strong theme in the recruiting process. “We’re not going to sell something like ‘sports come first.’ A lot of students that look at schools that are the caliber of Grinnell want to prioritize their academics and they’re getting that same feedback from us and that’s a recruiting advantage,” Hurley said. As Grinnell is a NCAA Division III school, it cannot give scholarships to entice athletes. However, given that most comparable colleges and universities are Division III, this does not represent a huge disadvantage. “When students are looking at Division III schools, they realize that none of those schools can of-

fer them athletic money, so that’s a level playing field. They know that going in, and that’s the specific type of student athlete, they’re choosing school first,” Hurley said. The department also recently hired a consultant to give recruiting tips to coaches. “We hired a professional consultant to come in and talk to our coaches about messaging. It has been really good mentoring. I think that we’ve found that some of our recruiters have been much more productive,” Hamilton said. Current students also give valuable feedback on the recruiting process. “Some of that came through feedback from current student athletes about how they were recruited,” Hurley said.

Melissa Anderson '18 is a Hero one sport, so I had time to completely focus on that. I’m obviously very glad that I chose to do that. It seems to be working out pretty well for me. I played travel ball probably for six or eight years. I was actually on an elite travel program. We had a national championship in 2014 and in 2015 we were World Series runner-ups. So that was pretty nice to have that under my belt. MAHIRA FARAN

Melissa Anderson '18 was named 'Hero of the Week' by Hero Sports for her recent pitching peorformances. By Nora Coghkan coghlann17@grinnell.edu The S&B: How did it feel when you found out that you won the 'Hero of the Week' honor? Melissa Anderson: It actually felt really good, I didn’t really know about the award until my coach nominated me for it, and I saw on social media that she was trying to get attention brought to me from Hero Sports. So I looked into it and I saw they cover DI, DII and DIII sports and it was just really cool that they give recognition to all three levels. I was looking at all the other women that were also nominated and saw there was some pretty tough competition, but I feel like I threw pretty well that week. I had a good stat line, so I was pretty excited to find out that I won.

The S&B: How did the voting process for the award work? MA: It’s a regular poll, you can vote once an hour or something like that. I told my friends about it, and my family and they just kind of spread the word. You can vote for eight people for player of the week and then there’s like six or eight people for pitcher of the week. The S&B: How long have you been playing softball? And what other sports do you do? MA: I started playing softball when I was maybe seven or eight. I also did martial arts, and I did track, volleyball. That was just until I hit maybe sixth or seventh grade and then I realized that I really loved pitching and so I had to narrow it down to just

The S&B: What has your relationship with your teammates been like through the years? It seems like especially when you’re young, your team becomes sort of like a family. MA: Definitely. Especially now in college we have classes together and we all go to practice together, go to dinner together and we spend so much time together, it’s just natural to become really close with your team. I think I noticed this year more than the previous two years at Grinnell there’s been like a family bond between all the players and the coaches, too. The S&B: Can you talk about the way that the program has developed in your time here? MA: Coming out of senior year of high school, Grinnell didn’t really have a strong record at all. So coming in first year we definitely wanted to change that and make Grinnell into a winning program. We didn’t have a lot of pressure to succeed because it was just a bunch of first years trying

to do our thing and make a name for ourselves in the conference and in the school. I even remember first year, I told someone I was on the softball team and they were like ‘we have a softball team? I didn’t even know.’ We just keep working hard and second year we definitely made a lot of strides, but I think this year we made strides not just on the field but also off the field collectively as a unit. We’re just very cohesive as a team. The S&B: What has been your favorite part of playing softball at Grinnell? It sounds like your teammates are a big part of that. MA: I think my favorite part of playing softball is definitely having all these friends that I can count on, and being able to count on them on the field to make a lot of great defensive plays behind me or to put up a bunch of runs if I’m not really throwing great that day, but also to be able to count on them if I’m feeling stressed academically or in my personal life. It’s nice to have people to count on. The S&B: Have you always been a pitcher or have you played around the field a bit? MA: My first year playing softball I pitched. When you’re young you play pretty much everywhere, but I really liked pitching. I just really liked having that control over the game and being able to put my heart

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into every pitch. Whereas [with] position players you’re not involved in every pitch and every play. So I really like being able to control the game at my speed. The S&B: How do you get yourself psyched up for games? MA: I usually try to actually keep pretty calm before games. Some of my teammates get hyped up, singing, yelling. I like to just focus in my own head for a little bit and then join the team singing and dancing, or whatever we’re doing in the locker room. That way I can focus and think about what I need to do personally to succeed in the game and then focus and say 'this is what I need to do to help the team as well'. The S&B: How do you turn around a game if you’re having an off day? Do you feel a lot of pressure as the pitcher? MA: I try to not feel pressure. Sometimes I have to play defense and I definitely feel more pressure on defense than I do when I throw, I just feel so confident on the mound. But when I do have a bad inning or the other team strings together a couple hits I just take a step back and look around at my teammates and they just make eye contact with me and tell me 'hey you got this, you’re a great pitcher, we believe in you', and then I just take a deep breath and I’m able to keep going.

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Background Noyce: Jonathan Gilmour

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Drones are growing in popularity for both racing and videography. By Philip Kiely kielyphi@grinnell.edu Don’t be alarmed if you see drones racing across the sky or taking swooping aerial videography, it’s probably Jonathan Gilmour ’19 with his Experimental College (ExCo) class: Introduction to Consumer Drones. Gilmour is sharing his passion by teaching students how to fly, race, and film with drones this semester. “I’ve been interested in drones since I was 16, consumer drones, that is, so your quadcopters and videography drones. This year I applied to teach an ExCo about this, I gauged that there would be significant involvement in the student body,” Gilmour said. “I got funding to purchase some drones, we are learning to fly with small drones, then we’re doing a bigger videography project at the end of the class.” Gilmour’s previous experience includes over 100 hours of flight time and several videography projects. “I’ve done a lot of videography with my own drone, here in Grinnell, in California, and back home in Virginia. I learned to fly on a small drone, so I bring both sides to the class,” Gilmour said. Gilmour’s students, who come from a variety of science and other backgrounds, are learning to fly on small drones in preparation to make

a video using a larger drone. “With three or four hours of flying, the students are pretty good at not crashing,” Gilmour said. Smaller drones are cheap, light, and survive impact, making them ideal for learning. “The lighter the drone, the less force it will have on impact. Those can fall out of the sky and reach terminal velocity in the air and hit the ground and be fine. A lot of drones in the 40-dollar category on Amazon are great for learning on,” Gilmour said. After the ExCo class ends, Gilmour hopes to grow the drone enthusiast community at Grinnell. “I hope to [make a club]. There is a drone club on campus that hasn’t been very active, and I’m going to try and resurrect it. Ideally, we would be able to build a drone in that club … I would hope to do a lot of videography, make movies and stuff, and ignite the passion for drones in other people,” Gilmour said.

"We are learning to fly with small drones, then we’re doing a bigger videography project at the end of the class." Jonathan Gilmour '19

Drone use is exploding across the nation, which brings a variety of legal and regulatory challenges.

“Right now the FAA has a fair number of rules out, and some are really strict, they’ve seen this explosion in interest and they want to kind of clamp down on that. You have really strict regulations about where you can fly and how high you can fly and what kind of events you can fly near or above,” Gilmour said. These rules do a lot to protect the public against inexperienced operators. “I think that’s good because a lot of people are negligent in their use of drones. They might fly over a stadium and try to take video of that, but if the drone malfunctions or falls out of the sky they might injure somebody,” Gilmour said.

"With suitable customer and public understanding of drones, and the do’s and dont's of them, we can get a system that works well and allows for safe and respectful use of drones." Jonathan Gilmour '19

Privacy concerns are another interesting legal wrinkle in drone operations. While smaller drones are generally not equipped with a camera, larger drones are designed for aerial videography. “There are a lot of videos on the internet of people flying their drones in compromising locations or times. I think there is a video of somebody flying a drone over a hog farm to try to do some muckraking, to prove that the farm is doing bad things, and the farmer shoots the drone with the shotgun,” Gilmour said. Gilmour believes that increased public awareness of drones will be important in the future of the community. “There’s a lot of issues that go along with it, but with suitable customer and public understanding of drones, and the do’s and dont's of them, we can get a system that works well and allows for safe and respectful use of drones,” Gilmour said.

Sexual Health Information Center expands operations

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SHIC, in partnership with the SGA, has stepped in to partially fill the void left by the closing of CIFP. By Louise Carhart carhartl17@grinnell.edu As a result of large scale overhaul in partnership with the Student Government Association (SGA), the Sexual Health Information Center (SHIC) has expanded its inventory, lowered prices and provided more educational opportunities for the student body. Since officially coming under the umbrella of SGA, SHIC’s budget has increased and their educators are now paid, a change that has greatly affected the organization and its impact on campus.

"I definitely think since we’ve started working with SGA our presence on campus has increased, I think more people are talking about us" Vivian Cheslack '19

“SHIC is an amazing resource that I personally have loved working with,” said Toby Baratta ‘17, the Diversity and Outreach Coordinator (DOC). “I’m really happy that their budget has been raised because that’s what has allowed them to, first off, pay their employees and also be able to have binders.” As SHIC has become more integrated into the structure of SGA, their programming and product inventory has expanded to fill in some

of the gaps left by Student Health and Counseling Services (SHACS) and Central Iowa Family Planning (CIFP). SHACs often does not carry the products provided by SHIC and additionally does not provide emergency contraception, Monistat or alternative menstrual products. At SHACS, the main concern is safe sex, with free male and female condoms and lube provided. At SHIC, the hope is that their care will go beyond just safe sex. The shift to a paid staff has made a large impact on the level of involvement and energy members are able to bring to the table. “Our educators have more passion,” said Vivian Cheslack ‘19, a SHIC administrator. “There’s been improvements in our campus projects because people can give more time now. I definitely think since we’ve started working with SGA our presence on campus has increased, I think more people are talking about us .. I really care about the accessibility of these things and SGA has helped us make these things much more accessible.” “It makes the system a lot more credible, because you can hold people accountable for going to the trainings and being there because it’s a job rather than a volunteer thing. I’m super pleased with that and I see that continuing for sure,” Baratta said. “I also see that the amount of activism regarding reproductive [and sexu-

al health] care on this campus still needs to keep happening because, while SHIC is great, they don’t cover the town, they don’t cover a lot of the things that CIFP was and they shouldn’t have to, that’s not what SHIC is for.” The absence of CIFP has been felt since its closing in November, especially with the additional closure of its Newton facility. A shuttle to a Marshalltown family planning clinic has been started by the College, but traveling to and from Marshalltown is a burden on students, as well as on residents of Grinnell, who will not benefit from this service. Angela Voos, chief of staff, called the closing a “community crisis” in November, but so far plans to open a similar family planning clinic in the Grinnell area have not appeared.

"It makes the system a lot more credible, because you can hold people accountable for going to the trainings and being there because it’s a job rather than a volunteer thing." Toby Baratta '17

As for now, access to cheap IUDs and Nexplanon is impossible in Grinnell, as these are resources are far beyond the capabilities of the students working at SHIC. Additionally, emergency contraception like Plan B is not available at SHACS and this office does not permit its formal sale at SHIC. In spite of these limitations, SHIC is focussing on expanding its education efforts and inclusivity. “Right now … we have all these pamphlets, but a lot of them are outdated or within the gender binary, so what we’re working on right now is having SHIC educators write our own material,” Cheslack said. “Everyone is working on a topic and we’re going to make folders with them, and also hopefully get a magazine rack outside the center so people don’t have to come inside the center to get information. So that’s my big goal for the end of this semester and the beginning of next semester, to have that information that we as educators want to see and that students want to see.”

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Graceland in Grinnell

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Graceland, named for Elvis Presley's home, is full of holiday spirit, regardless of whether or not there is a holiday occurring. By Saiham Sharif sharifsa@grinnell.edu Affectionately called “Graceland” after Elvis Presley’s home, 1014 High Street is home to a group of friends, none of whom wear blue suede shoes. Three of the residents, Louise Carhart ‘17, Teresa Fleming ‘17 and Jon Sundby ‘17, hold leadership positions at The S&B, while the other two residents, Spencer Pajk ’17 and Jack O’Malley ’17, help run Grinnell Outdoor Recreation Program (GORP). Power didn’t bring this group of people together so much as the time they spent together their first year. Much of their home came furnished, but they manage to make it unique. “We decorate for each holiday,” Fleming said. “But we don’t un-decorate it,” O’Malley interjected. Fleming pointed to back of the porch, where accumulated seasons lie in rest. Their house was still decorated for Easter during the interview. They have another holiday-themed tradition: wrapping Sundby’s things, even though they aren’t gifts, and putting them under the Christmas Tree. Their neighbor owns a dog called Keaster, who was the namesake for the house’s recent “Keaster Brunch.” The dog serves as the emotional center of the house, a source of serendipitous moments. Their house has some wonderful features. They all enjoy hanging out on the porch, when the weather is warm and the roof is another favorite spot. The trampoline is also a source of risky

fun for the residents. “We were going to get a safety net,” O’Malley said. “But someone told me safety nets actually make them more unsafe,” Fleming said. Each bedroom door has a window that allows them to look inside the house. Carhart talked about how she'll often talk in the hallway and people will gather around. This kind of communal bonding is characteristic of the dorms, but it can also happen off-campus. Living with people can be a new way of understanding them as some nuances and behaviors only exist in private life and go unnoticed in casual affairs. For example, they shared that they’ve all heard each other’s job interviews, and they all realized that O’Malley is obsessed with online shopping. “One time, there was a package outside for Jack [O’Malley], and he didn’t want it, so he sent it straight back and wrote 'Return to Sender,” Carhart said. While they all knew how good Carhart is at a sports trivia, they found out that Sundby is horrible at it. “Jon [Sundby] calls the Packers the Packs … [and] thinks the quarterback for the Packers is Bill de Blasio, who is in fact, the mayor of New York,” O’Malley said. Carhart shared that “a lot of the dad energy” coming from O’Malley and Pajk. There is no consensus on who does the chores. “Jack [O’Malley] grumbles about [them],” Pajk said “It’s a really sensitive topic,” O’Malley replied.

Day in the Life: Stephen Duong

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8:17 a.m. - My first alarm goes off. Kanye West’s “I’m in It” plays. I once loved this song. April is the cruelest month. 8:35 a.m. - Alarm #2: “I’m in It,” again, but worse. 9:01 a.m. - I’m woke! Compulsively tussle my hair and cuff my jeans upwards of three times—gotta impress/ intimidate the prospies today with that windswept academic look. 9:21 a.m. - Gaze longingly at the eggs-to-order line. 9:22 - Head to the cereal bar. Grind up some Magic Shapes and do a few lines before class. 9:32 a.m. - Talk with Luke Jarzyna ’18 about our plan to repopularize laugh tracks. 11:15 a.m. - Run! Beat the lunchtime prospie rush in pursuit of Red Pepper Gouda Soup. 11:16 a.m. - Learn that I misread the menu. 11:16 a.m. - Listen to the Mountain Goats as I cry into my Tomato Pepper Bisque. Pro-tip for my fellow Grinnellians of color: tears make any dining hall food taste significantly more ethnic. 12:15 p.m. - Watch Ru Paul Season 8 finale (for the first time) with Nolan Boggess '19 and Lucie Duffy '19. Col-

lectively gag @violetchachki reunion look. 2:00 p.m. - It’s time to talk about eugenics with Professor Steve Andrews! I’ve learned so much about how to improve the white race at the expense of the colored hordes this semester! Hmu if you want tips! 4:00 p.m. - Find Lucie so we can complain about class over gummy worms. 5:36 p.m. - Forsake D-hall due to lunchtime trauma. 8:04 p.m. - Begin homework. 8:12 p.m. - Begin writing poem about freshwater aquariums! 9:37 p.m. - Cool beans! 10:48 p.m. - Draw 3-inch tall portrait of SoundCloud rapper Lil Pump in French notes. 11:22 p.m. - Give [duffyluc] a pre-bedtime high five. Monogamous relationships are sick, my dude! 11:39 p.m. - Brush teeth while appreciating the Smell of the Day on Read 2nd. 11:50 p.m. - Think really hard about Lil Pump in hopes that we can hang out in the dream. world. 11:59 p.m. - Consider changing alarm clock sound to “Elementary” by Lil Pump 12:00 a.m. - Fall asleep. #notwoke

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Vietnam war photographer Robert Hodierne '69 visits campus to discuss Faulconer photo series rapher’s ad, Hodierne took the money intended for his final year at Grinnell and bought a ticket to Saigon, noting how he was “young and hungry, and wanted to be rich and famous” as a photographer covering the Vietnam conflict. Having only had photos published in the Scarlet and Black, Hodierne lost his “very thin” portfolio but learned quickly by documenting the Buddhist riots in Saigon. Beyond photography, however, Hodierne learned that there are unique circumstances to war photography, like tear gas. “Initially, I thought that you could overcome the effects of tear gas by force of will,” Hodierne said. “I had the opportunity to contemplate the folly of that as I sat

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Robert Hodierne addressed a full crowd in Faulconer Gallery on Thursday afternoon. By Steve Yang yangstev17@grinnell.edu Upon entering Faulconer Gallery on Thursday afternoon for a talk delivered by Robert Hodierne ’69 titled, “Young and Hungry: A Freelance Photographer in Vietnam,” a soundtrack with deep personal meaning to Hodierne could be heard playing in the background. For Hodierne, who doesn’t consider himself a journalist first and foremost, all of America’s wars came with soundtracks, and Vietnam was the “first TV and rock-and-roll war.” He described his talk as a “personal memoir” of his life experiences before a standing-room only crowd, which included- numerous Vietnam veterans. In 1966, Hodierne flew to Vietnam on a one-way ticket to Saigon, with a quick stopover in Hong Kong to purchase camera equipment. He was using money intended for a year at Grinnell, and

became the youngest fully accredited foreign journalist to cover the war on his second day in the country for United Press International (UPI). In 1969, Hodierne returned to Vietnam as an enlisted infantryman, and worked for the “Pacific Stars and Stripes.”

"Initially, I thought that you could overcome the effects of tear gas by force of will. I had the opportunity to contemplate the folly of that as I sat on the curb barfing my guts out." In the years since, he has provided coverage of wars in Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan, and currently teaches journalism at the University of Richmond. In terms of the wars and the soldiers he doc-

umented, he described his attitude as one of “boundless respect for these young men,” but disdain for the wars they fought in. “I hate those wars, but I love those guys,” Hodierne explained. Hodierne recalled how in the '60s, there was nothing cooler than being a photographer and described his experiences to fellow S&B editors of photographing the Selma riots, where they manufactured bogus “Midwest News Agency” press cards to “bamboozle police down in Alabama.” As he sat in front of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Dallas, Hodierne had the chance to meet the acclaimed photographer Flip Schulke, whose photo of the event would be on the next cover of Life Magazine. “At one point in that encounter, Flip whispered...words that have stayed with me to this day, Hodierne said with a smile. “Kid, get your damn microphone out of my picture.” After responding to a photog-

"I hate those wars, but I love those guys. " on the curb barfing my guts out.” He soon received an all-important press credential, which means that one can go anywhere “you had the nerve to go.” The press credential also meant that he had a courtesy rank of field-rank officer, which meant that the college dropout was being treated like a major. During this time, Hodierne wrote to his fellow editors at The S&B that, “All my previous expectations about life here was wrong. ...Nothing I read prepared me for this place. People try to understand it in terms of US standards, which simply do not apply.” Hodierne described travelling with medical evacuation helicopters and an especially embarrassing incident on a humvee convoy, where an improperly-secured artillery round on the side of his vehicle exploded, throwing him off and splattering shrapnel into his arm. “My left arm and hand were peppered with shrapnel, the arm was just covered in blood. They called an emergency medevac for

me ... and this helicopter comes screaming in, with guys jumping out with stretchers,” Hodierne said. “They were quite puzzled that I was walking, but they raced me back to the hospital. The entire

"I hope they never have to experience what these young men experienced but I want them to think about it. I stand by those words. " hospital staff was lining the sidewalk. Apparently, the word was then that ... I was the ... critically-wounded head of the committee of armed services.” Upon arrival at the hospital, the doctor treating Hodierne looked him up and down and said, “What do you want me to do, kid, kiss it and make it well?” However, Hodierne added that the hospital “got their revenge by making me spend the night...the guy in the bunk next to me died in the middle of the night.” After recounting numerous other stories of his time in Vietnam, which included spending time with a highly-decorated sergeant, photographing one of the bloodiest battles of the war on Hill 881 and having a press colonel call his words “treason,” Hodierne explained that his fascination with his subjects arose when he “fell in love with the grunts” who had the “same dark, cynical sense of humor” that he did. After taking various questions from the crowd. Hodierne concluded that he is proud of how the modern progressive left can hate the war, but still support those who fight it, like many students at Grinnell have done. “I hope they never have to experience what these young men experienced but I want them to think about it,” Hodierne said. “I stand by those words.”

New arts center to open downtown By Teresa Fleming flemingt17@grinnell.edu This Friday, April 28, marks a moment of transition for the Grinnell Area Arts Council, as they look towards their new expansion into the Stew Art Studios, a section of the storefront across from the current Stewart Arts Center. The building will serve as workspaces for local artists and community makers. To celebrate the move, the Arts Council will host an opening party for local community members. The event will focus on the kind of communal energy that inspired the new studios. “The name is a play on the art center building in the former Stewart Library,” wrote Arts Council Events Manager Eric Jarvis in an email to The S&B. “In addition to the historical reference and tie to their primary facility, the council liked the connotations of stew:

communal, diverse, warming.” In keeping with the theme of forward movement, Friday’s events will shift over the course of the evening. Festivities will begin with an opening reception at 6 p.m. for Jennifer Fisher Jones’s exhibition at the Stewart Arts Center “Variations on the Square,” a series of paintings portraying people swimming in water.. Following the reception, the Arts Center has invited local community members and students to a potluck dinner in the Arts Center yard, a gathering which aims to capture some of the community energy that is typical of Grinnell’s arts scene. “The potlucks that Grin City collective used to host were a great way to get different kinds of people hanging out and talking,” Jarvis wrote. “We want the Stew to generate a similar kind of community.”

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The new arts center, Stew, will open downtown today.

Queer poet Kit Yan perfoms in Harris Wednesday By Candace Mettle fregerha17@grinnell.edu On Wednesday night, the Asian-American Association (AAA) kicked off Asian-Pacific Heritage Month by hosting slam poet Kit Yan. Yan performed his “Queer Heartache” show, which covered topics on his identity as a trans man of col-

or, sexuality, family and of course, love. Queer Heartache has been on the road for over a year. Ruth Wu ’17, Jin Chang ’18 and Esther Yoojin Hwang ’19 sit on the executive board of AAA and worked for six months to bring Yan on campus. Asian-Pacific Heritage Month officially takes place in May, but due to the College’s year ending in

May, the organization finds it best to begin it in the end of April. Queer Heartache is a collection of poems written and edited over roughly ten years. Yan began the night by performing a set of poems about his experience growing up in a poor, ethnically Chinese-Hawaiian family. Specifically, Yan recalled the time when his mother wondered if

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Kit Yan performed in Harris on Wednesday night.

she should get Yan braces because other children had them. Yan understood their economic situation, so protested it. “You don’t need straight teeth to talk a story,” Yan said in the performance. Yan then shifted the topic from poverty and the tension of fitting into the American identity to exploring gender and his first sexual encounters as an openly-queer person. From there, Yan went into detail about his relationship with his little brother, separated in years by at least a decade, and his family structure before and after Yan came out as queer and trans. The performance ended with a humorous take on Yan’s first experience cutting his hair after undergoing his transition. After retelling a bloody mishap with an electric shaver, the tone of the performance turned dark as Yan connected his reluctance to go to the doctor after the accident to the unexpected death of his father when Yan was young. Due to the ethnicity and inability for his parents to speak English, the hospitals in his hometown did not take his father’s health concerns seriously. Yan believe it reflected

the tendency for people to undervalue people of color, especially those who are not fluent in English. After his father’s death, Yan’s mother stressed the importance of him to learn English. Yan in turn realized the value he had within his family structure. “I moved to Chinatown, just to be closer to his memory; I moved to Chinatown to honor my mother,” Yan said. “They killed my father long before he got to the hospital. And they will call us Chink and let us die in the street if we do not remind ourselves of the strength in our own tongues of the resilience our resistance and our own language.” Language barriers still exists between Yan and his mother, among misperceptions and confusions about mental health and gender, still exist. However, Yan and his family has made many strides to understand each other. After the performance, Yan allowed for a Q&A session with the audience. Attendees asked questions regarding language, becoming comfortable in queerness, and the craft of writing. For more information on Yan, visit his website, kityanpoet.com

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Career Spotlight: Milton Severe '89

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Milton Severe poses with some art work in the Faulconer Gallery. By Zane Silk silkzane@grinnell.edu Walking into the Faulconer Gallery, it’s easy to get lost in the magic of the art. However, you likely would never think to ponder the design of the exhibition - the placement of the artwork, the division of the gallery space, the choices of lighting. In a way, the invisibility of the exhibition design process at the Faulconer is a sign that Milton Severe ‘87 is doing his job. Severe, who is the Director of Exhibition Design at the Faulconer, has been working at Grinnell since after he graduated from the school. Back then, the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts was much smaller and

lacked much gallery space beyond a couple hallways and a foyer. After transferring to Grinnell as a student and then graduating with a degree in Studio Art, Severe was hired in 1989 as an art preparator, tasked primarily with preparing artwork for storage or display. For Severe, the choice to return and live in his hometown of Grinnell was not something he had planned on. “I was born and raised in Grinnell, actually, and then never dreamed that I would be here at this point in my life. I got as far away as I possibly could; I lived in Denmark for a year as an exchange student … I knew that we were going to be getting a new gallery and I just wound up staying in Grinnell,” he said.

That new gallery was the Faulconer, which opened in 1999 as part of Bucksbaum’s expansion. With the establishment of a new space specifically for art, Severe shifted from being an art preparator into his current role, which primarily involves designing each exhibition that comes to the gallery. “To start with, whenever a show’s coming … I will get as much information as possible about the artwork and usually speak with the person who is in charge of the show… and then I design the space. I have a model that I built when we first opened the gallery, it’s like an architects’ model, it’s 3D,” Severe said. Severe thinks long and hard about how to break up the gallery us-

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ing moveable walls, where to place art, how to light it and many more aspects of the design. He groups different pieces together based on a common theme or visual element in an effort to create a cohesive experience for the viewer. Above all, his goal is to create an exhibition design that lets the artwork speak for itself. “It’s not like set design, in that you don’t have the freedom of using your imagination to create something that’s more your own … if I do a really good job people shouldn’t think about me,” Severe said. “The art is the most important thing in the space and I think often designers try to design too much because they want to look trendy and fun and cool and a lot of times if you go into museums

there are crazy colors that they use on wall… but I try to be very subdued.” While the exhibitions he designs may not bring attention to the work he does, Severe must nonetheless pay close attention to detail and tackle different problems to achieve the subdued exhibitions he is after. “I’m just really lucky that this job happened to show up in my hometown. It allowed me to take care of my parents when they were dying and do something I just really love. This is not what I had planned on doing with my life … for a while I thought I was going to be an actor. But this just combines all the stuff that I’ve studied really beautifully,” Severe said.

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The R(ead)sling List: Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral

This is my last column, and I want to end with something a little different: this week, I've selected a poetry collection. I know not everyone is a fan of poetry; parsing its meaning can be daunting, and poetic forms seem, in abstract, rigid and exclusive. Yet I hope that I, and “Slow Lightning” by Eduardo Corral, can convert a few poetry-wary readers and provide a queer Latinx perspective on verse. I first encountered Corral's collection my first year and was immediately struck by his innovative and playful use of language to explore themes of family, immigration, queer love, artwork, AIDS and loss. There is also a huge variety in the format of Corral's writing; some poems read like short prose, while others seem at first glance strings of unexpected yet aptly-paired words, which spiral into nebulous meaning just beyond grasp.

Yet the taste leads with a bright, almost tart acidity, coming from notes of green apple, passion fruit and maybe even under-ripe peaches, as well as a slight green, vegetal aftertaste.

There are three things which make me return to “Slow Lightning” again and again, and which reignite my love for the collection upon each reading. These are: Corral's linguistic sensibility and ability to combine Spanish and English to create layers of meaning and musicality; his playful yet careful attention to poetic form and the way words appear on the page and his soulful, gentle handling of sensitive and deeply personal topics. Corral is a gay Latino writer, and themes of cultural identification, immigration (particularly his father's journey and acclimation to the United States) and sexuality (discovery, love and loss) flow throughout, and bind the collection together. In ex-

ploring topics rooted deeply in his own personal identity and experiences, Corral deviates from traditional poetic boundaries and challenges our conceptions of verse; this is the book which made me realize I loved reading poetry. Poetry is often conceived of as white and dusty; Corral not only gives the form a fresh perspective, he deliberately and beautifully carves out a place in the literary institution for himself and others too often forgotten.

One of the most enjoyable things about good poetry is that it demands to be read multiple times; each time offers new perspectives and insights.

Corral pushes the bounds of poetic form as well as of content. Poems like "Border Triptych" use traditional forms (the sonnet) and apply them to surprising topics (the dangers of the U.S./Mexico border). In other places, he innovates; "Poem after Frida Kahlo's Painting ‘The Broken Column’” mimics the shape of a chair, layering meaning onto a poem inspired by an artist who suffered a spinal cord injury. One of my favorite aspects of Corral's innovation with form is that he forces the reader to question the very definition of poetry: some poems ("Immigration and Naturalization Service Report") appear as blocks of prosaic text, while others ("Variation on a Theme by José Montoya") switch between forms, even twining what seem to be multiple poems together. One of the most enjoyable

There are three things which make me return to “Slow Lightning” again and again, and which reignite my love for the collection upon each reading

things about good poetry is that it demands to be read multiple times; each time offers new perspectives and insights. Slow Lightning can be read as a whole, as individual poems or in chapters (it is divided into parts). As we approach finals week, it seems the perfect distraction – productive procrastination which can be parceled out as one wishes and revisited again and again. I chose Slow Press 2016 Sauvignon Blanc to accompany Slow Lightning. I'll admit, I paired this wine with Slow Lightning in part on account of its name. It claims to be slow pressed, and while I don't know enough about the minutiae of viticulture to know if this is more than a marketing ploy, it did seem fitting. More fitting, however, than the speed at which the grapes were pressed, was how well this wine's flavor profile fit what I was looking for. It smells crisp and lemony, and there is a slight sweetness to its aroma. Yet the taste leads with a bright, almost tart acidity, coming from notes of green apple, passion fruit and maybe even under-ripe peaches, as well as a slight green, vegetal aftertaste. This is a very dry wine, as poignant and complex as Corral's varied verse.

Corral is a gay Latino writer, and themes of cultural identification, immigration (particularly his father's journey and acclimation to the United States) and sexuality (discovery, love and loss) flow throughout, and bind the collection together. Wine: Slow Press 2016 Sauvignon Blanc, $12 at McNally's. Alcohol-Free Alternative: sparkling apple cider, such as Martinelli's.

The New Brumaire International neoliberalism meets its end

Did I want the globalized neoliberalism of the European Union to dissolve? Yes. Did I want the globalized neoliberalism of the European Union (EU) to dissolve by a surging spate of reactionary populist nationalism? A resounding no. The Western world’s apprehensive gaze has firmly fixed on the French election cycle these past weeks. In a turn of events frighteningly similar to last year’s American debacle, the French election has been trimmed down, the socialist hopes of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Benoît Hamon ousted by Marine Le Pen’s grotesque nationalism and Emmanuel Macron’s disappointing allegiances to liberalism. While most pundits have claimed that Macron is safely ahead of Le Pen and have predicted the victory of the globalist cause and the EU, it is important to remember that the centrist media once had utmost confidence in the then faultless and indomitable Clinton campaign. While I would like to believe the lackluster promises of neoliberal credo still captivate Western voters, it would not surprise me if the French people mirrored their American counterparts and invited an abhorrent reactionary into office. Many pundits and liberal thinkers across political and news outfits and college campuses across the West have been utterly taken aback by the rise in national conservatism, especially within the EU. It was a grand project of liberal democracy, consolidating the (worthy) states of Europe into a bond of convenient travel and capitalism. And now, as seen in a dejected USA, this rosy, elite dream is seemingly coming to its nationalistic end. The mostly smooth post-WWII decades are transitioning into a new epoch in which the logic of neoliberal globalist capitalism is being challenged by more threatening forces. On one hand, the upcoming contest of Macron versus Le Pen is not totally unexpected. Increased influxes of migrants, particularly the Syrian refugee crisis, has exacerbated an Orientalist hatred ingrained into the ideological white-

ness historically foundational to Europe. The EU’s open borders, supposedly the Union’s most beneficial and acceptable facet, is now Europe’s most contentious issue. The concept of an open border is an outwardly advantageous policy when compared to the troubling xenophobia of a closed border. While rigid national boundaries are the dividers of a flawed protectionist mythos, open borders are a more superficially welcoming ideology, one that allows the bourgeois classes to disavow strict national identities in favor of a more expansive, lucrative European relationship. Simply stated, while closed borders reinforce inflexible national sovereignties, open borders are more easily functionalized to reify an overarching identity of whiteness. As we have seen in France, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands and The United Kingdom, when this flimsy and loosely shared European character becomes endangered by the mass movement of non-Whites into their states, more old school nationalists are quick to exploit remaining prejudices and unresolved anxieties. Wealth inequalities continue to rise globally, and while liberals have tried their very hardest to hyper-normalize free trade and unregulated capitalism as the most ideal economic systems, the lower classes have become increasingly dissatisfied with the quo. Unfortunately, this unrest can be tapped into by duplicitous organizations that only seek to further their interests under the guise of economic populism. Brexit was a key example of the feeble sense of commonality the European Union tried to foster and how far right parties were able to benefit from reimagining a national identity as an “England first” mentality obviously removed from the tenets of the EU. Of course, like all right populists/white supremacists before them, UKIP was a party of crypto-fascists whose intent was to gain power and wealth from the lower classes who were duped into supporting them. Rest assured, a victory for Macron in 2017 will only ensure an emboldened Le Pen 2022. It remains clear that the objectives of neoliberalism will only give rise to nationalism. The vision of liberalism cannot supplant hard right populism. Only a more transformative, revolutionary and borderless politics founded in a socialist union among the working and marginalized can ensure peace and prosperity.

Letter to the Editor: The College must protect victims Dear Grinnell College Trustees, When Dissenting Voices first published its Aims & Goals in 2014 in response to Grinnell College’s mishandling of sexual assault, we pushed for strong and clear educational outcomes as a measure of prevention. We observed that Grinnell College rarely, if ever, expels students found responsible for “non-consensual sexual intercourse.” In fact, in our years at Grinnell, the number of survivors that have left campus before completing their degrees far exceeds the number of rapists that have left. There is a crisis in campus safety when there are rapists found responsible for non-consensual sexual intercourse who are allowed to remain on campus, especially considering that, according to “Know Your IX,” 9 out of 10 campus rapes are perpetrated by serial rapists.

In fact, in our years at Grinnell, the number of survivors that have left campus before completing their degrees far exceeds the number of rapists that have left.

Because research shows most rapists are repeat offenders, they pose an active threat to campus safety. The Jeanne Clery Act requires colleges to give timely warnings whenever a campus crime presents an ongoing threat to the community. However, at Grinnell we rarely receive warnings about sexual assault. During the spring semester of 2016, we received multiple warnings about “a male, late 20s/early 30s... with his penis exposed.” Why is a flasher deemed a threat to campus safety, whereas someone reported as a sexual assailant is not? If we are truly concerned with acts of sexual violence, we should take them all seriously, including when they are done by fellow students. It’s unsurprising that Grinnell continues to frame people outside the college as threats to campus safety. Just this week, Andrea Connor sent out a “Safety Alert” about an individual in the town who was “served a campus no-trespass order.” Connor even attached a picture of the individual. While we find this emails helpful for maintaining the safety of the students, we wonder why these emails never address students who pose a threat to the campus at large. Perhaps the College has more concerns about protecting its image, whereas there are no consequences to demonizing people from the town or outside community. As an elite college that prides itself on being progressive, we continue to attempt to separate ourselves from the outside world, as if

we are somehow immune to sexual violence and rape culture, rather than complacent in its perpetuation.

As trustees invested in the Grinnell College community, we wanted to raise student concerns about campus safety and provide ideas on how we can directly address these issues.

Additionally, since research shows that those found responsible for sexual assault are likely to be repeat offenders, the College must remove those found responsible for nonconsensual sexual intercourse from campus. This is important not only to survivor and campus safety, but also in terms of prevention. If colleges made it clear that there are strict consequences for sexual violence, perpetrators will be less likely to commit these crimes. Decades of research show that rapists rape when there are no strict consequences for their crimes. Diana

Scully’s study for the US National Institute of Mental Health revealed that “most of the college-age rapists studied were not only unafraid of punishment, but blissfully unaware that what they did was criminal.” The college has already established a conduct process for sexual assault, but the next step is to define minimum outcomes for this process. As of now, the language on the College’s website regarding education outcomes for students found responsible of sexual misconduct is very unclear. The College states that, “Any student who is determined to have engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse may receive educational outcomes ranging from suspension to dismissal.” What does it mean to engage in non-consensual sexual intercourse (or, rape, if you will)? This passive language is vague enough to implicate both the rapist and the survivor with the use of the word “engaged.” Considering that the College has forced survivors to take a leave of absence for failing to perform academically, as well as a result of inadequate treatment by the College for sexual trauma. Huffington Post writer Tyler Kingkade, who reported on sexual assault on the Grinnell campus back in March 2015, found that this may not be far from the truth. By providing clearer outcomes with more transparent language, survivors and perpetrators will better understand the potential results of the conduct process. Grinnell should take a strong

stance against sexual and dating violence by outlining strict and standard outcomes. We can increase efforts to educate students about the sexual misconduct policy by having every student read and become familiar with the standards of sexual respect outlined in the Student Conduct Handbook. This should happen in NSO or tutorial classes, where students will be required to read relevant sections of the sexual respect policy, especially on potential outcomes.

The college has already established a conduct process for sexual assault, but the next step is to define minimum outcomes for this process. As trustees invested in the Grinnell College community, we wanted to raise student concerns about campus safety and provide ideas on how we can directly address these issues. Thank you, Dissenting Voices

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