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By Celestial Mistress, Maiden, and Minion    Aries Does meeting up with “Flannelbear” in the Casey’s bathroom count?    Taurus Responds to all their Tinder messages with “wanna go for a walk?” Somehow always ends up on the top of Ahrens Hill not really sure if they’re on a date. Doesn’t really matter either way,...

By Celestial Mistress, Maiden, and Minion    Aries Does meeting up with “Flannelbear” in the Casey’s bathroom count?    Taurus Responds to all their Tinder messages with “wanna go for a walk?” Somehow always ends up on the top of Ahrens Hill not really sure if they’re on a date. Doesn’t really matter either way,...

From prairies, woodlands, savannas, and a parking lot: pictures from each of Bleeding Heartland's 30 posts about Iowa wildflowers.

From prairies, woodlands, savannas, and a parking lot: pictures from each of Bleeding Heartland's 30 posts about Iowa wildflowers.

After a full year of difficulties, thousands of students are reaching the finish line and...

May 11, 2021 A student-led initiative will fill in an area of Mac Field with native prairie plants. Photo by Kaya Matsuura. By MJ Old oldmadel@grinnell.edu A patch of tallgrass prairie is coming to North Campus. Since the beginning of spring, a group of students supported by the Center for Prairie Studies has planned to replace the sod on a patch of Mac Field, the triangle where the sidewalks meet outside of Harris Center, with 6,200 prairie plants. “The fact that it’s surrounded on all si...

By Shabana Gupta guptasha@grinnell.edu Grinnell College’s commencement ceremony will occur in person and outdoors on the Rosenbloom Football Field this year on May 28. Fourth years will be able to bring two guests with them, and all attendees will be required to be socially distanced. The ceremony will be livestreamed for fourth years not attending the ceremony in person and the general Grinnell community. Students expressed excitement for the ceremony as well as apprehension for being aroun...

With warmer weather, students adapt campus events to COVID-19 guidelines April 21, 2021 Shanna Kang 21, Jacey Birkenmeyer 22 and Eli Calalang-Lacroix 22 (left to right) perform at The Grinnellian in Spring 2019, the last time the event was held. Photo contributed by Saketan Anand. By Malcolm Galpern Levin galpernl@grinnell.edu As the weather warms up and the sun shines over Mac Field, Grinnell College students in a typical spring semester enjoy a wide range of exciting events and campus traditi...

galpernl@grinnell.edu After traveling from Greece to Grinnell, taking a total of four flights stopping in Munich, Washington D.C., Chicago and finally Des Moines, Inna Gjoleka `21 is back in Grinnell for the first time since March 2020, when students were forced to vacate campus. Gjoleka says she didn’t mind being in Greece because it gave her the opportunity to spend more time with her family. Still, when the College announced fourth-year students would be invited back to campus for Spring T...