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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 sides by sidewalk makes it easier to maintain and prevent invasive species from getting up inside the ...

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 around so many people at once for the first time in over a year. Linnet Adams `21 said that she expects c...

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 traditions every weekend. This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions that discourage large group gatherings...

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 Term 2, she was eager to return to finish out her final semester with her classmates. “It felt more...