BY J. FRANCIS BUSE

This past weekend, two Grinnell College students were hospitalized due to suspected alcohol poisoning, bringing the total number of alcohol-related hospitalizations to 11 since the beginning of the semester. Of those hospitalized, five were first-years and six were returning students. According to data from Student Affairs, at this point in time last semester, only four students had been hospitalized.

“We’ve had more people drink to the point that they’re unconscious,” said Dean of Students Travis Greene. “We’re concerned with the level of excess.”

When an RLC or Security Officer is with a student who they think needs medical attention and the student is not in immediate danger, often they will drive the student to the hos-pital.

In extreme instances, according to Greene, when the stu-dent is neither conscious nor responsive, College officials will call an ambulance to provide immediate care. “We don’t want ... an RLC driving [unconcious] people in their car or making a judgment on whether they need to go to the hospital,” said Greene. “We’re not medical professionals.”

Out of the 11 students hospitalized this year, eight were transported by ambulance. Last year all four students taken to the hospital were transported by a security of-ficer or a friend.

Director of Security Stephen Briscoe said that there have been “no policy changes” from years past on when to call an ambulance.

Typically, an RLC or student staff member is the first per-son to evaluate and administer help to an intoxicated student. If the situation is deemed severe, security is often summoned to give assistance and call an ambulance if necessary.

Last Saturday night, after finding a student on the ground

Gumball Challenge spurs entrepreneurship

Gumball, see p. 7

Dole recognizes WWII veterans

Hospitalization over alcohol on the rise

Bob Dole, see p. 3

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November 14, 2008 Volume 125, Issue 9

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Senator Bob Dole speaks on veteran affairs in Herrick Chapel as part of a weeklong celebration of Veterans Day. AARON BARKER

Inside 11 22 33 44Cavanaugh-Strong’s Travelers: On the Grey-hound, it’s a long strange trip .............p. 4

Classifying mammalia and eating hot dogs with the folks at Wolf House....................p. 6

Mahmood: the evolv-ing meaning of his US flag sweater at home and abroad ........p. 9

Men’s Cross Country attempt to run away with regionals on their home turf............p. 10

“We’re concerned with the level of excess.”

Travis GreeneDean of Students

BY DAVID LOGAN

Students escaping the blistering cold through the shelter of the South Campus loggia have recently been greeted with the warm wafting of fried chickpeas and creamy tahini sauce. A makeshift falafel stand has set up shop in the Loose first floor kitchen peddling falafel sandwiches to passing students.

Falafel Oasis is one of six student-run businesses competing in the Gumball Challenge, a competition to raise money and awareness for microfinance. The student microfinance group Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell provides prospective teams with $27 and a handful of gumballs to start their own 10-day business and raise money for donations.

The competition has spurred businesses both traditional—a hot chocolate stand—and kinky—one group is organizing a raffle of sorts based on the results of a “sex survey” and hosting a kissing booth at this weekend’s fetish party. One particularly innovative group is selling “cupzzas,” a culinary hybrid which molds the flavor of a pizza into the form of a cupcake.

“We were just hanging out and joking about how every-thing’s better in cupcake form,” said Kat York ’09 who produces the tasty crossbreed along with Asa Wilder ’09, Grant Custer ’08, and Kiri Aho ’08 among others.

“We just really wanted to shatter the cupcake-pizza dichot-omy,” Wilder said. “It’s just existed for too long.”

Cupzzas are filled with a concoction of tomatoes, onions and other fresh vegetables adoringly called “stuff ” and come in two flavors, traditional and pesto—the pesto sauce made with freshly grown basil and stored in ice cube trays in the house’s freezer. York called the business “Alternative Food for Alterna-tive People,” or AFAP for short.

“I think we may branch out to things other than food, like t-shirts,” Wilder said. “It’s really a whole lifestyle model, as

BY PATRICK CALDDWELL

After Iowa was the center of electoral politics last fall dur-ing the lead up to the caucus, Grinnell’s campus has seemed to lack a certain glamour of the political variety. But on Thursday, the flare of political glory returned to the College when former Republican Senator and 1996 presidential nominee Bob Dole spoke in Herrick Chapel.

Dole’s visit to campus, sponsored by the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights, was part of a week-long series of events celebrating World War II veterans in honor of Veterans Day, although all other events in the series took place off-campus.

Dole’s speech on Thursday mixed both political humor and veneration for veterans. He spent the majority of the first half of his talk telling jokes, referencing material from the two hu-mor books he has published and also making light of the Via-gra commercials he has become known for since leaving office. “I’ve been asked for samples,” he said. “But I didn’t bring any.”

While maintaining his sense of humor, the second half of Dole’s speech focused on commending veterans. Dole recog-

nized the veterans in attendance and spoke highly of the World War II memorial in Washington D.C., encouraging any veter-ans in the audience to make the trip to view it and to share their war stories in the process.

“At our age we can tell them all, they don’t have to be true, we just say whatever we want,” Dole said.

But while the event focused largely on older veterans, Dole also spoke of the need to look after the care of the younger veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Dole argued for better medical care for the returning veterans, and that they not only need to be compensated for lose of wages due to war-related injuries, but also for the loss of quality of life.

Dole’s praise for the younger veterans went so far that—referencing Tom Brokaw’s well-known declaration that the World War II generation is the “Greatest Generation”—Dole said, “I think the greatest generation is the young men in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Korea, and [those currently serving] around the world.”

Fitting the theme of the events for the week, Dole’s speech was well attended by students and members of the commu-

Tibet alters independence stanceWorld Headlines• The European Union repealed rules banning the sale of misshapen and oddly formed produce in European markets this past Wednesday. The regulation, which held 26 differ-ent types of fruits and vegetables to measurement standards, forced the disposal of approximately 20 percent of produce in EU countries. The change brings what the EU’s agricul-tural commissioner called “a new dawn for the curvy cucum-ber and the knobbly carrot.”

• On Thursday, an Iranian diplomat was kidnapped in Pe-shawar, a Pakistani city near the Afghani boarder. Uniden-tified gunmen captured Hashmatullah Atharzadeh, the commercial attaché for the provincial Iranian consulate, and killed his driver. The incident is similar to the September kidnapping of the Afghanistan’s ambassador-designate to Pakistan, Abdul Khaliq Farahi, by a Taliban strike team.

National Headlines• Several members of Yes Men, a “cultural jamming” political activist group, printed and distributed more than a million copies of a fake version of the New York Times Wednesday morning in New York City and Los Angeles. The 14-page faux-paper declared “Iraq War Ends” in the paper’s headline, and ran stories with headlines such as “Court Indicts Bush on High Treason Charge” and “Harvard Will Shut Busi-ness School Doors.” The online version, available at www.nytimes-se.com, mimics the Times’ website. The operation took 6 monthes to plan.

Iowa Headlines•City officials in Cedar Rapids have approved a $1 billion flood plan that would bring the construction of levees and floodwalls along the Cedar River. The plan comes largely as a response to floods this past summer that effectively shut down the city.

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• Discussed new transportation policy for next semester, which will allow students to drive personal vehicles to col-lege-funded events after student drivers pass a short class.• Harris platforms will be used once again. They will be featured at fetish.• Examined the possibility of issuing reports covering the cases that JudCo reviewed and ACE Security dealt with.

—Compiled by Hugh Redford

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BLACK CHURCH AT GRINNELL: Herrick Chapel, 10:30 a.m.GRINNELL SYM-PHONIC CONCERT BAND: Bucksbaum Sebring-Lewis Hall, 2 p.m.GRINNELL MONO-LOGES: Loose Lounge, 2 p.m.WOMEN’S BAS-KETBALL VS. COE: Darby Gymnasium, 3 p.m.

CDO CAREER CON-NECTION: CDO Con-ference Room, 1127 Park Street, 4:15 p.m.CHINESE TALK: TANG YING: ARH 102, 4:15 p.m.

APPLIED STUDIOS STUDENT RECITAL: Bucksbaum Sebring-Lewis Hall, 12 p.m.GRINNELL FRESH FLUTES ENSEMBLE CONCERT: Bucks-baum Sebring-Lewis Hall, 7:30 p.m.

CDO PRESENTA-TION: ALUMNI CON-NECTIONS: CDO 104, 1127 Park Street, 4:15 p.m.OCS PRE-DEPAR-TURE ORIENTATION: ARH 102, 7 p.m.SPANISH OCS PRO-GRAMS SOCIAL: JRC 209, 7 p.m.OPEN MIC & FAUL-CONER GALLERY: Bucksbaum Faul-coner Gallery, 7:45 p.m.

YGB CONCERT: Herrick Chapel, 2 p.m.WOMEN’S BASKET-BALL VS. MARTIN LUTHER: Darby Gym-nasium, 1 p.m.GRINNELL MONO-LOGUES: Loose Lounge, 9 p.m.TRAVELERS: A MUSI-CAL IN ONE ACT: Bucksbaum Sebring-Lewis Hall, 7:30 p.m.FETISH HARRIS: Har-ris Center Concert Hall, 10 p.m.

BLOOD DRIVE: JRC 101, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.CDO PRESENTATION: INTERVIEW TECH-NIQUES: CDO 104, 1127 Park Street, 4:15 p.m.OCS PRE-DEPAR-TURE ORIENTATION: ARH 102, 4:15 p.m.COMMUNITY MEAL: Davis Elementary School, 818 Hamilton Avenue, 5:30 p.m.

ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES & RE-SPONSES LECTURE: ARH 102, 2:15 p.m.RUSSIAN DEPART-MENT FILM: ARH 305, 6 p.m.TRAVELERS: A MUSI-CAL IN ONE ACT: Bucksbaum Sebring-Lewis Hall, 7:30 p.m.GRINNELL MONO-LOGUES: Loose Lounge, 9 p.m.

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While he may not officially formulate Tibet’s new policy, the Dalai Lama’s enduring political legitimacy will likely prove in-fluential.

While the upcoming weeks will certainly prove significant in forging the future of the Tibet movement, it still won’t face its largest test until the Dalai Lama passes away. While Tibet-an monks begin the long

process of finding and raising a new Dalai Lama, the Tibet Autonomous Region may see increased unrest fomented by the lack of a unifying leader and China’s likely attempt to name a new Dalai Lama.

Tibet may avoid this mass confusion if, as some Tibetans speculate, the current Dalai Lama goes against centuries of tra-

dition and names his own successor. But this solution remains imperfect as it would

create legitimacy issues among a large contingent of Tibetan tradi-tionalists.

In the midst of this change in Dharamsala, China remains

unequivocally strong in its effort to maintain the status quo within Tibet.

Thus, even the most drastic changes in Tibetan exile policy are unlikely to affect a PRC regime holding all the cards.

Even if Beijing were to recognize the unsustainable nature of its current Tibet policy, PRC leadership could still not af-

ford to risk domestic legitimacy by grant-ing concessions to Tibet. But although we

cannot expect a Chinese change in attitude in the discernable future, the potential for signifi-

cant changes in Dharamsala still proves intriguing.

Jim Malewitz ’09, a Political Science major, is the author of “Answering the Tibet Question: An analysis of the past, present and future complexities of the Chinese-Tibetan dispute.”

Under the radar of mainstream media, the Pro-Tibet move-ment has recently reached a critical juncture. After the latest round of failed negotiations between China and Tibet’s gov-ernment-in-exile, large questions loom for Tibetan national-ists and the future of Chinese-Tibetan relations as a whole.

Last week, the Dalai Lama announced that he will abandon his Middle Way Approach towards Ti-betan independence and instead adopt a less com-promising approach. The previous Middle Way Ap-proach meant acknowledging Chinese rule over Tibet while simultaneously advocating for more governmental autonomy. Tibet’s political and spiritual leader indicated he has officially lost faith in the Chinese government and that his approach has not succeeded in bringing beneficial change to Tibet over its 20-year span.

Next Monday in Dharamsala, India, Tibet’s government-in-exile will hold a special meeting to discuss new policy options. While the Dalai Lama will be present at the meeting, he said the Tibetan people will ultimately shape the way Tibetans move forward.

It is difficult to tell where Tibet-ans will decide to go from here. Some Pro-Tibet groups—including the 70,000-member Tibetan Youth Congress—have long advocated outright indepen-dence, even promoting violence as a means to achieve it, and some Tibetan elites may think the Dalai Lama’s admission of failure gives cre-dence to such a radical approach. But many members of the exiled government still maintain the necessity of a non-violent strategy. Monday’s meeting will most likely provide the venue for spirited debate.

At 73 years old and in worsening health, the Dalai Lama has made an effort to gradually decrease his political role within Tibet’s exiled government. This recent news seems to represent an acceleration of this process.

But even playing a reduced role, the mere presence of the Dalai Lama may still significantly impact political discourse.

News AnalysisJim Malewitz ‘09

Jim Malewitz examines the evolving dispute over Tibetan relations with China

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ment for campus, designating a graffiti wall for artists on cam-pus, and implementing a policy that permits students to miss class for religious holidays without academic penalty.

lege Students—which focuses on “harm reduction,” a preventa-tive approach to problems stemming from college age drink-ing.

“The whole idea behind it is just reducing harm,” Looseh-ead RLC Kim Hinds-Brush, who attended the conference, said. “Not necessarily … saying you have to stop drinking, but maybe

working with them to find a way where they can not drink until they puke.”

After a hospital visit, students are cur-rently only required to meet with Greene.

Hinds-Brush said that changes brought about by harm reduction would likely in-volve a more structured approach to deal-ing with students after a hospitalization, in-

cluding an assessment of the student’s health and follow-up meetings with counselors.

While the cause for the increase in hospitalizations remains unclear, Hinds-Brush said that the amount of non-first-years was unsettling. “I expect to some extent for first years to come in and be trying it out and have some trouble,” said Hinds-Brush. “I don’t expect third-years and seniors to be hav-ing the same issues—it seems a little bit crazier.”

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“Initiatives are done really early in the year which is very hard for new students and students coming back.” Josef Schneider SGA Administrative Coordinator

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Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. Most of the questions asked at the end of the event were either posed by a veteran, or by a family member of a veteran.

But while Dole’s speech may have been the only event in the series to take place on Grinnell’s campus, students were still involved in the week’s celebration of veterans. Kicking off the series on Tuesday, a mural painted by Thomas Agran ’09 was unveiled at the Veterans Memorial Building, where it will become a permanent fixture.

The group organizing the events commissioned Agran over the summer to create a mural to celebrate the veterans from World War II. “They wanted representation of the var-ious branches of the armed forces at the time of World War II,” Agran said. “They were also enthusiastic and receptive to my wanting to include imagery from the domestic front and those things as well.” The six by ten-foot mural was painted using oil on a panel canvas. The triptych was painted entirely in black and white.

“It was a real privilege to be chosen to do it, and so far it’s been well received from all the veterans I’ve talked to,” he said. “I think that’s an important feedback.”

Did the college pull funding for the Schoolof the Americas trip?

We couldn’t stop the presses...

But there’s more breaking news online web.grinnell.edu/sandb

outside of a South Campus dorm, Jamaland HSC Graciela Guzman ’11 called Smounk-

er RLC Jim McCarthy. Though the student was conscious, Guzman felt the situation warranted notifying the RLC-on-call.

“I gave her a twenty-minute span after taking her to her room … to see if she had been responsive or taken in wa-ter,” Guzman said. “Once we saw she wasn’t [respon-sive], we thought it was best to call the RLC at that point.” After McCarthy assessed the scene, Security and an ambulance were called.

While hospitalizations and EMT visits have increased, Greene said that there is currently no discussion of significantly alter-ing Student Affairs’ policy on self-governance in regards to alcohol usage. Instead of tightening drinking regulations on campus, Greene said Student Affairs would “much rather focus our energy and talents on how we can do things more safely.”

As part of this effort, SGA President Neo Morake ’09 and College employees attended a conference in September on col-lege alcohol use. The conference featured a method known as BASICS—Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of Col-

BY HEIDI CONNER Ten students attended the initiative open forum. Tuesday

evening, eight had initiatives; an SGA cabinet member showed up late. Only 51% of the campus voted in the October batch of student initiatives—it seems as if Grinnell students has thus far cast a ballot of “no preference” when it comes to voting on campus issues.

On Wednesday and Thursday, campus voted on a second round of Student Initiatives—the first of its kind in recent memory. In response to con-tentious ballot counting in September’s ini-tiative voting, SGA and the election board created a policy guiding the counting of “no preference” votes.

In the first round of initiative balloting, votes of “no preference” were equated with “for” votes towards the two-thirds threshold required to pass an initiative.

Now “no preference” votes will only count toward the 50 percent voter quorum, but not toward the measure of student support, according to SGA Administrative Coordinator Josef Schneider ’09 (see sidebar).

SGA, after facing complaints about lack of publicity for initiatives, has also increased its get-out-the-vote efforts. They did this by postering more and also by “talking it up as much as possible.” Election Board has also sent more all-campus emails than during the first initiatives and Senator elections.

Schneider attributed low turnout to the timing of the first round of initiatives. “Initiatives are done really early in the year,

which is very hard for new students and students coming back to remember that [initiatives] happen immediately,” he said.

Looking toward the future, SGA is discussing possible im-provements to the initiatives system, according to Julie Hoye ’09, SGA vice-president of academic affairs. Election Board is considering including initiative statements on the actual ballot rather than splitting them into two separate documents. Ad-ditionally, SGA members have considered adding a “cost” com-

ponent to the initiative statements which would indicate the anticipated costs associated with each initiative. “Hopefully [a cost component would] let students think about what they are willing to do for the initiative,” Hoye said.

As usual, this group of initiatives was an eclec-tic mix of playful and serious proposals. “Student initiatives are a chance for students to take it upon themselves to change things on campus,” said SGA President Neo Morake ’09.

Leah Krandel ’09 and Latona Giwa ’10 co-sponsored a “Social Justice Peer Education Program” initiative. Giwa said the program would be “a student facilitated program for students to educate ourselves and dialogue about issues of difference and how we deal with difference at Grinnell.”

Other initiatives were more playful. Emily Bajet ’12 resur-rected a proposal for the acquisition of a foam machine. “[The foam machine] is a tool for the ultimate dance party experi-ence,” Bajet said. “[And creates] a lot of foam that you dance in.”

Other initiatives included: buying more playground equip-

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Dark as night and nearly as long, The Dark Knight is pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertain-ment, and goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie based on comic books. Director Christopher Nolan and his crew ensure that this one will be remembered as nothing short of an epic.

Picking up where Batman Begins ends, we are introduced to The Joker in a stunning opening heist sequence. It is no secret that Heath Ledger dedicated his heart, soul and tragically his life to this role, and it shows on screen, resulting in an iconic performance that no one will forget. A self-described agent of chaos, the Joker arrives in Gotham abruptly and quickly seizes control of the city’s crime syndicate and Batman’s attention.

Ledger disappears under the character’s white mask and red leer. The Joker isn’t a terrorist, he’s simply terrifying. His lines are highly witty (“Did your balls drop off?”) and his ac-tions maniacal (the ones in which he makes a pencil “disap-pear,” and “hides” a cell phone are especially memorable). As he so succinctly describes himself, he is a freak, and a carefree one at that.

On the other hand, Batman (a visibly buff Christian Bale) has plenty of problems to deal with. Does his crusade have an end? Can he quit and have an ordinary life? Eventually his struggle becomes external rather than internal because Nolan gives him rivals in love (Aaron Eckhart, playing Harvey Dent or Two-Face) and war (The Joker). During a key confrontation between The Batman and The Joker, The Joker says “What would I do without you? You complete me,” summing up the impeccably complementary nature of the two main characters, one fighting for control and the other creating havoc.

Harvey Dent, hailed as the “White Knight” of Gotham City because he nails one criminal after another as the crusad-ing DA, also happens to be courting Rachel Dawes (Batman’s childhood sweetheart). Dawes is played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose acting abilities are, mercifully superior to her predeces-sor’s. A brutal tragedy, however, turns Dent into Two-Face, a pawn in the overarching duel between Batman and the Joker.

Christopher Nolan is the unsung hero of the film. His di-rection and screenplay are impeccable and his film is taut and relentless despite a Titanic-ish running time of 145 minutes. Gotham City (a thinly-disguised Chicago) has been used to its full effect, with the night shots (such as the one where Batman jumps off a building) being especially visually stunning. The gadget department is also impressive, with the standout feature being the well-publicized Batmobile.

Action movies rarely get this good, and the only gripe might be the relentless emotional hammering the movie subjects its audience to. But the excellent script, peerless performances and immense entertainment will make you at least respect, if not enjoy, even that aspect of the movie.

—Aru Singh

BY BRIAN SHERWIN

Have you ever been on a bus and wondered who the strangers traveling with you were, or where they were going and why they were going there? In Brian Cavanagh-Strong’s ‘09 Travelers: A Musical in One Act, we get to peek into the worlds of the strangers who travel with us and what a strange, beautiful trip it is.

Travelers is a tragic yet humorous musical about a group of people travelling on a Grey-hound Bus from Annapolis, Maryland to Den-ver, Colorado. This unprecedented production premiers tonight at 7:30 in Sebring-Lewis Hall, and will also be shown on Saturday. The music, lyrics, and story were written by Ca-vanagh-Strong this summer as a culminating senior Mentored Advanced Project, though the journey was certainly collaborative.

Last spring, without even writing a note of music or a line of dialogue, Cavanagh-Strong ’09 sowed the first seeds for Travelers when he met with his eventual performers and listened to their voices. “[Brian] did a lot of vocaliza-tions with us,” said Kelly Bosworth ’10, who

plays a young woman in the musical. “He saw what worked best in our voices and wrote the songs based on our voices.”

Piece by piece, the musical emerged. “I used the little musical and thematic ideas that I had and as the summer went on I was able to pile them up,” Cavanagh-Strong said. “They grew on each other. As I talked to my advisor and the cast, things started to come together.”

As a culmination of personal effort and collaboration, Travelers runs a gamut of char-acters, emotions, and musical styles.

Travelers opens up with the passengers peacefully taking their seats on the bus. How-ever, the happy mood is suddenly torn apart by a misanthropic businessman (Tyson Stock ’09) who boards the bus late. He enters bitterly about the passengers, especially Bosworth’s character, of whom he sings: “Who’s the girl, and why is she so f--king happy? … / I bet underneath her life’s real crappy.”

As the bus continues on its journey, each of the other characters also sings of their own per-sonal journeys. From Bosworth’s character and

her male friend (Nate Redman ’09) we hear about their desires for something more than friendship. From Agnes (played by Katharine Jarvis ’09), an 87-year-old woman, we learn that she’s suffering from amnesia, believes that she will see her dead husband in Denver, and enjoys S&M. “She’s kind of inappropriate, and I feel like she’s one of those old people who says whatever she wants,” Jarvis said.

We also go on an LSD trip with Anju (Su-mana Shankar ’10), a young drug addict, an experience that Cavanagh-Strong definitely needed to draw on all of his musical skills and imagination to invoke. “I can’t necessarily speak to the specifics of an acid trip,” Cavanagh-Strong said. “I believe a lot of different things could happen during one, so using things like the gong, the military snare drum, and the dif-ferent kind of string techniques will hopefully heighten that experience musically.”

To build the audience’s visceral experience of the musical, Travelers incorporates an eclec-tic mix of instruments throughout (not just during the acid trip). Despite the diversity of

sounds, the numbers maintain a sense of bal-ance.

“The show embraces a fairly wide range of styles,” said John Rommereim, Music, Ca-vanagh-Strong’s advisor for the MAP. “Brian’s musical voice shines through in each song and gives the work an admirable unity.”

The music and lyrics also serve to bring the characters together. At each rest stop, the characters sing about each of his or her own thoughts; however, at the end of the songs, they come to the same chorus: “And I know these people don’t know me. / They might not care who I am. / But whether or not I like it, I know where I’m going. / I know that we are going to the same end. / We are traveling to-gether.”

Though sad, the rest of Travelers contin-ues to remind us of our interconnectedness, certainly an ambitious project for someone in their early twenties to attempt. We realize that we often share the same regrets and fears, hopes and dreams. If only that stranger sitting next to us on the bus had a stage to sing on.

Student creates road-tripping musical For reviews of the two other Batmans, check out web.grinnell.edu/sandb

BY CHARLES NETZER

With the addition of a new practice space and some extra funds, Freesound, the campus bands collective, has never been stronger. It’s set to prove just how much stronger it is with four concerts (in which 22 bands are set to play) over two and a half weeks, starting to-night in Gardner.

The “Music Still Hates You” festival will incorporate a number of musical genres into the larger concert scheme. The festival will kick off with a primarily dance and hip-hop-

o r i e n t e d c o n c e r t t o n i g h t featuring the cam-pus bands All the R o m e o s , M a x x ,

Honor G, The Jersey Freeze, as well as a guest DJ From Kansas City, TACTIC.

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hopes that her exhibition will help to complete the college’s collection of African art. With her exhibition of “some of the best examples of Zulu ceramics,” she hopes that more emphasis will be placed on three-dimensional art in the future.

Both Strong and Wilson hope that the more contemporary nature combined with the social commentary present in these two exhi-bitions will attract many students. Previous ex-hibitions with these two aspects together, such

BY TORREY MACGREGOR

Last week’s “Love Your Body” series of events might have reached a belated climax a week after their conclusion with the open-ing reception this afternoon at 4:15 p.m. for the new exhibitions “Body/Image” and “Uku-cwebezela: To Shine.” Both exhibitions will be shown in the Gallery until Dec. 14, and both represent the body in unique ways: the former with photographs, drawings and paintings that explore the human body—particularly in a so-cial context—and the latter with highly com-plex examples of what the body can create.

The exhibition “Body/Image” is curated by Dan Strong, who has served as associate di-rector of Faulconer Gallery since 1999. The exhibition incorporates pieces housed in the College’s collection, from which he selected the work of 16 artists whose work focuses on the human body.

“The theme of this [exhibition] is figura-tive,” he said. “A lot of the things we’ve collect-ed are about the body and images of the body in a lot of different formats, a lot of different media, and I just thought this is an ideal time to bring them all together.”

Many of the pieces in Strong’s exhibition are works on paper, and while the pieces were created through diverse artistic methods, such as paintings, pencil drawings, and collages from cutouts in photographs and magazines, there are no sculptures or three-dimensional works of art on display. Strong explained that this focus happened simply because works on paper are what the college’s collection is com-posed of.

Kay Wilson, curator of Grinnell College’s permanent collection, said that the college’s focus on acquiring art on paper may have originated because historically, artists have chosen to create works on paper as a means of proselytizing— works on paper can be mass-distributed and can reach a wider audience. Strong saw such an emphasis as influencing the exhibition in general. “We collect images that suit the history of the college— social resistance, political movements,” he said. “We tend to that kind of art that makes some kind of a social statement or political statement.”

“Ukucwebezela: To Shine” began with a different purpose. Curated by Elizabeth Per-rill ’99, the exhibition showcases contemporary Zulu ceramics. Three pieces were taken from the college’s collection, and Perrill acquired the rest in the last 10 years.

Perrill’s interest in African art began dur-ing her time as a student at Grinnell. For a 300-level art class, she researched a few pieces from West Africa, and though her interest has shifted from one African region to another, she

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as Roger Shimomura’s, have been popular with students. “I went to the Roger Shimomura ex-hibition. It was really interesting; I brought my friends to go see it,” says James Ng ’12.

Other students hope that this exhibition will offer something different. “I went to the Shimomura one, too, but I didn’t really like it,” said Paul Leger ’12. “I’m planning to go to the one with the Zulu ceramics, though, that looks cool.”

New exhibitions to examine the body

said Chris Farstad ’09, one of the leaders of Freesound, referenc-ing the all-night dance party last spring in Gardner. “It’s going to be off several chains at once.” The workday style party hypothetically runs from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., hence the name.

“Seriously, don’t come if you’re lazy,” Farstad warned. “DJs K, No-Face and Fancy Mike will spin into the wee hours.”

The festival pauses until the next Friday, and then kicks into high gear. The punk show on Nov 21 begins with a handout of posters and t-shirts in Quad for those who get to the show early.

“We had alumni David Bar-nett [’08], Mac Pohanka [’08], and Carson Smith [’08] from the Brooklyn Company Tingle Fin-gers make show posters and tees,” said Soleil Ho ’09, another Free-

sound leader and member.“There’ll be food too,” Far-

stad added.The music itself begins at 9

p.m. in Quad. Cover band Fa-bio & The Gods of Romance start things off, and then punk outfits The Schmohawks, Un-known Assailant, and Rasco & The Rats of Nimh hit the stage. Local ska band Slaughterhouse Six will then finish the show off. “We call the show ‘The Co-Optation of Counter Cul-ture,’” Ho said.

The sweaty masses can take a break until the following night, although Farstad admitted that the festival doesn’t technically end. “People gotta sleep,” he said. “But you can stay.”

Headlining the next night’s concert, which will again be in the Quad, and will again have

food, is Caustic Vision, a local hardcore outfit. College headbangers Opiate open, followed by punks Nahboo, Pigs for Miles, and White People Music before Caustic Vision begins their set.

The whole festival winds down on Tues-day in Bob’s with an acoustic show featuring K Plattner, Nobody’s Hippie and Friends, Allie Joelle, JTweeChasez, and Triangle. After the previous weekend’s music overload, the group has decided to dub this show “Gently Caress-ing Like a Lamb”.

“This festival has been several weeks in the making,” Ho said. “All the same, we still need volunteers to help make sure things go smoothly.”

Students were impressed at the scope of the event and looked forward to attending. “I’m so excited,” said Clare Comstock ’09, “this is go-ing to be the best Grinnell show of all time!”

Pieces from “Body/ Image”, the exhibition curated by Dan Strong, associate director of Faulconer Gallery, hang in the Gallery before the opening this after-noon. This exhibition f ills only half of the Gallery; the other half will be f illed by “Ukucwebezela: To Shine”, which is curated by Elizabeth Perrill ’99.

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Got an Art Crush on Kat York? Check out this week’s column where York ex-amines graffiti and the effects of Empty White Wall Syndrome (EWWS).

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Some people hang posters on their walls. Some people hang maps or scarves or pictures. On the living room wall at 1015 High Street, better known as “Wolf House,” Asa Wilder ’10 has hung … a Periodic Table of Mammals?

“It started as this simple Venn diagram,” Wilder said, “and it grew out because I kept forgetting groups such as water mammals. Ba-sically any mammal you can think of will fit somewhere on the table. The Monkey-Human group crosses with Rodents and Dogs; a pig would be classified as a Dog-Elephant … ”

Wolf House residents Wilder, Jonathan Patkowski ’09, Rex Unger ’09, Emily Zarr ’10.5 and Alec Schierenbeck ’09, who fall into the Monkey-Human group, are just a pack of wild friends dedicated to hanging out, throwing parties, killing bedbugs, and classifying mam-mals.

Given that the wolves are not the most welcoming of creatures, I was a little nervous to visit a house with such a foreboding name. But as soon as I entered their den, Patkowski put my worries to rest. “We’ve liked wolves for a while,” Patkowski said. “And they’re wild animals, which are pretty cool.”

So they just like wolves. No howling at the full moon or performing ancient pagan rituals while wearing wolf masks … yet. “We were going to buy wolf masks and we’re still probably going to do that,” Patkowski said.

Still, it turns out they do have a few rit-uals—but they’re not so much ancient Pagan as late night kosher. Every night at midnight, they watch The Wire and eat Hebrew National hotdogs. You’re welcome to join them, but you have to bring your own hot dogs.

Including the hot dogs, junk food forms a vital part of the Wolf House diet. They start each day with a breakfast of Blueberry Morn-ing, a cereal that tastes like blueberry muf-fins. Then throughout the day, the members of Wolf House fuel their bodies with energy drinks (you can see cans of Diet Pepsi Max strewn throughout the house) and Louisiana

Hot Sauce (since fall break they have gone through six or more bottles). As for dinner, they often have pizza on Thursdays and try to vary the toppings as much as possible.

The unique diet of Wolf House is some-thing they hope to bring to the rest of the Grinnell community by opening up a bar-beque and bagels restaurant. Patkowski, who hails from Brooklyn, wants to show Grinnel-lians what real bagels taste like.

In addition to their unique culinary tastes, the Wolf House pack also has interesting taste in interior decorating. Schierenbeck is particu-larly proud of the Bronze Plaque of Mount Rushmore hanging on the living room wall as well as the Iowa flag he has hanging above his bed. “That’s probably the most notable thing about my room,” Schierenbeck said sarcasti-cally.

Christmas lights hang above the door to their living room, which is filled with Ameri-cana. The kitchen is Dali-esque, decorated by Kat York’s ’09 art installation, which consists

of photographs of people’s mouths.

While artwork that fo-cuses on oral bacteria seems a little unsanitary for a kitchen, the housemates said they are usually pretty good at keeping things clean. They especially pride themselves on their ef-forts to recycle after parties.

“We’re good at taking cans to the redemption center.” Patkowski ’09 said. “[The redemption center is] crazy—it’s like a third world shack with, like, angry, angry people. It’s a fucked-up place. Everything’s covered in flies and beer and mold, and the people are really unhappy. It’s pretty depress-ing, actually.”

In the background, Wilder and Unger si-multaneously murmured, “The man with no soul takes your cans.” In contrast, Wolf House howls of absurd, imaginative, Monkey-Hu-man soul—enough to merit a new group in the table of mammals. Always eager for clas-sification, Patkowski said, “You should call us self-loathing clowns.”

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opposed to just products.”In addition to alternative food, this alternative business is promot-

ing their foodstuffs with alternative marketing tools. To build publicity for their cupzzas, the business will hold a promotional “protest” of sorts outside local food establishments. Marching with plywood signs pro-claiming “EAT THIS” in big bold red letters, the young entrepreneurs hope to attract customers with food already on their minds.

At other times, they market their product to a particularly captive audience.

“We target drunk people,” York said. “We go to parties and help people with their hangovers.” Noting that their business helped combat both poverty and hangovers, York remarked that they were “socially conscious, through and through.” When I visited York and her fellow “cupzzers” on a Monday night, she said it was the first non-weekend night they had ever produced cupzzas.

The cupzzas were being as-sembled in the kitchen of 1008 High St., where Al Green, remixed M.I.A. and Jay-Z tunes bounced in from the living room. In the mean-while, the moguls of AFAP busily prepared their cupzzas and pupzzas (a miniature variety) to sell later in the week.

Some of the innovations are simply a matter of necessity. “[A] lot of our ideas come from just not having the proper materials,” Wilder said. “Like the pupzzas came from not being able to find the large tins.”

Though AFAP members describe the production process as “labor intensive,” they seem to enjoy it. Aho said that the most challenging aspect of producing cupzzas is that “the dough is really sticky” while Custer and York attempted with spoons and forks to pry a few stub-born ones from their disposable baking tins.

While AFAP seeks to capitalize on the drinking habits of Grinnel-lians, the business run by Ben Howort ’09 and Katherine Gregersen ’09 hopes to capitalize on students’ sexual habits.

“Fetish coincides with the Gumball Challenge and we thought we would exploit the basic principle of people wanting to talk about their sex lives,” Howort said. “Basically the idea was to exploit Fetish at all costs.”

Their business model is twofold. At this weekend’s Fetish party,

the two will be running a $1 kissing booth manned by, among others, SGA President Neo Morake ’09 (hugs will be available for the less adventurous). In the days leading up to the party they are asking stu-dents to fill out a sex survey. After completing the survey, students are asked to donate $1 for a chance to guess the final average answers for the surveys dozen or so questions. Students closest to the answers will receive sex-themed prizes.

The survey asks respondents for information like how many times they’ve faked an orgasm and whether or not they’ve had an orgy. At the bottom, students are asked to indicate their own personal fetishes from a list that includes, among others, “food,” “feet,” and “whale penis.”

Despite the somewhat personal questions, Howort said that very few students have refused to take the survey and that as of Tuesday they had “several hundred” completed surveys, with roughly 50 stu-dents participating in the raffle.

But for this business, initial success hasn’t come completely without a cost—or, at least, a little awkwardness.

“It was cool,” said Antonio Woods ’10 who paid a dollar to par-ticipate in the guessing competition. “But the only thing I suggested they change is not to be sitting in front of you while you fill it out,” Woods said. “They were all yes or no questions or answers with num-bers. Maybe they could turn their head or something.”

Howort said that he glimpsed his own name being scribbled by one respondent.

Sex surveys and kissing booths may not enjoy the widespread ap-peal to market beyond Grinnell College but some entrepreneurs might have businesses in their future. Wilder was unsure whether his post-graduation plans would feature cupzzas, saying that the business would be most profitable “if we can find a population of high enough alcohol abuse.”

“I just think it’s important to know that if you buy a cupzza now, then you can say that you were there for the beginning of the greatest of a dynasty.”

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Jenny Marion ’11 serves Ted Cooper ’09 a falafel from Loose Hall ’s kitchen window, or the “Falafel Oasis.” CAIT DE MOTT GRADY

Dorm LivesDorm Lives

BY JEFF RADERSTRONG

This week: John H.T. MainAn undated, unlabeled newspaper clip-

ping from Burling Library’s Iowa Room congratulates college President John Main for becoming a “$5,000 man.” The article writes that this salary reflects two things: “The substantial material prosperity of the college, and a fine appreciation of the services of the man who occupies the presidency.”

A $5,000 salary might not be much com-pared to the earnings of Grinnell’s current president, but back then it marked the Col-lege’s development into a preeminent educa-tional institution and President Main’s con-tribution to that development. In his book Grinnell College, John Nollen—who served

as Professor, Dean, and College President from 1932-1940—writes that Main’s presidency was “in some respects the most fruitful administra-tive term in the history of the college.”

Main started what would be a 39-year ser-vice to the Grinnell community in 1892 as a professor of Greek. He took over the presi-dency in 1906 and retained it for 25 years until his death in 1931.

Because he was a professor, many thought his presidency would be focused on academ-ics. The number of faculty did grow under his leadership, but so did everything else. The student body almost doubled and the endow-ment grew from $400,000 at the beginning of the century to $2,165,000 at the end of Main’s presidency, according to Nollen.

Main is also responsible for turning Grinnell into a residential campus. He oversaw the building of the Women’s Quadrangle and the Men’s Dormitories, (the residence areas now known respectively as South campus and North Campus) bringing students from their individual apartments in town onto campus.

With this new residential system, the Main administration created a student government

for male students, governed by a student senate of 22 members. The women students, however, were still disciplined by the “Women’s league board,” according to an unlabeled article hon-oring Main’s 20th year at the college.

In addition to the first residence halls, both Herrick Chapel and ARH were built under the Main presidency. Main also oversaw the creation of Grinnell’s first international pro-gram Grinnell in China in 1913, where gradu-ates taught elementary and high school in Techow, China.

Main also had a strong presence in the greater Grinnell community. He was a leader in the local Kiwanis clu, and never missed a meeting until he caught the sickness that lead to his death. “His home,” said his obituary in the Grinnell Herald-Register, “has been a social center for college groups, both student faculty and others, and here have been enter-tained some of the greatest men and women honored in political, civic, intellectual and so-cial activities.”

Main died on April 1st, 1931, just one day short of his 72nd birthday.

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Eleanor Russell ’10

9:15 a.m. Cell phone/alarm clock goes off. Pick it up and reset alarm for 9:30. I don’t even know why I set it at a quarter past every night—I do this literally every morning.

10:05 a.m. Arrive at class a little late because I was flossing and listening to Electric Six. Feel no shame. Make the best drawing of a diplodocus in the margins of my notebook that I—or the world—has ever seen.

11:10 a.m. Lunch. The salad bar has romaine today! Almost cry for joy but manage to keep it together.

12:00 p.m. Read for my film analysis class. And by read I mean do the New York Times crossword puzzle and nap in the Fireplace Lounge.

2:15 p.m. Realize at the end of film analysis class that I have written the words “White Patriarchal Capitalism” all over my assign-ment notebook. Don’t remember doing this, and chalk it up to ideology doing its work.

3:00 p.m. About halfway through my religion seminar I realize that everything I thought I knew about life is probably false. Am weird-ly complacent.

5:00 p.m. Dinner. Tonight’s main discus-sion concerns the merits of Jean-Claude Van Damme. I claim he’s just a poor man’s Schwarzenegger. Controversy ensues.

6:30 p.m. Go to the gym. Engage in self-loathing internal monologue the entire time. Afterwards, though, I feel pretty good.

9:00 p.m. Receive call from friend who is an industrial design major at Rhode Island School of Design. She tells me she made a ceiling fan today; I tell her I thought about Lacan. Awkward silence.

10:45 p.m. Feel kind of down/tired, so watch videos of laughing babies on YouTube. Feel a little better.

11:00 p.m. More reading. Books are mecha-nisms for knowledge!

12:30 a.m. Bedtime. By this point am no longer tired. Take some NyQuil and pass out still in my clothes from the day. Classy classy.

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“We target drunk people. We go to parties and help people with their hangovers.”

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On Thursday, Ali Sargent ʻ10 polled 50 people at ARH and Justin Erickson ʻ10 polled 50 people at

Noyce, asking:

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Sub-free housing and a shoutout to freesoundPlace sub-free in Norris

There is no doubt that we need more substance-free housing. The demand for rooms is significantly greater than the number of rooms available, the result being that older students and incoming first-years alike are sometimes not able to live in sub-free hous-ing if that is their preference.

Ideally, no dorm should have to change its previ-ous culture, but under the circumstances there is no other way to meet the demand for sub-free. That be-ing said, among the options available—Norris instead of Smith, or Cleveland or Main in addition to Smith and Kershaw—Norris is the least problematic. For more specific information on the choices, see the article from last week’s S&B.

Main and Cleveland aren’t viable choices. Main would be difficult to con-vert to sub-free because of Gardner lounge. There is no practical way to stop the parties in the basement from affecting the rest of the hall or to restrict sub-stances to the lounge proper.

Cleveland can also be eliminated from the list, but for different reasons. The hall has had its current cul-ture for at least a few decades now, so it would take a lot of cleaning to get the eau de Cleveland out of the walls and carpets. Allergies are one of the reasons some students choose to live in sub-free, and subject-ing students with such allergies to the remnants of years of moderate substance use is thoughtless.

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This is one of the reasons that Norris is the best choice. The same students with allergies and asthma who would be negatively affected by the lingering varieties of smoke in Cleveland would also benefit from the air conditioning in Norris, which serves to circulate and dehumidify the air, making it easier to breathe in the hot parts of the school year.

Norris is also the best choice in terms of space. Out of all the dorms on campus, Norris’s numbers of singles and doubles are closest to those needed for substance-free housing.

The only foreseeable problem with Norris is its supposed isolation from the rest of campus, but Main

is equally far from the cen-ter of campus. Norris is not treated as though it is isolat-ed now, and there is no rea-son to believe that students will stop visiting friends in Norris simply because the dorm is sub-free.

While Smith has been a great home to sub-free students on campus, it has only been sub-free since the policy was instituted less than a decade ago. Despite current perceptions, Smith is just like any other dorm on campus and could easily house non-sub-free students again.

One way around this problem would be to tell first-years and their parents to stop being naive about the lifestyle changes that happen in the first year of college with regard to substance use. While it would be amusing, the prospect of telling parents to accept that their kids are probably going to drink is inappro-priate and beyond the College’s responsibility.

Freesound is exemplaryAll too often, campus organizations exist some-

where between reality and ideal, a mixture of lofty goals and broken equipment. It can be difficult to fulfill original goals for clubs as work builds up, time beats on and interest wears down—just compare the size of any club’s email list to its actual meeting atten-dance. But Freesound, a group of campus musicians dedicated helping each other rock/rap/scream/mix, has shown the campus how to keep your act together and provide everyone with some spunky fun.

On a basic level, Freesound does its part to pro-vide campus musicians with equipment and a practice space, which has been filled during almost all of its open hours this semester. But this year, Freesound has continued to build on top of its already strong foun-dation, offering more shows with different bands and extra pizzazz. Mike Kober’s electronica and a death metal band in the same room? Hardcore punk show in Quad? Free nachos in Gardner at 2 a.m.? These are good things that show all the work Freesound has put into making music “special” on campus, even as its budget has been cut to the point they may not be able to release their annual “Freesound CD.”

You should go do your thing to some music, be-cause hey, the sound’s free.

All in all, this decision should not disrupt cam-pus life too much. Campus culture is forever chang-ing and evolving, and switching around the substance status of two dorms should be seen as more a matter of practicality than anything else. A few years from now, Grinnellians won’t know which dorms used to be sub-free.

Bringing improvements to Joint Board and CabinetAs an involved Grinnell student,

odds are that at some point you’ve talk-ed about, thought about, or lamented about SGA. I’d even up the odds that if you were complaining, it was probably about how inaccessible it is.

Well, buck up, kiddo. Your friendly Cabinet and Joint Board both have gotten the ball rolling on this issue in a very, very cool way.

On Nov. 5, Joint Board reviewed a resolution, sponsored by Cyrus Wit-thaus ‘10 and Harry Krejsa ‘10, that would move the committee and cabi-net reports to the beginning of Joint Board. This would put them right after soap box, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday nights. Thus, my fa-vorite part of Joint Board—and in many ways the most useful—is now first!

These reports summarize all of the cool things going on around Grinnell in about 20 minutes. This includes

Hugh Redford ‘10Hugh Redford ‘10Grinnell: Inside OutGrinnell: Inside Out

meetings with R.K.O., Dining Services, and discussions about the school’s web-site. Interested? Or maybe you’d rather talk about foam machines, napkin dis-pensers, and upcoming concerts. Now, you can talk about all that and more, conveniently timed to coincide with the end of your dinner.

Stop on by and find out what’s go-ing on around campus.

This resolution has brought about an increased interest in reforming Joint Board—from Joint Board. Now is the time to talk to your Senator about what you want to see changed. Just as SGA has a responsibility to open itself to you,

you have a respon-sibility to tell your Student Govern-ment how it can best serve you.

Take a minute of your time and reply to one of the emails that regu-

larly show up in your inbox about the minutes or agenda. If you’ve ever had a

complaint about Student Government, and odds are you probably have, speak up! Student government is primed for improvement—strike while the iron is hot.

Cabinet is rolling out improvements as well. For starters, they are examining the current means of distributing the minutes with the stated goal of increas-ing distri-bution and accessibility. Vice President of Student Affairs John Burrows ’10 has begun a push to increase SGA outreach to other student organizations by attending ISO meetings and examining what student government can do to increase activi-ties over breaks.

Furthermore, the revamped student initiatives process has been rolled out for a second round of voting. Under the new system, all initiatives will be

reviewed before they are sent to a vote. Initiatives that clearly won’t provoke much controversy—like adding p-card readers or fixing laundry machines—will instead be sent to the appropriate committee for review. You can stay updated on their progress by stopping

by Joint Board to listen to commi t -tee re-ports.

S t u -dent Gov-e r n m e n t

this year is in the unique position of having fresh eyes. Our leadership is made out of students with extensive experience in all aspects of campus life, except SGA.

Now that they have had a chance to get their bureaucratic feet underneath them, the fun can start. Hop aboard the change train, Grinnell. It’s time to be the change you want to see in your school.

Hugh Redford ’10 discusses the new changes that will be affecting student government on the Grinnell campus

Things to check out in the Grinnell Area Thursday, Nov. 13 to Wednesday, Nov. 19

Strand 3 Theatre: **Showing the week of Nov. 14 – 20 **

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG) Quantum of Solace (PG-13) starring:

Daniel Craig. Special Advance Showing Friday, Nov. 14 – Thursday the 13 at Mid-night.

Starting Nov. 21: Twilight. Special ad-vance showing Friday Nov. 21 at 12:01 a.m. (Thursday at midnight)

**$5.00 Grinnell College Discount Passes available at the Campus Bookstore and the Pioneer Bookshop and the Iowa Valley Grinnell Campus. Call 236-7600 or visit www.fridleytheatres.com for all show times.

“Flowerage” by Netia Worley at Grinnell Community Art Gallery: Through Nov. 26, Monday – Friday, 3 – 5:30 p.m. Weekends and evenings by ap-pointment. The art gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Grinnell Community Cen-ter, 927 Fourth Ave. For info or appoint-ments, call 236-2620.

World War II Display: Memorabilia from the collection exhibited through Sun-day, Nov. 16 at Grinnell Historical Mu-seum, 1125 Broad Street. 2-4 pm daily 236-7827.

Central Iowa Christian School’s An-nual Soup Supper & Auction: Friday, Nov. 14 beginning 5 p.m. at the Grinnell Christian Church Family Life Center, 1331 Hobart St. ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT. Silent Auction begins at 5 p.m. and the live auc-tion starts at 7 p.m. $10 for ages 10 and up; $4 for children ages 4-10. Children under age 3 are FREE. Tickets available at Step-ping Stones Bookstore or contact Central Iowa Christian School 236-3000

Auction of Antiques & Collectibles: Saturday, Nov. 15 at 9 a.m. at the Poweshiek County Fairgrounds, East Street South. Doors open at 8 a.m. and dolls will sell first. Furniture will begin selling no later than noon with the car immediately preceding.

Community Meeting on School Bud-geting Process: Monday, Nov. 17, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Grinnell High School Audi-torium, 1333 Sunset St. For all interested community members. An outside facilitator will open the meeting and participants will break into small groups for more focused discussion.

Lord of the Flies: Nov 20 – 23rd. Per-formances of William Golding’s play at the Voertman Theatre, Grinnell Community Center, 927 Fourth Avenue. Performances Nov. 20 at noon, Nov. 21 and 22 at 7 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets available at Brown’s Shoe-Fit, McNally’s, and at the door. $8 for adults, $7 for those over age 65, $5 for students. Sponsored by the Grinnell Community Theatre.

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Taking an American flag sweater to EgyptI’ve been called many things over the years,

but I’ve never been called unpatriotic. Despite its many faults, I’ve always maintained the deepest fondness for America. I am incredibly lucky that a kind providence willed me into existence on American soil.

And I don’t take pains to hide my affec-tion.

I have a sweater that I bought a number of years ago, back in the first dark days of the Bush era. This sweater is particularly dear to me because a large Amer-ican flag is emblazoned prominently across the front, broadcasting loudly that the wearer is a proud American. I’m so attached to this sweater—despite its incorrect five stars and six stripes—that I decided to bring it along for my semester abroad in Egypt. And I didn’t leave it in my suitcase when I got there.

I’d been in Cairo for a week, getting a feel for the city and getting my bearings as best I could. School hadn’t yet started and I was making preparations for my first day of classes. Egypt certainly doesn’t get as cold as Iowa, but on one cool February evening, the weather was perfect for a sweater—I chose my favorite one.

At best, this was a decision of questionable wisdom. At worst, it was downright inflamma-tory. In hindsight, it was probably closer to the latter. But at the time I was completely obliv-ious—I wondered why the otherwise hospi-table Egyptians were giving me cold stares and all the cabbies refused to yield.

I walked into a small stationary store to

buy a notebook for my Arabic class. I found one suitable for my purposes and brought it to the teller to ask how much. She looked me in the eye, looked down at my chest, and with a grin, quoted me a price of 60 U.S. dollars. I’d heard that Egyptians drove hard bargains and many a Westerner had been ripped off due to a reluctance to haggle. I tried to negoti-ate in my broken Arabic, but the old woman wouldn’t budge. She wouldn’t accept a penny less. I made my way to the door frustrated and

offended—walking past a group of laughing kids. I really wanted that note-book.

Later in the evening, I met a friend at a café who promptly complimented

me on my sweater. I looked down at my chest and it hit me like a ton of bricks—I smiled as I realized what that old woman’s grin had meant.

Looking back, I think much worse could have happened. I bet there were a lot of Cairenes in the street that would have loved to give the brazen American a fistful of their mind.

It was a solemn reminder of how soiled the American brand has become in the past few years. A long war in Iraq, a disaster visited upon its people, the unforgettable dishonor of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and complete disregard for the world’s dissident voices have aggregated to leave America in a precarious place.

We roll our eyes when we hear of America referred to as “the beacon of light” for the rest of the world, but it used to be true. America

saved Europe from itself twice, and on the sec-ond occasion, we gave it the resources to hold off communism, rebuilding it with the Mar-shall Plan. After the Second World War we didn’t grind our heels on the throats of our en-emies; rather, we were responsible stewards and enabled our adversaries to prosper. Forty years after the end of World War II, we allowed the Japanese and the Germans to emerge as our major economic competitors. Such responsible leadership is unprecedented in history.

Though we’ve squandered our unipolar moment, America remains the leader of the free world. The oppressed, impoverished, and disaffected masses have looked to America for hope and to reaffirm their belief in mankind’s capabilities. We still believe whole-heartedly in the ideals of liberty and justice, and that all men are created equal. Though we may have momentarily lost our way, we have rededicated ourselves to progress and emerged as the right-ful leaders of the free world. We reaffirmed American exceptionalism this year on Election Day, and the world is better for it.

There is a great deal of hope riding on the shoulders of President-Elect Obama. Our hopes must be tempered by a realistic view of what he can accomplish. But I have no doubt that our collective decision to move forward again has rekindled a respect for America. It will take a massive effort to reorient American foreign policy, but we have the opportunity to rehabilitate the soiled American brand.

As for myself, I’m hopeful. We have the world’s attention and we’re in a fantastic posi-tion to make the most of it. I certainly hope we do because next time I go to Cairo, I’d like to bring my sweater.

I may be wrong, I may be wrong, but I doubt itbut I doubt it

Junayd Mahmood Junayd Mahmood ‘09‘09

Helen Lewandowski ’12

A cold weather adventure to a thrift store

Adam Barrett ‘08Adam Barrett ‘08

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Greetings, adventurers! The weather has taken a turn for the gross. We’ve whipped out the winter coats and heavier hats. And though we may still be desperately avoiding that day when the scarves and snow boots come out of that special box marked “goodbye forever, pre-cious warmth of the sun,” there is no denying that it is no longer wise to spread out in the grass and lie there, soaking up the elements.

But while we may not be up for longer ex-posures to the great outdoors, opportunities still abound for adventure—indoor Grinnell yields discoveries at every turn.

One of my personal favorite places to ad-venture indoors is that classic college student staple, the thrift store. You’ve probably seen Goodwill, hanging out right there on High-way 146 and Harrison Avenue, several blocks south of the College. But have you been to Second Mile?

Head west on 5th Avenue until you hit Spring Street, then hang a left. As you cross

Adam Barrett ’08 shows readers that a feezing winter in Iowa is no match for the real adventurer

the railroad tracks, it appears on the right like a blue and yellow vision. But that’s no mirage—it’s really there! This thrift store is twice as cheap as Goodwill and three times as charm-ing. And, full of treasures.

Once inside, head off to the left a bit and pick through the picture frames for artifacts of those who’ve gone before. A friend of mine once found this gem—an embroidered scene depicting one gun-toting human, a soon-to-be ex-deer, and a single tree. Above this majestic trio, in black block let-ters, floated the words, “A hunter will do ‘ANY-THING’ for a buck.” Archaeological scholars are still working to unlock the layered meanings of this mysterious text. Who knows what puzzles it may solve?

When you’re done pondering Americana for the day, don’t forget to peruse the racks of clothing. In the wild world of the born adven-

turer, one never knows when a good disguise will come in handy. What manner of escapes will require that feather boa? When might you need to lay low in a Grinnell Tigers ball cap and a green neon balaclava? I have been known to spend days incognito for no reason, just in case.

For the indoor adventure of an entirely different sort, go to Community Meal and sit with a stranger. We at the college are cut off

from social contact with anyone under 16 or over 22, and there’s a lot to be discovered in the experi-

ences of others. So go down to Davis El-

ementary—just walk down Broad Street, you’ll see it eventually—at 5:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, grab whatever buttery, meaty dish or vegetar-ian analog is on tap for the day, and strike up a conversation. It turns out loads of cool people are not actually college students. Who knew?

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Men’s Cross Country rides perfect score into regionalsBY MIKE KLEINE

On Saturday, Nov. 2, the Men’s Cross Country team defined perfection as Grinnell swept the top spots at the MWC Champion-ships at Galesburg, IL.

This was the first time the team received a perfect score of 15 something no other MWC team has accomplished since 1974. The five finishers were Co-Captain Henry Reich ‘09, Noah DeLong ’11, Sam Calisch ’10, Co-Cap-tain David Montgomery ’10 and Nick Sparr ’09. Reich was one second shy of the course re-cord and all five runners were in range of each other by 30 seconds.

“The biggest thing was Nick Sparr [’09] our fifth man,” said Reich. “It was his sticking it out to the end and beating this guy down that really made a difference and allowed us to get a perfect score.”

As part of the year’s work-out program, many of the top runners this year made a personal commitment to practice during the summer. From the beginning, there was a dif-ferent dynamic within the team. “The team has always been tight,” said Head Coach Will Freeman. “This particular group I think is especially tight. The difference is that they’re driven.”

According to Calisch, this unity is what created such a strong team. “We have a lot of input in designing our training,” Calisch said. “Some people run in the mornings, two or three times a week [but] on the whole, most of the training is pretty similar.”

The increase in aerobic thresholds this year was another important element in the team’s success, according to Freeman. “It’s pretty en-couraging when you’ve got guys that can run a 5:25 pace for eight miles,” Freeman said. “Then you know these guys are fit. It’s very impressive.”

Talking about the championship meet, Montgomery affirmed that a lot of the success

Defensive Lineman Curtis McCoy ‘09 gives chase to Beloit Running Back Andy Christiansen ‘11 during Saturday’s 34-12 loss at Rosenbloom Field. However, the team did outscore the Buccaneers during the second half 12-7.The game ended the Pioneers season with a record of 3-7,in-cluding, a 2-7 f inish within the Midwest Conference. It was their best record since the 2004 campaign when they went 6-4. Another shining light for the season was Brett Maloney ‘09 breaking the Midwest Confer-ence record for tackles in one season with 161, recording 19 stops in Saturday’s game. Ma-loney was also named to the D3football.com national team of the week.

--Jai Garg

BEN BREWER

came from achieving personal goals and be-ing mentally prepared. “There are a number of reasons why we were able to do it this year,” Montgomery said. “We were lucky, other teams didn’t have any real standout runners and we

were prepared on the day to make something special happen so that helped.”

Following the team’s success at the MWC, they must now shift their focus to this week-end’s upcoming NCAA regional meet at the

Oakland Acres Country Club on Saturday. Hopeful for the weekend, Freeman believes

the team will succeed. “I do like the fact that we’re home,” Freeman said. “It’s their course so I do believe that’s advantageous.”

Grinnell ’s Cross Country team makes a break off the line during the Midwest Conference Championships last week. CONTRIBUTED

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gargjai@grinnell.edu 11Kate Gluckman dishes out tips, assists, and pointers

BY MANDO MONTANO

After two successful seasons as an as-sistant coach at Tufts University, Kate Gluckman has made the transition to the cornfields of Iowa, taking over as the new women’s head basketball coach. “ She has high expectations,” said Jessica Vaverka ’11. “But they’re attainable.”

Gluckman brings with her a new coach-ing philosophy from Tufts University, where she played basketball throughout college and coached after a two-year coaching stint at small high schools in the northeast.“I found my-self writing practice plans while I was supposed to be doing marketing,” Gluck-man said on her high school basketball coach-ing and sports marketing internship in Cape Cod right after her graduation form Tufts University. “ I decided that my next year out that I would continue doing that.”

That next year, Gluckman moved up to Maine and started coaching at a private high school for a year before she obtained a graduate assistant coaching position that opened up at Tufts University, working with her former college basketball coach, Carla Berube.

Gluckman made the transition to as-sistant coaching fast, getting to know the players and listening to their concerns. “Our head coach could be a little difficult to talk to sometimes,” said Tufts basketball player Katie Tausanovitch ’09, of Berube. “[Kate] was a good bridge between the players and the coach since Kate was always so ap-proachable.”

Her approach has followed her to Grinnell, as players enjoy how easy she is to communicate with. “She doesn’t put criti-cisms in a rude or negative way,” said Vaver-ka. “Its always constructive.”

According to Tausanovitch, Gluckman tried her best to understand the players’ per-sonal lives and worked to create a commu-nity within the team. “I know this sounds sort of dorky,” Tausanovitch said.

“But at the beginning of the season, she once had us write on a giant sheet of paper what our goals were for the year and how we were going to achieve them. As dorky as it sounds, it worked.”

Gluckman’s team bonding worked. The two years that Gluckman was an assistant coach at Tufts the team had phenomenal sea-sons, going 18-8 in 2006-2007 and 26-4 last year.

Before Gluck-man arrived the Pioneers had less success, going 9-14 each of the past two seasons. But this

season, Gluckman has already used her team bonding strengths with a farming metaphor. “ Our season is like a farm,” Gluckman said. “We need to work hard on a daily basis so that when we start playing games, the cul-tivating starts and our program potential is achieved.”

In order to stress her point, Gluckman took all the basketball players to farm to see first hand the hard work farmers put in. “Farmers are the most diligent workers we know,” said Jodi Watkins ’09. “They can’t take a day off, if you don’t work hard you won’t get results.”

Practices now, according to Watkins are structured with a specific goal in mind, and she already notices a change in the team, “ I haven’t had team unity like this for the past three years.” Watkins said.

Gluckman and the Pioneers open up the season this Saturday at 3 p.m. against Mar-tin Luther at Darby Gymnasium.

“Our season is like a farm, we need to work hard on a daily basis so that when we start playing games, the cultivating starts and our pro-gram potential is achieved.”

Kate Gluckman

Kate Gluckman, women’s basketball coach, instructs players during practice. AMI FREEBERG

vancing to the NCAA tournament, Grinnell felt they had earned Carroll’s respect.

“After the game against Carroll over f a l l break, some of their

players were talking trash,” Rosenberg said. “But after the championship,

a few of their play-ers came up and con-

gratulated us, the respect showed.”

For the graduating seniors on the team, the playoffs were an

opportunity to reflect on their ca-reers with the team. “It’s been a huge trans-formation since my first year,” said Forward Andrew Walsh `09. “Coach Jaworski is a man with a great plan to bring a winning tradition to Grinnell … we knew it was a matter of time before things began to click.”

Members of the team are confident

BY JUSTIN ERICKSON

Over the weekend, the Men’s Soccer team played in the Midwestern Conference Championship for the first time since 1995, losing a hard fought battle with Carroll Col-lege 4-1.

After defeating St. Norbert College 1-0 in the first round of the playoffs on a goal by Midfielder Mark Rosenberg `11, the team felt poised to go to the NCAA tournament.

The team’s first round win over the Green Knights of St. Norbert was signifi-cant because no current member of Grinnell’s roster had ever defeated the Green Knights. The team looked to carry this feeling into the championship game against Carroll College, a team that had beaten Grinnell 3-0 just three weeks earlier in the regular season.

“We were a lot more organized and much less intimated” of Carroll after beating St.

Norbert, Rosenberg said. This confidence, however, did not materialize into a champi-onship win.

Carroll jumped out to an early 3-0 lead within the first 22 minutes of the game. Grinnell struck back, when Justin Koester ’10 scored in the 24th minute. But, by h a l f t i m e ,

Carroll held a commanding 4-1 lead and was able to fend off the Pioneer at-tack for the win.

Despite feeling disappointed over not ad-

that this winning tradition will continue, even though the team is losing key seniors, including Walsh and Midfielder Parker Koester ’09.

“Parker was the captain and his on-field leadership and organization is going to be missed,” Rosenberg said.

The team is optimistic that younger players will step into these roles in order to have a successful season next year. “We are so deep and put together as a team that we will have guys who will step up,” said Mid-fielder Alex Exarhos `10.

Look for the men’s soccer team to com-pete for the title next fall as the key to the team’s success is its attitude. “Everyone was a leader on the field in the playoffs, even those who didn’t play pumped up the inten-sity,” Exarhos said. “With team leadership like that, our success will carry on into next season.”

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Addressing Veterans’ dayWHAT?!The lack of real groceries at the grill. I re-

member the forum and how I could buy a whole box of cereal and a gallon of milk. Thanks for re-ally helping me out.

Hey, dining services, how about turning my unused meals into dining dollars instead of f--king stealing my money?

AND WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE PLACE TO USE DINING DOLLARS? THEY SHOULD BE CALLED GRILL DOLLARS OR CLOSE-TO-USELESS MONEY.

—Emma Lawler ’09

Alright, so first off I understand that veter-ans’ day is meant to honor all veterans, and that World War II was kind of a big deal. This said, the holiday was originally intended for those who served in the First World War, hence why it falls on Armistice day, November 11th. Grin-nell’s weeklong celebration of WWII is all fine and good, but come on now people, it’s the nine-tieth anniversary of the end of the OG World War. We’re talking the bloodletting that toppled four world empires, gave rise to the Soviet Union and marked the emergence of America as a glob-al power. Maybe somebody should give a little address about that conflict?

— Officer Candidate Tommy Jamison ’09,US Navy

P-cards are ruining Jai’s lifeLast week, I lost my p-card, turns out I didn’t

even lose it! It was underneath the billions of pieces of paper in the publications office! From editor to editor RECYCLE! … SO AFTER I PAID $25 for a new p-card at the dining services office, you know what happens? My p-card somehow becomes demagnetized! SERIOUSLY I CAN’T get into my dorm without hanging out in the loggia sketchily waiting for someone to let me in! … I’VE HAD IT WITH EVERYTHING ON THE 2nd floor of the JRC! That includes JOHN BURROWS ’10!

—Jai Garg ’11

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November 9, 1973

“At least two Grinnell students were affected by pop-corn balls contain-ing a drug believed to be LSD. One student exhibited all symp-toms of ‘tripping’ and a second exhib-ited milder symp-toms after recieving the candy Hallow-een night at a Col-lege owned, off cam-pus house.”

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