Spring 2019
In this Issue
![Illustration 2 people in forest](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Bridging%20Gaps%20WEB.jpg?itok=hPbU6LdS)
![Latona Giwa speaks with a mom](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Latona%20Giwa.cg_2%20WEB.jpg?itok=zKIxsRW_)
![Microphone in front of sound waves on computer](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/iStock-956094382%20WEB.jpg?itok=9P1PauJh)
![Arctic lights on Rawson Gates Tower](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20181129.arctic.lights06%20WEB.jpg?itok=SC0giWqU)
![sounds waves](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/How%20to%20Produce.jpg?itok=zBFY_aSj)
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You’ll need a computer with a broadband Internet connection, a decent microphone, a set of earphones, and a reasonably quiet place to record.
![Books in library](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/iStock-899906832%20WEB.jpg?itok=nifJjBrZ)
Grinnellians in the New Books Network catalog include current, past, and retired professors Andrew Hsieh, who was interviewed (along with co-author Sherman Cochran) about The Lius of Shanghai (Harvard University Press, 2013); Scott Cook, who chatted...
![ken Krimstein self portrait](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Krimstein%20WEB.jpg?itok=_RycsnR1)
![Two women sword fighting](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/25637181383_223d273bbd_z%20WEB.jpg?itok=HPZ93FtX)
Next time you’re challenged to a sword fight, call Ricki G. Ravitts ’70, a fight director who has taught stage actors around the world how to parry, thrust, and stab for almost 25 years.
![Brian Cavanagh-Strong selfie](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Brian%20Cavanagh-Strong%202%20WEB.jpg?itok=elP-xanD)
When Brian Cavanagh-Strong ’09 landed himself in the New York University Tisch School of the Arts graduate program for musical theatre writing, it was, he says, “like a dream.”
![Ali Wade Benjamin ’92, Brian Ross ’82, and Samuel Ross ’16](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Connection%20AliBenjamin%20WEB.jpg?itok=vUw5DW2I)
Ali Wade Benjamin ’92 writes, “Wore my Grinnell T-shirt for a hike up Koko Head on Oahu, Hawaii, on Nov. 16. As I put it on, I wondered if I’d meet any Grinnellians. Sure enough, when I got to the top, Brian Ross ’82 recognized the shirt. He was hiking with his...