So, imagine you go to work, and you’re a father, and you say, ‘I need to leave at 5:00 to care for my kids,’ and they fire you because they say, ‘No, men are supposed to be working, and women are supposed to be the primary caretakers of children.’
Quote Board
- Chase Strangio ’04 in “‘We Have to Mass Mobilize’: Laverne Cox & Chase Strangio Sound the Alarm on Major LGBTQ SCOTUS Cases,” Democracy Now!, Oct. 8, 2019
To me, there is no better way to explore the world than to swim, bike, run, and then eat your way through it. Even if it is a pain in the @$$ to travel with a bike. Grateful for the opportunity to be here.
- Maddy Pesch ’16, in Nice, France, competing in her first professional half-Ironman triathlon world championship, Instagram ; follow her @peschmaddytri
“So this just got delivered! To all my Grinnell classmates and Grinnell College, thank you for the honor!”
- Dorje Gurung ’94, Twitter
Uly’s first exposure to comics is a 10-pager about geochemist Clair Patterson I drew for The Grinnell Magazine.
- Kevin Cannon ’02, Twitter
“Loggia: not just a dead actor.”“The words every Iowan wants to see on her Facebook feed: ‘SWEET CORN COMING SOON!’”
- Sarah Purcell ’92, L. F. Parker Professor of History, Twitter
"Grinnellians on the move: 2019 Northern Colorado Alumni Brewery Tour!"
- Jake Joseph ’11, Instagram
"My signature party trick is telling people that kilts were invented by English imperialists. Thanks, Grinnell College history department!"
- Emma Friedlander ’18, Twitter
"On my 4th year anniversary of committing to Grinnell College, I am compelled to publicly appreciate the community I have now come to love. I am certain there is no other college that would have given me a greater opportunity for personal and academic growth."
- Peter Cipriano ’19, Twitter
"These are no longer job interviews. They’re long courtships where people get to know the candidates as if they were dating."
- Barbara Trish, professor of political science, quoted in “Campaigns without end: Today’s presidential marathons took root in 1968,” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2019