Month: September 2025

By Bella Takata

HSSC- It all started like any other day. Students travelled to their 10 am classes in the HSSC, rejuvenated after a long weekend of drinking, fucking, ducking, and other heinous acts of Grinnellian debauchery, ready for a day of learning. Xerox (pronouns *_* / *_-), a third-year GWSS and Sociology double major, still outfitted in *_- shirt from White Lies Party (“I’ve Never Read bell hooks!”), headed to *_- “SOC/GWS/THD 295: Puppets For Social Change” in what *_* told the B&S was a “tailspin of excitement, nearly erotic in nature… which the very vestibule of learning engagement trembled with… promise and…so ready to critically engage with the text…”

Herrick Chapel to be Converted Into Megachurch Campus

By James Applegate

~~HERRICK CHAPEL~~ CORNFIELD SKIES CHURCH™©, GRINNELL CAMPUS – Following the wild success of Grinnell College’s sweeping renovations of Loose Hall into the Loose Penthouse Village and Suites, Nollen House has made the bold decision to sell Herrick Chapel, Grinnell College’s 118-year-old former Congregationalist church building, to Cornfield Skies Church™©, a so-called “megachurch” based in Des Moines that will convert the chapel into one of its many satellite campuses scattered across Iowa.

Class of ‘29 Takes on New Wave Tutorials

By Josh Emrys Payong

HSSC – “I thought it was a class about some niche French rebellion, y’know? Not…whatever the fuck this is…” sobbed Kave Mann ‘29 – who’d been assigned to TUT-100-03: The Labubu Uprising – as he handed our interviewer a rare Pink Microwave Labubu he’d received from his professor on the first day of class, “I must’ve been living under a rock if an ‘elite’ academic institution thinks I should be able to write an eight-page essay about how this little fucker reflects my relationship with my parents.”

Loose Hall Reopens: Still Fucking Ugly

By Edie Worrell

LOOSE HALL- After almost an entire year’s worth of expensive renovations, Loose Hall has finally opened its doors to students and new residents of the building, and the B&S can confidently say: It’s still fucking ugly. Last month, I went, as a top B&S investigative reporter, to check out the grand reopening and get the inside scoop on what life has been like for some of its newest inhabitants.

Opinion: I’ll Apologize Because You Didn’t.

In editorials

By Catherine Terelak

Dear Attention-Seeking Professor,

Welcome to late middle age! While we haven’t met, you once snapped your fingers at me while I was cashiering at Ace Hardware, which told me all I needed to know about the kind of person you are. (True story.) Additionally, I feel as though we’ve been introduced through Karen memes and American Psycho. Do you know how to read? Oh — In English and French? What a miracle! Studies show that your generation was exposed to lead as children, leading to psychosis, ADHD, and antisocial behavior. According to me (FYI, the NYT is for crosswords now), your cohort is cynical, emotionally repressed, and desperate for the comfort of a strawberry daiquiri and the stability of an early retirement. You are a “generation of swine” (Hunter S. Thompson’s words) because you came of age when it was cool to embrace the onslaught of anti-intellectualism and consumer excess for which you blame poor, sweet, earnest Gen Z.

B&S Investigates Off-Campus Houses

By Conrad Dahm

OFF CAMPUS- We’re back to school, and everyone is fucking miserable already. The B&S is back to report on this misery, and there is a lot of it. One way that students alleviate it is by going to off-campus parties and getting drunk. (When you say this out loud, it really makes you think, right?) With off-campus housing potentially being taken away, the B&S decided to do an investigation into various off-campus houses. Let’s interview the (un)lucky students who get to live off-campus!

DAG To Expand Campus – Wide Invasion