Grinnell “College” sounds like an institution that would be loaded with loud-mouth, extremist radicals who hate both America and themselves. Those born black wish they were white and those born white wish that they were black. Freaks of nature.
Pretty much, but Grinnell is hardly unusual in that. Iowa was full of small colleges, many towns having the pretension that it would be the next Athens of the Midwest (or Northwest, early in the game). Many of these colleges were affiliated with Protestant denominations that became progressive/humanist social clubs, or whose faculty phagocytized their host until there was no more of the Gospel of Christ left in the institution than there would be in a railroad tie.
(While I was attending a state university, some of these small colleges had awesome reputations for having seriously wild chicks who were away from mom and dad with a vengeance.)
Some of these colleges died early (Humboldt), some not that long ago (Westmar), but they've been whittled down, and sadly, the survivors haven't been bastions of sound theology - let alone conservatism - for a long time.
Mr. niteowl77