by Katie Collier
Whitman’s Renewable Energy Club has joined a national movement of over 315 campuses in a campaign called the Campus Climate Challenge that encourages colleges and universities to address global warming issues and reduce their environmental footprint.
Senior Juliana Williams has been leading the Renewable Energy campaign on campus for the past few years and [...]

by Marcus Koontz
Despite running into double overtime at home against Willamette University, the Whitman men’s soccer team still came up scoreless Saturday and ended the final 10 minute overtime period tied.
“[The team] just couldn’t put the ball in the net,” said #30 Brett Axelrod, goalkeeper. All through the game the sun was shining, the wind [...]

by Katie Collier
Whitman’s Renewable Energy Club has joined a national movement of over 315 campuses in a campaign called the Campus Climate Challenge that encourages colleges and universities to address global warming issues and reduce their environmental footprint.
Senior Juliana Williams has been leading the Renewable Energy campaign on campus for the past few years and [...]

by Andrew Hookom
A small group of students has developed a proposal for a new Interest House based on fostering activism on campus.
The house would provide institutional support for students with plans to develop initiatives involving Whitman and/or the larger community.
“We’re just starting the process,” said Thomas Miller, who assembled the three-person team working on the [...]

by Katie Collier
Seniors Megan McConville and Thomas Miller have recently presented an impressive blueprint for a Whitman chapter of Student Movement for Real Change (SMRC), a student-led NGO meant to empower students to affect change in remote, neglected areas of the world. United under a common interest in water issues, the two students will spearhead [...]

by Sally Sorte - Spain
Get to the metro right as your train is pulling away? Me cagué en la leche. Spill your sangria? Me cagué en la leche. Somebody steal your cell phone? Me cagué en la leche. ‘I shit in the milk.’ No, that’s not Nesquik.
Avoiding thieves is an art. Your wallet needs to [...]

by Emma Wood - Brest, France
I could do nothing but throw back my head and stare when we entered the Cathedral de Nantes today. The flesh on my arms took on that sensation reserved for mornings in the silent wheatfields and the beginning of Shostakovich’s 8th quartet. Neck craned, I traced with my eyes the [...]

by Ari van Schilfgaarde
Last week I focused on the goodwill and collaboration that led to the Xeriscaping of the new Health Center. The implication of the kind of collaboration that led to this reasonable compromise on all sides was mutual respect and the messy business of public involvement.
The great downfall of participatory democracy is that [...]

by Valerie Lopez
Dance. . In the midst of all the alkane nomenclatures studied at 9:30 on a Saturday night, I began to zone out.. in room temperature, cyclohexane simultaneously undergoes varying conformations, given that the temperature provides enough energy to overcome the energy barrier.. What’s mildly depressing is not that I’m studying on a Saturday [...]

by Marcus Koontz
“She’s a *beep*!” said one, and the other chimed in “Yeah, assigning this *expletive* assignment she assigned!” Back and forth the girls went. They called one of my professors expletive after expletive, giggling the whole time. I was sitting outside of the group study room they were using before they arrived and after [...]

by Sarah McCarthy
Among my dirty secrets, this may well be the dirtiest: that I sort of love spam email. The only possibly dirtier secret is that one time, in Paris, I watched the entire first season of “The O.C.” and sort of loved that too. That fact, though, is best not dwelt upon, so instead [...]

by Erin Salvi
It starts promisingly—immediately and obviously a clever piece of prose that perhaps seems like a good idea but only briefly achieves the level of profundity that it truly hopes to touch upon. Handler’s premise for his novel, “Adverbs,” is this: it is not what we do that is important, but rather the way [...]

by Sarah McCarthy
Theatre Sports, the premier improv comedy group at Whitman, kicked off their season last Tuesday.
As usual when they perform, the crowd was already starting to form half an hour early. By the time the show started, late-comers found standing room only, with students crammed along the sides and back of Maxey auditorium.
While many [...]

by Josh Boris
As I noted last week, the summer blockbusters are quietly slipping away to be replaced with a bevy of more introspective pieces and Oscar hopefuls. This can be seen in the fact that not one, but two neo-noir films were released within a week of each other.
Allen Coulter’s “Hollywoodland” and Brian De Palma’s [...]

by Gayle Chung
With a phrase like “you’re gonna get your blood sucked out,” who could resist the temptation to go hear such sweet melodies?
On Sept. 15 in the Reid Campus Center Ballroom, the married duo Viva Voce brought an upbeat mixture of Indie pop and soft rock style of music to the ears of Whitman [...]