by Christina Russell
Never before has there been a better excuse to get sick. With a spacious site, air conditioning and as many free condoms and cough drops as your heart could possibly desire, you will be sharing cups with your friends and eating things off the ground like you were in first grade again, eager [...]

by Elsbeth Otto
As the fall harvest comes in from area farms, the Walla Walla Farmers Market continues to attract students looking for locally grown, fresh produce and arts and crafts from area artists.
Walla Walla’s primary farmers market, located between Third and Fourth Avenues on Main Street, takes place 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday [...]

by Caitlin Tortorici
Facebook: According to a Spring 2006 Student Monitor survey, it’s the most “in” thing on American college campuses along with beer and second only to the iPod.
So naturally, a great deal of controversy arose when students felt the site had breached their privacy with the addition of the News Feed and Mini News [...]

by Sarah Golden
This year’s first ASWC student senate meeting commenced last Sunday night, Sept. 10. The Executive Council (EC)—sophomore, junior and senior class senators and the oversight committee—gathered in Reid to discuss, among other things, hopes, areas of focus for the year and the potential of an ASWC retreat.
“It’s really great to see you all [...]

by Lizzie Norgard
Napkins have appeared on the suggestion board in Prentiss dining hall expressing students’ reactions to Starbucks coffee, which Bon Appetit now serves instead of the Pura Vida brand it has served since 2002.
Bon Appetit made the transition over the summer, and as Whitman students have returned to food service, the coffee change has [...]

by Marcus Koontz
A club that manages two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars! That’s the role of the Whitman Investment Company. The company, whose motto is “To Inquire. To Achieve. To Learn,” and whose purpose is, according to CEO Nate King, “to educate its members about the strategies for and benefits of investing,” was established by [...]

by Caitlin Tortorici
It’s rushing season again, and the greeks have kept these last weeks action-packed.
Rush officials are happy to report that they have done their part to keep the process efficient and the interest high.
Sorority officials have looked to old custom to optimize this year’s process. According to Rush Officer Becky Antilla, this year’s rush [...]

by Sarah Golden
As the 2006 volleyball season begins, Whitman is finding its team to be smaller. Two players, junior Hayley Hillman and freshman Helen Peros, have decided to stop playing.
“It just ended up being too big of a time commitment,” said Peros, who wants to be more involved with activities on campus than a commitment [...]

by Andrew Hookom
Whitman intramural (IM) football kicks off another season of play next weekend, leading in a new year of offerings from one of the top IM sports programs in the country.
Team registration forms for all divisions of football were due Thursday, Sep. 14 and, as some teams began training last weekend, it is expected [...]

by Katie Collier
After a tough 1-4 loss to Northwest Nazerene University on Thursday, the Whitman women’s soccer team found rejuvenation on Sunday in a polished 2-0 victory over North Idaho College.
“Thursday’s game was rough and we made a lot of little mistakes, but today we were able to tighten up as a team and stick [...]

by Marcus Koontz
Registering to vote may seem like an easy task, but throw in hundreds of students from all over the country and things get more confusing.
One of the most baffling aspects for college students registering to vote is the question of “which address to use and if they should register where they are [...]

by  Sophie Johnson
“I’m just here to drink. And I guess to meet new people.”
This girl had the blondest hair you’ve ever seen, bright blue eyes, and a purse that must have cost more than my entire wardrobe. I just sighed and shook my head: it was depressing how comfortably this girl slid into her stereotype.
Honestly, [...]

by Sally Sorte 
Soy Americana.
-Yes, I feel like a cup of coffee-
With an endless supply of German beer at my fingertips, and sometimes bonking my elbow, the twelve hour flight cruised right by. Either because of two-dimensional maps, or because greek life has gotten to me, I forget that flying straight over the Atlantic isn’t always [...]

by Emma Wood 
Hello—I miss you. I miss you when I read the student listserves: Core books for sale; sex talk with Sharon Osborn. I miss you when I tell people I’m from Walla Walla and they make me repeat it three times fast.
I write to you from the coast of France, a small town called [...]

To the editor:
Between 1990 and 1992 I taught at Whitman as a sabbatical replacement in the sociology department, and I have the highest regard for my Whitman faculty colleagues. I also have long appreciated the general progressive social and political climate of Whitman. However, today my spirit is saddened. I want to share what I [...]