by Ari van Schilfgaarde
All this semester, I’ve hammered on the idea of collaborative conservation as the best way to approach environmental problems. Last week I showed how collaboration becomes collusion. Here is another example where collaboration isn’t fast enough and unilateral action by one actor is setting a national precedent. California is betting that as [...]

by Thomas Miller
In a speech on Sept. 6, President Bush unintentionally reminded us what conditions gave rise to torture in Abu Ghraib and other prisons. He argued that an “alternative set of procedures” used to interrogate suspected terrorists who “stopped talking” in secret CIA prisons has saved this country from terrorist attacks and urged Congress [...]

by Thomas Miller
In a speech on Sept. 6, President Bush unintentionally reminded us what conditions gave rise to torture in Abu Ghraib and other prisons. He argued that an “alternative set of procedures” used to interrogate suspected terrorists who “stopped talking” in secret CIA prisons has saved this country from terrorist attacks and urged Congress [...]

by Alex Henke
Supreme Court says ‘no’ to sex toys hearing, ‘Thomas has talked enough about them’
The Supreme Court refused to hear a case involving the Texas ban of the promotion of sex toys in the shape of sexual organs on Monday, stating that they’d heard enough about sex toys from Justice Thomas.  “Fuck sex [...]

by Christina Russell
Whitman volleyball lost to Oregon’s Pacific University last Friday night in a close competition, one of the few home matches of what has been a travel-intensive season for these athletes.
Last season, Whitman went 1-1 with Pacific  University, with each team claiming a win on their opponent’s home court.
However, nine years prior to this, [...]

by Caitlin Tortorici
After three overtime ties, the Whitman women’s soccer team lost by a single point to the Whitworth Pirates in the Northwest Women’s Conference on Saturday, Oct. 7 at the Whitman Athletic Fields.
It looked like the home team had an early lead in the bag when Missionary forward Sammie Arthur bounced a shot on [...]

by Emma Wood – France
I had just settled in with tea and a book when my host father came into the kitchen, pulled up a stool and began to pluck the feathers one by one from his freshly shot partridge. “Don’t worry, it’s under the table,” he said, and I nonchalantly nodded—inwardly squirming at every [...]

by Sophie Johnson  - Chicago, Illinois
You might get the wrong impression if you walked by Margie Sadinsky’s house. The 60-something-year-old woman casts her strictly-Democrat ballot in every election, is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and makes the best organic apple crisp in the universe. Her modest blue house, though, has a rather [...]

by Sally Sorte – Spain
“Yesterday seems like a life ago,” because I went to a concert. This was no black tie, knee-length skirt affair; this was Ben Harper. Silly, that I’m a fellow West Coaster and flew across nine time zones to see him. This warranted some dirty looks from A-haters, but I told them [...]

by Sarah McCarthy
There are few things worse than not wanting to be grateful when you know that you ought to be. Without exception, we, at Whitman, ought to be.
We go to a nice school with green lawns and waddling ducks. We don’t have to put quarters in the laundry machines. We can request a mix [...]

by Marcus Koontz
Yesterday as I sat down to peruse the Pioneer I turned to page 12, the politics page. I read the Bill Grant article. It was well written and informative. Then as I read on, first the Bob Biles story and then the piece on Goldwater, I noticed a disturbing pattern. I searched for [...]

by Josh Boris
Go see this movie. Plain and simple: Just do it.
Martin Scorcese has been an excellent contributor to the film industry for over 30 years. While his last several films (“Gangs of New York” and “The Aviator”) were met with pretty good reviews, they were a departure from his earlier films expounding fast talking [...]

by Caitlin Tortorici
The 2006 Cinema Art Series, which commenced in mid-September with the nationally-renowned Chinese film “2046” (Sept. 15 and 17) and “The Beat My Heart Skipped” (Sept. 22 and 24). It continued Sept. 29 and Oct. 1 with “Brothers,” the award-winning Danish film written and directed by Suzanne Bier.
Principle cast members of “Brothers” include [...]

by Erin Salvi
Michel Gondry, director of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” brings us yet another visually and psychologically dazzling film with “The Science of Sleep.”
Like “Eternal Sunshine,” “The Science of Sleep” explores complex issues of the mind. This time, though, Gondry deals with what influences our dreams, how much control we have over them, [...]

by Lizzie Norgard
For those who attended the Stevens Gallery opening last Tuesday, a game of “tell-a-picture” awakened the spirit of the art now on display.
Tell-a-picture is an amusing game which involves alternately writing sentences describing pictures and drawing pictures based on sentences composed by other members of the group.
It introduced the theme of “readable art”—art [...]