by Baron Haber
STAFF WRITER

Last Monday, Feb. 12, over 150 musicians crowded the Cordiner stage to deliver a powerful night of music to the students and community members in the audience.
It was the first time in 15 years that the Whitman Symphony performed with the Whitman Chorale. The Chorale filled the risers behind the symphony for [...]

by Leah Bloomberg
STAFF WRITER

Josh Emmons is a busy man these days as Scribner has just published a second book by the author/professor. He is so busy in fact that I had to interview him via e-mail because he is out of town on a job interview. Even through the computer he conveys fabulous language and [...]

by Chase Bucklew
ARTS & ENTERTAIMENT EDITOR

I am in love with the world of high fashion. I am a self-proclaimed hipster from Seattle and I am blatantly shallow. I am still a huge fan of Barbie, Gemma Ward is my idol and in my spare time I like to read ELLE magazine cover to cover.
At this [...]

by Ari Van Schilfgaarde
STAFF WRITER

This week produced back-to-back lectures on the United States’ role in dealing with sovereign nations. Winona LaDuke and the comedy duo Scott Blakeman and Dean Obeidallah operated under the assumption that US involvement in the Middle East Peace process could alter the last 59 years of conflict and lead to [...]

by Emma Wood
COLUMNIST

Turns out the guy on the plane next to me used to work for Boeing designing the 777 commercial flyer. He worked to make the overhead bins as strong and light as possible using plastics with hollow honeycomb air pockets. Weight was such a critical factor that each one-pound decrease in [...]

by Kaitlin Phillips & Caitlin Tortorici
COLUMNISTS

When preparing to start this column, we K/Caitlins spent many hours trying to figure out how to pitch this. Our original suggestions, such as, “We’re bitter and jaded, now you have to read the results of our disillusionment” sounded bitchy and/or depressing. Most of our other ideas were pretentious.
We were [...]

by Kizzie Norgard
COLUMNIST

Have you ever picked an apple out of one of those silver bins at the dining hall and wondered, as you munched it, how it got there?
Having wondered this for awhile, I decided to ask the people in charge of ordering food for Bon Appetit about the hands through which these apples pass [...]

by Natalie Knott
COLUMNIST

Twenty minutes from the campus of Whitman College is the town of Waitsburg, Wash. This town has a weekly newspaper, “The Waitsburg Times,” and last week this…esteemed publication published an un-credited report about an annual event entitled Stand For Peace. This report included excerpts from an interview with the organizer of this pro-life [...]

by Sophie Johnson
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

There is a dark underbelly to Whitman College.
I write this because I am of the newfound opinion that everything has its dirty secrets, despite whatever pleasant demeanor it may possess. So, lurking somewhere amidst the lush trees and beautiful architecture, Whitman too must have its skeletons. And dirty secrets (and the stories that [...]

by Beth Frieden
COLUMNIST

dinburgh, I went to hear Palestinian scholar Dr. Azzam Tamimi speak about Hamas. His talk was boycotted by the rest of the Jewish Society of Edinburgh University. As I sat there listening to him I realized that he was the first Palestinian I had ever listened to.
I have been following and agonizing [...]

by Sophie Johnson
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Rottentomatoes.com, the holy grail of movie review Web sites, is all wrong about “Stomp the Yard.” The film has averaged a 26 percent approval rate, which classifies it as beyond rotten – essentially, the film is supposed to be compost.
So I will have to be the first to tell you that this [...]

by Josh Boris
COLUMNIST

Although Walla Walla wasn’t graced with its presence until 2007, “Pan’s Labyrinth” was one of the critical darlings of 2006 and made many top ten lists despite its late release. Directed by famed Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro, whose works run the gamut from mainstream Hollywood fare (“Hellboy” and “Blade II”) to [...]

by Teal-Greyhaven
COLUMNIST

In an age when we have grown weary of colossal orc battles and starships flying through space, here is a film to astonish us. Alfonso Cuarón’s The Children of Men, now playing at Grand Cinemas, is the most stunningly realistic film I have seen. Not only does it feature several minutes-long single takes, but [...]

by Andrea Miller
STAFF WRITER

While some students navigate through the discos of European metropolises or come face-to-face with the hardships of no running water in Africa, others turn to the challenges of an American city for their study abroad program.
Programs in Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. offer students “hands-on” experience in bridging the gap between a [...]

by Hailey Rogge
STAFF WRITER

The romantic stereotypes of the American West have all been dashed away, and a very intricate human and ecological landscape redrawn—at least for the 21 Whitman students who spent last fall rediscovering their country on an environmental studies odyssey. The members of the 2006 Semester in the West program have returned to [...]