by Jamie Soukup
STAFF WRITER

Aubrey Gallegos: Botswana
Probably one of the coolest places I visited in Botswana was Chobe National Park, where we literally camped among the animals. At night none of us were allowed to leave our tents without yelling for a guide because, as our guides told us, we could be eaten or trampled by [...]

by Janna Stone
STAFF WRITER

Susan Holme Brick, director of Whitman’s Study Abroad program, works in a small, non-descript office on the second floor of Memorial Building. Her office, no more extraordinary than any other of the offices in Memorial, does little to suggest the fact that, to many students on Whitman campus, it is the gateway [...]

by Baron Haber
STAFF WRITER

ASWC Student Programming, a primary source of entertainment and cultural interaction for Whitman’s isolated students, is selected at Whitman primarily by individuals, not by democratic process. This raises the question: Are students getting what they paid for?
ASWC’s Programming Committee is composed of elected senators and three hired programming chairs: the public events [...]

by Dena Popova
STAFF WRITER

In the past years there has been some prejudiced misunderstanding of Muslim art. It has been left with a mystical, but at the same time stereotypical, understanding. It is mainly affected by such examples as “Thousand and One Nights” and “Aladdin,” and the impression they have left in mainstream culture. There is [...]

by Lauren Adler
STAFF WRITER

Scenario One: Saturday night, you, drink in hand, stand in the doorway of some frat party. You are approached by an attractive generic blonde person. You both settle onto a red corduroy couch held together by duct tape in the corner of some bedroom and start to flirt and wink and wiggle [...]

by Ian Jagel
STAFF WRITER

It is perhaps not uncommon for a Whitman student to stumble upon an artist grappling with the meaning of life, a voice of reason, even a red Viking armadillo. But to find all three at the same venue is truly a sight to behold. Harper Joy Theatre is prepared to [...]

by Lisa Curtis
STAFF WRITER

Opening with a traditional greeting in the language of her native tribe, the Anishinaabekwe, twice-nominated Green Party Vice President Winona LaDuke told the audience she was going to make them think about “being human and the process of recovering [their] humanity.”
LaDuke began with stories of sacred places with names such as, “The [...]

by Sarah McCarthy
STAFF WRITER

As part of its continual quest to promote student creativity, the staff of blue moon held an art showing, poetry reading and concert at the Verve coffeehouse last Wednesday. The show was given the self-explanatory name “Big Art” show, since all the art on the walls were blown-up copies of student work [...]

by Mike Sado
STAFF WRITER

When “The Canary Project” opened on Jan. 13 of this year, a 300-pound block of ice was brought in and placed in a large pan. If anyone visits today, the huge block of ice that once occupied that pan is now nothing more than a puddle of water. The melting [...]

by Michela Corcorran
COLUMNIST

In his State of the Union speech, President Bush addressed the first Democrat-ruled Congress since 1994 and the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Therefore, Bush began his speech with a bipartisan approach. He congratulated the Democrats for their victory and pledged to bridge the gap between the two parties.
I [...]

by Veronica Prout
COMMUNITY EDITOR

President George W. Bush’s 2007 State of the Union Address included various important national issues—none more so than the war in Iraq.
Bush declared a new tactic for the war planning to deploy “reinforcements of more than 20,000 additional soldiers…to Iraq.” Even though many would have us withdraw in the face of adversity, [...]

by Karlis Rokpelnis
STAFF WRITER

As I was sitting on the front steps of the UC Davis Student Living Co-op in California and sipping my cappuccino made with organic Fair Trade coffee from the Davis Food Co-Op and home made organic soy milk, filled into a recycled plastic mug covered in revolutionary slogans, I had a lot [...]

Student Body of Whitman,In the last edition of the Pioneer an editorial entitled “Pop that Liberal Bubble” was published. It contained some very hurtful and homophobic remarks and Coalition Against Homophobia has deemed a formal response necessary.
“I find it quite fascinating that in the last few years, our Western civilization accepted the gay movement [...]

by Veronica Prout
STAFF WRITER
Q: Why did you attend the Peace Rally?
Pribilsky: I think, mainly, to show support for troops while simultaneously joining others in our… opposition to this war… Also, how many days can you turn on the news and hear the body count (on all sides of the conflict) and just stay detached? [...]

by Janna Stone
STAFF WRITER
While talking about the America Reads/Counts program Linda Lohrman, the program’s site coordinator at Green Park Elementary, beams.
“Whitman’s America Reads interns have been invaluable to Green Park,” she says, smiling from ear to ear. “They are wonderful because they form special relationships with the children. Research has shown that children [...]