Vantage is just the beginning. Check out these other local climbing areas:
Spring Mountain—About an hour and half drive, Spring Mountain is the closest rock climbing destination to Walla Walla, and thus is often used by Whitman climbing classes. While the crack climbing leaves a bit to be desired and it’s smaller than Frenchman […]

In case you ever wondered what on Earth the kids in the Carhartts behind you in line for Fire and Spice were talking about, or just want to sound like a tool, the Pio is here to help with a guide to basic and exciting climbing terms and lingo. Unfortunately we don’t have any […]

Vantage, according to Whitman geology professor Kevin Pogue, is a “dumpy little town seven miles from a great climbing area called Frenchman Coulee.”
Frenchman Coulee, located about two to two and a half hours from Walla Walla, lists about 450 routes in its guidebooks for sport and traditional climbing. Basalt cliffs 90 to 100 feet in […]

by Tom Poole
PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENT

I find it odd when people tell me I have an accent.
I guess I never noticed it before. For some reason, people think I sound like I’m from Canada. They say the way I pronounce my vowels is strange, which is interesting because I think the same way about them.
This week my […]

The move to create a GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning) group on Whitman campus was pushed in the late 1980s. When Robert Tobin, professor of German Studies, arrived on campus for the 1989/90 school year, there was not yet a formal organization. Tobin and Whitman counselor Sharon Kaufman-Osborn were very interested in creating safe […]

by Kyle Martz
GUEST WRITER

Being what one could label a ‘high-profile,’ openly gay man at Whitman College has been a lesson in the complexities of diversity, tolerance and the differences between ideology and lived practice. I have found Whitman to be one of the easiest places to be queer-identified, or as I like to put it, […]

Two organizations on campus, Coalition Against Homophobia and GLBTQ, may initially seem similar. They both function to support Whitman’s queer community, yet their methods of support are extremely different. Coalition Against Homophobia, commonly referred to as Coalition, is the public face of support for the queer community, whereas GLBTQ (an organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual, […]

On Saturday, Feb. 24, members from all seven greek organizations took up shovels and planted trees and bushes in an effort to restore water-flow to McEvoy Spring Branch, a small stream just outside of Walla Walla.
The stream, which ran perennially until 2000, has since fallen victim to the falling water table. Because of extensive use […]

Forget Fire and Spice’s “Taste of the India.” If you were in Jewett at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24, you experienced a lot more culture than a little plate of curry and lentils at Reid.
The annual International Banquet was held this Saturday in the Jewett dining hall that was dressed to the nines. There […]

by Autumn McCartan
STAFF WRITER

Have you noticed the purple “In Balance” or tan “Well Being” stickers popping up in the dining halls?
A new program encouraging healthy eating is being implemented. Now every day you can easily make healthy dining choices.
Although this program is relatively new, significant change has already been made.
Trans fat has been completely […]

by Jamie Soukup
STAFF WRITER

Helen Thomas’ favorite question is, “Why?”
Asking this question has led to her become a symbol of earnest and investigative journalism, a pioneer for women in the field and one of the 25 Most Influential Women in America, according to the World Almanac.
On Wednesday, Feb. 21, students, faculty, staff and others gathered at […]

The drought that panicked the seven Colorado River States from the late 1990s through the mid 2000s is not an uncommon occurrence in geologic time, the National Research Council reported this week.
To us in Walla Walla, it seems irrelevant that Colo., Wyo., Utah, Ariz., Calif., Nev., and N. M. may have to struggle for their […]

by Kaitlin Phillips and Caitlin Tortorici
COLUMNISTS

This week, KC Masterpiece was faced with that eternal problem—writer’s block. Sitting at an elevated table, our laptops and coffee in front of us, the rain streaming gently down the windows, soulful violin music playing somewhere in the distance, our hearts clenched and our stomachs dropped with that tragic cliché. […]

by Dan C
GUEST WRITER

If any recent high school sophomore, wide-eyed and untried, had taken the time during his or her doubtlessly eventful visit to the school to sample the political spectrum here on campus, the result would have been a broad sample of liberal and conservative views, from dedicated (and surprisingly cut) activists for social […]

by Alex Henke
COLUMNIST

This college depresses me. The intellectual, holier-than-thou, I’m-better-than-you-because-I-res ide on campus represents the kind of attitude a simple man like myself cannot stand. The real Whitties—the ones that prefer beer drinking to book learning—are oppressed by the tunnels of oppression. We’re symposium…ed… by not attending race symposiums. We’re so trampled upon that I […]