Last weekend the Whitman women’s club fastpitch softball team co-hosted a tournament with Walla Walla College.
Whitman’s team played four games and lost all of them. These games brought the season to an end for the team.
“We don’t win many games because we’re such a new team. We have few experienced players. [...]

On May 10, Whitman cycling will be defending its two-year hold on the Division II overall team omnium title. The Whitman cycling team flew to the national road championships in Lawrence, Kan. yesterday, May 9, for a three-day omnium.
In the Northwest Collegiate Cycling Conference, Whitman garnered 5005 total points. The team came [...]

On April 26, exactly one week after this year’s opening night of “Vagina Monologues” at Whitman, senior Mindy* walked home from the library to find the words “Your vagina lips are loose” sprawled out in red paint on the front and driver’s side window of her car.
“I kind of just stood there and looked at [...]

Las Vegas is a city created by the movies. In terms of the number of movies that have portrayed a city consciously (as opposed to say, Los Angeles, where all movies are set), it’s second only to New York City and Paris. Always decadent and glitzy, Las Vegas can be glamorous (“Ocean’s 11”), miserable (“Leaving [...]

Except for incoming President Jeff Wilson, next year’s ASWC Executive Council will be comprised of a rookie group of student leaders. For this week’s column I interviewed the outgoing and incoming Presidents Eric Whelitz and Jeff Wilson and outgoing and incoming Finance Chairs, the lovely and dedicated Ajay Abraham and Elliott Okantey.
These are two [...]

For Dusti Thurman, President of Coalition Against Homophobia, Dragfest marked the ending of a very successful week. “This, I think, is the first time we’ve successfully pulled off drag week,” said Thurman. “Our Transpanel brought in a lot of people.”
As Drag Week’s crowning glory, Dragfest is the playful ending to a week dedicated to broadening [...]

Two weeks ago, Whitman College Republicans elected their new leaders. As I sat at the table in the back room of Prentiss surrounded by this group of males (there were two non-voting visitors, both female—one being my friend, the other, a guy’s girlfriend), I realized something that had previously escaped my cognizance: I am the [...]

Every year, we at Whitman celebrate the various incarnations of sexual diversity. We celebrate it for one week, and afterwards the community that brought us the informative lectures and the Saturnalia of music and dance in Reid disappears back into the obscurity from which it came. One wonders if Dragfest—and by extension, Drag [...]

Whitman College has been invaded by ducks. Wooden ducks, that is.
As part of Whitman’s seventh annual Duckfest, participants are invited to create a piece of duck art to be placed around campus. Stevens Gallery curator
Shelby Blessing says the idea was drawn from other cities that showcased animal sculptures.
“The main idea behind it is to encourage [...]

In season five of “The West Wing” Leo McGarry brings in a replacement to pick up the slack when another staff member has to be “benched” due to a huge screw up. The new person is allowed to borrow the benched staffers assistant for help on a project and in the course of work the [...]

Dragfest is a dance held once a year where everyone comes dressed in drag. It is a Whitman tradition, like Ren Fair or the Beer Mile, and it champions our social liberalism as a campus. Thus, needless to say, it is fairly popular event on campus.
Yet, dressing in drag certainly does not mean boys must [...]

Get the fuck off your asses. I am serious. Get out of bed, get out of the library, and act on your beliefs.
I have been here at Whitman for four years, and in two weeks I will be leaving Walla Walla forever. But before I go, I would like to give a little friendly advice [...]

“He just didn’t take his job seriously,” said Sarah Golden of senior ASWC Senator Shea Dunda. Golden, a junior and a member of ASWC’s Oversight Committee, oversaw the removal of Dunda from the Senate.
Golden cited Dunda’s election campaign as an indicator. “He ran as ‘The Goblin King.’ It was a joke to [...]

Whitman kicked off its 81st annual Choral Contest for charity with a diverse line-up of performances, ranging from sophisticated to down-right wacky.
Giving the event a comic, Core-related spin, the Tau Kappa Eppsilons parodied Don Giovanni’s operatic style with several members dressed up as key characters of the play.
A few acts later, the Independent Women’s [...]

Spectrum Dance Theater performed three pieces from their repertoire in Cordiner Hall on Tuesday, April 24: “crowded murmurs…thoughts,” “Quartet,” and “Bhangra Fever.” Senior Charlotte Pickett, a student involved in the dance program at Whitman, felt that bringing the group benefited the Walla Walla community as well as Whitman.
“Other than student shows there [...]