KWCW, Whitman’s student and community-run radio station, has resumed programming for the fall. The schedule places new DJs alongside experienced broadcasters from Whitman College and the surrounding community. A peek into what a few DJs, new and old, have to offer:
Kayla Hudson and Michael Hui, both seniors from Walla Walla High School, are going to [...]

Mentalist Craig Karges performs in a packed Reid Ballroom on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Karges amazed students with illusions such as a table-lifting routine and several variations on mind-reading. Named Entertainer of the Year six times by the National Association for Campus Activities, Karges offers “$100,000, payable to charity, if anyone can prove he uses stooges, [...]

The Napkin Comment Board, a wall in both Prentiss and Jewett Dining Halls where students can leave suggestions, asks for “more meat” next to a request for “more vegetarian entrees.” Even some vegetarians disagree.
“The chefs relay heavily on carbs like pasta for their vegetarian options,” said vegetarian Nicole Pexton. “It can be difficult to [...]

Throughout his decade-plus career, Aesop Rock has always seemed to be a man who followed his own muse. Even when he essentially became the Def Jux label’s flagship MC a few years back, he still retained a very distinct identity, never really feeling like a mere appendage of the label, unlike, say, El-P or [...]

Will somebody please make Dan Snaith an honorary Whittie? This is the guy whose moniker “Caribou” was the product of an acid-induced vision quest in the wildest of Canadian backwoods. This is the same guy who earned his Ph.D. in algebraic number theory, just to belittle academics everywhere with claims of making gold [...]

SHOUT OUT LOUDS: brooklyn, ny
grant margeson
The Luna Lounge is nestled only one subway stop up from the famed hipster capital Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg (for those pretending not to know, that is in Brooklyn, NY). A little way off from the bars, music stores, and people on Bedford, the Luna Lounge — which lacks [...]

Mac guru Steve Jobs announced Apple’s plans to start selling the new iPod Touch last week, which is essentially an iPhone without a phone. The new iPod is completely touch-screen and has wi-fi Internet access, but at only 16GB capacity it runs with a $400 price tag. So, like most women, the new iPod is [...]

1. The Kelly Bell Band − I’m from Baltimore, so I have to start the list with a hometown
favorite. They describe their sound as “phat blues music,” and what a sound it is. I
recommend their live album, “Live From the Recher” for a good survey of their groove.
Best songs: “Homegrown” and “Dear Maggie.”
2. Carbon Leaf [...]

705: miles I drove round-trip to see the band. That same distance would’ve gotten me to northern California, or pretty deep into Montana.
1997: the year Lifetime broke up.
17: age I first heard Lifetime, about five years after they released their genre-defining swan song “Jersey’s Best Dancers.” I’m 22 (and a half, for math’s sake) now. [...]

While everybody else was either interning or traveling the world, I decided to take up a lucrative job in retail at a Kohl‘s in Arizona.
There’s nothing wrong with working retail. Aside from the occasional asshole who decides to ask you when you’re “going back to Iraq” (because my Arab descent makes me look like [...]

ROCKS
The first ten seconds of this album will not sound like “typical Animal Collective” to long-time listeners, but then again, by this point, “typical Animal Collective” shouldn’t mean squat to long-time listeners. Animal Collective have now become well-known for their inability to stay static, whether it is seen in their tours in support of albums [...]

Whitman’s women’s soccer (3-2-1) won their home opener 1-0 over Warner Pacific on Sept. 7, with sophomore Corina Gabbert heading in the first goal of the season nearly eight minutes into the game.
The Missionaries played dominantly, having 15 shots on goal compared to Warner Pacific’s one. Three of those shots on goal were from [...]

Many players on the Whitman Ultimate Frisbee team have a raw dedication and passion for the sport.
On the men’s side, first-year Colin Smith also plays for Rhino, a club team based out of Portland, Ore. Smith started playing ultimate during his first year in high school, not knowing much about the sport. Since then, [...]

The Whitman volleyball team (5-5) won their conference opener at home against George Fox University on Friday 3-2 (18-30, 30-24, 30-22, 22-30, 15-12) in front of a raucous crowd of 150, most of them extremely vocal students. The game was new Head Coach Carolyn Papineau’s first home win and first conference win in her first [...]

The G.O.P was struck by another ill-timed scandal, as it was revealed to the media on Aug. 27 that Larry Craig, senator from Idaho and one of two senate liaisons for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, had pleaded guilty earlier that month to misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges stemming from a sex-sting operation in a Minneapolis airport [...]