At once a condemning-if-familiar polemic against corporate America’s treatment of the working man, “Michael Clayton” delves into the lives of the people who work for these monolithic entities and the ethical black hole they find themselves in. But “Clayton” also struggles under the weight of its self-importance throughout the nearly two-hour running time. […]

The International Sweet Onion Film Festival starts tomorrow (Friday, Oct. 26) and will continue through the weekend. Tickets are free to Whitman and Walla Walla University students, although there is a suggested donation.
The awards ceremony will be on Sunday Oct. 28, from 7-9 p.m. at the Marcus Whitman Hotel. Three awards will be given […]

The Stevens Gallery in Reid Campus Center features student art, and this month there is a specific show displaying political art.
“The political art show was inspired by an idea from Andrea Ramirez, who is one of the Stevens Gallery’s advisors,” co-curator Margot Wielgus said. “She thought it would be interesting to have a show […]

“But how can we be sure that we aren’t zombies?”
It’s a question that might not pop up in your everyday lectures, but students raised it immediately following Associate Professor of Psychology Rebecca Hanrahan’s presentation on “The Problem with Zombies” on Tuesday, Oct. 16.
And unlike most lectures, this one began with a clip from British comedy […]

Romance is not necessarily the central theme of “Isn’t It Romantic,” the play that was performed in the Harper Joy Theatre during Family Weekend. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, “Isn’t It Romantic” tells the parallel stories of two female former classmates as they negotiate the post-college world in the 1980s.
According to Miriam […]

The Whoopemup Hollow Café in Waitsburg serves as a Southern treasure in Walla Walla County. It has been featured in Sunset magazine and has gained a reputation among Whitman students as the perfect place for a Friday evening during Parent’s Weekend. Along with my parents, my sister and a few friends, I relished […]

Walla Walla is the new home of the futuristic Beechcraft Starship. The craft is easily distinguished by its droning hum and its radically futuristic appearance and area residents have responded positively in Union-Bulletin editorials on Starship sightings. Surprised to behold the Spacecraft one morning while he brought in his paper, Steve Singleton wrote of […]

1. Full name: Curtis Reid
2. Age: 19
3. Best-known for?
Cross Country, SCHWA, plugging my radio show (Funk Me! 9 p.m. Mondays), my insane dance moves, being a rugged outdoorsman and repin’ Colorado, Go Rockies!!
4. What was the last dream you had?
It was really weird. I dreamt of someone I didn’t know getting surgery of some […]

Disclaimer: We are inordinately bitchy tonight. Caitlin’s uterus is pounding away at her soul, and Kaitlin is one second away from passing out from sheer exhaustion. We are creatively drained, physically tired and have had to entertain relatives all weekend and act happy. In short, we’re not in a good mood. Read at your own […]

I am a liar and always have been and always will be. Lies are the stuff of life: I cling to lies the way churchgoing folk cling to God, or my roommate clings to Taco Bell Crunch Wrap Gorditas Supreme. Without lies, even the most basic conversation would be completely out of my reach.
When […]

Recently, Thomas Friedman, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, called our generation the “Q Generation.” By this, he meant that we are “Quiet Americans” who are more idealistic than we should be but less radical and politically engaged than we need to be.
So does this apply to Whitman? Undeniably there is […]

Everyone always wants to go back to being a child. I have to admit I envied the little girls who stole the show from the T-Tones at the Farmers’ Market last Saturday. Two imps sidled in front of adoring T-Tone parents and twirled around in long flowered dresses and winter boots. Completely […]

It may be a big claim to make, but Rocky Barker is prepared to argue that the Yellowstone fires of 1988 changed America.
Throughout the summer of 1988 fire scorched more than 1.2 million acres of Yellowstone National Park. However, according to Idaho environmental journalist Barker, who spoke on the subject on Oct. 15, more […]

The widespread popularity of Facebook and other Internet sites within the past few years now not only provides instant communication but has become a means of spreading awareness of global causes. Greenbook, a recently created Facebook application, claims to offset CO2 emissions caused by computer and server use.
When Facebook users install the Greenbook application, money […]

Ethanol has been hailed as the “green fuel” that will solve—or at least greatly improve—our environmental problems. Unfortunately it may not be such a benign, new energy source as those in Washington, D.C., might want us to believe.
Ethanol is a fuel that can be used to run any engine that runs off of normal gasoline. […]