Al Gore has won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Huzzah. Break out the champagne, unveil the chocolate cake with “Gore for Pres. 2008” in red, white and blue cursive icing. Sure, Gore’s gained a few pounds in the last few years and lost a few hairs, not to mention he’s still bearing the bruise from [...]

We all know that the U.S. refused to ratify the Kyoto treaty and then didn’t set anything up in its place domestically. But I bet you didn’t know the U.S. is trading carbon! Well, maybe you did if you’re from California, which has set up an emissions trading scheme, or if you’re from [...]

“I am the ray of light that trickles through the trees,” read one advertisement for the Whitman Identity Project. The project asks members of the Whitman community to respond to the question “What are you?” and then pairs their response with a photo. The completed project will be put up in the Stevens Gallery in [...]

On Friday, Oct. 12, the Welty Health Center experienced an unusually large influx of patients during the graveyard shift and was forced to turn away one student seeking overnight bedding. The student, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that he was brought to the Health Center that night because he was heavily intoxicated after a [...]

Whitman’s 2006 Annual Security Report was released on Oct. 1, as required by the U.S. Department of Education. According to the Handbook for Crime Reporting, this report must be published and distributed by Oct. 1 every year. Whitman students were made aware of the report through the students’ listserv.
The report lays out in [...]

When Girl Talk came to campus on Oct. 14, less than half of the student body was able to get tickets to see him perform.
Ellie Klein is the public events chair. As such, she decided where Girl Talk would play and how many tickets would be sold.
“The ballroom capacity is 600, so we made [...]

For the vast majority of biotech companies, the head of research and design has to worry about stockholders, profit and all the other effects that come with a tradable company.
Dr. Steven G. Reed ‘73, founder, director and head of research and development for the Infectious Disease Research Institute, doesn’t have to worry about any of [...]

ASWC senate met last Sunday to discuss recent committee activities and to approve new club and funding requests.
The senate approved three new clubs: Whitman Direct Action, the Firearms Appreciation Society and Students for Ron Paul.
The latter club, presented by club President and Senator Alex Potter, hopes to work on Whitman campus to promote Paul’s presidential [...]

UN Day program showcases talents, represents several countries
Many visiting campus during Family Weekend did not expect an Albanian wedding dance to be among the activities that could entertain them.
But this dance was showcased as part of Whitman’s annual “UN Day” event, planned by different diversity clubs and hosted by the International Students and Friends Club [...]

Once each year Whitman College takes on a different feel for Family Weekend. It is a time for parents and other family members of current Whitman students to come and see their sons and daughters and the campus they call home.
“There are differences: Everyone is different when they are around their parents,” first-year Heather Nichols-Haining [...]

Participants in the greek life program turned to volunteer work on Friday, Oct. 12, in a combined effort to clean up a two-mile stretch of Highway 12. The project brought together students from the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and the Sigma Chi fraternity. Spearheaded this year by Maryn Juergens and James Bevan-Lee, the [...]

Albert “Al” Gore, Jr. can add something else next to his Academy Award for the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”: the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Friday, Oct. 12, the former vice-president of the Clinton Administration and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the award for their work in raising awareness about global warming.
In [...]

Whitman Direct Action embodies all that Whitman promises to foster: creativity, leadership, intellectual vitality, service and global awareness. Despite this, the long-term future of WDA is uncertain and hinges on a few factors, the most important of which is administration support.
The mission of WDA is to help marginalized people internationally through student initiatives and [...]

Students across campus have spent the last month sharing intimate details about their sex lives, not with their best friends, but with the sociology department—all anonymously, of course, and for a constructive purpose. Alumna Paula England, who graduated from Whitman in 1971 and is now a sociology professor at Stanford University, created the survey, entitled [...]

From the outset of their college experience at Whitman, students are introduced to and familiarized with the college’s policies regarding sexual harassment and misconduct and academic honesty and plagiarism. Detailed descriptions of the policies are presented in the Student Handbook and in numerous information sessions.
Nothing of this sort, however, exists for hate crimes.
The Action Against [...]