On Friday, Oct. 12, a new crop of prospective students attended Fall Visitors’ Day. The event started with a continental breakfast at 8 a.m. and closed with a sampling of the College’s a cappella groups at 3 p.m. Prospective students had an opportunity to hear various faculty and administrators speak about different aspects [...]

Around 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, two construction workers laying down cement on Valencia Street smelled smoke and heard cries for help coming from a nearby house. They called 911 and then quickly ran over to the house.
Standing on top of the roof at 709 Valencia Street were the three people whose cries [...]

Last Thursday, Douglas Walker of the University of Calgary presented a public lecture entitled “French in the Canadian West” in Olin Hall. Walker is a professor of French and Linguistics at Calgary and was brought to speak at Whitman as part of the Visiting Educators Program.
The Visiting Educators Program is one the oldest series [...]

It’s every man’s fantasy. No, not that one, but fantasy basketball. Some Whitties may have noticed a post on the students’ listserv about starting a league on Yahoo. First-year Zach Rosenberg sent out that e-mail.
“I just wanted to do a fantasy league, why not here?” said Rosenberg.
As of Saturday, Oct. 13, there were five teams [...]

Ever since the Phillips brothers were little, they’ve been playing soccer together.
According to Greg Phillips, he and his brother Steve have played hundreds of one-on-one games in their front yard and in the basement of their house as well as participating in countless games of pick-up soccer.
Perhaps it’s no wonder, then, that the two feel [...]

Charles Lindbergh once said, “I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.” Noble of him, considering his claim to fame was taking the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1927, and if it weren’t for airplanes he’d probably have died in total obscurity.
He also probably never [...]

Leaders from the top 17 greenhouse gas-emitting countries met on Sept. 27 and 28 in an American-hosted climate change summit. President George W. Bush acknowledged the seriousness of carbon emissions but refused to commit to an internationally-binding agreement to cut carbon.
Bush believes we must “think creatively” about this issue but holds that countries should make [...]

Whitman has long enjoyed a reputation for “green” living. Student groups and organizations such as Campus Climate Challenge, the Outhouse and Campus Greens raise awareness on campus about green standards and environmentally sound practices. This green status is awarded to the campus community, however, as opposed to individual students. A survey conducted among 100 Whitman [...]

Since 1994 the Walla Walla Diversity Coalition has been working to encourage diversity and acceptance in the area. The coalition “seeks to prevent discrimination against, and promotes cooperation among all members of the human community, regardless of culture, color, religion, gender, sexual identity, national or ethnic origin, age, handicap, or other differences” according to [...]

World-renowned novelist Salman Rushdie will be delivering a lecture entitled “Culture Wars and the Importance of Free Speech” at Whitman next month. Rushdie, an Anglo-Indian novelist and essayist, is scheduled to speak at Cordiner Hall on Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and will be offering a book signing directly following his speech at 8:30 p.m. [...]

Visiting theater group Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte performed an adapted version of the play “Albertine, en cinq temps,” or “Albertine, in five times,” by French-Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay on Thursday, Oct. 11, in Olin. Actress Francine Conley and director Henrik Borgstrom also conducted a workshop Thursday afternoon with Professor Sarah Hurlburt’s Introduction to French [...]

At a school where 56 percent of the student body is female, it’s not surprising to see more female faces at club meetings and events. But at Whitman, it seems that a gender gap exists in campus involvement.
Junior Elliott Okantey, who serves as ASWC Finance Chair, has direct involvement with clubs and club heads. He [...]

Top 5 things to do before you die:
1. See Girl Talk
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3. See Girl Talk
4. See Girl Talk
5. See Girl Talk
Greg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, a native of Pittsburg, Pa., has been mixing music since he was in college and quit his day job as a biomedical engineer earlier this year in order to pursue his music career. [...]

Whitman is, and always shall be, split by rivalry and vendetta. No day passes without being ruined by some knife fight or dance-off. The corpses of fallen partisans are displayed in Reid Ballroom before being carted off to Penrose Crematorium. We strike the names of the dead from our Facebook listings and erase their faces [...]