Nerf guns are banned this year for the campus-wide game, Humans vs. Zombies. The game involves participants who have become zombies that “feed” on humans by tagging them. This turns the humans into zombies. However, humans can stun the zombies for 15 minutes by shooting them with a Nerf gun or throwing a pair of […]

How often do you walk by Reid Ballroom on a Tuesday night and overhear, “Water, go suck on it, bitch!” “Fuck teeth, what other part of your body do you have to clean twice a day or it will fall off?” or “Don’t drink and drive, go home and smoke pot!”
The 28th annual Seattle […]

“The whole Sunday thing was not some big programming plan that I had,” said Ellie Klein, this year’s public events director. “The fact that the two biggest bands this semester happened to be on Sundays was completely random.”
On Sunday, Nov. 4, Ben Lee and Cary Brothers played Cordiner Hall, marking the second […]

On Nov. 8 in Kimball Auditorium, visiting author Kim Barnes read passages from her memoir, “In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country,” and a soon-to-be published book. The audience listened intently as she read about her troubled and adventure-filled teenage years; she read one passage about drinking with her cousin at a […]

What started as three guys playing music in the Anderson courtyard with a 12-string acoustic guitar, harmonic vocals and various textbooks as drums has turned into “a band which creates the spirit of a lucid dream through the magic of music,” said Patrick McCleery, a resident of Anderson.
Adrian Tuohy, lead guitarist of Lucid Dream, knew […]

Shots were fired late Sunday night in Walla Walla.
A man called the Walla Walla police department at about midnight reporting that he had “heard two thumps against his vehicle, and upon inspection found bullet holes,” according to the Union Bulletin. Later that same night, a woman reported shots fired at her home – an incident […]

Wild Berries! Café is located on First Avenue, a few doors down from local favorite Sweet Basil Pizzeria. Wild Berries!, which is also a catering company, is owned and run by Judith Henderson, an award-winning chef and author from San Francisco.
Wild Berries! first opened in 2002 in neighboring Dayton, and relocated to its current location […]

City Council
Barbara Clark
Clark was reelected with close to 55% of the vote, while challenger Gary Johnson took second with the remainder of the votes. Clark, a highly active community member has served for 10 years on the Walla Walla City Council. She is the only woman on the council.
Often considered a more progressive […]

Winter is setting in on campus. It is getting dark before dinnertime, too cold to leave the house without a sufficient amount of bundling. What better way to welcome in the season than by curling up by a fire, tea in hand and reading a book?
Do Whitman students have time to just, well, read? […]

That’s right: The illustrious Penrose Library offers more than the boring academic criticisms on Virginia Woolf and complicated theories on psychology you attempt to digest for research papers. When you’re finally in the market to read for pleasure, try one of these truly satisfying reads, available for free at our very own campus book house. […]

1. Full name
Joseph Elmer Farnes- My middle name is a sign I’m destined for greatness, obviously.
2. Age
21 lovely years
3. Best-known for
Talking about religion and theology endlessly, being adorable, listening to people, wearing cardigans.
4. What was the last dream you had?
I dreamed I saw St. Augustine, alive as you or me, tearing these quarters […]

My life is not notable. I have never done anything particularly worthwhile and I probably never will. With the exception of beating “Starfox 64” like nine times in a row on my 12th birthday, my personal history is completely barren.
If the insectoid schoolchildren of tomorrow can read human letters, they will probably not read […]

It starts like this: I am infatuated with words.
Now, before you get the wrong idea, this isn’t just any middle school Valentine’s Day crush; spy on me for a day, and you’ll see my fancy turn its violent side. You see, I hunt them; I stalk them no less intently than a […]

“The defense of free speech begins at the point at which people say things you can’t stand,” said Salman Rushdie to a beyond-capacity audience in Cordiner last Wednesday.
Students, faculty and community members flocked to campus for world-renowned Rushdie’s lecture, entitled “Culture Wars and the Importance of Free Speech.”
Rushdie was introduced by Whitman’s Professor […]