Sixty-six runners met Saturday morning on a rain-soaked Ankeny to demonstrate dedication to community health and well-being. The runners met for “Run For Your Life,” a two-mile loop around campus organized by Professor Kendra Golden’s nutrition class.
Donated prizes were awarded to the fastest man and woman, and additional prizes were raffled. Winning […]

ASWC continued what has been a productive semester thus far last week, meeting with members of the administration, the board of trustees and the student body to continue to advocate for the campus community.
Last Sunday, Nov. 11, ASWC held its first Town Hall of the year. Members of the executive council and policy committee met […]

Many myths surround the banana tree planted outside Penrose Library at Whitman. The most common of these myths is that it is uprooted every winter and put into a greenhouse for storage until the spring.
These myths are not true.
“There are a few myths around campus,” Director of Grounds Gary Brown said. “One is […]

On Saturday, Nov. 10, the Walla Walla Public Library hosted a discussion entitled “Genocide in the Human Heart: from the Holocaust to Darfur.” The discussion, moderated by Councilwoman Barbara Clark, featured Associate Professor of Politics Bruce Magnusson and Rabbi Stanley Yedwab considering the implications of genocide.
The discussion aimed to promote awareness about the issue […]

On Tuesday, Nov. 6, a small group of students gathered in Prentiss Great Hall for the second part of the Expanding Horizons Prentiss Lecture Series. Assistant Director of Residence Life and Housing Sean Gehrke presented “Talking About Your Generation: How You Fit into Generation Theory.”
The lecture outlined the generation theories of Neil Howe and […]

In a lecture at Whitman last Thursday, Nov. 8, peak oil expert Richard Heinburg said that unless the world makes drastic carbon reductions, we will soon face a complete breakdown of our social order as well as our biosphere.
“We’re performing a giant science experiment with the earth’s atmosphere,” said Heinburg in regard to global warming. […]

W.E.B. Du Bois once wrote that the problem of the 20th Century is the problem of the color-line, not in the sense that the color-line is a problem that has a single solution or is a problem in the sense that it must be eradicated—rather, the color-line is a problem that must have the attention […]

Two hunters are hanging out in the woods when one suddenly collapses. He seems to stop breathing, and his eyes glaze over. The other hunter, shocked and upset, gets out his cell phone to dial 911.
“My friend seems to have died! What do I do? What do I do?”
“Relax. It’s okay. First, let’s make sure […]

There are two factors that I would like to talk about concerning Whitman’s decision to bring Salman Rushdie to campus. First, the decision itself, and secondly the way it was advertised, at least online. Any educational infrastructure is a powerful institute, and Whitman is no exception. The money and resources available have […]

If you truly appreciate orchestral music, and you know that you’re not lying to yourself when you say this, stop reading; this column isn’t for you. If you think having “Moonlight Sonata” on your iPod but never listening to it is appreciating orchestral music, this column is for you. This is a column in defense […]

I don’t spend all that much time on Facebook, believe it or not. It stresses me out. I keep getting invited to Scrabulous games I don’t want to play, and RSVP to conflicting events, and stalk only the people I really shouldn’t, for my own sanity, be stalking. You know what I mean.
This hiatus began […]

Finals week always represents stress. Final research papers, cumulative examinations and high expectations circulate around campus numbing the student body into a sleep-deprived, anxiety-riddled mess. Finals were the most terrifying part of freshman year for me and for multitudes of my friends, and the concept still strikes up a feeling of inadequacy within me. Whitman […]

Thanksgiving is easily the best holiday of the year, a celebration of all that is good in this country. It centers on food, family and friends. It focuses us on the bounty of our lives, while also reminding us of the fact that we may not always have the bounty that we currently […]

The only references to 12-step programs that I hear in everyday life are lightly jabbing comments that point out the programs’ ridiculously rigid, prescribed quality. Someone will say in a satiric tone, “Hi, I’m Jo and I’m an alcoholic,” and someone else will respond in an equally exaggerated tone, “Hi, Jo!” Most people probably don’t […]