Last Wednesday night at Verve Coffee and Art House, blue moon unveiled its latest edition of “Big Art,” a celebration of Whitman’s artistic community. The event, which ran for two hours, featured poetry and prose readings from last year’s blue moon, musical performances and art from the 2007 magazine for sale.
Verve also hosted “Big […]

Senior studio art majors traveled to New York City last month as part of their senior seminar in search of inspiration for their culminating projects in the spring. New York City, described by Whitman’s Professor of Sculpture Michelle Acuff as the Mecca of the art world, is home to some of the world’s best museums […]

Dance instructor Vicki Lloid stands in the center of the room beside an enormous red umbrella, conferring with student soloist Chris Fade about her belly dance performance. Another student enters with a folded tarp, and off to the side, an old-fashioned telephone is placed on a stool.
“If anyone has a headlamp, can they bring […]

The students in Film Studies 165 know that writing, directing and filming movies isn’t easy. Taurra SunEagle’s group argued daily—once for 20 hours before compromising, rewrote a script after spending three weeks working on it, filmed both in the rain and at 2 a.m., and lost every single one of their DVD tapes throughout the […]

It has been declared “the nation’s leading law enforcement scourge” by law enforcement officers across the country. It has driven the rise of child abuse, domestic abuse, theft and violent crime along with the overcrowding of prisons, environmental degradation and the destruction of rural communities.
“Perhaps more than any other drug this country […]

Whitman students and other residents of Walla Walla now have an option other than persistent listserv e-mails if they want to get out of town without using their own car. Bellair Charters/Airporter Shuttle has started a new shuttle service between Walla Walla and Pasco.
The thrice daily service has three pickup locations in […]

What are your impressions of Americans?
Do you see any improvements in your life since the fall of Saddam Hussein?
Are your daily activities impaired because of the war?
These are three of many questions that have been sent by Whitman students to students in Iraq.
Jyotsna Shivanandan, a senior politics major, and Paul Burdett, a senior philosophy […]

I am thankful that I haven’t found a letter from the selective service in my mailbox. Although I would gladly serve in the military if I were called upon to do so, I am glad that I haven’t had to interrupt my life to be shipped out.
The United States military is so strong because it […]

Soldiers die every day all around the world and with the war in Iraq more troops are dying all the time. This poses a problem for the military, which must find ways to keep their number high in order to continue the war. In the past during extended engagements the U.S. government has instituted a […]

“I am shocked and stunned. I’m going to be better,” was the response of one Whitman student who, after taking an ecological-footprint quiz, learned that 3.7 planets would be needed to sustain his current lifestyle.
Last week Whitman’s Campus Climate Challenge set up tables in Reid where students could take an ecological-footprint quiz through the […]

• 464: Number of U.S. deaths in Operation Enduring Freedom (the military response to 9/11)
• 10: Number of Washington deaths in OEF
• 3,876: Number of U.S. deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom (invasion of Iraq)
• 78: Number of Washington deaths in OIF
(as of Nov. 24, 2007; Statistical Information Analysis Division of U.S. Department of Defense)
• 36 […]

For some of you it was your first. For a few of you it was your last—we’ll miss you. And for a lot of you it was just one of those middle ones that went by pretty fast. Should you have drunk less? Nah, you’re probably good. Wait, what are those things you have to […]

We never thought this issue would come. But here it is. The last time the K/Caitlins will be writing from the same location. The last official KC Masterpiece.
It is horrifically tragic.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it has been a full year of the Masterpiece and a longer friendship to back it up. Us K/Caitlins met in […]

Winter is upon us. My calendar-machine tells me that it will not arrive for several weeks, that my experiments in weather-control are dangerous and possibly immoral, and that God metes out justice even to the curious.
Winter is awful and cannot be stopped. It is the death of the year and announces this by the flashy […]

One of the art majors said our week in New York felt like a week of another life. For that week, I thought of myself less as a college student than a walking, breathing set of eyes. Home was 113th and Amsterdam Street. The new breakfast routine was a 30-cent roll and orange juice from […]