Junior Adam Chapman watched his steps as he navigated the sea of flags being constructed on Ankeny Field. Chapman, along with sophomore Nadim Damluji, junior Lauren Benson and senior Avi Conant, organized the construction of a flag memorial to commemorate both Iraqi civilian and U.S. military deaths in the current war in Iraq.
“Being here [...]

Whitman’s award-winning literary magazine blue moon called on students for support last month. “This is tragic news for those who care about creativity,” said senior blue moon Editor-in-Chief Kate Rosenberg in an e-mail she disseminated to student listservs. Rosenberg explained in her e-mail that the President’s Office is considering not sending copies of blue moon [...]

On Wednesday, Nov. 28, between 20 and 30 Whitman students and community members met in the Reid Campus Center Ballroom to hear author, photographer, filmmaker and scholar of identity politics Kip Fulbeck. The event was sponsored by the International Students and Friends Club and the Asian Cultural Association in conjunction with the Whitman Identity Project.
In [...]

This year’s professor for the Edward F. Arnold visiting professorship is Dr. Emily Bushnell, a visiting professor in psychology who has spent most of her career at Tufts University in Massachusetts, well-known for her research in the realms of cognitive development, perception and motor-learning. The professorship was established in 1968 as Arnold’s request to [...]

ASWC finished off its legislative activities for the semester last weekend with the final Joint Session, in which members of the ASWC Senate and House of Clubs Representatives passed several new nominations and funding requests.
The Joint Session voted to give a total of $3,000 to Whitman Direct Action (WDA), a philanthropy club committed to making [...]

A panel engages in discussion to raise awareness for the 20th annual World AIDS Day, which took place on Dec. 1. In Walla Walla, more than two dozen people attended a memorial service at the First Congregational Church, sponsored by Blue Mountain Heart-to-Heart. Dr. Jerry Hebert was the keynote speaker at the service, advocating for [...]

Chanukah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday that falls on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew Calendar. The holiday can occur any time between November and late December depending on the rotation of the calendar. This year Chanukah began on Dec. 4, leaving Jewish students stranded [...]

Last month Whitman students completed pre-registration for the spring semester. Pre-registration occurs twice a year, in November for the spring semester and in April for the fall semester, and precedes the actual registration that occurs at the beginning of each semester.
Its purpose is to give faculty an idea of the demand for their classes. Often, [...]

The process of erecting the Iraq War Flag Memorial was only supposed to take two days. Students began setting up the flags on the Sunday before the end of Thanksgiving break, and the memorial was supposed to have been completed by the end of the first day of school. Thus, the work of setting up [...]

“Hi, I’m a Mac.”
“And I’m a PC”
Apple computers has a line of television advertisements that all begin with these two lines. The advertisements feature anthropomorphized versions of an Apple computer and the competing, Windows-running PC. You’ve probably seen them.
The “Mac” is a hip young guy maybe in his mid-twenties. He wears T-shirts and flannel shirts [...]

In this time leading up to exams, we may be tempted to reject the Friday (or Thursday or Wednesday…) revelry of the past couple months, buckle down and study. While doing so, I feel that it is important that we not forget the friend that we have in the bottle. Getting drunk may [...]

For those of you who don’t get your news from “The Daily Show,” you might be surprised to learn that Jon Stewart has been off the air for a few weeks now due to the Writer’s Guild of America strike. Prime time shows are starting to be hit by production halts as well—NBC’s “The Office” [...]

Every week for two hours, Danielle Hill and Chalese Calhoon sit downstairs in Reid, waiting. They sit alone.
I am wondering why that is.
Danielle is the Director of Client Services at the YWCA. Chalese works for the Walla Walla Police Department in Domestic Violence Services. They want to talk to you about sex. And still, [...]

In an unstable part of the world a military dictator has just stepped down to make way for an elected government. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has renounced his position as general of the military in order to become the civilian leader of the country.
Though it is not a democratic government or a totally free [...]