by Brennan Jorgensen
staff writer
Competing at a Div. I level, sophomore Nordic skier Devon Spika leads the pack with skill, enthusiasm and experience. Spika carved her mark early last year by placing in the top-10 four times and attending the NCAA National Championships. She is already off to an impressive start this racing season.
At the [...]

“Spirituality” is a loaded term; if this is obvious to you, you’re probably a Whitman student. Perhaps you’ve passed Core; or maybe you failed it—I’ll assume you at least read the syllabus just to see how much reading you were going to avoid while you drew random circles in your otherwise empty notebook with a [...]

It’s possible that I stand alone on the Hillary crying debacle. It’s possible that I stand alone in my disgust at the phrase “Hillary crying debacle.” It’s highly possible that I’m alone in thinking that way too much column space has been given to why we think Hillary ‘cried,’ and not enough to why we [...]

This is the first installment in what will be a weekly column from Eli Asch and Brian Woods. Each Thursday, the two will debate the biggest national sports story of the week that will then lead into their sports talk radio show on Fridays at 10 a.m. on Whitman’s KWCW. Their columns will be written [...]

Harvard Professor Dr. David R. Williams gave scientific evidence to support total abstention from alcohol consumption. Walla Walla University (WWU) hosted Dr. Williams to speak about the effects that socioeconomic status, alcoholism and religion respectively have on health.
As a Seventh-day Adventist university, WWU promotes abstention from alcohol, Saturday worship (instead of Sunday) and good [...]

The nation-wide event Focus the Nation has not passed over Whitman College: It has made last week one of the biggest weeks for climate change on campus.
There are over 1,500 groups, organizations and campuses participating, with the goal of formulating solutions to combat global warming and climate change that students can take to our representatives [...]

The Little Theatre of Walla Walla kicks off the 2008 portion of their 2007-’08 season with George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” this Friday.
Opened in 1944, The Little Theatre of Walla Walla is an all-volunteer, community theater.
“For a town this size to have such a great, active theater is just fantastic,” said Julie Arnold, [...]

Previously only mentioned once during the 2004 presidential debates, climate change has come to the forefront of campaigning in the 2008 elections. Regardless of party, environmental action has been incorporated into election plans. The spectrum begins with conservation leader John Edwards and ends with non-committal Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.
Slowing climate change comes with a [...]

The keynote lecture on Whitman’s second annual Symposium on Diversity and Community last Monday night almost did not happen.
Patricia J. Williams, the Columbia University law professor and columnist for The Nation magazine who was slated to speak, experienced a flight delay that left her stranded in an airport in Denver for hours. Though she was [...]

Plants come from seeds and seeds come from plants. Seems like a simple enough combination, but in this case things are not as simple as they appear. Hybrid seed has been marketed in the U.S. since the 1920s. Hybrid seed results from crossing two related plants that are valued for different traits. [...]

We’re only four weeks deep in this year and already we’ve had a statue go down hard (not to mention trees, but we hear they grow back). Plus the whole campus got a tundra-style makeover. And we all forgot to drop that 8 a.m. class before Ron Urban ended our dreams of freedom. And this [...]

In between his more well-known works such as “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez published a novella with the curious title of “Memories of My Melancholy Whores.”
The story is told from the unlikely perspective of an old, ugly, Colombian journalist, who decides to celebrate his 90th [...]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has the strong dedication and experience to take the United States from being the laughingstock that it is today to a renewed position as the morally upright and powerful nation that it was not long ago. She is the voice of power and commitment in the 2008 presidential election. And, perhaps [...]

Debris blankets Pioneer Park. Near its center, a large pine lies on its side, partly obscured by snow.
Indeed, although no deaths or injuries have been reported as a result of the Jan. 4 storm that ravaged Walla Walla, the town has lost many of its oldest inhabitants—its trees.
“It’s sad. It’s really a shame,” said [...]