After almost a year of brainstorming, planning and organizing, Elana Stone and Adam Kirtley are ready to start advertising the Interfaith Living Community, which will hopefully debut in Douglas Hall next fall.
The Interfaith Living Community is modeled after the Interest Houses. Eight students from different religious disciplines will live together in a Douglas suite with [...]

I’ve been watching the debate over illegal immigration in the U.S. with personal interest, because I am planning to emigrate to Scotland. And let me tell you, immigrating to the U.K. is a bitch and a half.
First off, you have to acquire some sort of job skill that A) they need in Scotland, and B) [...]

Last Tuesday Maxey Auditorium turned into an auction house to host the first ever Whitman Date Auction.  The date auction, sponsored by Whitman Direct Action (WDA) in conjunction with Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Delta Theta, was a fund-raiser for WDA’s Safe and Sustainable Clean Water Conference being held in Mumbai, India over spring break.
“Overall [...]

In lieu of what many thought would be—or already was—a fixed election, the voice of the Pakistani democracy prevailed.
Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistani People’s Party and the Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz) split a vast majority of the vote while the Pakistani Muslim League (Q), President Pervez Musharraf’s party, was left in their wake.
Though the United States has [...]

Last year, Todd and Yesenia Wise and Sylvia Moya—who live less than a block from one another—didn’t know each other. At most, they recognized each others’ faces, but they had never had a real conversation.
These days, though, the three catch up once a week or so. For that, at the very least, they have the [...]

At months past the age of 6, a sweet yet reticent classmate of mine died in a car crash en route to visiting the zoo. Though I was saddened that I didn’t see her in school anymore, I did not comprehend her death. It was not until roughly nine years later that I truly understood [...]

Allow me to begin with a quote from a piece in the Feb. 7 issue: “It seems that ‘ghetto’ Safeway finally realized that it wasn’t really in much of a ghetto, but actually only a few blocks away from an expensive liberal arts college.”
First, there’s the fact that the label of “ghetto” on the [...]

News flash for all you youngsters out there: Vaginas do not taste like strawberries. This may seem to some like an obvious reminder, but recent trends have me wondering. Particularly, the trend to make one’s genitals shiny and fruity-tasting.
I think sex toys are GREAT, if you’re into that sort of thing. I think women and [...]

Hayao Miyazaki is one of those directors you are either obsessed with or have never heard of. I am obsessed with him. His movies are incredibly creative, bordering on insane. They’re all animated, but this is about as far from Disney as you can get in the same medium. And every one of them, to [...]

Last year, Todd and Yesenia Wise and Sylvia Moya—who live less than a block from one another—didn’t know each other. At most, they recognized each others’ faces, but they had never had a real conversation.
These days, though, the three catch up once a week or so. For that, at the very least, they have the [...]

WOODS:
Last week was NBA basketball, so this week we’ll take it down a notch and talk some college hoops.  There’s a lot to talk about but let’s keep it focused on the PAC-10 for now, since that’s a little closer to home for most people (sorry Eli).  I’ll go ahead and say that the PAC-10 [...]

For the last two weekends, Whitman baseball has been on the road, first in Los Angeles and more recently in McMinnville.
Road trips bring teams together.  Despite all of the practices and games, teams spend very little time together as an entire team—maybe a once-a-week dinner or something similar.  Traveling together in one bus becomes team [...]

The 52nd most popular website online today is called Digg.com, a website founded in 2004 that brings in 40,315,228 unique visitors web browsers from around the world every month. It is a website that essentially serves as an aggregator for the rest of the world wide web, pointing daily users towards worthy posts, videos, essays, [...]

Music has been the defining artistic interest of my life. I can trace my years by the albums to which I listened most, often obsessively. For the most part, I’m interested in lyrics. The Beatles are undoubtedly the sole source of the origins of the that interest, and led me to Dylan, Townes van Zandt [...]

(Note: We tried to write a celebrity gossip column for the first issue of The Consumer, but we became too consumed in our vices and instead became fodder for gossip.)
Let’s start with the fatties of Tinseltown: Jennifer Lopez, having squeezed every last baby out of her body, is no longer disgustingly overweight. Also, [...]