As long as you don’t live under a rock and you’ve watched network television at some point in the last 20 years, you’ve heard the phrase, “Sit, Ubu, Sit” followed by a bark and “Good dog.” “Sit, Ubu, Sit” is the name of a production company started by Gary David Goldberg, and also the name […]

Bon Appétit is putting Whitman on a diet. But with almost two fully functional gyms, active student participation in sports and miles of highway just waiting to be traveled on bike or foot, you might wonder why a diet is necessary. Except that Bon Appétit doesn’t want to get rid of pounds of fat, they’re […]

Last week, something momentous happened: I turned 20.
My best friend, whose birthday falls four days after mine, also turned 20. She and I joked about how we have successfully eliminated the danger of teenage pregnancy and laughed about how old we felt.
But underneath my smile, I felt a little terrified.
Twenty. The first digit of my […]

Remember back in the fall when Campus Climate Challenge had that big event on Ankeny to raise awareness about the farm bill and garner some support for reforms?  Well, it turns out that we are still talking about that same farm bill, and while there are some reforms, they are minor.  More importantly though, the […]

Instead of April showers, Walla Walla and surrounding areas in eastern Washington were treated to April snowfall this past week.
“We had hail this afternoon,” said Prescott resident Jean Thomas, owner of Hillcrest Farms. “I was driving and I could barely see.”
“I’m still sunburned from a couple of weekends ago and now it’s snowing,” said senior […]

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, the manifestation of the Buddha of Compassion, the Ocean of Wisdom, was in Seattle for a five-day series of events focusing on the issue of compassion from April 11 to 16. Many students traveled the five hours from campus to attend workshops and lectures at the wuest […]

Last week, science took a back seat to irrelevant connections between Sen. Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the Weather Radicals—in other words, tabloid-style topics that wouldn’t even merit a cover of The National Enquirer. Not only was this a sad day in American democracy, it was outright repulsive display of anti-professionalism.
The purpose of […]

Delta Gamma: The DGs won the freshmen dance competition last Friday and on Saturday beat the Kappas and the Thetas in the inter-greek football tournament. On Saturday the DGs have their chapter retreat, an alumni open house, a pinning ceremony and lastly their dance at the Underground. In the words of one Delta Gamma officer, […]

My first thought after stepping off the plane was, “Is my wallet safe?”  Taking my dad’s advice, I shipped off from Boise, Idaho with some $500 in my wallet for New York, where, he threatened, credit cards don’t work and there are pickpockets lurking on every corner.  I was largely unfazed by his advice: he […]

Dear Doctor,
I really want to travel the world before I sell my soul for a salary and full dental, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my parents won’t be willing to fund my debauchery and poor choices once the veneer of education is stripped away.  How can I see the world without my parents’ […]

A few weeks ago Barbara Sutton gave a talk on campus called “Gender, State Violence and Living Room Terrorism: Lessons from Argentina.” I’m feeling lately like I haven’t picked up the radical feminist torch in a long time. This is the talk that handed the torch back to me.
Barbara focused on Argentina in her talk, […]

Black Sunday,” a film about displacement camps in Northern Uganda, moved half of the Whitman audience to tears and the other half to frustration with its MTV styled activism. African Awareness, a club that formed after last year’s screening of the prequel, brought the Invisible Children tour group to campus last Thursday.
The film is meant […]

Lots of cooks have signature dishes, and this week I’m going to share mine.
Okay, so maybe I didn’t create this recipe myself, but I’ve made it a lot of different ways since I first discovered it. Also, I made up a name for it, something I am still very proud of. I called it matzohtoff […]

This Monday nearly 200 friends and family members of the recently deceased Whitman junior Michael Quimpo gathered in the Reid ballroom for his memorial service.  At the request of his father, the service’s theme was a celebration of life.
“I wanted the service to be comforting for Michael’s family, but also to be accessible to the […]

One of the first art theses that greets visitors upon entering the Sheehan Gallery is Kento Ushikubo’s “The Auq,” a nearly 10-foot leech-like monster, whose open mouth visitors are invited to step into.
“The Auq represents the imaginary that humans feared as children,” Ushikubo wrote in an Artist’s Statement hanging nearby the piece.
“The Auq” is part […]