Whitman Students of the Jewish faith joined together for an evening of celebration and remembrance during the campus’ first completely student-run Passover Seder. The event, held Saturday, April 19 in Baker Faculty Center, was organized by Hillel Shalom, the campus’ Jewish club.
Traditionally, the Passover Seder is a ritual meal held on any of the eight [...]

Several hundred people stood at the corner of Coville and Main Streets, the adults clapping, kids zealously ringing the yellow cowbells handed out by Allegro Cyclery like they hadn’t been ringing them for the past six hours. And everyone cheered as Ian Tubbs threw his arms in the air as his first place in [...]

The weekend of April 4-6, three Whitman students—Gary Wang ‘11, Sarah Judkins ‘10 and myself/Camila Thorndike ‘10—joined 25 youth gathered in the Oregon woods to further plot the course of the Cascade Climate Network (CCN), a youth network for climate change action that spans the Pacific Northwest.
We are guided by the Cascade Climate Declaration, [...]

“Thelma and Lousie” gets a pretty bad rap. I will tell you right now: it is not a fun road trip movie. It is not a girly slumber-party movie. It has guns and blood and rape attempts and cars going over cliffs. It’s not a chick flick. It kicks ass.
Everything starts out innocently enough. Thelma [...]

Club Latino collaborated with local high schools to bring 50 low-income and minority high school students to campus on Friday, April 18.  High school students shadowed Whitman students to a class, ate lunch in Jewett and then attended several workshops designed to teach the students about the application process.
“Many of the students don’t have as [...]

It’s a good thing “The Forbidden Kingdom,” the long-awaited first-ever collaboration between Hong Kong legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li, is so much fun, because deep down it’s a little depressing.
The delightful mythical story—about an irreverent martial arts master called the Monkey King, who is held captive by the Jade Warlord until the prophesied Seeker [...]

The House of Clubs’ representatives may no longer have as large of a voice in ASWC as years past. On the April 13 joint session meeting, President Jeff Wilson presented the House with several amendments to the constitution and by-laws after discussions with the executive council.
“We are seeking positive reinforcements to get people involved on [...]

As a plump hormonally-charged sixth grader, I often wondered what I could do to better market myself to the fairer sex. I tried to portray myself as a stud: I joined a soccer team the previous summer and, at the time, I played on a competitive hockey team.
That didn’t seem to work, so I began [...]

Clothing is an anomaly. Humans are the only species that wear it, and we wear it as if the very act of covering our bodies is a complicated art form. As Mark Twain famously noted, “The finest clothing made is a person’s skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.”
Fashion has become a [...]

Last night, celebrating some of our last times at Whitman, some seniors and I returned to our first-year dorm roots; we stayed up really late having passionate discussions about serious topics and making friends. One of the topics we discussed was individual rights, as they relate to cigarette-smoking and gun control. I present [...]

On Saturday the Men’s Varsity Tennis team earned their first Northwest Conference (NWC) title since 2004, with strong victories over both Willamette and Pacific Lutheran University (PLU).  The wins cemented the team’s ranking as No. 20 in the nation.
“We were undefeated in conference play this season, so there certainly were some expectations to win the [...]

I had heard of the Popemobile, but not until Pope Benedict’s recent trip to the United States did I have the opportunity to see it. Any quirk of image the Popemobile causes is swiftly excused because everyone would rather see the Pope behind bullet-proof glass than see him come to any harm. Such is the [...]

This week, we got something that was slightly more expensive, mostly because we’re tired of that sympathetic/reproachful look that the guy at the liquor store gives us in response to our rubbing-alcohol-esque purchases. To prove that guy wrong (can’t say this enough—fuck you “Steven” from the liquor store) we went a little classier and dropped [...]

We’ve heard about global warming. Water shortages. Peak oil. Failing states and animal extinction. But how often do we consider that these problems are interconnected?
In a lecture entitled “The Ecology of Hope: Creativity in a Finite World,” sustainable design architect Ken Hall spoke to students and community members Monday night about the interrelatedness of these [...]

On various Mondays this year, Whitties may have noticed several pairs of severely bruised legs in mini-skirts walking around campus.
These legs belong to the members of the Motherruckers, Whitman’s women’s club rugby team, who proudly sport the war-wounds they earned in competition the week before.
Next Monday, April 28, will be the last time Whitties will [...]