Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Articles by Gary Wang:
Counterpoint: Who needs ideology?
It's easy to analyze each new political event, like Obama's election in 2008, in terms of what we already know. Obama's victory cemented the intellectual decline ...
Freedom positively defined
Do you love freedom? If you do, you might be an American. If you don't, you must have missed the memo. History ended in 1989, ...
“A More Perfect Union”: change built into Constitution
America isn’t just a land, a particular group of people or a set of institutions. It’s also a set of ideals demanding realization. President Obama ...
White lies: the cost of impressing friends
We (present company definitely included) have created a special category between false statements that matter and those that don't. We automatically exhale our “White ...
The real world vs. Whitman
First years—this is the politically correct and gender neutral term for those of you who care—you’ve got four (maybe five, and hopefully not three) years ...
Questions About Us: Here is a surprise for all!
Time does fly. Doesn’t September seem so far away? Yet paradoxically, the weather in Walla Walla seems to come full circle. At the beginning of ...
Questions about us: I know you are but what am I?
One of the most telling characteristics of the Whitman student body revealed itself a couple months ago when this paper ran a column concerning the ...
Questions about US: Making a good impression
People say the people you meet in college are the friends you keep for life. The sorority sister who held your hair when you hunched ...
Hey there, do-gooder
At Whitman and similar institutions, there are a lot of do-gooders. Student activists, the benevolently ambitious, idealists with a practical edge or just plain do-gooders ...
Counter-Point: A Humbling Privilege
In the interest of full disclosure: I am not a vegetarian nor am I particularly good at frisbee but nonetheless, to me, “outdoorsyness” is not ...
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