Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Articles by Spencer Janyk:
Grading system fails to give adequate feedback
The cliché that liberal arts schools teach their students how to think has never made sense to me in the context of Whitman. Although official ...
Counterpoint: we are all cyborgs
“Some differences are playful; some are poles of world historical systems of domination. ‘Epistemology’ is about knowing the difference.” - Donna Haraway What is nature? That’s ...
Radicalism is a politically disabling option
In recent weeks I’ve been disgusted and saddened by the disrespectful actions of a few bad apples across the country. I’m speaking, of course, about ...
Point: The ideology of ‘outdoorsyism’
Whitman is an outdoorsy kind of place. I can dig that; when it’s sunny, it’s fun to be outside. On the other hand, ...
‘Whitman’ has a genocidal name, state-of-being
“...[A] concerted, sustained, and in some ways accelerating effort has gone into making Indians unreal. It is thus of obvious importance that the American ...
The Peace Corps spreads colonial influence abroad
It seems like there are a lot of Whitties who want to change the world, and if I’m certain of anything, it’s that change—in the ...
If you do not care, we could really care less
What does it mean to get crunk? To many, crunk is an advanced state of intoxication from alcohol, to others, it’s a musical genre. Some ...
Let’s talk about sexy
Bodies are sexual and rhythmic, they sing and laugh and talk. Sometimes bodies ache or hurt. Sometimes they get drunk or fall asleep. Bodies can keep ...
Think Whitman is just a college? Think again.
Whitman students get much more than they bargain for when they pay the $40k+/year for tuition. Many of us get our education heavily (or entirely) ...
Environmentalism misses the point
Living at Whitman has been a struggle for me so far because I don’t recycle, and that seems to be the only thing people get ...
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