Thursday, March 18th, 2010
All students should attend ‘Prom Night’
Paul Saltzman's first documentary feature, Prom Night in Mississippi, which ...
Women’s tennis greeted with disappointing loss after Pacific sweep
Wildcats tame Missionaries, win 5-4.
Whitman seniors score 46, wallop Linfield
Whitman Women's Basketball wins its final game of the season blowing out Linfield, 81-52.
Get ‘Lost,’ It’s Worth It
For some, the premier of the final season of Lost was yet ...
The Age-Old Film Debate: Formalism or Realism?
A recent post by New Yorker film blogger Richard Brody sparked a worthwhile debate (in which I participated) that ...
New on DVD: ‘The Cove’
A excellent film that somehow made it as near as Pasco this fall (don't ask me how) has redefined activist documentary filmmaking. Louie Psihoyos's The ...
Top Films of the Decade
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon) - Dir. Michael Haneke (2009) The Hurt Locker - Dir. Kathryn Bigelow (2009) WALL-E - Dir. Andrew Stanton (2008) Entre les murs ...
Top Films of 2009
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon) - Dir. Michael Haneke Goodbye Solo - Dir. Ramin Bahrani Where the Wild Things Are - Dir. Spike Jonze La mujer sin ...
Review: ‘The Messenger’
This year, for reasons unbeknownst to me, has given rise to undoubtedly the best fictional films about the Iraq War. The first, Kathryn Bigelow's The ...
Campus Voices
Wine Economics: A Hint of Hype, A Taste of Illusion
Linked from wine-econ.org on November 14, 2009
Researched published in the "Journal of Wine Economics," based out of Walla Walla, was featured in a Wall Street Journal today.
PROVENANCE OF OBSIDIAN FRAGMENTS RECOVERED FROM ADAK ISLAND, CENTRAL ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: EVIDENCE FOR LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT
Linked from gsa.confex.com on October 21, 2009
The following is a presentation Geology Professor Kirsten Nicolaysen gave at the Geological Society of America conference in Portland this October.
TEXTURAL FEATURES OF COLUMBIA RIVER FLOOD BASALTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SEQUESTRATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON DIOXIDE
Linked from gsa.confex.com on October 21, 2009
Like Otto, Whitman senior wrote this abstract from the same conference.
EVIDENCE FOR FLOW INFLATION AND INTRAFLOW CHEMICAL VARIATION OF A FRENCHMAN SPRINGS BASALT OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER BASALT PROVINCE
Linked from gsa.confex.com on October 21, 2009
Whitman junior Elise Otto wrote this abstract for the Geological Society of America conference in Portland this October.
The Politics of Twilight Web Traffic Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style
Linked from annehelenpetersen.wordpress.com on November 13, 2009
New blog post from Anne Helen Petersen who will be a visiting instructor in Rhetoric and Film Studies in the spring.
