Significant changes in the ASWC bylaws were made at the final ASWC Senate meeting of the year last Sunday night, April 28. Senators voted to revise a number of measures previously in the bylaws, including those pertaining to clubs. “The old bylaws reflected the house of clubs, which was a structure ...
ASWC Senate passed an act on April 14 to make it easier for student-teachers to apply for funding to teach a class.
The results of the 2013-2014 ASWC Senate race were announced Monday April 15 at 8:00 p.m.
Last Sunday night, April 15, ASWC Senate met for nearly six hours, discussing resolutions regarding student taught classes, divestment and the fate of Waiilatpu.
ASWC released an updated version of the preliminary 2013-14 budget after the final budget appeals meeting on Wednesday, April 10. On Thursday, April 12, the ASWC Student Affairs Committee passed a bylaw amendment onto Senate that would de-recognize Whitman's yearbook Waiilatpu as a campus media organization. The amendment requires a 2/3 vote in Senate ...
The final Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) Town Hall of the year focused on three major subjects: the lifting of the international travel ban, addressing concerns regarding the ASWC budget and tackling the question of whether or not the yearbook should continue to be funded. [caption id="attachment_69365" align="alignright" width="384"]...
Sophomore Tim Reed was announced as next year's ASWC President 8 p.m. Monday night, April 8, with 61.3% of the vote. Junior Rania Mussia was elected Nominations Chair, beating out first year Allison Kelly in a close race with 54.2% of the vote.
The Pioneer asked candidates running in the 2013 ASWC Executive Council elections about their qualifications, goals for next year and favorite study spots around campus.
After being given two percent of its ASWC funding request, Waiilatpu, Whitman's yearbook organization, struggled to fight for itself at ASWC Senate meeting last Sunday night, March 31.
After a three-year ban, students next year will be able to travel internationally with the support of the college.
Update: A more comprehensive article summarizing the current debate over funding the yearbook and discussion from ASWC Senate on Sunday, March 31 can be found here. ASWC has released a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2014, which includes substantial cuts to Waiilatpu (the Whitman yearbook) and the Greekend Committee. Waiilatpu requested ...
Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu spoke to a full crowd at Cordiner Hall Wednesday night, March 27. She discussed the ideas of gratitude and identity.
Executive council elections and senate elections are coming up soon, and several candidates are running unopposed.
Students will have a greater presence on governing board committees next year, says ASWC president; additionally, trustees promise to set aside "a meaningful amount of time" for face-to-face contact with students while on campus.
ASWC President Kayvon Behroozian announced at the ASWC Senate meeting on Tuesday, March 3 that there will be expanded student representation within Whitman's governing board committees next year.
On Sunday, Feb. 24, ASWC Senate adopted a resolution calling for a gender neutral housing option for first-years. Senators showed unanimous support for the resolution, passing it through a vote of acclamation.
The ASWC senate voted on Sunday, February 10th to raise the ASWC student fee an additional $14 to total $350 for the academic year of 2013-14.
In February, Whitman’s Board of Trustees will formally discuss student representation on the Board of Trustees, a long-time goal of leaders of the Associated Student of Whitman College (ASWC).
Students will have less time than usual this semester to give their input on the new student fee, as ASWC Senate is moving to vote on the fee ahead of schedule.
Associated Students of Whitman College and the Student Engagement Center are interested in expanding students' involvement with the Walla Walla community and beyond through community-based learning projects, which are aimed at integrating real-life experiences and projects into the curriculum of classes to simultaneously solidify students’ learning and reach out to ...
On Sunday, Oct. 21, ASWC approved a resolution asking the college to create a full-time staff position for sustainability coordinator. Along with listing reasons why this position is so important, the resolution lists names of faculty that the resolution will be distributed to in an attempt to gain faculty support.
The first ASWC town hall meeting of the semester was held in the Reid Ballroom Thursday, Oct. 25 and was open to the general student body. ASWC senators, club representatives and other students were given the opportunity to bring up any issues or questions they had about ASWC or the ...
Polls for ASWC's first-year senators closed at 8 p.m. tonight, and the results are in: Jack Percival, James Lavery, Allison Kelly and Anya Tudisco will be representing the class of 2016 in the ASWC Senate. ASWC President Kayvon Behroozian said that this year's elections were marked by a high level of interest. The turnout rate was ...
For the first time this year the ASWC budget request forms required club leaders to itemize lists of their expenses for each event they put on. Senior Finance Chair Fritz Siegert worked on restructuring the club budget request form to address several areas of the previous form, which he found problematic.
Whitman Model United Nations club will travel to Los Angeles April 19-22 for a crisis focused conference hosted by Model United Nations at the University California, Los Angeles. The conference in Los Angeles comes with a high price tag for the club and ASWC. Attending conferences, the major activity of WhitMUN, ...
ASWC’s Executive Council elections take place Monday, April 9. The Pioneer asked president, vice president, finance chair and nominations chair candidates to answer questions about their qualifications and what they would do if elected. The election polls will be open from 12:01am until 9:00pm.
ASWC voted to increase the student fee by 20 dollars for the 2012-2013 academic year during their senate meeting last Sunday Feb. 26.
Last Wednesday, Feb. 15, students gathered to discuss the tenure process at Whitman at ASWC's third town hall meeting this academic year. In light of recent student uproar over Assistant Professor of Spanish Alberto Galindo's tenure denial, Provost and Dean of Faculty Timothy Kaufman-Osborn spoke about the importance of the ...
The Pioneer had the opportunity to speak with ASWC President Matt Dittrich about challenges his administration has faced this year and what he expects to accomplish this semester.
A series of revisions to ASWC's bylaws may change the way ASWC distributes funding to student organizations and initiatives . Four of the revisions would moderate use of the Travel and Student Development fund, while the fifth would institute a more rigorous review process for all media organizations on campus.
Thousands of dollars from next year's student fees were divvied up when the ASWC Senate passed the 2011-12 ASWC budget in their meeting on Sunday, April 17.
ASWC's Executive Council elections take place Monday, April 11. The Pioneer asked president, vice president, finance chair and nominations chair candidates to answer questions about their views and what they would do if elected.
ASWC is currently pushing to get student representation on the newly established curriculum committee. Members of ASWC believe that allowing students to be a part of making curriculum-related decisions will be hugely beneficial for the college.
ASWC voted to reduce its student government fee from 320 to 316 dollars due to a surplus of funds from the large class of 2014.
Second time was the charm for Whitman's yearbook, which gained funding after a re-vote during the ASWC Senate meeting on Sunday, Feb. 13. After their initial proposal to ASWC was voted down on Jan. 13, the yearbook staff came back with a new proposal.
On Sunday, January 30, the ASWC Senate voted down a proposal to dedicate $15,000 from the Travel and Student Development Fund to fund a yearbook. The yearbook staff plans to revise the proposal and re-present it to the Senate in the coming weeks.
The repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell means that military recruiters are once again allowed to recruit on campus.
In order to help combat this problem of rising class sizes and course compression, the faculty voted in November to create a Curriculum Committee with the express purpose of coordinating the academic schedule across departments. When the committee was first proposed it included a student representative. This was done to ...
The chosen color of the Sunday, Nov. 14 ASWC Senate meeting was green--unanimously. On the agenda were two resolutions throwing ASWC support behind environmental initiatives and a vote on appropriating money to make the resolutions a reality. All three passed unanimously. One resolution, the Washington Beyond Coal resolution, displayed ASWC's support of ...
Whitman released its 2010 Annual Security Report, including crime statistics for the calendar year of 2009, last Friday, Oct. 1. The college discloses the statistics in accordance with the federal Clery Act. Most notably, between 2008 and 2009, reported sex offenses on-campus and in students' off-campus houses fell from 18 to ...
ASWC voted unanimously during its Sunday, April 21, meeting to finalize its budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which totals $462,400. In addition to funding eight new campus clubs and organizations, the budget allocates more money to its Travel and Student Development Fund as well as to campus media groups.
ASWC student representatives are working together with members of the faculty and staff to put the finishing touches on the Student Grievance Policy, a procedure by which students can present formal complaints to the college. The policy is scheduled to be reviewed by the Academic Council during its April 28 ...
The Student Life Committee approves an ASWC-introduced revision to the Academic Dishonesty policy. The proposed changes would give professors more input in penalties for improper citations and plagiarism. The Faculty Committee must approve the new policy for it to take effect.
Following up a successful inaugural run last spring 2009, ASWC and the Whitman Outdoor Program have teamed up to offer free bus rides to Bluewood Ski Resort every Saturday throughout the month of Feb. 2010.
Breaking a decade-old tradition, ASWC has voted against raising its Student Activity Fee for the 2010-2011 academic year.
In the footsteps of deceased President Andrew Jackson, ASWC held its first Big Block of Cheese Day to gather student voices on a variety of pressing campus issues.
First-year Calvin Atkins walked briskly across Ankeny to the ASWC offices in Reid to learn his fate in senate elections on Monday, Sept. 21. For him, the news was good: he will be on ASWC's Finance Committee. "It was kind of like relief," he said. "I could see the election going ...
Nathan Abrams Why I am running for ASWC Senator: The main reason I am running is that I want to contribute to the Whitman community and get involved; I feel like I have good ideas, but more importantly, I have a strong work ethic and a desire to help improve ...
First-years heading to the polls this Monday, Sept. 21 got an opportunity to meet their senator candidates for the Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) in a forum that was as much about Disney princesses as it was about politics.
Graduating seniors may soon have the right to vote in Executive Council elections. In their meeting on Sunday, May 3, ASWC senate paved the way for an increase in future seniors' voting rights, passing an amendment to the ASWC constitution to allow all members of Whitman's student body to elect ...
Money was the hot topic on the ASWC Senate's agenda as they convened for their fifth meeting of the spring semester on Sunday, April 19. Foremost among the issues discussed were details concerning the '09-'10 ASWC budget and the creation of a fund to augment ASWC officers' stipends. ASWC's total budget ...
[caption id="attachment_4573" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Credit: Calkin."][/caption] Many seniors, expecting to be able to vote in Monday's ASWC Executive Council (EC) election, were surprised to learn that they were ineligible to do so. Last year, large parts of the ASWC Constitution were rewritten, ...
Effective next fall, the various student bodies responsible for event programming on campus will undergo a large restructuring. Under the current system, the ASWC Programming Committee and the Campus Activities Board (CAB) work independently of each other to host events for students. A few other small organizations also plan campus ...
Executive Council Candidate Platforms Spring 2009 Elections President: Will Canine: ASWC is for three things: Protecting your rights as a college student. Providing awesome programming for students. Ensuring student opportunity through student organizations. ASWC has had some success, but we need to do more. As the ASWC representative to two Trustee Committees, the ...
Over the course of the next two weeks, Whitman students' electoral decisions will determine the makeup of the student government for the 2009-2010 academic year. Elections for the Executive Council (EC) are scheduled for this upcoming Monday, April 6. Senate elections will follow on Wednesday, April 15. Comprised of both elected and ...
During the month of February, Andrea Ramirez, Director of Student Activities and adviser to ASWC, worked every single day, including weekends. Â "[I'm] here not just 8-5 but on the weekends and in the evenings as well," said Ramirez. Â Due to the number of programs put on by ASWC and ...
Below is the memorandum presented by the Student Affairs Committee to the administration concerning campus security  recommendations. The memorandum was presented to Jed  Schwendiman and  Chuck Cleveland on Feb. 25, 2009. To read the article concerning this topic click here. Security Memorandum, Issued 02/25/09 by ...
Members of the Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) and club representatives convened at Wednesday's Town Hall meeting to discuss ASWC's proposed Emergency Development Fund. Spearheaded by Finance Chair junior David Changa-Moon, ASWC proposes to reallocate $166,000 from its approximately $300,000 endowment in order to establish a fund for students ...
Boasting a surplus of over $40,000 in its savings fund, it seems like the only organization at Whitman not affected by the recession is the Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC). The money in the savings fund is recovered from groups' unused funds each year. Â Technically, ASWC has had a surplus ...
When the slopes beckon and skis sit abandoned in a corner, Bluewood Ski Resort is an excellent place to be, and the new Whitman ski bus is the perfect way to get there. This winter, the Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) are sponsoring a ski ...
Sign up for Winterim workshops today and tomorrow in Reid! What is Winterim? Winterim is a series of activities the first weekend of Spring Semester. These events are offered either free or at a nominal cost and are first come first serve. The activities which you can sign up for ...
Winterim sign ups will be the week of December 2nd in Reid during lunch. Also: Look out for a forthcoming Programming Survey: give input on what events you want to see next semester! A Town Hall was held Monday evening on the topic of Core. Students suggested remedies for Core, which ...
A recent spike in criminal activities on campus has heightened security concerns at student residences and prompted Dean of Students Chuck Cleveland to issue a campus safety alert. Reported incidents include the assault and attempted robbery of a first-year student on Ankeny Field early Saturday morning, as well as thefts ...
APPLY FOR SWEET, PAID POSITIONS ON CAMPUS! Applications are now available for Public Speakers Director, Public Events Director, Films Director and Pioneer Editor-in-Chief. Â Applications are available online at: http://www.whitman.edu/content/aswc/committees/nominations/applications Look out for emails with more information. Applications are due THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13th at midnight. Please direct questions to Nominations Chair ...
The Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) Finance Committee, which manages "over $900,000 in student assets," began an awareness campaign to stimulate student involvement in student government finances last Thursday as they placed cardstock fliers containing Committee information and contacts in student mailboxes. "We're trying to let people know that we ...
The second ASWC Senate Session took place Sunday evening. The Senate discussed changes made to by-laws that would affect the duties and operations of ASWC officers and programs. Contentious topics included Town Hall attendance requirements for club representatives, whether ASWC officers may hold positions of club leadership, and clarification surrounding ...
Members of the Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) may soon discuss a new ASWC By-law which would further restrict alcohol consumption at ASWC-sponsored events. Under the current By-laws, recognized ASWC clubs have been able to serve alcohol at campus-wide events provided that the club members paid for the alcohol out ...
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