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In an article entitled “Gotta have Faith,” last week’s Pio looked at religion at Whitman. I write this week to amplify, clarify and correct certain elements of that article.
Let me begin by addressing the pie graph which appeared with the piece. The question: Is spirituality important to you? The accurate response among Whitties: [...]
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I am a member of the Whitman Class of 2007. For the past month I have been in Botswana, conducting my Fulbright research on the positive and negative impacts of San (indigenous) cultural tourism. This past week I received a few e-mails from friends at Whitman to inform me of an article that was published [...]
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I received numerous hateful e-mails the day my response in the Pio was printed. To those of you selecting that medium: I 1) ask you to carefully read my Senate speech or letter that was published, for while the majority of you accused me of missing “the point” in some way, I acknowledge “the point” [...]
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Allow me to begin with a quote from a piece in the Feb. 7 issue: “It seems that ‘ghetto’ Safeway finally realized that it wasn’t really in much of a ghetto, but actually only a few blocks away from an expensive liberal arts college.”
First, there’s the fact that the label of “ghetto” on the [...]
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There are two factors that I would like to talk about concerning Whitman’s decision to bring Salman Rushdie to campus. First, the decision itself, and secondly the way it was advertised, at least online. Any educational infrastructure is a powerful institute, and Whitman is no exception. The money and resources available have [...]
