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Hillary Clinton is taking an unnecessarily cruel beating by the media. She should NOT have to prepare for future criticism involving her husband’s sex life, her hair, her wrinkles or her ownership of female sex organs. It’s completely unacceptable that our news outlets are giving air time and print space to discussing so many aspects […]
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Whitman has changed little since I’ve been here. Over the past few years, I’ve noticed that key features of life at Whitman remain relatively constant, such as Beer Mile, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and minor scandals that, instead of offending us directly, must appeal to our fledgling (read: underdeveloped) sense of moral indignation.
In regards […]
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Whitman students know all about global warming. Actually, everyone knows about global warming.
We know that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his global warming-related work, and that he made this really cool movie called “An Inconvenient Truth,” and that global warming is, like, really important…right? Duh.
But if you look on the Internet, there […]
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Two weeks ago, former President Jimmy Carter spoke optimistically about the Middle East’s future to a well deserved audience. “It is my dream and hope that some day in my lifetime, and I hope in this year, that we’ll have another breakthrough for Middle East peace,” he said to a crowd of over 1,000 people.
Toward […]
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I am writing to protest the absurd bureaucracy pervading Choral Contest this year. My main complaint is that Jonas House Singers, one of the a cappella groups in the program, was not allowed to sing at Choral Contest. I know this because I went backstage to ask about it when they did not appear, and […]
