Head and the Heart, Royal Blue concert leaves behind happily humming Whitties
This Thursday at 8:00 p.m. the much-awaited concert featuring The Head and the Heart took place in the Reid Ballroom, making a crowd of 500 Whitman students joyously jazzed off of folk-rock. The...
View ArticleMen’s Soccer Against Willamette an Exciting 0-0 Stalemate
In a game against Willamette Bearcats this Saturday at the Whitman Soccer Complex, the Whitman men’s soccer team held their own through two overtimes and ended 0-0. In the first ninety minutes, Whitman...
View ArticleIHC Block Party a Festive Success
This past Saturday, Sept. 29, Whitman’s Interest House Community set up tables and hosted performances along Boyer Avenue that served to spark interest in their housing opportunities. From crafts at...
View ArticleDr. Amina Wadud suggests ‘Gender Jihad’ within Islam
This past week, Whitman College received the visit of Dr. Amina Wadud, a Qur’anic scholar and leader in Islamic feminism. Dr. Wadud visited classes, lectured and led a workshop on exploring Islamic...
View ArticleWhitman Hosts Annual ‘Women in Leadership’ Symposium
On Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Reid Ballroom, Whitman once again hosted three highly successful women leaders for a symposium on women in leadership that occurs every year. A room full of women of all...
View ArticleCharles Simonyi, Creator of Microsoft Word and Excel, Travels to Space
Charles Simonyi, creator of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, founder of Intentional Software, and Seattle-based philanthropist, came to Whitman College this past week to discuss his experiences in...
View ArticleFILM PREVIEW: FGWC Promotes Awareness with “First Generation”
First Generation and Working Class Club’s (FGWC) presented an exhibit titled “In My Shoes” in Stevens Gallery this past Tuesday, Oct. 30. This exhibit and two weeks of FGWC awareness program will end...
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Behind the Scenes with Shooting Simone
This Wednesday, the student-directed production of Lynne Kaufman’s play Shooting Simone will open on Whitman campus. This comedy, set in 20th century Paris, deals with love, love affairs, feminism, and...
View ArticleLecturer Promotes Killing Trees to Save Rivers
This Wednesday, O’donnell Visiting Educator Jamie Workman presented a lecture by the intriguing title of “Save the River, Kill the Trees.” In his talk, he explained why the overabundance of trees in...
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A Look Into the Life of Rhonda, Prentiss Dining Hall’s Omelette Chef
On any given morning in Prentiss Dining Hall, you can expect to hear a very familiar voice.“Order number four!” rings out over the smell of eggs and clinking of dishes. Rhonda, famous maker of omelets,...
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Super seniors appreciate prolonged time for study
After an enriching high school experience studying abroad in Latin America, current fifth-year Oliver Wood knew he wanted to take a semester off before beginning his time at college. Little did he...
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Students Discuss Assumptions Surrounding ‘Gluten-Free’
“Gluten-free” is a term that’s been getting thrown around more and more, both nationwide and on the Whitman campus. No longer a dietary restriction for those physically intolerant to gluten, people...
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Siblings, Descendants Strive for Individuality
A name often comes with a meaning devoid of relevance to its owner. These titles—more specifically last names—are passed to family members and carry with them any meaning that other relatives have...
View ArticleMilitary Marriages Work Through Distance and Deployment
Many students make sacrifices to be in long-distance relationships when they come to school. But the distance becomes very difficult to maintain when the relationship turns into marriage, and their...
View ArticleCollege prepares for influx of visitors
As May approaches and high school seniors everywhere begin to concretely ponder the next four years of their lives, it’s become nearly impossible to avoid the epidemic-like surge of manila folders...
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Student Groups Prepare for Choral Contest
The annual Choral Contest will take place this Friday, April 26, but the preparation for this event has stretched back months. Theta members Lauren Vorona ’15, Caitlyn Yoshina ’15 and Kathryn Collins...
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Senior Profiles: Fellowships and Grants
Lauren Kutler ’13. Photos by Devika Doowa. Lauren Kutler will travel to Boston University next year to take classes and student-teach as a part of the Math for America program. Math for America is a...
View ArticleInternships Provide Professional Avenues for Students’ Environmental Passions
This summer, several environmentally conscious Whitman students flooded the internship scene. Their experiences ranged from collecting data in the field, editing radio advertisements or protesting with...
View ArticleBiology Professor Leads Award-Winning Alumni Trips
One Whitman professor can cross catching a piranha out of a rowboat off of his bucket list. Associate Professor of Biology Delbert Hutchison, known around campus as “Hutch,” won the 2013 Faculty Award...
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Walla Walla Book Nooks Delight Buyers
Despite the spread of chain stores like Barnes and Noble and the recent proliferation of e-books, independent bookstores still contribute to the heartbeat of Walla Walla. Doing away with unfamiliarity...
View ArticleMusic Majors Commit In and Out of the Classroom
At almost any given time, a group of music majors can be found talking in the Hall of Music hallway or slaving over homework in the music library. From striking up conversations about theory, to...
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Whitman Cycling Team Extends Helping Hand to Community
Whitman’s cycling team does more than just ride. The team performs multiple community service events each year, including helping with the local Gran Fondo bike race and teaching bike safety to local...
View ArticlePets Provide Companionship for Off-Campus Housers
Senior Stefani Paladino always knew she wanted a dog and finally got her part German Shepherd mix, Abby, when she moved off-campus last September. For Paladino, there isn’t really a “hard” part to...
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Whitman, Walla Walla University Collaborate on Community Service
By participating in community service, students at Walla Walla University find a chance to break out of their routines and get involved within the community. WWU Community Service Coordinator Ellie...
View ArticleAlumnus Writes Psychological Thriller about Local Cemetery
An abandoned road not far from Whitman leads to an old graveyard with chipping headstones and weeds as old as the bodies they grow over. At night the moon barely illuminates the grass where Whitman...
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Converging Histories Festival to Bring Past into Focus
Photo by Marra Clay The Kirkman House Museum is a Victorian Italian house that was built between 1876 and 1880, and it was the home to one of Walla Walla’s most affluent families, the Kirkmans. The...
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Alumni Find Exciting Work Opportunities Abroad
From villages outside of Botswana to Dongying, China, Whitman College alumni are living all over the world to impact the local communities and to learn about themselves. Living abroad offers graduates...
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Interfaith Coalition on Poverty Hosts Hunger, Homeless Awareness Event
The County of Walla Walla Homeless Resources reported a count of 400 homeless individuals in Walla Walla in 2013. Fifty-two percent of these individuals are under the age of 25. Almost a quarter of...
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Independent Quilting Supply Store Succeeds Despite Tough Market
To get the supplies they need, crafty Walla Wallans can turn to several places in town to find everything from beads to sewing machines. However, Walla Wallans are lately left with fewer local choices,...
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Dining Halls through the Ages
Seventy years ago, 55 cents could buy you a dinner at Whitman’s dining halls. Students from the ‘60s are pictured in Lyman Hall eating in suits, and diners used to be waited on. Despite these changes,...
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Unique Variety Show Format Creates New Opportunities, Challenges
Putting together a variety show has proven challenging for the “Ukulele!” team, but the myriad of personal talents onstage make for a joyful performance. Assistant Professor of Theatre Jessica Cerullo...
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Finally Settled
I’m sitting in my apartment in Jerusalem, Israel, where I am studying abroad this semester at Hebrew University with the DOME program: Dynamics of the Middle East. I came here primarily for the...
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Backtracking: Ten Days with Birthright
As I mentioned earlier, my Birthright trip was a medium through which I stopped feeling like a tourist here and started to be able to envision myself being a living part of Israel. As things become...
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“Mi Col Ha-Olam”: A Month in Ulpan
It’s become exceptionally beautiful and warm in Jerusalem the past few days, so as the weather changes and the academic semester begin, its become time to reflect on my month in Ulpan and shift to a...
View ArticleA weekend in Tel-Aviv
Right now I’m riding the bus to Tel-Aviv for the weekend, something that’s become somewhat of a habit amongst my friends and I. It takes about an hour to get to Tel-Aviv from Jerusalem, and hostels dot...
View ArticleHoly
Jerusalem is a holy city. A bridge between the material and the spiritual. Many would say between the earth and the heavens. But what is holy?: “Connected to a god or a religion/ religious and morally...
View ArticleThe beginning of passover break
This is another post written on a bus. This time we’re heading home from a school trip titled “yam le yam” or “sea to sea”. The idea is to hike from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee, but in...
View ArticleNew History Professors Come From Different Places for the Same Reason
After growing up in Massachusetts and finishing a Ph.D. at Harvard just last year, Assistant Professor of History Jakobina Arch now finds herself in a place unlike any she’s familiar with — dry and...
View ArticleNew Faces at Whitman
Learn what brought two new history professors to Whitman, and about how three first-years spent their gap years before coming to Whitman.
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Gap Years Offer Students More Stability Entering College
As soon as he graduated high school in Portland, Silas Morgan began backpacking almost every trail in the Columbia River Gorge with a friend for three months. That was only the beginning of a year...
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Director of Security builds connections with students
Though his son may be the one wearing the costume, Matt Stroe is the real superhero. Matt Stroe has been Whitman’s Director of Security for one year now, and his son is the four-year-old that wears...
View ArticleCampus security stays strong
Meet the Director of Security and student escorts that make campus safe for the Whitman community.
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Escort team makes campus security visible
Twenty-eight Whitman students can be seen this year patrolling campus with vests that read “Escort.” These student escorts, employed by Whitman’s Campus Security office, not only provide a valuable...
View ArticleInside the Transfer Process
What prompts students to come to Whitman? To leave Whitman? What is it like to leave one campus and integrate into another?
View ArticleBeing a religious minority on campus
How do students with a small or non-existent religious community on campus keep in touch with their religion and culture?
View ArticleFood Sustainability at Whitman
How does Whitman make efforts to keep fight food insecurity and reduce waste?
View ArticleStudents form relationships with community members
Through multiple service learning organizations on campus, students are creating long-term relationships with community members through the generations.
View ArticleWhitman debate and the community
Meet a couple Whitman debaters and learn about their collaboration with the State Penitentiary.
View ArticleProfile: Lauren Hauck
Senior Lauren Hauck is a History and Art History double major. She’s been involved with debate at Whitman since her first year when she learned parliamentary debate, and she became a policy debater her...
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