First-year Autumn Knutson was moments away from enrolling in another college when a phone call from a Whitman parent changed her mind.
"The moment I walked down my stairs towards the computer, the phone...
Accomplishments:
Completed photojournalism projects around the world.
Raised funds for and taught in a Burmese Orphanage
Surviving Cancer
A 2012 Archery Olympic hopeful
Organized a seven week trip...
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Walla Walla County Fair
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Livestock, Frontier Days, and cooking contests are among the displays at this annual tradition
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As graduating seniors leave Whitman behind, they leave a place with a bit of a different reputation than when they first arrived. More selective, less hippie and more diverse are just a few of these changes,...
An entrance to Maxey on Ankeny? That could be a reality in less than two years if the Board of Trustees approves an overhaul of Maxey Hall to begin this summer. The Board of Trustees will meet this weekend...
Though an outbreak of swine flu in Washington State has not yet been confirmed, on the evening of Wednesday, April 29, the Washington State Department of Health announced the identification of six probable cases: three in Seattle, two in Snohomish County and one in nearby Spokane County. Whitman's administration is taking steps to ensure that students are safe in the event that Walla Walla County is affected. Swine influenza, caused by the H1N1 virus, has now killed at least eight people in Mexico and the U.S. and sickened at least 148 people on four continents, according to the World Health Organization. Hundreds more cases and over 100 deaths, largely in Mexico, are suspected but not confirmed.
Registration edged closer to paperless this year, as all returning students were migrated to electronic versions of the catalog of the college. In years past, the college had provided each returning student...
Everyone's seen the Princeton Review rankings proclaiming Whitman's students among the nation's happiest. In an environment full of young, like-minded, active and intelligent people, who wouldn't feel...
As spring temperatures approached 80 degrees, hundred of admitted students and their family members flocked to campus for Admitted Students' Day on Saturday, April 18.
The annual event, featuring tours, sample classes and information on programs such as study abroad, provided an opportunity for many high school seniors to get a better feel for Whitman.
“Getting to meet the faculty was pretty amazing," said Laignee Barron of Ojai, California. “I talked to two of the professors here; they were really approachable."
The college application saga came to an end on April 1 for most high school seniors. But for a record number of Whitman applicants this year, the response to their application was being neither admitted...
Ever want to instant message in your Whitman e-mail or use it for online documents? You may not be able to, but the class of 2013 will.
Next year's incoming first-years will use Gmail for their Whitman email using a special login page, gmail.whitman.edu, and their Whitman IDs and passwords.
Gmail, launched in 2004, is a free e-mail service from Google offering users 7.14 gigabytes of storage, as well as audio and video chat features. Whitman's current Unix-based system, in place for over 10 years, offers 25 megabytes. That's one three-hundredth of the capacity for Gmail.
“Gmail is much more user friendly," said Whitman Developer of Emerging Technology Kyle Singer. “[It] offers services that are not sustainable on a campus-based system—seven gigabytes of storage, for example."
The reason for the switch is simply that Gmail offers a good product for Whitman students.
“WCTS has been evaluating various alternatives for quite some time, but had not seen a good solution up to now," said Singer. “We recently determined that Gmail would serve our students well."
For all the hype over the new printing quotas, fewer than a dozen students showed up to last Thursday's forum on the issue, the first of two. Those in attendance, though, had a platform to share their views.
“The purpose of this event is to solicit information and opinions," said forum moderator and Campus Sustainability Coordinator senior Karlis Rokpelnis. The event also featured an update on GoPrint from Associate to the President and chair of the Conservation Committee Jed Schwendiman and WCTS Middleware Analyst Mike Osterman.
In effect since January, GoPrint is a new printing management system that requires students to release their printing jobs in order to reduce waste. As they release their print jobs, printing fees are deducted from students' $60 printing credit.
