This article originally appeared in the March 6, 1997 issue of the Whitman Pioneer.
All day Saturday, March 1, a range of faculty and students held the second annual Whitman College Gender Symposium....
This article originally appeared in the March 6, 1997 issue of the Whitman Pioneer.
The question has been raised, “What is it like to be a woman at Whitman?” My first response is, well, what is...
Amelia Leach, Feature reporter
• February 24, 2022
Whitties are not rocking with surface-level inclusion efforts. Campus-wide diversity issues are especially prevalent in athletics and outdoor spaces, and effectively addressing them requires careful...
Green Dot was not perfect, but the consent education-sized hole left in the wake of its removal is yet to be filled.
Consent and bystander intervention used to be much more common words in the...
Note: All of the names used in this article are pseudonyms.
Sophomore Bella Dickinson wishes people would call her “fat” more often.
“That sounds wrong—I’m not saying I want people...
On Dec. 1, Instagram users flooded their stories with variations on the same template: a purple or black or blue or green background, a looping “2021” in a funky font, a list of musical artists and...
[This article was originally published on May 16, 2021, in Circuit.]
I asked three residents in Lyman’s Tower section whether they ever feel lonely. My first interviewee was Dante: tall, bearded and...
Note: All of the names used in this article are pseudonyms.
To avoid someone at Whitman is a futile endeavor. Our 1,500-student enrollment doesn’t provide much of a buffer, and 117 acres feel like...
Bring up “Percy Jackson'' to a group of college students. If they’re anything like me, you’ll rouse memories of curling up with “The Lightning Thief” during free-reading time in elementary school...
The daily schedule of a professor tends to extend far beyond a typical 9-to-5, often obscuring the lines between work and home life—especially so for those with children. The pandemic has blurred these...
Famous landscape architect John C. Olmsted declared that having a large, unbroken field in the center of Whitman’s campus would be a “practical impossibility,” although it would “undoubtedly be...
On day one of four-day, I stayed in my pajamas until six p.m. Grateful for respite from a hectic semester, I readily indulged every relaxing impulse I had: I ate chocolate in bed, scrolled passively through...
