As a life-long sports fan and, recently, a really big NBA fan, I had been looking forward to the last two NBA All-Star Weekends. It sounds like the perfect fan viewing experience; all the best NBA players...
From Richmond to Walla Walla, Cigarettes Unite Us All.
Sebastian Vera Cuevas
You’ve seen it – the long black letters resting proudly on a white and red background: Marlboro, the go-to American...
Editor's note: This letter to the editor is a transcript of a Power and Privilege speech given on Feb. 22, 2024. Brackets have been added by the writer to emphasize the original tone and delivery.
Good...
To quote Michael Jackson, “all I want to say is that they don’t really care about us.”
Whitman College has shown students that their priority lies only with the image of the college. This trumps...
Aya Mahmoudi, Opinion Columnist
• February 22, 2024
For over half of this school year, Whitman College has committed a series of questionable political actions that have disenchanted our community and lifted the veil on our administration’s incompetence.
If...
The last months have been a moment for student activism.
Approaching the events of the last year as a monolith does the decades of student activists who came before this moment a disservice. Students...
Every day I wake up in girl-as-an-adjective Hell.
If a girly eats only half a sandwich, it’s a girl sandwich.
If she buys something with cash, it’s free – thanks to girl math.
If she...
In high school, a peer’s off-hand comment about junior Amelia Leach’s skinny upper lip planted a seed of insecurity. Ever since then, she’s been insecure about her lip size and decided that once...
This open letter intends to be an honest attempt to critique the narratives that Whitman College administrators try to incorporate into the current discourse on campus about the Palestinian liberation,...
In McCaffery We Trust
By: Garrett Schreiber
Wow. What a terrible Super Bowl. The two obvious teams anybody would’ve picked to make it to the end made it. Neither of these two teams are very...
Walla Walla hosts quite a few options for going out to eat. While they may not cater to the largest variety of cuisines, the restaurants near the College are generally pretty solid, if not just a nice...
Latinx. This new term has taken the western world by storm, appearing in corporate HR slides, DEI initiatives and so on. As the issue has made its way to the international debate stage over the past decades,...
