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Whitman Wire

Vol. CLIV, Issue 8
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Talking Feminism with Rebecca Walker

Rachel Alexander January 25, 2013
Pioneer Editor-in-Chief, Rachel Alexander, discusses American feminism with Rebecca Walker.

Diversity means cross-pollination, not crop rotation

Paul H-P October 18, 2012
We can all agree that diversity is valuable. But can we say why or what the word really means in the context of an intellectual community? The truth is, even our ideas about diversity are homogeneous.

Students, community members publicly confess privilege

Emily Lin-Jones September 15, 2012
Students and community members gathered on the steps of the Memorial Building Wednesday night to publicly confess their privilege as part of an event sponsored by the Whitman Christian Fellowship (WCF) entitled “We Are the 1%”.
What students are really thinking during class

What students are really thinking during class

Elena Aragon February 23, 2012
What will I eat for lunch? . . . Screw Friday Encounters, hungover again. . . . Does anyone not own North Face? . . . I can't wait for the new season of "Downton Abbey." . . . Didn't do the reading, again. . . .

All you environmental scientists, ganbatte ne!

Sara Portesan September 28, 2011

This post was going to be a happy one, but I am having trouble uploading pictures, so instead I will talk about something else that has been on my mind; my class Industrial Pollution in Japan.  Right...

Society needs to care

Heather Nichols-Haining April 29, 2010

If you raise the standards of living for select communities, you will raise the standard of living for everyone. As an ardent supporter of increasing public spending to pull more people out of poverty,...

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