As the Whitman campus practically shut down and classes moved online in light of the global pandemic’s worsening situation, the administration has repeatedly urged students to pack up and go home. But...
To reiterate the last 10 emails we’ve received from the college, we are living in uncertain times. The coronavirus pandemic is the latest craze sweeping the nation, driving all of us into our houses...
Last week, Foot Fetishists United (FFU) issued a controversial press release stating that they are in support of climate change.
“While overwhelming scientific evidence shows that the planet is...
Whitman faculty and staff were shocked this week as students returned to classes healthier after allowing them to stay home sick.
Following the announcement that sick students should be excused from...
Whitman has long discouraged the hazing practices of fraternities and sororities. But only recently, as the school and student body confronts the walls that restrict attaining the Whitman ideal of “outdoorsiness,”...
Ann Karneus, Prospective Student
• February 27, 2020
A bombshell realization rippled across campus last weekend after students discovered a disturbing truth: nearly all Whitman trees are fake.
After the pine tree outside the library fell this past Sunday,...
Elise Sanders, Going to the Store You Need Anything?
• February 27, 2020
Local immortal Aurelia Brodeur will be celebrating her 100th birthday on Feb. 29, 2020. Brodeur, born almost 400 years ago, achieved immortality by means of a spooky potion brewed by an even spookier witch...
Your flex dollars are precious. Despite all your good karma from returning your eco takeout and tweeting about social justice, you’re often served less dinner than you’d like. Here’s a foolproof...
No one could have anticipated it. Grayson Pools sent out the normal emails, telling his club's listserv, “meeting in 15 minutes” and “BUMP.” Yet no one ever bumped back. Pools, who is president...
The Senior Slide, an on-campus means of transportation reserved only for seniors, has become dangerously slippery and will be closed this week.
The Slide is meant to make spring semester easier for...
Soon after the debauchery of the Iowa Caucus, the most extreme of Bernie supporters realized that they could leverage their power against the threat of Buttigieg’s "Boomer" sponsor system. Fearless,...
Have you ever read a poem on Instagram by a contemporary poet you’d never heard of? And yet, when you go to their profile, you find out they have a few hundred thousand — maybe even millions — of...
