Whitman's first annual Power and Privilege Symposium will feature workshops on racial issues in a Whitman context and other issues of inequality and difference. Nobel Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú will be the keynote speaker.

Students often look for the opportunity to discuss campus issues, and next semester there will be another forum for a specific conversation about race. Six years ago, a race symposium took place at Whitman in response to a controversial campus incident involving blackface. Now, sophomore ASWC Senator Mcebo Maziya has decided to bring back the symposium. Maziya and a committee are in the process of setting up a race symposium for the upcoming semester.