This Thursday, Dec. 9, marks the opening night of the Whitman theatre department’s last show of the semester, “The Penelopiad.” The play, as well as the book of the...
On Thursday, Dec. 2, Whitman welcomed writer Joy Castro to campus, albeit virtually. Castro is a Willa Cather professor of English and ethnic studies at the University of...
Emma Foley and Zoe Schacter-Brodie
December 9, 2021
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,...
December 2, 2021
This town isn’t big enough for the two of us
November 18, 2021
The Omicron variant was first reported to the World Health Organization on Nov. 24, 2021 by South African scientists. The first known infection was from a specimen collected on Nov. 9, 2021. In response,...
Many Whitman students and faculty have been fighting for years for the removal of the Marcus Whitman statue that stands on the outskirts of our campus. In past years, students and faculty have found a...
Author's note: This article is by no means a comprehensive look at the Iran nuclear deal, which has returned to the conversation after the U.S. pulled out during Donald Trump's presidency. Instead, it...
Whitman’s annual holiday party was wrought with many problems, but none was more devastating than the Christian outrage caused by events which...
This week, the College released a statement banning all future White Elephant and Secret Santa events organized for students in response...
The Omicron variant was first reported to the World Health Organization on Nov. 24, 2021 by South African scientists. The first known infection was from a specimen collected...
Whitman is officially requiring all members of the campus community receive a COVID-19 booster by Jan. 15, 2022. The decision was announced in an email from President...
In an email sent to the Whitman community on Dec. 10, Coronavirus Task Force Chair Peter Harvey confirmed the college’s first on-campus virus transmission. According...
Editor's note: This article has been briefly edited due to several misleading and prejudiced statements that were included in the original article. The lede previously stated...
80 casualties revealed in undisclosed 2019 U.S. airstrike in Syria On March 18, 2019, as the final days of battle against the Islamic State unraveled, U.S. military drones...
Whitman continues to contend with its history as an institution founded by missionaries over a century after it abandoned its religious affiliation, but that contention does...
As part of last year’s Race, Violence, and Health academic theme, Rosalie Fish, a prominent activist, raised the problem of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW)....
Despite the fact that Whitman’s namesake, Marcus Whitman, was a religious missionary, today Whitman has no institutional religious affiliation. This is a topic students...
