This past November, the faculty voted to create a new Curriculum Committee to address many of the concerns about enrollment pressure and course compression that have arisen this year after the faculty...

Cameron Benner, a Whitman sophomore, suffers an engine mishap but makes a strong showing.

First-year Nilce Alvarez had a smile and a sense of relief on her face last Monday, Dec. 6—she had just received an e-mail saying that she'd made it off the waitlist and into the section of Chem 126 that she wanted. That notification ended her month-long, stressful experience with the waitlist—a stress many students and some administrators believe is more pronounced with the college's recent decision to no longer use electronic waitlists. Since the Registrar's decision to end electronic waitlists for the fall 2010 pre-registration period last April due in part to the increasing complexity of allowing registration for closed classes through the college's Datatel registration software, all waitlists have been kept by faculty. Previously, some faculty had opted to keep their own waitlists, but most courses had electronic waitlists. While removing waitlists from Datatel allows faculty to select which waitlisted students get into their class, and therefore give priority to students who need the class for their major or are especially interested in the class, it also adds a layer of complexity to the process. Previously, if a class was full, a student would electronically sign up for the waitlist and know their place on the waitlist queue. If a student was first on a waitlist and a seat in the class opened up, the student received an e-mail and could register in a matter of minutes.

Ladies and gents, it's time for me to write a column about pirates. Before you go and grab your eye patches and cutlasses (or speedboats and AK-47s, if you're feeling modern), this is a column about digital...

The Glover Alston Center (GAC) opened at Whitman in January of this year, and has since changed how student clubs across campus meet and interact. Built with over half a dozen meeting rooms and intended as a designated spot for clubs at Whitman to meet, the GAC has transformed into a home away from home for students.

In order to help combat this problem of rising class sizes and course compression, the faculty voted in November to create a Curriculum Committee with the express purpose of coordinating the academic schedule across departments. When the committee was first proposed it included a student representative. This was done to have the insight of the students when making decisions about what times classes should be offered. In a later revision of the proposal, however, the provision for student representation was taken out over concerns about privacy.

With a large class of new skiers, the alpine ski team is gearing up for its upcoming season.

With varsity athletes comprising around 20 percent of the student body, bringing topflight scholar-athletes to campus is a definite priority, according to Athletic Director Dean Snider. Recruiting future...