The Board of Trustees met Friday to decide whether or not a permanent sustainability coordinator, who would oversee all of the green projects happening at Whitman, will be installed at the school. Back in November of last year, ASWC sent a request to Whitman College for the approval of a permanent sustainability coordinator position. The Board of Trustees met to determine whether or not the position was officially approved, and their decision will be made public within the next few days.
This weekend, the student organization Feminists Advocating Change and Empowerment (FACE) will be presenting the Breaking Ground Monologues. A sort of alteration of the annual Vagina Monologues which FACE...
Whitman students and community members alike crowded into Maxey Auditorium to hear Spencer Wells, explorer-in-residence for National Geographic, lecture on the genetic history of humans.
Disclaimer: I am a HUGE “Die Hard†fan, and in my book, Bruce Willis is THE MAN. Needless to say, for months I've been anticipating Valentine's Day, not for the sugar high or the "love is in the air" feeling, but for the premier of “A Good Day to Die Hard,†the fifth installment of one of my favorite franchises.
Every November, Whitman College puts on one of its most widely-attended campus events—a not-so-real beauty pageant, known fondly as Mr. Whitman, in which eight senior men celebrate the completion of a three month-long fundraising drive for a charity chosen by a Whitman student. The eight contestants are judged on a combination of their fundraising successes and their performances in the formal, swimsuit and talent portions of the show. As with all beauty pageants, there must be a winner—and of course, as with all beauty pageants, there must be the grim, devastating consequences of losing—the pain associated with realizing that nobody ever remembers the runner-up.
Allow yourself the time when you wake up in the morning after a dream of passion to contemplate the boundaries of your own sexual desires, because we all may be a little freakier than we allow ourselves to think. And that possibility is just too damn interesting to ignore.
Moving into a house, both on-campus and off-campus, is a common decision for students at some point in their four-year Whitman career. However, there are certain unique traits and histories that go along with each home.
Although ASWC feels confident that they are addressing many of students' short-term goals for the College, they have begun plans to create a student committee to discuss some long-term goals for Whitman and ASWC.
In Issue 4 of The Pioneer, our editors let slip some errors that may have even circumvented the critical eyes of our three readers (Hi Mom! Hi Dad! Hi Grandma!).
“I’m pretty confused,†were the first words out of senior Phi Phan’s mouth in an exclusive Skype via satellite in high-def 20 bit per second streamed through youtube interview with the Backpage, when he was informed that ASWC was “debating him.†“Is this some type of sick joke? The people who wear ASWC t-shirts are annoying enough, but now they’re ‘debating’ me! They owe me $14. I think…â€
The key to passing Obama's progressive agenda, or really any agenda in the future, is the passage of significant parliamentary reform. If we want to keep any party from simply being the "party of no," we need to take away the structural tools that make blanket obstructionism possible.
Whitman is a college with colorfully named houses. Sometimes those house names are based on inside jokes, puns and strange intricacies about the house. Other times, the reason for the name is staring the viewer right in the face.
