This week's post is about questions.
What is a good environmentalist? More than that, how does one live?
I've been pondering recently about what would happen if an ideal warrior were to join the...
If you've been reading this blog regularly, you will know that I'm a rather strange person: more the type to be writing about where to find medieval coins with etching mistakes than about the personal...
For a one-time payment of $30 billion, we as a species could cordon off 25 hotspots across the globe and preserve 60 percent of the Earth's biodiversity, but is this plan worth the economic and ethical costs?
Bicycles are a complex business. On the one hand, they provide good exercise, fun, and speedy travel with zero emissions. On the other hand, they are expensive, difficult to store, harder to secure, and...
Starting this semester, the Campus Climate Challenge (CCC) initiated a tradition which has thus far proven to be quite interesting. Every week, as decided by the group (we truly are a bunch of contemptible...
Republicans have often had to shift to the right in order to win the Primary then shift back left for the general election. This year, however, will be more difficult given just how far right candidates have gone.
For my first post, I had a grand scheme in mind: one morning this week, when campus was stooped under a drizzle and dreary as all hell: just the way I like my mornings: I borrowed a tape recorder, filled...
United States policies have historically been based on hindsight, and climate change will likely follow a similar trajectory. Will that be enough, however, if climate change's effects become irreversible?
Next summer, members of the Whitman Christian Fellowship will find themselves about as far from campus as a group could be. For six weeks, members will participate in a cultural exchange mission in China, coordinated by the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a nationwide evangelical organization that works to establish religious communities on higher-education campuses.
Now, red letters on the Climbing Center's website proclaim a change to the policy that loosens requirements for use of the wall. Students, faculty and staff may bring unlimited family and two guests for a fee of seven dollars.
The landscape of campus changes when you're a Whitman security officer. A peaceful place to sit and read or an easy path to take to get to class could become a more dangerous area after dark. These spots—whether poorly lit at night or difficult to see from trafficked areas—see criminal activity more often than others.
On Tuesday, Nov. 1, students gathered in Olin to participate in a discussion with three experts about masculinity in the military, the subject of this year's gender studies round table discussion.
