“Ripe Frenzy” demands dialogue on school shootings
Rohan Press, A&E Reporter
December 12, 2019
For senior Miranda LaFond, dramaturge (i.e. literary advisor) for “Ripe Frenzy” — a play by Jennifer Barclay telling the story of a high school shooting in a small town in upstate New York — the violence of school shootings complicates our individuated understanding of "perpetrator" and encourages...
Wire Watch: Dec. 12-19
Ryder Brookes, A&E Reporter
December 12, 2019
"Ripe Frenzy" Thursday, Dec. 12 - Dec. 15, 8 p.m. (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and 2 p.m. (Sunday), Harper Joy Theatre The third production of the fall semester: a play centered around a school shooting and questions how much US society is to blame for this crisis. Faure and Brahm...
Tara Graves joins the Sheehan Gallery team
Kaitlin Cho, A&E Reporter
December 12, 2019
Tara Graves is many things: a former corporate worker who resigned after 10 years to go to art school, a photographer, an art studio owner. On Oct. 28, she also became the Sheehan Gallery assistant. Graves found her way to Whitman after resigning from her position as the Walla Walla Foundry’s photo...
WEB Winter Wonderland: Skating and singing into the season
Sienna Axe, A&E Reporter
December 12, 2019
On Tuesday, Dec. 10, the platform outside of Cordiner Hall was turned into a winter wonderland — WEB’s Winter Wonderland, to be exact. Between hot drinks, ice skating and performances from Whitman’s a capella groups, the event had something for everyone attending. This is the first time WEB has been able to ...
“JESUS IS KING” in review
Ryder Brookes, A&E Reporter
December 5, 2019
On his ninth studio album, Kanye West turns his focus towards God, creating a short album with some notable triumphs, yet which overall shows little substance and zero musical growth. The highly controversial, yet widely-acclaimed Chicago rapper finally released “JESUS IS KING” towards the end of...
Power and Privilege karaoke: Singing to create connections
Rohan Press, A&E Reporter
December 5, 2019
There were smiles on students’ faces as first-year Nomonde Nyathi took to the Reid basement stage for the second time that evening — this time, for a karaoke rendition of Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold." “It was pretty cool, because my friends were there, so I really liked that; I felt really c...
Wire Watch: Dec. 5-13
Kaitlin Cho, A&E Reporter
December 5, 2019
Whitman College Student Voice and Piano Recital Thursday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m., Chism Recital Hall The Whitman College Music Department presents performances from vocalists Haley King, Evan Marks and Chloe Hood, and pianists Scarlett He and Annika Cahill. This event is free and open to the public. &nb...
Video games club unites hobby, leisure and community
Sienna Axe, A&E Reporter
December 5, 2019
Whitman’s video game club provides a space for students to kick back, relax and game at their own speed. Best known by the greater Whitman community for their biweekly Super Smash Bros. tournament called Whitty Retort, the club also hosts weekly game nights at club leader Andrew Yeon’s house, wh...
“Scrub In” opens opportunities for discussion
Rohan Press, A&E Reporter
November 21, 2019
The “Scrub In” performance art piece, in which participants scrubbed the Marcus Whitman statue on campus with water, was hardly literal. “In fact,'' said senior co-organizer of the performance, Tess Francavilla, “we don’t have any soap.” Instead, the performance, which occurred from Nov...
“MMMM” sees new worlds through dance
Sienna Axe, A&E Reporter
November 21, 2019
What do a thrumming neon club scene, a poetic and ritualistic transformation and a heartfelt exploration of personal desire have in common? The answer — at least at Whitman — is “MMMM,” this year’s annual dance concert. Last weekend, Nov. 14-17, “MMMM” took over Harper Joy’s Freimann Stud...
“Dammed to Extinction”: Wildlife concerns shown through film
Renny Acheson, A&E Editor
November 21, 2019
Audience members bore witness to images of thinning orca whales in the Puget Sound, slack rivers that used to be rushing and the testimonies of Pacific Northwest residents against the four lower Snake River dams on Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Maxey Auditorium. All this was exhibited in the film "Dammed t...
Wire Watch: Dec. 5-12
Kaitlin Cho, A&E Reporter
November 21, 2019
Whitman College Student Voice and Piano Recital Thursday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m., Chism Recital Hall. The Whitman College Music Department presents performances from vocalists Haley King, Evan Marks and Chloe Hood, and pianists Scarlett He and Annika Cahill. This event is free and open to the public. ...
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