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Whitman Wire

Vol. CLIV, Issue 10
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Block Party suceeds indoors

Block Party suceeds indoors

Heather Nichols-Haining September 25, 2008

Reid Campus Center buzzed with excitement last Saturday as students sporadically dropped to do pushups, jumped in an inflatable bouncy-castle and sprayed paint on T-shirts during the annual Interest House...

Laughing the night away with Theatre Sports

Laughing the night away with Theatre Sports

Shannon Buckham September 25, 2008

"Do I have a best friend? Well of course I do. It's my hand." Jokes like these had the entire audience laughing hysterically ten minutes after 10 pm on Tuesday Sep. 16. The comedy came from Whitman's...

Penelope Cruz dazzles audience in Woody Allen’s latest feature

Becquer Medak-Seguin September 25, 2008

Woody Allen's 39th installment will, among other things, quench an intellectual cinematic thirst that has been snoozing in a den of stupid-comedies since the Oscars, save those of you who watched any of...

One-woman play humanizes Middle Eastern conflict

One-woman play humanizes Middle Eastern conflict

Jamie Soukup September 18, 2008

Harper Joy Theater's first play of the season required countless hours of memorization and work by its cast: a cast of one person. Senior Rosie Brownlow performed in the one-woman production of "My...

BSU dance brings together student community

Mallory Peterson September 18, 2008

From the classroom to the dance floor, the Black Student Union talked logistics and made final preparations for the annual hip-hop dance, predicting a high turnout to the all-campus function in the Reid...

Fouts Center for Visual Arts opens amidst excitement, controversy

Elsbeth Otto September 18, 2008

Charles Timm-Ballard, chair of the art department, stood in the second floor painting studio and pointed toward the skylight overhead. "They made models of what the sun will be doing at different times...

Sheehan gallery aims to bring art to students and community

J. Staten Hudson September 18, 2008

Artist Candace Nicol excitedly took the stage to the applause of students, faculty and community members. Her presentation described her journey as an artist and explained her artistic process. Nicol's...

Perry’s film evokes psychological themes

Brian Cutter September 18, 2008

"Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys" is a lightly sermonizing and heavily moralizing interracial soap opera that leaves us briefly stirred, but ultimately unsure of what to take away from the film. Perry...

Book Review Milan Kundera’s ‘Ignorance’

Lauren Beebe April 30, 2008

Kundera's "Ignorance" is a modern version of the Great Return, coming home after the Odyssey has taken place.   While simultaneously questioning if such a return is even possible, Kundera tells the story...

Fey stays smart in ‘Baby Mama’

Erin Salvi April 30, 2008

There is a certain brand of humor generated by "Saturday Night Live" that makes for entertaining sketch comedy, but shoddy comedic films. For years, SNL has tried to cash in on their most popular characters...

Netflix it: the color of friendship

Katie Presley April 30, 2008

Remember the days when the Disney channel would come out with an original movie every month? They would be called, cleverly, Disney Channel Original Movies? Most of them were pretty dumb. Fun to watch,...

Aesop Rock to perform tonight in RCC

Brennan Jorgensen April 30, 2008

Hip hop laureate, Aesop Rock, born Ian Matthis Bavitz, is coming to campus with force Thursday, May 1. Recording music since 1997, Aesop Rock was a forerunner of the underground rap scene and is best known...

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