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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Whitman news since 1896

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Student places in European film-writing contest, attends workshop in France

Molly Smith February 21, 2008

"Amazing" cannot even begin to describe sophomore Dena Popova's experience at a recent screenwriting workshop in France. Popova, a rhetoric and film studies major and native of Bulgaria, was invited...

BOOK REVIEW ‘The Professor and the Madman’

Lauren Beebe February 14, 2008

If you don't already have an obsession with words, you might wonder why Simon Winchester's "The Professor and the Madman" was even written.   But this historical account of the making of the Oxford English...

Clean, green Valentines

Sophie Johnson February 14, 2008

Across America today, approximately one billion greeting cards will be exchanged, as well as about 110 million roses, with the average lovebird forking out about $95 for their significant other. In other...

Alumnus offers ‘conservatized’ humor, words of wisdom

Melissa Navarro February 14, 2008

When one of the most memorable Whitman grads comes back to campus, embarrassing memories are bound to come up. Douglas Carlsen, director of the Whitman College Bookstore, introduced John Moe as someone...

netflix it: center stage

Katie Presley February 14, 2008

I'll tell you right now: I only know one boy who likes this movie. But that's just because not enough boys have seen it, I'm sure. It's full of attractive women. Really, boys, it's a goldmine. "Center...

art vs. ENTERTAINMENT

Jamie Soukup February 14, 2008

We are surrounded by would-be painters, musicians, filmmakers and authors with tortured souls and delusions of grandeur, obsessed with making the "next great American novel" or some other masterpiece. People...

’27 Dresses’ wears audience’s patience thin

Erin Salvi February 14, 2008

Well, we all knew it had to happen sometime. Frankly, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. Director Anne Fletcher has taken the old axiom "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" and brought it to life...

ART vs. entertainment

Todd Hawes February 14, 2008

In 1965 Bob Dylan was asked whether he considered himself more a singer or a poet. He answered, famously, "Oh, I think of myself as more of a song and dance man, y'know?" The moment is immortalized in...

BOOK REVIEW: ‘god is not Great’ attacks religion

Mimi Pysno February 7, 2008

Christopher Hitchens, grade-A asshole, leaves no religion un-attacked in his latest work, "god is not Great; How Religion Poisons Everything." This book offers a piercingly harsh look at religion, calling...

Whitman students hypnotized at Sigma Chi House

Whitman students hypnotized at Sigma Chi House

Lisa Curtis February 7, 2008

Half of the students in the room suddenly jerked their hands, swatting at flies that only they could see. These students were in a hypnotic trance, courtesy of Rich Jacks, Whitman's associate dean of...

‘Untraceable’ a guilty, gratuitous spectacle of gore

Teal Greyhavens February 7, 2008

Some years ago I was introduced to a Web site (which shall remain nameless) dedicated to awful photos: of autopsies, accident victims, malignant tumors, deformities, feces, meth addiction. I remember one...

Volvos, Eggs, Cleavage for this years One-Acts

‘Volvos,’ ‘Eggs,’ ‘Cleavage’ for this year’s One-Acts

Heather Nichols-Haining February 7, 2008

The plays in the One-Act Play Contest, running from Feb. 6 to 10, have been entirely produced by students. Students have done the writing, directing, casting, and will even do the judging. Retired...

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