Erfan Vaezpour, Science and Environment Writer
• December 12, 2024
Sexual violence transcends geographic, cultural and institutional boundaries and its impact is deeply felt within the Whitman community. To address this issue, Whitman relies heavily on the student-led...
In 2015, Whitman College commissioned an external review of its Title IX policies and procedures to assess how effectively it was handling complaints of sexual misconduct, discrimination and harassment....
“This… is the Walla Walla Valley’s only mall”
The statement comes from the long-defunct blog "Walla Walla Valley Daily Photo". The accompanying photo is a bleak one: a vast blue sky was...
It’s no secret that frustrations with the United States economy are widespread among many Americans. Complaints about inflation, the cost of living and the wealth gap have run rampant to the point that...
Whitman has always made significant efforts to build a sense of community within campus, including requiring students to live on-campus for the first four semesters of their Whitman experience. Though...
The Social Model of Disability animation envisions a town that is populated solely by people who use wheelchairs. The town is physically designed for such people and has no high ceilings or doors as...
In 2003, David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington, designed the first novel protein and predicted its 3-dimensional structure. Although technology and science have long been intertwined,...
The first time I came across a comment about Cleveland Commons on YikYak’s Whitman thread, I laughed out loud.
“God probably knew if i had the patience to wait for a burger at Cleve, id be...
Three days after moving in for my second year at Whitman, I revisited the CommonApp website and created a transfer account. It has since sat inactive, but its sheer existence sparked many...
Be it Instagram, Tiktok, or any of the other hundreds of apps and websites designed to hijack our attention spans (or lack thereof), there is no shortage of online avenues to doomscroll our lives away....
Students across campus awoke on the morning of Sept. 3, 2024, as the Memorial Hall bell tower rang out– two minutes before the hour mark, of course. To many groggy students returning from a restful (or...
“Hey baby girl, let me see that ass.”
I started, nearly letting the stack of books I had been carrying slip from my grasp. A man leaned against a wall on the sidewalk in front of me, lazily...
