Here’s to the vineyard workers of the Walla Walla Valley
Alissa Antilla, Managing Editor
October 12, 2018
Filed under FEATURE, Front Page Slideshow
While Walla Walla sleeps on cold fall nights, the thought of wine grapes and the vines they hang on freezing stirs Frank Jimenez from his bed at 3 a.m. His day will not end until 6 p.m. Jimenez, a contracted vineyard manager, drives in the pre-dawn to various vineyards to come to the rescue, monitoring ...
Breaking the Standard: Non-Traditional Whitman Students
Will Booth, Staff Reporter
October 8, 2018
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First-year Jake Lorang is the first to admit he sticks out like a sore thumb on Whitman campus. A bald 38 year-old man, Lorang is not difficult to spot amongst a crowd of long-haired, Chaco-wearing college students. “I’ve had a few [students] ask me if I was a teacher. It’s awkward,” Lorang...
Campus: Our Home
Audrey Hecker, Staff Reporter
September 28, 2018
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Alternative Living Situations Audrey Hecker The distinctive culture of the Whitman community is fostered within the unique living spaces that our students, faculty and staff create. Whether it be in one of the residence halls, a fraternity or President Murray’s own college-owned addre...
Unconditional Love: How Pets are Shaping the Student Experience
Claire Reichle and Sophie Liebsohn
September 24, 2018
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Ask many students what they miss most about being away from home, and they will tell you their pets. Dogs, cats, lizards, horses and chickens are just a few of the creatures that students leave behind as they transition back into life as college students. However, there is a smaller group of who have...
Walla Walla: A home for the summer
Claire Reichle and Ansley Peard
September 23, 2018
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When students arrive in Walla Walla for the first week of school, there is an outpouring of reunions and new meetings that signal the revival of the Whitman campus. But what would campus look like if you rewound the clock a few weeks prior? Every year, a small percentage of the Whitman student ...
Hunger Strike at the Washington State Penitentiary
Andrew Schwartz, Staff Reporter
May 3, 2018
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Jeffrey Owen Dorman was released this March after spending roughly 30 years bouncing between Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities. On Easter Sunday, his sister prepared a big ham. “I knew I didn’t like the food in there,” he said of Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) and ot...
Texting Through Crisis
Claire Reichle, Staff Reporter
April 26, 2018
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On a typical night in Walla Walla, Whitman students are typing away on their laptops. Sophomore Omar Aldahleh isn’t writing a paper or updating his status – he is texting strangers in crisis. Hailing from Redmond, Wash., Adahleh recently declared a major in psychology with an emphasis in neuroscience. Since...
Tunes in The Blues: Student Musicians on Spotify, iTunes and Soundcloud
April 19, 2018
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All musicians must start somewhere. The simplest tune on a harmonica can develop an artist with complex style and inspirations. Sophomore Claire McHale, senior Chloe Serkissian and first-year Andreas Asimakopolous have been experimenting with music since a young age. Over time, their sound and style has devel...
From Residence Halls to Wedding Halls: Marriage at Whitman and Walla Walla University
April 12, 2018
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Whether it be at Whitman, Walla Walla University, or wherever else, one’s first year at college is the opening to many directions in life. Across the board, one thing college students are interested in navigating is a relationship. While far more of us end up with confusion rather than clarity, a sel...
United World Colleges: “The School of Life”
April 5, 2018
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When American students enter their third year of high school, many opt for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme, an advanced program with an international focus that lasts two years, smattered with creativity, activity and service (CAS) and culminating in a 4000 word extended essay, a...
Lincoln High School Mentorship Program
Alissa Antilla, Feature Editor
March 29, 2018
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In January 2018, Whitman sophomore Sophia Webb spearheaded a mentorship program between Whitman students and seniors at Lincoln High School–Walla Walla’s only alternative high school–to build relationships between the two groups in context of preparing Lincoln seniors for post-grad life. Rewi...
The Future of Encounters
March 8, 2018
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Review documents, as well as interviews with numerous faculty, show the philosophical and political stakes of the debates around the future of Whitman College’s “signature program.”
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