County Fair Rounds Up Republicans, Democrats, and Voters
Olivia Gilbert, Feature Editor
September 8, 2016
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If you walked by the Walla Walla County Republican Headquarters in the red brick building on Second Avenue last week, you would not have found a soul there. Travel about a mile south though, and you would have found, amid the smell of fried dough and the mechanical whirs and jerks of a dozen carnival r...
A Walla Walla Taco Tasting
Sarah Cornett and Hannah Bartman
May 5, 2016
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After a sunny Saturday of what can only be described as a Walla Walla taco challenge, three senior Pioneer writers admitted defeat.
Read more »Being a Whittie at WWU
April 28, 2016
Filed under FEATURE, Front Page Slideshow
Lauren Lewis tried to show me the bell atop their admin/philosophy/history building. It is tradition, I gleaned, for seniors to sign the bell, or the bell-access room (or something).
Read more »Quiet in the Wallowas
Andrew Schwartz, Staff Reporter
April 21, 2016
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On March 8th of this year, Kip Rand and Ben Vandenbos, friends from the college days at University Montana-Missoula, were backcountry skiing around Chief Joseph Mountain and Sacagawea in the Northern Wallowas.
Read more »Crafting Comedy
Christy Carley, Staff Reporter
April 14, 2016
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Varsity Nordic, the group of campus improvisers whose predecessors snagged their name from the defunded nordic ski team, generally meets three times a week at 10:00 p.m.
Read more »Ankeny Field: 112 Years of Leisure
Josh Ward, Staff Reporter
April 7, 2016
Filed under FEATURE, Front Page Slideshow
For over a hundred years, Ankeny Field has been the host of such gatherings and has been an important part of Whitman campus’ life and culture.
Read more »Adventures with Godwin
Andrew Schwartz, Feature Writer
March 10, 2016
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Mine and Godwin’s paths joined early last semester, in a class on Human Computer Interaction. We were part of a team that developed a prototype for journalism/news app. Godwin’s ways were not so much mysterious as impressive; we had made the prototype, and then unbeknownst and to the great delight of the other team member and I, remade the whole thing at the last second, just because, on a superior platform.
Read more »Walla Walla Town Center to See New Life
Hannah Bartman, Feature Editor
March 3, 2016
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Walla Walla’s Blue Mountain Mall sits lonely on the corner of Myra and Rose. Its only store, a Shopko, is surrounded by vacant buildings.
Read more »Animal Minds
Andrew Schwartz, Feature Writer
February 25, 2016
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There are some things at which a pigeon is better than you. For one, pigeons can fly. Second, pigeons are more adept at finding their way home. Also, pigeons are probably better at the old game show, Let’s Make a Deal, hosted by Monty Hall, than you are.
Read more »Muddy Frogwater No More
Hannah Bartman, Feature Editor
February 18, 2016
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Ten miles away, just a hop, skip, and a jump from campus, a new species extinction crisis is emerging. Over the past ten years, Milton-Freewater, or better known by some as Muddy Frogwater, has been defined in part by its wooden frog sculptures.
Read more »Searching for Tha Truth
Andrew Schwartz, Feature Writer
February 11, 2016
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The room, of course, is Main Street Studios. The day, of course, is February the First, a Monday mind you, and for reasons which remain unclear, but which portend a future bright and cultured for this humble Washington Town, Houston rapper Trae the Truth is slated to perform as part of his “Truth Tour.”
Read more »Eighth Annual Global Studies Symposium
February 11, 2016
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Students and faculty packed themselves into Olin 130 to hear the Global Study Symposium speeches regarding Human Zoos: Photography, Race, and Empire, on February 5th. The symposium featured speeches from guest-speakers Pascal Blanchard, Dominic Thomas, and Stephen Sheehi. Whitman professors and students a...
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