Social Media
Claire Reichle, Feature Editor
November 16, 2018
The Whitman community is formed in many ways - a common Encounters experience, living together in the dorms and even simple things like a walking across Ankeny every day. Students are forging new ways to create community on campus through social media — specifically Instagram and Faceb...
Hummus Hummus Now Serving Walla Walla
Will Booth, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2018
The Beginning of Hummus Hummus There is a new way to indulge in everyone’s favorite spread as Hummus Hummus — the newest addition to the fantastic Walla Walla food scene — has arrived to the Gut Grub Lot on 509 E Main Street with plenty of fresh chickpeas and tahini. Th...
Staff Member Profiles
Audrey Hecker, Staff Reporter
November 1, 2018
Maybe you’ve seen them at Reid Campus Center during lunch rush, or toting a custodian’s cart by their side down the hall of your dorm — or maybe you have seldom heard of them, tucked away in seemingly far-off Boyer House, among all the rubber and printing ink that keeps our printers going. R...
Visiting Professors Enrich the Whitman Community
Sophie Leibsohn, Staff Reporter
October 25, 2018
When Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Gender Studies Eva Hoffmann was growing up, she never imagined she would someday end up in small-town Walla Walla. Her path has taken her all the way from Germany to New York to Oregon and finally just this last year, to Whitman College. While their...
Students in Business
Claire Reichle, Feature Editor
October 19, 2018
When sophomore Matthew Dahlstrom rolled up to Anderson Hall on his bike a few weeks ago, he wasn’t sure what to expect. He was on his way to give haircuts to a few first-years who had contacted him through his Instagram account @4eastfades. While he has been giving haircuts to his friends for years,...
Here’s to the vineyard workers of the Walla Walla Valley
Alissa Antilla, Managing Editor
October 12, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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