Sophomore Gia Anastasiou and first-year Julia Bowman were walking down Boyer Avenue toward Reid at 8 p.m. on Oct. 17 when, practically out of nowhere, a man on a bike bumped into them and pulled Anastasiou's purse from her hand. The pair chased after the thief but couldn't keep up. Anastasiou called the police, who arrived within minutes, but they have yet to recover her purse or any of its contents.
1. Campus Crime Log
Campus Security Officers are required to document their activities during each shift. These activities are then translated into a security log, which details any alleged criminal...
The following statistics are from the Whitman College Annual Security Report, which can be found at http://www.whitman.edu/content/security/annualreport.
Fifteen instances of rape were reported in 2008, eight occurring on campus (in residence halls, on campus or on non-campus property) and seven occurring off campus. This number has more than doubled since 2007, when only six instances of rape were reported.
I was shocked and scared when I first noticed the two rifles sitting next to me in the police cruiser. That was the closest I'd ever been to a gun, especially an assault rifle, and there two were leaning upright against the glass that separates the back of the police car, where people who get arrested ride, and the front. I could rub my shoulders against them.
Take a town like Walla Walla and a college like Whitman, put them together, and it may seem like you have achieved the ultimate safety utopia. Maybe we have: Whitman students are notorious for leaving...
First-year Maggie Appleton feels utterly safe in her Whitman bubble and is not paranoid about members of the Walla Walla community wreaking havoc upon her notions of security.
"The really dodgy ones...
Catie MacIntyre Walker, the self-proclaimed “wild wine woman of Walla Walla," has been in the business for years. Though she's graduated from the Center for Enology and Viticulture at Walla Walla, many of her formative experiences as a wine lover have been hands-on—she's spent time doing the dirtier parts of wine making , digging holes, planting vines and working crush. More recently, she's written wine columns for the Union Bulletin, served as a judge in wine competitions and written for Tourism Walla Walla. She currently maintains her online store, Wild Walla Walla Wine Woman.
Upon my arrival at Whitman, the first thing one of the RAs in the Prentiss Hall lounge said after I picked up my room key was, “I had that room! It's tiny!"
Yes, compared to other Prentiss rooms, my room was particularly tiny. So tiny that we had to carry some of what I brought to campus back to the car and take it home.
When a man saw my father carrying a few boxes back to the car, he said, “So you over-packed?"
“No. We were under-roomed," my dad, Michael Jolley, said.
Gathering for dinner is an important ritual for many families. Eating together is a time to unwind and reconnect after school or work. For those with overwhelmingly full schedules, family dinner might be the only time each day that everyone can sit down together.
For the newest members of the Whitman community, Family Weekend will be first time most of them have seen their parents or siblings since the semester began.
First-year Kelly Peterson expressed her anticipation.
“I'm really excited my parents are coming this weekend. I miss being able to hear about everyone's day, family dinner is so important to me . . . We're all going out to dinner!"
