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!"
As a Whitman parent, especially if your Whittie is a first-year, you probably have many questions, not all of which your son or daughter can answer. To help inform you, The Pioneer asked current parents...
10. Show your parents your dorm
The small space in which students are confined to live is an important part of college life. While inevitable, this activity is notable for its brevity, because there really isn't much to do in a dorm room but stare at the walls and laugh awkwardly at the mess. Students, clean your dorm before before opening it up for parental examination.
In a campus-wide survey conducted by The Pioneer, 69 of the 100 student polled have used illegal drugs, and 67 of those students, about 97 percent, cited social aspects and entertainment as their reasons...
Many students have tried them, some are repulsed by them and a few are hooked. No matter what one's opinion is on the topic of illegal drugs, it's no secret that they play an integral role in the health and social aspects of college life.
To see just how much drugs impact the Whitman community, The Pioneer conducted a campus-wide survey detailing student opinions and personal habits regarding illegal drug use.
Data collected from the first 100 responses of a campus-wide mail survey.
By the numbers
80% of students surveyed believe that Whitman has a drug scene.
42% of students surveyed believe that drugs...
For senior Ben Spencer, the end of the day began with a sunrise. On a park bench at 7:00 a.m., coming off an all-night high, Spencer watched the sun begin its ascent and passers-by starting their day with...
Every year, senior Galen Phillips picks a new personal challenge to pursue. One semester, he took a 300-level philosophy class. "I'm a politics major, so it was a way to kind of put myself out there," he said in an interview.
When senior Elena Gustafson was a kid, her parents divided her allowance into three parts: spending money, college savings and a donation for a good cause. "It was really exciting," Gustafson said, to save up money for six months to give to a good cause. "[Helping others] was instilled in me early," she said.
Until he took Introduction to Music Theory the first semester of his first year, junior Jackson Maberry had thought he would major in chemistry in order to satisfy pre-med requirements. Maberry now conducts two Whitman musical groups.
Junior Brandon Fennell sits on the floor of the science building hallway reading through a spread-out mess of papers covering a three square-foot arena, blocking the doorway to a lab where a woman with blue gloves sets up an experiment. Another student also reads through the papers scattered about the floor.
Enthusiastic student activist and senior Seth Bergeson is not so enthused about how hard it is to rework the world's problems. But he tries to remain optimistic. “I have learned about how slow the process of change is and how that process, oftentimes, comes to a grinding halt and meets some real friction," said Bergeson.
