"Greetings" from ASWC, your faithful student government! We at ASWC are gearing up for a year of serving you: the Whitman student body. As President Nadim Damluji   explains, the goal this year is to...

Simultaneously with the start of classes comes the initially exciting and soon to be all too frequent trips to Penrose Library. As workloads increase, so do the number of students swarming the library....

Over the summer, sophomore Sara Rasmussen was chosen as one of College Prowler's Whitman interns, helping to produce a candid, accurate resource for prospective and incoming first-year students about the...

Dear Seniors, Given that you are re-entering the real world and expanding your efforts beyond the Whitman Bubble, you will inevitably face a life somewhat different from the heavily integrated life...

Many of those dispensing advice (welcome or not) to college graduates this year are likely to address the economic downturn. Your job or career will consume much of your energy for the next 45 years or...

My first semester at Whitman I was overwhelmed by the microcosm that I was living in: my high school was twice as big!   This meant there always seemed to be new trends that were unique to our little...

No one knows what to expect at college. Despite "understanding" gained from siblings' stories and movies like "Animal House" there is no way to prepare yourself: except, perhaps, to bring a condom. I arrived...

Dear Graduating Seniors, "This, you know, is a time of taking in - taking in friendship, conversation, gaiety, wisdom, knowledge, beauty, holiness   - and later, well, there will be a time of giving...

The most dreaded question to a college senior is "What are you going to do after graduation?" Thinking about life after college is overwhelming for many, not to mention beginning your career during the...

Dear Seniors, I am honored to be asked to give some advice on your postgraduate life. The invitation to address you is especially meaningful since I, like you, am leaving Whitman at the end of this...

One of the best parts of our journey thus far is that we have only just begun. In these final weeks, each trial and tribulation seems to be so small in relation to the world opening up before us. Soon-to-be...

When I was asked to write a column of advice to the graduating class, I tried to run from the assignment. I have no trouble dispensing advice in my office, but to put advice into print? That thought evokes...