This article originally appeared in the March 6, 1997 issue of the Whitman Pioneer.
The question has been raised, “What is it like to be a woman at Whitman?” My first response is, well, what is...
Amelia Leach, Feature reporter
• February 24, 2022
Whitties are not rocking with surface-level inclusion efforts. Campus-wide diversity issues are especially prevalent in athletics and outdoor spaces, and effectively addressing them requires careful...
Green Dot was not perfect, but the consent education-sized hole left in the wake of its removal is yet to be filled.
Consent and bystander intervention used to be much more common words in the...
Note: All of the names used in this article are pseudonyms.
Sophomore Bella Dickinson wishes people would call her “fat” more often.
“That sounds wrong—I’m not saying I want people...
On Dec. 1, Instagram users flooded their stories with variations on the same template: a purple or black or blue or green background, a looping “2021” in a funky font, a list of musical artists and...
[This article was originally published on May 16, 2021, in Circuit.]
I asked three residents in Lyman’s Tower section whether they ever feel lonely. My first interviewee was Dante: tall, bearded and...
Note: All of the names used in this article are pseudonyms.
To avoid someone at Whitman is a futile endeavor. Our 1,500-student enrollment doesn’t provide much of a buffer, and 117 acres feel like...
Bring up “Percy Jackson'' to a group of college students. If they’re anything like me, you’ll rouse memories of curling up with “The Lightning Thief” during free-reading time in elementary school...
The daily schedule of a professor tends to extend far beyond a typical 9-to-5, often obscuring the lines between work and home life—especially so for those with children. The pandemic has blurred these...
Famous landscape architect John C. Olmsted declared that having a large, unbroken field in the center of Whitman’s campus would be a “practical impossibility,” although it would “undoubtedly be...
On day one of four-day, I stayed in my pajamas until six p.m. Grateful for respite from a hectic semester, I readily indulged every relaxing impulse I had: I ate chocolate in bed, scrolled passively through...
College campuses are a breeding ground for the question and worry: how do I make friends? First-years are traditionally burdened by the task of friendship-forming, but recent circumstances have led...
