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Whitman Wire

Who's to Blame for the Snow: The Real Story

Who’s to Blame for the Snow: The Real Story

Ben Sherry, Secretly Wants More Snow February 27, 2025

Walla Walla has recently undergone a surprising and late influx of snowfall in the past few weeks. While the snow has ceased and begins to melt away, the question remains on what potentially caused...

From the Ground Up:  How Walla Walla became the Wine Capital of the PNW

From the Ground Up: How Walla Walla became the Wine Capital of the PNW

Alisson Alerte, Science and Environment Writer February 27, 2025

Step off campus and take a stroll downtown. Just walking down Main Street, it likely won’t take more than a few blocks before you will lose count of the wineries you'll pass. Better yet, venture...

Sustainable Agriculture in Walla Walla Works, Until it Doesn't

Sustainable Agriculture in Walla Walla Works, Until it Doesn’t

Gauri Vaidya, News Reporter February 27, 2025

In Walla Walla, a region famed for its agriculture and wine, farms employ a range of cultivation and management techniques. From cutting-edge sustainable practices to time-honored methods that underpin...

Reviewing the Sherwood Sauna, Whitman’s Hottest (and Emptiest) Club

Reviewing the Sherwood Sauna, Whitman’s Hottest (and Emptiest) Club

Holly VanVoorhis, Campus Life Reporter February 27, 2025

  Whitman College has a sauna. Two, technically, as the heated facilities are separated into a women’s and a men’s bathroom in the basement of the Sherwood Athletic Facility. During my...

Let’s Talk About the Seventies

Let’s Talk About the Seventies

Riley Cooper, Feature Writer February 27, 2025

"God, this airport is so effing sterile. I think I was just born in the wrong generation," a young woman lamented into her iPhone as I stepped off my flight to Denver. She wore a vintage Penny Lane-style...

Whitman Women Swim to Second, Men to Third in NWC Championship

Whitman Women Swim to Second, Men to Third in NWC Championship

Danny Pottharst, News Reporter February 27, 2025

In competitive swimming, preliminary seeding isn't important — meet performance is what matters. From Feb. 13 to Feb. 16 at the 2025 Northwest Conference Swimming Championship in Federal Way,...

College Students Are Done With Traditional News

College Students Are Done With Traditional News

Arham Khan, Opinion Columnist February 20, 2025

If you’re a college student, chances are the last time you read a physical newspaper, it was The Wire because we have great journalists. And yet, if you ask the media establishment, the reason young...

Accessibility in Walla Walla: How Project Sidewalk is Paving the Way

Accessibility in Walla Walla: How Project Sidewalk is Paving the Way

Lucy Walker, Campus Life Reporter February 20, 2025

Last semester, the word “ramp” was commonplace around campus, sprawled in colorful chalk on steps and next to cracks and ramps (or the lack thereof) as students highlighted the inaccessibility...

First Dalek Exchange Student Still Adjusting

First Dalek Exchange Student Still Adjusting

Ben Sherry, Not-So-Madman in a Blue Box February 20, 2025

Whitman’s Intergalactic Student Exchange Program has been of specific interest to many Whitman students. The founding of the Vulcan Appreciation Club some months ago and their subsequent Reploid...

Visiting Friends: Dorms vs. Off-Campus Houses

Visiting Friends: Dorms vs. Off-Campus Houses

Meghan Kearney, Waiting for the Apartment Phase February 20, 2025

There’s no feeling quite like knocking on your friend’s dorm room at the end of the year, knowing you’ll never again have to see someone walk bare-footed towards the communal bathroom because...

BASKETBALL SENIOR NIGHT: Women's Clinch Regular Season Title, Men's Push for Tournament

BASKETBALL SENIOR NIGHT: Women’s Clinch Regular Season Title, Men’s Push for Tournament

Baran Abbasi and Garrett Schreiber February 20, 2025

The Whitman College basketball team’s outstanding achievements on Senior Night were great highlights in each of their respective campaigns. The men's team recovered from a difficult 78-99 defeat...

The OscaRRRs

The OscaRRRs

Zachary Peterson, Feature Writer February 20, 2025

The feeling of motionlessness when the credits roll, like all the entropy has been sucked out of you by the sheer power of what you just watched – that's the feeling we chase. You’re left bottled...

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