Ross Gay’s Book of Delights (2019) gave a platform to those small moments of joy peppered throughout everyday life. Gay handwrote a delight everyday for one year. In the process, he noted the necessity...
There are several “rites of passage” in a young adult’s life: you get a permit when you’re 15, then a license a year later. You go to prom, graduate high school, go to college. You drink “for...
If I’m being honest, I still don’t exactly know what college is supposed to look like – is it my childhood bedroom? Awkward half-Zoom, half-real classrooms? I’m pretty sure that this is a sentiment...
Remember when we used to watch movies with other people?
It feels like an eternity ago that community was still part of our cinematic vocabulary. Back when movie theaters brimmed with eager cinephiles...
Once making up 41% of the school population, Greek life has faced a decline in membership in recent years. There was an 11% decline in membership from 2016 to 2019. In addition, the looming presence of...
Conor Bartol, found this story in a hidden passage under the library
• May 16, 2021
Here’s a story that Whitman College won’t tell you.
In the earliest days of the school, Whitman adopted the “One Student, One Tree” policy, granting each first year a sapling they could...
Pissing outdoors is a primordial joy that I had not experienced until the pandemic began. Before that point, I was stoically holding my bladder, living in a constant state of discomfort due to my insatiable...
The process of childbirth, for some birthing people, is an important moment of transition into parenthood. Because birth is unique for each person going through the experience, even if it’s not their...
As we arrive at the end of a wholly unique semester, many college students are grappling with the concept of adulthood. Many feel as though they’ve lost time to the pandemic: lost time to grow, to learn,...
You can only call yourself a true Whittie once you've crossed out every item on this Whitman bucket list:
Climbed atop Styx:
Giddy-up horsey. The first thing you wanted to do upon your...
