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Vol. CLIV, Issue 8
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The International Student Experience

Emma Chung May 15, 2018

“Let’s go around and say our name, pronoun, and where we’re from,” said the resident assistant. “My name is Michelle, I use she/her/hers, and I’m from Seattle” “I’m Rachel, I use...

Graduation Circuit 18: Letter from the Editors

Graduation Circuit ’18: Letter from the Editors

Martina Pansze and Tywen Kelly May 15, 2018

We’ve seen a lot of sunsets this year. Two full walls in the newsroom are windows, so each production night we have watched from the top floor of Reid as the clouds have erupted and light is spat onto...

Drinks for the Majors

May 15, 2018

Hello Majors! It was a delight to put together this drink list.  I highly suggest trying each of these drinks (not all at the same time!)  Drink your way through the arts, the humanities, the sciences,...

Memorabilia: An Exploration of Objects

Memorabilia: An Exploration of Objects

Callie Brown and Samarah Uribe Mendez May 15, 2018

We asked four students to bring us objects that they deem significant–things that they have accumulated over their time at Whitman and from their lives before. Taken out of the context of their rooms...

Letters Home

Christy Carley, News Editor May 15, 2018

The story of Megan Gleason’s senior thesis began in a French class called “Épistolaires” or epistolaries -- the study of literature in the form of a series of letters. Focused on the late eighteenth...

Whitman Athletes Post-College Careers

Whitman Athletes Post-College Careers

Emily Solomon May 15, 2018

Many of Whitman’s Class of 2018 athletes won’t be ending their athletic careers in a Whitman uniform. From plans of playing professionally to playing for a graduate school overseas, some of Whitman’s...

Peggys Hot Takes

Peggy’s Hot Takes

Peggy Li, Opinion Editor May 15, 2018

Spikeball isn’t real exercise and looks really stupid  Why do the palest guys ever take off their shirts on ankeny as soon as it’s like 59 degrees out  Low key STEM is super boring ...

Artistic Enclaves

Christy Carley, News Editor May 15, 2018

The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship provides graduates one year out of college with the opportunity to explore a project of their choosing. Given a stipend of $30,000 for the year, students travel to various...

“Confronting Entropy”

Christy Carley, News Editor May 15, 2018

The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship provides graduates one year out of college with the opportunity to explore a project of their choosing. Given a stipend of $30,000 for the year, students travel to various...

On Writing Satire

Anthony Reale, Satire Editor December 5, 2017

G.K. Chesterton once said “A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.” Chesterton, of course, wrote during the 19th century, a time when print culture had massive...

by Tywen Kelly

Terms of Academia

Tywen Kelly, Publisher December 5, 2017

 

Regarding the language of “Free Speech” as distinguished from Hate Speech

Kazi Joshua, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion December 5, 2017

“…is there no room any more for a child or young person to be a little obnoxious…or provocative, or yes, offensive” (Erika Christakis, in an email to Yale students in October 2015 responding...

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