Change is central to any community. People come and go, buildings rise and fall, administrations take hold and are replaced, and norms are defined and redefined. Over its 135 year history, Whitman has...
Despite its lengthy history at Whitman College, the KWCW radio station is, in a way, quite ephemeral.
With the station adding and losing DJs each semester, the content and arrangement of material on the...
Emma Massie
How does Trix the rabbit relate to cultural anthropology? Emma Massie is a senior anthropology major whose thesis examines the major themes in children’s cereal commercials from the 1950s...
Chemistry: Moonshine ‘cause you all can make it yourselves.
Biology: Bloody Mary because it's like your organisms. It’s got blood and vegetables.
Astronomy: Galaxy Cocktail. I’ve heard...
Haley Gadzik, Whitman College, Class of 2016
• May 12, 2017
Dearest Class of 2017,
Man, y’all are in for a trip! Like straight up you are in for some weird times! I would know, I am almost an entire 365 days out from where you all are right now, which makes...
Whitman College decided last fall, after over a century, to “retire” its Missionary mascot once and for all. The decision is but a new chapter in the prolonged saga of Whitman's efforts to grapple...
Dear future students of color,
Welcome to your new home. As the brochures say, there are countless reasons to attend Whitman. Renowned arts and academics, a surprisingly charming location ... the list...
"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era – the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties...
I think of the future as a monster–a beast. It is immense and unpredictable and ugly. It is something untamable with a will of its own. Very soon, many seniors will be graduating from Whitman and will...
Most poetry performance is a stagnant affair; the poet or poets read aloud their verses, and the audience simply listens, sometimes snapping or moaning in agreement. These three New Techniques for Poetry...
It was a sunny day in Eastern Washington, and General Frank Matthias was on a search for mediocrity.
Matthias was on the market for a site that would become the first plutonium plant, designed to supply...
Paul Yancey
Number of years at Whitman: 35
Department: Biology
Plans for next year: Yancey will be doing an SCP phase out program, so he is not technically retiring, but instead will be working...
