The Omicron variant was first reported to the World Health Organization on Nov. 24, 2021 by South African scientists. The first known infection was from a specimen collected on Nov. 9, 2021. In response,...
Whitman is officially requiring all members of the campus community receive a COVID-19 booster by Jan. 15, 2022.
The decision was announced in an email from President Kathy Murray sent on Dec. 13...
In an email sent to the Whitman community on Dec. 10, Coronavirus Task Force Chair Peter Harvey confirmed the college’s first on-campus virus transmission.
According to Harvey, the COVID situation...
After a year and a half dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, operations felt relatively normal on campus this semester. Despite the prevalence of COVID-19 in the Walla Walla community and throughout...
Editor's note: This article has been briefly edited due to several misleading and prejudiced statements that were included in the original article. The lede previously stated that the Omicron variant "originated...
80 casualties revealed in undisclosed 2019 U.S. airstrike in Syria
On March 18, 2019, as the final days of battle against the Islamic State unraveled, U.S. military drones circled over a dirt field...
Whitman continues to contend with its history as an institution founded by missionaries over a century after it abandoned its religious affiliation, but that contention does not exempt the College from...
On Nov. 18, the Senate unanimously confirmed Chuck Sams as the 19th Director of the National Parks Service. A member of the Cayuse and Walla Walla tribes, Sams is the first Native American to serve in...
As part of last year’s Race, Violence, and Health academic theme, Rosalie Fish, a prominent activist, raised the problem of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Fish became infamous in 2019...
Despite the fact that Whitman’s namesake, Marcus Whitman, was a religious missionary, today Whitman has no institutional religious affiliation. This is a topic students in politics professor Stan Thayne’s...
On Nov. 16, Wake Forest University Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities Eric Ashley Hairston gave the concluding lecture for the 2021 Judd D. Kimball lecture series in transforming classics. His lecture...
Whitman prides itself on its multitude of clubs and student organizations covering a wide range of interests. The newest addition to the roster is the Leftist Mutual Aid club, founded this year by...
