Nov. 1st marks this year's Mr. Whitman, the annual male beauty pageant hosted by the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. The event is fundraising and raising awareness for Trilogy Recovery Community, a local nonprofit group for adolescents struggling with addiction.
Alumnus David Williams '67, former CEO of Shoreline Banking, believes in business that promotes sustainability in three categories: people, planet and profit. His lecture, titled "Making Money is a Result, Not a Purpose," advocated for the beneficial role businesses should play in the community.
The Ask for It campaign attempted to removed the awkwardness from talking about consent. The All Students for Consent Club traveled around campus with a bag of chocolate kisses and asked students if they would like a kiss, intentionally leaving the meaning ambiguous. The goal was to get the entire campus involved and spread the conversation regarding consent.
Premier nature writer Barry Lopez spoke in Maxey Auditorium on September, 12th. Students, teachers, and community members listened eagerly as read passages from his works, as well as shared his thoughts on climate change and the environment.
Two Tibetans from the Tibetan Children's Education Foundation – one of them a monk – came for a four day visit to campus, where they constructed and dismantled a sand mandala in four days.
On Tuesday, April 16, well-known author Jean Kilbourne delivered a lecture on the image of women in advertising, emphasizing the damaging effects that advertisements can have on young people.
This year's Whitman Undergraduate Conference features over 120 presentations and posters highlighting students' original works produced in their courses and during semesters abroad, summer internships...
Lecturer Anne Okkels Birk discusses how the Danish open prison system attempts to normalize prisoners and how the social net in Denmark helps to prevent crime in the first place.
