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Vol. CLIV, Issue 10
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Illustration by Mikayla Kelly

Behold! Olympic Women’s New Uniform: The Dishrag

Aya Mahmoudi, Opinion Columnist April 25, 2024

Nike’s new uniforms for women’s Olympic Track and Field are a disgrace. For anyone wondering what it looks like, it’s basically a women’s one-piece swimsuit cut disturbingly high at the bikini...

Illustration by Kai Bowen

Hyperpop vs. the Hipster

Lily Yost, Opinion Columnist April 25, 2024

News flash for all Swifties and fans of the 1975: your taste is unoriginal. Your musical palate is bland, and you're just like every other young adult. But be careful — if you enjoy music that’s...

The Caitlin Clark Effect

Garrett Schreiber, Opinion Columnist April 25, 2024

Caitlin Clark has been one of the most entertaining sports players to watch over the last two seasons. She fought hard two years in a row to bring herself and her Iowa teammates to the NCAA national championship...

Stop and Smell the (Senior Spring) Roses

Kasey Moulton and Rachel Husband April 18, 2024

Kasey Moulton, Editor-in-Chief With each email from the senior chair, I become more and more acutely aware that my time sandwiched between Isaac's and Alder is quickly coming to a close. I always knew...

From the Archives: Savoring Life One Word at a Time

Sarah McCarthy, Staff Writer April 18, 2024

This column initially appeared in the October 19, 2006 edition of The Whitman Pioneer. The opinion was written by a staff writer and appears as it was initially ran; the only edits are to spelling. “Take...

Illustration by Edyn Parsell

The Lean, Mean, Fifteen-Bean … Soup?

Alistair Gannholm, Opinion Columnist April 18, 2024

Soup! It’s delicious and helps to fill that void that this inadequate life and government that hates you leaves in your soul. But gosh, it really is so much work to get something cheap, filling,...

What is the value of life?

Garrett Schreiber, Opinion Columnist April 11, 2024

As of April 7, the death toll in Gaza is reported to be 33,137 people. People can debate about whether this number is higher or lower than what is being reported, but honestly I couldn’t care any less...

Illustration by Uma Bratt

Billionaires Building Bunkers

Sebastian Vera Cuevas, Opinion Columnist April 11, 2024

Your name is Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates or Peter Theil. You own a bunker, or more than one.  The products your genius-brain cooked up in the nineties have gone forth and multiplied at the scale...

Struggling or Silk-Stocking?

Aya Mahmoudi, Opinion Columnist April 11, 2024

Why does nobody talk about the ostentatious amount of people that play brokie on campus? I’ve met and gotten to know so many people that I assumed genuinely related to me on a socioeconomic or social...

Inside the Squad Car: A Day with the Walla Walla Police Department

Bex Heimbrock, Opinion Editor April 4, 2024

Outside a Super8 Motel sign reading “2024 STAY SAFE,” Walla Walla Police Department (WWPD) Officer Kevin Toon dealt with a domestic disturbance. The call said someone had been hit, and Officer Toon...

Illustration by Kai Bowen

Is there anything better than the dance?

Garrett Schreiber, Opinion Columnist April 4, 2024

With 12 minutes left in the first half in Spokane, Alabama’s Aaron Estrada pump-faked, got his defender to jump, then rose to finish at the rim. He was met by the hand of Grand Canyon University’s...

From the Archives: Replace outdated ‘tenure’ with meaningful evals

Kelan J. Lowney, Managing Editor April 4, 2024

This column initially appeared in the April 27, 2000 edition of The Whitman Pioneer. The opinion was written by The Pioneer’s managing editor and appears as it was initially ran; the only edits are to...

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