When was the last time you saw a homeless person? On TV? Do they even exist in this day and age? Well, not in America, the land of the free and soon-to-be-rich, right?
I personally have seen homeless...
Professor-student relationships, like any other relationships, are the source of endless gossip and rumor, with some stories proving more innovative and unusual than others but all maintaining the allure...
I have been considered a "good" student since kindergarten. I'm active in class, conscientious after class. I excel in quizzes and exams; I stand out in activities and contests. But I get nervous...
In 2005, author J.C. Hutchins was at an impasse.
“I started looking for an agent in 2005, and that went nowhere," he said in an interview with me regarding “7th Son," his trilogy of novels. His original 1300-page manuscript was turned down by every agent he met.
With the advent of the Web, authors like Hutchins have many options when it comes to getting their content out to potential readers. For Hutchins, his rejections changed his perspective on getting “7th Son" out to the masses.
When I told a professor that I'm working on a project to install energy efficient compact florescent light bulbs (CFL) in low-income areas in Walla Walla, he became excited. Then I told him that I'm writing...
Waking up from an eight-hour siesta, glancing at the clock in the dark and recalling with remorse how many assignment deadlines I had missed because of this extended nap—the result of working overnight on a midterm paper—I suddenly got a sense of Whitman's bubble.
My personal Whitman bubble is currently filled with Bronislaw Malinowski's psychological functionalism, Sandra Gilbert's ekphrastic poetry and my slow process of adjusting to that bubble. That's right: my goal is to immerse myself in the bubble that many Whitman students try to break through.
While the content within individual bubbles varies, our communal Whitman bubble remains the product of what Whitman proudly claims—its traditional liberal arts education.
Earlier this month, Beth Humphrey (who happens to be white) and her boyfriend, Terence McKay (who happens to be black), went to a Louisiana justice of the peace seeking a marriage license.
The judge's answer? He does not perform inter-racial marriages.
The story made headlines worldwide. According to London's Guardian, justice of the peace Keith Bardwell, who is white, claimed that “he is not a racist." Rather, Bardwell said, he does not “do interracial marriages because [he doesn't] want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves. I feel the children will later suffer."
Wall the border. Abolish the income tax. Withdraw from Iraq, Afghanistan and, while we're at it, the UN and NATO, too. Abolish NAFTA to protect American jobs. Who believes in these kinds of things? The...
"So are you guys dating or do you just hook-up a lot?" My friend squirmed over the question.
"Well, we're not really dating or anything but it's not just random hookups either, I'd say we're . . . thinging?"
Ah....
There's a small office on Capitol Hill that is playing a major role in determining whether Americans will have affordable health care or more renewable energy in the coming year.
The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan body in charge of providing economic data to Congress, has an incredible amount of power over our political system.
Earlier this year, Google hired several student interns to work with the team behind Google Docs, its free internet collaboration suite, with features similar to Microsoft's Office and Apple's iWork. ...
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."- Lilla Watson
Watson's formulation seems to me...
