Maybe I'm just naive. Maybe it's the idealist in me. Maybe the American worker still looms too large in my youthful imagination.
But whatever it is . . . I had to know. Do I own a single piece of clothing...
It's Sunday and I'm watching football. A half-gallon of orange juice adorns the table next to me, accompanied handsomely by a half-eaten bag of Fritos. All is well in my self-contained world until breaking...
There are a lot of things you and I don't deserve: our height, our race and our class. Obviously, we didn't choose how tall we are or the combination of pigments in our skin. Less obviously, most of us...
Remember the debate over President Obama's health care plan? It wasn't that long ago that people were bringing guns to town hall meetings where shouting and jeering dominated civilized conversation.
Although the furor over health care may have died down—the newspapers aren't filled with pictures of screaming, finger-pointing Tea Partiers—the debate is far from over. On Oct. 13, the Senate Finance Committee, led by Montana senator Max Baucus, passed its version of a health care reform bill.
The state of civil rights in this country is an affront to everything we stand for.
Gay American citizens are being denied basic rights to which they are constitutionally guaranteed, all because their sexual orientation denies them an official marriage.
At Whitman we enjoy talking about "breaking out the of the bubble." As the semester wears on, many of us sign up for OP trips or go on road trips to Seattle, attempting to satisfy this nagging feeling...
Last week PacifiCorp—the utility company that provides electricity to Walla Walla—agreed to remove four of its dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California, as the dams have devastated the Klamath's salmon runs.
PacifiCorp's four hydroelectric dams block returning salmon from reaching their ancestral spawning grounds. If we want salmon to survive, we must remove more dams than just those on the Klamath.
I didn't know what Sheetrock would feel like. I imagined some sort of cold rock but instead the leader of Habitat for Humanity pulled out a large square of gray, plaster-like material.
"Have you ever...
When alumni weekend rolls around, who actually cares? Whitman's development office, for sure, and the greek system.
Fraternities get their old alumni back who want to have a good time and relive their carefree youth and the college has various activities planned to showcase itself. Now, there's an element of nostalgia involved because at some level, growing up is a process in learning to be inauthentic.
Way back in the day, when computers were the size of rooms and Bruce Springsteen was still an up-and-coming rocker, the idea of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) was just a twinkle in the eyes of software...
Having studied at Whitman for more than a month, I initiated a Chinese writing project entitled "Wei Meng Zhi"—Whitman Stories. "Wei Meng" means "Whitman," which also means "strong and robust'; "Zhi" refers to stories.
In the course of recent events, Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Penn) introduced to the Senate last week the Investor Protection Act that takes measures to protect private investors.
Scandals such as Madoff...
