Editor's note: This letter to the editor is a transcript of a Power and Privilege speech given on Feb. 22, 2024. Brackets have been added by the writer to emphasize the original tone and delivery.
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I am a Whitman alumnus. I have always admired Whitman for its liberal arts curriculum that purportedly taught students how to think. I am greatly outraged at what I have read about what is occurring...
Julie Charlip, Professor of History, Emerita
• November 2, 2023
This is what professors like to call a teachable moment.
As one of the few Jewish faculty (albeit emerita) associated with Whitman, I feel compelled to weigh in on the report that Jewish students are...
Eli Robinson, Alumni, Class of 2015
• October 19, 2023
Dear donors, students and alumni,
I am writing today to push the college to do the maximum good regarding their promise to meet “full need” of their students via the Upward Together financial...
When clicking on the article "A Quick Critique of our Liberal Bubble," I mistakenly assumed that I would be diving into a delicious critique of neoliberalism running rampant on campus. It’s about time,...
CONTENT WARNING: This article contains a detailed discussion of rape and sexual assault.
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Malia Lewis, Whitman’s Sexual Assault Victims Advocate (not a mandatory...
Last week the Wire published an article titled “Matthew Kahn addresses the business side of climate change” about the Classical Liberalism Lecture on Wednesday October 27.
The Classical Liberalism...
Two weeks ago, the Wire published an open letter to ASWC asking for a $20,000 increase to the stipend amounts of the editorial board. At the time, the current Executive Council of ASWC was working to get...
We need the arts because they make us full human beings. But we also need the arts as a protective factor against authoritarianism. In saving the arts, we save ourselves from a society where creative production...
The Financial Sustainability Review (FSR) proposes not replacing retiring faculty and moving to a minor-only classics program. These proposed changes may rob future students of the chance to study the...
Last week, the Academic Subcommittee for Whitman’s Financial Sustainability Review published a set of recommendations aimed at cutting the costs associated with Whitman’s academic program. As an alumnus...
This week, news was shared with a number of alumni about a recent proposal to generate budget savings through deep cuts to academic programs at Whitman. The proposal was created in response to a crisis...
