Letter to the editor: Preserving the present
Ben Murphy, Archivist and Head of Digital Services at Whitman College and Northwest Archives
April 28, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted daily life at Whitman, but it is not the first time that the college has experienced significant disruptions of in-person gatherings and classes. In 1918, during the Spanish Influenza pandemic, classes were held on campus, but only students living in campus housing were a...
OP-ED: Why the left lost, a post-mortem
Andy Burnstein, Senior
April 14, 2020
When Bernie Sanders lost Super Tuesday and subsequent primaries by an embarrassing margin to Joe Biden, and again when he dropped out this past Wednesday, many of his supporters were not just angry, but confused. How could the party pick someone so uninspiring to be the nominee, let alone, a man with ...
OP-ED: Ineffectual and uncritical: A reflection on the Women’s March
Nicki Caddell, Sophomore
March 12, 2020
Saturday marked the fourth annual Women’s March in Walla Walla: this is not a cause for celebration. Each year, this Women’s March and others around the U.S. have become increasingly civil and tolerant. The “protesters” are asked to stay on the sidewalk and stop at red lights, and they do....
Letter to the editor: Who are the Board of Trustees and what do they do? Board of Trustee Chair Nancy Serrurier answers student questions
Cameron Conner and Nikki Delgado
February 13, 2020
During the week of Nov. 4, 2019, the Whitman College Board of Trustees convened on campus for their first meeting of the year. As Whitman’s highest governing body, the trustees meet to oversee the long-term development of the college and discuss how best to ensure its future sustainability. In the...
OP-ED: Dissecting sustainability
Lauren Olson, First-Year and ASWC Sustainability Committee Member
February 6, 2020
Before arriving on campus, I was already intimidated by what I had heard about Whitman’s environmental culture. Whitman has the reputation of being a sustainability-minded school. For me, someone with limited knowledge in this area, knowing where to start was daunting to say the least. As a chi...
OP-ED: Scrambles: Should we mourn their passing?
Walker Orr, Senior
December 12, 2019
I’d like to offer a few uninformed thoughts about the proposed gutting of the Scrambles program. This has been big news around campus lately, and I have friends and acquaintances who are very upset about this development. My intuition tells me that it’s a bad idea from a business standpoint — Scramble...
OP-ED: Why we should care about the Hong Kong protests at Whitman
Nicholas Wong, Junior
December 5, 2019
Since June, pro-democracy protests have been ongoing in Hong Kong. Everyone here has been overwhelmingly supportive, from students to faculty to Walla Walla residents. But I’ve seen no lectures or posters about Hong Kong at Whitman so far. Most people don’t follow the protest news despite being sympat...
OP-ED: Perhaps it’s time to allow Roe v. Wade to be overturned
December 5, 2019
Renewed attacks on women’s reproductive freedoms have impassioned feminists to put much time, energy and resources into ensuring that abortion remains a constitutionally recognized right. Primarily, the focus has been on safeguarding the security provided by Roe v. Wade, a 1973 Supreme Court decision....
Letter to the editor: A veteran’s sacrifice and the Whitman College memorial plaque
Eric S. Johnson, MD, Class of 1972 Colonel, USAF (retired)
November 7, 2019
A small plaque honoring Whitman alumni killed in action during World War II hangs on a wall on the first floor of the Memorial Building. On that plaque are the names of 29 young patriots whose lives were lost defending liberty. One of the names on that plaque is Katherine Applegate, who was born in W...
OP-ED: RE: campus vandalism
Women of Art History and Visual Culture Studies 2020
October 24, 2019
Dear President Murray, We were extremely disheartened by your recent email response to the political intervention upon the Marcus Whitman statue, which took place on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. You admonished the spray painters and lamented the destruction of property, calling instead for dialogue. ...
OP-ED: Kathy’s vandalism email: A political-economic explanation
October 24, 2019
Yesterday, I was sitting and chatting with some friends when the word “milquetoast” was used in conversation. Two of my friends hadn’t heard the word before, so I explained that it meant "timid, meak or unassertive," and is often used to criticize the spineless lack of commitment to justice on t...
OP-ED: Rinse and repeat?
Lisa Uddin, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture Studies and Paul Garrett Fellow
October 9, 2019
The Marcus Whitman statue is at it again, sparking activism that compels us to confront Whitman College and white settlement as one and the same. This time, the statue’s defacement involved rephrasing “My Plans Require Time and Distance” (a quote attributed to Whitman himself) to “My Plans R...
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