The Assault Weapons Ban is a failed attempt at gun control and will not work again.
Taking its cue from sophomore gun enthusiast Harry Hixon, the government should not mandate to the population what...
Everybody knows bad professors should be avoided. One of the first things I learned when I was a first-year was that it was better to select classes for professors than for topics. But what I have been...
Because of the nation-wide strike in French public universities, my experience in the Parisian education system has been limited to my one hour per week at the Catholic university in Paris, where I am...
EDITOR,
ENOUGH with the greek bashing. I know, I know, you were really pressed for time this week. Let's see…I know! I'll write an article about the greek system! That way, I don't have to waste...
One of the most telling characteristics of the Whitman student body revealed itself a couple months ago when this paper ran a column concerning the greek system. The particular column alleged that the...
EDITOR,
In his op-ed piece from April 23, Spencer Janyk claims, "Radical actions are far from productive, on the contrary, they invite their perpetrators to be smacked down by the policy pros who actually...
The recent UN conference on racism seems to have splintered nations and offended many with its dubious stance on the Israeli-Palestinian matter. The highlight of the five-day conference came on Monday, when President Ahmadinejad of Iran, fancying himself the champion of the Palestinian people, bombastically denounced the formation of a “totally racist government in occupied Palestine."
Though the U.S. had boycotted the conference in advance, the controversial speech aroused the ire of protestors and spurred over 30 delegates to walk out (including the whole of the EU nations that had attended). Though Mr. Ahmadinejad did not go so far as to outright deny the Holocaust—indeed, he neither confirmed nor denied its existence in his speech—he did aggressively characterize Israel as a nation founded via “military expeditions and invasion."
EDITOR,
Though I am absolutely flattered that Mr. Medak-Seguin believes sororities to be so omnipotent as to attract a significant number of women who otherwise would have remained independent simply...
Her brown eyes look warmly down on me and they are so shiny it looks like they're smiling. I suddenly realize she doesn't understand a word I'm saying.
"Do you want a free energy-efficient light bulb?"...
The beauty of college is that even though we're legal adults, we don't act like it all the time. I think part of the reason for this is that we live with other intelligent, energetic young people and...
People say the people you meet in college are the friends you keep for life. The sorority sister who held your hair when you hunched over the toilet seat, the classmates who pulled all-nighters with you...
So we all know we live in it –– the Whitman bubble. I think I've had about fifty conversations this year so far about the bubble and what it means to different people. While some find it comforting,...
