We have heard multiple direct references around campus that connect The Pioneer to a newly formed independent publication, The Secession. These comments, made by a variety of individuals, have compelled...
EDITOR,
We are very excited to have been a part of creating a new structure for programming on campus. We believe that the new board, which combines all Student Activities groups (CAB, Coffeehouse,...
EDITOR,On March 10, Congress passed legislation to make birth control affordable again for millions of American women who obtain contraceptives at community health centers and college clinics –– including...
You'll probably disagree with what I write in this article. You may think every point I ever make is BS, and I don't even deserve this space in print.
But I'll never hear about it because, like most Whitties, you're pathologically adverse to confrontation. Apparently, exchange of ideas is not for polite company.
I recently engaged in the ultimate faux pas. While in mixed company, several friends and I loudly debated the anthropogenicity of global climate change. The content of the debate was predictable—loud voices, both sides tentatively misquoting scientific sources—but the response of non-participants was unanticipated. Physical unease seemed to spread throughout the bus we were on as students witnessed opposing viewpoints expressed.
I've always held back a little from Whitman's beloved pastime of trying as hard as we can to find moral fault in our own actions and attitudes.
Each year I've been here has seen a new "scandal": Blackface...
Washington state is broke.
Actually, it's worse. We are now 9 billion dollars in the hole.
A study by the Washington Budget & Policy Center recently announced that our tax system is unsustainable...
In the interest of full disclosure: I am not a vegetarian nor am I particularly good at frisbee but nonetheless, to me, "outdoorsyness" is not an oppressive practice of privilege. Claiming it is merely...
Whitman is an outdoorsy kind of place. I can dig that; when it's sunny, it's fun to be outside. On the other hand, carabineers, rope and snowboards aren't free. Neither are fancy waterproof coats and Vegan cookbooks. One thing that has always struck me as particularly odd about rich people is how much they seem to love organic food.
My point is that the consumption of organic food and the ideology of vegetarian/veganism/outdoorsyism may be cultivated because of taste, environmental concern or a host of other reasons, but it also is part of a privileged lifestyle.
No one is born with a scientific understanding of how their body functions. I never received any information about nutrition or the biological functioning of my body till I sought it out on my own. Not everyone has the opportunity or the resources to do so.
Vegetarian and vegan cuisine is also out of the price range of most people. This may seem odd: vegetables seem comparably inexpensive, but the costs add up: Wendys instead of McDonalds, stir fry instead of hamburger, etc. Not to mention the increased expense of organic food.
The nation's healthcare system simply does not work. Nearly 46 million Americans have no insurance, while medical costs have continued to increase by 58 percent since 2000 while wages have only increased...
It's a sad, sad day when public school teachers have to sell ad space on tests because their school won't buy them paper. Yes, paper.
Unfortunately, Jeb Harrison, a high school teacher in Pocatello,...
It's not what you know, it's who you know. That's lesson one in business school and maybe lesson one in life as people our age are starting to think about careers. Networking becomes this all important mode of social interaction. The idea is that the people you know now in college will be the people who can get you a job and get you that foot in the door 10 years down the road (thank you career center!). This is totally true; experts have done studies that confirm networking's importance. It's the difference between a job and a polite thanks, but no thanks.
The idea is to get to know as many people as possible, identify talented individuals who can help or be of use to you in the future, and keep in touch so if the opportunity arises, you've got someone to call for that job interview. Does a network imply yourself as the center of it? Yes. You, in the egotistical middle of a web of relations maintained by e-mail, Facebook and now Twitter.
Now, don't get me wrong. Let's not be introverted hermits who shun meeting new people. What I'm interested in questioning is the why behind meeting people, behind hanging out, behind the words we say and the things we do.
On Feb. 25, the ASWC Student Affairs Committee issued a security memorandum to the Associate to the President Jed Schwendiman and Dean of Students Chuck Cleveland detailing the state of Whitman's security.
The...
