Remember the tense final weeks of the presidential election? During the final stretch, John McCain's most vocal criticism of Barack Obama was that the Illinois senator's tax plan intended to "spread the...

The Congo's civil war nightmares of the past are coming back to haunt it. A current crisis that has been brewing–– or, more appropriately, is always brewing –– since roughly 2004, erupted at the...

Let's talk for a moment about girls kissing girls. More specifically, let's talk about former Christian-singer-turned-pop-maven Katy Perry kissing girls. Because her incredibly popular single "I Kissed...

The women's tennis team usually has about 10 fans. When we played the nationally ranked UC Santa Cruz team at Whitman, the Santa Cruz fans out numbered the Whitman fans. Distance from Santa Cruz to Bratton Tennis...

GUEST COLUMN: William Lawrence '12 Hundreds of Whitman students poured into the streets of Walla Walla on November 4th to celebrate the election of Barack Obama. CNN reported on a similar scene with...

It seems as if the choice of Senator Obama to become the next President of the United States has aroused more controversy than I expected on our quite liberal campus. Actually, it hasn't been the choice...

We can all be glad to live beyond the days when healthcare meant a timely sacrifice on the alter of Health or a bloodletting to balance the bodily humors. My hope is that perhaps this time next year we'll...

Core's embattled history has weathered numerous criticisms. The most frequent and vocal of these criticisms is that teaching only the canon of Western tradition enforces and legitimizes the dominant powers...

With R.A. hunting season having just taken a month-long hiatus (the search finished a few weeks ago and selections will be announced right before Thanksgiving break), now is a great time to talk about...

No, this article will not be a rip-roaring tell all of my awkward, comedic antics while at high school.   But, assuming you were around campus the last weekend, you likely ran into a few of those awkward,...

Recently, Barack Obama received a very rousing endorsement from none other than Colin Powell himself: Republican golden boy and soldier extraordinaire. Likewise, Obama has received the endorsement of...

Obama and McCain's stances on health care and tax cuts should be pretty familiar to people following the debates.   Even if the candidates have not been clear, the topics have been brought up enough times...