OP-ED: The Board is Coming! Get to Know How Whitman College Works

November 4, 2018

Filed under Letter to the Editor, OPINION

What is the Whitman Board of Trustees? The Board of Trustees is the legal governing board of Whitman College, whose primary purpose is to ensure that the college is fulfilling  its Mission Statement.   Who are the Trustees? The Trustees are a group of (currently) twenty-one individuals. Most...

Geoengineering and Climate Change

Gavin Victor, Opinion Columnist

November 2, 2018

Filed under Columnists, OPINION

Geoengineering is the concept that we can directly use our technology to alter the climate. Instead of our effects on the environment being collaterally harmful, they can be positive, intentionally. Geoengineering is a highly debated hypothetical solution to the anthropogenic climate change problem, involvi...

Reconsidering Sustainability

Dana Walden, Opinion Columnist

November 2, 2018

Filed under Columnists, OPINION

A few weeks ago, the Wire published a letter written by a former Whitman student, Vivian Voth, in which Voth details why she left Whitman. In her view, the college is not as sustainable as it could be, and such inaction warranted her transfer. Voth places most of the Whitman community’s apathy on the col...

Mislabeling our International Students

Nandin Ganjoloo, Opinion Columnist

November 2, 2018

Filed under Columnists, OPINION

A is an international student. “Your English is very good!” might be a compliment to them. B is an international student. “Your English is very good!” might be demeaning to them. C is an international student. Their response to "Are your parents coming for parents weekend?" might be yes an...

Embracing Bourdain’s Globalism

Jack Fleming, Opinion Editor

October 25, 2018

Filed under OPINION

I miss Anthony Bourdain. Since his death in June of this year, millions have rightfully memorialized his sophisticated palate, complete sincerity and intimate relationship with food. But what I found uniquely admirable about Bourdain was his globalist vision – he saw a flawed, complicated and beautiful...

Revolutionizing the Senate

Cy Burchenal, Opinion Columnist

October 25, 2018

Filed under Columnists, OPINION

As a document, the American Constitution has reshaped itself profoundly numerous times. The fact that the Constitution is a living document is its most important characteristic. But like all works of legal writing, it has aged. The aspects of the United States that once made the Constitution such an...

Lunch or Class? Unpacking Eating Disorders

Dani Schlenker, Opinion Columnist

October 25, 2018

Filed under Columnists, OPINION

During my sophomore year at Whitman, I noticed new classes being offered at 11:30 a.m., a time slot that hadn’t been previously utilized by most departments. At the time I was seeing a therapist off-campus and we got into a discussion about the possible consequences of these classes. Most students...

Kavanaugh’s Overshadowing Presence

Dana Walden, Opinion Columnist

October 22, 2018

Filed under Columnists, OPINION

For the past several weeks, all anyone seems to be talking about is Brett Kavanaugh. The man is inescapable. News outlets like the New York Times, CNN and even local channels and papers, seem to always have something to say about the Kavanaugh confirmation. It feels as though Brett Kavanaugh's confir...

Celebrating our Location

Nandin Ganjoloo, Opinion Columnist

October 21, 2018

Filed under Columnists, OPINION

A month ago, I attended the “Insider Lunch with Kathy Murray” alongside a first-year dominant audience that was excited to be in the same room as President Murray. The Q&A style luncheon atmosphere was bubbly for the most part. But I didn’t see bubbles. I only saw red flags when President Mu...

Revitalizing Government

Gavin Victor, Opinion Columnist

October 21, 2018

Filed under Columnists, OPINION

For some reason, we as a country agree that our governmental structures are unequivocally correct — as if created by perfect people. Even if the structure was perfect at the time, it wouldn't be perfect now. This governmental plan was created from a perspective extremely more limited than our own. Coul...

Op-Ed: Satire & the Avoidance of Trauma

Anthony Reale, Humor Editor

October 21, 2018

Filed under I Didn't Bother to Pick My Category, OPINION

Recently, the backpage published an article that covered the uncomfortable aversion that white people feel towards the situation that transpired between ASWC and a group of womxn of color.  Despite the fact that the article’s purpose was to point out (or maybe shame is a better word for it) the reaction to ...

Kavanaugh’s Shameful Confirmation

Cy Burchenal, Opinion Columnist

October 14, 2018

Filed under Columnists, Front Page Slideshow, OPINION

Newly appointed United States Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh is a superbly awful choice for the most powerful court in the nation. During his Senate hearing he threatened the Democratic Party directly, proving himself a completely non-impartial juror. Kavanaugh’s use of the phrase, “What...