Improving Financial Literacy
Jack Fleming, Opinion Editor
January 31, 2019
Although Americans inhabit a fundamentally capitalist society, we largely avoid difficult conversations about money and finances, a problematic tendency that contributes to our general lack of financial literacy. Financial illiteracy is a widespread phenomenon, even among those of us lucky enough to...
OP-ED: The Right to Die
Brayden Preskenis, Sophomore
December 11, 2018
Your dog has it, but your loved ones do not. Some call it dignity, some call it mercy, but everyone should be able to call it a human right. Routinely, we “put down” our pets that that have a terminal disease and are in debilitating pain. Similarly, as a society we have the moral duty to allow ou...
Tis the Season for Consumerism
Dana Walden, Opinion Columnist
December 6, 2018
As the holiday season approaches, the mechanisms of the capitalist society we live in are becoming increasingly apparent and inescapable. Even on a campus as isolated as Whitman, it is hard not to feel the urge to buy, buy, buy. But at what cost? We all know that excessive spending is “bad,” that it ...
Normalizing Physical Contact
Gavin Victor, Opinion Columnist
December 6, 2018
I had a teacher in High School who slapped all the students he liked. They were little loving cheek taps and faux-slaps; everyone knew they were done out of affection. One day one of the students asked him why he did it, and he gave a really interesting response. This teacher immigrated as a child from Arge...
Selfish Volunteerism
Nandin Ganjoloo, Opinion Columnist
December 6, 2018
With finals in just a couple of days, I was binging “Friends” as any responsible student should. Two characters had an argument in “The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS.” One claims that there are no selfless good deeds, because feeling good about the deed made it selfish. For the rest of the episode,...
Reviving the Estate Tax
Jack Fleming, Opinion Editor
November 29, 2018
The very mention of the word “taxes” makes many Americans quake in their boots. Indeed, the idea that US citizens and businesses should pay large amounts of money to the government fills many Americans with righteous indignation. One form of taxation in particular, the estate tax, has drawn the ire...
OP-ED: Letter to ASWC
Ethan Raffman, Junior
November 29, 2018
ASWC is coming up with a new plan to better serve and represent the student body. Part of the plan is to create a new student union where engaged and interested students can work together to improve campus independently of the existing administration. In their infinite wisdom, the representatives...
He Who Must Not Be Named
Dani Schlenker, Opinion Columnist
November 29, 2018
Sometimes I feel as though on Nov. 8, 2016 I stepped out of my progressive, Obama-loving American reality and into J. K. Rowling’s ingeniously compelling fantasy series featuring a young man named Harry Potter, where wizards take on issues of genocide, racism and at times even government corruptio...
Interpretations of Truth
Gavin Victor, Opinion Columnist
November 25, 2018
Thought experiment: how much of the way you go through your everyday life is really based in cold, hard, scientific fact? How many of your actions are dictated by calculations and complex logical analysis? If you go through your day with this question in mind, chances are you’ll realize you tend to act ...
Revisiting Food at Whitman
Dana Walden, Opinion Columnist
November 25, 2018
I have so many problems with the Cleveland Dining Center that if I were to write about all of them, I would probably take up most of page seven. Fortunately, my editor would never let me do that, so you are spared from the incendiary rant that could have ensued. But I am not alone in my anger — t...
Cycles of Satire: Addressing Mass Shootings
Nandin Ganjoloo, Opinion Columnist
November 25, 2018
Following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Oct. 27, 2018, I read the “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” headline on the satirical news outlet The Onion. I thought it had a good point and humor is always a plus for me, so I followed The Onion on socia...
OP-ED: Whitman’s Money Perpetuates Violence
Divest Whitman
November 9, 2018
Power, privilege and race. These are everyday buzzwords at a school like Whitman where everybody is eager to prove their progressive politics. But what does this mean in terms of environmentalism on campus? Climbing gyms, Patagonia jackets and young toned, national park frequenting white bodies...
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