Op-Ed: Gorsuch and Resistance
Edward Ferguson, Whitman College Senior
February 7, 2017
Filed under OPINION
A few nights ago, amidst much pomp and circumstance, a blow was dealt to American democracy. Standing in the White House's famed East Room Donald Trump informed the media of his choice to succeed Antonin Scalia as the ninth Justice of the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch. Our democracy does not suffer...
Killing the Conservative Paradigm
Cyril Burchenal, Columnist
February 5, 2017
Filed under Columnists, OPINION
In years past, both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have closely represented the views of their respective parties. This is no such year. The campaign promises of President Donald J. Trump show just how atypical of a Republican President he will be. The change of the Republi...
Friendships are closer than they appear
Peggy Li, Opinion Editor
February 2, 2017
Filed under OPINION
I know that for many Asian Americans, they are caught in what feels like no-man’s land. Growing up, at first they may not understand that they are not the typical ‘American’ until someone rudely awakens them with questions that undermine their sense of belonging. And this issue of ‘belonging’...
Op-Ed: Whitman AAUP releases statement rejecting President Trump’s immigration ban
January 31, 2017
Filed under OPINION
The following is a statement released by the Whitman College chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The Whitman College chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) strongly opposes Donald Trump’s unconstitutional and discriminatory ban on entry in...
Voices of the Community // Issue 1
Samarah Uribe, Photographer
January 26, 2017
Filed under OPINION, Voices of the Community
Photographer Samarah Uribe asks members of the community, "What's one surprising thing you learned about your parents over break?"
Traditional Kettles are Better than Electric
Nikolaus Kennelly, Columnist
January 26, 2017
Filed under OPINION
We find ourselves at the start of a deep and gloomy winter, one in which a barely perceptible cold front is passing through our most marginalized communities and many of us are in need of some warmth. So we open our tea drawers, the divine aromas of places untouched by our problems—Nok Cha, Dian Hong,...
Dear Mom
Mom, Columnist
January 26, 2017
Filed under OPINION
Dear Mom, Why are we getting so much snow in Walla Walla this year? Is this normal? I chose Whitman over a school in the Midwest because my tour guide had assured me that Whitman doesn’t get much snow here. Some upperclassmen told me it would be gone by the time I got back from winter break but...
Trump’s policies hurt international students
Rina Cakrani, Columnist
January 26, 2017
Filed under OPINION
After the election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States, many international students have started to worry about their future in this country and whether they are welcome here any longer. To many students like myself, Trump’s election was a huge surprise because we came to the U.S....
When Does a Pledge Delayed Become a Promise Betrayed?
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership
January 24, 2017
Filed under OPINION
The documentary “Agents of Change,” shown in Maxey Auditorium last Thursday, taught us that creation of Black Studies programs at San Francisco State College and Cornell University in 1968-69 was anything but peaceful. At San Francisco, a Black Studies Department was established only after a general...
NAFTA: Our Favorite Scapegoat
Cyril Burchenal, Columnist
December 8, 2016
Filed under Columnists
Among the institutions and agreements President elect Donald Trump has vowed to kill in his first 100 days in office, the North American Free trade Agreement may be the most costly to get rid of. Trump’s logic behind withdrawing from NAFTA is that it’s a “job killer.” The idea that NAFTA has...
A Prison Sentence Impacts Many
Alya Bohr, Columnist
December 8, 2016
Filed under OPINION
It’s not news to say that our criminal justice system is broken. The United States constitutes 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of that population are imprisoned individuals, the majority of which are people of color. There are many victims of America’s unjust system of mass...
Living in a Post-Cynical Age
Nikolaus Kennelly, Columnist
December 1, 2016
Filed under OPINION
To the outcasts of the earth, blue-collar intellectuals, protégés of Salinger and Kerouac (if any of you are still around), know this: cynicism is dead. No longer is it fashionable to lament the decline of the sacred, the rise of consumer culture and the innumerable social ills engendered by urban...
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