Michelle Obama: a voice of authenticity
Alya Bohr, Columnist
November 3, 2016
Filed under OPINION
“When they go low, we go high.” As Michelle Obama took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention earlier this year, she began a vital counter-narrative during this troubling election: a narrative of hope, of morality, of faith in the nation. She urged the electorate to think of their ...
2016 will be remembered by its losers, not its victor.
Cyril Burchenal, Columnist
November 3, 2016
Filed under Columnists, OPINION
The 2012 presidential election was hailed at the time as the most contentious and unpleasant campaign for the electorate in history. Four years later we can look back with nostalgia at a time when the worst thing a presidential nominee did was put his dog on top of a car. The 2016 election will almost c...
Defense of Donald Trump supporters
Peggy Li, Opinion Editor
November 3, 2016
Filed under OPINION
At Whitman, we often like to believe that everything we do is more aware, more conscious, more reflective and more “right” than the average citizen. We go to college and take classes on a diverse variety of subjects, attempting to “learn to think” in a way that doesn’t any underprivileged...
The Wire Supports:
November 3, 2016
Filed under Board Editorials
The Wire's 2016 election endorsements
Read more »Letter to the Editor: Mr. Whitman’s Success
November 2, 2016
Filed under Letter to the Editor
To the Editor and Publisher: The Kappas’ recent achievement of raising more than $50,000 from the Mr. Whitman contest for The Health Center is astonishing and should be celebrated. I would be surprised if any student group has generated that much philanthropic success through other fund raising...
Op-Ed: Standing with (but not at) Standing Rock
Aleyna Porreca
November 2, 2016
Filed under Letter to the Editor, OPINION
Last week, I was one in a group of Whitman students planning a trip to support the activists at Standing Rock over the holiday break. This week, unofficial word came to us that the pipeline was about to reach the Missouri River and a critical juncture in the movement was imminent. Students mobilized...
Stop staring, protect yourself
Nikolaus Kennelly, Columnist
October 27, 2016
Filed under OPINION
I have a friend who has an unhealthy penchant for stale metaphor. Just last week we were discussing the Ruth Fluno retrospective at Sheehan when he referred to the art as “a delicious feast.” Normally I’d treat this sort of remark as an empty flourish, but as I was in a slightly unusual sta...
Dear Mom: Finding a place at Whitman
Dear Mom, Columnist
October 27, 2016
Filed under Columnists, OPINION
Dear Mom, College is not all that I was expecting it to be. I am enjoying my classes, getting to know people and working hard, but I thought I would be having the time of my life, and that’s just not how it has turned out. For context, I’m a first-year at Whitman; I was choosing between Whitman, ...
Self love comes first
Rina Cakrani, Columnist
October 27, 2016
Filed under OPINION
Why is it so hard to love ourselves? One of the things that surprised and concerned me the most during the Gender & Sexuality Workshop was when more than half of people in Jewett (the biggest residence hall at Whitman) admitted to having had or still having an eating disorder. This makes me think of ...
Treat your journalists right
Andrew Schwartz
October 20, 2016
Filed under OPINION
Two headlines off the impetuous digital press dateline September 8, 2016: “The Entire Seattle Seahawks Team Will Protest the National Anthem at Opening Game” and “Entire Seahawks Team Planning to Honor Flag During National Anthem on 9/11?” The mutual and only source for these widely shared...
A Case for Friendship
Alya Bohr, Columnist
October 20, 2016
Filed under OPINION
Friendship rocks. Yeah I know, not a very controversial statement, but bear with me here. Friendship is one of those things that everyone needs and values, but that we so often take for granted. Where would we be without our friends who humor us when we obsessively analyze vague texts, console us during...
Dear Mom: An advice column
Dear Mom, Opinion Writer
October 13, 2016
Filed under Columnists, OPINION
Dear Mom, My Anderson roommate threw up a Taq burrito on my desk and rock collection. They haven’t cleaned it up. Do I need to clean it up or should they do it since they were the one that threw up on it? Help! —Between a Rock and a Hard Place Dear Between a Rock and a Hard Place, ...
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