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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Navigating Gun Culture within America

Navigating Gun Culture within America

Baran Abbasi, News Reporter November 14, 2024

Increasing gun violence in Walla Walla creates impacts that are felt everywhere, including Whitman's campus. In the early morning of Oct. 6, a shooting near Tau Kappa Epsilon left bullets embedded...

"Yes, I personally feel safe on campus, but I'm aware and disheartened that that's not a feeling that everybody on campus has. I think this campus  does have exclusionary norms, such as happiness and friendliness, even--and whiteness--and these norms do make some feel unsafe. And so while I personally feel safe, it disgusts me that that's not a shared feeling."

Marga deJong, senior

Voices of the Community // Issue 12

Halley McCormick December 4, 2014

Do you feel safe on campus, physically or otherwise? Photographer Halley McCormick takes a poll. [portfolio_slideshow]

Administration releases annual security report

Allison Work October 4, 2012
Oct. 1 marked the annual day by which colleges across the nation must publish facts about the crimes that occur on and around their campuses in an Annual Security Report. This year’s report, with data through the end of the calendar year 2011, was emailed out to students on Sept. 28. The report is often referred to as the “Clery report” and is named for a student murdered in the 1980s.
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