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Vol. CLV, Issue 3
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Whitman Wire

Agree to agree

Natalie Comerford, Opinion Columnist November 3, 2022

A hush quickly falls over the class as the professor asks a question — all of us look at each other in awkward horror, refusing to answer. This is a regular occurrence in many of the humanities classes...

Finding passion through debate

Charlie Hunter, Campus Life Reporter October 27, 2022

The Whitman Debate and Forensics team has hit their stride with recent success in tournaments. These successes include second place in the debate sweepstakes at their most recent tournament in Portland,...

Letter to the Editor: Response to “A quick critique of our liberal bubble”

Bex Heimbrock, First Year February 17, 2022

When clicking on the article "A Quick Critique of our Liberal Bubble," I mistakenly assumed that I would be diving into a delicious critique of neoliberalism running rampant on campus. It’s about time,...

The return of debate

The return of debate

Zac Bentz, Campus Life Editor October 7, 2021

Whitman’s award-winning debate team is officially back in person. The debate team has already participated in one tournament this semester, and for returning team members, the shift back to partially...

Alyssa Ortiz (top), Leah Samuels (left) and Lauren Schaefer (right) all work to connect Whitman with local schools in Walla Walla.

Whitman Connection to Schools

Sophie Leibsohn, Staff Reporter November 29, 2018

Lauran Schaefer, the head of the debate program at Whitman, doesn’t see it as just an ordinary extracurricular activity. It is also an activity that builds skills, confidence and community. This community...

Debate returns after suspension. Two debate partnerships advanced to the quarterfinals in most recent tournament.

Debate Returns To Whitman

Sylvie Corwin, Staff Reporter September 24, 2018

Debate at Whitman is back. The team was suspended in the spring of 2015 for violating team and school policies. These included alcohol violations at a tournament and allegations of gender discrimination...

Don’t Stay True to Yourself

Harry Kelso, Columnist October 22, 2017

Maybe you shouldn’t be true to who you are. When someone says you’re wonderful the way you are or to never change, it sounds uplifting. It’s a confirmation that someone finds us valuable, that we’re...

Debate Reinstated

Andy Monserud, Staff Reporter April 13, 2017

Two years after the suspension of Whitman’s Debate Program in the wake of alcohol violations and allegations of gender discrimination, president Kathy Murray announced in an April 6 email that the college...

Illustration by Eric Rannestad

This Week in Reality TV: Presidential Debate!

James Leroux, staff writer October 5, 2016

This past Monday, Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, the first of the 2016 Presidential Debates was broadcasted to 84 million people, setting a new record for viewership in presidential debate...

Whitman’s Ethics Bowl team wins Ladenson Award

Lachlan Johnson February 25, 2016
Seven students traveled to Washington, D.C. last weekend to compete in the Ethics Bowl National Championship, a competition where students from across the nation face off to see who can have the most thoughtful conversation about modern ethical dilemmas.
Dr. Murray was on campus filming parts of the video series. Photo contributed by Michelle Ma from Whitman Communications.

#AskKathy video series offers opportunity to meet incoming president

Allie Donahue April 23, 2015
This week the Whitman Office of Communications began releasing the first videos in a series titled #AskKathy. Murray culled through about 10 pages of 12-point font to choose 25 questions to answer during a filming session on Monday, April 13.

Guest column: Debate suspension stifles critical thinking about discrimination

April 23, 2015
I do not know what the specific allegations against the team are, but I find the administration’s assertion of a blanket sexist culture against every experience I have had in debate.
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