Whitman is a college with colorfully named houses. Sometimes those house names are based on inside jokes, puns and strange intricacies about the house. Other times, the reason for the name is staring the viewer right in the face.
Senior Matt Beatty is not a morning person, but early Saturday mornings find him at the trails around Bennington Lake, McNary National Wildlife Refuge or the Blue Mountains observing the birds in the area.
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With the variety of internships and community-based courses that Whitman offers on a yearly basis, it is no surprise that both the student body and administration place a high value on education through experience. Courses like Semester in the West, History and Ethnobiology of the Silk Roads, and State of the State for Washington Latinos are celebrated for drawing students outside of the classroom, and, thanks to the recently trumpeted "Now is the Time" campaign, made public in November 2011, these types of programs face a bright future.
The news that Assistant Professor of Spanish Alberto G. did not receive tenure came as a surprise to many on campus, provoking confusion and sparking conversation about the tenure process among students and faculty.
The Whitman College Bookstore sees a rush of students buying textbooks at the beginning of each semester, and while those transactions are not representative of shopping habits throughout the year,...
As pre-registration approaches and finals loom, those students ready to declare may be questioning their choice of major. Though it is impossible to represent every major on campus, professors from each division speak to the uniqueness of their own field and the competition between departments on campus.
KWCW, Whitman's own radio station, is a top listening choice of many Whitman students looking for eclectic, popular and nerdy music and a way to support their friends who DJ. It comes as a surprise to many however, to learn that KWCW not only supports community member stations, but that its scope reaches listeners as far as Alaska, New York City and England.
Like most Whitman students, Ryann Savino doesn't have a lot of free time. She is a junior Environmental Humanities major—and is also running her own online store.
