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Whitman Wire

Vol. CLVII
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

How to initiate: Backpage edition

Callie Brown February 5, 2015
It’s the dawn of a new age: second semester has officially begun. It’s been two weeks long, so obviously it makes sense that everyone is completely exhausted already. The countdown to spring break has already begun, and sickness is sweeping over this campus like a new form of the plague. The days of break are long behind us and pale faces, incessant coughing, and, of course, that one annoying person in the library that can’t stop sniffling has become the new norm. In other words, the student body has started looking more like sleepwalkers than those excited Whitties that circulate during the warmer sunny days. However, some people actually have an excuse for this weariness (besides staying up watching entirely too much Netflix): initiation week.
Illustration: Eddy Vazquez

TKE puts Pio staff on probation

Dana Thompson October 6, 2011
The Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity has placed The Pioneer on probation for questionable goings-on during the infamous Pioneer Initiation Week, a representative said on Wednesday.
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