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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Mementos remind Ali of home. Photo by Annabelle Marcovici.

Of Fireworks and Uncertain Futures: Stories from students from countries in conflict

Kamna Shastri October 9, 2014

Tires scream as a car stops quickly, and Senior Hasan Ali remembers the car in Iraq that made the same sound before its passengers started shooting. Ali knows his gut reaction in those situations isn't...

Obama's pro-coup politics must be condemned

Obama’s pro-coup politics must be condemned

October 18, 2012
Obama's foreign policy record is far more condemnable than Bush's, yet has been met with profound silence by liberal America. This election, we need to vote in a way that condemns pro-coup policies.

Whitman’s first Iraqi international student shares story

Daniel Kim September 20, 2012
As many international students who have come to Whitman with different backgrounds, first-year Hasan Ali comes to the United States with a story of his own.

War has become business

Heather Nichols-Haining April 8, 2010

The U.S. military is privatizing at an alarming rate. Thousands of troops are now employed by companies such as Blackwater and while many hoped that Obama would decrease this corporate-socialism at least...

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