Early next month, Whitman alumni Chris Kitchen '02 and Sam Pope '01 will visit campus and screen their skiing and snowboarding documentary, “Wyoming Triumph."
The faculty voted Wednesday, Jan. 25 to split the Rhetoric and Media Studies Department into two new departments with three majors. Film and media studies will be a new interdisciplinary major with two dedicated faculty members, plus film courses in other departments. The new Rhetoric Studies Department will feature a rhetoric studies major and a political and legal rhetoric major. Both departments will also offer a minor.
Whitman boasts an unpretentious culture, at least according to its website, but is it pretentious to say so? A new line of "unpretentious"-branded t-shirts and sweatpants from the Whitman Bookstore has Whitties wearing the new statement with ironic pride.
Though the last major earthquake to hit Walla Walla was in 1936 and seismic activity in the region remains fairly low, Whitman construction managers aren't taking any chances. This summer, Whitman seismically upgraded Memorial, making the building more structurally sound in the event of an earthquake.
There's a new face in the Office of Fellowships and Grants this year. Donna Perry Jones has come on board as the administrative assistant to replace Karen Kinder, who retired at the end of last semester. Although she's new to the office, Jones has been a part of the Whitman community as both a student and as a staff member for over 16 years.
Dean de Benedictis is known for pioneering a form of a cappella ambient music that he refers to as Acambient. He is head of the electronic music label Fateless Records. His latest project—to record his music on the summits of the Cascades.
