Each week The Pioneer highlights a few events happening on campus or in Walla Walla during the weekend. Here are this week's picks:
Outhouse Unplugged
Spring semester's first Unplugged event offers...
The United States is a country, American is an identity, and America is an ideal that we believe in collectively. This week in Feature, The Pioneer investigates what it is to live in this country and not be American, to see the United States from an outside perspective and to adjust back to life in America after time spent abroad.
A especially large first-year class for the fall of 2010 meant fewer transfer students were accepted for spring 2011 admission, making the January-Start class especially small.
Granted, these Whitties are more worldly after their off campus experiences. They have adapted to a way of living different from the American Way, and they have the stories and photos to prove it. But Whitman students returning from off campus studies are also more knowledgeable about a topic closer to home: the United States.
When sophomores Paul Hamilton-Pennell and Yoni Evans began to build an ark outside of Penrose Library in November 2010, they received a lot of funny looks and even more questions. The inspiration behind...
After making changes to the logistics of waitlisting classes, the registrar still has not found an ideal method for placing waitlisted students into classes. Last April, the registrar shifted from managing electronic waitlists with a computer system called datatel to allowing professors to manage their own waitlists. The shift has had mixed results and some students are still stressed about their waitlisting situations.
The sense of physical and psychological displacement that accompanies shifting back and forth between time zones is a familiar feeling for international students, who deal with culture shock both in their home countries and at Whitman on a regular basis.
Starting this spring, bottled water will no longer be sold on the Whitman College campus. Sustainability Advisory Committee Chair Sean Gehrke cited plastic waste and high cost as important factors in the decision.
The Whitman College Bookstore initiated a temporary bag-check policy for the first week of the semester in order to prevent theft. Students were asked to leave their bags outside the bookstore prior to entering.
