Every year, nearly 2,000 artists flock to Louisville, Kent. to audition for a coveted spot in the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Acting Apprentice Company. Whitman alumnus Chris Reid was among those 2000 hopefuls, but unlike the 1,978 turned away after auditions, Reid was awarded a position.
Through its esteemed history, Whitman's identity has remained open-ended, due in part to
the diversity of the students and seemingly limitless slogans that could each accurately apply
to Whitties. But...
The men's soccer team, bolstered by young talent, returns home this weekend for two important confernce contests. The men will square off against a fiery University of Puget Sound team and the preseason favorite to win the Northwest Conference, the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes.
Is Whitman a diverse campus? The class of 2015 is made up of fewer international and first-generation students than in years past. This week, Feature investigates the reasons behind these dropping numbers....
It's been more than a year since the large colorful Octopus mural was painted in front of the Inland Octopus toy store. As of this week, the fines against the mural that have been accruing at $100 a day since October 14, 2010, will exceed $35,000.
Currently the store's owner, Bob Catsiff, and the city are waiting to take the mural case to state Supreme Court, bypassing the appeals court because of the case's constitutional nature. It will be about year before the case is reviewed by the state Supreme Court.
This weekend, the men's tennis team will be hosting the ITA Northwest Regional Championships, which will span from the 24th to the 26th. This competition is the men's only chance to test their mettle against Northwest conference opponents before the longer spring season.
Whitman's Instant Play Festival, now entering its fourth year, has become an anticipated tradition among many in the Whitman community. The festival produces fourteen shows in the span of less than forty-eight hours.
Today, Thursday, Sept. 22, Whitman alumnus Scott Thompson '05 is giving a lecture on the extent to which the U.S. government's role in encouraging moderate forms of Islam violates the first amendment.
The Whitman College Sweets travelled to Burlington WA last weekend to attend their first tournament of the year. Of the 8 teams in attendance the Sweets were the only college team. Pictured top: Austin Easter splits team Fischer Price's defense. Pictured bottom left: Ben McGinn comes down with the disc. Pictured bottom right: Ethan Parrish snags the disc over the defense.
Current sophomores and Bike Share interns Andrew Patel and Sara Kleinkopf hope to make Whitman more accessible and make bicycling more convenient for both on- and off-campus students by completing a bike rental program that was started by the previous Bike Share interns last spring.
