Washington state government is crafting new a new budget with significant cuts in higher education. As a private school, Whitman will be impacted less directly, but students may have a harder time getting state scholarships.
Project Eye-to-Eye, a mentoring program for students with disabilities, is coming to Whitman next year. In this program, college students and elementary school students who are indentified as learning-disabled or ADHD work together on a different art project each week.
Whitman deserves praise for its choice of Zeitoun as the summer reading assignment and even greater praise for bringing author Dave Eggers and the Zeitouns to campus. However, the College has failed to make full use of Zeitoun.
Dave Eggers, Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun and Jocelyn Hendrickson, assistant professor of religion, sat down on a couch in front of a packed Cordiner Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 28, to discuss "Zeitoun," the class of 2014 summer reading selection written by Eggers. Both Whitman College students and the Walla Walla community came together to hear about Eggers's writing process and the Zeitouns' experiences.
Dear Editor,
In regards to Zach Duffy's article on implementing a mandatory volunteer policy, I present to you the following picture . . . Shovels dig into the freshly ground dirt outside a Habitat...
