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Whitman Wire

Vol. CLIV, Issue 10
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Letter to the Editor

Student Contributer February 17, 2010

Avatar romanticizes and essentializes Ewoks: I mean Native Americans. It shows positive images of less materialistic and more environmentally-balanced culture, and it suggests modern America could learn...

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Walla Walla Symphony faces declines in funding, attendance

Liz Sieng February 15, 2010
According to a 2009 Audience Demographic Research Review by the League of American Orchestras, the live classical music audience has declined by 13% or 3.3 million people during the years 2002-2008.

The Age-Old Film Debate: Formalism or Realism?

Becquer Medak-Seguin February 12, 2010

A recent post by New Yorker film blogger Richard Brody sparked a worthwhile debate (in which I participated) that addresses a chasm in film schools that dates back to the 1940s, when a group of Italian...

New on DVD: ‘The Cove’

Becquer Medak-Seguin February 11, 2010

A excellent film that somehow made it as near as Pasco this fall (don't ask me how) has redefined activist documentary filmmaking. Louie Psihoyos's The Cove has, once and for all, put the subject of dolphin...

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