Because Whitman generally requires underclassmen to live on campus and take meals through one of Bon Appétit's meal plans, many students have opted to cook their own meals using raw or otherwise unprepared ingredients taken from the Jewett and Prentiss dining halls.
Critiques aside, my date and I enjoyed our visit to Saffron. The menu is focused and delivers, albeit sometimes untraditionally, many of the wonderful flavors that make up that amorphous genre of cuisine many call Mediterranean.
This year's ISFC International Banquet packed the Jewett Dining Hall with students and community members, filling its 210 seats with enthusiastic feasters.
Live, Hebden performs alone, and it's difficult to tell what exactly he's doing at any given point in time, as his live setup consisted of what appeared to be two computers, either an iPhone or an iPod Touch, and several pieces of equipment covered in knobs and dials somehow interfacing with the computers.
I wholeheartedly disagree with the Academy nearly 100 percent of the time and believe the Oscars are nothing but a laughable, luxurious series of cameos, but below I'll try to walk in the Academy voters' shoes (and cut my IQ and taste by about half) and predict Sunday night's Oscar winners in the major categories.
Almost Alice is rare among film albums in that it is not a soundtrack - Tim Burton's longtime musical partner Danny Elfman scored the film, but for the companion album, Burton chose to seek out and commission a wide range of the music industry's strongest young artists for a collection of songs inspired by the film.
These stories are strange and Millhauser revels in the extraordinary, much to my appreciation. There is at least one story in this collection that will surprise you in some way, and that, in itself, is exciting.
Whitman College runs campus tours three times per day, and the 11 a.m. tour on Saturday, Feb. 27, was packed. Ten prospective students and family members followed junior tour guide Julie Irvine around campus as she introduced buildings and reviewed Whitman history and trivia, like the fact that Whitman heats the stream year-round to keep ducks on campus. Campus tours—and the campus in general—have been busier lately with an influx of prospective students.
