The class of 2015 will be the first to have been selected using the need-sensitive practice of admission. This may lead to less economic diversity in the class, but may improve the quality of the Whitman experience.
Like many Whitman students, I sometimes find climate change to be a very abstract problem. We discuss it in class and plan programs to reduce our carbon footprint on campus, but it's hard to visualize...
"The Class," an award winning drama, successfully captures the raw emotions felt by students and teachers inside an inner-city Parisian classroom. Based on the life experiences of Francios Begaudeau, the film serves a commentary on a system of education that emphasizes punishment over positive reinforcement.
KWCW Show of the Week: Beats, Rhymes and Life
DJ Boss, MC Birddogg, DJ Pieces and Curcuitbreaker put mainstream rap aside and focus mostly on classic hip-hop, both old and new. The trio's show contains...
Paying homage to radio dramas with sound bites and melodrama in experimental play "Kid Simple: A Radio Play Made Flesh", which opens at Harper Joy Theatre November 10.
Whitman College is taking steps to walk the walk when it comes to a culture of sustainability. The Sustainable Endowment Institute has just come out with its annual College Sustainability Report Card (CSRC),...
Capella Romana Lecture and Performance
The music and history departments present internationally-renowned Byzantine choir group Capella Romana. The lecture and performance will engage with various multicultural...
Credit-based music classes Jazz Ensembles I and II have provided students with unique, musical class courses for decades. Professor David Glenn, who came to Whitman in the fall of 1989, helped bring...
Storytelling in video games has come a long way from the halcyon days of the arcade. Take for example the discernible plot of "Space Invaders": Aliens are invading from space in various monochromatic warships, because they can. You alone are left to defend the planet in a specialized hovering tank, because you were stuck there. There is no character motivation, no reason for you to defend the world the way you are. You're just stuck there.
Tibet has often occupied a special place within the Western imagination. It's a symbol of communist colonialism and an idealized image of a people removed from the barbarous forces of consumerism and modernization....
