"Personally, the idea of doing something concrete and with my own hands that is both beneficial to local families and the earth was a lot more fulfilling than discussing ways to convince politicians to...
Fifty-one Whitman students voluntarily surrendered a pint of their blood to the Red Cross on Tuesday, March 30, as part of the Cesar Chavez Blood Drive put on by the Global Awareness House. The blood will be used by hospitals in the greater Walla Walla area; any extra will be shipped to Haiti as part of the Red Cross' ongoing relief efforts.
Whitman alumna Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger '97 will launch from the Kennedy Space Center on the space shuttle Discovery at 6:21 a.m. EDT on April 5 for a 13-day mission aboard the International Space Station.
Singer-songwriter Alex Chilton died on March 17, just four days before a reunited version of his best-known band, Big Star, was to perform one of the biggest sets at Austin's South by Southwest festival.
