Today marks the fifth annual Power and Privilege Symposium, a day in which members of the Whitman community will gather to attend sessions led by students, faculty and community members on the themes...
On Thursday evening the words of “We Shall Overcome” echoed across the steps of Penrose Library, while candles flickered in the dark. Members of the Whitman community gathered together to mourn the...
Saturday, November 1st, 2014 - El Cornado Ranch, AZ
El Cornado Ranch is so expansive, it's impolite to ask the owners for it's exact acreage. Out here, property and cows are the measure of one's wealth. ...
October 3, 2014 - Comb Ridge, UT
"Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered" -W.H. Auden
Somewhere deep in southeastern Utah, outside the unexpected town of Bluff, rock is holding...
Candy wrappers on laundromat floors
Cactus needles protruding from beneath the strap of my sandal
Pools of rain caught in slick rock
A single sock at the bottom of my sleeping bag
Friendship in contradiction
Dimples...
Sunday, September 21, 2014 - Monroe Mountain, UT
Today could have been miserable. With a GPS, measuring tapes, and cameras in hand, we were sent in groups of three up the steep slopes of Monroe Mountain...
Thursday, September 11, 2014 - Camp Creek, Baker County, OR
For the last four days we have been with a wonderful woman named Suzanne Fouty, helping her count and measure aspen trees in several exclosures...
For the next semester I will be traveling with 20 other Whitman students throughout the American Southwest, studying conservation, ecology, literature and politics. I'm here to share the antics that happen...
