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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

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Whitman Wire

Radio waves carry signal of hope for incarcerated listeners

Radio waves carry signal of hope for incarcerated listeners

caitlinhardee May 9, 2012

Ensconced behind the soundboard in the cozy KWCW studio, it's easy for a college DJ to imagine that nobody is actually listening. Few Whitties own radio sets, and while friends and family might be...

Post-Graduation Horoscopes

Elena Aragon May 9, 2012

Aries: You feel a less than warm welcome to the corporate world when you realize it's back to freshman status treatment for the third time, cause you thought you were finally an adult at the age of 22. Taurus:...

Professors' Personal Libraries

Professors’ Personal Libraries

Alyssa Fairbanks March 28, 2012

Questions: 1. What are your top five favorite books of all time? 2. What was the most life-changing book you read while in college or at grad school? Why? 3. What is a book that you are eager to...

Infographic by Sara Rasmussen

End of an era: The life, death of Harry Potter fan culture

Sara Rasmussen March 13, 2012
Wizard rock enthusiast Sara Rasmussen writes on the end of Harry Potter fan culture's golden age.
The Circuit, Issue 2

The Circuit, Issue 2

Patricia Vanderbilt March 13, 2012
Does anyone else get a serious case of the winter blahs every February? I spent a fair amount of time last month searching "beach vacation" on google and imagining I was somewhere with sand and sun—somewhere worry-free. But in the process of putting together Issue 2, I realized that I need to wake up and smell the paper mill.

‘First Aid Kit’ delicately probes wounds of the soul

caitlinhardee March 13, 2012

As March winds chill your bones and roil the skies in a haze of gray, revel in the melancholy for a moment and tune your ears to the sweet sorrow of Swedish folk-pop act First Aid Kit. Consisting of sisters...

‘Half the Sky’ an eye-opening look at women’s issues in developing countries

The Editors March 13, 2012
"Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women," a nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is an eye-opening work about the consequences of discrimination against women in developing countries.
I never thought this could happen at Whitman.

I never thought this could happen at Whitman.

Rachel Alexander March 13, 2012

Note: Although both perpetrators and victims of sexual assault can be any gender, all of the people who were willing to speak to me for this article about being sexually assaulted were women who had...

Social media’s future is our future, too

Blair Hanley Frank March 13, 2012
Social media's impact on the way we communicate is easily one of the most significant technological developments of the past decade. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and their cohorts have created a world where the revolution is both televised and tweeted. But what does the future hold? The way I see it, there are really two possible paths that our culture can take in regards to communication and social media.
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