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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
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Whitman Wire

“All the Rare Birds” Art Installation Honors Kyle Martz, Late Whitman Staff Member

“All the Rare Birds” Art Installation Honors Kyle Martz, Late Whitman Staff Member

Chloé Williams, News Reporter October 10, 2024

A new art installation in Reid, “All the Rare Birds,” seeks to memorialize Kyle Martz ‘07, a beloved Whitman alum and staff member and victim of homicide in Walla Walla in the summer of 2019. Martz...

Maintaining Historical Memory through International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Alexa Grechishkin, Campus Life Editor February 1, 2024

On Saturday, Jan. 27, communities across the globe honored International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Designated by the United Nations, the day marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau...

Photo by Tywen Kelly

Continuing the Conversation: Politics of Material Memory

Kate Grumbles, News Reporter February 1, 2018

On October 9, 2017, recognized nationally as Columbus Day and unofficially as Indigenous People’s day, the portrait of Narcissa Whitman hanging in the Great Hall of Prentiss was defaced and the hands...

Cheesy love story brings chuckles in ‘The Vow’

Nathan Fisher February 16, 2012
My 16 year-old sister suckered me into seeing “The Vow" on Friday night by saying Channing Tatum was an 100 percent better actor than Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Lautner. In honor of Valentine's Day, I forced myself to see this amnesic chick flick.
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