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Vol. CLVII
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

The lessons of wilderness travel

The lessons of wilderness travel

Finley Webb, First-year April 6, 2023

For the first week of spring break, Whitman’s Outdoor Leadership class backpacked in the Canyonlands of Utah. The SSRA class prepares students to lead trips for Whitman’s Outdoor Program (OP) by...

International students explore off campus on OP trips

Tasha Hall, Campus Life Reporter February 16, 2023

The Whitman Outdoor Program (OP) has been making strides in improving accessibility to off-campus outdoor experiences by offering international students discounted, independent opportunities. These international...

A rocky relationship with accessibility

Natalie Comerford, Managing Editor September 22, 2022

Outdoor appreciation is fully endemic in Whitman’s culture. Physical ability is something that many students at Whitman take great pride in and, in many ways, it dominates social culture. Love of the...

The Value of the OP

Charlie Hunter, Campus Life Reporter September 15, 2022

The Whitman student body has always valued the Outdoor Program as a unique and invaluable source of opportunities to get outdoors. A niche within Whitman, the Outdoor Program (OP) rental shop lives modestly...

Opening up the OP

Opening up the OP

Amelia Leach, Feature Writer February 24, 2022

Whitties are not rocking with surface-level inclusion efforts. Campus-wide diversity issues are especially prevalent in athletics and outdoor spaces, and effectively addressing them requires careful...

The OP kid archetype

The OP kid archetype

Zoe Schacter-Brodie, Feature Editor September 23, 2021

Nothing could have prepared me for how pervasive Whitman’s outdoors culture is. My first day on campus, I maneuvered through Ankeny’s web of slacklines to meet my Chaco-clad peers, utterly out of my...

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