Whitman Wire

From the archives: Gender Symposium unites campus while raising awareness

Adam Infascelli, Staff Writer • March 3, 2022

This article originally appeared in the March 6, 1997 issue of the Whitman Pioneer. All day Saturday, March 1, a range of faculty and students held the second annual Whitman College Gender Symposium....

Pioneer Past: A history of activism

Maggie Chang, News Reporter • November 1, 2017

On October 4, 1971, a Whitman alum sent the school newspaper (previously called The Pioneer) a letter urging the editor to denounce the students responsible for flying the school flag backwards on the...

Pio Past: The origin of The Pioneer

Pio Past • March 3, 2016

The first article from the first issue of The Pioneer, published in November 1896, explains the origin of the paper's name.

Pio Past: Tziganka visits campus

November 19, 2015

For almost 120 years, The Pioneer has reported on news from the Whitman campus and surrounding community. Pio Past pulls old articles from past decades from the Penrose Library archives to give modern...

Pio Past: Cookie Lady turns chips into dough

November 12, 2015

Pio Past: A 1991 article discusses Paula Bemrose, the "Cookie Lady".

Pio past: Ducklings down the drain

October 15, 2015

Pio Past: Wallballers bounce back

September 17, 2015

Originally published Feb. 19, 1998 It was the quietest game of wallball ever. Avid wallball players celebrated in front of Cordiner in near silence Tuesday during the midnight hour after security confrontations threatened their weekly ritual. Security told Wallballers on Monday, February 9 at midnight that their sport was banned due to noise complaints from community members and damage concerns from the physical plant.