Democratic candidates should act like your cool government teacher
Scout Hutchinson, Columnist
September 17, 2020
Election night 2016, I found myself confused and bewildered while my dog slept soundly beside me (oblivious to what was going on... Oh to be a dog!), hoping for the delegate numbers to magically change. Like many, I thought “what the fuck is happening”. In the days following the election of Donal...
Breaking: Whitman Scholars Strike Racial Injustice
Sean Gannon, News Editor
September 8, 2020
Several Whitman professors — including the entire Politics Department — are participating in a national Scholar Strike against police brutality and racial injustice today, Sep. 8, and tomorrow, Sep. 9. Types of participation in the strike will vary, including the reallocation of class time for ...
Inaugural Unity Week promotes engagement in activism
Alasdair Padman and Emma Fletcher-Frazer
February 6, 2020
Whitman College, in coordination with Walla Walla University, Walla Walla Community College and Walla Walla residents, hosted its inaugural Unity Week – a week of events in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement – beginning on Monday, Jan. 20. While Whitman College ...
Shocked congressmen realize Capitol Building looks like a boob
CJ Fritz, Old Bowl of Pasta
November 9, 2018
Washington, D.C. – On a rainy day in the nation’s capital, two aging senators nervously sip scotch in a chic bar, too disturbed to make eye contact with each other. I sit across from Senators Schuck Chumer and McCitch Monnell wondering how two of the palest men in the nation managed to look eve...
Professor Menjívar Visits Whitman
Ben Kunz, News Reporter
March 1, 2018
Cecilia Menjívar is the co-director of the Center for Migration Research and professor in the sociology department at the University of Kansas. She studies immigration, migration and how immigration laws affect the lives of immigrants and non-immigrants alike. The Wire: In your research, what are s...
Whitman to Washington D.C.: Lisa Brown’s Grassroots Campaign
Claire Ommen, News Reporter
February 28, 2018
In 2018, the Congressional seat for the Fifth District of Washington will come up for election. This district encompasses most of Eastern Washington, Walla Walla included. On the evening of Monday, Feb. 26, democratic candidate Lisa Brown spoke at a community forum on Whitman’s campus. This f...
Whitman’s Residential Identity: Student Housing Responds to Changing Market
Chris Hankin, News Editor
February 1, 2018
Walla Walla is changing, fast. Between wine, tech and tourism, the valley is seeing a dramatic influx of white-collar folks looking for homes, and the market is responding. Whitman College is hardly immune to these trends, and the school is taking action to better understand the changes and their imp...
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 on the statue of Marcus Whitman were painted red. This past Friday, students, faculty and staff gathered...
Op-Ed: Faculty, Speak Up!
Shampa Biswas, Paul Garrett Professor of Politics
November 9, 2017
In his Op-Ed titled “Letter to the Faculty” on October 26, 2017, News Editor Chris Hankin asked the question: Why are faculty members reluctant to make on-the-record comments to The Wire on arguably controversial news stories related to the future direction of the college? In his October 31 respon...
Can you Separate a Creator from their Works? No.
Rina Cakrani, Columnist
October 19, 2017
History is full of tales of artists behaving poorly. Composer Richard Wagner was an anti-Semite. Novelist Charles Dickens trashed his wife and secretly shacked up with a teen actress. Painter Michelangelo Cyaravaggio was a murderer. Movie star and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin was investigated by the FBI ...
Education as Emancipation
Nikolaus Kennelly, Columnist
September 19, 2017
Shiny red delicious apples, a grainy photograph of Einstein overlaid with multicolored Comic Sans, plastic school desks with fiberboard tops, fluorescent lighting embedded in the ceiling, a chalkboard with wispy half-erased suggestions of calculus. These are the signs and symbols of the American classroom....
Q&A with Saladdin Ahmed
Benjamin Kunz, Staff Writer
September 12, 2017
Dr. Saladdin Ahmed is an O'Donell Visiting Professor from Canada. Last April he was brought to Whitman for a two-week course called "Unpacking Racism." This year he is teaching a politics class on Totalitarianism as well as Intro to Race and Ethnic Studies.
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