11/8: The Day the World Trumpfed
Nikolaus Kennelly, Columnist
November 17, 2016
Most of us spent the days following the catastrophe in a daze. You could see it in the eyes: professors, students and administrators gazing vacantly into space, as if they had all just witnessed a plane crash. Whole class periods were spent discussing how to go on—how to recognize the common humanity...
Reactions to North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Detract from Bigger Issue
Ben Shoemake, Columnist
April 21, 2016
What interests me most, though, aren't the particularities of the bill or the conversations surrounding it, but the complete and total lack of perspective surrounding trans rights in general, which these recent events have served to make apparent.
Climate Change’s Intersectionality
Alya Bohr, Columnist
February 11, 2016
At the end of the day, the sad truth remains that climate change – though universal and all-encompassing – doesn’t affect us all universally.
Helping Indigenous People
Jose Guerrero Coronado
November 4, 2015
Upon the commencement of European colonization in the Americas, Native American populations immediately began to wane. With the reduction of their numbers, came a loss of their traditions, lifestyles, and languages. Today, although the situation varies within each country, Native Americans are often...
Poverty is Now a Woman Thing
Hillary Smith
April 22, 2014
The other day, I was perusing the Women section of Huffington Post when I came across an article (surprise, surprise) about Maria Shriver's recent report on American women's financial situation. The report is entitled The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink. Most alarmingly, t...
Students Volunteer to Spread Knowledge About Earned Income Tax Credit
Daniel Kim
March 5, 2013
Whitman students have teamed up with the Walla Walla Asset Building Coalition to educate local families of Walla Walla about the possible tax returns that low-income individuals, particularly working individuals with children, are eligible to receive. Large amounts of money under the Federal E...
Nowhere to go: Homeless youth in Walla Walla have few resources available
Patricia Vanderbilt
February 9, 2012
"Sometimes I go by it, and I'll remember it and I'm like, I don't ever want to go back there." When Kirsten Ratliff passes by the Christian Aid Center on Birch Street, she recalls the months during her adolescence when the building was her only home. At age 11, Ratliff and her family lost their hou...
ASWC has beef with meat dress, rejects appeal
caitlinhardee
December 8, 2011
On Sunday, Dec. 4, ASWC Senate heard an appeal from junior Clare Spatola-Knoll, whose request to the Finance Committee for $450 to recreate Lady Gaga's infamous meat dress with prosciutto and wire had been initially denied. The refusal prompted Spatola-Knoll to rework the proposal and appeal for $100....
Society needs to care
Heather Nichols-Haining
April 29, 2010
If you raise the standards of living for select communities, you will raise the standard of living for everyone. As an ardent supporter of increasing public spending to pull more people out of poverty, I believe this rhetoric as much as anyone. While I was being trained to talk about my research con...
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