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Whitman Wire

Vol. CLIV, Issue 8
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

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Spotlight on a Visiting Professor: Zachary Campbell

Michelle Foster, A&E Editor September 28, 2017

Whitman has gained another visiting professor teaching in the arts this year. Professor Zachary Campbell is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies and Rhetoric who taught at DePaul University...

Whitman Students and Student Inmates Share Classroom

Elizabeth Friedman, Staff Reporter December 8, 2016

This fall, the Rhetoric, Incarceration and Civic Engagement and Incarceration class completed its final visit to the Washington State Penitentiary, a minimum-security prison near Whitman’s campus. The...

Rhetoric and Media studies split allows expansion of interdisciplinary courses, greater student specialization

Shelly Le February 2, 2012
On Wednesday, Jan. 25, Whitman faculty voted to split the Rhetoric and Media Studies Department into two new departments. This change is effective immediately.

Democracy in America has become an empty cliché

Gary Wang November 29, 2009
Political deliberation has been usurped by feigned outrage. And that's the worst aspect of democracy—its fragility.
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