Rachel Husband, loose-lipped above and below
• February 16, 2023
Dearest Reader,
In this article, you shall find some of my favorite stories from the Whitman College campus; some of these stories you may have heard, some of which may be falsified and all of which...
Rachel Husband, Trapped in a Gray 2021 Ford Explorer
• October 5, 2022
Dear Mom,
Please come pick me up. I am somewhere in Utah camped along the side of Interstate 70; I don’t really know where. All the nice photos on social media are a LIE. I’m sorry I haven’t called,...
Mops of wild, sun-bleached hair and faces luminous with months of hard-earned wisdom filled the front row of Maxey Auditorium on Tuesday, Nov. 30. The 2021 Semester in the West participants had just returned,...
Semester in the West returned to campus last week to give their trip’s traditional Western Epiphanies. Western Epiphanies is not only their final, but a chance for the public to know what they have...
Student-initiated and independently produced theater performances are few and far between outside of the main theater season, but in the upcoming month there will be three plays performed and produced...
Saturday, November 1st, 2014 - El Cornado Ranch, AZ
El Cornado Ranch is so expansive, it's impolite to ask the owners for it's exact acreage. Out here, property and cows are the measure of one's wealth. ...
October 3, 2014 - Comb Ridge, UT
"Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered" -W.H. Auden
Somewhere deep in southeastern Utah, outside the unexpected town of Bluff, rock is holding...
Candy wrappers on laundromat floors
Cactus needles protruding from beneath the strap of my sandal
Pools of rain caught in slick rock
A single sock at the bottom of my sleeping bag
Friendship in contradiction
Dimples...
Sunday, September 21, 2014 - Monroe Mountain, UT
Today could have been miserable. With a GPS, measuring tapes, and cameras in hand, we were sent in groups of three up the steep slopes of Monroe Mountain...
Thursday, September 11, 2014 - Camp Creek, Baker County, OR
For the last four days we have been with a wonderful woman named Suzanne Fouty, helping her count and measure aspen trees in several exclosures...
For the next semester I will be traveling with 20 other Whitman students throughout the American Southwest, studying conservation, ecology, literature and politics. I'm here to share the antics that happen...
