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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
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What is the Clery Act?

Chloé Williams, News Reporter December 12, 2024

For over 30 years, The Clery Act has mandated public and federally-funded private institutions across the United States to do three things: publicize their crime data and safety procedures, issue timely...

Whitman Accused of Withholding Funds for Sexual Violence Prevention

Whitman Accused of Withholding Funds for Sexual Violence Prevention

Bex Heimbrock, Nazaaha Penick, and Natalie Comerford October 31, 2024

This is part 2 of a multi-part Wire investigation into Whitman’s handling of sexual violence prevention. The following article includes depictions of sexual violence and other potentially triggering...

Photo by Bex Heimbrock

Consent Talk Round Two Comes to Cordiner

Bex Heimbrock and Chloé Williams September 26, 2024

On Sept. 16 in Cordiner Hall,  a speaker with SHIFT consulting delivered an hour-long consent and sexual health training for this year’s incoming students. The event comes just weeks after Whitman’s...

BREAKING: Sexual Violence Prevention condemns administration, shatters "false hope"

BREAKING: Sexual Violence Prevention condemns administration, shatters “false hope”

Bex Heimbrock and Nazaaha Penick September 2, 2024

September 1, 2024 – Student leaders for Sexual Violence Prevention (SVP), accused Whitman’s administration of abandoning their work towards a safe campus. What was billed as a two-hour consent...

Photo contributed by Pedro Lizardi

Tits out at Cordiner for Rocky Horror Picture Show

Shira Nudler, Campus Life Reporter November 2, 2023

For one October night only, students had the opportunity to watch the cult classic “Rocky Horror Picture Show” live and in the flesh. On the 28th, Cordiner Hall became a space for students to let...

Peer educators participate in Sexual Violence Prevention Training

Amelia Leach, Campus Life Reporter February 16, 2023

On Feb. 4, Sexual Violence Prevention (SVP) leadership members, representatives from Whitman Greek Life organizations (excluding Phi Delta Theta and Tau Kappa Epsilon) and Residence Life participated in...

Illustration by Paloma Link.

Sex Week encourages sexual health and positivity

Anabelle Dillard, News Reporter April 28, 2022

Sex Week, started by Green Dot and the Sexual Health Advocacy Group (SHAG), features various workshops and events throughout the week aim to promote sexual health, education and positivity among Whitman...

Illustration by Paloma Link.

Green Dot is gone. What’s next?

Tucker Grinnan, Feature reporter February 17, 2022

Green Dot was not perfect, but the consent education-sized hole left in the wake of its removal is yet to be filled.  Consent and bystander intervention used to be much more common words in the...

Anderson and Fox to Fill Vacant ASWC Senate Seats

Anderson and Fox to Fill Vacant ASWC Senate Seats

Eleanor Matson, Staff Reporter October 5, 2016

Sophomore Paris Fox and senior Jack Anderson will fill the two vacant seats in the Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) senate. Last week a special election was held to determine who would become...

Photo Tywen Kelly

Phi Delta Theta, Sexual Violence Prevention reps look to the future

Ellen Ivens-Duran May 5, 2016
In the weeks since Phi Delta Theta's social functions were suspended, confusion and misinformation has pervaded campus, concurrent with rising frustration about sexual violence,
Photo by Kaelie Rose.

Virtual reality film demonstrates future of sexual assault prevention

November 5, 2015
Whitman is one of four colleges part of a pilot program showing The Party, a sexual assault prevention film which uses virtual reality technology.

New Student Interns Confront Campus Sexual Violence

Ellen Ivens-Duran October 28, 2015

Barbara Maxwell, the Associate Dean of Students and Student Life, has hired six student interns to work on the issue of sexual violence prevention on campus. The interns, who started working at the beginning...

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