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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Illustration by Kai Bowen

Way Beyond The Bubble: Recent Moon Landings

Baran Abbasi, News Reporter March 7, 2024

  On Jan. 19, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) "Moon Sniper" mission culminated in a “soft landing” on the moon’s surface. This feat was repeated a few weeks later by NASA’s...

Illustration by Anika Vučićević

Confession: I’m addicted to taking up space

Madeline Kemp, Lactose Sensitive October 19, 2019

I’ve thought about it, and this confession needs to be made publicly. Only recently did I start to notice my strange habit, and I am hoping it doesn’t get any further out of hand.  I became aware...

Familiar Faces, Strange Places

Familiar Faces, Strange Places

Olivia Gilbert, Feature Editor March 30, 2017

The multi-generational, the secluded, the tiny: enter the living spaces of four Whitman students who call their unconventional dwellings “home.” By upending traditional college living experiences,...

Report: pluto “so done” with whole planet thing

Jeffrey Gustaveson, staff writer January 28, 2016

Kuiper Belt, Solar System, Milky Way Pluto, the dwarf planet best known for its demotion from full planet ten years ago, released a statement on Thursday, saying it was, “So done with the whole planet...

'Interstellar'

‘Interstellar’

Nathan Fisher November 13, 2014
I am a huge fan of movies that explore the final frontier: space. My voyages to unknown worlds in “Star Trek” and going to infinity and beyond in “2001: A Space Odyssey” (or maybe that was “Toy Story") left me chomping at the bit for Christopher Nolan’s newest film, “Interstellar.”"
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