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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Cultivating Difficult Dialogues

Andy Monserud, Investigative Director November 10, 2016

Ever feel as though your professors have forgotten what it’s like being a student? For several professors involved in Whitman’s Cultivating Difficult Dialogues program, that experience is fresh in...

Accommodating Diversity In Critical Conversations

Benjamin Shoemake, Columnist October 1, 2015
We must make an effort to create spaces where the most essential voices aren't prevented from being present.
Policing Language? Trigger Warnings and Whitman

Policing Language? Trigger Warnings and Whitman

Hannah Bartman, Feature Editor October 1, 2015

“A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense…This new climate is slowly being...

ASWC Content Warning Resolution passed

Lane Barton April 30, 2015
During their April 12 Senate meeting, ASWC passed a resolution calling for content or trigger warnings in the future Encounters syllabus. The resolution, which will require faculty approval in order to be implemented, was created in the hopes of preparing students for engagement in particularly difficult materials.
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