After years of budget cuts and vacillating student interest, Whitman’s yearbook, previously known as Waiilatpu, went quietly out of publication in 2017. Its discontinuation has repercussions for both...
By fall of this year, some of the pictures and quotes used in the 2013-2014 yearbook were assembled to create the art gallery currently residing in the Stevens Gallery. Waiilatpu members hope that this is only a first step, with the goal being to feature the same students from this month's gallery in a new spring gallery coinciding with the release of the 2014-2015 yearbook.
Facing extreme budget cuts, Whitman's yearbook has instigated significant changes in order to expand their audience and generate excitement among new students. ASWC granted Waiilatpu $3,500 this academic year, a drastic change from the $13,350 in 2012-2013.
Last Sunday night, April 15, ASWC Senate met for nearly six hours, discussing resolutions regarding student taught classes, divestment and the fate of Waiilatpu.
The final Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) Town Hall of the year focused on three major subjects: the lifting of the international travel ban, addressing concerns regarding the ASWC budget...
After debate last Sun. March 31 at the ASWC Senate meeting regarding the fate of Waiilatpu, Whitman's yearbook, ASWC Finance Committee has agreed to keep the yearbook running for another year by amending the organization's budget.
After being given two percent of its ASWC funding request, Waiilatpu, Whitman's yearbook organization, struggled to fight for itself at ASWC Senate meeting last Sunday night, March 31.
Two-thousand eleven has been a whirlwind for the students bringing back a Whitman yearbook, but lost in the process was broad discussion about their decision to stick with the yearbook's historical name -- Waiilatpu.
