Long-Running KWCW Shows
Eric Anderson, A&E Editor
May 12, 2017
Filed under Circuit
Despite its lengthy history at Whitman College, the KWCW radio station is, in a way, quite ephemeral. With the station adding and losing DJs each semester, the content and arrangement of material on the station is always in flux. Some students do the same show each time, some mix it up. Some take hia...
Walla Walla: Sin City
Alissa Antilla and Alex Brockman
May 4, 2017
Filed under FEATURE
There is a piece of Walla Walla’s history that is swept under the records. Walla Walla, home to hundreds of upscale vineyards, gourmet restaurants and boutiques is a favorite weekend getaway for many. Walking down main street, it’s hard to imagine Walla Walla being described as anything but cut...
Walla Walla Tour de Fry
Mitchell Smith and Marra Clay
April 27, 2017
Filed under FEATURE, Front Page Slideshow
With just two issues of The Wire remaining, Publisher Marra Clay and I asked ourselves what we had missed this year. One word came to mind: food. Then another: fries. So we decided to embark on a selflessly (ful)filling expedition, the Walla Walla Tour de Fry. We visited local favorites The Green Lan...
Waste at Whitman: Online Shopping on the Rise
Olivia Gilbert, Feature Editor
April 20, 2017
Filed under FEATURE, Front Page Slideshow
Last year the New York Times published an article entitled “E-commerce: convenience built of a mountain of cardboard.” The article looks at online shopping in what many imagine is its most extreme form: a Silicon valley worker orders produce through Google and receives his cardboard box of onions and...
Behind Bars, in Our Backyard
Alissa Antilla, Feature Reporter
April 13, 2017
Filed under FEATURE
It’s easy to see prisons as an anomaly in our cute and charming Walla Walla. The state penitentiary can easily just be a set of bright lights you see while driving to the wheat fields, while the Two Rivers Correctional Institution and Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution are unheard of for many...
Mike McGuinn Helps Bring Fun, Cool Musicians to Walla Walla
Michelle Foster, Staff Writer
March 30, 2017
Filed under A&E, Community
The music scene in Walla Walla is thriving with more diversity thanks to the efforts of, among others, Mike McGuinn. The owner of Urban Grow Systems, a hydroponics shop, McGuinn has worked to bring in a wide range of musicians that locals might not normally get a chance to see. Some of the well-kn...
Classroom in the Clouds
Alissa Antilla, Feature Reporter
March 9, 2017
Filed under FEATURE, Front Page Slideshow
A handful of Whitties–along with around fifty students at Walla Walla University (WWU) and various members of the Walla Walla community–attend class thousands of feet above their peers. In combination with a grounds school taught in a traditional classroom setting, students get a hands-on opport...
Getting off the road: residents of the Walla Walla homeless encampment spread positivity
Nick Maahs, Staff Reporter
March 2, 2017
Filed under Front Page Slideshow, NEWS
Inside the “Getting Off the Road Homeless” Campground, campers are gathered around their fires as the sun slips below the horizon and the temperature drops. A man slices potatoes into a pan, remarking on his hunger as they fall into a sizzling pool of crisco. A panorama of the camp. On right, at...
The Symposium Chronicles
Olivia Gilbert
February 22, 2017
Filed under FEATURE
Today marks the fifth annual Power and Privilege Symposium, a day in which members of the Whitman community will gather to attend sessions led by students, faculty and community members on the themes of justice, diversity and inclusion. Symposiums of all sorts are nothing new to Whitman. Throughout...
Historic Pioneer Park Changes Name to The Wire Park
Arie Knops, Doesn't Check His Email
February 16, 2017
Filed under Humor
The city of Walla Walla officially decided this week to change the name of Pioneer Park to The Wire Park. The park was founded in 1902, making it the oldest and most famous park in Walla Walla. Thus, such a significant change was met with some resistance from the community. Walla Walla citizen, Walter ...
Classroom Connections
Alissa Antilla, Feature Writer
February 9, 2017
Filed under FEATURE, Front Page Slideshow
Classroom Connections, a club at Whitman that sends Whitman students to tutor at Walla Walla High School (Wa-Hi), is all about making connections. Classroom Connections meshes the worlds of high school students and Whitman college students through Guided Study, a required study hall during the school...
“Collected Life of Ikune Sawada” ceramic collection comes to Sheehan Gallery
Michelle Foster, Staff Writer
February 2, 2017
Filed under A&E, Front Page Slideshow
There is a sense of beauty and serenity to be found between the walls of the Sheehan Gallery where a new exhibition, “The Collected Life of Ikune Sawada,” has been installed. On display from Jan. 23 to April 7, the exhibition features ceramics that Sawada, a well-known painter and collector of ceramics,...
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