Op-Ed: Whitman’s Commitment to the Community
April 19, 2018
Filed under Letter to the Editor, OPINION
The disparity in demographics between students at Whitman College and those living in Walla Walla is striking. Whitman’s most recent Fall 2017 Class is comprised of just 9 percent self-identifying Hispanic/Latinos and 64 percent self-identifying White/Caucasian students. Meanwhile, 38 percent of Wal...
The Barn Hosts Student Play “love letters to the world as we would have it”
Alasdair Padman, Staff Reporter
April 19, 2018
Filed under A&E, Front Page Slideshow
Sadie, Penny and Geo, all portrayed by Whitman students, lie motionless on a few threadbare carpets. Ocean circles them, her eyes drifting over the audience; she is dressed in the sea-green of the tormented ocean. The others are more traditionally Northwest: leather jackets, ripped and patched jeans...
Op-Ed: ‘Culture of Silence:’ What the WWU Administration Will Not Address
Jake Sloop, WWU Sophomore
April 12, 2018
Filed under OPINION
These past few weeks at Walla Walla University have been rocky, to say the least. Therefore, in this week’s Swap Issue, I hope to address some of the questions many Whitties have asked me about the blackface social media post at WWU and the discussion it has sparked. I think that this issue is intrinsical...
Whitman Alum Helps Found Art Studio Cooperative
Alasdair Padman, Staff Reporter
April 12, 2018
Filed under A&E, Front Page Slideshow
Whitman alumni have gone on to succeed in many of their ambitions and projects, and Hannah Bartman ‘16 is no exception. She is one of the many artists involved in the new art studio cooperative that opened on Sunday, April 8. The cooperative, known as The Barn, serves a dual purpose: it offers studio...
WWU Grapples with Blackface Incident
Martina Pansze, Editor in Chief
April 5, 2018
Filed under Front Page Slideshow, NEWS
Just before the student body of Walla Walla University departed for Spring Break two weeks ago, a racist photograph with the school’s logo circulated through social media. The photo is a publicly posted snapchat screenshot of six individuals, five of them wearing what appear to be black facial masks. The photo has a WWU logo filter and the caption #prettyHurts, as well as the w...
Strategic Priorities Discussed at Feedback Forums
Kate Grumbles, Staff Reporter
April 5, 2018
Filed under NEWS
This past week, the Strategic Planning Committee released an update on the planning process over the past months and hosted three feedback sessions with the greater Whitman community. The document emailed to the Whitman community last week was a series of reports from four out of the five working gr...
Shady Lawn Antiques Reopens After Winter Hiatus
Kate Grumbles, News Reporter
February 19, 2018
Filed under NEWS
This year on Valentine’s Day, Dave and Jill Emigh reopened the doors of Shady Lawn Antiques after a long winter hiatus for furniture restoration. Just five minutes from the center of Whitman’s campus, Shady Lawn Antiques is located in the old creamery building that has been in Dave Emigh’s family...
Through the Windows of the Barber Shop
Alissa Antilla, Feature Editor
February 8, 2018
Filed under FEATURE, Front Page Slideshow
Walla Walla native Ellen Saager has been watching Walla Walla grow from the windows of her barber shop — Ellen’s Cutting Edge — since 1987. Before that, she watched from the windows of her home on Penrose Ave, around where Whitman’s Physical Plant currently sits. She has seen Walla W...
Cultivating Passion: How Attending College in Wine-country Walla Walla has Refined Students’ Academic Interests
January 30, 2018
Filed under FEATURE
Location matters. According to the website “Visit Walla Walla,” there are 120 wineries and 2,800 acres of grapes in Walla Walla, and a select few students have shown that their passion for the viticulture they have been surrounded by in Walla Walla has been at play during their years at Whitman. Seniors...
Women’s March on Walla Walla: Take II
Rachel Needham, Staff Reporter
January 25, 2018
Filed under Community, Front Page Slideshow, NEWS
On Saturday, Jan. 20, over 2,000 people participated in the Women’s March On Walla Walla to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March on Washington. The welcoming rally began in the parking lot of the First Congregational Church at 10 a.m. Signs bobbed amongst the crowd with quip...
“A Few Good Men” Has Honorable Themes
Alasdair Padman, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2017
Filed under A&E
With a stunning cast and an impressive array of mystery, casework and drama, the Walla Walla Little Theater’s adaption of “A Few Good Men” is a must-see. It was originally written by Aaron Sorkin (the screenwriter of “West Wing”) to be a theater production; he then worked with director Rob...
Fast Food’s Foibles
Harry Kelso, Opinion Columnist
October 9, 2017
Filed under Columnists, OPINION
The average person knows that fast food is unhealthy, but there doesn’t seem to be any viable solution, at least not yet. A stroll through town or a scroll through Google reveals just how many fast food restaurants there are in Walla Walla. Their presence in our life is as saturated as the fat they...
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