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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
Whitman news since 1896

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Credit: Marin Axtell

Fine Arts House hosts Valentines charity event

McCaulay Singer-Milnes February 10, 2011

Whitman students gathered in the Book Arts room Wednesday, Feb. 2 to turn glitter, paper hearts and creative sayings into charity. For the past four years the students living in the Fine Arts House...

Credit: Faith Bernstein

Men’s club lacrosse hopes to send coach off with a championship

Andrew Hawkins February 3, 2011
Men's Lacrosse team hopes to send Coach Schmitz off with a championship after 26 years of coaching.
Credit: Markel Uriu

Gossels’s films capture human connection in Holocaust rescue, Israel-Palestine conflict

McCaulay Singer-Milnes February 3, 2011
Award-winning filmmaker Lisa Gossels will encourage discussions on peace, rescue and genocide from Feb. 7-9. Her documentary films featured include “The Children of Chabannes", which follows French natives who rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust; and “My So-Called Enemy", which follows a group of Palestinian and Israeli women who meet in New Jersey to participate in a dialogue.
Credit: Jack Lazar

Spotlight On Art: The Ark

Sean McNulty January 27, 2011

When sophomores Paul Hamilton-Pennell and Yoni Evans began to build an ark outside of Penrose Library in November 2010, they received a lot of funny looks and even more questions. The inspiration behind...

Athletics recruiting: Not just jocks

Matt Manley December 9, 2010

With varsity athletes comprising around 20 percent of the student body, bringing topflight scholar-athletes to campus is a definite priority, according to Athletic Director Dean Snider. Recruiting future...

Whitman should change its course registration system

Zach Duffy November 11, 2010

November 5 marked the beginning of Whitman's spring semester registration period, and with it the mad rush of students trying to get into their most desired classes. I watched on helplessly this past Friday...

Cakes for C.A.S.A: Whitman’s Best Dance Crew

McCaulay Singer-Milnes November 4, 2010
Kappa Alpha Theta's sixth annual "Cakes for C.A.S.A" event provides homemade pancakes and dance performances for charity.

History, music at Cappella Romana

McCaulay Singer-Milnes October 28, 2010
Internationally acclaimed choral group Capella Romana presents and performs Byzantine chant music for students and faculty.

Voting On Our Economic Futures

Zach Duffy October 27, 2010
Everyone who is registered to vote this year should read candidates' platforms and then fill out their ballots and drop them in the mail. This is no ordinary election, and our very futures are at stake.

Sampler Concert blends old and new voices, members

McCaulay Singer-Milnes October 21, 2010
New directors and old traditions abound at this year's Fall Sampler Concert, a concert that includes Whitman College's academic, credit-based music ensembles.

Ranger and the Re-Arrangers

McCaulay Singer-Milnes October 21, 2010
Ranger and the Re-Arrangers and musical guests, seniors Monica Finney and Molly Knell, will perform at Coffeehouse on Oct. 22 at 9 p.m.

President Bridges Should Get Political

Zach Duffy October 20, 2010
A resolution supporting the DREAM Act was passed by ASWC in their last Senate meeting. Now is the time for President Bridges to endorse the DREAM Act.
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