This week in Feature


Busted: The myth of subsidized police cars Apr 30, 2009

While Whitman may not be a large city school in a rough neighborhood or have the Hilton sisters as students, its rumor ...


Shanty Town Built Outside Memorial: Students protest college spending Apr 30, 2009

Twenty-one years before Whitman’s first diversity symposium, the campus was embroiled in controversy over college investments in companies serving apartheid-era South Africa. To protest the spending, students constructed a shanty ...


Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! Apr 30, 2009

On May 18, 1987, Whitman student Tristram Lundquist, a sophomore, died of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest from a .22 caliber hand gun.  He was murdered by fellow Whitman ...


1960s Activism: Whitman Style Apr 30, 2009

By protesting the Vietnam War draft, students in the late 60s were increasing their own likelihood of being drafted. Despite this threat, Whitman students continued to make their opinions heard. Between ...


Guess who’s coming to dinner? Students host prisoners. Apr 30, 2009

In the 1970s, Whitman professors ran a series of programs that brought students and inmates from the Washington State Penitentiary into close contact—maybe too close. “The philosophy…was to increase the interaction ...