Verbatim July 2012 A collection of quotes from or about the Whitman community. Published by Whitman College with free distribution to alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends. whitman.edu/magazine Ex EC u TIVE EDIT oR Just met with @whitmanpio editors. Ruth S. Wardwell Impressive, inspiring team! EDIT o R/DESIGNER David Brauhn A tweet from David Boardman, executive editor of The seattle Times, during his visit to D ESIGNER Whitman College, where he delivered the 2012 Hosokawa Journalism Lecture. Chris Bishop ’79 W RITER looks like a real female is approaching. Makes it a Edward Weinman CoNTRIB u TING WRITERS David Brauhn little hard for us to figure out who’s being courted: Gillian Frew ’11 Dave Holden the robot or the real female. Karah Kemmerly ’14 Emily lin-Jones ’15 Gail Patricelli ’93 on the PBs program “Nature,” which documented her effort to use a Nancy Mitchell remote-controlled hen sage grouse to help her investigate the courtship behavior of the birds. Prof. Kevin Pogue PHoTo GRAPH y Greg lehman our focus isn’t on if they’re breaking the law, our WEB EDIT oR Philip Silouan Thompson focus is that they’re humans who deserve the Amber Dobbs same chance to live as anyone else. PR oDu CTI o N MANAGER Keiler Beers ’14 in a Walla Walla Union-Bulletin article about his volunteer work with No More lETTERS AND CoMMENTS Please write to: David Brauhn, editor, office of Deaths, a group that provides humanitarian aid to illegal immigrants crossing the sonoran Communications, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave., Desert. Walla Walla, WA 99362. Email: brauhndm@whitman. edu. Phone: (509) 527-5169. Cl ASS NoTES Submit class notes to the Alumni office by using the one of the coolest things about college is the fact form at www.whitman.edu/classnotes or mail to the Walla Walla, WA 99362. For address changes only, see that you’re surrounded with other intelligent,ffice, 345 Boyer Ave.,o Whitman College Alumni www.alumniconnections.com/whitmancollege, email addrchg@whitman.edu or call (509) 527-5003. hard-working people who have vastly different Whitman College does not discriminate on the basis of skills and interests from you. I’ve learned just asy PoLICoNIMINATIsCrNoNDI race, color, sex, gender, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis much from late-night conversations with my peers national origin, physical disability, veteran’s status, prohibited by applicable federal, state or local laws. WHITMAN MAGAZINE, VoL. 34, No. 1. over a pint of ice cream as I have from lectures Published four times a year — March, July, october and December — by Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave., and discussion sections. Walla Walla, WA 99362. Periodical postage paid at Walla Walla, WA, and additional mailing offices (UsPs 968-620). IssN: 0164-6990 rachel Alexander ’13 in a Huffington Post piece titled “In Defense of College.” EXTENT AND NATUrE oF CIrCULATIoN: A. Total Number of Copies: 18,500 (Average No. Each Issue During Preceding 12 months); 18,500 (No. July 2011). B1. Paid/requested outside County Mail subscrip- tions stated on Form 3541: 16,630 (Avg.); 16,550 (July 2011). B2. Paid In-County subscriptions stated on Form 3541: 0 (Avg.); 0 (July There was a good 20-year period at the beginning 2011). B3. sales Through Non-UsPs Paid Distribution: 1,347 (Avg.); 1,447 (July 2011). B4. other Classes Mailed Through the UsPs: 200 (Avg.); 200 (July 2011). C. Total Paid and/or requested Circulation: side County As stated on Form 3541: 0 (Avg.); 0 (July 2011); D2. Free of the 20th century of moral panic, real fear about 18,177 (Avg.); 18,197 (July 2011). D1. Free Distribution by Mail out- Distribution by Mail Inside County As stated on Form 3541: 0 (Avg.); 0 2011). E. Free Distribution outside the Mail: 0 (Avg.); 0 (July 2011). the fact that the country’s staple bread was being (July 2011); D3. other Classes Mailed through UsPs: 0 (Avg.); 0 (July Total Distribution: 18,177 (Avg.); 18,197 (July 2011); H. Copies Not Dis- Circulation: 100% (Avg.); 100% (July 2011). touched by the hands of these presumably tributed: 323 (Avg.); 303 (July 2011). J. Percent Paid and/or requested o n T h E C o v E r diseased and scary new immigrants. Kate Jackson, assistant professor of biology, holds her rubber Boas(charina bottae), Lewis Associate Professor of Politics Aaron Bobrow-Strain during an interview about his book and Clark. “White Bread” that aired on the National Public radio show “Morning Edition.” Photo by Greg Lehman see the back cover for recycled content. July 2012 3
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