campus news in brief No debate about it – on the web Whitman debaters excel For the third consecutive year, Whitman’s Parliamentary Debate Team is the best in the nation. For the entirety of the 2011-12 season that ended with the tour- nament, the Whitman debaters scored more total points and won more pairings than any other school in the nation, earning what the National Parliamentary Debate Association calls its “Sweepstakes” award. Whitman team membersJohn Henry Heckendorn ’12 and Miranda Morton ’13 each won individual awards. The Policy team competed at the CEDA (Cross Examination Debate Association) National Championship in Norman, okla., March 22-26. The senior team ofAllison Humble ’12 andAlex Zendah ’12 made it to the tour- nament finals, finishing in sec- Listeners worldwide tune into The Witching hour, a KWCW radio show conjured by Claire Johnson ’14, ond place out of 150 teams at- Sara rasmussen ’12 and Mehera nori ’12. tending the tournament. They won seven debates and lost Radio show casts a spell on listeners one, then won five in a row in Sara Rasmussen ’12 first metMehera Nori on their show, Rasmussen, Nori andClaire the elimination rounds, only ’12on their first day of Encounters (then called Johnson ’14 play songs by bands like the Remus to lose to the hometown team, Core). Nori was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with lupins, Draco and the Malfoys and MC Kreacher, university of oklahoma, on a 6-3 “Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock!” – a reference to and they have even interviewed some of them on decision. Humble came in 20th the indie wizard rock band Harry and the Potters. air. Inspired by the Harry Potter series, wizard rock place overall for individual speak- It was the beginning of a four-year friendship and has built a massive fan base over the past decade. ers at the tournament. a popular KWCW radio show called The Witching Hour, which now has listeners all around the world. Go to whitman.edu/magazine to read more. Yancey assists famous director in daring dive When James Cameron, the operated Vehicle to the bottom 20th century to an object of McCormick ’10 andRobin self-proclaimed “King of the of the Mariana Trench, 36,000 scorn in a society increasingly Lewis ’11. World” and director of the feet below the surface of the concerned with eating local and “White Bread” was fea- blockbuster films “Titanic” sea. The RoV is called Nereus, organic. tured on NPR’s Sunday Edition, and “Avatar,” decides to dive to the deepest spot in the ocean, and Bobrow-Strain contribut-Bobrow-Strain drew on class-and yancey will dive the sub to who does his scientist call for Challenger Deep in 2013. room discussions with Whitman ed articles to The Believer, The guidance? students who took his “Whitman Chronicle of Higher Education, Whitman biology Prof. Paul Work with students gave in the Global Food System” Salon and The Huffington Post, yancey. rise to professor’s book course. among others.“I’m always bringing new“I was in email contact with Cameron’s chief scientist during Aaron Bobrow-Strain, asso- sources and ideas from my re- Hosokowa Journalism E. Peterson Endowed Chair of classroom interactions helped said. “Students really like engag- Contest honors studentssearch into the classroom,” heciate professor of politics, says Cameron’s dives,” said the Carl Sciences. pave the way for his most recent ing with this cutting-edge mate- The Seattle Times Executive The biology professor said he publication, the critically ac- rial, and working through it with Editor David Boardman and advised Cameron’s scientist what claimed “White Bread: A Social them pushes me a lot.” President George Bridges pre- specimens to sample and how to History of the Store-Bought And thanks to Whitman’s sented awards to the winners of take and preserve tissues. loaf.” funding for faculty-student re- the 2012 Hosokawa Journalism yancey is an expert on the eco- “White Bread” tells the story search collaborations, three for- Contest. systems of Hadal Trenches, the of how the sliced supermarket mer students were able to as- For the contest, students sub- ocean’s deepest trenches. He is loaf went from being an icon of sist with the research process: mitted stories that had been pub- scheduled to navigate a Remotely American progress in the early Justine Pope ’07, DeeDee lished in The Pioneer. Journalists 4 Whitman Magazine
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