Session II • 10:45 a.m. to noon

Hip (-Hop) Culture
Olin Hall 130
Samuel Alden, moderator

Heather Smith | Deconstructing the Starbucks Experience: Consumption Patterns and Attitudes of Gourmet Coffee Drinkers, 10:45 a.m.
Amanda Arriola | Are Wine Futures a Good Financial Investment?, 11 a.m.
John “Julian” Helmer | Unwritten and Unraveled: The Roots’ “undun” as Sociopolitical Critique, 11:15 a.m.
Shane Young | No Skinny Jeans Allowed: Examining the Push for “Real Hip-Hop,” 11:30 a.m.
Samuel Alden | How To Draw a Very Long Comic Book, 11:45 a.m.

Canadian Literary Plurality
Olin Hall 157
Patricia Vanderbilt, moderator

The Canadian literary imagination has long been fascinated with the concept of multiculturalism, a distinctly hybrid form of identity that has served as the core of Canada’s national and political identity. Over the last 30 years, how- ever, Canadians have often expressed discomfort with this form of cultural pluralism which has been increasingly seen as overly simplistic and reductive. In response, Canadian authors have revealed the limits of older models of cultural cohesion and hybridity and imagined new ways to articulate a distinctly Canadian multiplicity. The papers in this panel explore the way four different contemporary Canadian novelists – Hiromi Goto, Sky Lee, Rohinton Mistry, and David Chariandy – engage with this creative process.

Nicholas Michal | The Creation of Communal Hybrid Spaces in “Soucouyant,” 10:45 a.m.
Alex Pearson | Mixing Food and Language: Towards a Transnational Identity in “Chorus of Mushrooms,” 11 a.m.
Alyssa Whitt | Examining Canadian Hybridity in Sky Lee’s “Disappearing Moon Café,” 11:15 a.m.
Patricia Vanderbilt | Negotiating Identity in Relation to the Nation: Finding the Fine Balance, 11:30 a.m.

Youth Culture
Reid, Ballroom B
Mackenzie Gerringer, moderator

Hannah Moskat, Katelyn Sorenson | Emotional Intelligence and Aggression Predict Juvenile Offense, 10:45 a.m.
Jeremy Norden | Positive Peer Pressure, 11 a.m.
Kelsie Baher | “We Are Who We Are!”: A Neo-Tribal Invasion of Subcultural Theory in Contemporary British Society, 11:15 a.m.
Mackenzie Gerringer | The Edelweiss Pirates, 11:30 a.m.

Earth History
Science 100 (Brattain Auditorium)
Matthew Hanson, moderator

Matthew Hanson | Archean Basement in Yellowstone National Park: Implications for Early Earth History, 10:45 a.m.
Matthew Morriss | Ancient Rivers in Eastern Washington: A Study of the 15-Million-Year-Old Clearwater-Salmon River, 11 a.m.
Emily Johnson | The Origin of 35-Million-Year-Old Granitoids in South-Central Alaska, 11:15 a.m.
Will Bender | A Study of Rubies From Myanmar: Searching for Trace Element Fingerprints, 11:30 a.m.
Kate Elkind, Matthew Hanson | Avalanches: Avoidance and Reducing Risk, 11:45 a.m.

Hard Science
Science 151
Kayla Hegedus, moderator

Nathan Neff-Mallon | Palladium Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of the 1-carba-closo-dodecaborate1- Anion, 10:45 a.m.
Christa Heavey | Diffusion through Nanoscale Pores of Protein Crystals, 11:00 a.m.
Nathan Abrams | The Effect of Helium Upscattering on the Neutron Lifetime, 11:15 a.m.
Kayla Hegedus | An Introduction to Neutrino Oscillation, 11:30 a.m.

Ecological Concerns
Science 165 (Gaiser Auditorium)
Maggie Massey, moderator

Olivia Molden | Thalangama, Sri Lanka: A Case Study of the Social and Ecological Effects of Residential Changes in a Community, 10:45 a.m.
Kyle Moen | Bluebunch Wheatgrass Demography at Wallula Gap Biological Station, 11 a.m.
Katie Tackman | Birth, Growth, Treatment and Renewal: The Role of the Douglas Fir Tussock Moth in a Political Ecosystem, 11:15 a.m.
Khoa Nguyen | Evolution of Morphometric Variation in Side-blotched Lizards (Uta stansburiana), 11:30 a.m.
Maggie Massey | Contaminated Communities: Activism and Identity in Libby, Montana, 11:45 a.m.

Service Trips
Kimball Theatre
Beverly Li, moderator

Ali Murray, Meghan Browne, Andrew Patel, Rose Haag, Beverly Li | Whitman Service Trips, 10:45 a.m.

Through direct service and reflection, service trips participants expand their education and research beyond campus to engage in communities across the country. This spring break, 53 Whitman students and staff participated in five trips, studying and experiencing a wide variety of issues. Ali Murray: Hurricane Katrina relief effort, New Orleans. Participants studied the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the local community. Meghan Browne: food and hunger, Portland, Ore. Participants studies issues of food justice and participated in sustainable farming. Andrew Patel: sustainability, Portland, Ore. Participants examined services and initiatives surrounding sustainability and environmental justice. Rose Haag: community-building through the arts, Issaquah, Wash. Participants studied the impact and importance of the arts in communities. Beverly Li: refugee resettlement, Seattle. Participants studied the processes and issues that newly arrived refuges face upon their arrival in the U.S. Sponsor: Kelsie Butts

Gender, Cruelty and Incarceration
Reid GO2
Nina Neff-Mallon, moderator

Elizabeth Reetz | Transgressions of Gender: Women in Argentine Concentration Camps (1976-1983), 10:45 a.m.
Amanda Lane | “He’s Not Here, So Hopefully He Is”: What Role Does Religion Play in the Coping Mechanisms of Prison Wives?, 11 a.m.
Grace Davis | The Use of Prison Nurseries to Increase Self-Efficacy of Incarcerated Mothers, 11:15 a.m.
Nina Neff-Mallon | The Impossibility of Cruelty, 11:30 a.m.

Modern Political Economies
Sherwood 222
John-Henry Heckendorn, moderator

Sebastian Jay | Prosperity Through Internationalization: Post-Soviet Economic Development in Estonia and Georgia, 10:45 a.m.
Alexander Brott | Amenities Migration in Cotacachi, Ecuador: A Testing Ground for Innovative Responses to North-to-South Immigration, 11 a.m.
Lauren McCullough | The Apple-Foxconn Debacle: Contextualizing Responses to Labor Abuse, 11:15 a.m.
Charles Weems | Volatility and the Culture of Commodities Speculation, 11:30 a.m.
John-Henry Heckendorn | Currency, Identity, and Power; the Euro Debate, 11:45 a.m.