Whitman’s recent Symposium on Torture and the Human Body, sponsored by the Global Studies Initiative, was supposed to be a three-hour symposium. But it went longer – close to four hours, as noted authors on the subject, and Whitman student panelists and the general public continued on, not ready to end a significant intellectual exploration and discussion. More...
A Whitman College student’s film will screen at two of the nation’s most prestigious film festivals — American Film Institute Dallas, which will feature films created by such names as producers Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney, director Gillermo Arriage and actor Charlize Theron; and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the nation’s oldest independent film festival, which launched the careers of such directors as Ken Burns and Michael Moore. More...
Whitman College’s student newspaper’s Web site recently won national “Best of Show” honors — placing ahead of much larger schools such as the University of California Berkley and University of Miami — at the annual convention of the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP). More...
Sarah Deming ’10, president of the Whitman College Black Student Union (BSU), came to Whitman to study economics, but found something else, too – a way to begin substantial learning of her Black heritage through BSU and the “three strong black women” who became her mentors. More...
A Walla Walla girl, a kindergartner, would have none of it – wouldn’t sit down anywhere near, wouldn’t get close to the Whitman College student who was to be her weekly mentor. But gradually she started opening up. And then came that moment her mentor, Hanna Ory ’11, will always remember. “We were walking hand-in-hand to recess and she said to me, ‘I really like you… Don’t ever go away,’” Ory related. More...
“Torture has emerged as a contemporary issue of great controversy in the war on terror, but it has a much longer and less visible history that has been largely forgotten,” said Shampa Biswas, associate professor of politics and director of global studies at Whitman. “This symposium will provide a way for us to think about this important issue from historical, legal and ethical standpoints in conversation with scholars and activists who have done extensive research and have put a great deal of thought into the topic.” More...
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