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With debate about gay rights dominating national politics and
rainbow stickers slapped on laptops all over Whitman campus, it is
clear that in recent years, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer
(LGBTQ) issues have been brought to the front of the American
consciousness. As a nation we are moving gradually towards greater
social and legal acceptance of all sexual orientations. It is
surprising to realize that there are still few professional
athletes publicly out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or
questioning: it seems the sports world has been left behind in this
national shift in consciousness.
Athlete Ally, a program founded with the purpose of bridging
this gap through conversation and action, has reached almost 40
colleges across the nation since its inception less than one year
ago and is now being brought to Whitman by a few proactive
students. The official website defines an Athlete Ally as any
personregardless of sexual orientation or gender identitywho takes
a stand against homophobia and transphobia in sports and brings the
message of respect, inclusion and equality to their athletic
community.
Athlete Ally is spread organically through student initiatives
on campuses around the nation and is concentrated near its home in
the Northeast.
When I was at grad school at Harvard, they had just started an
Athlete Ally group on campus. I think we were one of the first,
said Whitman varsity swimming alum and current admissions officer
Robert Street 07.
The program was started by Hudson Taylor, an All-American
Division I wrestler and theater major at the University of Maryland
who saw the need for greater awareness about LGBTQ acceptance in
athletics at all levels. At its most basic, participation in the
program consists of signing a pledge that states: I pledge to lead
my athletic community to respect and welcome all persons,
regardless of their perceived or actual sexual orientation, gender
identity or gender expression. Beginning right now, I will do my
part to promote the best of athletics by making all players feel
respected on and off the field.
The purpose of the pledge is to spark thoughtful dialogue among
athletic communities and inspire further action supporting LGBTQ
acceptance in sports. Whitman is about to become the first college
in the Northwest Conference to join the growing number of
participating institutions.
Im incredibly excited [about this coming to Whitman]. I think
that this is a good place to create the discussion amongst
athletic teams and to help lead the way with other
liberal arts colleges in the Northwest, says Street.
Given that the Whitman community is known for its open-minded
attitude and progressive values, some may wonder whether a program
like this is even necessary.
This, as it turns out, may be just the problem.
W alt Disney, Hen-ry Ford and one in seven Americans share an
invisible characteristic: They have learning disabilities.
Project Eye-to-Eye, a nation-al organization that facilitates
men-torship between adults and elemen-tary school students with
learn-ing disabilities, is new to Whit-man this fall. In the
program, Whit-ties with learning disabilities cre-ate art with
local fourth- and fifth-grade students who face similar challenges.
The 13 Whitman men-tors will meet with at least as many elementary
school students for the first time this Thursday, Oct. 13.
Senior Natalie Tamburello, who participated in Project
Eye-to-Eye at her high school, started Whit-mans chapter of the
organization. The program is rewarding to her as a mentor because
it allows her to empower kids who are struggling with issues
similar to the ones that she faces as a person with dyslexia.
[Project Eye-to-Eye] helps kids build self-esteem so they learn
how to self-advocate, Tamburello said.
Part of self-advocacy includes asking for extended time on
ex-ams, taking a calculator to exams and letting a teacher know
that you prefer not to be called on to read.
Sophomore Ted Younie initial-ly thought he would be too busy to
mentor, but he later decided that he really cared about serving as
a role model for students who were go-ing through an academic
experi-ence similar to his own. Since he is a BBMB major, he used
to men-
tor with the Howard Hughes Med-ical Institute, but because of
his background as a student with dys-lexia, he decided to devote
his time to Project Eye-to-Eye instead.
Any student can help some-one in science, but there are not that
many collegiate dys-lexics out there, he said.
According to Director of Aca-demic Resources Juli Dunn, 10
per-cent of Whitman students have a documented learning disability
af-filiated with the Academic Resource Center. Since national
statistics are higher, she suspects that an even higher percentage
of students on campus have a documented disabil-ity but have chosen
not to make use of the ARC. According to Dunn, the most common
learning disabilities on campus are Attention Deficit Dis-order and
Attention Deficit Hyperac-tive Disorder. Others include dyslex-ia,
dysgraphia and slow processing.
In Project Eye-to-Eye at Whit-man, elementary school kids from
Edison, Sharpstein and Green Park will meet with their individually
as-signed mentors once a week in the Fouts Center for the Arts to
do an art project that relates to their learning disability. One
project, for example, involves the kids designing and presenting an
inven-tion that they believe would help with their disability.
Younie described the goals he hopes to at-tain for the
elemen-tary school kids from the project.
A fter a long night at the fraternities on any given weekend,
the amount of waste left behind from the parties is astounding.
Glass bottles are strewn about the sidewalk and red plastic cups
fill trashcans to the brim.
While Whitman has a rep-utation of being environmen-tally
conscious, Whitman fra-
ternities and sororities may not always uphold this status.
Juniors Danielle Broida and Zoe Rogers have recent-ly introduced
the Greeks Go-ing Green program in an ef-fort to make the Greek
sys-tem become more organ-ized in its recycling programs and
encourage overall en-vironmental sustainability.
Broida commented on the overall goal of Greeks Going
Green.
Because federal law defines maternity leave as a type of
disability leave, Whitman recently implemented a short-term
disability policy to address the physical needs of faculty members
who are also new mothers.
Athlete Ally spreads toWhitmancommunity
Project Eye-to-Eye provides support for local students New
recycling program
helps Greeks go green
by LIBBY ARNOSTISports Editor
T his year, a short-term dis-ability policy was add-ed to the
faculty hand-book. The policy, which can be used as a maternity
leave policy, was created to address the phys-ical hardships faced
by moth-ers who have just given birth. It was crafted by the 2008
Facul-ty Fringe Benefits Committee.
The short-term disability pol-icy is separate from the already
ex-isting family leave plan, a policy which allows tenure-track
facul-ty members to reduce their course
loads to accommodate family re-sponsibilities such as caring for
a newborn or sick relative. Accord-ing to the 2011 faculty
handbook, the family leave plan grants fac-ulty members a one
course reduc-tion at 95 percent pay and a two course reduction at
75 percent pay.
The short-term disabili-ty policy covers physically and mentally
disabled faculty mem-bers for up to six months. Ac-cording to
federal law, the pol-icy also allows new mothers to take a
one-course reduction af-
ter they have given birth. Be-cause of the switch to a 3-2
course load and the terms of the fami-ly leave policy, a new mother
can take a semester (two courses) off with only a five percent pay
cut.
Those who wrote the fam-ily leave plan hoped to use lan-guage
that would not exclude men or adoptive parents. In do-ing so, they
did not address the physical impact of pregnancy.
Assistant Professor of Pol-itics Susanne Beechey was one of the
first faculty members to
use the new short-term disabil-ity policy to take time off
af-ter the birth of her son. She dis-cussed the trouble with the
fam-ily leave policy via email.
Whitman was ahead of many schools in long ago in-stituting
gender-neutral fami-ly leave but behind in address-ing the
gendered, physical reali-ties of pregnancy and child birth. This
disadvantaged female facul-ty who bore children, she said.
see ALLIES, page 5see EYE-TO-EYE, page 2
see GREEKS GO GREENpage 3
see SHORT TERM DISABILITY, page 2
BALANCING MATERNITYWITH TENURE PURSUITS
by ROSE WOODBURYStaff Reporter
by DYLAN TULLStaff Reporter
by KARAH KEMMERLYNews Editor
ARTWORK BY BERFIELD
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THE NEWS
1 millionPounds of material waste Americans generate per person
every year taking into account hazardous waste, con-struction
debris and chemicals used for manufacturing.
32% Percentage of total waste Americans recycle.
44%Percent of Walla Walla residents that participate in the
citys recycling program.
30Gallons of bottled water the average American consumes
annually.
0Number of plastic water bottles sold on campus.
$236Billion dollars of estimated annual revenue of the U.S.
recycling industry.
6.8%Total percent of plastic used in the U.S. that is recyclable
and becomes recycled.
11.6Million tons of paper and card-board exported to China from
the United States in 2009.
80%Average percentage of a re-cycled electronics that are sent
to locations like Guiyu, China, where employed workers are paid an
average of eight dollars a day.SOURcES: tHE UNIVERSItY OF UtAH,
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by shelly leNews EditorR epresentatives from over 30 graduate
schools gath-ered in Reid Ballroom on
Oct. 6 for Whitmans tenth annu-al graduate school fair. The
Stu-dent Engagement Center host-ed the event, which was designed to
educate students about their post-graduation options. A stream of
students filtered in and out of the room throughout the after-noon,
perusing the information laid out on tables and chatting with
representatives from schools around the Northwest and beyond.
We think studentsfirst-years through graduating sen-iorsshould
attend this fair just to find out what the possibilities are, said
Director of Career De-velopment Susan Buchanan, who has organized
the fair for the past ten years. They might find some hidden jewels
and surprises that they didnt know before. For first-years and
sophomore students, [the fair] can help them determine their course
of study at Whitman. Stu-dents can learn a lot. Its particular-ly
valuable because of the human contact with the representatives.
Programs represented at the fair ranged from schools offering
degrees in natural medicine and ed-ucation to travel-volunteer
organi-zations. Prior to the fair, a panel of law school
representatives fielded questions from interested students.
It used to be where students went to law school just to become a
traditional trial attorney, but now-adays you can utilize the law
de-gree in many different ways, said Mathiew Le, a representative
from University of Washingtons law program. Le cited advocacy and
politics as possible areas to which a law degree could be
applied.
SaeRom Konecky, a rep-resentative from Gonzaga Uni-versitys law
program, advised students to research their post-graduation options
carefully.
Definitely find out as much as you can and weigh what youre
getting into against what you real-ly want out of it, she said. [A
law degree] is a really expensive degree to get if youre not
entirely sure if thats the path you want to take.
Students interested in trave-ling after graduation were given
the opportunity to converse with rep-resentatives from programs
such as
the Peace Corps and the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program
(JET), both of which assist col-lege graduates in working
abroad.
Its really a chance to expe-rience another countrys culture
while at the same time understand-ing yourself in a different
light, said Brett Rawson, representative for JET and a Whitman
alumnus.
Although statistics show that many Whitman students do end up
pursuing a postgraduate educa-tion, the fairs organizers have had
trouble drumming up student inter-est in the event in the past.
Rachel Christopherson, an admissions of-ficer representing Pacific
Luther-an University at the fair, said that nationally the number
of students applying to graduate schools has been relatively low in
recent years.
There are fewer students coming to grad school. Its kind of
working in a different way than professionals in the industry are
used to. Generally a down econo-my means more people looking to
further their education. It had been the case in 2007 that the
numbers of graduate students were going up, but the census from
2010 showed that theyve started to lessen again. I think people are
worried about
how to pay for it, and if its really going to lead to a job
afterwards.
192 students attended the fair and 17 attended the law school
panel, a significant increase from previous years according to
As-sistant Dean for Student Engage-ment Noah Leavitt. Leavitt
cred-ited an unorthodox ad campaign by ASWC for the events
success.
ASWC did a really great job creatively getting the word out
about these two events and it is highly likely that much of the
in-crease in attendance is related to ASWCs investment in making
[the fair] an important learning and reflection opportunity for the
entire student body, said Leavitt.
ASWCs advertising tactics included encouraging professors to
speak in class about their grad-uate school experiences. ASWC also
set up several eye-catch-ing displays around campus, in-cluding
colorful roadblocks and a stuffed cowboy near Styx, ac-companied by
slogans encour-aging students to attend the fair.
The light-hearted nature of the advertising I think emphasiz-es
what a benefit and good thing it is to go to the fair, rather than
just some sort of requirement, said
ASWC President Matt Dittrich. The idea is that we make it feel
super accessible and something that is worth students while.
I think this is a really great resource we have on cam-pus, an
opportunity to bring all these different options to one room and
help give a little fo-cus [to] what I want to do imme-diately after
graduating, said senior Emma ORourke-Powell.
Other students found that the fair didnt have enough va-riety to
hold their interest.
I didnt really see any-thing that jumped out at me. I just kind
of walked in and walked out, said senior Jessica Ma-tresse, a
Spanish major. Most of the things I know about graduate school I
researched on my own, so nothing [at the fair] seemed to fit what I
was looking for.
Associate Professor of Poli-tics Jeanne Morefield also
ac-knowledged this problem.
The family leave poli-cy worked well for men and for adoptive
parents, but it wasnt enough for women having ba-bies who couldnt
just spring back to work after giving birth. It also placed a heavy
burden on women who were the pri-mary wage earner in their
fam-ilies and who couldnt af-ford to take time off, she said.
Beechey feels that the short-term disability poli-cy has
addressed these issues.
In acknowledging the gen-dered, physical realities of
preg-nancy, the new short-term dis-ability policy is a great
im-provement, of particular val-ue to female junior facul-ty
members. While not per-fect, this policy is a big step in the right
direction, she said.
Dean of Faculty Timo-thy Kaufman-Osborn agrees.
We still have a ways to go before Whitman is as fully
fam-ily-friendly as it might befor example, through better
provi-sions for infant and child care. Still, the adoption of the
short-term disability policy is an im-portant step in the right
di-rection, he said in an email.
Sarah Hurlburt, the chair of the 2008 Faculty Fringe Bene-fits
Committee and primary au-thor of the policy believes that putting a
short-term disabili-ty policy in the handbook was
a natural step for Whitman.No one I talked to could
remember a medical incident that resulted in a dock of pay.
Adding the short-term disa-bility policy to the handbook made
official what was already in practice, she said. Hav-ing a policy
on the books is im-portant so that everyone knows the possibilities
open to them.
Like Morefield and Beechey, Hurlburt doesnt call the policy
perfect, but she be-lieves it has made a positive im-pact.
When writing the poli-cy, we were trying to do the most good. We
werent try-ing to make a statement about a perfect world, she
said.
Hurlburt says that the new policy has greatly im-proved Whitmans
mater-nity leave policies in com-parison to similar colleges.
With this policy, Whit-man has leap-frogged from the bottom
third of the panel of 14 to the top third, she said.
Several panel schools, like Grinnell College and Reed College
have similar poli-cies for addressing maternity.
Fortunately, taking time off has been beneficial for
Beechey.
Without the new short-term disability policy I would not have
been able to take the semester to recover and be with my son. With
this poli-cy I will be able to return to the classroom in the
spring fully recovered, she said.
[I want] to make kids excit-ed about learning and to be able to
stand up and tell your teacher or professor who I am and what I
need to make my learning environ-ment the best [for me], he
said.
Dunn described her role in the project to be mainly advisory
because she believes the beauty of the program lies in giving the
men-tors and the elementary school students space to learn from
each other away from the influence
of academic authority figures.I respect that space and I
think its important that students are given that freedom, she
said.
Dunn hypothesized that many of the Project Eye-to-Eye mentors
signed up for the program as a way to give back for the help they
had re-ceived and to pay it forward.
However, both Tamburel-lo and Younie stated that they had a hard
time in elementary school because of the lack of sup-port and
mentoring they received.
Tamburello used to think she wouldnt be able to go to college
because of her dyslexia. Now she is committed to using her degree
to help people like herself. Last summer she received the Whit-man
Internship Grant to conduct research on the brain science of
dyslexia at Stanford University.
At the end of year there will be an art show displaying the
mentors and mentees work.
Its all about L.D. [learn-ing disability] pride, Tamburel-lo
said.
Students weigh options at grad school fair
Policy aids new mothers
Whitties with learning disabilities mentor
by EMILY LIN-JONESStaff Reporter
Stephanie Herbst 12 talks to a representative from the Oregon
Leadership in Sustainability Graduate Certification program.
Schools pres-ent primarily represented teaching, business and law
programs. One hundred ninety-two students attended the fair. Photo
by Bergman
Student mentors Ted Younie 14, Natalie Tamburello 12 and Bella
Zarate 14 hope to give local fourth and fifth grade students with
learning disabilities extra support. Program mentors will meet with
students once a week to work on art projects. Photo by Felt
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from SHORT-TERM DISABILITY, page 1
from PROJECT EYE-TO-EYE, page 1
CORRECTIONS TO ISSUE 6
In the Whitman Crime in Numbers infographic on page 1 Drug
Violations should be 7 for 2008, 30 for 2009 and 17 for 2010.
Aggravated Assault
should be 1 for 2010.
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[Greeks Going Green] is a pro-gram working to implement a
greater sense of environmental stewardship into the Greek sys-tem.
We hope to spread aware-ness, education and thoughtful ac-tion
about sustainable living on campus and beyond, she said.
The key to this system is the sustainability chairs.
Sustainabil-ity chairs are the environmental leaders of each Greek
chapter, or-ganizing and encouraging a sus-tainable chapter. The
idea of hav-ing an environmental leader in each chapter is modeled
after the Green Leaders of Whitmans compost-ing program, who are
likewise en-vironmental stewards of residence halls. Sustainability
chairs are ap-pointed like any other Greek po-sition, such as
philanthropy chair, social chair or president, and are in charge of
coordinating recy-cling for their individual fraternity.
Sophomore Tau Kappa Ep-silon (TKE) Sustainability Chair Max
Reikosky described via email his position and expectations.
For TKE in particular, I plan to create a separate box for glass
since glass is usually thrown away. This box at the end of each
week will be picked up by the organization that created the
sustainability chair
and take it to be recycled, he said.Up until this point, the
recy-
cling has been incredibly disorgan-ized for all of the
fraternities. Ac-cording to Broida, Bob Biles, the recycling
manager, had interns who would come and pick up the fraterni-tys
recycling once or twice a week.
A survey was sent out to get the opinion of Greek members on the
sustainability of each chapter.
100 percent of people said that their chapters could be more
sustainable, Rogers said.
Due to the confusion that has been felt by fraternities about
the recycling and handling of waste and the overwhelming feeling
that eve-ry chapter could be more sustain-able, it is surprising
that this sys-tem was not implemented earlier.
Sophomore Sam Kirsch, a Phi Delta Theta, commented on Phis
current recycling system via email.
A dedicated program de-signed to help Phi be more account-able
for recycling and eco-friendly is a great idea. Not only just with
recycling, but getting Phi more in-volved in reducing consump-tion
of environmentally impact-ful products as opposed to just re-using
or recycling is also an im-portant step towards improved
sus-tainability, he said. Phi does an adequate job of trying to
man-age its ecological impact, but
it could certainly do more, and hopefully Greening the Greeks is
a way to accomplish that.
The basics of the program draws inspiration from a similar
University of California at Berke-ley program titled Greening the
Greeks. The idea is exactly the same: to encourage the Greek system
to become more environ-mentally friendly and efficient at
recycling, while also ensur-ing that the program is
self-sus-tainable. The program at Berke-ley was a wild success, and
was enthusiastically adopted through-out the 38 fraternities on
campus.
Now, the responsibility of creating a more sustainable Greek
system falls on the sustainabili-ty chairs of each chapter. With
or-ganized and dependable sustaina-bility chairs like Reikosky, it
ap-pears that environmental sus-tainability will increase
dramat-ically within the Greek system.
Rogers expressed her ex-citement regarding the program. Rodgers
hopes that the program will be sustainable with the or-ganization
of dependable sus-tainability chairs like Reikosky.
I hope its a program that will just stay for the fu-ture. Itd be
really nice to see it just keep flourishing and, yeah, just see
where it goes, she said.
On Wednesday, Oct. 19, the Walla Walla community is hosting a
walk to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Walk a Mile in Her
Shoes event. It hopes to raise awareness about domes-tic and
sexualized violence in or-der to work towards preventing it.
The event begins with a noon walk from Heritage Park on Main
Street to the county courthouse and
concludes with a 6 p.m. candlelight vigil at the Land Title
Plaza on Main.
Organizations sponsor-ing the event include the YWCA, the
Diversity Advisory Coun-cil, the Washington State Peni-tentiary
Employee Association, the Zonta club of Walla Walla and the United
Gender Movement.
Chetna Chopra, adjunt in-structor of general studies at
Whit-man, is a member of the Diversi-ty Advisory Council that
helped coordinate the event. She feels
that discussing issues of do-mestic violence is necessary.
In a time when the city of To-peka considered repealing the law
that criminalized domestic vio-lence because of budget cuts and
shelters are losing financial sup-port, it is important to keep
this is-sue in the public view, she said.
Chopra believes that domes-tic violence is a widespread
issue.
This isnt just a wom-ens problem. This affects men and children,
too, she said.
With the colonization of an Alpha Phi wom-ens fraternity
chap-ter on the Whitman campus this fall, Greek life is chang-ing.
The new sorority, invit-ed by the Panhellenic council last fall to
colonize at Whitman, ended its recruitment process at the end of
September and be-gan sorority activities last week.
The Panhellenic commu-nity is excited to get the year started,
said Allie Winkel-man, Alpha Phis main lead-ership consultant from
the in-ternational office. Were su-per excited to have members. We
are going to continue to get more members throughout the semester
hopefully, so were really excited for that too.
The womens fraternity commenced with about 35 mem-bers from all
four grade levels at Whitman. The majority of the girls are
first-years, which Win-kelman says is important for building a
strong base, but the ad-dition of the upperclassmen will help Alpha
Phi start off strong.
Were excited for having the five seniors and the upper-classmen
who might not have had a chance to do Greek life before and to show
us the ropes at Whitman, said Winkelman. Its great for [seniors]
because they get to experience Greek life before they leave and
leave such a great mark for their last year. Were really happy with
it.
So far, Alpha Phi has had its official bid night, its first
func-tion and chapter meeting, and a few informal
get-togethers.
I feel like we havent got-ten to know each other that well yet,
but everyone Ive met is really great, said first-year Julia
Thompson, a new pledge. [Everyone is] real-ly down to earth, and as
some-one who went through for-mal rush, I feel more comfort-able
with this group of girls.
The first chapter meeting went over much of Alpha Phis history
both nationally and at Whitman and discussed the so-roritys
national philanthropy. According to Thompson, the chapter was
present at Whitman for about 30 years beginning in the 1940s, but
died out in the 70s because of lack of demand.
Rumors surrounded the chapters reformation this fall, but mostly
people ques-tioned what the goals of the re-instatement of the
womens fraternity were going to be.
A lot of the girls in [Alpha Phi] didnt rush the first time. Its
not like they went in ex-pecting to join a sorority, said new
pledge and first-year Louisa Rogers. I think whats appeal-
ing about Alpha Phi is that we can make it whatever we want.
Winkelman said the organ-izers had no expectations for the
number of pledges the sorori-ty would get, because coloni-zation is
such a unique process. She was not directly involved with the
selection process, but the organizers were looking for a cohesive
group of wom-en to represent Alpha Phi well.
Ive been pretty hap-py so far, said Thompson. I think that
theres a good mix of girls. I think that the demo-graphic is maybe
a little bit dif-ferent than the other sororities on campus, and we
can make it basically whatever we want.
We dont have a stereotype to fit, and we dont have to pick a
group we feel like we identi-fy with the best, said Rogers. Were
kind of starting a group, and so we get to define it be-cause it
hasnt been defined.
According to Rog-ers, some girls who partici-pated in
recruitment for Al-pha Phi were not offered bids.
We had a meeting to talk about how were trying to stay away from
the really exclu-sive Oh, were a sorority, said Rogers. That being
said, there were some people who just didnt get in to Alpha
Phi.
Rogers said the bid pro-cess really looked at the in-dividual
girls, and tried to make sure they would work well with the
sorority.
They were looking at the girl, and not like, Oh, youre not good
enough for Al-pha Phi. said Rogers. It was more like, You dont
real-ly seem like the kind of person who would really enjoy
this.
With the new beginnings now, the small womens fra-ternity will
include leader-ship opportunities for all mem-bers. Each member
will be as-signed to a committee to help plan events for the year,
and in November the sorority will hold formal elections for
official of-ficer positions along with the other three womens
fraternities.
Its not all me, said Win-kelman, speaking about the
or-ganization tasks for the sorori-ty. Ill give [the members]
ad-vice and generate ideas and help them implement things, but it
will be a lot of the girls jobs to get things done as well.
Winkelman has an apartment in Walla Wal-la and is stationed here
all year to help with the tran-sition and building phase.
My job is technically to be a traveling consultant, said
Winkelman. She will go back and forth between Walla Wal-la and
national headquarters in Chicago, but Whitman is her primary focus
for the year.
At Whitmans Graduate School Fair on Thurs-day, Oct. 6, one
ta-ble stood apart from all the rest. The experience it offered was
significantly different from the rest of the room: the moth-er of
all community service, 27 months with the Peace Corps.
According to their mission statement, the Peace Corps is an arm
of the U.S. government that aims to help the people of inter-ested
countries in meeting their need for trained men and women, help
promote a better understand-ing of Americans on the part of the
peoples served, and help promote a better understanding of other
peoples on the part of Americans.
Regional representative Erin Erickson was on campus to be-gin
her job of engaging and re-cruiting students from Whit-man.
Erickson, herself a Peace Corps alumna after serving a term
counseling nonprofit organ-izations in Moldova, arrived at Whitman
with a specific strategy.
My plan is to engage the modern languages department, French and
Spanish speakers es-pecially, Erickson said. To en-gage specific
departments that are relevant to Peace Corps ser-vice is a strategy
Im looking for.
At the fair, and at a presen-tation given later that day,
Erick-son explained numerous aspects of the Peace Corps: its
deploy-ment strategy, in which host coun-tries request help from
volunteers for projects in six general are-as; its schedule, which
includes three months of intensive train-ing, a year of cultural
immersion and a year of work in any of over 75 developing nations
all across the world; and the programs benefits for college
graduates.
Its a life-defining ex-perience: two years of quali-ty,
challenging and very reward-ing international work experi-ence in a
technical field, which is very applicable to the work-force back
home, she said. I can say that having Peace Corps experience makes
you stand out over other applicants applying for jobs in the United
States.
At the informational ses-sion, several students expressed
interest in the Peace Corps. Sophomore Morgan Walk-er first learned
of the organiza-tion from a high school teacher.
I really liked the idea of it, Walker said. It sounded like [my
teacher] had this great experience that really benefited him . . .
I real-
ly wanted to enrich myself by do-ing it, and maybe give myself a
lit-tle more time before grad school, before starting the rest of
my life.
Assistant Professor of Histo-ry Jacqueline Woodfork spent two
years with the Peace Corps in Li-beria, teaching English to mid-dle
school students. Woodfork be-lieves that her service changed the
entire direction of her life.
Honestly, I got more out of it than I gave. I have learned that
you cannot call yourself poor, Woodfork said. When youre a graduate
student and you have very little disposable income, the word poor
pops into your mind for self-description. But when you really see
poverty, you re-alize that you simply cannot
talk about being poor because you cant go to the Taco Truck.
Peace Corps was the best deci-sion I ever made, although prob-ably
not for reasons I originally thought it would be a great thing.
One challenge that Peace Corps recruiters often face on col-lege
campuses is a view held by some students that the organiza-tion
represents an arm of Amer-ican imperialism. Natalie Jam-erson,
co-president of Whitman Direct Actionan organization, similar to
the Peace Corps in its mission, that takes Whitman stu-dents to
work in the same com-munity in Guatemala every sum-merspoke to this
viewpoint.
If we perceive a need that externally seems like one that
should be addressed, that might not be their priority, and they
might not volunteer their own ef-fort or resources, Jamerson said.
The way to get things done is to empower the community mem-bers to
solve their own problems. Taking ownership of the pro-ject is whats
really important.
In graduate school, one of Er-icksons professors asked her to
consider the interventionist an-gle of the Peace Corps. She
con-cluded that the relationships built between volunteers and
commu-nities go far beyond imperialism.
The value of building per-sonal relationships is what brings
peace, in my opinion, Erickson said. I was able to say, Im an
American citizen, but I may not agree with everything my
govern-ment is doing. And they could talk about their politics, and
we could have an exchange and dialogue that wouldnt have been
possi-ble if I had not been a volunteer.
Woodforks personal expe-rience with the Peace Corps in-formed
her own opinion on the eth-ics of international development.
What is important, that the Peace Corps sometimes los-es sight
of, is that we are working ourselves out of jobs, she said. We want
nations to be able to fill their own human resource needs from
their own citizen base.
Woodfork said that she was struck by how much of what we do is
developed by the host coun-try. However, she acknowledges that
there are multiple motivations that drive a Peace Corps
volunteer.
Saving the world is not go-ing to happen through the ef-forts of
one Peace Corps volun-teer. There are cross-purposes and
cross-motivations at play, she said. There is no saving the world.
But sometimes you can have a positive impact on a per-son, and that
is a good thing.
New program helps Greeks go green
Locals walk to end domestic violence
Alpha Phi establishes identity, finalizes bids
Students consider ethics of international work with Peace
Corpsby SAM CHAPMANStaff Reporter
by ALLISON WORKStaff Reporter
by KARAH KEMMERLYNews Editor
Erin Erickson, Walla Wallas regional representative for the
Peace corps, encourages students to consider the Peace corps as a
post-graduate option at the graduate school fair. the Peace corps
sends volunteers to over 75 developing nations. Photo by Beck
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4A&EPIO PICKS
Each Thursday, The Pioneer highlights several events hap-pening
on campus or in Walla
Walla during the weekend. Here are this weeks picks:
Rocky Horror Picture Show TryoutsIn preparation for the
Satur-day, Nov. 12 showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show,
tryouts for the shadow cast and opening dancers will be held in
Maxey. Take the stage in a night of wild debauchery and B-movie
fun! No acting experience required.Thursday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m. Maxey
Auditorium.
Persian Sunfire Window UnveilingAcclaimed glass artist Dale
Chihuly and Walla Walla Foundry President Mark An-derson 78 present
Whitman with the gift of a new custom glass installation. Come see
the new piece, inspired by ancient Middle Eastern art, in an
unveiling ceremony in Cordiner.Friday, Oct. 14, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Cordiner Hall.
Sweet AdelinesJoin the Sweet Adelines, Walla Wallas female a
cap-pella group, for an evening of live music, with guests the Blue
Mountain Chorus and Blueprint Quartet. Tickets online at
www.bluemountain-chorus2011.eventbrite.com and in-store at Book
& Game.Friday, Oct. 14 and Saturday, Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m. WWCC
Performing Arts Center.
Tatsuya NakataniThe Art and Music Depart-ments present visiting
improv drummer Tatsuya Nakatani. Nakatani explores resonance and
percussion, using violin bows to manipulate the vibra-tions of
cymbals and singing bowls.Monday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. Chism Recital
Hall.
As coursework piles up and the daylight dwindles, you may find
yourself craving a caffeine pick-up. But where to find your fix? I
head-ed to three local coffee shops and tried a nonfat latte at
each. Heres the latte lowdown on Reid Es-presso, the Main Street
Starbucks and the Colville Street Patisserie.
Scaldingly hot and unfail-ingly acrid, the lattes at Reid are
possibly the worst java for your buck in Walla Walla. The caf brews
Starbucks coffee, so the difference between the two prod-ucts lies
with the technique of the Bon Apptit baristas, the equip-ment, or
both. The flavor resem-bles a burnt piece of toast lad-
en with rancid butter. Most egre-giously, these lattes are
consist-ently devoid of foam. They ap-pear to contain some kind of
heated dairy product, but its de-cidedly lacking in frotha
dis-grace to the name of latte. Mean-while, the $3.25 price for a
12 oz. latte makes this not only the worst of the three lattes, but
also the most expensive. The only conceivable reason to grab
cof-fee here? Convenience. For stu-dents in a rush, Reid provides a
more immediate location than the coffee shops downtown.
Starbucks nonfat latte sim-mers at a drinkable tempera-ture with
a nice layer of foam. The latte has a smooth flavor, although its a
little bland. The Starbucks on Main Street of-fers a comfortable
environ-
ment to study or relax with friends, and prices are fairly cheap
at $2.72 for a 12 oz. latte.
The Colville Street Patisse-ries nonfat latte is bursting with
rich, multi-textured flavor to sat-isfy even the most demanding
coffee connoisseur. Every as-pect down to the hue of the brew,
swirling in soft shades of warm mahogany, shows more depth and
dimension than either of the other two lattes. If you stay there to
enjoy your drink, theyll serve it with intricate designs in the
foam in a nice ceramic mug. And with the Patisseries lovely mod-ern
interior design, done in stone and beautiful curving surfaces and
adorned with art, hanging out for a few minutes is anything but
difficult. $3.15 for a 12 oz. latte.All prices are listed with tax
included.
Every week, The Pioneer searches out Whitties who bring an extra
splash of fashion consciousness and sartorial daring to campus.
This weeks Style Spotlight: Senior theatre major Caitlin
Goldie.
Style Sound Bites
My scarf was my great-grandmas, and I inherited a lot of her
scarves and clothes and costume jewelry and such. I wear her things
often. It has definitely an emotional attachment because of that.
The boots I got in Portland, in a little store that was across the
street from my favorite tea place. Its in a neighborhood that I
really like.
Basically, I put outfits together at the last minute, and I just
wear whatever I feel like wearing in the morning. I dont really
give it too much thought, but I do think about it.
For a lot of my short little life so far, I think, like, Jackie
O. was sort of a fashion icon to me, but that sort of branched off
from that, and now I just wear a bigger variety of things.
Things that Im attracted to, for myself to wear, are usually
just things that stand out to me. Things that I think are unusual
Im usually attracted to. I think that people should just wear
whatever they want. People are often afraid to wear things; like,
people will tell me, Oh my gosh, I could never pull that off, or
something, and I always think thats kind of ridiculous, because why
not? Why cant you just wear whatever you want? Nothings going to
happen to you.
As Whitmans new class of 2015 learns how to bal-ance upcoming
midterms, hectic study weekends and late-night cram sessions, music
seems to be a necessary distraction and a helpful tool to get
through it all.
This past week, The Pioneer polled new Whitman students about
their needs and opinions regarding study music. Most agreed that
the best study music consists of more laid-back, less beat-driven
music.
I cant listen to screaming mu-sic, said first-year Franchesca
Corts.
Fellow first-year Lauren Plat-man agreed.
I prefer more mellow, less repetitive music. I also definite-ly
cant study and listen to mu-sic Ill sing along to, she said.
But while certain study sound-track needs were more general,
some students offered up specif-ic study music likes and
dislikes.
Definitely no Wu-Tang Clan, said first-year Alex Beard.
No hip-hop, said first-year Matthew Nelson. I like ba-roque.
Handel is the best to lis-ten to because it is so relaxing.
Other popular study music in-cluded Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes,
Bei-rut, RJD2, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Franz Ferdinand,
Deer-hunter and Department of Eagles. However, some students
preferred no music or non-lyrical music.
I typically dont listen to music with lyrics while study-ing,
said first-year Annabelle Marcovici. But when I do lis-ten to
music, I listen to Vene-tian Snares. Its a breakcore band. I feel
like it helps me think faster.
Music can be kind of dis-tracting, said first-year Ruth Hwang,
adding that she some-times listens to recordings of rain to help
her concentrate. Marco-vici expressed similar methods.
When I just want to stay fo-cused I listen to white noise on my
headphones, said Marcovici.
When Im doing math or an-ything with numbers, I like to listen
to rap, said first-year Henry Allen. But when Im reading I cant
lis-ten to anything. I feel like when Im listening to music Im
either trying to learn the lyrics or trying to sing along;
therefore, I find that music can really hurt my concentration.
Hearing the title Drive, the aver-age moviegoer would get
psyched up for a fast-paced, thrilling ride. However, after a great
opening chase scene, nobody does much driving in this 2011
octane-tinged crime film. Drive, like its title, has no frills
whatsoever and apparently the director believes that silence is
golden. No drama, no dialoguewhats left to watch? The hunk?
Drive follows Ryan Gos-ling, known only as the Driver, a stunt
man by day and a getaway driver by night. When the Driv-er falls
for his neighbor Irene, who has a husband in jail and a nice kid,
the plot moves along predictably through the first hour. The
Driv-er goes on a date with Irene and, when they return, carries
the young boy into bed, but still only opens his mouth to put in
his toothpick.
After about an hour, I was re-
ally hoping the movie was going to be over soon. Then the film
took an unpredicted U-turn. Irenes hus-band comes home and is
forced to rob a pawnshop, and the Driver of-fers to help. Finally
the movie shifts out of second gear andBAMthe husband is shot and
killed. The action ramps up as the Driver tries to avenge the death
of Irenes hus-band. How sweetwell, not real-ly. Enter Albert Brooks
(playing a neurotic person as usualremem-ber the voice of the dad
in Find-ing Nemo?). Brooks gives the cu-linary one-two punch to an
em-ployee, a fork in the eye followed by two stabs of the butcher
knife to the jugular. Excellent cinema-tography and the silence,
even if it does drag on, dramatically magni-fies the gratuitous
violence tenfold. Read the rest of this review
atwww.whitmanpioneer.com
By now, many of Facebooks users have grown accus-tomed to
frequent changes and overhauls of its design and fea-tures.
However, with the sites new-est incarnation on the horizon, some
may find it more difficult to adjust.
Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced plans for
Timeline, a new profile lay-out designed to be easier to navi-gate.
Resembling a digital scrap-book, the feature presents each
Fa-cebook users information in a re-
verse-chronological format, with each post or event on ones
pro-file stemming from a timeline in the center of the page. The
new format, rolling out over the next few weeks, was designed to
make it easier to see everything one has posted on
Facebookessential-ly a digital record of a persons life, depending
on how much in-formation he or she has posted.
As always, new concerns about Internet privacy come along with
the new format. How-ever, the new design may not be as unfamiliar
as it seems.
I think it looks like its com-
pletely different, and when I first saw it, I was like, Whoa,
people are gonna freak out about this, but once you get used to it,
its even more user-friendly, said soph-omore Anne Gaskins, who is
al-ready using Timeline on her profile.
Though it may have an easy-to-use layout, Timeline still
provides a good reminder of what to post and what not to post on
the Internet.
I think its making people more aware of the risks of sharing too
much, said Whitman IT Secu-rity Officer Mike Osterman.
Rec-ommending pages like Sophos, which posts tips on Facebook
pri-
vacy, Osterman added that stu-dents should take this as an
op-portunity to get more familiar with what your privacy settings
are.
If people who will be im-portant in my future see this, will it
be embarrassing? I think thats the key question, said As-sistant
Vice President of Com-munications Ruth Wardwell.
For better or worse, Time-line is comingafter an ini-tial opt-in
period, all user profiles will be converted to the new for-mat. In
the meantime, users can start considering how these chang-es will
impact their sharing habits.
T he Fine Arts House offers a haven for some of the cre-ative,
artsy kids running around Whitmans campus. Two of the current
residents, sopho-mores Zoe Randol and Russell Sperberg, talked
about life in the interest house, their connections with art and
what to consider if youd like to live there next year.
The Fine Arts House, es-tablished in 1982, is located on the
corner of Boyer Ave. and Otis St. Adorned with a color-ful sign and
a rainbow ham-mock, it exudes the vibe of a bohemian artist
commune.
Its very different than liv-ing in a dorm, said Sperberg. Its a
lot cozier, but its living in close proximity with six people who
you kind of know, but you dont know what it will be like to live
with them. Its trial by fire.
But we all get along really well, Randol added. Were a very
high-energy group. Its nice that our big personalities clash
well.
Sperberg, a theatre ma-jor with a passion for piano, de-cided to
join the house after vis-iting for dinner one evening.
I loved all the people in-volved, and I thought it would
be more in tune with the things that I like to do, said
Sperberg.
A graduate of a performing arts high school, Randol was
ac-customed to being surrounded by artists of a multitude of
disciplines.
I like talking with people who are passionate about arts oth-er
than my own, she said. It in-creases my love for my field.
When asked about the inter-view process for the house, both
performers recalled a particular request by R.A. Julia
Schneider.
Julia asked me to hand in a CD of my art, said Sperberg, who
turned in a CD of all the songs that had ever had an impact on
him.
Randol, an actress and an English major, found this par-ticular
request a little more dif-ficult, but rose to the challenge.
I just submitted some sil-ly pictures of me acting, said Randol.
Some of them were legitimate, some were just of me making some
re-ally ridiculous stage faces.
Its about the right fit, Sch-neider said. Come to one of our
house dinners, take a tour, make sure this is the right place for
you.
Dead Sun RisingJay Duncan takes you to the Land of the Rising
Sun via the underworld. Spinning indie rock, metal, cyber-grind,
digital hardcore, Japanese psych rock, vinyl and cassettes.
Mountain Goats to Merzbow and the entire spectrum betwixt.
Mondays, 2 a.m. - 7 a.m. On the dial at 90.5 FM Walla Walla and
stream-ing live at 2. For requests, call (509)
527-5283.GRAPHIc BY ALDEN
KWCW SHOWOF THE WEEK
Facebook prepares users for Timeline takeoverby ALEX HAGENStaff
Writer
Latte lovers guide to Walla Walla coffee scene
FAH shelters creativity, passionby MALLORY MARTINStaff
Writer
the FAH (above) offers a stimulating abode for creative
students. Photo by von Hafften
STYLESPOtLIGHt
caitlin Goldie 12 (above) models her unique look that combines
vintage pieces and newer items. Photo by Beck
New Whitties share study soundtracks
by CAITLIN HARDEEA&E Editor
by CLARA BARTLETTStaff Writer
Lattes from Reid Espresso, Starbucks and the colville Street
Patisserie (top to bottom). Photos by Hardee (top), Felt
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Movie Review by Nathan FisherILLUStRAtION BY BAILEY
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5SPORTSVolleyballvs. Lewis & Clark CollegeOct. 8
SoccerMensvs. Whitworth UniversityOct. 8Womensvs. Willamette
UniversityOct. 8vs. Whitworth UniversityOct. 12
Vollyballvs. Pacific UniversityOct. 14vs. George Fox
UniversityOct. 15
SoccerMensvs. University of Puget SoundOct. 15vs. Pacific
Lutheran UniversityOct. 16Womensvs. Pacific Lutheran UniversityOct.
16vs. University of Puget SoundOct. 15vs. Trinity CollegeOct.
19
Cross CountryMens and WomensBoxer RebellionOct. 15
GolfWomensNWC Four-Way MatchOct. 15
Loss 1-3
Loss 1-2
Loss 1-2
Loss 1-2
Away
Away
Away
Away
Away
Away
Home
Away
Away
SCOREBOARD
UPCOMING
New coach, playing style kick women into high gear
A fter recent changes in both coaching and play-ing style, the
womens soccer team has made improve-ments in its game and managed
to maintain a strong team atmos-phere. The team has increased the
number of defenders and reduced the number of attackers. The team,
which has yet to lose a conference game this season, had an overall
re-cord of 8-9-2 in 2009 and 6-11-2 in 2010. The women say their
play-ing style has evolved with the team.
Freshman year we played 4-4-2 and now were playing a 4-5-1
system. We changed our playing
style tactically and that has both positives and negatives, says
jun-ior co-captain Jaclyn Rudd, de-scribing, from defense to
offense, the layout of players on the field.
Last year we played a 3-5-2 system so now theres one less
de-fender and one more forward which is working better, says
Rudd.
Changes in the teams sys-tem have been based on play-ing to the
strengths of the team each year. Weve adjusted to the strengths on
the team fairly wellas people graduated, we switched a lot, said
junior Erin Flannery.
Scott Shields was coach of the womens soccer team until two
years ago, when he switched to coaching mens and womens
cross country. Following a na-tion-wide search, current Head
Coach Heather Cato was brought to Whitman. This is her sec-ond
season with the women.
Scott had Corina Gabbert, who was a big scorer, and to not have
her changed the way we played. We work as a unit now rather than to
certain individuals, said Cato.
Since Catos arriv-al, the womens tactics on the field have been
adjusted.
We use a system that best fits our personnel. We add-ed a bit
more competition and aggressiveness, said Cato.
Adjustments were neces-sary for the new coach, who came from the
University of Ar-
kansas, where she participat-ed on the soccer team as a play-er
and later as an assistant coach.
Its hard going from being a player to a coach, but the hard-est
is going from Division I where sports are number one to Divi-sion
III where school is number one. Im really trying to help them be
successful in both, said Cato.
The team helped Cato make the adjustment to be an effective DIII
coach.
[Cato] didnt know how [our system] works, so she really listened
to us and adjusted, said Flannery.
Despite major changes in coaching and playing style, the team
has managed to stay unified.
We maintained cohesive-
by SYLVIE LUITENStaff Reporter
Whitman Sports weekly factoid
The Whitman womens Cross Country team is current-ly ranked No.
25 in the na-tion among NCAA Division III schools, and 3rd among
West Region teams, only behind McKenna-Scripps-Mudd and Lewis &
Clark College. Ranked 18th nationally two years ago, the team made
its first nation-als showing at the 2009 Divi-sion III national
championships.
The womens soccer team runs drills on the practice field. Their
current conference record is 3-5, with zero ties. They stand one
win higher than they did at this point last season, and continue
honing their skills with new techniques. Playing more offensively,
the women have averaged 17 shots on goal per game this season.
Photos by Bernstein
Ally program to spark LGBTQ conversation among athletes
Athlete Profile: IM football player Katie DeCramer 12
You would think she was beat-en, but really shes a badass.
Teammate Hayley Falk 12Profile: Katie DeCramerClass:
SeniorMajor: Politics, Spanish minorHometown: Mendota Heights,
Minn.
What first brought you to Whitman?Whitman was the last school I
visited, and I just had a real-ly good visit. I was really
im-pressed with the students and the classes and just the general
kind-ness and sense of community.
How did you get involved with flag football?Ive always played
sports, so this wasnt the first sport Ive played. [I played]
varsity bas-ketball throughout high school. I really like contact
sports.
What position do you play?Center, offensive line and sometimes
[defensive] line.
I hear you have an interest-ing story from your freshman year
about cookies and a bro-ken nose.(Laughs) My first semester I
played one and a half games and then broke my nose. I was play-ing
d line, and I smashed my head against another persons head. Spent
the afternoon in the ER with a teammate; then I came back to my
room and found that the other team had come to see how I was doing
and brought me freshly baked cookies. For that to happen in the
first three weeks of school, it sucked be-cause I had two black
eyes, but it was really sweet that the oth-er team made me cookies.
Lit-erally, people gave me looks
for the next month. Another kid in my Core class got stitch-es
from flag football so we joked that we were the same.
After not playing your soph-omore year, how did you get back
into the game?[Senior] Emily Johnson asked me if I wanted to play
and I was like, yeah, I want to play again. I needed contact sports
in my life.
Whats something unusu-al about your experience with flag
football?My dad went to school to be a Catholic priest and he ended
up playing center. After I scored my first touchdown on a cent-er
sneak last year, I called my dad. Its neat because when you look at
girls flag foot-ball, their moms didnt play, so its a
father-daughter thing.
Shifting gears: Tell me about State of the State.Its a
community-based research class taught by Professor Paul
Apostolidis. What we are do-ing is partnering with commu-nity-based
organizations to con-duct research for them, both as a way to
improve the efficiency of their programs by research-ing the areas
where they see the most need for research and also as viewing a
democratic process on a research level. My research project
specifically is to con-duct field interviews with Lati-no students
and parents at Wal-la Walla public schools. The big key is
addressing the achieve-ment gap. This class is my life.
And your thesis research?For my thesis, I am research-ing the
globalization of Sesa-me Street. Children watch in-ternational
co-productions of Sesame Street in 140 countries across the world,
making it the most-watched childrens televi-
by PAMELA LONDONStaff Reporter
DeCramer 12, a senior politics major with a passion for
education policy and Sesame Street, moonlights as a defensive
player on the Munchers IM football team. Photo by Li
We have a sort of complacency be-cause people dont think
homopho-bia is an issue anymore on Whit-man campus, so there are a
lot of things that fall by the wayside. And that includes
homophobia in varsi-ty sports, says swim captain sen-ior Matt
Rowett, one of Whit-mans Athlete Ally representatives.
I dont think that Whitman is an overtly homophobic place at all,
says senior ultimate frisbee player Alice Minor, Whitmans other
stu-dent Athlete Ally representative.
However, latent language and behavior that assumes
heterosexu-ality for both men and women con-tinues to alienate some
athletes.
Theres still the kind of lan-guage and kind of general
con-sensus about what it means to be an athlete that can kind of
build up walls between us, says Mi-nor, referencing the
overwhelm-ingly hetero-normative cul-ture still surrounding
athletes.
Im queer, and Im an ath-lete. This is a hard project to
de-scribe, but I think its real-ly important, says Minor.
We just want to set a prece-dent to make it something that
peo-ple talk about. Were trying to cre-ate a conversation, says
Rowett.
This conversation is about hom-ophobia in athletics, but is
ultimate-ly grounded in elements of respect and tolerance essential
in team unity.
We want people to recog-nize that homophobia in athlet-ics and
on the Whitman campus in general is not non-existent; it is still
present, and similarly in ath-letics nation-wide it is a very
im-portant issue. We want this conver-sation to become an important
part of team dynamics, says Rowett.
Rowett and Minor plan to meet with student representatives from
all varsity sports teams in the coming weeks and hope to spread the
dis-cussion to each team through team leaders, coaches and
administrators.
I dont think this is going to be effective if its only two
people mak-ing the push for this; we need the en-tire campus, the
entire athletic de-partment behind us, says Rowett.
Athletic Director Dean Snid-er has been helping plan Rowett and
Minors initiative at Whitman. Im glad to support this cause in any
way I can. I would fully expect that our students, our faculty, our
staff, our coaches would be glad to be a part of this. I think it
can only have a positive effect, says Snider.
The varsity swim team signed the pledge last week after
watch-ing an informational video and hav-ing a short discussion
about the program. The hope is that the dis-cussion Athlete Ally
starts among Whitman athletes will eventual-ly spread beyond Walla
Walla.
I hope at Whitman that this creates a dialoguebut I hope
na-tionally it really creates this discus-sion around what comments
were making, how we use our words and how that affects peoples
accept-ance of themselves and their ac-ceptance as athletes, says
Street.
While this grassroots pro-gram has great potential, it wont be
effective unless tak-en to heart by participants.
I want to make sure that we have people do more than sign a
piece of paper. Its exciting; its fun to get people talking about
something that is so important, says Minor.
For more information, please visit the Athlete Ally website
atwww.athleteally.com
Setting out with high hopes, the womens volleyball team has seen
a difficult fall season with two key players injured and an overall
0-8 NW Conference record. Corie Brewer 13 currently leads the team
in season kills with a total of 101. Photo by Bernstein
from ALLIES, page 1
ness despite the changes, says Flannery. Both coaches have
re-ally emphasized team cohesive-ness, said Rudd, who played one
year under Shields before he made the switch to cross country.
This team is a big fami-ly that Scott started and weve
continued. Being so far away from mine its really nice to be able
to come here and have that soccer family, added Cato.
sion show in the world. An ex-ample of this process of
globali-zation mixed with local cultural curriculum goals is that
in South Africa the cast of Takalani Ses-ame includes Kami, an
HIV-positive muppet whose moth-er died of AIDS. The inclusion of
Kami in the show is part of the worlds first preschool HIV-AIDS
prevention education. My thesis aims to figure out what the
globalization of Sesame Street reveals about the nature of U.S.
cultural imperialismhow Sesame Street works with-in the framework
of cultural im-perialism and moves beyond it.
What are your plans once you leave Whitman?I dont have a
specific career goal necessarily. I love working with children and
the U.S. pub-lic education system desperate-ly needs reform. I have
consid-ered being an elementary school bilingual teacher as a
stepping-stone to a career in education policy, specifically
focusing on how schools can better over-come the achievement gap.
My very broad goal is to address how racism is institutionalized in
the U.S. public education system.
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Do students fit the supposed reputations of the residence halls
and particular sections in which they are placed? Or are these
stereotypes what Associate Dean of Students Nancy Tavelli calls a
self-fulfilling prophecy? In Tavellis experience these stereotypes
are not substantiated over time.
If you look at the long view that I do, expectations [of the
residence halls] change, she said.First-years are placed in dorms
based on a computer program that uses the roommate questionnaire
filled out by incoming students with
separation by zip code to match students with similar
expectations and lifestyle choices. Despite this method, there is
no formula that guarantees an entire section will be perfectly
cohesive or live up to a particular stereotype. And yet, students
still focus on section stereotypes and rivalries, often judging
their fellow students based on where they live on campus.
This week, Feature tested the validity of these stereotypes with
residents of various dorm sections and looked at the history of our
residence halls.
T he stereotypes are only partially true. While Lyman does tend
to draw more studious introverts, I have found that we are really
not much more secluded than any other hall, said first-year Ethan
Scardina, a resident of the Lyman Tower.
The Tower is a section in Lyman occupied by first-year,
upperclassmen and transfer students of mixed genders, and is often
described as a section which isolates itself, with individuals only
making friends within the Tower. It is separated from the other
sections of Lyman by both a door and the halls main lounge.
There isnt as much interaction [between the] Tower to A section
and B/C section as there is between A section and B/C section, said
Scardina.
However, Scardina and other Tower residents are making an effort
to increase interaction between Lyman sections, and reject the idea
of an overarching stereotype for the Tower.
No stereotype can perfectly describe an individual; youll just
have to come chill with us for that, said Scardina.
Heres a trivia question fit for Whitties: What used to be an old
hospital, has its own volleyball court and is sometimes believed to
be located past the wheat fields?
If you answered, North Residence Hall, you are correct!
These are some commonly cited (and partially false) attributes
of North, but the dorms reputation should really be examined
through the eyes of the diverse students who have experienced it
firsthand: the residents.
Current first-year Richard Gagliardi made the choice to
preference North because
C-Section in Anderson Hall is occupied by 26 first-year boys
this semester who are unanimous in their agreement that their
section does not boast a long-held stereotype. When C-Sec is a boys
section, there is traditionally a rivalry with Jewetts 2-West
section. This years boys, however, do not agree. They recount an
instance of a few 2-West residents attempt to prank them earlier
this year for no apparent reason that then forced them to accept
the rivalry.
We are kind of rivals with 2-West in a way, said Colin
Domonoske, C-Section first-year. They tried to prank us and we got
them back.
Besides the imposed rivalry with the Jewett boys, C-Sec
residents are known to be bro-ey and typically play sports. In the
section this year, there are three cross country runners, one
soccer player, one swimmer and a myriad of ultimate Frisbee
players.
Clayton Collins, another C-Section resident, emphasizes the
musicality of the section this year. Both Collins and fellow
C-Section first-year Dylan Martin are in the T-Tones a cappella
group, and there are other section mates who play instruments such
as the piano and ukulele.
The section also agrees on the fact that they are really close,
and that there is never a dull moment.
I think we bond really well together, said Martin. And were damn
fine.
That about sums it up, Id say, said Carl Garret, Martins
roommate.
No one is as familiar with the Prentiss Hall stereotype as those
who live in the building. The Prentiss princesses, the most
dangerous catch and afraid of boys are on the tip of every
residents tongue when asked about stereotypes.
Prentiss is one of the quieter residence halls, and the actual
layout of the building discourages inter-section and building-wide
communication. However, the stigma surrounding Prentiss living has
proven to be far from the truth.
People assume based on the quietness that they are less social,
said Resident Adviser of Alice section Sarah Stanger. It is about
half-and-half every semester, people who stay in on the weekends
and people who go out.
Stanger did caution to take this information with a grain of
salt, as she can only speak for trends noticed within the
independent sections. The ladies of Prentiss are making a great
effort to put an end to the afraid
Of all the sections in Jewett, 2-Wests reputation is perhaps the
most notorious for their hard-partying ways.
First-year Zac Parker, a current 2-Wester, has a clear idea of
how the section is perceived.
The stereotype is, you know, that 2-West is always pretty wild,
he said.
Fellow first-year Brett Porter thinks the stereotype from past
years affects the reputation of the current residents.
I kind of get the feeling thats how were seen around campusnot
because thats actually how we are but more because of how people
have been told to think about that, he said.
He asserts that 2-West is much more than just a wild
section.
Everyone here is really close to each other and knows each other
really well, he said.
Junior Matt Raymond lived in 2-West as a first-year and felt a
similar closeness. He points to the tragic death of Richard OBrien,
a fellow 2-West resident, as something
WHEN WALLS
TALK
Examining section stereotypes across campus
FAST FACTS
ASWC funds were once used to buy alcohol for residence hall
parties. One example is the New Dorm dance, commemo-rating the
opening of Douglas Hall in 1970.
Gentlemen used to pick up their dates in Prentiss from the
first-floor beau parlor, the only place men were allowed.
College House, built in 1928, was an apartment building and the
Riv-iera Motel before it was converted into a dorm in 1968.
Marcus House was pur-chased by the Delta Tau Delta fraternity in
1966 and was used until the demise of the chapter in 1994.
The Kirkman House was gifted to Whitman in 1920 and was used as
a mens dormitory. It was sold in 1923 and used as an apart-ment
until it was placed on the National Register of Historic Homes in
1974.
Anderson Residence Hall was named after a former Whitman College
presi-dent.
North Hall has served several uses by the college since being
converted from the Walla Walla Gen-eral Hospital, including a
catering service, confer-ence center and book arts work area.
The Greater Whitman Plan, an architectural design of the college
pro-posed in 1908, included a grandiose series of columned
buildings and a formal quadrangle where Ankeny lies today. The
overly ambitious plan en-visioned several academic buildings
(Forestry and Irrigation, Mining and Ge-ology, Civil and
Mechani-cal, Arts and Architecture) as well as segregated
gym-nasiums and dormitories for men and women.
Lyman Tower
Prentiss Hall
Anderson C-Section
North Hall
Jewett 2-West
Jewett Pit
comparing then and now: A photo taken of a Lyman room in 1940
(left) complete with typewriter and fabric in place of a bulletin
board. A current students room in Lyman (right). Photo at left
contributed by Whitman College; photo at right by Bergman
by TYLER KINGStaff Reporter
by MOLLY EMMETTStaff Reporter
by KINSEY WHITEStaff Reporter
by FRANNIE NUNNStaff Reporter
by SANDRA MATSEVILOStaff Reporter
by SUSANNA BOWERSStaff Reporter
of boys rumor. Alice section hosted a baking party with an
Anderson Hall male section, and boys from all residence halls are
regularly seen getting lost in the Prentiss corridors.
You are not the stereotype you are coming into. It is what you
are going to make of who you live with. Attitudes should be
changed, said former RA and resident Lindsay Olson.
ILLUStRAtION BY JOHNSON
I n the past, the Pit has typi-cally been characterized by a
close-knit group of real-ly fun, interesting girls. The idea of
living with all girls in the base-ment of Jewett may not appeal to
a lot of incoming freshman, but many quickly change their
minds.
When I heard I was going to be in an all-girls section in a coed
dorm, I wasnt too terribly excit-ed, said Julia Bladin, current Pit
resident. But when I met these unique, outgoing girls, they
com-pletely changed my idea of the Pit.
It seems that this year isnt much different than usual.
The Pit is just a rock-in group of girls havin a rock-in time!
said Zoe Pehrson, refer-ring to her experience as their RA last
semester and this semester.
Everyone is really differ-ent socially, but we all come
to-gether really well, said Celia Lang, another Pit resident this
year.
that brought the section together.He meant so much to
so many different people in so many different ways and I think
that showed just how dear everyone in that section was to each
other, he said.
Though Raymond admits that 2-West may have been particularly
wild that year, he maintains that 2-West is more than their
reputation.
No matter what you think of that years 2-West, which is
legendary for its antics, it always seems like a place where its
just amazing how people can come together, Raymond said.
he liked the idea of having a singlewhich North offersbut now
asserts that he is pleased with the atmosphere as well.
All the dorms are great, said Gagliardi, but North is unique in
that the sense of community is a bit stronger.
Still, some residents of North are willing to distinguish it
from the other dorms, but in a way that embraces its unconventional
image.
It takes a certain quirkiness to be willing to live here. I love
it, said sophomore Maggie Eismeier.
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7OPINION
I am involved in not one but nine long-distance relation-ships.
When I left for col-lege I had no intentions of claim-ing any of
the sort, but I am now two months into the se-mester and find
myself devot-ing nearly every second of my free time to scheduling
Skype dates, engaging in Facebook dis-cussions and making
late-night phone calls on the picnic tables outside of Anderson in
the in-creasingly frigid October air.
Before I left, a multitude of worries barraged my thoughts. My
greatest fear was not just that my friends and I would grow apart,
but that I wouldnt care that we had. I was afraid of the impending
apathy of my life.
In order to combat this I have been spending an inordi-nate
amount of time attached to my things in order to remain at-tached
to people. My phone con-nects me to friends in Portland, Boston,
Maine, Vermont and back home in California. Face-book permits me to
have con-versations with my friend in Rome who otherwise would be
quite difficult to catch and ex-pensive to talk to because of
the
distance. But the more text mes-sages I send and the more Sky-pe
calls I make, the more I am beginning to realize that my at-tempts
to maintain these rela-tionships are frustratingly futile.
It has been said that tech-nology is deteriorating the modern
relationship. But it al-ways seemed to me to enhance my
friendships. The time spent
apart, however, has made it clear that that is exactly what it
was: an enhancement, not the foun-dation of a relationship. Being
able to communicate with peo-ple through technology is a har-rowing
feature of modernity. It would be undoubtedly more dif-ficult to
hear of each others lives without the utility of Facebook or our
cell phones. But at the same time, there is no replacement for good
ol fashioned conversation.
I cannot duplicate the expe-rience of interacting with a per-son
through Facebook chat. I cannot simulate the feeling of being in
the presence of a friend through texting him. And I can-not receive
a hug from the im-age on my Skype screen. No matter how fervently I
at-tempt to retain these relation-ships in the form I left them in,
it is something I will never be able to do. And that has proved
incredibly difficult to admit.
But taking a break now does not mean that we cannot pick up
where we left off. As my friends roommate told her, having any
intense emotion to-wards your friends at all just proves that you
care. So rath-er than draw me into submis-sion, the intense
frustration and futility I often feel in attempt-ing to maintain
these relation-ships while we are apart assures me that they are
worth the effort.
And that is in itself is the strikingly paradoxical na-ture of
the situation: Although my efforts will invariably be in vain, the
very fact that I am willing to make them at all is what makes them
worthwhile.
Sometimes there is an incli-nation to distrust the U.S.
government and Western medicine. We have heard about things like
the medical indus-trial complex. So as an alterna-tive, some people
are more will-ing to trust natural remedies. In most cases,
trusting these kinds of herbal healers would not be a problem. But
for seri-ous diseases like AIDS, any so-called cure is immoral
because
it spreads false hope. In certain parts of Africa, there is
little or no access to antiretroviral drugs. Those with AIDS have
little hope and sometimes cling to any cure that anyone
proposes.
An example is seen in Gam-bia. In 2007, President Yahya Jammeh
proposed and adminis-tered an AIDS cure. The Gam-bian health
ministry claimed the cure eradicated the virus from patients.
However, the origi-nal viral load tests were done in a university
in Dakar, Sene-gal and showed patients still had significant
amounts of the virus in their blood. The government dismissed this
claim and refused to reveal what was in the cure. So how do you
spot a hoax AIDS cure or any other herbal cure?
Well, there are a few ways: First, no medical expert or heal-er
would ever claim that a cure is a miracle breakthrough or that it
can cure 100 percent of patients.
Also, no medical expert would claim that a certain substance can
cure many different diseas-es. First of all, there is no single
cure that can work for everyone. Different people react
different-ly to different medicines. There are all different types
of people with all different body types; no cure will be 100
percent effec-tive. Other times, people have allergies which do not
allow them to take a certain medicine, whether it is synthetic or
herbal.
Another example is that just because a medicine is natural does
not always mean that that medicine is good. Many natu-ral chemicals
can be harmful to humans. For example, hem-lock and ricin both
occur nat-urally in the castor bean, and they are extremely toxic.
Also, note that just because a sub-stance is man-made does not mean
that it will be bad for you.
A third way to tell is by see-
ing how many people a herbal drug has been tested on. The only
way to check a drugs effective-ness is by testing it among many
patients. However, some herb-al healers may say they have not been
able to do adequate testing because the U.S. government shut them
down or suppressed information on their cure to pro-tect U.S.
interest in established lucrative medical companies.
They claim that the med-ical industrial complex ex-ists through
government. Even if this were true, the only way to know a drugs
effectiveness is through extensive testing.
Conspiracy theories may say that the government or med-ical
companies may be sup-pressing the cure for AIDS. However, the truth
is that west-ern medicine still has difficul-ty finding a cure.
Antiretrovi-ral drugs can suppress HIV in the bodys system, but
they can-
not cure patients. The tricky part is that the virus inserts its
genetic material into a hosts cells and remains dormant for years
or decades while the pa-tient takes the antiretroviral drugs.
Current research is look-ing for a way to destroy these infected
cells. Furthermore, government conspiracies as-serted by these
kinds of herb-al healers may be overblown.
The U.S. government does not solely support lucra-tive drugs.
For example, the government is currently do-ing research on human
hor-mones such as interleukin-2. Like the human genome, these
cannot be patented and there-fore cannot yield large profits.
So, people can be skep-tical of the U.S. govern-mentit is
healthy to do so, and it is their right as U.S. cit-izensbut people
should also be wary of herbal healers.
PHILLIPCHENGFirst-year
Herbal cures not valid substitute for medicine
Modern communication lacks heart but provides convienence
ELIZABETHCOLEFirst-year
ILLUStRAtION BY DOUGLAS
Al-Awlaki assassinated;no due process of law
T he Obama Administration has decided that it has the author-ity
to kill citizens at its dis-cretion, ignoring any and all
Con-stitutional rights that get in the way. Last month, the
government assas-sinated two American citizens in Yemen with no due
process, no tri-al, no charges and no legal justifi-cation. The
deaths of Anwar al-Aw-laki and Samir Khan were hailed by the
President as another signif-icant milestone in the broader ef-fort
to defeat al Qaeda and its af-filiates, but it would have been more
accurate to call it a milestone on the road to
authoritarianism.
As citizens, we are supposed to be protected by the due process
of law. The Fifth Amendment guar-antees that the government will
re-spect peoples rights when it decides to prosecute, fine,
incarcerate or kill them for a crime. Despite their ties to al
Qaeda, al-Awlaki and Khan had the same rights as every other
citizen. They had the right to be informed of their crime. They had
the right to a trial by jury. They had the right to face their
accusers and the right to le-gal representation. The Obama
Ad-ministration decided to skip all those minor Constitutional
hurdlestri-als can be so annoying sometimesand jump straight to the
execution.
Now, in the aftermath of two unconstitutional assassinations,
the Administration is refusing to tell us what evidence it used to
justify killing these citizens. White House spokesman Jay Carney
assured the press that the Administration would only target
citizens who threaten the nation, but revealed nothing about how it
would determine who is a threat. Last week, Reuters report-ed that
American militants like An-war al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or
capture list by a secretive panel of
senior government officials, which then informs the president of
its de-cisions . . . There is no public record of the operations or
decisions of the panel . . . Neither is there any law es-tablishing
its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to
operate. Apparently we all owe an apology to Sarah Palin; Obama
does have a death panel after all.
Of course, this death panel is far more sinister than the ones
Pal-in suggested were hiding in the Af-fordable Care Act. It has
been em-powered to decide which citizens are entitled to their
Constitutional rights and which citizens are unprotected threats.
It can determine who has the right to due process, the right to a
trial by jury and the right to be free from cruel and unusual
punishments on whatever grounds it sees fit. Be-cause it has no
public record and is governed by no laws, this panel nev-er has to
reveal the standard of evi-dence it uses to make its decisions.
What does it take to earn a spot on that kill list? How much
evidence is enough to prove that a citizen is a threat worthy of
assassination? We the People have no idea. The Obama Administration
refuses to tell us.
The key to our government is the separation of powers. There are
checks and balances, designed to keep any one branch from gain-ing
too much power over the peo-ple. Through these assassinations, the
Obama Administration is sub-verting this separation, setting the
precedent that American citizens can be imprisoned and killed at
the discretion of an unchecked, ungov-erned executive panel. The
only way to fight against this authoritari-an power is to check it
with the pow-er of another branch of government. I urge you to call
your Senators and Representatives and ask how they intend to
protect your rights. The number for the Congression-al switchboard
is (202) 224-3121.
by SETH DAWSON 12Guest Columnist
Political Cartoon by Eddy Vazquez
Voices from the Community What was/is your first-year sections
stereo-type and do you think it is accurate?YONAH
BIERS-ARIELFirst-Year
LYDIA COLLINSSophomore
KATHERYN BOGLEYFirst-Year
KEVIN DYERJunior
People generally think that North-ies are reclusive. I think it
may be true in some cases, but there are definite-ly some outgoing
people in my section.
I live in North this year and the stereotype is generally that
peo-ple are quiet and awkward. I would say this is half true and
half false.
My freshman year, theres not much of a stereotype for [Jewett]
4-East, but my year we wouldve been the nerds. Ba-sically there
were two groups of peo-ple hating the crap out of each other.
Im not really sure what the stereotype of [Anderson] D-sec is,
but everyone is really friendly. There is a good mix of things, but
sometimes people can be argumentative.
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Today a female student was spotted with an issue of the Whitman
Pioneer, the local campus newspaper. She was tall, with brown hair
and blue eyes, and in her hands and before her eyes was a large
piece of paper that is rumored to have had a banner reading The
Pioneer.
The girl was interviewed, and her name was determined
to be Hailey Bergner, and her interview made it into the paper
that she was reading.
I want to know whats going on on campus on a week-to-week basis,
I think, she said. That must be why I picked it up.
The color scheme seemed to be blue and orange, with the color
photography and illustrations on the front
page as well as other pages. However, most of the colors of the
paper were black and white. This includes the black and white words
throughout and even some black and white illustrations and
photography.
Editor-in-Chief Patricia Vanderbilt was both shocked and awed at
the news of this odd and spectacular occurrence.
This might mean that we might get more bids for advertising, she
said.
An extensive survey was taken across a wide spectrum of Pioneer
readers named Hailey Bergner and the results concluded that she was
only reading the Backpage. To this, Humor Editor Adam Brayton
responded by guffawing
and