Muddy Frogwater No More
Ten miles away, just a hop, skip, and a jump from campus, a new species extinction crisis is emerging. Over the past ten years, Milton-Freewater, or better known by some as Muddy Frogwater, has been...
View ArticleAnimal Minds
There are some things at which a pigeon is better than you. For one, pigeons can fly. Second, pigeons have a more acute sense of their location. Also, pigeons are probably better at the old game show,...
View ArticleWalla Walla Town Center to See New Life
Walla Walla’s Blue Mountain Mall sits lonely on the corner of Myra and Rose. Its only store, a Shopko, is surrounded by vacant buildings. Some are gutted while others are lost in states of transition,...
View ArticleAdventures with Godwin
Senior Godwin Wang tells me that, even though they are friends, Mateo Seger is not to be trusted. Mateo Seger, also a senior, tells me that Godwin is “like a god to him.” It was in this very newspaper...
View ArticlePenrose’s Ghost Returns for Usual Centennial Visit
On the evening of March 31 the ghost of Whitman’s third president, Stephen B. Penrose, returned to campus for his usual centennial visit. Surprised by the lack of enthusiasm that his visit garnered...
View ArticleAnkeny Field: 112 Years of Leisure
Over the past week or two, the weather has changed from the characteristic wet, cold days of winter to the warm, bright days of spring. The trees are budding and the flowers are blooming. With the...
View ArticleQuiet in the Wallowas
On March 8 of this year, Kip Rand and Ben Vandenbos, friends from their college days at the University of Montana, were backcountry skiing around Chief Joseph Mountain and Sacagawea in the Northern...
View ArticleBeing a Whittie at WWU
Walla Walla University, which allows its students to fly planes if they want to, is a nice place to be. Here is their motto: Excellence in thought. Generosity in service. Beauty in expression. Faith...
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