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Walla Walla, WA Volume CXXVII Issue 12 whitmanpioneer.com D , WHITMAN COLLEGE In late October, KWCW’s manager se- nior Matt Bachmann and music director senior Cecily Foo returned from a trip to New York City with a number of big ideas for the radio station. e two students attended the 30th CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival, an annual event located in NYC with over 120,000 attendees. Now, only a month aer the festival, Hot Poop Records has a “KWCW Recommended” section, KWCW is contributing music re- views to the Union-Bulletin and the radio station will soon start releasing a monthly zine entitled “Hey, Man.” Bachmann explained the reasoning be- hind many of these new changes. “We really wanted to put more focus on getting more new music to the Whitman and Walla Walla community,” said Bach- mann. “But [the new changes] also help us spread the word about KWCW.” Bachmann and Foo got the idea for the zine at College Day, a day at the New York festival that allows representatives from college radio stations all over the nation to meet, hold panels and share ideas. “e University of Boston’s [radio sta- tion] handed out copies of a zine that they put together, and we were basically like, ‘is is a great idea, we should do this,’” said Bachmann. Foo was equally inspired by the events and panels of College Day. “I came back from CMJ so excited and inspired by new ideas for the station,” said Foo. “[I was] seriously elated. I couldn’t wait to get started.” It did not take the team long to start producing the zine. e rst issue of “Hey, Man” will be released later this week and will be available in Reid Campus Center. When people speak about edu- cation reform, they usually toss out phrases like “tougher stan- dards” and “ac- countability.” The idea behind these buzzwords is to make sure our students aren’t falling behind the rest of the world in terms of problem solving ability or reading level. Reformers talk about getting rid of bad teachers or provid- ing support for early childhood educa- tion, but rarely does anyone ask if the ways in which we expect students to learn are effective or worthwhile. This semester, I had the opportu- nity to travel through 10 states, sleep under the stars almost every night and learn about Western politics and ecol- ogy from a variety of firsthand sourc- es. Reflecting back on Semester in the West, I’m amazed by the amount I was able to learn in such a short period of time: everything from using a GPS to track where photos of ant hills were taken to the history of fire policy in national forests. Even more amazing First-year Nilce Alvarez had a smile and a sense of relief on her face last Monday, Dec. 6—she had just received an e-mail saying that she’d made it o the waitlist and into the section of Chem 126 that she wanted. at noti- cation ended her month-long, stressful experience with the waitlist—a stress many students and some administra- tors believe is more pronounced with the college’s recent decision to no lon- ger use electronic waitlists. Since the Registrar’s decision to end electronic waitlists for the fall 2010 pre-registration period last April due in part to the increasing complexity of allowing registration for closed classes through the college’s Datatel registra- tion soware, all waitlists have been kept by faculty. Previously, some fac- ulty had opted to keep their own wait- lists, but most courses had electronic waitlists. While removing waitlists from Datatel allows faculty to select which waitlisted students get into their class, and therefore give priority to students who need the class for their major or are especially interested in the class, it also adds a layer of complexity to the process. Previously, if a class was full, a student would electronically sign up for the waitlist and know their place on the waitlist queue. If a student was rst on a waitlist and a seat in the class opened up, the student received an e- mail and could register in a matter of minutes. Now, if a class is full, the student must e-mail the professor. If the profes- sor decides to oer a student a seat, he or she e-mails back the student. en, the student must contact the profes- sor to conrm the seat, and then the professor must electronically provide the student consent to register. e student must then call the Registrar’s oce to register, since Datatel will not allow a student to register for a closed class, and if he or she has signed up for a full courseload, they must convey to the Registrar’s oce which class they will drop. “[It’s a] mixed bag. It should be a simple process, but our technology’s made it more complicated,” Registar Ron Urban said, referring to the dif- culty registering once oered a spot o the waitlist. Urban said that while he would like to have an electronic system, many faculty demand to control their wait- lists. But only having soware for rst- come, rst-served waitlists necessitat- ed the change. “[Students] don’t understand the system and the faculty [doesn’t] under- stand the system,” Urban said, adding Although senior Tristan Grau did not have troubling nding space in the courses he wanted during pre-registration for the spring 2011 semester, he did not get his rst choice of class schedules. “When I rst looked at the available courses for the spring semester to plan my schedule, I realized that three of the classes I wanted were oered at the same time at 1 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday aer- noons,” Grau said. is problem of course compression— where certain times during the day have far more classes than other times—is one of a number of reasons this pre-registra- tion season was so frustrating for many students. “If Whitman wants to continue to be considered a top-tier school, we can’t go on very long having sub-par course selec- tion, availability and constantly rising class sizes,” ASWC Vice President, senior John Loranger said. “Of course nor can we have tuition continue to rise, but it is important to realize that the present trajectory can- not continue without addressing registra- tion and enrollment concerns.” In order to help combat this problem of rising class sizes and course compression, the faculty voted in November to create a Curriculum Committee with the express purpose of coordinating the academic schedule across departments. “In part, this committee takes over from the old Academic Council tasks associated with initial consideration of curricular proposals, prior to bringing those to the full faculty,” Associate Professor of As- tronomy and Chair of the Faculty Andrea Dobson said in an e-mail. “In addition, the Curriculum Committee will consider current concerns such as course compres- sion into too few teaching blocks (e.g., too many classes oered at 10, 11 and 1 p.m.) and facilitate the process of making two- year course schedules available for faculty and students to help students plan more eectively.” When the committee was rst pro- posed it included a student representative. is was done to have the insight of the students when making decisions about what times classes should be oered. In a later revision of the proposal, how- ever, the provision for student representa- tion was taken out over concerns about privacy. “Some faculty favor student involve- ment, some oppose it (e.g., the committee may need to discuss matters that would be too awkward in the presence of students), and many are happy to have student in- volvement as needed,” Dobson said. e current proposal does not elimi- nate students from the committee entirely. Students were written into the nal pro- posal to be consulted as needed. “It’s not that students are not included, just not as committee members,” Dobson said. ASWC does not think this goes far enough. “You are going to have students catch things that might slip through the vertical perspective of the faculty,” Loranger said. “It is so much easier to have students al- Films to watch over break Skiing prepares for season start Whitman alumni return for concert A&E reporter Nate Lessler previews December’s newest releases. page 5 With a big roster of new skiiers, the Whitman team hopes to capitalize on last season’s success. page 7 Dude York to support Chicagobased DJ duo Flosstradamus. page 4 IN THIS ISSUE If the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act passes this week in the Senate and is signed by President Obama, it will change the lives of several Whitman College students. Under the DREAM Act, currently un- documented students would be granted conditional residency, allowing them to live and work legally in the United States aer graduating from Whitman. is act would allow all undocument- ed minors who meet the qualifying crite- ria to work and live in this country aer these individuals complete two years of higher education or two years in the military. e students could potentially qualify for legal permanent residence af- ter 10 years. e DREAM Act ocially passed in the House on Wednesday night (216 to 198) with all but 38 Democrats voting yes, and all but eight Republicans voting no. To qualify for the DREAM Act, one must have been younger than 16 years of age when he or she entered the United States, must have lived in the country for at least ve years, must have graduated from high school or earned a GED and must have no criminal record. Senior Ariel Ruiz, a member of Club Latino and president interim of El Proyecto Voz Latina and several other community organizations, wholeheart- edly supports DREAM. “It allows students who are already prepared and talented to become taxable workers. ey can contribute back to the Whitman students support DREAM Act DREAM ACT, page 3 by KARAH KEMMERLY Staff Reporter ASWC seeks student voice on Curriculum Committee by DEREK THURBER EditorinChief ASWC, page 3 Students, administration mixed on waitlist policy by JOSH GOODMAN News Editor WAITLIST, page 3 Education must inspire rather than force learning RACHEL ALEXANDER Columnist EDUCATION, page 6 With varsity athletes comprising around 20 percent of the student body, bringing topflight scholar-athletes to campus is a definite priority, accord- ing to Athletic Director Dean Snider. Recruiting future Whitman athletes is by no means isolated to athletics, either. The process is a cooperative ac- tivity between varsity coaching staff, admissions and financial aid. Accord- ing to Snider, the past 15 years has brought a change in mindset to athlet- ics, recruiting and its relation to ad- missions and financial aid. “In the 90s, I don’t believe we were as a college pursuing excellence in ath- letics as we are now, and it reflected on admissions practices and financial aid practices. That fact made recruit- ing a more difficult job for coaches,” he said. Rather than relax admissions stan- dards for athletes, however, Whitman has provided more recruiting resourc- es to varsity programs, enabling them to identify talented athletes who can also succeed in a rigorous academic environment. Using institutional monies and contributions made by W Club supporters, one emphasis has been on developing the corps of as- sistant coaches, a key group in the re- cruitment process. “We have been increasing our pool of assistant coaches, and where we don’t have full-time assistant coaches we have added monies for those as- sistants to work more hours,” Snider said. Creativity and use of technology also play a role in Whitman recruit- ing strategies. In addition to attending high school tournaments and per- forming traditional scouting, Whit- man coaches have created blogs, you- tube highlight reels and guided video tours of athletic facilities to entice in- terested athletes. Available to all varsity programs, a new Whitman recruiting practice has also allowed coaches to fly in top re- cruits for campus visits. Started three years ago, the program ramped up fly- in visits last year—and saw dividends. Last spring, then first-year baseball coach Jared Holowaty flew in five key recruits. This fall, all five are here at Whitman, joining 12 other first- year baseball recruits. According to Holowaty, resources like the fly- in program have been critical in rebuilding a program that went 6-50 in two seasons between 2006 and 2008, and had dwindled to 12 rostered players at the end of last year. First-year Aaron Cohen, who was recruited while at by MATT MANLEY Staff Reporter Whitman develops recruiting resources RECRUITING, page 7 KWCW travels to Big Apple by NATE LESSLER Staff Reporter KWCW, page 5 Community members congregate downtown on Tuesday, Dec. 6 to encourage Congress to pass the DREAM Act. In a 216198 decision, the House passed the bill on Wednesday, Dec. 7. Managers attend 30th CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival and return with new ideas to im plement on campus to increase presence CONTRIBUTED BY ARIEL RUIZ Matt Bachmann in the KWCW studios. Photo by Klag SLOANE

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WHITMAN COLLEGE

In late October, KWCW’s manager se-nior Matt Bachmann and music director senior Cecily Foo returned from a trip to New York City with a number of big ideas for the radio station. !e two students attended the 30th CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival, an annual event located

in NYC with over 120,000 attendees. Now, only a month a"er the festival, Hot Poop Records has a “KWCW Recommended” section, KWCW is contributing music re-views to the Union-Bulletin and the radio station will soon start releasing a monthly zine entitled “Hey, Man.”

Bachmann explained the reasoning be-hind many of these new changes.

“We really wanted to put more focus on getting more new music to the Whitman and Walla Walla community,” said Bach-mann. “But [the new changes] also help us spread the word about KWCW.”

Bachmann and Foo got the idea for the zine at College Day, a day at the New York festival that allows representatives from college radio stations all over the nation to meet, hold panels and share ideas.

“!e University of Boston’s [radio sta-tion] handed out copies of a zine that they put together, and we were basically like, ‘!is is a great idea, we should do this,’” said Bachmann.

Foo was equally inspired by the events and panels of College Day.

“I came back from CMJ so excited and inspired by new ideas for the station,” said Foo. “[I was] seriously elated. I couldn’t wait to get started.”

It did not take the team long to start producing the zine. !e #rst issue of “Hey, Man” will be released later this week and will be available in Reid Campus Center.

When people speak about edu-cation reform, they usually toss out phrases like “tougher stan-dards” and “ac-countability.” The idea behind these buzzwords is to make sure our students aren’t

falling behind the rest of the world in terms of problem solving ability or reading level. Reformers talk about getting rid of bad teachers or provid-ing support for early childhood educa-tion, but rarely does anyone ask if the ways in which we expect students to learn are effective or worthwhile.

This semester, I had the opportu-nity to travel through 10 states, sleep under the stars almost every night and learn about Western politics and ecol-ogy from a variety of firsthand sourc-es. Reflecting back on Semester in the West, I’m amazed by the amount I was able to learn in such a short period of time: everything from using a GPS to track where photos of ant hills were taken to the history of fire policy in national forests. Even more amazing

First-year Nilce Alvarez had a smile and a sense of relief on her face last Monday, Dec. 6—she had just received an e-mail saying that she’d made it o$ the waitlist and into the section of Chem 126 that she wanted. !at noti#-cation ended her month-long, stressful experience with the waitlist—a stress many students and some administra-tors believe is more pronounced with the college’s recent decision to no lon-ger use electronic waitlists.

Since the Registrar’s decision to end electronic waitlists for the fall 2010 pre-registration period last April due

in part to the increasing complexity of allowing registration for closed classes through the college’s Datatel registra-tion so"ware, all waitlists have been kept by faculty. Previously, some fac-ulty had opted to keep their own wait-lists, but most courses had electronic waitlists.

While removing waitlists from Datatel allows faculty to select which waitlisted students get into their class, and therefore give priority to students who need the class for their major or are especially interested in the class, it also adds a layer of complexity to the process. Previously, if a class was full, a student would electronically sign up for the waitlist and know their place

on the waitlist queue. If a student was #rst on a waitlist and a seat in the class opened up, the student received an e-mail and could register in a matter of minutes.

Now, if a class is full, the student must e-mail the professor. If the profes-sor decides to o$er a student a seat, he or she e-mails back the student. !en, the student must contact the profes-sor to con#rm the seat, and then the professor must electronically provide the student consent to register. !e student must then call the Registrar’s o%ce to register, since Datatel will not allow a student to register for a closed class, and if he or she has signed up for a full courseload, they must convey to

the Registrar’s o%ce which class they will drop.

“[It’s a] mixed bag. It should be a simple process, but our technology’s made it more complicated,” Registar Ron Urban said, referring to the dif-#culty registering once o$ered a spot o$ the waitlist.

Urban said that while he would like to have an electronic system, many faculty demand to control their wait-lists. But only having so"ware for #rst-come, #rst-served waitlists necessitat-ed the change.

“[Students] don’t understand the system and the faculty [doesn’t] under-stand the system,” Urban said, adding

Although senior Tristan Grau did not have troubling #nding space in the courses he wanted during pre-registration for the spring 2011 semester, he did not get his #rst choice of class schedules.

“When I #rst looked at the available courses for the spring semester to plan my schedule, I realized that three of the classes I wanted were o$ered at the same time at 1 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday a"er-noons,” Grau said.

!is problem of course compression—where certain times during the day have far more classes than other times—is one of a number of reasons this pre-registra-tion season was so frustrating for many students.

“If Whitman wants to continue to be considered a top-tier school, we can’t go on very long having sub-par course selec-tion, availability and constantly rising class sizes,” ASWC Vice President, senior John Loranger said. “Of course nor can we have tuition continue to rise, but it is important to realize that the present trajectory can-not continue without addressing registra-tion and enrollment concerns.”

In order to help combat this problem of rising class sizes and course compression, the faculty voted in November to create a Curriculum Committee with the express purpose of coordinating the academic schedule across departments.

“In part, this committee takes over from the old Academic Council tasks associated with initial consideration of curricular proposals, prior to bringing those to the

full faculty,” Associate Professor of As-tronomy and Chair of the Faculty Andrea Dobson said in an e-mail. “In addition, the Curriculum Committee will consider current concerns such as course compres-sion into too few teaching blocks (e.g., too many classes o$ered at 10, 11 and 1 p.m.) and facilitate the process of making two-year course schedules available for faculty and students to help students plan more e$ectively.”

When the committee was #rst pro-posed it included a student representative. !is was done to have the insight of the students when making decisions about what times classes should be o$ered.

In a later revision of the proposal, how-ever, the provision for student representa-tion was taken out over concerns about privacy.

“Some faculty favor student involve-ment, some oppose it (e.g., the committee may need to discuss matters that would be too awkward in the presence of students), and many are happy to have student in-volvement as needed,” Dobson said.

!e current proposal does not elimi-nate students from the committee entirely. Students were written into the #nal pro-posal to be consulted as needed.

“It’s not that students are not included, just not as committee members,” Dobson said.

ASWC does not think this goes far enough.

“You are going to have students catch things that might slip through the vertical perspective of the faculty,” Loranger said. “It is so much easier to have students al-

Films to watch over break

Skiing prepares for season start

Whitman alumni return for concert

A&E reporter Nate Lessler previews December’s newest releases.

page 5

With a big roster of new skiiers, the Whitman team hopes to

capitalize on last season’s success.page 7

‘Dude York’ to support Chicago-­based DJ duo‘Flosstradamus.’

page 4IN T

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If the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act passes this week in the Senate and is signed by President Obama, it will change the lives of several Whitman College students. Under the DREAM Act, currently un-documented students would be granted conditional residency, allowing them to live and work legally in the United States a"er graduating from Whitman.

!is act would allow all undocument-

ed minors who meet the qualifying crite-ria to work and live in this country a"er these individuals complete two years of higher education or two years in the military. !e students could potentially qualify for legal permanent residence af-ter 10 years.

!e DREAM Act o%cially passed in the House on Wednesday night (216 to 198) with all but 38 Democrats voting yes, and all but eight Republicans voting no.

To qualify for the DREAM Act, one must have been younger than 16 years of

age when he or she entered the United States, must have lived in the country for at least #ve years, must have graduated from high school or earned a GED and must have no criminal record.

Senior Ariel Ruiz, a member of Club Latino and president interim of El Proyecto Voz Latina and several other community organizations, wholeheart-edly supports DREAM.

“It allows students who are already prepared and talented to become taxable workers. !ey can contribute back to the

Whitman students support DREAM Act

DREAM ACT, page 3

by KARAH KEMMERLYStaff Reporter

ASWC seeks student voice on Curriculum Committeeby DEREK THURBEREditor-­in-­Chief

ASWC, page 3

Students, administration mixed on waitlist policyby JOSH GOODMANNews Editor

WAITLIST, page 3

Education must inspire rather than force learning

RACHELALEXANDER

Columnist

EDUCATION, page 6

With varsity athletes comprising around 20 percent of the student body, bringing topflight scholar-athletes to campus is a definite priority, accord-ing to Athletic Director Dean Snider.

Recruiting future Whitman athletes is by no means isolated to athletics, either. The process is a cooperative ac-tivity between varsity coaching staff, admissions and financial aid. Accord-ing to Snider, the past 15 years has brought a change in mindset to athlet-ics, recruiting and its relation to ad-missions and financial aid.

“In the 90s, I don’t believe we were as a college pursuing excellence in ath-letics as we are now, and it reflected on admissions practices and financial aid practices. That fact made recruit-ing a more difficult job for coaches,” he said.

Rather than relax admissions stan-dards for athletes, however, Whitman has provided more recruiting resourc-es to varsity programs, enabling them to identify talented athletes who can also succeed in a rigorous academic environment. Using institutional monies and contributions made by W Club supporters, one emphasis has been on developing the corps of as-sistant coaches, a key group in the re-cruitment process.

“We have been increasing our pool of assistant coaches, and where we don’t have full-time assistant coaches we have added monies for those as-sistants to work more hours,” Snider said.

Creativity and use of technology also play a role in Whitman recruit-ing strategies. In addition to attending high school tournaments and per-forming traditional scouting, Whit-man coaches have created blogs, you-tube highlight reels and guided video tours of athletic facilities to entice in-terested athletes.

Available to all varsity programs, a new Whitman recruiting practice has also allowed coaches to fly in top re-cruits for campus visits. Started three years ago, the program ramped up fly-in visits last year—and saw dividends. Last spring, then first-year baseball coach Jared Holowaty flew in five key recruits. This fall, all five are here at Whitman, joining 12 other first-year baseball recruits. According to Holowaty, resources like the fly-in program have been critical in rebuilding a program that went 6-50 in two seasons between 2006 and 2008, and had dwindled to 12 rostered players at the end of last year.

First-year Aaron Cohen, who was recruited while at

by MATT MANLEYStaff Reporter

Whitman develops recruiting resources

RECRUITING, page 7

KWCW travels to Big Apple

by NATE LESSLERStaff Reporter

KWCW, page 5

Community members congregate downtown on Tuesday, Dec. 6 to encourage Congress to pass the DREAM Act. In a 216-­198

decision, the House passed the bill on Wednesday, Dec. 7.

Managers attend 30th CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival and return with new ideas to im-­plement on campus to increase presence

CONTRIBUTED BY ARIEL RUIZ

Matt Bachmann in the KWCW

studios. Photo by Klag

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“It’s like an oasis away from Whitman,” said sophomore Bao-Tram Do, Whitman’s Intercultural Center Intern.

!e Glover Alston Center (GAC) opened at Whitman in January of this year, and has since changed how student clubs across campus meet and interact. Built with over half a dozen meeting rooms and intended as a designated spot for clubs at Whitman to meet, the GAC has transformed into a home away from home for students.

According to Ben Wu, the intercultural center program advisor, the idea of having a comfortable and safe place for clubs to meet was a major component behind the development of the building. Rather than having to meet in an academic building such as Olin or Maxey Halls, the GAC provides clubs with a more relaxing and comfortable meeting space.

“!e idea was to have a safe, comfy place to meet and bond, and say things you wouldn’t want to say out in public,” he said. “It’s nice to have a set place and a set time that can be reserved in advanced so it’s a space that clubs can rely on.”

Before the opening of the GAC, the Whitman Christian Fellowship (WCF) used to meet at a fellow team leader’s house. However, with the growth of the club, the GAC has provided WCF with much needed space to discuss and learn. Leaders of the club meet at the GAC to or-ganize elements of the club, and members o"en have dinners at the center. Senior Kelsie Butts, the Worship Team Leader of the WCF noted the comfortable environ-ment the GAC provides.

“It’s such a safe space for people, espe-cially in a spiritual faith-based organiza-tion, and the upstairs is especially com-fortable for open discussion,” she said. “Most academic buildings have an aca-demic environment that’s not conducive to good discussion.”

!e GAC also contains a kitchen where students are welcome to cook and eat. For clubs, the kitchen provides the perfect place for members to converse and social-ize over food. Do, who is also a member of the Black Student Union, observed the positive di#erence the kitchen at the GAC has had on the BSU.

“!e kitchen makes it feel like a house

and being there makes us feel like a fam-ily,” she said.

Couches and individual study rooms add to the GAC’s homelike environment, which encourages students to utilize the quiet and cozy atmosphere.

“!ere’s a place to eat, study and sleep, I could spend the entire day there,” Do said.

Although the GAC is sometimes used as a study alternative to the library, the building’s location, at the far west end of campus, means some students are put o# by the time to walk to the GAC to study.

“I’ve just never had a reason to walk over there,” said $rst-year Joel Senecal. “I’d rather walk over to the library to study.”

Jennifer Lopez, president of Club La-tino, has also noticed that some members

$nd it di%cult to make the trek over to the GAC for weekly meetings and dinners.

“I think club participation has dwin-dled a bit, because distance-wise, when it’s cold people don’t want to walk all the way over,” she said.

Nonetheless, the GAC has provided the Whitman community with a place to re-lax and has encouraged student groups to open themselves in a more familiar com-forting environment.

“!e GAC is designed to be a homey place,” Wu said. “Unfortunately when you think of the school as an academic institu-tion you get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, but with the GAC, you can think of it as home when you come in.”

Locals line up for Macy’s Parade of Lights

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A giant rubber duck &oat travels down Main Street during the 15th Annual Macy’s Parade of Lights on Saturday, Dec. 4. About 3500 attended the event, which included 62 entries. !e winning &oat was a horseback-riding drill team from the Walla Walla Wagonettes. Other winners were: Skybound Tumbling (K-8), Lincoln Alternative High School (High School), Phi Beta Lamda (Collegiate), City Church (Religious), Just Us Girls Sharing (J.U.G.S.) (Civic/Neighborhood) and Port of Walla Walla with Walla Walla Regional Airport (Mayor’s Choice).

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by SHELLY LEStaff Reporter

Glover Alston Center becomes integral

part of how Whitman clubs meet

Lian Caspi ‘13 and Ami Koreh ‘13 light a menorah for the third night of Chanukkah as

part of a Hillel-­Shalom latke dinner at the Glover Alston Center on Friday, Dec. 3.

Members of Whitman College’s $rst-year class advocated for and received an extension of the hours for swiping into the residence halls in a seamless ex-ample of student democracy. First-year senators Kayvon Behroozian, Chelsea Darlington, Bella Zarate and Brian Choe each received e-mails from class-mates who were frustrated about their swipe card access. In the prior policy, students living on campus were only able to enter residence halls besides their own until 8 p.m., long before most students went to bed.

A"er Choe brought up the issue in committee, all of the $rst-year senators had a meeting with Residence Life and Housing sta# to voice their concerns.

“Res Life told us that originally stu-dents could swipe in anywhere at all hours but a"er a rampage of the", they decided to set a curfew on swipe access and arbitrarily picked 8 p.m. We ex-plained to Res Life that students wanted to have these hours extended and that 10 p.m. would be a perfect time to cut o# swipe access for non-residents be-cause that is when “Quiet Hours” start,” Behroozian said.

!e new 10 p.m. cuto#, which a#ects Jewett, Douglas, Prentiss and Anderson Halls and Lyman House, began Novem-ber 29.

Assistant director of Residence Life and Housing Sean Gehrke met with the $rst-year senators about this new change in residence life policy, and emphasized that the whole process was well-communicated and relatively simple.

“Brian Choe and Kayvon Behroozian approached us with the idea to extend card swipe access to $rst-year halls in order to increase community building among the $rst-year class for the halls with card swipes. We made the change at their request because it didn’t dras-tically a#ect security for the residence halls and was a task that was easy for the card-swipe system to handle.”

While many students are now swip-ing into their friends’ residence halls

at later hours, some students are still punching in codes and fumbling with keys to get to their own dormitories. Phil Lundquist, Resident Director for North Hall and Tamarack doesn’t pic-ture North Hall’s keys-only system be-ing changed any time soon.

“From what I can tell it is a slow pro-cess. Codes and swipe systems are more secure, but North seems to be a lower priority in terms of these technology updates because we have fewer resi-dents than many of the other residents halls. But not having swipe access isn’t so bad, at North and Marcus I know you can call a room extension to who-ever you are visiting, it will just be an extra two minute wait out in the cold.”

Lundquist was the Resident Direc-tor of Prentiss Hall prior to his position at North and noted that “less keys got lost in Prentiss with swipe cards and the building on the whole was more secure.”

Associate Director of Campus Secu-rity Craig McKinnon also felt that card swipes have made the campus more se-cure.

“I’ve been working with Whitman’s security for 30 years, and I remember when they $rst started trials of install-ing the swipe cards. If someone loses a swipe card, we can cancel their account and monitor access to pinpoint the location of a stolen card; that’s some-thing you can’t do with lost keys. !ere have been and there will continue to be glitches with the swipe cards, but problems with the cards are pretty in-frequent.”

McKinnon hopes that the extended hours for swipe access will prevent stu-dents from propping open residence hall doors for friends, which he believes was a huge problem in previous years. But he encourages students to be cau-tions, no matter what swipe hours are allowed.

“Across the nation, about 80 percent of college the"s are committed by the students themselves. We will continue to monitor safety regarding the change in residence life policy and we may need to take extra precautions if there is an increase in the".”

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Applications for Early Decision I edge down

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!e application numbers for Early Decision I, which had a November 15 deadline, are in. !is year there are about 100 applications. !is is on the low-end of the average range of Early Decision I applicants for the past few years, which has been between 90 and 140 applicants. A much smaller pool of between 40 and 80 applicants is expect-ed for Early Decision II, which is due on January 1.

Unlike colleges on the east coast such as Duke University or Yale Uni-versity, where early decision applicant numbers run in the thousands and the admitted students "ll half the incoming class, a maximum of a quarter of each Whitman class is made up of early de-cision applicants.

Of the early decision applicant pool, typically about 60 to 70 percent of them

are admitted to Whitman, as opposed to about 46 percent who were admitted from regular decision last year.

“Historically, students who have ap-plied early decision perform slightly better academically, and have better retention and graduation rates,” said Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Tony Cabasco.

In 2008, Whitman Early Decision I applications hit a peak of about 140. !e 110 applicantions from 2009 and 100 this year show a slight downward curve. !is could be because of the re-cession, but Cabasco says these num-bers are within the range for the past few years.

One concern about early decision is the binding contract to accept. Accord-ing to Cabasco, the O#ce of Admission “want[s] this to be a well considered, thoughtful decision. It re$ects you are a thoughtful person about the college search, thus, a good member of Whit-

man community.”Annie Sing, a high school senior

from Olympia, Wash., like many se-niors, takes this into account.

“I’m not sure if Whitman is my for sure number one,” she says. “I don’t want to risk being bound to a school if I’m not positive.”

With the contract, an early decision applicant is committing to enroll ex-cept for "nancial hardship.

“It’s good that that clause is in there,” says "rst-year and early decision ap-plicant Julian Hayward. “!at way, students aren’t committed before they know if they can a%ord it.”

!e Early Decision I applications are currently in the reading process. O%ers of admission will be mailed right be-fore Whitman gets out for winter break and arrive around December 18.

“For many, it’s a great Christmas present,” said Cabasco. “It’s the peace of mind, that’s the great advantage.”

economy. Both the country and these students bene"t,” he said.

Ruiz also says that DREAM will ben-e"t the country "nancially.

“Some opponents say that it will strain the budget. But it will actually bring us money.”

!e congressional cost estimate for DREAM, S.3992, predicts that enacting DREAM would reduce the budget de"cit by 1.4 billion dollars between 2011-2020.

Ruiz says that DREAM would not greatly change the admission process at Whitman because Whitman doesn’t turn a student down because of his or her immigration status. However,

DREAM would change the appropria-tion of "nancial aid for these students. If DREAM were to pass they would be eligible for federal student loans and grants.

Ruiz has been meeting with a group of about 10 undocumented Whitman students and the O#ce of the Presi-dent in order to prepare an event about DREAM. !ey hope that this event, which is supposed to take place in either January or February, will be a post-anal-ysis of the implementation of DREAM. !eir goal is to have a panel of speakers--academics, politicians, and students.

“Its purpose is to raise awareness in faculty, students and the community about issues facing undocumented stu-

dents,” he said.!is group of students has also been

involved in rallies, marches and making phone calls to senators asking for their support of DREAM.

El Proyecto Voz Latina also hosted a vigil on Tuesday, Dec. 7 in support of DREAM. Dozens of participants marched from Fort Walla Walla to the plaza at 1st and Main.

Senior Lissa Erickson, director of Voz Latina, hopes that DREAM will be just the start of increased opportunities for immigrants in this country.

“We believe that passing the DREAM Act is only the "rst of many steps our politicians must take to create immigra-tion policy that seeks justice and a digni-

"ed place for immigrants in our society,” she said.

She says that Voz Latina’s has urged other members of the Whitman com-munity to recognize their own privileges and to use their in$uence in the commu-nity to help make these same opportuni-ties available to undocumented students.

Many members of the Whitman com-munity have already recognized this. A resolution showing support for DREAM was passed in the student senate in Oc-tober.

Senior John Loranger, vice president of ASWC and chair of the student a%airs committee believes the resolution clearly took a stance.

“!e purpose of this resolution was

to show that the students of Whitman College support higher education for all. !is kind of political statement makes our position clear.”

Ruiz wishes that the Board of Trustees and President Bridges would join the list of dozens of colleges and universi-ties across the nation that have already publicly supported the DREAM Act. But taking a political stance could be some-what problematic for them.

Loranger feels that they have said a lot already.

“It’s understandable that President Bridges can’t make that statement. But I think it says a lot about the policy of the college that there are undocumented students attending Whitman.”

that he didn’t feel that faculty should be have to be responsible for waitlists on top of their academic duties.

Indeed, the current process is con-fusing. Some professors go with a "rst-come, "rst-serve policy; others give preference to those who need the class for the major. Some faculty, $ooded with requests, haven’t responded to the e-mails; Urban recently sent an e-mail encouraging them to do so.

In a more unusual case, Assistant Professor of Astronomy Nathaniel Paust decided this semester to inter-view students interested in getting o% the waitlist for ASTRO 110: Principles of Astronomy.

“I hope I can get the people who re-ally want the class, and hopefully will be good additions to the class,” he said.

Out of about 30 people who e-mailed him to ask for a spot on the waitlist, seven have signed up for an interview.

“Given the decrease in people who

blindly asked to be on the waitlist to the people who actually followed through, it seems like it’ll work pretty well,” he said. “Of course, I won’t know for sure before the start of next semes-ter, when they actually have to show up for class.”

Paust said he got the idea to inter-view students from his wife’s experi-ence at Harvard, where students had to write essays to get into extremely popular classes taught by Nobel Lau-reates. Unlike those classes, though, Paust plans to be more generous with whom he lets in, letting in up to 10—and maybe more—students beyond the pre-registration cap of 45.

In other cases, students must "gure out how to get on the waitlist at all. During fall 2010 pre-registration in April, junior Michael Hanley wanted to get on the waitlist for Elementary and Standard Arabic for this fall. Problem was, the professor—a visiting professor—wasn’t yet at Whitman, and didn’t even have a Whitman e-mail ad-dress.

“He wasn’t on campus yet, so I tracked down [Chair of the Depart-ment Akira] Takemoto,” Hanley said. “!at one was a little up in the air.”

But Hanley, who ultimately got into the Arabic class and also got o% the waitlist for !eories of Empire, a class for his environmental studies-politics major, said he prefers e-mailing profes-sors over an electronic waitlist system.

“As an underclassman, I just kind of did the [electronic] waitlist but wasn’t assertive about it,” he said, noting that he never did make it into a class from an electronic waitlist. “!e e-mailing system hasn’t been a problem for me. !e more communication with profes-sors, the better.”

First-year Nick Shariat, however, is more frustrated with the e-mail wait-list system. Shariat is trying to get o% the waitlist into Bio 111: Biological Principles—a pre-requisite for most other biology courses—as well as his preferred section of his organic chem-istry lab.

“It’s an ambiguous process. Besides

the fact that I’m new here, what I have to do isn’t clear,” he said.

Shariat e-mailed both professors and personally followed up with one of them, but doesn’t know what his odds of getting into the classes are. While Shariat supported the ability of faculty to decide who gets o% the waitlist, he wishes the system were better integrat-ed into the registration process.

!is, it turns out, will be coming soon. WCTS has been working on a work$ow management system de-signed to simplify the waitlist process, and hopes to have a pilot version ready for fall 2011 pre-registration by April.

“!e idea is to take the advantage to the student of the electronic wait-list, which is to somehow indicate that they’re interested in the classes that are closed, and retain the advantage to the faculty so they can control who’s in the class, but take care of it in a timely manner so nobody’s coming into the class three days late,” said Michael Quiner, Whitman’s director of enter-prise technology.

!e new system would allow a stu-dent to indicate their interest in a closed class in the online registration program, which would trigger an e-mail to the professor. !e professor could then provide the student con-sent, which would trigger an e-mail to the registrar’s o#ce, who would then contact the student.

In addition to streamlining the pro-cess, Quiner hopes the new system will allow the college to track waitlist sta-tistics; no statistics are kept now since each professor handles his or her own waitlist.

Alvarez, the student who got o% the Chem 126 waitlist, hopes for anything to make her registration and waitlist processes easier next year.

“Hopefully it won’t be like this every single semester,” she said. “I really don’t know what the ideal circumstances for getting everybody into their classes would be, but I really don’t want to go through something like that again, be-cause it’s very stressful and very time-consuming.”

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CORRECTIONS TO ISSUE 11

The article “Vigil observes World

AIDS Day” on page 1 should be

credited to Alyssa Goard.

The correct spelling of Walla Wal-­

la University’s vocal group, which

was featured in the “Pio Picks” on

page 5, is “Walla Walla I Cantori.”

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WAITLISTS: New management software to pilot in April

at later hours, some students are still punching in codes and fumbling with keys to get to their own dormitories. Phil Lundquist, Resident Director for North Hall and Tamarack doesn’t pic-ture North Hall’s keys-only system be-

what I can tell it is a slow pro-cess. Codes and swipe systems are more secure, but North seems to be a lower priority in terms of these technology updates because we have fewer resi-dents than many of the other residents halls. But not having swipe access isn’t so bad, at North and Marcus I know you can call a room extension to who-ever you are visiting, it will just be an extra two minute wait out in the cold.”

was the Resident Direc-tor of Prentiss Hall prior to his position at North and noted that “less keys got lost in Prentiss with swipe cards and the building on the whole was more

Director of Campus Secu-rity Craig McKinnon also felt that card swipes have made the campus more se-

been working with Whitman’s security for 30 years, and I remember when they "rst started trials of install-ing the swipe cards. If someone loses a swipe card, we can cancel their account and monitor access to pinpoint the location of a stolen card; that’s some-thing you can’t do with lost keys. !ere have been and there will continue to be glitches with the swipe cards, but problems with the cards are pretty in-

hopes that the extended hours for swipe access will prevent stu-dents from propping open residence hall doors for friends, which he believes was a huge problem in previous years. But he encourages students to be cau-tions, no matter what swipe hours are

the nation, about 80 percent of college the&s are committed by the students themselves. We will continue to monitor safety regarding the change in residence life policy and we may need to take extra precautions if there

ready in the room. I doubt that the faculty are going to wait and have students come in to the next meeting before making key decisions.”

He believes that given the tight dead-lines of proposals coming to the commit-tee, its members might not have su#cient time to consult students.

“We are all invested in this institution,” ASWC President senior Carson Burns added. “We all want what is best for the college and having students on the com-mittee would enable it to make the best and most informed decisions.”

ASWC also rejects the idea that stu-dents could not be trusted dealing with sensitive and private matters.

“Students are already sitting on other faculty committees including the Presi-dent’s Budget Advisory Committee and the Council on Student A%airs, which both deal with highly sensitive and con-"dential matters,” Burns said. “It is hard

to understand why faculty wouldn’t want students to be a part of discussions on the curriculum because, like the faculty, we are the ones experiencing it on a daily basis.”

!is question of student representation is far from resolved. Carson and Burns were invited to speak at the most recent faculty meeting in December where they presented the results from the ASWC pre-registration survey and urged the faculty to support a motion to re-introduce stu-dent representation to the Curriculum Committee.

At the time of publication, no faculty members have stepped up and supported such a motion. Both Dobson and ASWC remain hopeful that progress can be made in the future and that the faculty and ASWC can come to a satisfying conclu-sion for both sides.

“I anticipate working with [Burns and Loranger] more in the spring semester on the question of student membership on the Curriculum Committee,” Dobson said.

until 10 p.m., lack access to

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by MOLLY JOHANSONStaff Reporter

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DEC 9, 2010

Page 4 A&EDance theater performs student-­created pieces

Students in Whitman’s Dance !eater class will perform original choreo-graphed pieces combined with various forms of modern dance on Friday, Dec. 10 in Cordiner Hall. !e majority of this year’s dances are student directed, as class members are not only serving as dancers but choreographers of the pieces as well.

“!is year is di"erent in that Vicki Lloid [adjunct instructor of dance] turned the show over to student chore-ographers; usually there are one or two pieces done by students but this year it’s reversed,” said dancer and student cho-reographer senior Kate Robinette.

Modern dance is known for the wide range of styles and techniques it encom-passes; the freedom allows dancers to choreograph in ways that re#ect certain themes and ideas.

“!ere are a lot of di"erent things that modern dance can be, it’s not classical ballet . . . it can really be anything,” said dancer and choreographer junior Rhya Milici.

Milici is one of two students who cho-reographed original pieces for the per-formance. Her dance focuses on sleep and the movements associated with it, such as sleep walking.

“I am choreographing about a 25-minute piece that is a dance study of sleep. !e piece is titled ‘Dreaming Alone,’ and it started out as me doing a lot of research about sleep,” said Milici.

Modern dance also allows for #exibil-

ity in terms of song selection, although many people choose to have more ab-stract songs without lyrics. According to Milici, her piece has a certain emotional quality as a result of her song choice, which features popular songs with rec-ognizable lyrics.

“I chose to use more recognizable tunes, and from the lyrics there is an emotional quality attached onto the movement,” said Millici. “So it’s not only a dance study of sleep--it also has an un-requited love motif throughout.”

Student choreographers and danc-ers have put in many hours to prepare for this performance, and the creative license implicit in designing and plan-ning original pieces is accompanied by a heavy workload.

“I worked throughout the summer and this semester choosing music, com-ing up with a theme and then working through movement that conveyed and explored that theme on my own and with my dancers,” said Robinette. “!en we had bi-weekly rehearsals to learn the piece. I had the opportunity to make de-cisions about costumes and lighting as well.”

Robinette’s $rst piece focuses on the baggage that accompanies life, and fea-tures ropes as symbols for the emotion-al weight. Her second piece is centered on the ever-present search for stability.

“[One] piece is entitled ‘!e Pull of the Past’ and it deals a lot with the bag-gage we carry around in our lives,” said Milici.

!is event is free for all Whitman stu-dents and will take place at 8 p.m.

DJ duo Flosstradamus to turn tables at campus show

Flosstradamus, a Chicago-based DJ duo, is performing at Whitman on December 9, after support from bands Strength and Dude York. Composed of the DJs “2K” (Josh Young) and “Au-tobot” (Curt Cameruci), the duo has been gaining popularity since the mid-2000s and is known for their bombastic presence at mu-sic festivals.

“[Flosstrada-mus] has per-formed at some of the biggest music festi-vals in the country. They are frequently as-sociated with acts such as Kid Sister, The Cool Kids and A-Trak,” said Whitman Events Board member junior Kelsey Houghton.

Their style of music is a mix of mashups of popular hip-hop songs and dance beats.

“They are known for doing in-credible remixes of familiar hip-hop and pop music, and there is a strong beat throughout the entire show, mak-ing it virtually impossible to stand still,” said Houghton. “Some of their stuff has a sort of electronic feel to it, too.”

WEB decided to bring Flosstrada-mus after overwhelming support in favor of the duo. Every semester WEB

members gather and review potential acts that fit within the budget, and then take a vote to decide which act will come to campus.

“Each [WEB] member is given a list of about ten bands that meet the requirements and we all discuss the possibilities and vote on our favorite,” said Houghton. “Flosstradamus was the overall favorite this semes-ter.”

Flosstradamus’s turntables will be contrasted by the opening acts, who are more traditional bands insofar as instrumentation.

“We’re going to have a Portland band called Strength, which is kind of the opposite of Flosstradamus because they are a four-person band with in-struments and vocals, and also we

have Dude York which is a couple of Whitman students who graduated last year,” said WEB music coordinator Carissa Wagner.

WEB prioritized talent and quality of the bands when it came time to nar-row down the openers.

“We felt it was very important to book openers who offer both quality

music and a great, upbeat live show,” said Hough-ton. “Strength is an

electronica-infused rock band from Portland that defi-

nitely lives up to all these expecta-tions.”

The incorporation of Dude York, a

band made up entirely of

W h i t m a n a l u m n i , was also

an impor-tant factor when

choosing groups to open.“They were a campus favor-

ite last year, and I think people will be really excited to see how far

this band has come,” said Houghton.

“It’s just going to be a fantastic show, everyone

I’ve talked to who has seen them live has said it’s been an amazing ex-

perience, and it’s before fi-nals and everyone is stressed out. It is an amazing opportunity to come and dance your heart out,” said Wagner.

Students are encouraged to attend this free event, which is closed to the public. It will take place in Reid Ballroom from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. The last call for tickets will be today, Thursday, Dec. 9 in Reid.

by MCCAULAY SINGER!MILNESStaff Reporter

I know that I just wrote a sewing article, but I want to keep everyone su%ciently busy over the long winter break. When those long listless days of missing Whit-man kicks in, pull out your mother’s, neighbor’s or friend’s sewing machine and start altering your wardrobe so you can impress your friends when classes $nally start again. Even if you do not take your garment in to $t (see last issue) changing the hem and sleeve design can make your shirt or dress look completely new.

!ere is one key aspect of sewing that I cannot stress enough. Take your time to be precise with the preparation of a gar-ment if you want your $nished product to look tidy, professional and not like you just hacked it out in your backyard. Believe me, I know what a bother it can be to have to meticulously measure, iron, pin and re-iron, and pin again be-fore sewing. I used to skip hemming and buttonholes when I made clothes for my stu"ed animals, and even in my teenage

years I rushed through projects, justi$ed with the fact that the un$nished style of exposed seams was “in.” Well, it really isn’t anymore, so do the prep work!

!ere are many di"erent hems to choose from. If you really want to change the style of a blouse beyond just shorten-ing it, try a traditional blouse hem. !is style is shorter at the side seams and lon-ger in the middle of your torso. !e easi-est way to do this is to use a blouse you already have with this hem as a model and trace the hem onto your project. Re-member to trace the hem lower on your blouse than you want the hem to rest. Most blouse and shirt hems are short, so about an inch of excess will su%ce. If you want to shorten the sleeves and you are not sure how to do it, I also recommend using a shirt with a sleeve pattern you like as a model.

Measure carefully, make sure it’s even on both sides and then cut. Once you have made the cut, take the garment to the ironing board and fold the hem un-der a half inch and iron #at. Repeat this step one more time, rolling the fold un-der so that the cut edge is not visible, then

pin the folds down. Put the garment on one last time to be sure you like the al-terations.

If you approve of the length and style of the pinned garment, you are ready to sew. When sewing, choose a point on your sewing machine to measure so that your stitches are even all the way around. Lay down a piece of masking tape or blue tape if there aren’t any lines. Select a thread that blends nicely with the color of your garment. I recommend cotton-covered polyester, especially when work-ing on a sewing machine. !e stretch of polyester with the smooth $nish of cot-ton is the easiest for machines to handle. When sewing, choose a setting of three or less, since anything larger is a basting stitch and won’t be very secure. I gener-ally choose 2.5 as the setting. Use a piece of scrap fabric and test the tension of the machine by stitching a few inches on it. If the stitches look loose on one side and tight on the other, consult your sewing machine manual about adjusting the ten-sion. If they look even and tight on both sides, you are ready to start sewing. Enjoy break as well as your new projects.

THRIFTY WHIT TIES

Alterations for shirt, blouse sleeves

by OLIVIA JONESColumnist

Part 2: Fun, stylish hemming and hawing options to do over Winter Break

Yes, “Charlie Bartlett” is a teen movie. However, to end descriptions of it there would be to seriously overlook the $lm’s positive aspects and originality, as well as to limit the experience of the viewer dur-ing this entertaining and thoughtful $lm.

!e story centers around 17-year-old Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchon), a quirky, awkward yet likable guy striving for popularity at his new public school. Unable to stay at private schools due to his various business ventures, one of which is selling fake IDs,Charlie Bartlett attends his new school, blazer and attaché case in hand. Genuinely friendly with every-one he meets, he quickly encounters the school’s bullies and thus a toilet.

Determined to change his situation he begins to serve as the school psychia-trist, and makes the bully, Murphy Bivens (Tyler Hilton), his business partner. !e two set up shop in the boy’s bathroom and between stall conferences and sell the medication prescribed to Charlie by vari-ous doctors. In e"ect, they begin to “heal” the students. !ough this sounds some-what twisted, Bartlett is entirely likable throughout the movie in that he doesn’t create the business for money. Instead, he does it because he wants nothing more than to help people. Bartlett is quick-wit-ted, hilarious and let’s face it--adorable.

Cue love interest: Susan Gardner (Kat Dennings) is the daughter of high school principal Nathan Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.). Susan and Charlie gravitate

toward one another and begin the heal-ing process as they both have problems with their fathers. We learn that Principal Gardner has turned to the bottle since his wife cheated on him and le&, using alcohol to cope with the stress of his job. Charlie’s dad is in prison for tax evasion, and his mom has not been the same since making it Charlie’s duty to keep her from relapsing into another period of depres-sion.

!e problems arise from the respec-tive families, particularly her father who begins to spiral out of control, and the premise of selling prescription drugs cre-ates issues as well. While the various high school and drug-addict stereotypes are there, the characters are far more three-dimensional than one may expect. !e strength of the $lm lies in its ability to create endearing characters through their entirely believable #aws. !ey all mean well--but as they are inherently human, life is messy. !e actors succeed in por-traying both sides of each character, mak-ing it impossible to truly dislike anyone as a whole, instead sympathizing with their struggles.

At times the events feel exaggerated and dramatic, particularly by the end, but the drama is to be expected. !e viewer never needs to feel cheated or insulted by the slightly unrealistic resolutions to oth-erwise challenging situations. All-in-all, this $lm o"ers a fun, cerebral break, espe-cially as $nals are fast approaching. Also you can take time to remind yourself how thankful you are to be in college a&er you $nish watching.

by MCCAULAY SINGER!MILNESStaff Reporter

MOVIE REVIEW

Quirky protagonist ‘Charlie

“!e about the art. Made on a shoestring budget over the course of a decade, this is the movie that ran for the best animation Oscar against the likes of “Up”, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “Coraline.” Done partially by hand and partially in computer programs such as Flash, “!e Secret of Kells” takes an old Irish fable and illuminates it with the power of $lm.

Irish settlement. !e abbot of the settlement, his uncle, is both an arch disciplinarian who forbids Brendan from crossing the massive walls that protect the settlement from an always-present Viking threat. When a visiting illuminator named Aiden brings a fantastic text to Kells and becomes Brendan’s mentor, he begins to venture into the old world of Irish myth and legend—much to the abbot’s chagrin.

$lm is a gentle family-friendly a"air. !e strength of the $lm lies instead in the incredible animation. Each scene is packed with detail while maintaining a strange sense of abstraction. !ere’s no perspective; objects are #attened like

by MCCAULAY SINGER!MILNESStaff Reporter

Though its storyline is family-­friendly, the striking animation and intricrate

Dance students take charge of choreography and show

Whitman’s Chorale sings at the Fall Concert last Saturday, Dec. 4 in Chism Hall. The concert also featured the work of the Chamber

Singers. The two groups sang with other Walla Walla choirs and Whitman a cappella groups at the Dec. 5 Feast of Carols.

PARRISH

Director Jon Poll’s ‘Charlie Bartlett’ (2007)

CANEPA

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Ladies and gents, it’s time for me to write a col-umn about pi-rates. Before you go and grab your eye patches and cutlasses (or speedboats and AK-47s, if you’re feeling modern), this is a column about digital pi-

racy. Odds are, if you’re at Whitman, you’ve probably pirated some sort of media at some time in your life.

Of course, that’s a problem for people who create things that are eas-ily pirated. With peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing so easily available and ac-cessible, the price of digitally readable media like video and music is zero dollars. (For the purposes of this ar-ticle, price is different than cost. Price is what people need to pay, and cost is how much it takes to make some-thing.) Without people paying, con-tent producers can’t produce content. What can they do?

There are three things motivating people to buy easily-copied products in the digital age: security, tech sup-port and warm fuzzy feelings. The first, I think, is obvious. Large content distribution systems are usually se-

cure, and generally don’t have major risks hiding in them. If I download a game from Steam, or a song from iTunes, I think it’s a reasonable expec-tation that neither contains a virus. P2P downloads always carry a risk of infecting your computer with some-thing problematic.

Tech support also makes sense to me. If I download an album from iTunes, and it won’t play on my iPhone, I can go into the Genius Bar or call AppleCare and get help. Now of course, if I went into the Apple Store complaining that the Barry Manilow box set that I downloaded in an ar-cane file format (here’s looking at you, Ogg Vorbis) from BitTorrent didn’t play on my iPhone, I’d be laughed out of there. Likewise, I wouldn’t expect a developer to support a cracked copy of their application. Piracy, while cheap, holds no promise of accessible tech support.

Warm fuzzy feelings are the best way I can describe the amalgamation of the psychological factors that go into a content purchase. An example: when it comes to comic books I have a choice. I can download new issues that are posted on Wednesday, or go into my Friendly Local Comic Shop (FLCS) to purchase some new flop-pies. The FLCS route holds several benefits: I like the feeling of reading

a comic in its intended, dead-tree state; I know that I’m supporting the creator(s), the writer(s) and the art team with my purchase; and I’m help-ing to support my FLCS and keep it around so I can continue to get comics. Likewise, when I purchased Amanda Palmer’s new album in digi-tal form, I also paid for a cherry-red vinyl record version of it and a t-shirt. In the package containing the physical goods was a small, business card-sized thank you note, signed by Ms. Palmer. Again, the warm fuzzy intangibles (and spiffy tangible things) are help-ing me part with my money.

So, how do content creators make money when it’s possible for people to get media for free? Well, the bad news is, there’s no silver bullet. For some people, the fact you can get music, movies and apps for free means they’ll never pay for them again. But, for art-ists and other content producers who can leverage the three factors above, they have a better chance of making it.

It’s a process that Mike Masnick of the blog Techdirt boils down to a simple formula: “CwF + RtB,” better known as Connect with Fans + Rea-son to Buy. If you provide your fans with the personal attention they want, and give them some reason to part with their money, the more likely they are to do so.

WikiLeaks’ response telling

Software developers must connect with

Dear Editor,!is past October, I had the amaz-

ing opportunity to raise funds for the Chris Elliott Foundation as part of the annual Mr. Whitman contest. My par-ticipation in this event, as well as the !anksgiving holiday and National Philanthropy Day last month, remind me of all the people that make Whit-man incredible. I’d like to take the time here to recognize some of them.

Each year, sta", faculty, parents and alumni donate generously to Whitman College. Last year, around one-third of Whitman sta", faculty and parents, as well as almost half of Whitman alumni, helped fund internships, #tness center

equipment, scholarships, sta"-faculty research and more. Since tuition dol-lars cover only a portion of the facili-ties and opportunities that Whitman students enjoy, these contributions are essential to maintaining the down-to-earth yet academically-rigorous lib-eral arts education that we all prize. In short, Whitman would not be as amaz-ing as it is without their support.

!ank you sta", faculty, parents and alumni. !e students of Whitman Col-lege truly appreciate your contribu-tions.

!ank you,Joe WheelerMr. Whitman 2010

Following Google’s retreat from mainland China, WikiLeaks is pro-voking another war between the citizens and their government.

Over 250,000 classi#ed cables from U.S. embas-sies have been re-leased to !e New York Times, the

Guardian and three other media organiza-tions. !e cables detailed the instructions U.S. diplomats received to spy on impor-tant countries and U.N. leaders’ personal information, including DNA, and also Washington’s evaluations on many highly sensitive international issues such as the assessment of Iran’s missile program.

Franco Frattini, Italy’s foreign minister, described the release of these embassy cables as “the 9/11 of world diplomacy”, as reported by the Guardian. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other White House members had to work extra hours apologizing for the leakage.

Frattini could be right to some ex-tent that there might be friction between governments concerning the frank com-ments. A good example is U.S. Ambassa-dor to China Jon Hunstman’s accusation of Beijing’s foreign policy of “muscle-$exing, triumphalism and assertiveness” that also turns a blind eye toward North Korea’s illegal missile parts exports.

However, neither the world diplomacy crisis nor the friction between China and the U.S. came as the prime minister pre-dicted. !e Chinese government stayed calm and o%cially announced that it “hope[s] the U.S. side will properly han-dle relevant issues.” No criticism on the ambassador’s accusation! No warning on how the assessment could damage China’s image!

Instead, Jiang Yu, China’s foreign minis-try spokesperson, criticized the WikiLeaks cables as “absurd” and “ridiculous”. Yu emphasized that China did not want the cables to disturb Sino-U.S. relations. !e

Chinese government o%cially blocked the WikiLeaks.

A similar story happened in France. !ough French President Nicholas Sar-kozy was described as “thin-skinned and authoritarian”, France, along with China and America, appealed to close down the website.

WikiLeaks was forced to shut down its service for the third time in one week a&er Amazon received political pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, according to the report of the Guardian. Amazon denied political motivation in stopping its service to WikiLeaks, while Julian Assange, creator and spokesman of WikiLeaks, has become F.B.I.’s Most Want-ed and a headache troublemaker to almost all governments.

Chris Anderson from T.E.D. (Tech-nology Entertainment and Design) did a on-site survey during his interview with Assange, asking what the audience identi-#es Assange as—a people’s hero or a dan-gerous troublemaker. Almost everyone raised their hands to support that Assange is a “people’s hero”. Published at the end of July 2010, the interview clip on YouTube has received almost thousands of “likes” and a very few tens of “dislikes”. However, in some video clips about Assange and WikiLeaks, comments are not allowed to display.

Censorship goes beyond China! !ere are Chinese netizens, mockingly, welcom-ing the U.S. to join China in terms of cen-sorship. Unlike the Google case, the Chi-nese are not alone anymore in #ghting for a transparent government and free access to information, which is guaranteed both in Chinese constitution and American constitution.

!e WikiLeaks case, though simply a website built by several activists, serves as an examination on the relationship be-tween people and the government people elected. What Assange has been doing is an act to bring back the rights that people deserve from the government. At least the war WikiLeaks initiated is a reminder to stay critical of the government and the de-cisions the government makes.

LET TER TO THE EDITOR

LOOS-­DIALLO

EDUCATION: Schools must incite students’

POLITIC AL C ARTOON

!is past November, the faculty voted to create a new Curriculum Committee to address many of the concerns about en-rollment pressure and course compres-sion that have arisen this year a&er the faculty moved from a six-course to a #ve-course teaching load.

!ough the original proposal for this committee included student represen-tation, the Division Chairs decided to strike this provision on the #nal version in favor of consulting students “as needed for additional information.”

!is solution ignores how full student participation can improve the education-al environment at Whitman.

!is semester, Provost and Dean Timothy Kaufman-Osborn and ASWC President Carson Burns have sent let-ters to the student body addressing what steps the administration and ASWC are each taking to relieve the current enroll-ment pressures and improve the quality of a Whitman education. !e creation of the Curriculum Committee is one of these steps.

!e Curriculum Committee is man-dated to make decisions primarily per-taining to when classes are o"ered and which classes are o"ered. !e committee will also consider credit requirements for major completion as well as how en-rollment pressure a"ects academic de-partments. !ese are all issues that are currently addressed with minimal coor-dination across departments.

!ese are all issues that directly a"ect the educational experience of Whitman students and warrant active student in-volvement in the decision-making pro-cess.

Having students invited to participate on an “as needed” basis does not fully ad-dress these concerns. Under the present provisions, students could be called to report on issues but would not be active and equal participants in debates on cur-riculum issues for the simple reason that their participation still lies at the discre-tion of the faculty.

Ultimately, the students have a di"er-ent perspective from the faculty—a per-spective that can only help the committee make the most informed decisions that improve the Whitman education experi-ence.

!ere is no satisfactory middle ground on this issue. Either students are full members of the committee or they are not. Much of the decision to eliminate student representation on the commit-tee was due to concerns of con#dentiality and appropriateness of student involve-ment in high-level policy decisions made by the faculty. !ese concerns over stu-dent con#dentiality ignore the fact that students already discuss comparably im-portant if not more serious issues in the President’s Budget Advisory Committee as well as the Council on Student A"airs.

Other institutions that Whitman com-pares itself to, such as Grinnell, Pitzer,

Pomona and St. Olaf, all have Curricu-lum Committees with at least three stu-dent members who participate without faculty invitation. Why do these schools trust their students to be a part of the discussion on a Curriculum Committee, when Whitman--a school that prides it-self on student engagement and partici-pation--does not?

!e educational experience at Whit-man thus involves not only classroom learning, but also student representation in matters that directly impact students. Whitman encourages students to be ac-tive citizens in their community and what better place to start than at Whitman it-self? With that in mind, having students participate in the decision making pro-cess on the Curriculum Committee can be both an important policy decision as well as a further educational opportunity.

!ough we believe the faculty’s abil-ity to make decisions with the interest of Whitman at heart, we encourage the fac-ulty to reconsider this decision to exclude students from fully participating in the Curriculum Committee. As part of the Whitman educational experience, stu-dents must be given the chance to dem-onstrate their ability to actively debate and discuss the future of the Whitman curriculum. Students must have a voice in what they are taught. A&er all, what can having a student in the room do ex-cept add one more voice and perspective to the conversation?

BLAIRFRANK

Columnist

DOUGLAS

DINGLI

Columnist

is how much I learned is how little tradi-tional academic work I had to do. Aside from a few brief ecology exams, almost nothing I produced all semester was as-signed any kind of grade. !e essays I wrote were about topics I got to choose, and my work on them was almost en-tirely motivated by the enjoyment I got from formulating a coherent position on a topic and articulating it clearly.

Most education in this country is based on a system of rewards and pun-ishments. In particular, American high schools are designed to make students follow directions. Tests are standard-ized, classes are required and students are robbed of almost all autonomy. Pay attention, study, and you’ll be rewarded with an A and maybe even acceptance into a good college. It doesn’t matter if you forget the material #ve minutes a&er your last test is over. It doesn’t matter if anything you learn is applicable to your day-to-day life. Contrast this with some-thing like Semester in the West. During the course of the semester, I listened to speakers who were incredibly passion-

ate about topics ranging from desert tortoise habitat to the bureaucracy sur-rounding grazing permits. I wasn’t there to ful#ll distribution requirements, get an easy A or boost my resume. I paid at-tention, asked questions and took notes because I wanted to learn.

I’m not suggesting that Semester in the West is a perfect academic experience, nor that there isn’t value in traditional methods of education. But the clear pas-sion I saw in the #eld, from teachers and students, is something I think is o&en missing in the average American class-room. Too o&en I’ve heard friends write papers based on what they thought the teacher’s opinion was, or pick topics they already know a lot about so they’ll have to do less research. When papers are written to be read aloud to a group of peers, rather than turned in, graded and forgotten, students engage with their writing more. Writing becomes a pro-cess—write, read aloud, hear comments, seek advice, revise—rather than a chore or task to be checked o" of a to-do list.

When education promotes genuine engagement with the material being taught, it fosters interest and commit-

ment which extend far beyond the end of the class. I’ve heard many Whitman students talk about hating Encounters because they felt that their peers weren’t really engaged in discussions, and were just going through the motions to pass the class. In contrast, almost everyone I went on Semester in the West with still possess a long list of questions prompted by what they learned on the program. Many of us will be doing research about these issues during winter break because we want to keep learning.

If education reform is to be e"ective, schools need to promote ways of learn-ing which engage students on di"erent registers. !reatening high schoolers with an F might coerce some into study-ing for a test, and a few others into cheat-ing, but it won’t make anyone remember the material being taught or apply it to their own life. Teachers should strive to #nd topics students are interested in and allow for real learning without the carrot-and-stick approach of quantita-tive evaluation. People are naturally cu-rious, and want to learn when given the chance. All we need to do is get out of their way.

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BOARD EDITORIAL

Some consumers will always illegally pirate software. However, software develop-­

ers can mitigate this trend by providing quality tech support and a personal touch.

Opinion

participation in new Curriculum Committee

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Page 7SportsCameron Benner, a sophomore at Whit-man College, hits 145 miles-per-hour on the same Fontana, Calif. racetrack that has claimed the lives of several drivers and been navigated by racing legends like Dale Earnhardt and Je! Gordon when his motor explodes. As coolant "uid covers his windshield, completely obscuring his vision, Benner is faced with two seconds of blindness, and, as he puts it, “when you’re going that fast, two seconds is an eternity.”

Benner’s engine mishap, which he escaped from without a scratch, could hardly have come at a worse time for his racing season; by the time the Redline Time Attack, the auto racing circuit Ben-ner competes on, hit its late-November Fontana races, Benner was in position to lock up the Time Attack championship for 2010. Instead, Benner and his racing team found themselves without a work-ing engine less than a day before their next run. Benner, renowned in the rac-ing community for poise well beyond his years, didn’t skip a beat.

“At Fontana, we were going for the track record when we lost our motor, and I just said, ‘Okay guys, can we do this? Can we rebuild this motor in ten hours and have it running the next day?’ And we all just said, ‘Yeah, we can do it.’ So we made some phone calls and got working, and we had the motor back in that car in less than 12 hours.”

Although Benner and his COBB Tuning motorsports team did not win at Fontana, their strong showing was enough to lock up Benner’s #rst champi-onship, a feat he credits to his crew.

“Coming back like that at Fontana was a testament to what committed drivers and engineers are able to accomplish. I attribute most of my success to the peo-ple that I brought down to work with me, to build my car, to help at the track.”

Yet a$er winning his tour’s highest honor at the age of 21, Benner’s next move may be his most surprising —faced with juggling his schoolwork and his burgeoning racing career, Benner chose textbooks over tight turns.

“%is last semester it was really hard to balance both racing and Whitman. What I’m really interested in is science, and at the point where racing is really taking away from that, and then the pursuit of

academics is taking away from racing, the activities were so discordant that I realized you couldn’t do them together.”

For his #rst time as a Whittie, Cam-eron Benner won’t spend his weekends "ying to races, but will instead spend the school year focusing on his schoolwork, staying in the racing world only as an in-structor to less-experienced drivers.

“I do want to do racing, I’m good at it, but as I’m going to be an instructor, I’m

going to be able to keep those ties and learn the business aspect of it without the intense traveling.”

And so it is that Benner, a professional auto-racing champion barely into his second year of college, is getting pre-pared to tackle his hardest challenge yet.

“Really, I’m just getting ready to #gure out what my major is.”

SCOREBOARDWomen’s basketball

W, 65-­55

L, 62-­55

Men’s basketball

L, 72-­62

L, 95-­81

Women’s basketball

Men’s basketball

UPCOMING EVENTS

Juneau-Douglas High School in Juneau, Ala., says that a "y-in visit last spring made it clear Whitman was the right choice.

“%e coach had o!ered to "y me down and pay for everything, and I didn’t really have anything to lose. I had a really fun time, went to a baseball game and kind of fell in love with the place. If it wasn’t for that program, I wouldn’t be here,” he said.

Coach Holowaty, too, cites e!orts like the "y-in program as key to restoring Whitman’s baseball team.

“It’s nice to be wanted. And that’s a ma-jor aspect of [the "y-in] program. ‘Wow, Whitman wants me this bad that they are going to "y me in,’” Holowaty said. “We are competing with some very good baseball schools and this is just one piece of the puzzle in competing with those schools.”

According to Holowaty, Whitman’s re-mote location and elite academic pro#le

had given it a reputation as a school with-out a draw for talented athletes. Holowaty, though, turned Whitman’s supposed weaknesses into draws for interested stu-dents. Having the highest academic repu-tation in the NWC, he says, means that o$en he isn’t vying against in-conference schools for recruits.

“I look at it this way--we have a dis-tinct advantage because we don’t have to recruit against the schools in our confer-ence. It gives us an advantage, a niche. You can always "ip [academic rigor] into a positive. I don’t want to compromise the quality of education here. %ese are out-standing students, but also very dedicated to baseball,” Holowaty said.

Whitman athletic teams that recruit widely in the United States and abroad also support institutional goals such as improving geographic, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity, according to Snider.

“It’s a great opportunity to work collab-oratively with admissions to create a great incoming class each year,” he said.

by BAILEY ARANGO

Whittie earns national racing title

Whitman ski team

prepares to hit slopes

by TYLER HURLBURT

Men’s basketball rebounds on home turf

RECRUITING: Coaches

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It is o&cially winter. %ermometers read in the single digits, Styx has al-ready been transformed into a brilliant white unicorn and the club alpine ski team is busy gearing up for its upcom-ing season.

Even though snow has only recently made its arrival to the Whitman Col-lege campus, the ski team has been training since the beginning of the school year. Without the snow, the team has done a lot of general condi-tioning according to junior Captain Torey Anderson.

“We’ve been running a lot, doing stationary bike workouts, li$ing and jumping,” said Anderson.

Ski Bluewood, a ski resort outside of Dayton, Wash., opened on Friday, Dec. 3, allowing the team to get some time on the snow before winter break.

%e team usually travels to Blue-wood on Wednesday and %ursday af-ternoons to get in a few hours of train-ing. According to Anderson, the team uses gates le$ over from when the team was a varsity sport and set their own courses to practice on.

To have more time for the team to train on the slopes before competi-tions start, the skiers will come back a week before second semester starts and spend a lot of time on the snow.

Last year the team traveled to Maine

to compete in the U.S. Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association National Championships.

“We are de#nitely looking for that again,” said Anderson.

To help achieve this goal, the team looks to a big addition of new skiers, including seven #rst-years. %is large group of skiers comes with very little recruitment on the part of the team, particularly with the team’s recent switch to a club team as opposed to a varsity team.

According to Anderson, the team was approached by the newcomers looking to join the team.

“We got emails from a bunch of in-terested freshmen,” said Anderson.

One such #rst-year, Mattie Hogg, came into Whitman feeling con#dent about joining the team.

“I have always loved skiing and join-ing the team seemed like a no-brainer. I also love being a part of a team, so I was excited to try it out in college” said Hogg.

For Hogg, the ski team sparked her interest in Whitman, despite its recent transition to club sport status.

“I didn’t come to Whitman solely for the ski team,” she said. “But the reason it made my list in the #rst place was because I was looking for a school that would give me the opportunity to ski.”

%e ski team’s #rst competition is on Jan. 16 and 17 at Brundage Mountain Resort in Idaho.

Happy Holidays

from the Pioneer Staff!

!anks for your support!

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