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From Breasts to Chests

The FAH raises money for breast can-

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As prospective students !lock to Whitman this spring for events like Admitted Students’

Day and Spring Visitors’ Day, many will be taking into account sports, class offerings, the residence halls or Whitman’s location. Students in wheelchairs face not only these con-cerns, but also concerns about wheel-chair accessibility. By and large, they are !inding Whitman to be accessible.

Junior Tom Everett, who has needed a wheelchair since a ski accident in 2007, said he was impressed by the cam-pus’s accessibility from the start.

Tom Everett ‘12 poses on the wheelchair ramp that was built last year outside o! Tamraac House. Photo Credit: Kendra Klag

“Since the day I !irst toured here, I have been really im-pressed [with Whitman’s efforts to make the campus as accessi-ble as possible]. That was a big rea-son I chose to come here,” he said.

First-year MiKayla Briere praised the Outdoor Program as be-ing a particularly strong pull fac-tor in her decision to attend Whit-man. Despite suffering from a de-generative skeletal condition that has left her in a wheelchair for the past four years, Briere has not giv-en up on her love for the outdoors.

“Whitman was willing to make the Outdoor Program accessible, when a lot o! other places weren’t,” she said.

Briere has worked with the OP to go on a Scramble and take such SSRA classes as whitewater kayak-ing and yoga. Noting the extent o! the OP’s willingness to accommodate, Briere explains, “They have been re-ally good about !iguring out how to

Accessibility prioritized

on Whitman campusby DIANA DULEK

Staff Reporter

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Despite uncertainty, German department remains at Whitman but with changes

Students wanting to major in German can breathe a sigh

o! relief: Whitman’s German Studies major is sticking around after being up in the air earlier this semester.

Students wanting to major in German can breathe a sign o! re-lief: Whitman’s German stud-ies major is sticking around for the time being after its up-in-the-air status earlier this semester.

Susan Babilon, senior adjunct as-sistant professor o! German, said that the foreign languages and lit-eratures department has not re-placed a tenure-line German pro-fessor who left in 2008, and the de-partment was told earlier this se-mester that the German studies major would soon be phased out.

Faculty support ultimate-ly led to the major staying.

“About a week after the an-nouncement o! the phasing out o! the major, the major was actually not cut due to an administrative technicali-ty,” Babilon said. “At a faculty meet-ing the college faculty also expressed its overwhelming support o! main-taining the major. Since that time the af!iliated German studies facul-ty, who are faculty who teach class-es in English on a German top-ic -- and I have been working hard to strengthen and maintain the ma-jor, despite cuts in staf!ing next year.”

by ALYSSA GOARDStaff Reporter

There is one sport that epit-omizes pushing onesel! to the limit: the triathlon.

Arguably one o! the most de-manding sports around, triath-lon combines swimming, bik-ing and running to test an ath-lete’s skill and perseverance. The Whitman Triathlon Club allows Whitties to do just that. The ath-letes recently put their talents on display at the annual Bea-ver Freezer Sprint Triathlon in Corvallis, Ore., with four com-petitors posting top-10 !inish-es in their respective categories.

The Triathlon Club was founded a few years ago by Car-olyn Atwood ‘09. Current senior Lauren Flynn signed as the co-founder, and the Triathlon Club of!icially became a part o! the Whitman club sports program. Now, the club is led by Flynn and fellow senior Brian Wake-!ield, both o! whom are also varsity swimmers. Wake!ield, who began competing in triath-

lons after coming to Whitman, serves as the club’s president.

“Carolyn started the club because she was a passion-ate and active triathlete,” said Flynn. “We knew that triath-lon was an up-and-coming sport, quickly gaining popu-larity. We were con!ident that people would be eager to join.”

And eager to join they were. The Triathlon Club began at-tracting a great deal o! inter-est, and 2011 has brought in more triathletes than ever be-fore. On April 2 at the Bea-ver Freezer Sprint Triathlon, Whitman College was repre-sented by 13 triathletes, includ-ing eight !irst-years and soph-omores. Out o! 186 wom-en in in the road bike category, Flynn took third place and jun-ior Chris Bendix took sixth out o! a !ield o! 228 men. First-year Alyssa Goard placed !irst and senior Kristen Ballinger placed third in the 38-person wom-en’s mountain bike category.

Several o! the triathletes come from varsity sports, especially swimmers and runners. When most triathlons are held, varsi-ty cross country and swimming are in their off-season, mak-ing it easier logistically for those varsity athletes to participate.

“The triathlon club is unique in our interdisciplinary and di-verse contingency,” said Flynn. “Some o! the more experi-enced folks bring their skill sets to the table to share with !irst-timers. Because our focus is more in getting people to rac-es and not so much on compe-tition or training, we are a re-ally laid back, self-start, casual

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“Das Deutsche Haus”, the German house. PHOTO BY BOWMAN.

Traditionally, Whitman stu-dents have worn college-owned black caps and gowns at gradu-

ation. This year, for the !irst time, stu-dent will instead march in dark blue gowns which they are being required to purchase.

As o! this year, graduating seniors must purchase their own cap and gown through the school. The requirement is an ef-fort by administrators to unify the types o! gowns worn during commencement and maintain the appearance and commence-ment tradition at Whitman. However, this move has been criticized by many sen-iors, who feel they have enough other ex-penses pay for and things to worry about.

In years past, Whitman has loaned out var-ious black gowns to graduating seniors from Whitman’s inventory o! gowns, and new caps were provided at no extra cost to students. The administration has moved to change this be-cause the previous gowns are o! different styles and a certain number o! gowns were mended each year to accommodate shorter students.

“We had gowns that were purchased in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s and they all look and feel a little different,” said Development Of!ic-er Jed Schwendiman “It’s becoming harder to maintain the bulk o! the inventory so that we can keep the students, faculty and alumni who are here for their 50th reunion in gowns.”

According to Schwendiman, although the administration was behind the ma-jor push for the change in caps and gowns, the Senior Class Committee was consult-ed and helped select the vendor from which

students will be purchasing their gowns.Many seniors, however, feel they have

not been adequately informed o! the rea-sons for the switch. With the amount o! work many seniors have to accomplish be-fore graduating, some feel that they have been left in the dark about the change and have not had the time to argue against the policy.

“I’d just really like to just sit down with someone and ask why this switch has hap-pened, in the sense we’re preparing for our thesis and orals and we just get an e-mail telling us that we have to buy our caps and gowns,” said senior Gauri Mirashi.

Seniors graduating from Whitman this year are required to purchase their cap, gown, and tassel through the school for a total o! 29.99 dollars plus tax. Students are given the option to keep their gown, or recycle it for stu-dents graduating the following year, who will also be required to purchase caps and gowns.

Seniors who choose to not keep their gown will be asked to place their gowns in bins located outside o! Cordiner Hall and Reid Campus Center after commencement. This program has been developed by senior ASWC Senator Robin Lewis and Schwendi-man. Schwendiman has high hopes that the program will be in place in future years for students who !inancially cannot af-ford to pay the extra fee for a cap and gown.

“We’ll collect donated gowns, pick them up, and hang them up for current juniors on a !irst-come, !irst-served basis,” Schwendiman said.

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do this. It’s not a question o! ‘Can we do this?’ It’s ‘How are we going to do this?’”

With registration for the 2011-2012 academic year coming up, Briere and Everett have no concerns about choosing classes based on the lo-cation or accessibility o! the room.

“There’s only been one time in my three years that [classroom acces-sibility] has even been an issue, and it was !ixed in one day,” Everett recalled.

Briere said she occasional-ly had issues getting around and !irst, mainly from not know-ing where elevators were.

“For the most part, everything is pretty easy to get into. At !irst, I had a really hard time getting into Hunt-er, just because I didn’t know where the elevator was, but the ARC (Ac-ademic Resource Center) just put out accessible maps with all the loca-tion o! accessible entrances on them.”

Juli Dunn, director o! academic re-sources, said that Whitman's new-est campus map marks all wheel-chair accessible entrances and also distinguishes between entranc-es with and without power-operat-ed doors. She said that rather than it being a special version o! the cam-pus map, it was the only version.

“A lot o! schools have a cam-pus map, and then an accessible cam-pus map. Making it the map that everyone gets I think sends a real-ly strong message that this is some-thing that is important to us," she said.

In spite o! the leaps Whitman has made, as Dunn admits there is always room for improvement. Lyman House does not have an elevator, making all but the !irst !loor inaccessible, while parts o! Jewett Hall such as 2-West also do not have elevator access.

Briere and Everett both noted

the IHC as being one o! the more in-accessible spots on campus. When asked about this, Nancy Tavelli, asso-ciate dean o! students – campus life, accounts the lack o! accessibility to a lack o! demand. She said that Tamarac House only got a ramp when a student in a wheelchair wanted to live there.

“I! someone [in a wheelchair] did want to live [in the IHC], I guess we’d have to look at what we could possibly do, see what we could do physically to the house," Tavelli said. "There are 11 houses; i! the demand were there, we’d !igure it out on a case-by-case basis.”

Dunn remains optimistic:“Currently it’s a reactive mod-

el. Hopefully, as we do it more of-ten, it will become a proactive mod-el for the next batch o! students that come through Whitman.”

"Working on a reactive model is more dif!icult because it means a stage where there are challenges or differ-ent circumstances to work around," said Briere. "It almost seems as Whit-man is being proactive, though, be-cause a lot o! places aren't problems and the campus is just modernizing ac-cessibility to make things even easier."

Everett has no com-plaints about the current model.

"With a small school like this it seems logical to not address problems until they actually arise, and that way you can have the student with the is-sue be a part o! the solution, instead o! trying to guess the best solution."

For members o! the Whitman com-munity that may feel apathetic towards this issue, Dunn raises the question:

"I! students, faculty and staf! want a glimpse o! accessibility on our cam-pus, they should challenge them-selves to navigate a day on our cam-pus using only accessible entranc-es, ramps and curb cuts. It pro-vides a whole new perspective."

Tom Everett ‘12 poses on the wheelchair ramp that was built last year outside of Tamarac House. PHOTO BY KLAG

Students satisfied with access, still room for improvement

from ACCESSIBILITY, PAGE 1

Quick -- what word would you use to describe Whit-man’s culture? A new theme

appearing on Whitman’s web site since January suggests “unpreten-tious,” or more speci!ically, “un-pretentious Northwest culture.”

The use o! the word “unpre-tentious” stems from a broader ef-fort to differentiate Whitman from the hundreds o! other liberal arts schools in the United States. Last summer, the college, with a grant from an alumnus, hired Zoom Mar-keting o! Palo Alto, Calif. to sur-vey students, parents, alumni, facul-ty and staf! and work with the col-lege to create a theme to describe and differentiate Whitman. The result: “The premier liberal arts college that combines academic excellence with an unpretentious Northwest cul-ture and an engaging community.”

Dean o! Admission and Finan-cial Aid Tony Cabasco said the goal was to emphasize a combination o! attributes that was unique about Whitman, rather than something that could be easily found elsewhere.

“There’s a lot o! things we could say about Whitman where you could substitute Colorado College, Po-mona, Occidental, Reed,” Cabas-co said. “What’s unique about Whit-man is the combination. It’s one o! the few places where you can have the intense challenging aca-demics but still have the unpreten-tious, laid back, friendly culture.”

Ruth Wardwell, director o! com-munications, said that the idea be-hind the college’s theme was to in-stantly conjure an image o! Whitman.

“I think the broader challenge for Whitman and every other liberal arts college is how do you describe your-sel! in an instant or create an instant perception,” she said. “I love when I talk to students, and I ask students ‘Why did you come to Whitman?’ We hear many o! the words from the fo-cus group over and over and over.”

The word “unpretentious” seems to have hit a sour note for many students, however.

“I kind o! feel like it’s a little pre-tentious in itself, like ‘Oh, no, we’re above that,’” said !irst-year Jamie Edison. “I don’t want to say that it’s a red !lag, but it kind o! sticks out. It sounds like they’re trying a lit-tle too hard to sound unpretentious.”

Sophomore Gabriel-la Friedman said she didn’t have a problem with the wording.

“It’s hard to !ind one word that de-scribes the entire student body,” she said. “I do think it’s true that Whit-man has an engaging community, but I think unpretentious is a vague word, which is probably why they use it.”

Senior John Loranger, who par-ticipated in one o! Zoom Market-ing’s phone surveys, said he pre-ferred the other phrases that he rated.

“I really liked ‘relaxed,’ ‘laid back,’ and ‘easygoing,’” he said. “I think the problem people have with unpreten-tious is that it’s saying, ‘We are bril-liant and we know it but don’t worry, we’re not going to rub it in your face.’”

Loranger, who is also ASWC vice president, said that other mem-bers o! ASWC have talked about the use o! the word “unpretentious,” mostly in a negative light, but don’t plan to take any action regarding it.

Whitman’s administration is well aware o! criticism that calling the col-lege unpretentious is, well, pretentious.

“We have had that conversa-tion,” said Vice President o! De-velopment and College Relations John Bogley. “The word unpreten-tious means something speci!ic and to use it is certainly not its opposite.”

Bogley also emphasized that the of!icial wording was “unpretentious Northwest culture,” a broader de-scription. He mentioned his own ex-perience as an undergraduate stu-dent, when he transferred from Col-gate University, a liberal arts college in New York, to Whitman. He in-stantly noticed a change from Col-gate’s competitive culture, where people tried to outdo each other, to

Whitman’s more collaborative feel.Despite the emphasis on using

“unpretentious” primarily as a de-scriptor o! Northwest culture, sev-eral examples on the web site go be-yond that. This includes referenc-es to graduates as “ethical, unpreten-tious leaders” and to the campus as “an unpretentious, residential campus.”

The way “unpretentious” is perceived has to do with con-text, too. President George Bridg-es said that while he’s heard the complaint that calling the col-lege unpretentious is pretentious, the word works particularly well when he can provide examples.

“In many cases, I !ind mysel! giv-ing those examples in public speech-es,” he said in an e-mail. “It’s tough to include examples on the limit-ed amount o! space on the web site.”

Wardwell also said that the word worked better when spoken.

“I’ve come to understand that when you say the word, it’s a differ-ent response than when you read the word,” she said. “I! I’m listening to someone describe it as unpretentious, it’s okay, but when you see it written that way, it’s like, ‘Is this pretentious?’”

Still, the college plans to move for-ward with its theme. The Of!ice o! Admission will release a new view-book and other admissions materi-als this summer, which place empha-sis on Whitman’s “academic excel-lence”, “engaging community” and “unpretentious Northwest culture”.

The Whitman web site, through a separate grant, will get an update this fall that further incorporates each o! the three key phrases. Bogley thinks that the clearer description o! what a Whitman education and experience entail will help prospective students better understand Whitman, and ulti-mately help students in the job market.

“People who are hiring you and your classmates in the years to come will have a better understanding o! the value o! a Whitman education,” he said. “Hopefully, out in the work-ing world, people will say, ‘You went to Whitman? That’s a great school.’”

Because the college requires gradu-ating seniors to attend commence-ment in order to receive their diplo-ma, paying for a cap and gown is a requirement for students to gradu-ate. For many seniors this year, who no longer have the option o! renting a gown from the college or re-us-ing a gown from a previous senior, the added expense is another worry.

“Whitman is diverse in terms o! !inancial status, and I think it is unfair that students are required to buy a cap and gown,” said Mi-rashi. “Spending 30 dollars for a one-time use is just not worth it.”

According to Schwendi-man, !inancial assistance, how-ever, is provided for students who are recorded to meet the !i-nancial aid requirements.

“For students [who cannot af-ford a gown] we ask them to come into the Dean o! Students Of!ice and we'll help them subsidize the cost,” Schwendiman said.

Other seniors across campus are also critical o! the policy change because they feel as though Whit-man is emphasizing the im-age o! the college and the tradition o! commence-ment over the environ-mental goals o! many students across campus.

"I think it's representa-tive o! an instance where the college's environmental goals are in con!lict with the col-lege's desire for a certain im-age," said senior and Sustain-ability Coordinator Ari Frink.

Senior ASWC Sena-tor Elise Otto, who has been critical o! the policy change, said in an e-mail, that al-though the policy may ap-

pear to be unfair to many stu-dents, the change may be bet-ter for the college in the long run.

“The college has de!inite rea-sons for switching to new gowns. Senior Senator Robin Lewis and I have been working hard to make sure that switch happens at the low-est environmental and student cost without creating unnecessary work for valued Whitman staff,” she said.

New gowns may be recycled

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A new waitlist system will make pre-registration a little smoother this year

if all goes according to plan. The Registrar's Office and Whitman College Technology Services have been working together for nine months to make improve-ments so that students can more easily get the classes they want.

Before fall 2010 pre-registra-tion, the Registrar moved from managing waitlists with a first-come, first-served electronic sys-tem to requiring faculty to man-age their own waitlists. This change enabled faculty mem-bers to have more say in choos-ing who gets in to their class-es. They could prioritize stu-dents who needed the class for their major, for example. How-ever, this system also relied on a complicated chain of communica-tion between the faculty, students and the Registrar that some-times made registration stressful.

Fortunately, WCTS have de-veloped a system for fall 2011 pre-registration to combat these problems. In this new system, when a faculty member gives a student consent for a course via QUACK, the system automatical-ly sends a student and the Regis-trar an e-mail. In this e-mail is a link to the Registrar. If the stu-dent wants to add the course, they must simply follow that link to make a request with the Reg-istrar. They will receive a con-firmation e-mail when the Reg-istrar has added the course.

Registrar Ron Urban feels that this system is an important step in improving registration.

“The process should elimi-nate many of the communica-tion difficulties associated with our previous procedures and make the process of enrolling in closed classes less of a tortured experience for students,” he said.

Michael Quiner, director of ad-ministrative technology, agrees.

“It will make communi-cation between faculty mem-bers, students and the Regis-trar much easier,” Quiner said.

He is especially support-ive of this system because it al-lows the faculty to be selective.

"They have a good sense of the type of student and the num-ber of students they want to add to their classes," he said.

Quiner said this is the first of many changes, and mentioned several changes that technology services would like to implement in the future. Some examples in-clude a link that would automati-cally send a course request e-mail to faculty members and a place on the web site where faculty mem-bers can explain to students why they granted consent or not.

Course compression, the phe-nomenon of too many class-es occurring at the same time, has also been a major registra-tion complaint recently. Tim-othy Kaufman-Osborn, prov-ost and dean of faculty, has writ-ten a document addressing course compression that can be found on The Pioneer's web site.

In part of this document, he discussed how the Registrar and elected leaders of the facul-ty met to look at course distri-bution for the next school year.

In the communication he writes: "In conducting this re-view, we attended not simply to the distribution of courses, but also to the number of avail-able enrollment seats across se-mesters and among different time slots during each semester."

He continues:"Following this analysis, in

instances where we found cause for concern, we returned to de-partments in order to indicate that courses needed to be shift-ed from one semester to anoth-er; that courses needed to be bet-ter balanced at different levels; that courses needed to be bet-ter distributed among time slots in order to reduce the phenom-enon of 'course compression.'"

Kaufman-Osborn also urged students not to be discouraged if they don't get all the cours-es they want at pre-registration.

"The list of course offerings made available at the time of pre-registration is, of necessity, a par-tial list. If students do not get ac-cess to all of the courses they wish to take during pre-regis-tration, it is crucial that next fall they return to the list of cours-es to see what additional oppor-

tunities have opened up," he said.Kaufman-Osborn also re-

minded students to remem-ber that movement dur-ing the first week of classes could also open up class spots.

Overall, the stress lev-el among students seems to have decreased since previ-ous pre-registration periods.

Junior Charles Weems, a pol-itics major, attributes this lack of concern to his senior standing.

“Since I’ll be a senior next year, I’m not really worried about getting the courses I want or get-ting off waitlists. I missed the worst of the course compres-sion while I was abroad,” he said.

First-year Ben Ishibashi had a previous stressful experience with waitlisting. An introductory environmental studies class im-portant to his major was closed, so he e-mailed the professor and made it on the waitlist. After at-tending the first day of class, he got a spot -- then a few hours later, he lost the spot to a stu-dent who had been sick and un-able to attend class. Fortunate-ly, the professor e-mailed him when another student dropped, and he was able to get the class.

He stressed the impor-tance of communication and is glad to hear that the new system will improve it.

"The environmental studies professors have been good about communication. I think it's be-cause they know how compet-itive their courses are," Ishiba-shi said. "Communication was the key in my situation. If the professor hadn't emailed me, I wouldn't have gotten that class."

He also feels that allow-ing professors to manage their own waitlists is a smart idea.

"Professors understand stu-dent appeals and can make sure the people who get in are the ones that should."

First-year Jenny Dardis agrees."The professor can tell who

is really enthusiastic about his or her class, and who would benefit most from it. In my ex-perience, professors are pret-ty fair, so I think this is a good way to help everyone get the most that they can out of the classes they take," she said.

Provost and Dean o! Facul-ty Timothy Kaufman-Osborn said that while Whitman will continue to offer German lan-guage classes, the college is explor-ing ways to restructure the major.

“Because o! student enrollment pressures in other academic pro-grams, we have found it necessary to consider shifting some instruction-al resources to areas o! greater stu-dent demand," he said in an e-mail. "In the meantime, as I understand it, a group o! faculty are exploring cre-ative ways to recon!igure the Ger-man studies program, perhaps along the lines o! the current Asian stud-ies program. I look forward to see-ing the results o! those efforts."

There was one Ger-man studies major in 2010, a decline from four in 2007.

Though the 2011-12 Course Catalog shows both Babilon and the department's visiting assis-tant professor Amy Blau return-ing next year, fewer classes -- es-pecially German-language liter-ature classes -- will be offered.

"While the af!iliated facul-ty will be making accommoda-tions for German studies students in their cross-listed German stud-ies courses next year by allowing interested advanced German stu-dents to complete some o! their reading and writing assignments in German, there will actually be few-er courses taught in the German language next year," Babilon said.

Sophomore Bo Erickson was disappointed by the lack o! German-language offerings.

“There were all these cool class-es in !ilm and literature [listed in the catalog] which are not be-ing offered," she said. "I was re-ally excited about a philosophy course under the German de-partment that was canceled.”

Sophomore Kelley Hall, RA o! the Das Deutsche Haus, the Ger-man Interest House, noted that some courses such as the 100, 200 and 300 level German-lan-guage courses will de!initely be of-fered next year, but that many elec-tives listed in the catalog will not.

"It will be interesting to see what happens in years to come with the department. Right now there are many courses, in art his-tory for example, which can count towards a German major."

Hall started taking Ger-man at Whitman this year and works with Babilon in discussing the role o! Das Haus on campus.

"The professors obvious-ly brought up the changes going on with the German department

in class, but students haven't really been involved in the overall decision process," Hall said. "I !ind it concern-ing that majors like education are be-ing dropped, and o! course I am op-posed to losing the German major."

Hall will be studying in Berlin this summer and will continue taking German in the fall but is disappoint-ed that "hal! the upper level Ger-man classes aren't offered next year."

Erickson, who is current-ly in German 206, said that the uncertainty about the depart-ment’s future was evident in class.

“When they thought the de-partment was shutting down, peo-ple were prevented from declar-ing [a German major] for a week, but then [the administration] said that it was no longer a concern and that students could be free to de-clare again," she said. "During that week some students we’re pretty torn up about the whole situation.”

Part o! the problem may be the lack o! literature offerings be-fore attaining an advanced level o! language. Erickson said that stu-dents starting in lower level Ger-man courses must take 2 1/2 years o! strictly language courses be-fore delving into literature courses.

“I just wish there were more in-termediate opportunities to study German culture in depth,” she said.

The literature aspect is impor-tant for Hall, who said that Ger-man-language works are in-!luential in many disciplines.

"I don't think a lot o! people re-alize how many o! the original texts in math, science and literature are written in German," she said. "It is a really powerful language."

Kelley Hall, RA of the German House and a German major, is one of the students who will be affected by recent changes in the department. PHOTO BY BOWMAN

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Fewer German literature courses will be offered next semester

by KARAH KEMMERLYStaff Reporter

Faculty voted to allow student representation on

curriculum committee

Read Provost Timothy Kaufman-Osborn’s letter to the

student body online atwhitmanpioneer.com

In a close vote, the Whitman College faculty voted Wednes-day, April 13 to allow student representation on its new Cur-riculum Committee next year.

The decision means that the ASWC President and Vice Pres-ident will be allowed non-vot-ing seats on the committee.

“This is a tremendous vic-tory for ASWC and Whit-man students in general,” said ASWC President Carson Burns. “I hope that the student voice helps the committee next year and that students are contin-ued to be thought o! as valua-ble contributors to policy-mak-ing in the Whitman community.”

ASWC had worked to build student support and lobby facul-ty for representation after !ind-ing out about the new committee last winter. The initial vote was scheduled for March 30 but was postponed due to a full agenda at the faculty meeting. ASWC Vice President John Loranger said at the time that the extra time would allow ASWC to meet with more faculty members before the vote.

Dobson said that the fac-ulty will aim to make the stu-dent representation effective while addressing faculty con-cerns about that representation.

“A majority was support-ive o! hearing student input, but there were people concerned about con!identiality and his-torical memory,” she said, refer-ring to the fact that faculty have experience with the develop-ment o! the college over a long-er period o! time. “As we devel-op this committee ... I will cer-tainly work to make the stu-dent participation work.”

Dobson added that AS-WC’s perspective served as a re-minder o! how students are af-fected by the curriculum.

“Carson Burns reminded faculty today that students ex-perience directly the curricu-lum decisions that the faculty make and have a different per-spective than the faculty have on those decisions,” she said.

The !irst two ASWC rep-resentatives on the Curriculum Committee will be President and Vice President elects Matt Dittrich and Maggie Appleton.

by JOSH GOODMANNews Editor

4PIO PICKS

Each Thursday, The Pioneer highlights several events happening

on campus or in Walla Walla during the weekend. Here

are this week’s picks:

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For many Whitman College students, the onset o, warm sunny days brings some im-

patience with familiar haunts and with con,ining, formerly cozy work spaces. Productivity de-creases, irritability increases and students feel that unless they get out and enjoy the sun, their se-mesters will not end admirably.

Taking to campus to ,ind new spring renewal, The Pio-neer has compiled the top six spring hangout spots on cam-pus to ,it students’ top ,ive needs — places for recreation and re-laxation, places to study, places to be social and places to be alone.

“Here we are studying about these philosophers and writ-ers who are all about ,inding uni-ty with nature and talking about the cyclicality o, life and spring as a rebirth and all that, and here I am holed up in my room writ-ing my thesis,” said senior Nav-deep Aujla. “So I like to go do class reading on Ankeny, even i, it can be a little distracting when a Fris-bee comes ,lying past my head.”

Ankeny is really more like two- or three-in-one for hangout spots. Students enjoy the expanse for sports and more informal catch and Frisbee in smaller groups as well.

The volleyball net between An-keny and the science building is packed on afternoons and week-ends, as reported by students study-ing in Penrose Library’s “,ishbowl”.

The perimeters o, Anke-

ny on benches and under trees is where students sit, lie, chat or sleep, do homework, take ad-vantage o, the Wi-,i, make phone calls and have Skype dates.

“From the middle o, Anke-

ny you can slightly hear both [the top-40 tennis courts’ music and Jewett Hall corner’s indie mu-sic] this year, but they don’t re-ally clash; they more just add to the ‘college-campus-in-spring feel,’” said senior Elle de la Cruz.

Next comes the water are-as around Lakum Dukum, Nar-nia and the Amphitheater which draw students looking for a qui-et, beautiful place to appreciate na-ture’s response to the coming o, summer. Students sit and write or paint, often alone, in these areas.

“The more colors the bet-ter. Whitman’s campus is gor-geous — they do such an awe-some job with grounds-keeping — and especially in the spring I real-ly love to spend time out there. When visitors come, too, I al-ways take them for walks along the creek bed that runs by Prent-iss,” said senior Laura Quennoz.

And for spring’s rainy days or when free hangout time is not an option, even the library seems to be a favorite for stu-dents. Full o, big windows and qui-et corners looking out onto cam-pus or at the tops o, blossom-ing trees, Penrose draws students bored with other study spots.

“I, there aren’t too many neg-ative associations,” said Auj-la. “It can be refreshing to ,ind a window seat somewhere new

in the library to make work-ing a little more enjoyable.”

For students who have been there, done that with Anke-ny and other central campus ar-eas, there is appeal to the fur-ther reaches and lesser-known hangouts o, Whitman’s campus.

The Glover Alston Center’s hominess is a refreshing change from the academic-feeling are-as o, campus. Its backyard, with a lawn area, creek and large barbecue grill and cement pad, draws groups for get-togethers who don’t have kitchens or outdoor space in dorms or their off-campus apartments.

The spring hangout spot that is not widely known yet still high-ly rated is the Organic Garden. Students who want to actually do physical labor to balance their mental exertion, grow food or just get their ,ingernails in the dirt in their recharge time are drawn by the open garden and potluck events there. Some students just like to take walks and sit under the gazebo.

The last place students seem drawn to because o, its energiz-ing effect is the roof. While The Pioneer does not condone break-ing into any campus rooftops, many students ,ind that the roofs o, their off-campus houses are warm, fresh places to soak up some spring rays and fresh breezes.

WHITTIES TAKE to the SUN Aside from tossing Frisbees on Ankeny, some students spend sunny spring days barbecuing at the Glover Alston Center and digging in the Organic Garden. PHOTO BY PARRISH

!e Pioneer investigates favorite places for spring recharge

by KATE ROBINETTEStaff Reporter

On Saturday, April 16, Whitman College stu-dents will use plaster to

immortalize their chests in a mold to raise money for charity.

This annual event host-ed by the Fine Arts House is now open to both men and women.

“Chest casting is open to every-one. The name was changed from ‘breast casting’ to ‘chest casting’ to be all-inclusive,” said junior Julia Schnei-der, Resident Advisor for the FAH.

However, this change in name does not always result in a strong-er male contingent at the event.

“I know there has always been a male chest casting section, but when I organized it only two guys showed up, compared to around 50 women,” said former Resident Advisor o, the Fine Arts House junior Olivia Molden.

The FAH has hosted this pro-gram for several years, making it an of,icial Whitman tradition.

“Chest casting is a tradition-al FAH program, and I think be-cause it’s such a good cause, each house has been interested in keeping it up,” said Schneider.

The fundraiser is a two-part event. The ,irst step involves the actual casting process, while the second involves decoration.

“Our house will have two casting areas for people to apply the plaster strips, and since it takes a while for the casts to dry, we’re having [students] pick them up later,” said Schneider.

On Saturday, April 23, stu-dents will have another opportuni-ty to personalize their mold, mak-ing their own artistic mark

on the project.“The follow-

ing Saturday we’ll be host-ing a paint-

ing colony for anyone to come

and paint, but spe-ci,ically [to those who want to] paint their chest casts,” said Schneider.

In order to make this pro-gram a fund raising activity, the Fine Arts House charges three dol-lars for each casting, which will ben-e,it Walla Walla’s Providence St. Mary Community Breast Center.

“The center helps with woman’s health and breast cancer,” said Schneider.

The money goes toward help-ing make treatment more affordable.

“They always really appreci-ate having Whitman students be involved in fund raising for their center. They say it goes to help pay for helpers and for free treat-ments for women who usually can-not afford the process,” said Molden.

FAH residents hope stu-dents will donate their time and money to the project, which serves multiple purposes.

“I think it’s very empowering for some people and a good experi-ence to get comfortable with your body and learn to love it,” said Sch-neider. “In addition, I hope some stu-dents do it because it’s a great cause.”

The process usual-ly results in a relic that the par-ticipant can show of, with pride.

“The whole event — casting and painting — is a lot o, fun. Some peo-ple are really hesitant at ,irst to come in and join, but when they see every-one else with their tops of, laughing it makes for quite a welcoming en-trance,” said Molden. “I know quite a few people who are really proud o, their chest castings and hang them up in their rooms. I gave one to my grand-ma who loves it and has it hanging in her kitchen.”

SPOTLIGHT ON ART Absurdism of ‘Kangaroo’ not lost in translation

by MCCAULAY SINGER-MILNESStaff Reporter

How often in your aca-demic career do you get to write about gang-

sters and a man everyone thinks is a kangaroo? With her hon-ors theatre thesis, senior Rai-sa Stebbins gets to do just that.

Stebbins, a theatre major with a minor in Japanese, translat-ed the Japanese full-length play “Kangaroo”, which has never be-fore been translated into English. A section o, her translation was performed at this year’s Whit-man Undergraduate Conference.

“I decided to pick a contem-porary play, and after that it was a process o, ,inding a well-known playwright who had a lot o, plays, some o, which were translated into English so I could get a sense o, the play-wright’s style,” said Stebbins.

This led her to playwright Bet-suyaku Minoru. Stebbins chose “Kangaroo” because it was an un-translated play written at the time o, Betsuyaku’s two masterpiec-es and also because it is a comedy.

“Kangaroo is a charming ab-surdist dark comedy. It is very Ka,kaesque, and it is about a man who wakes up one day to ,ind out that everyone thinks he’s a kangaroo,” said Stebbins.

“It was essential that we active-ly worked on naturalism within the absurdity so that the comedy could come from the eccentrici-ties o, the characters rather than the numerous puns in the original Japanese text,” said senior Erin Terrall, the scene’s director.

Besides the strangeness that renders it an absurdist farce, Steb-bins and her cast have had to deal with some cultural hang-ups as well. This includes the concept o, “cutting a mie”, a traditional ka-buki Japanese theatre stance that

a character takes to symbolize do-ing a heroic action. Sometimes the jokes are affected as well.

“[Raisa] told us speci,ical-

ly that this one line [is] a pun in Japanese, because it’s the same word for backyard as it is for [something like] sneaking onto a ship,” said ,irst-year Mela-nie Medina, who plays the hat maker’s wife. “So the line ‘try to slip over the fence, but there might be a dog there’ [is] pun-ny, which obviously we didn’t get until she explained it to us.”

The show is also packed with verbal and physical hu-mor. Despite the dif,icul-ties, or perhaps even be-

cause o, them, Stebbins has en-joyed the work o, translation.

“All o, this play [is] writ-ten in the colloquial spoken lan-guages o, Japan,” said Stebbins. “So that was dif,icult but also re-ally fun because I got to learn a lot more about casual spo-ken Japanese in the sort o, con-trolled environment o, being able to look at it and see how it’s written and then talk about it.”

Stebbins has high hopes for her work that include get-ting her translation and her crit-ical paper on the play published. She also says she can imagine do-ing similar work in the future.

“I think I could de,initely do work with translating Japa-nese plays,” said Stebbins. “There is a niche to be ,illed. There are certainly four or ,ive antholo-gies, but that is it from a coun-try that has had hundreds o, years o, theatrical tradition.”

From breasts to chestsFAH INVITES MEN TO CASTING EVENT

Kyle Bloomster ‘14 attempts to convince Keith Hock ‘11, Theo Pratt ‘12 and Mela-nie Medina ‘14 that he is not a kangaroo during Stebbins’s play. PHOTO BY BERNSTEIN

by TANEEKA HANSENStaff Reporter

I could definitely do

work with translating Japanese

plays. There is a niche to be filled.

RAISA STEBBINS, '11

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In honor of Admitted Students’ Week-end, Feature answers the untongued question on the minds of prospective stu-dents and their parents: On the weekend at Whitman, does fun come in a cup?

It’s your average Friday night at Whitman College. Classes are done and the last-minute pa-

per you chose to start at 3 a.m. is turned in. In the words o! the bril-liant lyricist Rebecca Black, many Whitman students are “par-tyin’, partyin’, yeah” whether or not they legitimately have the time to do so in their !illed-to-the-max, Google-cal’d-out schedules.

Alcohol is, for some, an im-portant aspect o! the ex-ploratory college years.

“I think drinking is an inte-gral part o! American culture,” Ma-herin Ahmed, a senior interna-tional student from Bangladesh.

The administration treats drink-ing in a realistic manner, acknowl-edging that it does happen and en-couraging responsible choices.

“I take more preventative and combative angles against the neg-ative affects o! drinking. I! students choose to drink we encourage them to do it in a moderate way to mini-mize unsafe situations for you and

your friends,” said Barbara Max-well, associate dean o! students.

Drinking habits at Whit-man range from those who don’t touch a drop o! alcohol to those who “get crunk” three or four nights a week. Frat row booms with thumping bass and the !loors o! student houses bounce un-der the weight o! dancing bodies.

“I rarely go to frat parties, but most people I kick it with like to get crunk. I’m not a huge drink-er,” said senior Robert Crenshaw.

On Friday you walk across An-keny Field and look back at the li-brary where some poor soul is working on thesis research. You make the rounds with your friends and choose a location depending on what you’re in the mood for: a dance party (read: you’re look-ing for more than just a dance part-ner for the evening), drinking games or perhaps an “herbal refreshment.”

“Around 11 p.m. there’s a bat-tle about lights: between the danc-ers who want the lights of! and the Beiruters who want the lights on. By 1 a.m. you’re paired of! or go-ing home, “ said junior Rhya Milici.

The vessels o! choice are red cups or Mason jars, which send the message that while you might not drink responsibly, you certain-ly recycle responsibly. Dress code is casual -- Chacos, !lannel, the il-

lustrious blue shirt i! you’re lucky -- are out in full force. Don’t both-er busting out your heels or chic black dress; you’ll get weird looks.

Though the fraternity hous-es are a reliable source o! parties to students both Greek and indie, they are by no means the only -- or even preferred -- locale for students look-ing to get tipsy. In a Pioneer survey o! 304 students, 82 percent reported that they most commonly consume alcohol at an off-campus house.

“The biggest difference between frat parties and house parties is the size o! the group. House parties can feel more cramped. Also, the mu-sic is less mainstream because it’s someone’s personal iTunes. House parties also have to deal with more noise complaints,” said Milici.

At your party o! choice, you overhear an incredibly intense drunken conversation about which “Harry Potter” spell is the coolest and remember that you’re at Whit-man, where being a huge nerd is the standard regardless o! the amount o! alcohol in the bloodstream.

“Just last night I was discussing the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ while walk-ing back from The Green with a friend,” said junior Caitlin Feeney.

The Whitman party scene is an-ything but exclusive. A student can walk down Isaacs, head for the house with the loud music and clumps o! people scattered in the yard, walk in, and either join the mass on the dance !loor or head straight for the keg. The small size o! the student body tends to fos-ter a “the more the merri-er” atti-

tude amongst party-goers. But not all students choose to drink.

“Drinking isn’t as much part o! the culture here as in oth-er colleges. I think it would be a lot worse in other places,” said alumnus Jesus Vasquez ‘09.

“I think there’s a larger pres-ence o! people who drink than

those who don’t, but it’s cool to not drink,” Crenshaw said.

The Pioneer survey found that 82 percent o! students polled were drinkers. The remaining 18 percent can easily !ind other things to do.

“I! I don’t feel like going to par-ties with alcohol, I sometimes watch movies or play games. As an al-ternative to drinking alcohol, I drink tea.” said senior Thu Tran.

Thirteen percent said that they drink because “there is nothing else to do” and only three students re-ported drinking due to peer pres-sure. Personal choices regarding al-cohol consumption are usually re-spected, but not always. Crenshaw admitted that in one instance he once felt pressured to drink more than he intended. Moreover, the pervasiveness o! drinking at parties can alienate those who do not drink.

“You run the risk o! be-ing socially ostracized i! you put your values on the table that you don’t drink,” said Ahmed.

Forty percent o! students polled said that they drink “because my friends are drinking,” suggesting that alcohol consumption is a norm in Whitman social life. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that students feel that they must drink in order to be socially accepted — 10 percent o! stu-dents polled said they drink “to !it in.”

Weekend nights are about meet-ing people and bonding with

friends, giving hormones a free rein, and danc-

ing the stress away. For many, al-

cohol is a key ingredient.

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In every !irst-year dorm and eve-ry campus building are the “When Whitties drink” post-

ers. These posters, created by the Associate Dean o! Students/Stu-dent Programs Of!ice, use data from the Lifestyle Choices Survey con-ducted by the Of!ice o! Institution-al Research. They may be there to promote healthier behavior, but more often than not, the conver-sations they provoke concern how accurate the statistics actually are.

Neal Christopherson, direc-tor o! Institutional Research, sug-gests that student mistrust o! the statistics is based on person-

al perception o! drinking at Whit-man and not the straight facts.

“The survey and posters are guid-ed by social norms theory ... People remember the guy from their sec-tion who drank too much and threw up in the stairwell, but might forget that he only did it once or twice the entire year, and forget that while he was getting drunk there were !ive others from the section out some-where not drinking, or studying or on a trip with their sports team,” said Christopherson. “When asked to estimate the amount o! drinking for their section (as a whole), their memory will go to the puking guy and overestimate. We remember the extreme behavior, and it shapes our perceptions o! the whole.”

Every two years, the Of!ice o! In-stitutional Research administers its Lifestyle Choices Survey. When it was last conducted in 2009, the sur-vey was sent to 1277 eligible re-spondents, 769 o! whom complet-ed it. One question asks: “Indicate

whether each o! the following is a reason why you consume alcohol (Mark all that apply)” and is then fol-lowed by a list o! reasons. This week, The Pioneer asked students the same question in a survey that received 304 responses. Here are the results.

We asked students to tell us the most in-teresting place they’ve consumed alcohol during their time at Whitman. Here are some responses.“Flag football game”“in the elevator at north.”“During Orgo recitation.”“Curb in front o! Bridges’ house”“in a shopping cart riding home from safeway”“While playing croquet behind Lyman”“Health center”“Sorry, not telling that much”

“At Mr. Whitman in Cordiner”“onstage at a concert”“by the cat lady’s house”“Roofs o! course”“On a lawn?”“At the gym”“On top o! the dome at WWCC.”“VODKA SHOTS IN THE QUIET ROOM. During !inals week. It was great.”“Lakum Duckum”“Is this article going to glorify the consumption o! alcohol? I am not okay with that.”

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It’s April. That means hun-dreds o& high school seniors are contemplating wheth-

er or not Whitman is the right place to spend their next four years. Because most decisions are due May 1, a very high num-ber o& prospective students vis-it during April to decide i& they want to come to Whitman.

A portion o& these “prospies” will also be looking into par-ticipating in athletics at Whit-man. In order to convince re-cruits and prospies to bring their talent to Whitman, coach-es and current athletes work hard to make visits special.

Women’s tennis head coach John Hein likes to use his team’s small size to make each visit unique.

“Our team is small enough that we try as much as possible to per-sonalize each visit,” Hein said.

Most coaches make it a pri-ority to individually meet with all prospective students who say that they are interested in play-ing that particular sport. Besides meeting with the coach, many athletic prospies are turned over to the hands o& a current team

member, usually a &irst-year.“I meet with each prospie and

set up a meal with the team; beyond that some are given over to the team and some I spend more time scheduling their time,” Hein said.

According to men’s basketball assistant coach Matt Airy, many o& the prospective athletes do have very full schedules when they visit.

“Typically, recruited prospec-tive students who visit campus have very full schedules,” Airy said. “They will usually sit-in on one or two classes, tour campus, and have admis-sions interviews in the morning, then will eat at one o& the dining halls for lunch. Usu-ally, this is their &irst contact with their student host, as well as other team members.”

Once in the hands o& an-other athlete, prospies will of-ten spend time get-ting to know the team, seeing the campus, visiting

classes, and seeing Walla Walla.Sophomore swimmer

Adam Brayton often hosts prospies and always tries to keep them entertained.

“I try to have activities to do. I actively look out for things to do like Outhouse Unplugged. I even took one prospie bowling with my former core class,” Brayton said. “I also always make sure there is a group o& swimmers availa-ble for lunch with the prospie so

that he can meet the team.”Brayton attributes his pas-

sion for hosting prospies to his own experience as a pro-

spective swimmer.“It was so

fun; it was the reason I came. Chill-ing out with the swim

team made me want to be a

part o& the team,” Bray-ton said. “The reason I am so enthusias-tic about host-

ing prospies is because I want to share that experience with them.”

Airy also believes that it is cru-cial to give prospective students a true feel o& the Whitman campus.

“We want to make sure our vis-itors have a chance to get a feel for the what it is like to be both a stu-dent and an athlete at Whitman,” Airy said. “Whitman is a unique and amazing place, but it is not the best &it for every prospective stu-dent, so in scheduling visits, we strive to provide prospective stu-dents with the best possible feel for what we are -- and what we are not -- so that they have enough information to decide whether or not Whitman is the right &it.”

On days with a particularly high number o& prospective students on campus -- such as Spring Visitors’ Day on April 8 and Admitted Stu-dents’ Day on April 16 -- the ath-letic department hosts a panel o& current student-athletes to answer common questions prospies have concerning athletics at Whitman.

Varsity teams and the ath-letic department work very hard in order to show prospec-tive students why Whitman is the right place to spend four-years studying and playing sports.

The men’s club rugby team, known as the Reapers, has struggled more this sea-

son than in the fall, already hav-ing lost three games. In con-trast, the men ended their fall season with a 5-1-1 record.

Rugby struggles tradition-ally at small schools. With few-er students interested in ath-letics and less funding than large public schools, rug-by often falls to the side.

“Reed [College] closed their lacrosse team after 25 years this year. Without [Coach] Eric McAvely we would fold. It’s hard to keep rug-by at a small school,” said jun-ior rugby player Joseph Cohen.

Whitman consistently has a strong fall program, but a weaker spring season. This prompts the question: Why does such a successful fall pro-gram struggle in the spring?

The club rugby team has dif-&iculty during spring season be-cause it often loses players to oth-er club sports and struggles to re-tain &irst-years. Seven rugby play-ers have left to play lacrosse and study abroad, and most o& their &irst-years have left the team.

“Every year we lose players to lacrosse and study abroad, but no one is upset about it. We un-derstand that they played lacrosse in high school [and want to take the chance to study in a differ-ent country] and that rugby isn’t their primary sport,” said Cohen.

“That whole group o& young, athletic guys, dropped,” said Cohen. “Next season we need to do more team build-ing activities to get freshman in-volved and sticking with it.”

Lack o& team cohesion and lower numbers have been the cen-tral issues in the fall. However, to keep &irst-years and to main-tain interest in the team year-round, the team needs its lead-ers. This year, however, all three

o& the rugby players who studied abroad were year-round players.

“Losing those strong veter-an level players is really hard for the team’s mentality,” said Cohen.

On top o& study abroad and dropping &irst-years, la-crosse takes players from the team because lacrosse is per-ceived as more o& a priority.

“I played lacrosse &irst,” said &irst-year Alejan-dro Fuentes-Mena simply.

The Reapers’ year-long sea-son allows lacrosse players to participate in both sports. In spring, four players leave rug-by for lacrosse; this gives lacrosse the most seasonal rugby play-ers o& any club team, and per-

haps the greatest individual loss for the rugby team as a whole.

“Lacrosse is their main sport,” said senior and ex-lacrosse play-er Will Ethier-Colón refer-ring to the players that leave for lacrosse. “They look at la-crosse as their primary sport and rugby as off-season training.”

This illuminates one reason that rugby losses so many players. The men’s rugby team will need to hold on to their players in order to maintain a record like they had in the fall. With all these strug-gles, the team has its work cut out for them. Better results might not be likely this season, but a strong-er focus on integrating &irst-years will help the team in the long run.

Teams host, appeal to visiting prospective athletes

After strong fall season, Reapers suffer loss of members to other spring sportsby ANDREW HAWKINS

Staff Reporter

Ruggers run through a play during practice. The Reapers experienced a noticeable drop in numbers this spring, leaving them with a weaker team. PHOTO BY VON HAFFTEN

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organization. For varsity ath-letes, triathlon offers a fun mental break from the rig-ors o& in-season training.”

Triathlons give the opportuni-ty to demonstrate skill and exper-tise in three different disciplines, allowing athletes o& all intensity levels to compete and have a good time. Being exceptional at a single leg o& the race doesn’t guarantee success overall, so many compet-itors set goals before and during the race and accomplishing those goals equals personal success.

“Within the race itsel& there are so many staggered starts and heats you don’t know how fast people are or i& they are actually ahead o& you,” said &irst-year Fernando Medina, who was a triathlete in high school and wanted to contin-ue competing at Whitman. “So I set goals to just catch the person in front o& me or try and do another lap o& the 500-meter swim with-out stopping to catch my breath.”

For other athletes, triathlons are not so much about compet-ing as they are about doing some-thing they love along side oth-ers who share the same passion.

“Triathlons serve as motiva-tion to stay in shape,” said sen-ior Johanna Robertson, whose &irst triathlon experience was as a Whitman &irst-year competing

in the varsity swim team’s annu-al fundraiser triathlon. “Some peo-ple are there to &inish and some people are there to place … Go-ing with a club makes it feel like more o& a team sport — and then ASWC helps with the cost. [One o& my] favorite parts o& triathlons is people-watching on the biking section. All kinds o& people do tri-athlons and it’s great to see every-one out there doing their thing!”

“Dozens [o& Whitties] have not only completed their &irst triathlons with us, but have also been competitive, bring-ing home prizes in their divi-sions,” said Flynn. “This is one o& the most exciting aspects o& participation for me — seeing folks exceed their expectations.”

Since its inception, the Tri-athlon Club’s primary goal has been “facilitating and enabling &irst-time triathletes,” accord-ing to Flynn. I& the number o& participants and the level o& suc-cess that they have achieved are any indicator, then the club has certainly accomplished its goal.

Anyone who is interest-ed in the Triathlon Club and wants to get involved can con-tact either Wake&ield or Flynn.

The club’s next competition will be the Whitman College Triathlon held on April 30 at Whitman College.

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Senior Erik Korsmo, above, at bat during the men’s game against Pacif-ic University Saturday, April 9. After Korsmo boosted the team to an early 4-0 lead, the men ultimately lost both games in Saturday’s double

header. They fought to a close 7-6 loss, also to Paci&ic, on Sunday April 10.

Andrew La Cava ‘14, right, en route to a No. 2 singles victory against University o& Puget Sound’s Chas Stewart last Saturday, April 9. La Cava paired up with Conor Holton-Burke ‘14 to win the No. 1 doubles spot. By winning the day’s match 9-0, the Whitman men secured the No. 1 seed going into the NWC Championship Playoffs for the &ifth year in a row. They completed their &ifth undefeated regular season with a &i-nal win against Paci&ic Lutheran University on Sunday, April 10. The men play Paci&ic University on Saturday during the Playof& Semi&inals.

by TYLER HURLBURT

Staff Reporter

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I’ll come out and say it: anything posted to a publicly-accessible forum on the Internet isn’t pri-

vate, no matter how much you think it is. Social media like Face-book and Twitter are great for keep-ing in touch with people and shar-ing your thoughts. Unfortunately, you may be sharing your thoughts with more people than you expect.

This may not seem all that im-portant, but the things you post to social networking sites are ad-missible as evidence in court, and have been used as grounds for !ir-ing people. What you post to the Internet now may end up coming back to bite you lat-er in the realm o! employment.

Facebook is by far the most im-portant out o! all the new social me-dia ventures out there today. It’s huge, with millions o! people all around the world using it to keep up with their friends and share tidbits about their lives. For the purposes o! this column, I’ll be focusing on Face-book, but the same applies to any so-

cial networking site you can think of.The “Friends o! Friends” set-

ting is what gets me every time. On the surface, it makes perfect sense: I know people who are friends o! my friends who I’m not friends with on Facebook. By selecting “Friends o! Friends” it would seem that I’d be allowing them to see the con-tent they’d otherwise miss. The only problem is that I can’t speci-fy which friends see that content. And that means that anyone who’s connected to one o! my friends, even that long-lost acquaint-ance o! someone I knew in mid-dle school but don’t altogether care for that much, can see content that I’ve labeled as “Friends o! Friends.”

Now, I’m a fairly boring guy. I don’t drink, save for certain re-ligious occasions, I don’t smoke, and I rarely go to parties. Howev-er, I know people who are very dif-ferent from me, and I’m okay with that. What gets to me is when those people get tagged in Facebook pho-tos very obviously drinking or do-ing otherwise embarrassing things. Because I know that those pictures are the sort o! thing that can fol-low them for the rest o! their lives.

That’s not a problem with Face-book alone: the Internet as a whole is very good at distributing and hanging on to data, but very bad at getting rid o! it. Data published on the Internet is, by its nature, shara-ble: it’s possible for someone reading this column online to save the text

in one o! a various number o! !ile formats, and hold on to it for per-petuity.* Thanks to various cach-ing systems, it will also be possi-ble for people to look this up even i! the Pio’s web site ceases to exist.

That’s the bottom line: once you publish something to the World Wide Web, it’s possible for any-one to save it to their hard drive and never let it go. While political cam-paigns these days are waged over ar-cane reports in college newspapers and rumored accounts from former classmates and associates, I can see a future when a status update some-one posted at 22 follows them to their campaign for president at 50.

Maybe Eric Schmidt, the for-mer CEO o! Google is right – some-day, everyone will change their names after they get out o! col-lege to make the ill-advised things that they did back then less obvi-ous to an outside observer. But un-til then, it’s important to note: what you do on the Internet is not private, and it will come back to haunt you.

*Yes, I realize that is an oversim-pli!ication that assumes no data deg-radation or !ile format depreciation over time. Then again, i! you know that already, you probably don’t need to be reading this column.

Blair Hanley Frank is an English ma-jor, and the technology columnist for the Pioneere. He also writes for PC-World’s GeekTech blog, and can be found on Twitter as @belril.

Internet makes privacy impossible

Being in Walla Walla often gives me a sense o! isolation from the political world that I

read about in the New York Times. There are democratic revolutions occurring right now in the Middle East. Republicans and Democrats are bitterly contesting the government budget and threatening to shut down the government. Not to beat a dead horse but climate change, well, is still happening. Well, i! you want to make a difference what can you do? I mean, by comparison, whatever is

at stake in Walla Walla and Whit-man seems insigni!icant. But may-be that is precisely the problem, the implicit comparison we make when we’re faced with the seeming slow-ness o! passing our days on Anke-ny and the steady drumbeat o! ca-tastrophe and democracy. Rather, what i! we can pay attention to cur-rent events but not be distracted by them from focusing on the chal-lenge o! making Whitman a bet-ter and more democratic place?

Remember how Ralph Nader called for a civic-engagement course at Whitman, as i! you could learn how to be a “change-agent” from reading a textbook or taught by a pro-fessor. One response is to throw our-selves into changing Walla Walla. Aside from how it can be pretentious (so contrary to the way Whitman is marketed) for transient college kids to devote a few hours a week to changing a community most o! them do not intend to reside in, I won-

der i! there isn’t work left undone in the Whitman community itself.

I mean there is ASWC, which controls hundreds o! thousands o! dollars and is meant to broad-ly encompass many aspects o! stu-dent life. It funds WEB. It funds student clubs. And ASWC is com-prised o! some talented students but surely, not all the talented stu-dents at Whitman. Yet, how com-petitive are ASWC elections? How “representative” is ASWC? Even i! these elections are competitive, are there actual issues discussed in these elections? Or do most peo-ple vote based of! o! a listserv e-mail and word-of-mouth? In other words, is the semblance o! “voting” enough to call ASWC democratic?

The challenge I am advanc-ing here is that campus democra-cy is an ideal worth striving for and to that end, it’s important to go be-yond just being apathetic and then voting once every April. I hear com-

plaints about ASWC all the time from students about how it is a spe-cial interests bank account (full dis-closure, I am a senator and have re-quested money through ASWC before). Students complain that ASWC isn’t “transparent” enough which leads to everyone running for ASWC running on a platform based of! o! “transparency” (trust us, don’t investigate us, especially on is-sues o! gender or Greek af!iliation). And I don’t mean to belittle the good work that ASWC does. I mean a whole ASWC campaign was aimed at getting student representation on the curriculum committee. Yester-day, the proposal passed thanks to students lobbying faculty members.

So, in answer to Nader’s call for civic engagement, I would respond that there exists a venue for stu-dents to be civically engaged in our own community. It all depends on i! we treat our four years at Whit-man as a stop in a train station or

something along the lines o! an ac-tual community. This doesn’t mean we should all run for senate or presi-dent. It does mean that we can make our clubs function better. Students can hold ASWC accountable by go-ing to meetings. The Pioneer can in-creasingly call out ASWC when it feels like ASWC is making a mistake.

The most important thing that needs to happen is a conversation between students and their elected of!icials and between their elected of!icials and other organizations like the press. As a political junkie, this would be a great thing in and o! itsel! because in the conversations we have about Whitman and about this com-munity, we’re making it our com-munity. I mean, the emphasis on de-liberative democracy is on the word “deliberative” not on democracy.

Gary Wang is a senior political philos-ophy major with interests in Asia and business.

Whitman has potential to become community for students

BLAIR FRANKColumnist

GARY WANG Opinion Editor

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On March 10, graduating seniors all received an e-mail featuring ASWC Pres-

ident Carson Burn styling the new (blue) graduation gown all sen-iors were expected to purchase for 32.35 with tax by April 15.

For most seniors, this was the !irst time we had ever heard o! this change in policy.

The student body was not asked for input. ASWC was not consulted. The administra-tion had only consulted the Sen-ior Class Committee. This body o! 10 students was expected to be able to speak for the entire sen-ior class o! over 400 students.

Not surprisingly, this expec-tation was wrong. The decision stirred controversity and incit-ed frustration among the senior class. This became the latest exam-ple o! the administration announc-ing a decision that impacted the en-tire senior class without consult-ing any large group o! students be-forehand. According to Whitman’s graduation requirements, a stu-dent must walk at commencement, and therefore must buy a gradu-ation gown in order to graduate.

Two years ago, during the budget crisis, the administra-tion made a series o! decisions af-fecting large portions o! campus. They cut the varsity ski team and the student activities fund which supported CAB and Coffeehouse.

The decision itsel! was pain-ful but not unsurprising for stu-dents. Whitman’s endowment lost over 70 million dollars that year alone. Cuts had to be made. What was surprising was how the administration implement-ed that decision. They chose to an-nounce it to the ski team and to the students as i! it were an ulti-matum. Varsity skiing was going away. CAB would be no more. We could say goodbye to Coffeehouse.

After irate students react-ed to this decision, the adminis-tration collaborated with ASWC and the student body to come up with palatable solutions. The ski team became a club sport and started raising its own funds while ASWC created WEB.

Then last fall, the adminis-tration announced that the fac-ulty would be switching to a 3-2 course load. By now, most stu-dents have heard the justi!ications for this switch over and over again.

We understand the importance o! the 3-2 shift. However, student

frustration didn’t come from the switch itsel! but from how the ad-ministration managed the transi-tion. Since the announcement, the faculty has cooperated with the student body to create new sys-tems to alleviate the registration pressures caused by the change.

O! course, these recent !ix-es don’t make it any better for all the students who dealt with lim-ited class options, high enroll-ment and overwhelmed wait-lists this year — all o! which could have easily been avoided had stu-dents been consulted before the decision was implemented.

Now, with the requirement to purchase caps and gowns, the ad-ministration has shown that they have learned nothing from the last two years. They persist in making critical decisions without proper consultation with the student body before implementing a decision.

Despite previous controversies, they haven’t realized that the stu-dents can make intelligent sugges-tions to a policy change. A month after the !irst e-mail about purchas-ing caps and gowns, there was a no-ticeable shift in the language used to market gowns. Clearly, after con-siderable outrage raised by a wide variety o! seniors, the administra-tion has started to offer !inancial as-sistance to some students who lit-erally cannot afford another 32.35 dollars after already spending over 160,000 dollars to attend Whit-man. They have also started offer-ing a reuse and recycling program for the gowns based on concerns raised largely by senior ASWC sen-ators Elise Otto and Robin Lewis.

Just as with the budget cuts o! two years ago and the 3-2 shift from last year, all o! these im-portant changes which were made after the initial announce-ment would have been suggest-ed had the administration con-sulted the wider student body.

Students are fully capable o! understanding the complex, dif-!icult decisions that the admin-istration faces. We are not inter-ested in stonewalling the admin-istration’s ability to make key de-cisions, nor are we interest-ed in merely being reactionary.

All we want is to be a part o! the decision-making process. As the controversies over the last two years have shown, we can make valuable contributions. We just need the opportunity.

BOARD EDITORIAL

Students should be consulted before key decisions

I DON’T HAVE A VERY STRONG

OPINION OF IT. THEY

COULD DO A LITTLE BIT MORE TO REACH OUT TO THE

STUDENT BODY AND LET EVERYONE KNOW

WHAT’S GOING ON. I’D SAY OVERALL

THEY’RE DOING A PRETTY GOOD JOB.

Courtney Sanford Junior

I ESPECIALLY FEEL LIKE

THEY’RE ON TOP OF

THE WHOLE SCHEDULE STUFF WITH

THE PROFESSORS NOT BEING HERE A

LOT AND THE WHOLE 3-2 SYSTEM SO I

APPRECIATE THAT THEY’RE REALLY TRYING

TO WORK ON THAT WHICH IS MY BIGGEST

THING …

Olivia Clingman-White First-year

I FEEL LIKE I KNOW A LOT

OF THE ASWC SENATORS AND

WHO LIKE THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP

IN ASWC. ONE THING I WOULD BE CONCERNED

ABOUT IS THE GENDER DISTRIBUTION, THE FACT THAT THERE

HASN’T BEEN A FEMALE PRESIDENT IN SUCH A

LONG TIME.

Chloe KinseySophomore

I DO THINK IT’S REPRES-

ENTATIVE. THERE’S A

LOT OF TALKING IN THE DINING HALL AND I FEEL LIKE YOU

GET A LOT OF DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE

REPRESENTATIVES. AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY

DO THINK ABOUT IT, IT’S JUST NOT THEIR

FRIENDS.

Molly Presson First-year

I CAN’T THINK OF ANY

GLARING DISCREPA-

NCIES ABOUT THE LEVEL OF REPRESENTATION.

I THINK ASWC IS ENOUGH OF A SERIOUS

STUDENT GOVERNMENT THAT IT DOESN’T

USUALLY TURN INTO A POPULARITY CONTEST OR ANY SORT OF SILLY

STUFF THAT LIKE.

Clark Van Horne Senior

OPINIONS from the STUDENT BODY Do you think ASWC is representative of the Whitman student body? Why or why not?

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Hey followers, The folks in charge here have deemed that I suck at making jumbles, which means I’M BACK ON CROSSWORD DUTY!!! Yesss! My fanta-sies o! returning to these puz-zles have !inally come to frui-tion, bursting forth like things that burst forth. Well, it’s good to be back, enjoy this week’s puzzle!

Love,Adam “Proud once again to be Puzzle Slut” Brayton

ACROSS1. Queen o! “Romeo and Juli-et”?4. AC/DC hit “_____ in Black”8. Fatal virus for cats, abbr.11. “You _____ my sunshine…”12. Barbary sheep13. Natalie’s role in “Black Swan”14. What one can do with 47-across15. Combustion-ignition en-gine, to a Brit16. Mined iron and copper17. Act with inspiration from a Marx Brothers movie20. Eyelash infection21. Central American raccoon cousin22. “To the !ield,” to Alejandro

27. “Black Orpheus” setting, for short28. At that should merit a Guinness World Record, with “on Earth”33. Dodge truck line34. Space cloud35. Homer’s !irst epic poem37. 80s hip-hop trio “Salt-n-_____”41. Act drawing from dirty moviemakers, with “The New”46. Alternate spelling o! the an-cient Celtic alphabet47. Material for 14-across48. Actor Torn49. “Metalocalypse” band “_____klok”50. Treats a sore with cold51. Commander o! the Califor-nia Republic William52. Playstation Corp., to an in-vestor53. Cesar Milan’s command to dogs?54. Suf!ix for Coll and Kathl DOWN1. Geometry, algebra, and cal-culus, to a Brit2. What Lisztomania is like?3. With characteristics o! Fat Tire or perhaps Guinness4. Made an offer on eBay5. Repetitively named 60s Ira-nian pop star Are!kia6. Antidote

7.Puebloan ceremonial room8. Shotgun or ri!le9. Newton’s !irst law10. 2004 !ilm “The _____ o! the Christ”13. Neighborhood east o! NYU18. “Take a _____”19. d/dL(TsinL)23. Willingness to tackle a job24. Sierra Nevada Pale _____25. Derek Jeter’s org.26. Few, to Pierre28. Camera stabilizers?29. Chlorine or Astatine30. Abu Dhabi or Dubai31. Suf!ix derived from the an-cient Greek word for “tomb”36. Screw it, I’m just gonna give you this one: ANMH38. Spooky39. Group o! lions40. Ski town in Colorado

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To the Writing House Thief:I see you have struck

again. In response, I ask: Have you no dignity? You seem to think that you can just come pillage the Writing House and take whatever you want. While this has proven true, I would like to warn you that someday we, here at the WriHo, will run out of valuables. Then where will you be? Riding my bike to a coffee shop, where you will then take Will’s laptop out of Eric’s backpack and study your latest thievery hand-book? Yeah? Well, I HOPE YOUR CAFE AU LAIT IS COLD AND WEAK.Burn in hell (apparently this is now a thing),Diana

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DIADEMNORMALFLOORSPATENTMAGGOTQ: What happens when you throw a piano down a mine shaft?A: A FLAT MINOR

T""! his week, The Backpage decided to expand its ho-rizons and get politi-

cal! We managed to score an ex-clusive interview with write-in candidate for ASWC Pres-ident, Keenan Hilton, and his campaign manager Marcial Diaz. We’ve provided a tran-scription o! the interview below.

Backpage: Where were you when you heard that lost?

Keenan Hilton: Well, we got out o! rehearsal, and o! course I have an experienced ASWC senator here, so he knew. He knew exactly where to go. So we ran up to the ASWC Of!ice here in Reid and checked the numbers on the window.

Marcial Diaz: We consid-ered it a victory. We were aiming for between 30 to 40 votes, and we got 83 and two ballots that had misspelled Keenan, so we ac-tually had 85. What was it, 8.9 percent o! all the votes?

BP: Whose idea was it to have Keenan run for ASWC President?

KH: The way it started was that I had talked with a couple friends about how I thought, i! I just got a couple o! my friends from Lyman to just write in my name, then I could probably get second place. Then, I was talking to Marcial about it, and that was Saturday morning.

MD: Then we had a lunch break and during the lunch break, I worked on his campaign.

KH: He came back with post-ers and !liers.

MD: I saw the opportuni-ty o! having a different type o! president. You know how in the Pio last week, you had an article about how most o! the people in-volved in ASWC, or at least the presidents, are Greek, male and white? Keenan is just different.

He’s an indie!BP: Why did Keenan run?

Was it just to have somebody dif-ferent in the race?

KH: When [Marcial] printed out the !liers, the whole thing was obviously very self-aware, and I knew that I was up against some-one who has been in ASWC for a very long time and seems very well-quali!ied, and is the only person actually on the ballot. We were de!initely very aware o! all o! those things, and actually very aware that I don’t have ASWC experience; but I mean, really, for me, because I had to justify it in some way, because in the one-in-a-million chance that I did win, like what would I do? You know? I couldn’t just be like, “Wait, no, the whole thing was a joke! Sorry guys!” The way I justi!ied it was just that I think it’s stupid that in a democracy, what we call a dem-

ocratic election, there’s one per-son running for the most power-ful position. You know? Yeah, I mean how can you make the as-sumption that he’s the only one that they want? I know it was just the decision o! other people who may have run to just not, but I just thought that there should be another person, and I thought, you know what? I’ll be that oth-er person! I’ll be the alternative choice! [ See NOTE]

BP: So, what would you have done i! you did win by some off-chance? Did you have a platform?

KH: My platform basically was that I’m another choice. You know? What would I have done? Well, I would’ve shaken Marcial’s hand, and then I probably would have called up Matt Dittrich and asked him i! he could teach me how to be ASWC President.

BP: Do you expect that phone

call would have gone well?KH: I expect that it would

have been tense.BP: Had you talked to him

before this?KH: Very little. I’ve never

actually met him formally. I re-member him from the Green Dot thing at the beginning o! the year. I remember that he was super funny, but no, I didn’t meet him. He wrote on the campaign’s Fa-cebook page that he wanted a de-bate and I actually really would’ve liked that. I felt bad coming in at the last minute, and not that he would’ve needed it, but not giv-ing him a chance to be like, “Hey people, I have these quali!ica-tions.” I came in super fast at the end, with our powerhouse cam-paign. But, you know, he asked for a debate, and then I friend re-quested him, and said, uh hey I think that my schedule is going to

be open at these times, but then actually, my schedule wasn’t open at all, because Monday is actually my busiest day in terms o! classes, and then I also had rehearsal from 6 to 9:30 p.m. or whatever.

MD: We considered having it from 5 to 6, but he also needed to have dinner.

KH: I also needed to shower, and have dinner.

MD: It would have been a very short debate.

BP: It seems like Keenan is a busy man. Do you have any plans for the future, in terms o! school politics?

KH: Well, I myself, who knows? I really like ASWC and I really think that is an excellent institution to have as far as giv-ing students a say in what goes on in the school. We pay for it, ob-viously. Um, you know? At this point, I say who knows? Who knows? Maybe.

MD: But there is talk about him maybe running against Kay-von in 2013.

BP: Do you have any sort o! message for the people who voted for you who may be disappoint-ed?

KH: Yeah, I know, crestfall-en, as I’m sure they all are. I guess my message is, again, the purpose o! my running, my goal wasn’t to win. My goal was just to be an-other option. So, I guess what I say is just like you know, thanks for considering another option. You know, I think that’s healthy in a democracy to have multiple, multiple choices. HUZZAH.

[NOTE]BP: Is there anything else you

would like to add?MD: Well, you should men-

tion that he’s a Sig pledge.BP to KH: Are you?KH: Well, I mean I was last

semester. I didn’t de-pledge … I consider mysel! an indie …

Inspired by the recent undergraduate conference, several Whitties have already started working on projects for next year. The Back-page has managed to get copies of a few of the abstracts from these projects. It’s looking like 2012 is going to be a good year to PARTICI-PATE in the undergraduate conference!

'Yesterday Was Thursday, Today is Friday': Rebec-ca Black and the Postmodernist Melancholia of Fading Narratives In lyrics such as, "Seein’ everything, the time is goin’ / Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’ / Gotta get down to the bus stop," sing-er-songwriter-artist-icon Rebecca Black ruminates on the mean-inglessness o! everyday life and the mindless hedonism o! ritualis-tic weekend partying. In my presentation, I will also ruminate on the meaninglessness o! everyday life and the mindless hedonism o! rit-ualistic weekend partying. Using Albert Camus' “The Myth o! Sisy-phus”, I analyze "Friday" not as a teenage party anthem, but rather as a Sisyphean struggle against the interminable onslaught o! days.

(Re)-Envisioning the Gays As humans, we are seeing subjects. There is no escaping the gays -- unless o! course one is blind. The gays condition one's sense o! iden-tity, one's autonomy, and one's relationships with other subject-be-ings. Our society functions by several intersecting gays: panoptic, di-alectic, scopophilic, phallic, hegemonic, narcissistic, Lacanic, my-

opic, and discoursic. I will argue for a re-envisioning o! these gays through a re-reading o! such !ilms as "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" and David Yates's masterpiece "Har-ry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". The gays will never go away. Through them, however, we will better understand our own human natures.

Let's Get It On: Sociological Survey of How Many Whit-ties Were Conceived to Al Green, Marvin Gaye, or Barry White ("The Big Three") What is the in!luence o! music upon sexuality? What is the in!lu-ence o! a deep and dark booming bass sound accompanying love-making and its counterpart conception? Sociology seeks to explain some o! the most complex rituals o! society, leading us to question the very nature o! why we need sweet melodies to make sweet nas-ty. Our survey uses a functionalist-structuralist perspective to un-lock the nuances o! why these artists are institutionally-recognized as agents o! reproduction. Taking our cue from Barry White, we'll go "deeper and deeper."

W.E.B. Du Bois 'N Da Hood": Double Consciousness in the Works of the Wayans Brothers, "Family Matters," and "The Bernie Mac Show" I told Keith Raether, I want every excuse to re-watch the glory days o! African American "domesticana" television. He, rightly, agreed.

presentation abstracts

Keenan Hilton ‘14 explains that ASWC needs to up its indie cred. He swears the new Panda Bear album is the best thing you’ve never heard. PHOTO BY PARRISH

WUC Screw you,

Writing House

Thief pt. 2

Giggles!

with Keenan Hilton & Marcial Diaz