2024 Hosokawa Journalism Lecture
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The 2024 Hosokawa Journalism Lecture will feature Vann R. Newkirk II (pictured above). Newkirk is a senior editor at The Atlantic and the host and co-creator of the narrative podcast “Floodlines,” winner of the 2021 Peabody Award. For years, Newkirk has covered voting rights, democracy and environmental justice, with a focus on how race and class shape the country’s and the world’s fundamental structures, across media.
Newkirk will speak on “Storytelling Against the Crisis” on Tuesday, April 16 at 7 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center Young Ballroom. (Flyer attached.) As the country faces the twinned issues of a climate crisis and racial inequality, with each posing a threat to our history, what tools can actually stand in the way of an apocalypse? According to Newkirk, journalism, oral history, documentary, and photography by and in vulnerable communities will be critical in changing the story about who we are, and in slowing the onslaught of climate change that affects marginalized people most.
Newkirk is a 2022 Andrew Carnegie fellow, and was a 2020 James Bear Award finalist, a 2020 11th Hour Fellow at New America, and a 2018 recipient of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ ASME Next Award. His journalism inspired the 2022 documentary film “Lowndes Country and the Road to Black Power.”
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Professor Published in Southern Economic Journal
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Assistant Professor of Economics Ruoning Han recently published an article titled “Competition and Profit Orientation in Microfinance” in the Southern Economic Journal. The study examines the loan contracts of microfinance lenders under competition. The results suggest that competition affects loan terms and borrower welfare in different ways depending on whether lenders are nonprofit or for-profit.
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Accreditation Visit This Week
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An accreditation evaluation team from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities is on campus this week. Whitman students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the open forum for their group:
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- Open forum for students: Monday, April 15 at noon in Olin Auditorium (lunch provided).
- Open forum for faculty: Monday, April 15 at 4 p.m. in Olin Auditorium (refreshments provided).
- Open forum for non-supervisory staff: Tuesday, April 16 at 11 a.m. in Olin Auditorium (refreshments provided).
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Whitman community members may also communicate with NWCCU during the visit via email to info@nwccu.org.
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Nuclear and Environmental Justice Film Saturday
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As a part of the statewide Tax Day to Earth Day Events organized by Washington Against Nuclear Weapons Coalition, Whitman Climate Justice Coalition will screen the film “Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1” on Saturday, April 20 at 7 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center basement (RSVP). The film chronicles testing the U.S. government did on the Marshall Islands following the nuclear fallout from the testing that occurred there. Snacks will be provided as well as supplies for making posters for Earth Day on Monday, April 22. (Flyer attached.)
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Taste of Africa on Saturday
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Whitman African Students Association and Whitman Events Board will host the annual “Taste of Africa” event on Saturday, April 20 at 7 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center Young Ballroom. All are welcome at this celebration of music, dance, fashion and food from the African continent. (Flyer attached.)
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A new Little Free Library, sponsored by the Associated Students of Whitman College and the Whitman Book Club, is now located in Reid Campus Center near the stairwell. Books are always free to take and book donations are also welcome.
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Accreditation Open Forum for Students
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Accreditation Open Forum for Faculty
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Reid Side Lawn or Sherwood 114 (weather dependent)
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Sherwood Athletic Center, Room 106
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La Casa Hispana (Interest House)
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Accreditation Open Forum for Staff
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Reid Campus Center, Young Ballroom
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Accreditation Exit Meeting
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Olin Hall, Room 129 (RSVP)
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Memorial Building, Room 205
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Reid Campus Center, Room 240
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Reid Campus Center, Room 207
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Reid Side Lawn or Sherwood 114 (weather dependent)
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Hall of Music, Chism Recital Hall
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Reid Campus Center, Basement
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Welty Student Health Center
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Information Session: Human-Centered Design
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Hunter Conservatory, Kimball Theatre
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Hall of Music, Chism Recital Hall
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Reid Campus Center, Side Lawn
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Memorial Building, Room 208
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Cleveland Commons, South Corner
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Reid Campus Center, Room 209
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Reid Campus Center, Entrance
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Reid Campus Center, All Faiths Room
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Hall of Music, Chism Recital Hall
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Reid Campus Center, Young Ballroom
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Reid Campus Center, Basement
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Reid Campus Center, Young Ballroom
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Hall of Music, Chism Recital Hall
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