Thursday, February 17, 2022

Next week is the Power & Privilege (P&P) Symposium! This three-day event begins Tuesday, Feb. 22 with a kickoff featuring three current Whitties (sophomores Tejashree Jadhav, Aziz Sahbazovic and Marina Balasanyan) as well as guest speaker, activist and artist Aisha Fukushima ’09. On the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 23, disability rights and inclusion activist Imani Barbarin will deliver the keynote address. On Thursday, Feb. 24, all classes are cancelled to allow for a full day of in-person and online workshops and sessions led by members of the Whitman community.

 

To begin planning out your participation, check out the P&P schedule page. There are details on the various accommodations available, information on connecting with the Career and Community Engagement Center and the Whitman Counseling Center for counseling and guidance, plus suggestions for the best ways to engage with the symposium.

 

Photo: Curtis, E. S., photographer. Joseph Dead Feast Lodge--Nez Percé. , ca. 1905. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/93500494/.

 

From Stan Thayne, lecturer of anthropology, environmental studies and religion:

 

Long before “the environment” emerged as a paradigm through which many of us relate to the world around us, Indigenous peoples of the Plateau related to the land around them through stories that are reflected and conveyed through place names. In our Intro to Environmental Studies class (ENVS 120-A), we are reading the Sahaptian Place Names Atlas, Cáw Pawá Láakni: They Are Not Forgotten, and will be visiting the Long Tent for a discussion of how that Indigenous space reflects deep relationships with this landscape. As one of the authors explains, “The traditions of the longhouse continually renew the teachings and philosophy of Plateau people.” The Long Tent is thus the perfect setting for thinking about how this land was lived and engaged for thousands of years prior to much more recent ways of relating to land. And as the Long Tent events will demonstrate, Sahaptian place names continue to root Plateau peoples in this land to this day.

Noteworthy

14th Annual Juried Student Art Salon: People’s Choice Winners

This year's People's Choice Awards at the 14th Annual Juried Student Art Salon resulted in a tie. The two winners are senior art major Zoëmiel Henderson for her amazing, large-scale painting "Night Life" and sophomore Lillian Angus for her incredible painting, "The Liberals Made the Ocean Trans!"

 

Additionally, senior BBMB major Sean Collier was awarded a Louis B. Perry Merit Award for his beautiful printmaking piece, "Not Invisible." 

Whitman Swimming Earns Championship, Awards

The Whitman College women's swimming team entered and finished the final day of the Northwest Conference Championships with the top spot to win its fourth straight conference title and continue a remarkable run of championships that began in 2017. Only to be outdone slightly, the men's squad pushed through to place second in the championships, equaling the highest finish for the Blues since placing second in 2017.

After the conclusion of the championships, which were held at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, several team members were deservedly recognized with postseason awards. Jenn Blomme was named Women's Coach of the Year and junior psychology major Tanner Filion shares the Men’s Swimmer of the Year title with Whitworth University’s Ryan Grady.

 

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Women’s Basketball Clinches Regular Season Title With Win At PLU

The No. 6 Whitman College women’s basketball team rallied from an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit to top Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) 73-70 in Northwest Conference action on Saturday night. The win seals the regular season title for the Blues (22-1, 14-0 NWC) and the No. 1 seed in the Northwest Conference Tournament later this month. Whitman is three games ahead in the loss column of both PLU and Puget Sound University with only two games to play.

 

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