Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Last semester, senior sociology major Cassidy Washburn ’23 leveraged their position working as a student leader in the Career and Community Engagement Center (CCEC), along with a Whitman Internship Grant, to create Friends Rock, an after-school climbing program for local elementary school students. 

The program started with a weekly climbing session for students from Edison Elementary school, and this semester a grant from the Washington Office of Superintendent for Public Instruction (OSPI) will allow the program to expand to twice a week and incorporate students from Pioneer Middle School. 

Watch this video to hear more from Washburn about the origins of this exciting program!

While email is a convenient form of communication, it is not necessarily secure—especially when exchanging sensitive information such as social security numbers, driver license numbers, passport numbers or financial information. If you need to exchange sensitive information with someone (even with your Whitman colleagues) avoid using email if possible. 

Whitman College provides all college account holders with access to a secure transfer service. The shared files do not appear as direct email attachments so they cannot be forwarded to anyone else and are deleted from the server after a few days.   

Login to Sharefile online at sharefile.whitman.edu using the SSO Login option. Additional information and instructions can be found in this Whitman knowledge base article. 

President Sarah Bolton and Board of Trustees Chair Joe Davis will co-host open office hours to visit with students from 1–2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15 in Memorial Building 304. Drop by to share your thoughts or just to chat. Dates for future open office hours are available online.

A nonprofit organization called Hanford Challenge is hosting a contest for Washington state students to submit poetry on the topic of nuclear weapons waste. Cash prizes are available. One submission per student, due March 31. The contest will be judged by Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest, a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. To learn more, visit hanfordchallenge.org.

In accordance with Washington state Labor & Industries employer requirements, we are notifying the campus community that since yesterday, two people with Whitman access were confirmed positive for COVID-19.

Please continue to follow all our campus COVID-19 protocols to help prevent transmission. If you have any symptoms that may be COVID-19 or know that you may have been exposed to coronavirus, please be tested. Additional masks and rapid test kits are available in the front entryway at the Welty Student Health Center during normal operating hours. 

12–1 p.m.

Faculty/Staff Climbing

Sherwood Athletic Center, Climbing Wall

12:10–12:50 p.m.

Movement That Matters: MELT

Sherwood Athletic Center, Multipurpose Gym

1 p.m.

Rainbow Macramé

Reid Campus Center, Room 207

4 p.m.

When Academic Freedom, Religious Beliefs, and DEI Collide: The Case of Hamline University

Reid Campus Center, Young Ballroom

4–6 p.m.

Painting and Pizza with Kappa Kappa Gamma

Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chapter Room

6–9 p.m.

Lead Climbing Clinic: Part 1

Sherwood Athletic Center, Climbing Center

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