Accountability Expert To Speak on Saturday
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Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi invite the Whitman community to a public talk by Sam Silverstein titled “Building a Sustainable, High-Performance Team Culture” on Saturday, March 8, at 1 p.m. in Maxey Auditorium. (Flyer attached.)
Silverstein is the founder and CEO of The Accountability Institute and the author of 12 books. His mission is to empower people to live accountable lives, transform the way they do business and thrive. He has been inducted into the Council of Peers Award for Excellence Speakers Hall of Fame, is a past President of the National Speakers Association, and was named one of the World’s Top Organizational Culture Professionals by Global Gurus.
As a former executive and business owner, Silverstein successfully sold one of his businesses to a Fortune 500 company. Today, he writes, speaks and consults with organizations around the globe to think differently, work with renewed purpose and achieve record-breaking results.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Student Contributes to Local Podcast
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Last summer, Kavita Getchell ’25, who is majoring in Film and Media Studies and Brain, Behavior and Cognition, received a Whitman Internship Grant to work with Unincarcerated Productions, a Seattle-based production company. Getchell worked with a team that was developing a new podcast titled “Concrete Mama”—recorded inside the Washington State Penitentiary. Getchell provided research and helped catalog audio files. This week, the first episode of the podcast was released, available on all major podcast distributors.
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Dialogue & Dignity Series Events This Weekend
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The Dialogue and Dignity Series will continue with a talk titled “Reimagine Resilience: Storytelling as a Portal to Prevention” on Friday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Auditorium. (Flyer attached.) Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess is an award-winning author, scholar and Columbia University professor. Sabic-El-Rayess will also co-host an interfaith workshop titled “Understanding Educational Displacement to Cultivate our Collective Resilience to Hate,” together with Vikramaditya Joshi, a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy and Education Program at Columbia University. The free workshop will take place on Saturday, March 8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center Young Ballroom. Lunch will be provided. Please register in advance.
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Harper Joy Theatre Play This Weekend
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The Harper Joy Theatre production of “Doubt: A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley opened last night. Additional performances will take place on Friday, March 7, at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 8, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m. Directed by Professor of Theater Christopher Petit, the play explores the tensions between a progressive parish priest and a rigidly conservative nun at a Catholic school. Tickets (free for Whitman students) are available through the box office. (Flyer attached.)
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Third Space Speaker Series Event Next Week
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The next Third Space Speaker Series event will take place on Tuesday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center Young Ballroom. (Flyer attached.) The event will feature activist and astronaut Amanda Nguyen, who is set to become the first Vietnamese woman to go to space. Her activism led to Congress passing the sexual assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights Act of 2016. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 and was on Time magazine’s “Women of the Year” list in 2022.
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Native Regalia Talk Next Week
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The Center for Global Studies will host a talk titled “Regalia in Relation: Northwest Coast Arts and Ties to Territory” on Wednesday, March 12, at 5:30 p.m. in Olin Auditorium. Speaker Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Curator of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum at the University of Washington, will examine Northwest Coast textile arts within a holistic culturally focused context. (Flyer attached.)
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Class of 2025 Seeks Banner Designer & Commencement Speaker
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The Class of 2025 is seeking seniors to contribute to the upcoming commencement ceremony in May. One senior will be selected to design the senior banner and will be compensated $100. Another senior will be selected to speak briefly at commencement. Applications for both are due on Friday, March 14. For more information and additional requirements, email Senior Event Committee Chair Rocio Josephine Lybarger-Yanes ’25 at lybarger@whitman.edu.
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Healthy Minds Survey for Students
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Whitman College is currently administering the national Healthy Minds Survey to all students. Look for an email from Dean of Students Kazi Joshua with a link to the survey. The results will provide Whitman with a comprehensive picture of mental health and related issues on our campus. More student responses mean better information from the survey, and better information from the survey will help us best evaluate our ability to meet student needs and to evaluate our existing programs. Participants will have the opportunity to win one of four $250 gift cards and one of ten $100 gift cards. The survey will close on Friday, March 14.
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Photo (Abby Spaulding ’28): The executive boards of the Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council went to the Pacific Northwest Regional Fraternity and Sorority Life Leadership Conference last weekend in Tacoma, Washington. The conference included presentations on a variety of topics, including “Creating an Experience Rooted in Belonging” and “Unlocking Your Team's Potential.” The Whitman students were also able to meet their counterparts from University of Puget Sound, Willamette University and Linfield University.
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Welty Student Health Center
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McNary National Wildlife Refuge
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Hall of Music, Chism Recital Hall
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Hall of Music, Chism Recital Hall
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Harper Joy Theatre, Freimann Studio
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Workshop: Understanding Educational Displacement To Cultivate Our Collective Resilience to Hate
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Reid Campus Center, Young Ballroom (RSVP)
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Harper Joy Theatre, Freimann Studio
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Reid Campus Center, Side Lawn
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Harper Joy Theatre, Freimann Studio
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Reid Campus Center, All Faiths Room
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Reid Campus Center, Lower Level
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Harper Joy Theatre, Freimann Studio
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Penrose Library, Room 313 (“The Fishbowl”)
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Hall of Music, Chism Recital Hall
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