Monthly Archives: January 2013

I urge you to watch the Youtube video of Jimmy Kimmel showing clips of Los Angeles weathermen and women ”freaking out” about the unusually cool temperatures that we’ve been experiencing in LA. Well, early one morning last week I took my own video … Continue reading →

Just the other day I called attention to Whittier’s Janterm travel courses on this blog — and then almost immediately heard from another professor, Andrea Rehn, traveling with her class and Professor Doreen O’Connor-Gomez’s class to Spain and Morocco.  Professor Rehn said they ”ran into … Continue reading →

I wrote a little while ago about Whittier’s Nixon Fellowship that each year awards grants to talented students interested in exploring public policy issues, as well as careers in public service.  On Monday, through their Fellowship, Daniel Kulick ’13 and Carlee Shults ’14, have the … Continue reading →

I probably repeat the phrase “I want to be a Whittier student” three or four times a week, but never more than during Janterm or Mayterm when I hear from students who are participating in one of our intense travel … Continue reading →

One hundred years ago today, Richard M. Nixon was born.  His birthday is being celebrated in Washington and through news accounts, such as this one in our local paper:  http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_22335641/president-richard-nixon-still-reviled-revered-100-years.  We on campus celebrate our most famous alumnus in a … Continue reading →