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In what has become a yearly tradition, the pledges of the William Penn Society stopped by yesterday for a lively serenade on the steps of Mendenhall lobby.

In the “small world” department:  Here are Whittier students getting a lesson from an executive of one of the biggest hand bag trading companies in the world, who happened to be on the crowded subway that our students were riding the other morning.  … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

According to a recent survey, 55 percent of Board members at colleges and universities across the country think that the cost of college is too high. But when asked if their own college or university was too expensive, 62 percent … Continue reading →

While traveling through airports recently, I kept seeing happy children about the age of those who were murdered in Newtown,  perhaps on their way with family members to holiday celebrations.  Children should be happy and, as President Obama said in … Continue reading →

Below you can find photos of last Saturday’s holiday parade.  We had over 100 athletes march through Uptown Whittier, proudly wearing their Poet gear and carrying signs advertising their sport.  Of course, the biggest hit of the parade was John Poet … Continue reading →