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Out of a heated rivalry between local high schools over athletics and academics, a new challenge emerged: which school could win the Turkey Chase challenge for $1000.
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Whitman’s Anthropology class founded the Walt Whitman Nonhuman Primate Conservation Coalition in order to raise money to help save endangered primates around the world.
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If you thought getting coal in your stocking from Santa was the worst possible gift, think again. We surveyed ten Whitman students and faculty who recounted their worst holiday gifts. This holiday season, consider rehearsing your cheesiest “thank you’s” in case one of these horrific gifts appears under your Christmas tree or next to your menorah.
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Have you ever wondered what kind of lives your teachers live? Everyone comes up with the stereotypical thought that they sit around with their other math or science friends discussing math or science matters while grading papers. However, teachers do, in fact, have friends- and even lives- beyond the classroom walls.
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Every month, teenage girls across the nation flip through the pages of Seventeen Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Teen Vogue, looking longingly at the unknown faces of girls gracing the pages. This month, however, on page 163 of Cosmopolitan Magazine, Whitman students can recognize a familiar face-- former Whitman student Lauren Malstrom. Malstrom continues to live the life of a model, debuting her first photo in the November issue of Cosmo.
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Newest Articles
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Posted:
9/4/2007 11:29:54 AM
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Thirteen Whitman seniors achieved the rank of National Merit semifinalist this year for scoring in the top percentile among Maryland students.
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9/8/2007 12:29:42 PM
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Four juniors who left school grounds during lunch Sept. 4 crashed into a neighborhood yard.
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9/16/2007 11:44:43 AM
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Whitman choral groups, past and present, honored the death of Whitman alumna Katherine McManus, class of ‘03, with their performance at her memorial service Sept. 8 after she passed away from injuries caused by a car accident.
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9/11/2007 11:02:25 AM
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Whitman juniors produced the county’s highest number of passing HSA scores on two of the four tests, according to a MCPS release of the preliminary results Aug. 28.
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8/29/2007 3:24:37 PM
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The term, ‘tortured genius,’ is often not warranted by those to whom it is applied. If anybody deserves this title, though, it is British filmmaker Tony Kaye, the director of American History X and dozens of lauded international commercials (Kaye has received over 200 awards for his TV spots). Unfortunately, he is best known within the film industry for suing New Line Cinema for $275 million for refusing to let him use the pseudonym ‘Humpty Dumpty’ in the credits of American History X, showing up at meetings flanked by a priest, rabbi and monk, and arriving for the first day of shooting on a Marlon Brando documentary dressed as Osama Bin Laden. With his new documentary Lake of Fire, the eccentric Brit seems to have renounced his Mr. Hyde, if you will, and has triumphantly returned to American theatres for the first time in nine years with a cultural examination of earth-shattering affect.
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8/28/2007 11:35:06 AM
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When the American Film Institute released its 10th anniversary list of the top 100 films of all-time in May a whirlwind of controversy followed, as expected. But in no argument made for or against the list did one point out the discrepancy in the eras of which the list seems to guiltlessly favor. The following is a breakdown of the 100 admissions in 20-year blocks:
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11/12/2007 6:54:01 PM
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As teachers distributed report cards last week, some students peeked at their grades and cringed. They couldn’t pull up their C in physics because the last assignment of the quarter was a formative grade, or they couldn’t hang on to their A in English because their summative grade was too low.
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By Hannah Robbins, Julia Deutsch, and Jackie Kantor
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11/12/2007 6:45:43 PM
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As October comes to a close, we have come to a couple of realizations. A) Junior year sucks, B) it’s only a quarter over, and C) Dumbledore is gay.
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11/5/2007 9:58:27 AM
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Ever since the first day of school, a heat wave has swept through Whittier Woods. Several teachers couldn't turn on their air conditioning systems because contractors incorrectly installed the units when they renovated Whittier Woods four years ago. MCPS must take responsibility for the heating and cooling problems.
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What do math teacher Meg Thatcher and science teacher Julie Frank do in their spare time? See full story in the Life section.
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Viking of the Month
Who do you think should be Viking of the Month? Who do you think shows the most Whitman spirit? Email your suggestions here
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