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The Whitworthian

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The Whitworthian

Letters to the editor on April 2017 Planned Parenthood decision

May 3, 2017

Jenna Morris, ‘17 In his recent email about the decision to cut ties with Planned Parenthood, President Taylor wrote of how “Whitworth’s relationship with the organization […] sends a confusing...

Letter to the Editor: Marching for life on the front lines

February 25, 2017

by Mattie Bond, ‘18Co-President of Whitworth Students for Life On Jan. 28, people from across the Northwest, including me and around a dozen other students from Whitworth University, gathered at...

Letter to the editor on the electoral college

November 17, 2016

I am writing in response to the recent article on the Electoral College in the Nov. 9 issue. What I think a lot of people forget about the Electoral College is that it is designed specifically to...

Letter to the editor: Elect third party, locally and nationally

November 7, 2016

Many people from our generation are unhappy with the two main presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and, unsurprisingly, many of us are planning on staying home this November. While...

Letters to the Editor: “Whitworth: Cut Ties with Planned Parenthood”

October 20, 2016

Planned Parenthood is a family planning clinic focused on sexual health care. It is not an organization that simply "tears apart a living human being limb-from-limb." They provide STI tests, contraception...

Letter to the editor: I live in Detroit

September 28, 2016

A response to Whitworthian article Inner City Lives Matter Every few years at Whitworth, a predictable cycle tends to occur. A student, full of excellent intentions and armed with a newly acquired...

Letters to the editor

September 28, 2016

In response to "Inner City Lives Matter: Detroit's Disadvantage" I was disappointed at the publishing of "Inner City Lives Matter" by James Silberman, in which he points out that Detroit, along...

Letter to the editor: Response to blackface articles

October 7, 2015

Dear Editor:In my nearly 33 years of teaching at Whitworth, I have never written in response to an article in The Whitworthian, believing that as a student publication, it should be about student concerns...

Letter to the Editor: Diversity should be respected and encouraged on campus

September 23, 2015

Dear Whitworth Community, We want to express our support and appreciation of campus leaders’ response to the recent incident involving Whitworth students posing in blackface. This incident reminds...

Letter to the Editor: Whitworth should divest from fossil fuels because of its Christian identity

April 19, 2015

Dear Whitworth Community,This university has a Christian duty to divest its endowment from fossil fuel extracting companies. Ever since God called humans to care for the land from which we were formed...

Letter to the editor: A response to Christian Libertarianism

October 15, 2014

Dear Editor,Christian Libertarianism is an oxymoron.  Libertarianism is a viable political opinion, but it is not one that can be legitimately derived from the Christian perspective. In the article...

Letter to the editor: Discrimination thrives on Whitworth campus

October 15, 2014

Dear Editor,Last week The Whitworthian sent out an opinion poll about openly LGBTQ professors. Even though the responses were overwhelmingly supportive, the question bothers me. I find the available answers...

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