Liza Lebo

On April 22, Whitman community members gathered at Reid Campus Center to celebrate Earth Day and to hear from a panel of faculty and staff members as they addressed the college’s legacy of sustainability, encapsulated in a work titled Our Environmental Past: Reflecting on the Past and How We Move Forward.

On April 16, Meghan Henning lectured on her book “Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christianity” in the Kimball Auditorium. In her book, Henning analyzes how ancient depictions of Hell play on fears of disability. In her lecture last week, Henning presented how these images reflect cultural ideals linking femininity and disability to weakness.

“Oh you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union, I’m sticking to the union, ’til the day I die,” sang Faith Petric (1915-2013), an American folk musician, political activist and Whitman alum, in a documentary screened on campus. The audience sang along to Petric’s rendition of Woodie Guthrie’s song “Union Maid” in Olin Auditorium on Tuesday, April 7.