Lately, there has been a lot of stir at Wabash over proposed changes in the curriculum of the college. One of the hottest topics has been whether Wabash students should be required to take a class in what is called “gender studies”. Is there something about Wabash or something about education in general that makes [...]

Wabash is a unique place and nothing proves that claim more than Bell Week. If any observer decided to walk around campus within the last couple of weeks, they would have noticed freshmen in the middle of the night spread out amongst the campus, huddled around burning barrels guarding the campus. Or more [...]

When I first heard about Wabash, I thought it sounded ridiculous. An all-male institution? College is when you’re supposed to meet hoards of women, right?
All of that changed when I visited campus. From the quirky traditions to the fervent pursuit of knowledge, I knew that Wabash was special. And as unnatural and weird as the [...]

During the first few years of my career at Wabash, back in the early nineties, our department did a lot of hiring, which means we had lots of dinners with job candidates, and thus we had to tell them what Wabash is all about. We ended up saying the same things over and over and [...]

When a person visits the web site of Professor Humberto Barreto, the first thing that they will see is not links to current work, a biography, or a curriculum vitae. Yes, these are on Professor Barreto’s website. But the first thing that a person will see is the following quotation at the top [...]

by Jay Horrey ‘09
I am a liberal Democrat. I decided I was a Democrat during the 2000 Presidential Election and since then have worked to promote and further the issues of the Democratic Party. I am a past president of the Thomas Riley Marshall College Democrats here at Wabash College, have served as the Director [...]

It was a typical day of class on November 5, 2007. The only difference was sitting to my left in Calculus 111. It is not the particular class that is important, but the person sitting to my left was someone I had been anticipating to meet. The man, Dr. Leonard [...]

by Sean Clerget ‘09
The Phoenix has continually covered the process of the strategic plan and will continue to do so. As you may remember from previous issues, President White decided to develop a bottom-up strategy for this plan. In his chapel talk last spring he outlined four main topics. A committee was created for each [...]

That is a loaded question, I know, so before my stoning begins, let me make it very clear that I am not saying we shouldn’t have women on the faculty, nor am I saying that women cannot be great professors at Wabash. The women faculty we have at Wabash are excellent teachers and fine colleagues. [...]

Picture this: Your bladder is full and you are madly running around in search of the men’s room. You stumble into a hallway and find ten restrooms—six that are co-ed and four that are for girls only. Which one would you use? Well, I’d hope that you searched until you found of one the last [...]