The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White

The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White

The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White

Its time we stop generalizing generations

It’s time we stop generalizing generations

By Meera Dahiya and Ally Navarrete March 12, 2019

If you want to design a product sure to inspire any iGen-er, make it high-tech, authentic, personalized… and add a Snapchat filter, why don’t you? That’s how a 2018 Forbes article titled “13 Strategies...

Embrace the effort, not the outcome

By Dana Herrnstadt March 12, 2019

A few weeks ago, I got myself into a pickle. I had a math test coming up, and like any self-proclaimed optimist, I visualized myself finally—finally!—getting that A. I searched tirelessly for silver...

The perfect Silver Diner meal doesn’t exi-

By Chris Atkinson, Cami Corcoran, and Cam Jones March 12, 2019

Silver Diner boasts a mile-long menu, offering everything from grain bowls and salmon patties to cheeseburgers and chocolate milkshakes. With so many options and so much variety, we set out to find the...

Fencing helps sophomore Sarah Tong let her guard down

Fencing helps sophomore Sarah Tong let her guard down

By Clara Koritz Hawkes March 12, 2019

As a young child, sophomore Sarah Tong was always the first to back down from conflict. “Sarah can be very quiet and shy. When she was little, if anything approached her, she’d step back,” her...

What I learned from writing about affirmative action

By Anna Yuan March 12, 2019

In the last Black & White magazine, I wrote a story on the community’s reaction to Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a lawsuit involving an anti-affirmative action group who accused Harvard...

A conversation about religion

A conversation about religion

By Clara Koritz Hawkes March 12, 2019

On Feb. 14, I spoke with six Whitman students about an often uncomfortable topic: religion. In part due to ignorance, assumptions about others’ beliefs and the current political climate, religion has...

Lipping smiles after her Dressage performance at the Morven Park Spring Horse Trials in April, 2017. Morven was the first event of the spring season, and though Dressage isnt one of her horse, Maggies, strengths, the competition went super well, she said. Photo courtesy Calli Lipping.

In the saddle with Calli Lipping

By Alex Robinson March 12, 2019

Junior Calli Lipping has a lot of words to describe horses. When she first saw a barn full of horses, she thought they were “such amazing creatures.” When she watched her first professional eventing...

In a screenshot from her own video, senior Kiera Jevtich taps her nails on a soda can as part of an ASMR video. Jevtich makes ASMR videos and posts them on Instagram.

ASMR videos make some students relax, others cringe

By Aditi Gujaran February 4, 2019

The crisp crunch of potato chips, the soft crackling from a knife cutting through sand and even the subtle sound of a quiet voice whispering into a microphone: to some, autonomous sensory meridian response...

MCPS: Unblock our personal email accounts on Chromebooks

MCPS: Unblock our personal email accounts on Chromebooks

By Editorial Board February 2, 2019

During the first few weeks of November, students noticed an inconvenient phenomenon: while it had been difficult to access personal Google accounts on Chromebooks in the past, it became completely impossible...

Senior Natan Rosens dad decided to make bracelets as a mindfulness practice. Since he started making them, he estimates he has made and given out—for free—10,000 beaded bracelets over the last four years.

Whitman parent Gil Rosen’s beading passion spreads kindness

By Jose Wray January 31, 2019

When senior Natan Rosen scored the goal that tied the boys soccer state championship game Nov. 16, tiny blue beads went flying. His dad, Gil Rosen, had been making bracelets—hundreds of beads were attached...

A digital rendering illustrates what the common area will look like when Whitmans renovation is completed in 2021. The completed addition will include a three-story building to replace Whittier Woods, an auxiliary gymnasium and a common area to link the main building to the new wing.

Addition to be completed by Aug. 2021

By Zara Ali January 26, 2019

A three-story building to replace Whittier Woods, an auxiliary gymnasium, and a commons area to link the main building with the new wing will be added to the Whitman campus by August 2021. County managers...

In the the Northeast Regional Finals in New York this August, Hichwa (left) places 3rd out nearly 100 competitors. Competitors who place in the top 12 in regional finals are guaranteed a spot in the national drone championship.  Olaf called the race “the best race of “his life”.

Junior Olaf Hichwa propels into drone racing, sponsorships

By Katie Hanson January 25, 2019

Junior Olaf Hichwa hates gravity. He can’t remember a time when he wasn’t interested in aviation. As soon as he could talk, he told his parents he wanted to be a pilot when he grew up. So when he was...

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