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

Photo by Julia Berard.

Bdubbs Bakes: Cinnamon rolls

By Carolyn Freeman April 18, 2012

It’s time to rock and (cinnamon) roll with this scrumptious mini-cinnamon roll recipe. Ingredients: Cinnamon rolls 1 cup whole milk 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1/4 cup sugar 1 1/4 teaspoons...

Students on the Manos Unidas club spring break trip to Costa Rica learn about the areas vegetation from locals. The students on the trip engaged in community service activities and excursions to learn about Costa Rica and its culture. Photo courtesy Julia Dionne.

Manos Unidas takes spring break service trip to Costa Rica

By Lucy Chen April 15, 2012

As part of the Manos Unidas club, I traveled to Costa Rica for a week over spring break to engage in a community service and culture trip. After a long 12 hours of traveling, we arrived at Earth University...

Bollyblog: Celebrating Passover in India

Bollyblog: Celebrating Passover in India

By Eyal Hanfling April 14, 2012

This week, my host family almost threw out my matzah because they thought it was stale roti, a type of Indian bread. They're not the only ones who don't know about Passover, the Jewish festival that...

Arts writer Laura Rostad traveled to China over spring break to visit some friends. She visited Hong Kong and Beijing.  Photo courtesy Laura Rostad.

The Great Wall, paparazzi and rice hats: A spring break trip to China

By Lucy Chen April 13, 2012

While most of my friends visited colleges over spring break, I was halfway around the world getting a taste of Chinese culture. I traveled with senior Katie Mahaffie and Holy Cross senior Kelly Thiede...

Pablos Parler: Spring break adventures

Pablo’s Parler: Spring break adventures

By Pablo Ramírez April 12, 2012

In this episode, Pablo discusses his experience during spring break while undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health and encourages an optimistic outlook on life. Answer the question of...

Junior Marit Bjornlund (right) hosts Gro Borges, a Danish exchange student from Copenhagen, from March 17 to 21. Between shopping trips, conversations at dinner and sightseeing, the two found that they shared both cultural differences and similarities. Photo courtesy Marit Bjornlund.

Discovering cultural differences by hosting a Danish exchange student

By Marit Björnlund March 25, 2012

Perhaps the reason for Denmark’s high graduation rate is that students are paid to attend school in Denmark after they turn 18. That fact was one of the craziest things I learned about the country...

Pablos Parler: College rejection letters

Pablo’s Parler: College rejection letters

By Pablo Ramírez March 20, 2012
Welcome to the first podcast in a new series by graphic artist Pablo Ramirez. While college rejections are understandably upsetting, an anonymous senior dropped off a letter in the Black & White room March 19 to remind seniors that college isn't the ultimate goal in life.
Bollyblog: Where real chai tea comes from

Bollyblog: Where real chai tea comes from

By Eyal Hanfling March 20, 2012

As I walked into my freezing physics classroom, I questioned why I chose to live in India for seven months over the central heating at Whitman. But when I got home from school and started my homework...

YOLO, or you only live once, is the name of a popular restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The phrase has become popular recently. Photo courtesy www.insidefortlauderdale.com.

Just remember ‘YOLO’

By Carolyn Freeman March 12, 2012

It’s tattooed on Zac Efron’s hand. It’s hashtagged in hundreds of tweets every day. It’s 2012’s “swag,” the fresh new way to live every day like it’s your last. YOLO — or “you...

Junior Ali Foreman holds a local South African child during a visit to a township. Foreman spent six weeks in South Africa as part of an exchange trip. Photo courtesy Ali Foreman.

South Africa: A desire to help in the future

By Lucy Chen March 1, 2012
As I write my last blog post on my 19-hour flight home from South Africa, I’m filled with overwhelmingly bittersweet emotions.
Rare Disease Day: I am aware

Rare Disease Day: I am aware

By Pablo Ramírez February 27, 2012
It's a weird thing to say, but I think I've only become fully conscious of my disease in the past year. That's not to say the disease manifested itself a year ago – for 16 years now, I’ve had Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type 1, a rare genetic illness.
Vendors sold costumes and accessories at the Farpoint sci-fi convention in Timonium, Md., Feb. 18 to 20. Photo by Nellie Vinograd.

Farpoint sci-fi convention is far out

By Nellie Vinograd February 22, 2012

Hundreds of nerds trekked to Timonium, Md., this past weekend for Farpoint, a three-day science fiction extravaganza, and I’m happy to admit that I was among them. Farpoint is considered small...

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