Korrine Hilgeman

While watching the television this past week, my screen was suddenly filled with women dressed in lingerie asking the viewer to want them and excite them as they rolled around in rose petals and struck different provocative poses. It was an advertisement for Victoria’s Secret that aired as I was watching a rerun of Glee with my roommate.

A television program that airs at 8 p.m. on a weekday night and features singing high school students is definitely attractive to families. I know personally that my whole family at home watched the program. To air such a commercial at a time when young children could be watching is ridiculous.

Korrine Hilgeman - Thu, 2012-01-12 01:52

Today, Dec 8, 2011 marks the seventieth anniversary of the beginning of the Japanese occupation of the island of Guam, an occupation that lasted three years and left an unknown number of people killed, injured and homeless. Do a simple Google search of Pearl Harbor and you can find statistics on casualties for that day in an instant. Type “Japanese occupation of Guam” and the first link is for a Wikipedia page that contains zero mention of any casualties, simply that the native Chamorros suffered hardships during the occupation.

Korrine Hilgeman - Thu, 2011-12-08 05:11

Walking into Club 88 to find students gathered around a table playing King’s Cup is not what one would consider a normal college experience. If you were there on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. this is exactly what you would have encountered.

Those who were present enjoyed themselves a lot. “I had fun but I think a lot of people missed out,” senior Committee member Davina Williams said. “It’s your first opportunity to legally drink freely on campus.It was cool to feel like you were being viewed as an adult by the school, especially because a lot of events on campus tend to feel like high-school events.”

Korrine Hilgeman - Thu, 2011-10-20 02:37

One appealing aspect of Whittier is in the high academic image that the College projects. However, it seems the strength of academics may be at a point to head downhill. Whittier has a history of strong academic standards and it is up to the students to ensure they remain that way.

The main cause I see behind the potential for academics to fall is in the laziness of the student body. Sure, everyone has their week or so when they fall behind, procrastinate and maybe skip a reading assignment or two. However, I see this becoming a standard practice on campus.

Korrine Hilgeman - Thu, 2011-10-20 02:22

It’s nothing new that the success rate of modern marriages is at a shockingly low point. Nobody seems to be able to stay in a state of monogamy for a lifetime. And be it a cause or effect, today’s music seems to be echoing this theme of degraded monogamy.

Every other song on the radio seems to be about someone in a relationship pining after someone else. How is this acceptable? And why is this theme so prevalent in music today?
Reports of infidelity even amongst celebrities seem to be at an all-time high. Even women of extraordinary beauty like Eva Longoria, who are regarded as a total catch the world over, are ending their relationships over reports of unfaithfulness.

Korrine Hilgeman - Thu, 2011-10-06 03:34

As new first-year and transfer students explore the Whittier campus this fall, they will be joined by another large group of new figures – professors and administrators. The faculty has increased by 18 for this semester, with a mix of tenure track, visiting and fellowship positions.
Tenure track means that the professors are in the process of qualifying for a position that the College will promise to permanently fund for that individual. A visiting professor is filling a temporary position, perhaps for professors on a sabbatical.

Korrine Hilgeman - Thu, 2011-09-29 03:06

September 11, 2001 was a day that never had a chance to begin normally for Whittier students at the time. Early in the morning, as people awoke for classes, phones started ringing. Televisions were turned on as the news quickly spread. Calls were made between dorm rooms using the landline extension each room had. People came out of their rooms hours before classes would begin, all with the same questions on their mind “Why did this happen? And is this real?”

Connie Romero,
alumna

Korrine Hilgeman - Thu, 2011-09-08 02:56

As if there is not enough violence encouraged in today’s society, a new online video game is being designed where players act as shooters on a killing spree in schools.
A game called School Shooter: North American Tour 2012 was pulled off its host site’s database last month. Checkerboarded Studios developed the game in association with METOKUR.The studio specializes in “satirical Half-Life 2 modifications” according to its website www.checkerboarded.com, which is the type School Shooter would be. A new website, www.ssnat.com, was then created that talks about the game and is also where it will eventually be available for download.

Korrine Hilgeman - Thu, 2011-04-28 02:53