"The Whitman Undergraduate Conference celebrates the scholarship and creativity of the Whitman student body through a day devoted entirely to our students’ accomplishments.
The Twelfth Annual Whitman Undergraduate Conference brings together students from every academic area of Whitman College to share their research and creative projects with the campus community.
The conference is noteworthy for the variety of presentations, which take the form of talks, poster presentations, musical performances and artistic exhibitions.
The abstracts in this program attest to the original work students have produced in their courses, senior theses, summer internships and on study abroad."
--Whitman website
In keeping with tradition, all classes were closed for the WUC but the campus was by no means dead. Students woke up early to attend early sessions and hundreds of WUC booklets could be seen toted under arms as students hurried to sessions around campus.
BSUs own Sarah Deming and Robert Crenshaw both prepared presentations for the event. Unfortunately, their presentations were both during the same session, and as such, both at the same time--we couldn't be at the same place at once!
Laetitiah and I attended Robert's talk under the subtitle Identity and Self-Determination, entitled, "What's Good with Ebonics?": An exploration of Linguistic, Identity, Perceptions, and Controversy.
The room was packed as Robert's topic drew considerable interest among Whitman students and the community. Robert focused on the ignorance on the Black community, and the exploration of Ebonics as a language, and how to address the ignorance.
It was a talk to be applauded!
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| Great job, Robert! |
BSU was very proud to see our members taking charge academically. Great job, Robert and Sarah!
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