The QC, Vol. 81, No. 02 • September 15, 1994

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
^^■^^ ^-^ September 15,1994
Quaker Campus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
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▲SPORTS
Senior Veronica Guerrero passes the ball during
last weekend's Whittier
Invitational Tournament.
pg 14
Rulh Fogclber/QC Pholo Edilor
A A New Friday's
Friday's Coffee House
has reopened under new
management, with a new
look, new food, a big
screen TV & more. See
the changes. pg 7
C  O  L L E  G
L E  G  E
Gallery Openings
Student artwork on
campus abounds. Exhibits will open in Mendenhall & Wardman. Find out
more about the artists in
College A&E.     pg 10
»> M*t   »er of
British Parliament
to Speak Tonight
Sir Fergus Montgomery, a m r of England's ; ion!, will
speak tonight at the Faculty ( at 7 p.m. The
lecture is open to all interested members of the
WhiiMer-.-timiv.uuiiy.
Committee Reviews College Curriculum
by AURELIO ALBA
QC News Editor
A review of the curriculum is
presently on the academic agenda
at Whittier College.
The Curriculum Review Com-
mittee (CRC) chaired by Dr.
Stephen Overturf met during the
summer to explore possible changes to the College's curriculum.
Members of the committee
included Dr. Charles Adams, Dr.
Mary Finan, Dr. Paul Kjellberg,
and Dr. Seamus Lagan. Frequently attending meetings were Dr.
Anne Kiley, Dr. Michael McBride,
and V.P. for Academic Affairs
and Dean ofthe Faculty Dr. Lisa
Rossbacher.
The faculty retreat held just
prior to this semester was devoted
to the work of the CRC.
"The results of our review
demonstrate the difficulty that the
faculty is having in staffing and
supporting all of the programs
we've adopted. We have a very
labor-intensive curriculum. It
takes a lot of input. In general
we' re proud ofthe education we' re
providing for students but it's taking a significant toll on the faculty," explained Overturf.
Testimony was given to the
committee by representatives of
different parts of the curriculum.
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Dr. Stephen Overturf
They included Rossbacher,
Charles Adams, Assistant Director of the Whittier Scholars Program, Dr. Gerald Adams, Registrar and Associate Dean of Advisement, and Dr. Susanne Weil,
Director of College Writing.
"This was a spark plug committee. We did not intend to go
too far. I promised the faculty that
I wouldn't deliver a curriculum in
shrink wrap. I wanted to begin to
examine the basic issues and take
it just so far that the discussion
could open up to the entire community including faculty, students,
and administration," stated Overturf.
"With this as background we
wanted to revisit our educational
objectives to see if we could restructure the curriculum to both
Ruth Fogelberg/QC Photo Edilor
Dr. Anne Kiley
make it more efficient and to satisfy our educational objectives."
Changes discussed included
transforming the January interim
into a May enderim to be taken on
a voluntary basis, the elimination
of January interim, and switching
to a course system from the present
unit system.
Under the course system, students would take eight courses
per year and 32 courses to graduate.
"The course system would
drop the number of courses the
students would take overall and
would also reduce the number of
courses the faculty would teach,"
said Overturf.
The CRC decided that it supported the present educational
objectives ofWhittier College as
stated in the mission statement of
the institution and in the college's
liberal education program.
"New objectives would be to
incorporate the natural sciences
more closely into the core curriculum, to allow for intellectual development over a student's college career in the liberal education program as in most majors,
and to open up people's vision to
a global society," stated Overturf.
The Educational Policies
Committee (EPC), chaired by Kiley, will take over review of the
curriculum during the academic
year. Members include Rossbacher, Gerald Adams, Dr. William
Geiger, Dr. Maurine Behrens, Ms.
Sherry Calvert, Dr. Howard Luke-
far, Dr. Kim Thomas, and Dr.
Glen Yocum.
"Student representation will
depend on how fast COR moves.
We would like them as soon as we
can get them," said Kiley.
"What we're really concerned
about with the curriculum at this
point includes the fact that there
isn't much choice with the paired
courses and that we don't have
enough treshman writing courses. We'd like to make the curriculum better and more workable."
EPC will meet next Tuesday,
Sept. 20, to put together the schedule for this semester's meetings.
Student Files Complaint Against Whittier P.D.
by ALEXANDER MACKIE
QC Design/Graphics Editor
Student government president
JaMarr Brown filed a complaint
against the Whittier Police Department yesterday, after Brown
was held by officers who were
dispersing a crowd Friday night.
Brown, who is African-American, alleges that an officer singled him out and held him for
several minutes without reason.
"I felt degraded, hurt, the
whole scene was upsetting," said
Brown.
The incident occured after
Whittier PD was called to break
up a party attended by Whittier
College students.
Ten Whittier PD cars arrived
at the corner of Penn and Guilford
after receiving a call at 11:19 p.m.
reporting an individual with a
weapon, subjects fighting in the
home and 200 people on the premises, according to Chuck Drylie,
the Whittier PD Community Relations officer.
As officers were arriving, three
Hispanic males ran, two of whom
were later detained by officers at
gunpoint a short distance from the
house. Neither was arrested and
no crime was determined to have
occured, according to Drylie. It is
QC File Pholo
JaMarr Brown
unkown whether the three males
were Whittier College students as
the police did not complete an
incident report.
There was also a report by
officers that students wearing
"gang attire" were in the area,
Drylie said.
Brown said that when he left
the party he went toward Guilford
Streetinstead of following the flow
of the crowd across and up Penn
Street and was a few feet in front
of his two cousins.
Upon reaching the sidewalk
Brown saw on his left the two
Hispanics on their knees with
hands behind their heads. An officer standing next to a patrol car
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with another officer nearby, asked
Brown to stop and stand a short
distance away.
Brown's two cousins and a
group of 2-3 Hispanics also
stopped near Brown, but Brown
was the only one to speak with the
officer, according to one of
Brown's cousins.
Brown asked the officer why
he had been stopped. The officer
said that they were stopping everyone, according to Brown. However, Brown said he was the only
one stopped.
Brown said that he asked repeatedly why he was stopped and
the officer responded several times
that they were stopping everyone.
"I made sure I watched (my
anger)," Brown said about speaking to the officer. "I was cool,
calm and collected, even though it
was a very jolting situation."
At one point the officers asked
Brown over to the patrol car, put
him against it and frisked him
down.
Brown's cousin said that
Brown was the only one of the
group to be patted down.
After seven to ten minutes had
passed Brown asked to talk to the
officers again and explained that
he was the Associated Students of
Whittier College president. The
officer then allowed Brown to
leave the scene with his cousins,
according to Brown.
Neither Brown nor Drylie
could identify the officer who
spoke to Brown.
Drylie, who was not at the
scene, said that racial prejudice is
"unlikely" to occur in Whittier
PD.
'The officer must have had a
professional police reason to stop
him," Drylie said.
"(The officers) singled me
out," Brown said. "I was dressed
least like a gang member. Out of
everyone in the crowd they singled me out."
On Monday morning Brown
met with Dean of Students Susan
Allen regarding the incident. On
Wednesday Brown also met with
Campus Safety Chief Ed Malone to get guidance on filing a
Please see COMPLAINT, pg. 6
LastwccktheQCrcport-
his doctorate depve. He is
currently working to obtain
his Ph.D. from Syracuse
University. The Quaker
Campus regrets the error.