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WHITTIER COLLEGE ^^■^^ ^-^ September 15,1994 Quaker Campus The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 Michelle Tautfesl/QC Pholo Edilor ▲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. Rulh Fogelberg/QC Pholo Editor 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 ISSUE 2 • VOLUME 81 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.
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Title | The QC, Vol. 81, No. 02 • September 15, 1994 |
Publisher | Associated Students of WhittierCollege |
Description | The Quaker Campus (QC) is the student newspaper of Whittier College. The newspaper has been in continuous publication since September 1914. |
Subject | Student newspapers and publications -- Whittier College (Whittier, Calif.) |
Date | September 15, 1994 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
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Repository | Wardman Library, Whittier College |
Rights-Access Rights | Property and literary rights reside with Wardman Library, Whittier College. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections. |
Date-Created | 2013-10-01 |
Image publisher | Whittier, Calif. : Wardman Library (Whittier College), 2013. |
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Title | 1994_09_15_p001 |
OCR | WHITTIER COLLEGE ^^■^^ ^-^ September 15,1994 Quaker Campus The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 Michelle Tautfesl/QC Pholo Edilor ▲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. Rulh Fogelberg/QC Pholo Editor 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 ISSUE 2 • VOLUME 81 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. |
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