The QC, Vol. 81, No. 13 • December 8, 1994

              Happy   Holidays   Whittier   College
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The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
Pholo by Michelle Taulfcst/QC Photo
▲ SPORTS
Senior Chris "Tiny"
Allen was selected this
year as the Most Valuable
Offensive Player on the
Poet football team. Other
fall sports awards are on
the back page.
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CAMPUS INN
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► Not Just Another Norman Rockwell Holiday
What does Christmas
mean to your classmates?
Bing Crosby never sang
about this.
pg 6
C  O  L  L  E  G
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> Santa Clause
Captures America's Box Office
Tim Allen's new movie opened this holiday season and has climbed to
number one in the box
office. Does it deserve
it? One reviewer's opinion is inside.
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► Do you know
when your finals
are?
Finals for the fall semester begin Tuesday.
Monday is a Reading
Day, with no classes.
Finals schedules are
available in front of the
registrar's table in Mendenhall.
Good luck!
Interim Dining Services Director Selected
as Other Food Service Options Discussed
► Nancy Levandowski has
been hired as the interim
Director ofStudentDining while
the Food Services Committee
looks for a permanent
replacement for the retiring
Sheridan "Bud" Thorup.
by BENJAMIN HUBBLE
QC Asst. News Editor
In response to the retirement
of current Director of Dining Services Sheridan "Bud" Thorup,
Nancy Levandowski has been selected as the interim replacement
until apermanent solution is found.
Levandowski was selected after
the Food Services Committee,
consisting of both students and
faculty, was unprepared to make!
an official recommendation for
the dining services situation.
. According to Dean of Student
Susan Allen, "We weren't able to
move as fast as we would have
liked so we hired a food services
consulting company, Fessel International, to help us with the
survey and the proposal. They
recommended that we get a temporary replacement (for Bud Thorup) and found Nancy Levandowski." Levandowski was hired and
Michelle Tautfesl/QC
Nancy Levandowski
currently has a contract that ends
May 31, 1995.
Levandowski said that she was
ready to strongly consider any
changes recommend by the Food
Services Committee and the students in general depending on the
feasibility ofthe suggestions. "The
changes need to come from the
students. I have lots of ideas but
their success depends on student
input." Stated Levandowski.
Some ofthe ideas, such as providing more nutritional information
about the food, creating
more "ambience," and
reinstituting a "recipe
contest" for students are
already being considered.
According to Allen,
"The food services committee was a formed to
serve as a task force on
food services and a
search committee to find
a new Director of Dining Services. We had
hoped to do campus visits and focus groups as
well as student surveys
to find out what people
wanted. Based on that,
we planned to make a
proposal to request bids from various catering companies, such as
Marriott."
in regards to the future of the
Campus Inn dining services, Allen
stated "we are considering two
possibilities: hiring an individual
to take over as Director or hiring
an independent catering company." Levandowski has worked as
both a replacement Food Services
Director and in the private sector
of food distribution.
Permanent members of the
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Food Services Committee are Dr.
Irene Carly le, Dr. Bill Wadsworth,
Dr. Mike McBride, Dean of Students Susan Allen, V.P. for Business and Finance Harold Hewitt
and students Elise Edson, Sara
Stockman, Dash Forsyth, and
Annalee Paulo.
"We definitely expect to have
a permanent replacement before
next fall. We feel that in order to
improve food services we'll have
to spend more money. However,
we'll also have to figure out how
expensive catering companies are
since we can't afford spend too
much money." said Allen
Levandowski received her
Bachelor of Sciences in Psychology/Business management from
Santa Clara University. She has
been involved with food service
companies in the United States
and Canada, working for companies such as California Crisp, Service America, and the Sega Corporation.
► Please see related article about Bud Thorup's 24
years of service on. pg. 7
STUDENT GOV'T
Student Appointments to Joint Committees
Left to Incoming COR Administration
►After failing to do neccessary
annual apointments, COR of
'94 chose to defer the
appointments to the COR of 95.
which will not convene until
January. In the meantime joint
facu Ity/adm inistrative
committees have been forced to
proceed without student input.
by CHRIS LONGMAN
QC Staff Writer
Student appointments to many
joint committees have been suspended until COR President-elect
Brian Brown takes office. The
committees, most of which have
seats for student, faculty and administrative members, address
campus issues ranging from educational policies to commencement preparations.      , -
Student representatives to
many committees are selected
annually by COR, generally in the
early fall after school begins. This'
year, applicants were solicited by
a memo from the dean of students
a few weeks ago. All students
received the invitation and any
full-time student in good academic and disciplinary standing is eligible for consideration.
In the past, students who filled
the positions were often previously acquainted with COR members. Dean of Students Susan
Allen opted to dispatch the memo
to all students because it would
create a larger pool of potential
representatives.
Allen said, "We have had trouble getting students in the past
because it's COR's job to fill the
positions, and how do you find
students beyond who you know?"
Current ASWC President
JaMarr Brown was pleased with
the response to a general invitation.
He said, "It's good to see so
much student interest for the faculty committees.   It's important
for students to be involved because the decisions affect students.
The more students get involved,
the better off we'll be."
Lori Bridda, one of three seniors recently appointed to the
Commencement Committee by
JaMarr Brown and the Executive
"We have had trouble getting students
in the past, becasue
it's COR's job to fill
the positions, and
how do you find
students beyond
who you know?"
-Susan Allen
Dean of Students
Committee of COR is enthusiastic about her job, saying, "I am
pleased to be involved with this
particular committee because I
am a senior. I am looking forward
to planning graduation."
Appointments to this particu
lar committee were made by JaMarr Brown because ofthe necessity
that they get to work soon, but
filling some of the other committees' positions will be left to incoming President Brian Brown,
who plans to make appointments
in January, at the second COR
meeting of his administration.
Brian Brown was also pleased
with the new method of soliciting
student participation. He said,
"There was good response to the
questionnaire and it shows that
students do want a voice in what's
going on in the college."
Student positions on the Educational Resources Committee,
the Commencement Committee,
the College Hearing Board and
the Whittier Scholars Committee
have been filled.
Appointments to the Educational Policies Committee, {he
Academic Standing Committee,
the Financial Aid Committee and
the Student Life Advisory Committee have not yet been made.
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