The QC, Vol. 76, No. 18 • March 29, 1990

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Volume LXXVI, Number 18
March 29, 1990
Tuition Increase Generates $1.88
Million To Be Used In Four Areas
By Chuck Bock
QC Editor-in-Chief
In a move which will generate
$1.88 million in new revenue for
the college, Whittier College
president James Ash announced
a $1,550 tuition increase for the
1990-1991 academic year. Undergraduate tuition for next vear has
been set at $12,900. The 1989-90
tuition cost was $11,350 per
student.
In explaining appropriations of
the new revenue, Ash, along with
members of the Budgeting
Priorities Committee, said no
money from the new revenue will
go towards payment of the $18
million bond issue procured in
November. Instead, $917,000
(48.53 percent) will be allocated
for financial aid, $355,000 (18.83
percent) for the support structure
of the college, $349,000 (18.48
percent) for faculty salaries and
raises, and $267,000 (14.15
percent) for administration and
staff salaries.
The total revenue was based on
projections on enrollment of 990
for next year, compared with 955
for this school year.
Along with this, housing costs
will be equalized throughout
campus, which, according to
acting vice president of finance
Harold Hewitt, means that "the
average dorm cost goes up about
six percent, with the highest
increase being eight percent."
Hewitt said diis move will reduce
the cost of housing in the Harris
Buildings, and allow students
equal choice of rooms and dorms.
"The tuition increase does not
cover bond related services at all,"
Ash said. "Along with that, many
other schools have announced
their tuition rates. This puts us in
Bedlands' neighborhood, but we
are still below Occidental,
Pomona, Pitzer, not to even
mention USC."
Hewitt said that all the changes
from the bond issue — campus
aesthetic rennovations, Faculty
Masters buildings, landscaping
and construction, and
improvements to the campus inn
— will be paid for through
tuitions of students in 1993.
Ash informed the student bodv
of the changes on Tuesday, March
27, when letters were placed in
student boxes. Before sending the
letters, though, Ash adressed a
specially convened BOG meeting
on Monday evening to explained
the increase.
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COMPARAT IVE
HOUSING COSTS FOR
THIS   AND    NEXT    YEAR
THIS       NEXT
(89/90)(90/91)
DORM    ROOMS
SINGLE $2802     $3018
DOUBLE $2284     $2460
HARRIS
SINGLE     $3340  $3018
DOUBLE    $2724  $2460
SMALL HOUSING
SINGLE     $2860  $3170
DOUBLE     $2427  $2698
Mendez And Pioneer High School
Agree On Terms For Job Offer
By Chuck Bock
QC Editor-in-Chief
Though nothing has been
finalized, Whittier Unified
School District (WUSD) officials
and Hugh Mendez, former
Whittier College football coach,
have apparently come to terms on
an agreement which will make
Mendez the head football coach
at Pioneer High School.
"We have no formal offer and
no contract has been drawn up,"
said Bon Bhodes, assistant
superintendant for personnel at
WUSD. "He is our number-one
candidate for the position right
now at Pioneer High School."
"Because he [Mendez] has
taught at the college level for so
long, his high school credentials
have slipped," Bhodes said. "He
is going to take the California
Basic Educational Skills Test
[CBEST] to get them renewed.
We have agreed that we will not
offer him a contract until he
successfully completes the test
and gets his credentials
renewed."
Bhodes said that the agreement was reached "two-or three
weeks ago," however an anonymous source said the agreement
was finalized on Feb. 27.
This agreement will keep
Mendez, who lives in Pasadena,
coaching in die Whittier area, but
apparently puts an end to any
speculation that he will be at
Whittier College next year.
"I have an allegiance to
[Pioneer]," Mendez said. "Their
athletic director was a baseball
captain for me. I like the school.
I've spoken at a couple of their
banquets...I like the challenge
of making it [the Pioneer football
program] respectable."
Since retiring from his position
as head football coach last
November, Mendez has claimed
that administration —
specifically Whittier College
president James Ash — is forcing
him out as a teacher, that (after
Mendez presented his original
plan to retire) Ash offered him a
contract which would allow him
to teach and coach for two more
years —■ after which he would
retire, and that he received a
mysteriously placed faculty
handbook saying that part-time
faculty (of which Mendez is one)
can be fired at any time. Ash, for
his part, has told insiders that he
will not say one negative word
about Mendez.
Bhodes said that Mendez
showed interest in the position in
January. On Feb. 15, the Quaker
Campus printed a story in which
he said that he hoped to stay at
Whittier College but was 90
percent sure he would not be
back next year. A similar story
ran the next day in Whittier
Daily News.
In any case, Mendez' career as
a Poet coach, which started in
1971 when he was hired as a
baseball coach after the school's
Black Student Association
demonstrated for equal rights
and representation, should come
to a close with this agreement.
When interviewed on March 7,
Mendez acknowledged that a job
offer had been made, but said that
he had not accepted it.
"I've had three or four offers,
including Pioneer," Mendez said.
"I don't know if I'm going to take
it."
"I really haven't decided what
I'm going to do," Mendez said.
"I've got to take that test again
because I took it before and used
the wrong pencil or something
like that."
Since that interview, though,
things seem more concrete.
"There is definite interest by
them, but before anything is
concluded I must be certified,"
Mendez said.
Mendez is registered to take
the CBEST on April 7 in Pomona.
"We should know the results
in   six   or   seven   weeks,"
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CLOSED SHOP: Due to a gas leak caused by the CI fire, the
spot (pictured above) and the club will be closed tor the rest
of the year. Please see story on page 3.
Honor Code Recommendations
On Hold For Rest of School Year
By Michele Apostolos
QC Assistant News Editor
Implementation of an
honor code at Whittier
College will not be seen for
quite awhile according to
Robert Marks, Chair of the
Honor Code Task Force.
Marks said discussion will
last throughout this
semester and  definitely
carry on into next year.
"Clearly students have to
be fully involved in
overseeing and making it
(an honor code) if it is going
to work here," said Marks.
The Honor Code Task
Force, consisting of four
administrators, three
faculty members and three
students, has completed
investigation of honor codes
and honor systems at eight
institutions and is currently
trying to inform students
and faculty on their
findings.
The task force holds open
meetings every tuesday at
11:00 am in the Faculty
Center, and is planning
student and faculty forums.
The institutions the task
force collected information
from are:   University of
Miami, California Institute
of Technology, Stanford
University, Rice University,
University of Virginia,
Harvey Mudd, Naval
Academy, and University of
Colorado at Boulder.
The task force analyzed
different aspects of each
system including history,
philosophy or rationale.
breadth of coverage, student
and faculty
responsibiblites, privileges,
due process, sanctions,
orientation, and
relationship to disciplinary
system.
"Nearly all of the honor
codes and honor systems we
looked at were either
initiated by students or have
extensive student control,"
said Marks.
Mark Taylor, Whittier
College Ombudsman said in
many of the programs
"students are responsible
for educating faculty
members" on the guidelines
of their honor system.
Marks said student and
faculty support and
involvement are equally
important in establishing
any kind of honor system.
One of the main goals of
the task force is to broaden
the Whittier College
community's understanding
of what an honor code is.
doyce Kaufman, professor
of political science, said  an
honor code does not try to
"impose one single set of
values", but rather tries to
develop a "community of
trust" where there is
"mutual agreement between
students and faculty to
share a feeling of respect for
each other."
Junior Tracy Von Wormer,
one of the students on the
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