The QC, Vol. 76, No. 20 • April 26, 1990

              Volume LXXVI, Number 20 y^^^^^^^^^^^^^^g^^ April 26, 1990
The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914
McManus Upset By Program Board
Giving $400 To Pro-Choice Group
By Jennifer Buddemeyer
QC Staff Writer
Students Organizing Students
(SOS), a new club on campus
which advocates the legality of
abortions will receive $400 from
Program Board on April 20 in
order to fund an upcoming event,
an action which ASWC president
Paul McManus feels is an
inappropriate use of ASWC
funds.
"You can't justify giving money
to either a pro-choice or pro-life
group when it is such a devisive
issue among the student body
and it would anger opposing
groups," McManus said. "It is all
the student's money."
However, Kandis West, head of
Program Board, said that
Program Board's doors are open
to both pro-life and prochoice
groups.
SOS, which was officially
recognized by the administration
as a "pro-choice" organization in
late February, will use die money
to finance a pro-choice
educational   cabaret   entitled
"Indecent Exposure", according
to sophomore Juliette Blye, the
group's contact.
"We have not given [the
money] to them yet," said Kandis
West, head of Program Board.
"There's paperwork we have to
do, but essentially we are giving
them the money."
This the first time that Program
Board has been approached for
money by a group intending to
use it to finance activist activities
concerning the controversial
issue of abortion.
"We really discussed it [giving
SOS the money] because we
thought it might offend people,"
said West. "But we decided that
we've never shut our doors to
anyone and that if a pro-life group
came and asked us for money, we
would give them it too."
SOS is an officially sanctioned
club on campus, a fact verified by-
Dick Archer, dean of College
Life, who is in favor of open
college debates.
"All ideas on a college campus
should be able to be presented
and debated," Archer said, "and
[the pro-choice/pro-life] debate is
one of the more important issues
relating to our lives today."
Presently there is no pro-life
group on campus, and the
Whittier College Bepublican
Club has not taken a stance on
the matter.
"Personally, I don't feel that the
school should be giving money to
an organization that advocates to
terminate another human life,"
said Bob Cioe, vice chairman of
the Whittier College Bepublican
Club. "However, members of the
Bepublican party has different
views on this. My view is not
necessasarily that of Whittier
College republicans. There are
those of us who may happen to
agree with what SOS is doing."
Blye said that SOS also plans
to ask the American Association
Please see SOS page 3
Ash Announces Process For Hiring
Next Year's Dean of College Life
By Chris Perkins
QC Managing Editor
Whittier College president
James Ash unveiled the process
which will be followed in
choosing next year's dean of
College Life from among the
college's tenured faculty, at
Sunday's Board of Governors
meeting. He also introduced two
changes in the way student services will be administered
next year.
Ash said the position will be
filled internally instead of by an
outside professional, as had been
requested in a BOG agenda to the
president, in part because the
search for a professional would
take too long.
"A candidate for the position
should be a good administrator,
a good organizer, and someone
that students can relate to," Ash
commented. He said that the
faculty member chosen as dean
would probably maintain a
limited teaching load. The position of Dean of College Life will
be a three-year appointment.
A committee made up of five
administrators, four professors,
and two students is expected to
make the final decision in the
next three weeks, Ash said.
Nominations from the campus
community are currently being
accepted at the office of the dean
of Facultv.
Deliber.ations by the
committee will be closed to the
campus community, according to
student committee member
Betty Hart.
"Because it's an internal thing,
there has to be secrecy," she said.
Current Dean of College Life
Dick Archer is leaving the post
to become a Faculty Master.
Ash said that the new dean
must be chosen soon because he
or she will play a major role in the
restructuring of student services.
"What we hope to do is make
that appointment some time in
the next three weeks and then let
that person assist us in shaping
future student services
functions," Ash stated.
The new dean of College Life
will "supervise campus-wide
programming, coordinate the
master calendar, oversee the
disciplinary system, and assist
student government, student
organizations, and societies,"
while working with the faculty
masters, according to an open
memo from Ash.
The dean will chair a faculty
masters committee that will set
policy for campus living, Ash
stated at Sunday's meeting.
"Essentially, the model is
one that other schools follow," he
noted.
Along with the new dean will
come new goals and policies for
student services. The major
objective of the changes is to
"coordinate and integrate"
service to students, Ash said.
"What we heard from [BOG]
and others this year is that we
need to centralize student
services. We need one person
to deal with student concerns,"
he added.
. Two changes have already been
decided upon. Ash said that
administration has decided that
the director of the counseling
center will be a full-time position
next year. The search for a new
director, "someone with a
doctorate," will begin in the next
2-4 weeks, Ash said.
Dr. Laura Kantorowski, who
currently heads the Counseling
Center, has her own private
practice outside of the college
and works part-time on campus.
A third area coordinator will
also be added to the residence life
staff, so that each faculty master
will have an area coordinator
working with him.
"This will increase the kind of
programming that we want to do
with the faculty masters
[program]," Ash said.
More Honor Code
See page 3.
Mena Kai
See page 6.
DAMPING OUT: Carol Atencio and Julie Arniton were among
i who stayed out overnight in hopes of getting the classes
jthey wanted.
Registration Rush Has Students Upset,
Adams Says That It's Not That Bad
By Amy Szczukowski
QC Features Editor
Although the registration
camp-out for fall 1990 wasn't
nearly as had as for this year's
spring semester, some freshmen
still spent the night in front of
Mendenhall in desperate hopes
of getting all their first choice
classes.
First semester fifty five
freshmen were lined up by 9 pm
the night before registration.
Betsy Kemp and Christine
Jeschke were the first two in line
for Friday's registration. The girls
hit the walkway up to Mendenhall
with their sleeping bags at
midnight. They were joined at 1
am by four others. The majority
of the students didn't begin to
congregate until 5 am.
"I thought the rest of the class
was going to be out here," Kemp
said. "I hate the competition."
"Staying out is the easiest thing
to do rather than making a whole
new schedule," Jeschke said.
However, one of her classes, The
Good Life, a philosophy course
which satisfies a liberal ed
requirement, was closed before
she even got there.
Two girls also went out at midnight for Monday's registration.
"I've always camped out because
I want my classes," Maria
, Sanchez, number one, said. "We
have no choice or we end up with
classes we don't want." Like
Jeschke, however, Sanchez was
still faced with closed classes —
Biology and Tennis.
By 8 am Monday morning, 27
classes had already been closed.
The feelings among the freshmen seemed universal. They'd
walk into the Mendenhall lobby,
glance at the list of closed classes,
plop down on the couch and
begin groaning — unhappy,
unshowered, and unprepared to
deal with completely reorganizing their schedules.
"If we had arena scheduling
like normal schools, this wouldn't
happen," Julie Amiton, number
three in Friday's registration said
as she huddled in her blanket at
5 am. "This is ridiculous."
According to juniors and
seniors, the registration campout
has been going on since they
enrolled at Whittier.
"There are problems with the
system," freshman,Caidin Duffy,
number five, agreed.
Registrar, Gerald Adams said
that "Things were much worse
for spring semester," and gave
"no comment."
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