The QC, Vol. 82, No. 03 • September 21, 1995

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
September 21, 1995
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The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
▲ SPORTS
Cindy Bock, a freshman, side tackles a opponent in an important game.
The women lost their first
home game against Clar-
emont5-2. P9 14
C   A   M .P   UilS
W
p- Roommate Wars
Ever feel like you want
to hit your roommate with
a baseball bat?  Want to
know exactly what the
definition of a roommate
is? Learn what you can do
if things are not going as
well as hoped with your
roommate. pg 7
COLLEGE
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► Senior Earl
Shepherd's Student Art Exhibit
Take an abstract look at
a fellow student's artistic
expression. Shepherd's art
show will run in the Ward-
man Gym student art gallery beginning tonight and
will run until Oct. 13.
pg 15
news
you can use
► Last Day to Add
Fall Semester
Courses
The last day to add Fall
courses is THURSDAY
SEPT. 21, 1995. If you
have yet to register or plan
to add additional courses.
• you must do so by 5p.m.
Classes can still be
dropped through Thursday, Sept. 28.
Committee To Find New 'Vision' For Whittier
CURRICULUM
► Larger class sizes along with
a fifteen-year gap since the last
comprehensive review has led
to a need for an updated
curriculm.
by JEN SANCHEZ-SALAZAR
QC Senior Staff Writer
A special faculty committee
has been formed to lead a major
review of the curriculum in the
coming months, the first review
of the curriculum in 15 years, according to administrators.
In a faculty meeting Tuesday,
Sept. 12, President James Ash announced that any changes to the
curriculum as the result of this re-
visioning would be supported by
$1 million, which he pledged
would be transferred into Academic Affairs by fall 1996.
The faculty and administration's collective effort to revise
the College's curriculum will be
guided by questions like, "What
should our underlying (educational) themes be? How do people
learn best?" said Mike McBride,
chair of the Faculty Executive
Committee.
Now is the time for the College to update its offerings, he
said.
"The curriculum we have is a
great one," said Richard
Millman,vice-president for aca
demic affairs,"but the world has
changed in the past 15 years."
"The world now is far more
technological, diverse, and globally oriented," Millman said.
"We have to prepare students for
the future, and this means incorporating into the curriculum the
themes we see in the world."
One reason the curriculum is
being looked at is because the
current curriculum has become
difficult for the faculty to staff,
said McBride, a professor of political science.
McBride cited the recent increase in the number of enrolled
students, which has not been
matched by a commensurate increase in faculty, as one of the
circumstances necessitating a re-
visioning of the College's curriculum.
SaidMillman,"Foralongtime
the (College's) top priorities had
to be the enrollment initiative and
development efforts. But now we
have an enormous increase in students with only a marginal increase in faculty," and this calls
for a rethinking of the, structure of
the. education offered, Millman
suggested.
The review of the current curriculum and re-visioning of it will
be an ongoing process involving
faculty, administrators, the Board
of Trustees, and students, Mill-
man said.
Please see VISION, pg 4.
Academic Programs To Receive
$1 Million Budget Increase
by JEN SANCHEZ-SALAZAR
QC Senior Staff Writer
Academic programs are getting a permanent one million dollar i«cftv.!.e h: lunding Marring
the fa
currkularre-visioningprojectand
possibly to boost faculty salaries.
President James Ash announced
at a Sept. 12 faculty meeting.
Th
used to hire more faculty, said
Richard Millman, vice-president
foraca ins.
"S.J.m:"> at WimiuT Coilci-e
an. a.iiiv t.ii i.».- Kr„\.' - :iJ Mill-
man.  "Th iid be
ity.li-
: budgets, equipment: any number of
things,'' he said
Faculty salaries at Whittier
*-i " -• ■' • . -.» ■>''■>■ 'increase
last your, and hud been frozen U>.
several years before that, said
Mike * kBr.o ^ hair of the Faculty Executive Committee
Th e money prom i sed by As h
for 'l-i: re-visioning will, come
from within ihe College's total
budget. Millman said.
IV m>-.ncy might come from
a"rec l linon »c!ease"and
a shrinking of the administration
slightly, said Harold Hewitt, vice
president lor business and 11-
r.anee,. ^m^gmMW-^ mm"-mr\.
H      .. sta
tion is aware of the high cost of
a Whittier education and is considering a number of other financing options besides a tuition increase." "/V--^:
Tl [min
istration represents a shift in resources from offices which lor
the past five years were stabiliz-
i trices and
s oi? ihe
college's academic programs.
Hewitt said.
Tt    Kid if tee will
be working on how to allocate'
the total funds in order to make
$ i million more available to Academic Affairs next fall.
This money would subsidize
initial changes and immediate
the next academic year. Mill-
man said, and after that the appropriate academic budget
wouid be requested to further
the development and changes-
agreed upon by the faculty and
administration during the re-visioning process.
STUDENT GOVT
Inter-Club Representative Not Accepted by COR
>< Inter-clubRepresentativede
Leon was voted down by COR at
this Monday's meeting for the
second time. This is the first
time COR has rejected a
proposed member more than
one time.
by MICHAEL GARABEDIAN
& ALEXANDER MACKIE
QC Editors
Inter-club's elected representative, senior Maria de Leon, was
rejected, re-elected and rejected
again as their body's member on
the Council of Representatives
(COR) at the Sept. 11 and at the
Sept. 18 COR meetings.
Before the Inter-club representative joins the student governing body they must be approved
by two-thirds of COR.
COR president Brian Brown
refused to say why de Leon was
rejected, saying the issue was a
personnel matter. These portions
of the meetings were closed to the
public, and according to COR
members, de Leon was not present
at the second meeting.
De Leon was elected by members of Inter-Club, a group of club
representatives that has one representative on COR, in the spring
of 1995. Upon nomination she
received informational materials
from theformerrepresentative and
the Inter-club advisor.
Although lacking COR approval, de Leon proceeded to carry out preliminary duties of the
Inter-club position.
"After receiving the nomination, it seemed natural for me to
continue with work such as planning for the Activities Fair," de
Leon said.
After being rejected at the
Sept. 11 COR meeting, de Leon
attended the Sept. 14 Inter-club
meeting and explained to the body
her qualifications and was again
elected with a majority vote as the
Inter-Club representative to COR.
COR then rejected her again.
"I am shocked," said Anna R.
Warren, a junior and co-presidept
of ECHO. Warren said she was
not aware that de Leon had been
rejected twice. "I think she is very
dependable and reliable. She deserves the position."
Warren said that at the Sept.
14 Inter-club meeting no mention
"It is the way the constitution works. Si
ensures a system of checks and balances
is used in the process of approving new
members."
—Brian Brown, COR President
was made of de Leon's rejection
by COR. The group heard from
de Leon about her qualifications,
the group then elected her.
De Leon said that a positive
result of the event is that it raises
questions about the current system, "since in this case it seems as
if they are taking away an entire
constituency's voice."
Now that she has been rejected, de Leon said she will talk with
Inter-Club and see if they would
like to elect someone else or if
they should propose an amendment change.
This is the first time in the
two-and-a-half year history of the
COR constitution that a person
elected by their constituency has
been rejected by COR. "The current system has only been in effect for the past two and a half
years, so such an event is not
unusual," Brown said. "It is the
way the constitution works. It ensures a system of checks and balances is used in process of approving new members."
Brown said that COR needs to
approve new members "regardless" of what student organization
that person comes from.
"COR needs to have some say
in this," Brown said. "This is the
way the constitution works."
Student activities director Tracy Poon, who sits on COR as an
administrative advisor, deferred
questions t& Brown.
► In I ■ tie (he
QC incorrectly reported the
number of students who entered in th of 1994.
There were 347 freshmen
that y< . ,-grets
the error.
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