The QC, Vol. 82, No. 05 • October 5, 1995

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The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
Gender Equity Complaint Filed Against College
►Athletic department may be
investigated by Dept. Of
Education after assistant
athletic directorfiles complaint
with Civil Rights office.
by ALEXANDER MACKIE
QC Editor-in-Chief
The assistant athletic director
of the College filed a gender equity complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office
for Civil Rights (OCR) on Sept.
18 after watching the gender distribution in athletics get further
out of balance for the fourth year
in a row.
Sherry Calvert, assistant athletic director for ten years, filed
the complaint under Title IX of
the 1972 Civil Rights Act, in part
because the football program grew
at an alarming rate this year, she
said.
"I was at a crossroads," Calvert said. "Either I could sit back
and accept what's going on, even
though I had brought it to the
administration's attention earlier, or I could take a stand. This
case is seeing if this institution
will confront the issue."
Calvert's written complaint
alleges "discrimination on the
basis of sex in athletics," said
Rodger Murphey, spokesperson
for the Department of Education,
after reviewing the complaint. The
complaints are public record.
It alleges the college is failing
to accommodate the athletic needs
and abilities of female students,
Murphey said.
Ernie Park, College counsel,
said the College is aware of the
complaint, but as of Wednesday
had not been contacted by the
Office for Civil Rights. Park said
they were notified of the complaint by the person who filed, but
he refused to identify them.
Park said he had two reactions at this time: "It has always
been my belief that matters of an
adjudicatory matter are best tried
in the courts and not in newspapers. My second reaction is, I
don't believe the complaint is legally well founded."
If the OCR does investigate,
Park said the college will cooperate. He is confident the college is
not in violation of Title IX. A
college is in violation of Title IX
if it is not attempting substantial
progress, he said.
"As far back as 1993 the College has been making substantial
progress towards gender equity.
Whittier is using reasonable
amounts of resources to achieve
gender equity. Those facts are
what bring us into compliance
with Title DC," said Park.
Calvert, who also coaches
track and field and teaches freshman writing, said the working
environment has become uncomfortable after filing the complaint.
However, she has received support from some community members.
"Yes it is uncomfortable and I
► Sachsens
They're off campus,
they're underground... Do
you really know who the
Sachsens are?        pg 7
C  O  L L E  G
L E  G  E,
► EthnicMusician
Find out about Whittier's own ethnomusicolo-
gist, Danilo (Danny) Loz-
ano.     pg 10
Tim Kazules/QC Asst. News Editor
COR Treasurer Vuk Milojkovic, at center, presents the
COR budget at the meeting on Monday night.
COR Allocates $64,500
to Groups for Fall Events
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STUDENT GOV'T
► Facedwiththelargeincrease
in budget requests and the lower
amount of money available,
COR's budget committee was
forced to make drastic cuts.
by TIM KAZULES
QC Asst. News Editor
Members of the Council of
Representatives (COR) Budget
Committee presented their recommendations on Monday night
for the allocation of the Fall Student Activities fees to the various
clubs and organizations at Whittier College.
COR unanimously approved
the budgets as one block, except
for eleven budgets which members asked to be voted on sepa
rately. After further discussion all
eleven budgets were approved.
The Budget Committee, consisting of seniors Treasurer Vuk
Milojkovic, Cindy Bartok, Nathan
Ho, and non-COR member Jeremy Curran, were faced with a
smaller amount of money to allocate. The number of students has
dropped by nearly 80, leaving
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expected that," she said. "All that
I want to ensure is that this does
not affect negatively the way students or athletes in contact or affiliated with me are treated. "
College officials, including
faculty and athletic department
officials, said they could not comment on the complaint, referring
all questions to College counsel.
The OCR will first determine
if a college receives federal funds
and determine if the complaint
falls under civil rights legislation.
The OCR then will contact the
school to request information.
Spokesperson Murphey said this
is the current status of the complaint against the College. The
OCR will then analyze that information and may schedule an on-
sight visit, Murphey said.
Murphey said OCR attempts
to have school officials and the
individual who filed the complaint
talk about possible resolutions
before OCR investigates. If
schools do not cooperate, then
OCR is obligated to investigate. If
a violation is found to have occurred, the Department of Education can suspend federal funding,
he said.
The OCR received 43 intercollegiate complaints under Title
DC in fiscal 1994, Murphey said.
"(Losing our federal funding)
is not even in the slightest realm
of possibility," Park said.
Athletic director Dave Jacobs
said he could not comment on the
complaint filed with the OCR.
In general, he said he is concerned about gender equity, feels
the college is currently taking
proper steps towards correcting
the imbalance and is concerned
about situations where federal
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Undergoing Changes
by ALEXANDER MACKIE
QCEDrron-lN-CHiKF
In an attempt to keep better
records of spending, ihe Council ol Representatives is again
instituting a minor change in
the way it distributes money to
clubN and organizations on campus, according to Vuk Milojk-
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Starting with this semester.
money allocated for club and
organization events will not be
turn to the way money was distributed during the Fall of 1994.
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year with giving clubs more
control of their money and il did
not work.
"When w . ihe pro
cess last semester we decided
we would evaluate the system
at the end of the year." Miiojk-
ovie said. "During the semester,
we kept track ot what worked
and what did not so wc could
but instead will stay in COR's Two years ago during the
ovic, a senior.
up during the Spring semester.
Milojkovic said. This includes
tracking money, ensuring receipt, come hi, keeping COR
money separate from club/organization money and making
ft easier to get leh over money
,;Wc changed it because
under the system used last semester, we had a hard time keeping track of the expenditures as
they took place. Due to the
large numberof accounts, it was
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the budget process, money
would be distributed on a case
by case basis during a semester.
After the change, clubs were
gets listing all expected events,
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The process stayed the same
during the Fail of 1994, When
Milojkovic was appointed in
December he decided to try a
different approach to distributing the funds.
"Being on inter-club before
I joined COR and through know-
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