The QC, Vol. 82, No. 13 • December 7, 1995

              Happy   Holidays   Whittier   College
December 7, 1995
fAKER
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
► SPORTS
Despite Whittier's
height disadvantage, the
women's basketball team
beat Christian Heritage
last Saturday, Dec. 2, 75-
62 pg 16
The Holidays
Are Here!
And have we got some
Holdiay Cheer for you!
C   A
► Shop til Ye Drop
Holidays are here and
with finals, shopping time
is limited. Find out some
hints for last minute holiday shopping in and
around campus.     pg 8
C  O  L  L  E  G
LEGE
► Things to Do
Stuck in sunny Southern California for the holidays? Enjoy a listing of
seasonal happenings ranging from ice skating to
holiday concerts., pg 11
► Nixon Mania
Deceased former president Richard Nixon '34,
perhaps Whittier's most famous alumnus, is big news
again. Nixon died in April
'94.
• Nixon the movie. Starring Anthony Hopkins and
directed b> one, it
opens D
• Nixon the book, Bookstores aphics
of Nixon.
*N .ABC
News, which produces the
A&E channel's Biography, is
workii ecial.
Whittier Receives Large Grant
FINANCES
► The College 'sproposedenvironmental
justice project was granted $400,000 to
create a database which will correlate
various uses of open space.
by MEGAN TAYLOR >
QC Managing Editor
Eight Whittier faculty members were
awarded a $400,000 grant last week for a
two-year interdisciplinary project to study
land use in Los Angeles county. Some of the
money will go towards student internships,
according to faculty members.
The money, allocated by the Southwest
Voter Research Institute, will be presented
in a ceremony Monday.
The funds will be used to establish a
computer database to compare social, economic and historical information regarding
the use of land during the last century.
Assistant Professor of Biology Cheryl
Swift, the project's coordinator, said the
goal was to "examine the way land gets used
in conjunction with certain kinds of socioeconomic factors."
The project will use the Geographic Information System (GIS) to digitize maps.
Swift explained that the GIS works by "electronically storing spatial points so you actually create a map with sets of these points."
The program analyzes multiple maps by
comparing different sets of data. "For example, a map of income can be overlaid on
a map of open space," Swift said.
Swift hopes that "we'll be able to train
Society Unity Day
students to use GIS, and those students will
act as nodes" to teach other students how to
use the program, so that more faculty can
incorporate GIS into their classes.
Students will be hired to assist with
research during the next two years. The
eight faculty members will remain on campus these two summers, and some of the
grant money will go for faculty salaries
during these periods.
Professor of Political Science Fred Bergerson, a co-principal investigator for the
project, said that tentative plans call for
approximately three students to be employed
to work with each of the eight professors
contributing to the project.
In addition to these salaries, Swift says
that a "big chunk" of the $400,000 will be
spent to create the database of information.
"Photos that we need and that [the Keck lab]
can't supply will have to be purchased,"
Swift said.
The money was originally appropriated
for use by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) through work done by Whittier's U.S. Representative Esteban Torres.
The EPA then passed it on to the Southwest
Voter Research Institute to distribute.
Whittier's grant proposal was considered
along with those from several major state
universities.
"We are aware of this because an alumnus i s now working in Congressman Torres'
office," Swift said. Albert Jacques ('77),
who works for Torres in Washington, D.C,
encouraged the College to apply. The
decision was made in mid-November.
Please see GRANTS, pg. 7
STUDENT
Reservist Called
to Active Duty
by ALEXANDER MACKIE
QC Editor-in-Chief
A 21 -year-old Whittier student, who is a
member of the army reserves, has left the
College to go on active duty, possibly in
preparation for deployment to Europe to
support the NATO peace-keeping operation
in Bosnia, according to his family, a local
news cast and the Los Angeles Times.
Jason Trumpler, a junior enlisted man,
was interviewed by a local television station
Tuesday at California's March Air Force
base as his unit, the 353rd Psychological
Operations Battalion, was getting medical
shots for the possible deployment.
Trumpler was unavailable for comment.
According to the Dec. 5 Times, psychological operations specialists are assigned to
persuade civilians to cooperate with the
peacekeeping operation. The Times reported
that 36 reservists in California have been
called up, which would include Trumpler,
No active duty military units in California
have yet to be slated to go to Bosnia, according to the Times.
Trumpler, a senior from Huntington
Beach, told the television reporter that the
possibility of supporting the Bosnia mission
makes him feel good.
"I don't like the idea of going overseas to
kill people," Trumpler told the reporter Tuesday. "I like the idea of going over there to
Please see TRUMPLER, pg.6
Nearly 70 society members representing all nine societies and dressed in their traditional pledging uniforms
gathered around the rock at noon on Friday. Dec. I.
According to Ed Barnes, a coordinator of the event, the
original purpose was to meet with faculty members; however, sit event
becan
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The communication and relationship between societies
Jascha Kayfcts-Wolff/QC Photo Editor
reat in the past, Barnes said. This event, and
ys, are ways of bringing Whittier's nine soci-
c'de-- ndencouraging communication betweenthem.
In the past, the societies have had rivalries with one
ding to Barnes, but this year Barnes said he
hus th lift with more societies working together.
1 'cond time societies have gathered around the
nity. In April 1993, they held a similar event.
was held in response to the administration's
dec is away small housing.
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