The QC, Vol. 82, No. 14 • January 18, 1996

              COLLEGE
January 18,1996
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
► SPORTS
Sophomore swimmer
Dede Hsieh broke the
school record in the 200M
butterfly by more than
seven seconds last Saturday at the Claremont In-
vitationals as the team
placed seventh,   pg 15
Williams Selected For Rhodes Scholarship
C   A   M.P
^"■^Wwkers
£> Visiting Leaders
The leaders ofthe Farm
of America
signed books and posters
at Whittier's newest bookstore/gallery Both Sides
of the Equator.      pg 6
COLLEGE
r A Musical Oasis
(What's the Story)
Morning Glory? is the
new album from British
power pop band Oasis.
Find out if their music will
quench your thrist.pg 15
news
you can use
► Future Grads May
Find the Job Hunt
Getting Harder
Finding a job in the near
future may soon be harder
than in 1984, when the
economy was at one of its
lowest points in recent history.
Over 1,180,000 new
college graduates will begin looking for employment this year. This is up
from the one million graduates just two years ago.
The number of job-
seeking college graduates
is projected to increase faster than the number of employment positions requiring a college degree over
the next several years.
Also, a personnel consulting group found that the
average employer takes
only 15 seconds to review
a resume.
From a press release by
Snelling and Snelling Inc., a
job placment agency.
STUDENT
► Williams is Whittier's fourth
winner ofthe prestigious Rhodes
Scholarship. She will spend up
to three years studying in
England,    -      . .    J
by ALEXANDER MACKIE
and CATHERINE PAYNE
QC Editors
Senior Malaika Williams was
one of 32 college students from
across the nation chosen in December as a recipient Of the pres-
tigious Rhodes Seholar-
ship.Williams is Whittier's fourth
Rhodes Scholar.
Williams, a pre-med student
from Nevada, was selected after
an extensi ve interview process that
involved an application with eight
letters of recommendation, an interview in her home state of Nevada and a final interview in Los
Angeles the weekend before finals in December, according to
professor Ria O'Foghludha, chair
of Whittier's Rhodes Scholar nomination committee.
"I was shocked and surprised,"
Williams said. "I wasn't really
thinking in terms of winning and
losing. I was more interested in
getting to know the others at the
interview."
Williams said that she has been
oriented since high-school towards going to medical school
Whittier's quality education and
quality faculty members.
Founded by English philanthropist and statesman Cecil J.
Rhodes near the turn of the century^ the Rhodes Scholarship gives
students" frohi ~atouhd the world
the chance to attend the prestigious Oxford University in
England.Recipients receive free
tuition as well as a living stipend.'
Past recipients include President
Bill Clinton and the late William
Fullbright.
Each year, 79 Rhodes Scholarships are divided among 18
former or current British colonies, with the United States-receiving 32 of the awards. Students spend up to three years in
England studying for a degree of
Please see WILLIAMS PG. 4
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff/QC Pholo Edilior
Malaika Williams
and becoming a doctor. But now,
she will begin her two years in
England in September and earn a
second bachelor's degree in physiology. She said that she will then
return to the U.S. for her medical
degree.
O'Foghludha saidof Williams,
"I felt she was an extraordinary
candidate. She hps a perfect GPA,
and she is very well rounded. She
has done a research project... and
is also quite an athlete. I was delighted when I found out, though I
was not surprised, I had a feeling
she might get it."
President James Ash called
Williams a "superstar" and said
that the award is not only an honor
for Williams, but also a sign of
Rhodes Scholarship Gives
Whittier National Attention
by ALEXANDER MACKIE
QC Editor-in-Chief
When Malaika Williams received the Rhodes Scholarship,
Whittier College received a free
gift, so to speak: media attention
and alumni interest.
According to administrators
this attention not only helps validate Whittier's academic reputation, it also helps in the competitive drive for donations.
Alumni and national interest in the College could mean
more donations.
"One ofthe truisms of fund-
raising is that good colleges attract money," said Joe Zanetta,
the vice president for development. Zanetta pointed to colleges like Harvard and Yale which
have large endowments.
Forsmallcollege's like Whittier, opportunities to bask in the
limelight of national attention
are few and far between. When
the spotlight does turn on Whittier, as it did when ex-President
Richard M. Nixon died two
years ago, alumni and donor
interest in the College grows,
according to officials.
"Any national attention assists with the College's visibility," said President James AsfiT
Administrators are unlikely
Please see RHODES pg. 5
liliii
p. Profile
The story behind the
Rhodes Scholar, Malaika Williams. Pg. 6
Club to Open in Mid-April.
Intense Work Still Ahead
Faculty Support
Not Deadline in
CAMPUS
► The College is currently
renovating the Club and Spot.
Administrators hope the Club
will improve student social life
by providing a new place for
students to gather.
by ALEXANDER MACKIE
and TIM KAZULES
QC Editors
With less than three months
until the expected April 15 opening of the Club, a party and social
space currently being constructed
under the Campus Inn, administrators admit that the time pressure is intense.
As with any construction
project, minor things are continually going wrong, but construction is currently on schedule, according to Harold Hewitt, the vice
president for business and finance.
According to Nelson Park,
Whittier's project manager, this is
one of the most difficult projects
he has done (since he started here
in 1987) because ofthe April dead- CURRICULUM
line and renovating part of an ex- 	
isting building. by ALEXANDER MACKIE
The plans call for a large so- and CATHERINE PAYNE
cial space, nearly twice the size of QC Editors
Please see CLUB pg.5
Spot to Have
Extended Menu
With the opening of the
Spot, students will be able to
order from an extensive menu
from morning unti Hate at night.
With a full kitchen, the Spot
plans to offer the following
items:
• Pizza
• Charbroiled items such as
hamburgers and chicken sandwiches
• A variety of Mexican food
• Fried items
• A full salad bar
• Gourmet coffees
• Muffins, croissants and
other coffee shop pastries
• Breakfast items
• Various drinks
After three months of debate and disagreement, the faculty agreed at their last meeting
of 1995 to approve a revised
and scaled back revision of the
original Sunset Proposal. The
original proposal called forthe
end of all academic programs
in an effort to ease the work for
the Re-Visioning Committee,
which is expected to propose a
new academic curriculum next
year.
The faculty could not agree
on the Fall 1997 deadline that
the original Sunset Proposal
required, .so faculty chair Mike
McBride encouraged a compromise: no due date, but allow
the Re-Visioning Committee
freedom, he said.
"There was no way to reach
aconsensus. From my perspective as chair, it would not be
Re-Visioning, But
Revised Proposal
productive tocontinuc into the
next year.... So we agreed to a
compromise," McBride said.
The length of the debate
has raised some broader questions about the consensus process the faculty uses to approve proposals, according to
McBride. The faculty is only
beginning to wrestle with the
consensus issue and is likely
to use it to approve the new
curriculum.
The current curriculum is
a patchwork of academic programs created in different years
starting in the 1970s that put
together make up a Whittier
education. Programs include:
Liberal Education, Whittier
Scholars, January interim, semester system, pair taught
courses and other programs.
The new wording of the
Sunset Proposal gives the faculty's support to the Re-Visioning Committee and allows
them to put into the new cur-
Please see FREEDOM pg. 4
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