The QC, Vol. 82, No. 19 • March 14, 1996

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March 14, 1996
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The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
Operations Cuts to Yield $787,000
A SPORTS
Just under five feet, senior Chi Catello excels not
only in basketball, but in volleyball and track, not to mention lacrosse. Not only is her
height unusual, but her dedication and success is as well.
Find out more about her many
talents... . -
pg 15
C  O  L  L E  G
A Local Talent:
With six students, one
alum, a little practice and a lot
of talent, the group Blue Goldfish share their special brand
of folkmusic with the College. Catch up with Whittier's newest musical find.
pg 10
news
you can use
^ Can You Say i
Do, But Later?"
So, you are 22 and ready
to get married. Think
you're just like every other
22 year-old in the U.S.?
Think again.
According to numbers
recently released by the
U.S. Census Bureau the
average age Americans get
married for the first time is
getting higher.
The Bureau found that
•the median age for men
was 26.7 yeaffe-old and
24.5 for women.
FINANCES
► /« order to total the one
million dollars needed for
academic programs, administrative cuts will be made in the
Business Services Division,
Enrollment, Advancement and
the President's Office.
by JANINE LEIGH KRAMER
QC Senior Staff Writer
Whittier College has recently
undertaken an investigation of
administrative downsizing options. The purpose of these cuts
will be to reallocate $787,000 from
administrative budgets to academic affairs. This money will be
added to the tuition increase revenues to provide the permanent $1
million transfer to academic programs and faculty salaries slated
for next year.
The Business Services Division, Advancement, Enrollment
and the President's Office are currently undergoing a downsizing
process.
"The College needs to find the
money. We can't get it all by
• raising tuition because the amount
of increase needed would be unreasonable," said Harold Hewitt-,
vice president for business and
finance.
As it is currently, the 5.34%
increase in tuition will generate
approximately $213,000 in revenue after the additional financial
aid monies have been taken out.
According to Hewitt, the only
viable way to find the additional
funds is to find cuts. "Painful
decisions have to be made. No
one wants to do this, but if we are
serious about our academic mission, we have to face these issues," said Hewitt.
A study conducted by the College of 19 West Coast small liberal arts colleges compared the percentages of monies spent on each
college's instructional budget,
which includes faculty salaries,
academic departments and programs and the library. Whittier
College had the lowest percentage of monies spent on instruc-
tipnal budgets.
Last spring the College's administration mandated that something must be done to mitigate the
discrepancy. Thus, the $1 million
pledge to academic affairs.
The mission then became to
find the $1 million.
Student Affairs could not be
cut because "then students would
have complaints about a lack of
cb^curricular support," said
Hewitt.
This left four administrative
departments. Admissions brings
in students to keep enrollment stable, and Advancement and the
Two Professors
Hired for American,
European History
FACULTY
► With the selection process
over, Whittier will not only
receive two new professors, but
also new history courses will be
added to the curriculum.
by MICHAEL GARABEDIAN
QC Opinion Editor
The Department of History
announced the decision to hire
U.S. Historian Laura McEnaney
from the University of Wisconsin
and Professor of European History Lynn Sharp from U.C. Irvine
at Tuesday's faculty meeting,
marking the end of an extensive
four month selection process to
replace retiring professors Joe
Fairbanks and Donald Breese.
Both McEnaney and Sharp
will bring a slightly different slant
to the History Department with
their interest in and knowledge of
specialized historical subjects and
gender studies. As a result, in
addition to taking over current
history courses, McEnaney will
be teaching several new, specialized courses: A History of Post-
Civil War American Women,
United States from 1945- Present
and Social Movements, 1865-
present Sharp will be teaching
Religion, Society, Culture, and
Modern Europe, a seminar on the
French Revolution and European
Women.
The actual selection process
began with advertisements placed
in various historical journals and
over electronic media. Over 300
applicants responded for the U.S.
position, while approximately 200
applicants responded for the European position. Professors Robert Marks, Richard Archer, Donald
Nutall, Breese and Fairbanks narrowed these numbers through a
series of interviews and correspondences until eight applicants (four
Please see HISTORY, pg. 4
Money from...
$213,000 Tuition Revenue
(after Financial Aid)
+
The College hired
Engineering Associates,
Inc., a consulting firm, to
analyze the Physical
Plant operations and
make suggestions for
ways to reduce its budget.
This firm was chosen on several bases, according to Hewitt. One
Desi Danaganan/QCGraphics Edilor     was    reCOmmendationS
President's Office are closely    from other colleges. Some of En-
$787,000 Admin. Cuts
$1,000,000 Total
linked with the Capital Campaign,
a major fundraising effort aimed
at increasing the endowment of
the College. Therefore, the largest cuts were to come from the
Business Services Division, according to Hewitt.
"One thing needs to be clear:
these cuts are programmatic and
have nothing to do with conduct,
past history or quality [of the affected departments]," said Hewitt.
The Business Services Division includes the Maintenance Department (Physical Plant), the
Business Office, Campus Safety
and other non-academic areas of
the College under control of Vice
President Hewitt. These areas will
take 80-85% of the cuts.
The largest amount of monies
cut will be from the Maintenance
(Physical Plant) Department, as
this department has the largest
portion of the business services
division budget.
gineering Associates, Inc.'s other
clients include other resource constrained liberal arts colleges.
The other two bases were the
fact that this is the only type of
work that this firm does and that it
is completely independent. This
means that it has no ownership
interests in any companies that do
maintenance/physical plant work.
This study should take about
two months because of the large
number of areas included. Housekeeping, custodial work, grounds,
building maintenance, carpentry,
Please see CUTS, pg. 6
► In the March 7 QC, Dr. Mike
McBride was misquoted. The
quote should read, "This proposal assumes that Wadsworth's
position will not be filled for
next year." The QC regrets this
error.
CURRICULUM
Committee Approves
Women's Study Minor
byPARULPATEL
QC Staff Writer
A faculty committee recently approved a proposal that
would create a women's studies minor that may be available
to students as early as the Fall
of 1997.
The proposal for the program was approved by the Educational Policies Committee
(EPC) at their March 7 meeting. The minor, based on a
similar program at Pomona
College, will consist of a core
course created for the minor
andeiasses currently scheduled
to be taught by the History,
Sociology and Religious Studies Departments.
Sharad Keny, chairperson
of the EPC, said that this proposal was first introduced last
year, but was not approved at
that point because of concerns
raised by faculty members, con-
Current plans
call for the
program to be
financed through
an outside grant,
which will not
draw from the
already strained
Academic Affairs
budget.
ceros which have since been
resolved. The program's
source of funds and the "nature
of women'j studies as a discipline" were under debate, according to Richard Millman,
vice president of Academic
Affairs and dean of faculty.
After the proposal was resubmitted, the plan was discussed
amongst faculty. Keny stated
that the program was approved
Please see MINOR, pg. 4
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