The QC, Vol. 83, No. 12 • November 21, 1996

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
f^ ^^ ^ -^ November 21,1996
Quaker Campus
► Making Waves
Water polo went 3-2
in the SCIAC tournament
last weekend, qualifying
for the Western Water
Polo Association championships in Colorado.
They now stand second
in league.
pg 16
C   A   M .P   U/| S
»
► Campus Safety
Recycles
Campus Safety collected funds in order to provide uniforms and other
items. Find out how inside.
pg7
C  O  L L  E  G
LEGE
At
► Poetry in Action
Adentro/Afuera, an interactive theatre performance written and directed by Professor Gustavo
Geirola, spooked audience members in The
Club Wednesday night.
See why.
pg 10
news
you can use
► Registration
has be ... nail week,
some readers may have
slept through their alloted
time or blanked on the occasion entirely. For those
who did either, out-of sequence registration is
Tuesday, Nov. 26 from 8
a.m. t -4:30
p.m.
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
Chemistry, Psychology Receive Faculty Additions
FACULTY
► Two departments were
granted their request for
additional faculty members by
a committee this year for
instruction in 1997-98.
by PARUL PATEL
QC Asst. News Editor
This week, the Educational
Policies Committee (E.P.C.) recommended that the departments
of Chemistry and Psychology and
a third department yet to be decided between Studio Art, Modern
Language and Anthropology, receive additional staff positions,
according to Chair of the E.P.C.
and Professor of Physics Seamus
Lagan.
Regarding the three available
positions, Richard Millman, Provost and Dean of Faculty, commented that one of the positions
was made possible due to a reallocation from Geology. The second
position was approved by President James Ash after consultation
with the Budget and Priorities
Committee while the third was
held over from E.P.C.'s budget
last year.
"All these positions are for
Assistant Professor spots," Mill-
man said. These offices will be
filled by "people who have just
finished their Ph.D. or their equivalent terminal degree."
The departmental role is crucial to the hiring process, according to Millman. Each department
will construct a search committee
in which members of the department, an outside faculty member,
and student input will be used to
review candidates.
Candidates will be asked to
make a presentation which will be
open to the whole campus community. We "usually arrange a
time for stadents to meet with the
[applicant] without faculty
present," Chair of the.Chemistry
department, Robert Shambach,
said.
The department and the Faculty Personnel Committee will
then make their final recommendations to the Dean of Faculty for
his approval.
The Chemistry department
will be hiring an analytical chemist "preferably with a subspecialty in Organic [Chemistry] or Biochemistry," Shambach said. The
Psvcholoev deoartment did not
specify a particular academic area
with their initial request.
"We have one position left to
give to a department," Lagan said.
New Pay Phone Placed
in Front of Mailroom
CAMPUS
► The recent addition of a pay
phone to the Guilford Hall
parking lot makes a total of
fifteen pay phones available on
campus.
by PARUL PATEL
QC Asst. News Editor
On Saturday, Nov. 16, a GTE
payphone was installed at the entrance to the Mailroom. This pay
phone replaces one of the two
payphones the campus lost during
the construction of The Spot. In
addition, patrons using the pay
phone will have the added security of an overhead night light and
camera surveillance by Campus
Safety.
When The Spot was under
construction this summer, the two
payphones located in front ofthe
CI were removed, Troy Greenup,
Director of Computing and Telecommunications Services said. To
replace those two payphones, "we
put one under the library and we
put the second one over in the
mailroom," Greenup said. There
are now two payphones under the
Wardman library, both of which
have been upgraded.
Before the pay phone could be
installed on campus, there were
several matters of consideration
according to Greenup. The first
consideration was that its placement had to be "A.D.A. accessible," Greenup said. According to
the American Disabilities Act, the
pay phone should be accessible to
handicapped individuals.
To comply with the law, the
curb was cut away, allowing easier access for wheelchairs. Greenup said that they would have liked
to install the pay phone on the
porch, but a ramp would have had
to be built. The ramp building
regulations were more cumbersome than cutting part ofthe curb
away, therefore the porch was not
chosen as a location.
"We looked outside of Redwood," said Greenup however, a
pay phone ringing would be distracting to faculty spaces and classrooms located in the vicinity. The
Faculty Center was the other loca-
tion considered but decided
against for similar reasons. The
replacement pay phone in front of
the Mailroom required more time
Please see PHONE, pg. 5
Departments Requesting New
Postions for 1997-1998
Department
Specialty         Authorized?
Studio Art
Video Art, Multimedia,
Computer Programming
PD*
Chemistry
Anaytical Chemistry
Yes
Child Development
Not Indicated
No
Economics
Urban, Development,
International
No
Education
Masters/Summer Program
No
English
19th or 20th British
Yes
History
Latin Am. or East Asian
(Japan)
Yes
Modern Language
Chinese
PD
Psychology
Not Indicated
Yes
SASW   :■
Tending Decision
Anthropology (Biology
& Sociolinguistic)
PD
Studio Art, Anthropology and
Modern Language each have
"Strong cases for receiving the incremental position. E.P.C. hopes
to make the decision between the
remaining three departments by
Dec. 3.
Tim Kazulcs/QC Production Editor
Studio Art currently has two
tenure track faculty professors. "In
the recent past, we have used three
[professors] as a critical mass for
a maior." Laean said. Thev have
also argued that students require
Please see STAFF, pg. 6
Chad Nicholson/QC Asst. Photo Editor
Keristofer Saryani
Saryani Wins ASWC Presidency
ELECTIONS
by JEANNETTE PEREDA
QC Staff Writer
Junior Keristofer Saryani,
current A.S.W.C vice president
was upgraded to president in
the run-off election held on
Nov. 14 and 15. Saryani ran
against fellow junior Bryan
Atwater.
"It was a very strenuous
, three weeks, something I hope
I rieYer have to go through
again, but at the same time I got
to meet a lot of people, talk to a'
lot of people and gain a lot of
insight on what changes students want implemented,"
Saryani said.
According to COR secretary Michael Garabedian, this
Please see SARYANI, pg. 6
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