The QC, Vol. 83, No. 20 • March 13, 1997

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
^^■^^ ^-^ March 13'1997
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SPORTS
► Men's Lacrosse
After a disappointing
loss to UC Santa Barbara
on Saturday, Feb. 15, the
men's lacrosse team has
won five games in a row.
Among those beaten were
UC Santa Barbara, 21-3,
and Denver University,
13-12 in overtime.
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Photo Courtesy of Marcy Holmer
►  Holmer
Schedules Future
Senior Marcy Holmer
juggles outside responsibilities and resident advisor duties, and somehow
finds time for involvement
in her society.
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►    Closing Time
Dimas Diaz serves up
the laughs with the production of his original
play, The Closing Hour.
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Heller Financial will
inten iew Seniors for Commercial Finance Trainee
Positions on Mondav.
March 17, 1997.
Also, the V- -r City
School District will talk
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portunities, re . nents,
and the application process
Tuesd ■   from
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Paddy Selected as New English Professor
FACULTY
► David Paddy was chosen out
of 520 applicants as the English
Department's new professor.
This Belgium-born scholar
specializes in post-modernism.
by LIZ VALSAMIS
QC Staff Writer
After receiving and examining the highest number of applications ever received by any department for a professor position,
the English Department has invited David Paddy to join them.
"We advertised a pretty wide
description. . . Our ad asked for
really too much, but that was intentional. So we got a lot of people
who did a lot of different things,"
Professor Charles Adams, chairman of the English department,
said.
"We felt pretty strongly that
we needed someone who did 20th
Century British [literature] and,
in particular, we wanted somebody who had a strong interest in
fiction. He, of course, does all
those things. His special interest
is post-modernism," Adams added.
Out of the 520 applicants,
four finalists were selected. Each
presented an on-campus lecture.
"We felt he [Paddy] was the
person we could see in the classroom. Someone who the students
would like. The student opinion
had a big impact because there
were a lot of students who could
see him as a teacher based on his
presentation," Adams said.
Paddy will take on some of
the load presently shouldered by
Professor of English Anne Kiley.
Kiley is currently the only professor who deals with the last 200
years of British literature.
"David is a 20th Century person. He does a lot more Modern
British literature than I do. We
Adam Pava/QC News Editor
Mendenhall turned into a movie set on Friday, March 7.
CBS Movie Of the Week Taped in
Mendenhall, Directed by Alumnus
CAMPUS
► Under the direction of an
alumnus, 70 crew members
spent 12 hours taping 3~-4
minutes of footage.
by ADAM PAVA
QC News Editor
Mendenhall was transformed
into the Beauville, Alabama County Offices on Friday, March 7.
The reason? Arthur Allen
Seidelman, a Whittier College
alumnus of 1958, was directing
Deep Family Secrets, aCBS Movie of the Week for Dick Clark
Productions.
"I was looking for a building
that looked like a county office
building, and I thought of Mendenhall," Seidelman said. "And at
the same time, I could visit my old
school."
The campus building will be
seen in the movie for only three or
four minutes, despite taking "essentially all day" to shoot, according to Seidelman. The crew, which
consisted of about 70 people, occupied parts of Mendenhall and
its parking lot for nearly twelve
hours.
After 35 years in show business, Secrets is Seidelman's 36th
film. His last two movies were
Please see MOVIE, pg. 5
need a lot more contemporary
stuff. He is also in position to
offer a course in Modern British
Drama," Kiley said.
Paddy is currently receiving
his doctorate at the University
of Maryland. He received his
bachelors degree at Miami University in Ohio, where he was
under a program similar to Whit-
tier's.
"It was interdisciplinary. It
was sort of a combination of the
Liberal Education and Whittier
Scholars. We took core classes
and we designed our own major," Paddy said.
Paddy was born in Belgium
to a British family and spent his
life living in Belgium, England
and the eastern United States —
never traveling farther west than
Wisconsin until his connection
with Whittier.
"I liked the size and the close
interaction of faculty and students.   That's really was what
appealed to me. . . the sense of
community," Paddy said.
Along with his fields of concentration, Paddy will also bring
the possibility of a change to the
English major.
"We like our department program, but we designed it 15 years
ago," Kiley said. "We need to sit
down and look at all the courses
and decide if we need to make
some changes. . . For one thing,
there has been 15 years of literature written since then."
Fitting into the English department — literally — may be
the one obstacle facing Paddy.
Hoover's lack of office space problem will not be alleviated until the
reopening of Naylor. According
to Kiley, Paddy may have to be
placed in a phone booth.
". . .1 mean, we remodeled
one of the bathrooms for the new
history professor, and we need at
least one bathroom up here," Kiley said.
ADMISSION
Whittier's Percentage of Latino
Students Second in California
► Thanks in part to success
of the Center for Mexican
American Affairs, Whittier's
Latino student percentages
continue to rise.
by LETICIA GARCIA aino
NADIA GARCIA
QC Staff Writers
Whittier College has the
second highest Latino population by percentage among institutes of higher education in California, and twelfth largest in
the country, according to the
Center for Mexican American
Affairs.
At 36 percent, Whittier is
second only to California State
University of Los Angeles,
which has 41 percent.
In 1990, only 270 Latino
students attended Whittier, while
today 464 out of the 1,3 00 undergraduate students are Latino.
One of the primary reasons
for this increase is the Center for
Mexican American Affairs, a
department which works closely with a number of the organizations, including Alianza De
Los Amigos (the Hispanic
Alumni Association of Whittier
College, which helps to recruit
Latinos and provide scholarships) and the Hispanic Student
Association (HSA).
Martin Ortiz, Directorof the
Center for Mexican American
Affairs, was the only Latino student to graduate from Whittier
in 1948. At the time, he was the
only Latino student on campus.
After completing his graduate
work in Chicago, he returned to
Whittier ten years after graduation to teach sociology and summerworkshops.
Since the Center's commencement in 1971, Ortiz has
helped thousands of students
graduate from college. Thatyear,
the College's enrollment was 5.5
percent Latino. Five years later,
it was 16 percent.
"We open doors," Ortiz said.
Through financial and moral support, the Center of Mexican American Affairs is able to
help Latino students make college a reality. "90 percent of the
Latinos we work with are the
First in their family to'go to college," Ortiz said. Aside from
helping students to find scholarships, the Center helps to arrange tutoring and secure jobs.
, Senior Juan Carlos Ledez-
ma said, "upon coming here I
felt that the Center for Mexican
American Affairs was supportive of the Latino population,
acknowledging the fact that the
area is primarily Latino. I was
brought to Mr. Ortiz's office after the campus tour, because the
Center is not part of the official
Please see LATINO, pg. 6
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