The QC, Vol. 84, No. 15 • January 22, 1998

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■ Oxy Wipes
Poets
The Poet Basket-
ballball team lost to
Oxy and Redlands
in this week's
SCIAC play.
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OPINION    TOPIC
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Good or Bad?
CAMP
Piping Hot
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It's no Bros. Cullinary, but what do
you want? They quit. We're doing
the best we can.
Here's a
review of
some pizza.
Transition to New Maintenance Company Imminent
■ MAINTENANCE
by Anna Neese
QC Campus Life Editor
Whittier College has exercised their 90-day option to terminate the Facilities Maintenance
Contract with Johnson Controls,
according to Vice Presidentfor
Finance and Administration Jo
Ann Hankin. The naming of a
new company is projected for the
end of January. "The full transition [will] be completed by the
end of March," Hankin said in a
public email.
The reasons behind the transfer were not released.
"[Johnson Controls Manager] Bill Worthy and others in the
Johnson Controls management
have committed to an amicable
and professional transition,"
Hankin said in her email.
Johnson Controls headquarters will soon be taken over by a new maintenance company,
as of yet not chosen.
Ua Gershman / OC Asst Pholo EdiBr
Worthy declined to comment.
"There are four or five companies that the College is looking
at," Chief of Campus Safety Ed
Malone said.
Malone was asked by Hankin
to take the prospective companies
who came to Whittier on a campus tour.
"My interaction with [the com
panies] was to educate them to my
department and our activities and
concerns," Malone said. "Hankin
felt it was necessary for [me] to be
on those initial interviews to edu
cate them on what our specific
needs are."
Hankin said in her email that
she has met with the employees of
Johnson Controls to "assure them
that they will be able to transition
to the new company."
"The well being of the employees that work here on campus
through Johnson Controls is obviously one of my top priorities,"
Hankin said. "I have asked any
company that is bidding [to] offer
the same employment opportunity to the Johnson Controls Staff
that they have now."
Hankin feels that it has been
conveyed effectively, but knows
that "this is a difficult time of
uncertainty for them, not knowing which company will be hired,"
she said.
Further information will be
released to the public when the
College has better investigated the
companies competing for the
maintenance contract.
New Environmental Science Major to Commence in Fall
■ CURRICULUM
by Yasmeen Shaw
QC Graphics Editor
A new Environmental Science
major will be integrated into the
Whittier curriculum next Fall if
approved by faculty in early February.
Associate Professor of Business Administration Mary Finan
proposed the enlistment ofthe Environmental Science major before
the Faculty Meeting on Tuesday,
Jan. 12, where the motion was
introduced to the faculty for the
news
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■ NEXT ISSUE
The Quaker Campus will
take two weeks off. There
will be no issue for the last
week of January interim and
the week following. The QC
will return for Spring Semester on Thursday, Feb. 12.
first time.
The major was designed to
replace the existing Geology major that was closed to students in
the beginning of the Fall semester.
"It was a few weeks short of
three years ago that [Provost and
Dean of Faculty Richard] Mill-
man announced to the Board of
Trustees his intention to close
down Geology and SPA [Speech
Pathology and Audiology]," Professor of Geology Dallas Rhodes
said. "There was considerable
debate about the process and the
Faculty Executive Committee
(F.E.C.) made the decision in
October 1996."
"The faculty was concerned
that the loss of the Geology department would compromise
Whittier's science education,"
Assistant Professor of Biology
Cheryl Swift said.
In a last effort to save the
Geology program, Rhodes made
a plea before the F.E.C. to save it
in October of 1997. The Geology
major was dropped with intentions to replace it with the hopeful
coming ofthe Environmental Sciences Program. According to
Swift, "the kernel of change was
already in [Rhodes'] mind." Ac-
Mary Finan.
Dallas Rhodes.
Liza Gershman / QC Asst Pholo Edilor
Cheryl Swift.
cording to her, he wanted to focus
on the geological aspects of environmental studies.
"... The Environmental Science major will have a social context, but science will be the focus," Rhodes said.
The new program will give
students a wide range of educational tracks through which they
can pursue an Environmental Science major. Students will have
the freedom to choose a concentration in the biological sciences,
chemistry, the earth sciences or
physics.
The Environmental Science
program will enable students to
design topical concentrations of
personal interest such as water
quality, according to the Faculty
Meeting Minutes of the meeting
held on Dec. 12,1997.
Swift, who outlined the course
work that dealt with a biological
emphasis, pointed out that the program highlighted Whittier's concern with interdisciplinary study.
The Environmental Science
Course was designed by the com
bined efforts of Professor of Religious Studies Glenn Yocum, Swift
and other members of Whittier
faculty, including Rhodes.
The fundamental courses for
the major will include Introduction to Environmental Science, a
senior seminar and one year of
either Introduction to Chemistry
or General Chemistry.
The introductory course and
the senior seminar class will both-
be one semester long and worth
three credits, according to the Faculty Meeting minutes.