The QC, Vol. 84, No. 21 • March 9, 1998

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Adam's
Bomb?
Professor Steve
Gothold reviews
Adam Sandler's
latest, The
Wedding Singer.
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Made in
the Shade
Aaron Shade
threw his first
shutout of the
year against
U.C.S.D.
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
OPINION    TOPIC
Sweat, Child Of Mine
Students and faculty discuss
whether sweat shops are a
necessary evil.
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Up, Baby
We go on a
quest to find
the best darn
milkshake in
Uptown.
Gerald Adams to Leave Whittier Amy Mass to Retire
■ ADMINISTRATION
by Adam Pava
QC Editor-in-Chief
Registrar Gerald Adams announced on Monday, March 16
that he will be leaving Whittier
College at the end of this year to
take aposition as registrar at Grin-
nell College in Iowa. He has
worked at Whittier for 28 years.
Adams was offered the job on
Friday, March 13 and accepted the
following Monday. He said that he
had been actively searching for a
new position "for a while."
"It's a great opportunity, a
great institution, and a little closer
to my family on the East Coast,"
Adams said. His new position at
Grinnell will begin on July 1.
Provost and Dean of Faculty
Richard Millman said that "Dr.
Adams has contributed an enormous amount to Whittier College.
. . We take pride in his richly deserved success with his prestigious
appointment at Grinnell College."
Adams said that "in addition
to being Registrar [at Grinnell
College], I will be actively involved in institutional research,
which makes the offer additional-
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ly attractive." He added that while
Grinnell is not a Quaker institution, thereis aQuaker community
in the city of Grinnell, "which was
a bonus."
Millman said that Whittier
College will form a committee to
conduct a national search for a
new registrar. "Candidates will
interview on campus maybe as
early as this semester, but certainly during the next academic year,"
he said.
Millman said that "details have
not yet been worked out" as to
who will temporarily replace Adams next Fall before a permanent
registrar is hired. He added that
"anybody on campus would be
eligible to be in the search, but it
will be a national search."
Adams saidthat he would "certainly be more than happy to participate in selecting my replacement. I'll continue to be a team
player until the day I leave, and
will be helpful in seeing that things
go smoothly." Millman said that
Adams wrote a job description of
his position to aid in the hiring
process.
Adams joined the Whittier
College staff in 1970, directly out
of graduate school at Oregon State
University. "[Working at Whittier] was my first real job at 25
years old," he said. He was a professor in the Biochemistry Department until 1985, when he became associate academic dean for
advisement,on a half-time basis,
continuing to teach half-time. In
1989, Adams became a full-time
administrator, serving as associate academic dean of advisement
and registrar.
"I've developed a lot of relationships with faculty," Adams
said. "I've seen their children grow
up and come to Whittier. I'll miss
the students and faculty, but the
hardest people to leave are my
staff. It was difficult to tell them
[that I was leaving]."
■ FACULTY
by Laura Benavides
QC Staff Write*
Professor ol Social Work-
Amy Mass will be retiring at
the end of the spring semester,
ending her 23 years with the
Coitea
Muss will be moving to the
Bay Area with her husband,
where they were located during
Mass's sabbatical two years
ago. "We remembered how
much wc liked it," Mass said.
"There arc so many things I
want to do yet in my life" Mass
said. "If I don't leave now. I
won't got them ail done in my
lifetime." Mass has kept in
touch with the public sector of
social work throughout her
teaching years and is planning
on returning to the field. The
areas <->'\ social work which interest her are infant mental
health, adoptions and child
welfare. Mass conducted social
work while in the Bay Area
working with child welfare.
Professor of Sociology les
Howard is sad to see her go:
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This is somewhat of a difficult
time for some of us who are less
ready for her retirement than is
she," he said. " But just as how
we have in let our MudenK move
to their next phase of life, we
have to be ready to celebrate
her readiness for her next phase
of growth."
Mass initially started working part-rime for the convenience of raising a family and
enjoyed it so much she went to
get her doctorate"! never
thought I would be teaching; 1
took the job part-time for the
schedule." Mass said.
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Lutgen, Wu Tenured; O'Connor-Gomez, Kaufman Promoted
■ FACULTY
by Carlos Estrada
QCAsst. News Editor
President James L. Ash, Jr. has
approved the Faculty Personnel
Committee's (F.P.C.) recommendation for the tenure and promotions of four professors this year.
Jeffrey Lutgen of the Department of Mathematics was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. Tenure and a promotion
was also granted to Haw-Jan Wu
in the Department of Business Administration. Joyce Kaufman of
the Political Science Department
received a full professorship.
Doreen O' Connor-Gomez was
promoted to associate professor in
the Modern Languages Department.
"Promotion and tenure are an
acknowledgment of the ability of
Joyce Kaufman.
Jeffrey Lutgen.
Haw-Jan Wu.
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our faculty," Dean of Faculty Richard Millman said. "Those chosen this year well deserve this honor."
Lutgen was taken by surprise
by his promotion. His petition for
tenure was accepted although he
applied one year early. He has only
been a professor at Whittier for
four years and has only five years
of total experience as a professor.
Before coming to Whittier he was
a professor at St. Mary's College
in Moraga, California for one year.
For Lutgen, receiving tenure
brings "a whole new set of pressures" to his position. Even so, he
plans on attracting more Mathematics majors to Whittier College
with his new position.
"I feel it a terrific honor that
Whittier is making a commitment
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in me," Lutgen said.
News of the promotions came
as more of a relief to Wu. Having
been a professor at Whittier for six
years, he sees receiving tenure as a
true honor bestowed on him by the
College.
"Nothing makes a professor
feel better than to be recognized by
his college as a part ofthe community," Wu said.
Now that he is tenured, Wu
feels free to engage in riskier long
term projects. He plans on undertaking a project which will help
develop ties between WhittierCollege and the business community
in the Los Angeles area. He wants
to develop a pool of businesses and
organizations which would regularly recruit Whittier graduates.
Kaufman was "excited and relieved" that she has attained the
rank of full professor. She came to
Whittier in 1985 after one year of
teaching at California State University at Fullerton. Before that
she spent three years as a policy
advisor for the Pentagon and four
years with a defense contractor.
She recently spent 10 days in Cyprus negotiating between northern
and southern factions in that country.
"My biggest challenge is now
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