The QC, Vol. 77, No. 08 • October 25, 1990

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Volume LXXVII, Number 8
October 25,1990
Registrar Discovers
Forged Signatures
By Caitlin Duffy
QC News Editor
Registrar Gerald Adams has
revealed that 24 students were
found to have forged their
mentor/advisor signatures
during last week's registration
for the January Interim.
These students have been
removed from their places in
the classes and will not be
allowed to register again until
the beginning of January
Interim.
Adams would not disclose
the names of the 24 students.
According to Adams, the
forged signatures 'were
discovered after Vie reviewed
the registration cards and
came across some that he
suspected were false.
Adams    determined    the
invalidity   of   the   24   after
"conferring       with       the
professors whose signature it
was reported to be."
The 24 students were sent
notices from the registrar's
office requesting that they
meet with Adams. "Of the
students who have received
the notices, only half have
responded (so far)," Adams
said. 'Phe students who failed
to meet with Adams received
their registration cards in the
mail with "void" written on
them.
Adams added that there may
have been other forged
registration cards but they
weren't questioned because
they weren't "obvious."
"Forgery is a very serious
issue, in some cases, if you
forge someone's signature; you
go to jail," Adams said.
Whittier President James
Ash said that "forgery should
be taken seriously, and I feel
that Adams is dealing with the
situation with sensitivity."
Charles Reeg, Faculty
Chairman said that "none of us
(the faculty) would like to have
our signatures forged, it's an
infringement on our rights."
In order to deal with the
possibility of forgeries in the
future, Adams hopes that "if
the word gets out that we will
be checking signatures, people
won't do it anymore and it will
no longer be a problem." "I like
to think that, for the most part,
Whittier has intelligent,
responsible students," Adams
said.
Adams is proposing that, for
future registrations, a
statement be printed on the
cover of the schedule stating
that "if anyone forges any
faculty member's signature,
they will be removed from
their classes and will have to
re-register."
Adams doesn't see "any
excuse for not getting their
advisors signature because the
registration information was
sent out two weeks in
advance."
According to Adams
students are required to have
their registration cards signed
by their advisors because
"Whittier has a very active
advisement system, oui
faculty take it very seriously."
An a nonymous sophomore
who is one of the 24 students
involved in the forgery, said
that "we were given our
mentors, we didn't pick them; I
found it very difficult to find
mine to get him to sign my
registration card."
Sophomore Ed Peterson, also
one of the 24 students said, "1
can understand his (Adams)
position, but I don't agree with
the way that the situation was
handled."
Both students said that
"we're in college, we shouldn't
even have to get our advisor's
signatures in the first place.
We pay a lot of money for our
classes and should be able to
take any classes we want
without getting anyone's
approval."
Two Speakers Stolen
From Club Storage
By Amy Szczukowski
QC Editor-in-Chief
Two speakers were stolen
from the locked storage space
in the the back of the Club
sometime within the week
before October 15.
On the 15th, senior Rob
Kessler, Club Coordinator,
discovered that the speakers
were missing when he went to
get out some equipment for
Jason Bates to practice for
Woodstock. Kessler said
that there was "no evidence
that it (the storage space) was
broken into at all." Student
Advocate, junior- Alvin
Henderson said that "The
person who took it had to have
had a key."
According to Kessler, the
only ones who have keys are
security, maintenance, the
contractors that are working
in the Club right now, and
himself.
"We're trying to find out if
they   (the    speakers)    were
insured    by    the    school,"
Kessler   said.      "They   will
have to be replaced."
Henderson said that
"Either the administration
will have to pay or BOG will,"
but, he added, "societies will
not be charged for the added
expenses. It will cost an
additional $100 for each Club
Open to rent speakers.
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Plans Underway for New Dorms
By Adam Webster
QC Staff Writer
In order to fulfill the
"philosophical mission of the
college" and to help house the
anticipated larger enrollment
over the next few years,
Whittier College officials
have decided to commit $4
million of the $18 million tax
exempt bond received by the
College last year, to building
at least two new dorms that
will house about 200 new
students.
President James Ash said
that "we have have to build
new housing because it is
important that we offer most of
our students the opportunity to
be part of the Whittier College
community.
"What you get in the
classroom is only a part, and
sometimes a small part, of the
entire collegiate experience,"
Ash continued. Therefore, "it
is abundantly clear that we
need at least 200 beds as soon
as possible," Ash said.
Ash and Harold Hewitt,
Vice President for Business
and Finance, predicted the
fall of 1992 as the earliest
possible completion date
because the college is still in
the process of deciding on the
design of the new dorms. It
had originally been proposed
that they would all resemble
Harris, however, according to
Hewitt, there was "negative
feedback" about Harris's
design so, they decided to
reconsider and redraw the
plans.
To  help  in  the  design,
Hewitt and Desma Murphy,
ASWC      president,     have
formed a task force; a group of
students and faculty working
together.  Most of the students
in  the  task  force  are   also
involved  in   BOG  or  RHA.
According  to   Murphy, they
"will travel around to look at
other school dorms as well as
(Whittier's) current dorms."
The task force will be
working directly with the
architects on this project and
their "role is purely advisory.
The administration's (role)
would be limited and the
board of trustees would have
the final word," according to
Murphy. The task force will
begin their work in about a
week and a half.
They will submit their
ideas for drawings but it isn't
expected that the drawings
will be completed for six
months. Then, after an
additional month of
"conceptualization", the
actual construction will get
underway and last about a
year.
Hewitt said that the
construction could start as
early as June of 1991 or, at the
very latest, August of 1991. By
starting the construction then,
Hewitt feels that a lot of the
noisy work involved in the
ground preparation will be
over by the time school starts
and will not interfere with
schoolwork.
Presently, there is only
one definite site for a new-
building and other locations
have been proposed. The
definite site is on the hill by
Harris which will house
between 80-100 students and
will cost $2 million to
construct. Regarding this
dorm, Hewitt said, "If we
design it right, this ought to be
the place that people will kill
each other to get into."
The proposed sites include
the area in back of Wanberg,
a portion of the parking lot on
the way up to Wanberg and
behind Ball Hall. Hewitt
expressed an interest in the
site behind Ball Hall because
he feels that it would provide a
continuity on the campus and
connect the existing dorms to
reinforce the community
aspects that Whittier College
prides itself on.
However, Hewitt noted that
the process of building wil! be
"av negotiation between (the
College) and the city due to
building codes and parking
regulations" and the decision
will therefore not be totally up
to College officials.
Hewitt       said       that
"philosophically,    a    liberal
arts college is a residential
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