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WHITTIER September 24,1998 ampus COLLEGE ■ Carmen Knock on Our Door M We review Hartley House's stylish trek via limousine to see the opera Carmen downtown. SPORTS ■ Karimu of the Crop Williams' 56-yard interception return sparked a Poet win against Cal Lu. The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 OPINION TOPIC Kicking Ash Students discuss what Whittier's President will leave behind when he retires at the end ofthe year. P U.S m ■ Full Nelson Our salute to Nelson Park, the man who made the campus what it is today. Active Recruiting Nets High Scoring Freshman Class ■ STUDENTS by Chris Ziegler QC Editor-in-Chief More aggressive recruiting of top high school students has yielded a freshman class with higher average G.P. A.s and S.A.T. scores than last year, reflecting the new enrollment guidelines proposed last year in President James Ash, Jr.'s "White Paper" [see QC issue 17, vol. 84]. "We think it's exciting that these great students chose Whittier College," Dean of Enrollment Urmi Kar said. "This class soared above expectations." 34% of this year's freshmen were in the top tenth of their high school class, as opposed to 25% last year [see chart right]. The average S.A.T. score jumped from 1052 to 1075 and the number of students with combined "We think it's exciting that these great students chose Whittier College. This class soared above expectations." —Urmi Kar, Dean of Enrollment S. A.T. scores over 1400 more than doubled, from three last year to seven this year. The average G.P.A. increased from 2.97 to 3.08, and, enrollment in Beginning Calculus is even up 10%. "Just another sign of better prepared students," he said. In last year's White Paper, in which Ash identified the College's major challenges and offered possible solutions, he called for specific recruiting from the top 10% of high school class members and emphasis on the Whittier Scholars Program "in order to attract Campus to Begin Recycling Program ■ RECYCLING by Liz Valsamis QC News Editor A campus-wide recycling program will begin at the end of September. The program is a combined effort of Residential Life, Campus Facilities and the recycling company Weyerhaeuser. "We're interested in educating students about the importance of recycling and feel this is an effort that is long overdue," Director of Residential Life Dave Leonard said. In the Fall of '97 Students Organized! for Multicultural Awareness (SOMA) attempted a recycling program of their own; however, desiring more school involvement, the club approached Vice President of Finance and Administration Jo Ann Hankin and the Council of Representatives (COR) for help, according to SOMA president Mike McKennedy. It resulted in the forming of a COR- based Recycling Committee, which achieved the ultimate goal of having an established, school recognized a program. Bins will be placed outside of the facilities department, where they will be filled by smaller bins from across campus. Bins will be placed in the resident halls for recycling materials, like glass, plastic and aluminum. Mixed paper will be collected in Hoover, Mendenhall, Platner and the Stauffer Science Building. The existing employees of Campus Facilities will be doing the collecting, as additional help will not be hired to carry out the recycling endeavor. "The Faeilities staff has graciously volunteered to coordinate the pickup and collection effort forthe program," Leonard said. The bins to collect the re- cyclables from the residential halls were purchased by Residential Life costing $2,124, according to Leonard. See RECYCLING, Page 4 more and better students. Millman said, "We were successful in all of that. It's a class of quality." This year's class mirrors the diversity of past years, with 56% of freshmen being female and 48% members of an ethnic minority. Last year's class was 54% female and 49% members of an ethnic minority. Whittier's international freshmen, who make up approximately 7% of the class, come from a dozen different countries, as close as Canada and as distant as Mauritius. "I'm delighted to see we maintained the diversity ofthe class," Millman said. "[But] numbers don't bring across how exciting the class is as individuals." Kar said that the College will continue to court more academically prepared students while keeping the incoming class size roughly constant around 340 students. ■ FRESHMAN CLASS COMPARISON 1998 Applicants Filed 1292 Applicants Admitted 1129 Entering Students 348 .. 1997 1307. 1168. 363... 052. Academics Average S.A.T. of Enrolled 1075 Average Regular G.P.A 3.08 2.97 Average Weighted G.P.A 3.26 3.14 Students in top 10% .....34% 25% Provisional Admits 44 70... Ethnicity Hispanic American 25% 25% Asian American L African American 41 International 7° Other American/Caucasian 5'. Male to female ratio <U 1996 . 1289 .1089 .338 ... 1060 .. 2.97 ..3.16 ..N/A ..N/A /o 12% 10°/ 'o 5% 5% % 51% 60°/ OttttTICW COtWIKYOF WE 0FHC6 OF t&MSSXX "The plan is not to grow but to change slowly and become increasingly more selective," she said. "[But] we will always be committed to students from the entire academic spectrum." KWTR to be Back on Air Soon ■ KWTR by Rebecca Wolf QC Staff Writer KWTR will be on the air in the next few weeks, despite the lack of a professor for the Radio Broadcasting class, according to Interim Director of Student Activities Vandana Khanna. "It would have been nice to have the class for training students new to broadcasting but [canceling the class] won't effect the station," Khanna said. "It was simply a matter of not being able to find an instructor who met our needs. They need to have good knowledge of radio broadcasting and of instructing college students." Khanna is still searching for an instructor and hopes to offer the class in the Spring semester. "I've called other colleges with radio stations, and they also find it hard to get a qualified instructor," she said. "There's a shortage in the field." Station General Manager Ravin Daniel said the class was mainly to give students a practical experience of radio but that "anyone who wants to work in the capacity of a D.J. [disc jockey], I'm willing to give a chance." Sophomore Graham Holt, who registered to take the class this Fall, said he would have applied for a D.J. position if he was in the class, but he is not planning to do so now. "It's not tied to a class and I have no free time to learn the station," he said. KWTR has been accepting applications and will be interviewing for station staff members within the next two weeks. The station, which broadcasts on 530 AM, will run from noon until midnight once on KWTR will be back on the air, despite class closure. the air. Daniel hopes to be able to extend the weekend hours ofthe station to 3:00 a.m. Turner Hall, Harris Hall and the Campus Inn (C.I.) have not yet had transmitters installed, which means they cannot receive the station's signal. According to Khanna, the transmitters must be purchased with the radio station's budget, which has not yet been approved by the Publications Board. Daniel, a junior, said that getting the transmitters this year is a priority. "I want the station to have a good start on campus," he said. "Part of doing that is to make sure that all the residential halls can hear us." Anyone interested in managing or D.J. positions at the station can pick up an application at the Office of Student Activities before Wednesday. VOLUME 84
Object Description
Title | The QC, Vol. 85, No. 03 • September 24, 1998 |
Publisher | Associated Students of Whittier College |
Description | The Quaker Campus (QC) is the student newspaper of Whittier College. The newspaper has been in continuous publication since September 1914. |
Subject | Student newspapers and publications -- Whittier College (Whittier, Calif.) |
Date | September 24, 1998 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
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Repository | Wardman Library, Whittier College |
Rights-Access Rights | Property and literary rights reside with Wardman Library, Whittier College. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections. |
Date-Created | 2013-10-17 |
Image publisher | Whittier, Calif. : Wardman Library (Whittier College), 2013. |
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Title | 1998_09_24_p001 |
OCR | WHITTIER September 24,1998 ampus COLLEGE ■ Carmen Knock on Our Door M We review Hartley House's stylish trek via limousine to see the opera Carmen downtown. SPORTS ■ Karimu of the Crop Williams' 56-yard interception return sparked a Poet win against Cal Lu. The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 OPINION TOPIC Kicking Ash Students discuss what Whittier's President will leave behind when he retires at the end ofthe year. P U.S m ■ Full Nelson Our salute to Nelson Park, the man who made the campus what it is today. Active Recruiting Nets High Scoring Freshman Class ■ STUDENTS by Chris Ziegler QC Editor-in-Chief More aggressive recruiting of top high school students has yielded a freshman class with higher average G.P. A.s and S.A.T. scores than last year, reflecting the new enrollment guidelines proposed last year in President James Ash, Jr.'s "White Paper" [see QC issue 17, vol. 84]. "We think it's exciting that these great students chose Whittier College," Dean of Enrollment Urmi Kar said. "This class soared above expectations." 34% of this year's freshmen were in the top tenth of their high school class, as opposed to 25% last year [see chart right]. The average S.A.T. score jumped from 1052 to 1075 and the number of students with combined "We think it's exciting that these great students chose Whittier College. This class soared above expectations." —Urmi Kar, Dean of Enrollment S. A.T. scores over 1400 more than doubled, from three last year to seven this year. The average G.P.A. increased from 2.97 to 3.08, and, enrollment in Beginning Calculus is even up 10%. "Just another sign of better prepared students," he said. In last year's White Paper, in which Ash identified the College's major challenges and offered possible solutions, he called for specific recruiting from the top 10% of high school class members and emphasis on the Whittier Scholars Program "in order to attract Campus to Begin Recycling Program ■ RECYCLING by Liz Valsamis QC News Editor A campus-wide recycling program will begin at the end of September. The program is a combined effort of Residential Life, Campus Facilities and the recycling company Weyerhaeuser. "We're interested in educating students about the importance of recycling and feel this is an effort that is long overdue," Director of Residential Life Dave Leonard said. In the Fall of '97 Students Organized! for Multicultural Awareness (SOMA) attempted a recycling program of their own; however, desiring more school involvement, the club approached Vice President of Finance and Administration Jo Ann Hankin and the Council of Representatives (COR) for help, according to SOMA president Mike McKennedy. It resulted in the forming of a COR- based Recycling Committee, which achieved the ultimate goal of having an established, school recognized a program. Bins will be placed outside of the facilities department, where they will be filled by smaller bins from across campus. Bins will be placed in the resident halls for recycling materials, like glass, plastic and aluminum. Mixed paper will be collected in Hoover, Mendenhall, Platner and the Stauffer Science Building. The existing employees of Campus Facilities will be doing the collecting, as additional help will not be hired to carry out the recycling endeavor. "The Faeilities staff has graciously volunteered to coordinate the pickup and collection effort forthe program," Leonard said. The bins to collect the re- cyclables from the residential halls were purchased by Residential Life costing $2,124, according to Leonard. See RECYCLING, Page 4 more and better students. Millman said, "We were successful in all of that. It's a class of quality." This year's class mirrors the diversity of past years, with 56% of freshmen being female and 48% members of an ethnic minority. Last year's class was 54% female and 49% members of an ethnic minority. Whittier's international freshmen, who make up approximately 7% of the class, come from a dozen different countries, as close as Canada and as distant as Mauritius. "I'm delighted to see we maintained the diversity ofthe class," Millman said. "[But] numbers don't bring across how exciting the class is as individuals." Kar said that the College will continue to court more academically prepared students while keeping the incoming class size roughly constant around 340 students. ■ FRESHMAN CLASS COMPARISON 1998 Applicants Filed 1292 Applicants Admitted 1129 Entering Students 348 .. 1997 1307. 1168. 363... 052. Academics Average S.A.T. of Enrolled 1075 Average Regular G.P.A 3.08 2.97 Average Weighted G.P.A 3.26 3.14 Students in top 10% .....34% 25% Provisional Admits 44 70... Ethnicity Hispanic American 25% 25% Asian American L African American 41 International 7° Other American/Caucasian 5'. Male to female ratio |
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