The QC, Vol. 85, No. 03 • September 24, 1998

              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