The QC, Vol. 85, No. 15 • Feburary 18, 1999

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
February 18,1999
COLLEGE
■ Walk the
Line
We review the
postmodern, yet
modern art at the
Mendenhall
Gallery.
S-P-O   R   T   S
■ Lacrosse the Board
Lacrosse lives
up to their reputation with
flying colors.
The games are
on, in Sports.
OPINION    TOPIC
ACQUITTING TIME
Students and a Professor react to
President Clinton's recent acquittal.
CAMP
■ Rome
Scheme
Shopping and art
have never been
better, as the students   who   traversed the globe in
J-term will attest to.
COR Committee Forming to Address Meeting Attendance
■ COR
by Sonia Podvin
QCAsst. News Editor
The Council of Representatives (COR) will begin the formation of an ad hoc COR Reform
Committee to address issues of
attendance at COR meetings. The
Committee will be formed at the
next COR meeting; which will be
held on Monday, Feb. 21.
The new committee, whose
members will be appointed by
COR President Rene Islas, was
proposed by Islas at the COR
meeting on Monday, Feb. 2. Assisted by COR Vice President
Edith Braswell and Director of
Student Acti vities Vandana Khanna, the Reform Committee will
revise and refine clauses of the
COR Constitution concerning
duties of officers. "I'd like to see
how we can clean things up," Islas said.
Islas said that no significant
attendance problems have occurred in the January and spring
1999 terms. "The idea is to allow
Rene Islas.
students to have more faith in
COR," Islas said.
Physics Professor Appeals Unofficial
Decision Against Awarding Tenure
■ FACULTY
by Sonia Podvin
QCAsst. News Editor
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs David Muller unofficially informed Assistant Professor of Physics Vann Priest
that he will not be recommended
for tenureship the 2000-2001
academic year—ultimately resulting in the Professor not being
rehired for the following semester—on Thursday, Jan. 29, according to Priest.
Soon after receiving the message, Priest began an appeals
process with the Personnel Committee.
As of Thursday, Jan. 29, the
Personnel Committee has forwarded positive results of a re-
■ Add/Drop Period
The add/drop period is coming to a close. The last day to
add classes is on Thursday,
Feb: 18. The last day to drop
classes is on Thursday, Feb.
25. The registrar's office is
located in Mendenhall. For
more information, the office
can be reached at Ext. 4241.
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Vann Priest.
view of tenureship to Whittier
College President James L. Ash,
Jr., but the Board of Trustees
will officially decide the recipients of tenure.
After the decision is made,
Muller will make the official announcement, which is "usually
[made] near the end of the semester," Muller said.
"It is a careful process. It
should not be under time constraint," Muller added.
It will be the personnel committee that will address Priest's
concerns.
Because Priest's appeal will
be in process for an undetermined period of time, he will be
exploring other options of employment until the committee
makes a decision, which could
last possibly until the end ofthe
spring semester.
"I'm on the job market right
now," Priest said. After working
in the physics department for
four and a half years, Priest is
David Muller.
considering "getting out of aca-
demia and into industry," should
his tenureship not be renewed.
The Personnel Committee,
consisting of elected members,
initially decides which professors will be granted a term of
professorship at the College.
According to the Whittier
College Faculty Handbook, a
candidate can meet with the committee to appeal a rejection of
tenureship. If the committee still
denies the professor tenureship,
he or she can then appeal to the
President of the College, and
finally to the Board of Trustees.
The process of granting tenureship concludes time-wise differently from year to year.
Muller expects the review of the
1998-1999 academic year to be
particularly arduous for the Personnel Committee because of
language changes in the Faculty
See TENURE, page 6
According to COR minute
notes, there was at least one unex-
cused absence at each COR meeting for the January and Spring
terms. Furthermore, two members
did not attend the COR retreat of
Saturday, Jan. 23 to Sunday, Jan.
24, either for an excused or unex-
cused reason, despite an advance
notice of the retreat's dates of
roughly one month.
The new committee will consist of COR members and students who are not in COR. "That
way we will get some outside
perspective too," Islas said. The
committee will meet independently and report its progress to COR
at the Council's Monday night
meetings.
Existing COR policy dictates
that a member of COR with more
than three unexcused absences will
be forced to resign from COR.
Excused absences would include
health reasons, academic events
or an obligation approved by COR
prior to the missed meeting. If a
COR member is absent from a
COR meeting, he or she will not
See COMMITTEE, Page 5
Nifty Fifty
ATM to Randomly Give Out Money
The new A.T.M. in the C.I. hallway, will award two dozen
patrons with $50 bills, beginning Friday, Feb. 26.
■ CAMPUS
by Anna Neese
QC Managing Editor
The Whittier Area Federal
Credit Union understands the
perils Whittier College students suffer through to make
ends meeteachyear. From their
own pockety, on Friday. February 26, approximately two
dozen 50 dollar bills will be
placed completely randomly
in the A.T.M. machine outside
of the C.I.
"The credit union is
it as a gift to promote u-rage."'
-.h Manager of,
Jim Garbat said.
Anyone who withdraws!
money after that day has the
possibility to receive instead of
a 20 dollar bill, a fifty dollar
bill. In theory, if a person were
to withdraw $40. they could
actually receive $70, or even
See FREE MONEY, page 6
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