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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. mMMMMMRBRBI 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 ISSUE 15 • VOLUME 85
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Title | The QC, Vol. 85, No. 15 • Feburary 18, 1999 |
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 | Feburary 18, 1999 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
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Date-Created | 2013-10-18 |
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Title | 1999_02_18_001 |
OCR | 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. mMMMMMRBRBI 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 ISSUE 15 • VOLUME 85 |
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