The QC, Vol. 88, No. 24 • April 25, 2002

              The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
April 25,2002
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Football players at work
Members of the football team get ready to clean the Campus Inn (C.I.) after lunch on
Tuesday, April 23 in their effort to pay back the C.I. staff for a food fight that occured in
the facility on Thursday, April 18 [see story in Volume 88, Issue 23]. The players worked
in two shifts (1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.) and "thoroughly cleaned the dining chairs and tables.
They also wiped down all the wood panel equipment and the food conveyor belt," Director
of Food Services Lori Flashner said.
BSAD stretched by
departure of faculty
The largest major of
the College is left with
reduced faculty as
three out of five
professors leave after
this semester
by Eva Sevcikova
QC News Editor
The Business Administration (BSAD) Department will
lose three of its five professors at the end of this semester, making the stretched
schedules of its faculty members even tighter, according
to Department Chair and Associate Professor of BSAD
Jeffrey Decker. Associate Pro
fessor of BSAD Haw-Jan Wu
and Visiting Assistant Professor of BSAD Robert Sibley
will not return to teach at the
College next year, and Associate Professor of BSAD Mary
Finan (who was on sabbatical
this year) will retire from
teaching after 15 years of service to the College.
This leaves the department in search of at least two
full-time professors to fill in
the vacancies, Decker said.
He and Professor of BSAD
Charles Laine (who also teaches courses in the Economics
Department) are the only two
professors who will remain
from the current staff to teach
business courses.
Wu described the decision to leave his tenured posi
tion as a "painful" one because of his love for the College. Wu, who has accepted
the same teaching position at
the California State University at Monterey Bay, agrees
that not enough attention is
paid to the Business program.
"I am leaving because I feel
that I will have more opportunities to develop the business
program there than I do here,"
he said. "Ever since I came
here, I wanted to see more
development here."
According to Decker, Sibley's departure presents "a
good time for him to move on
and start afresh after four years
with the College," stressing
that "[Sibley] is a fine profes-
See BUSINESS, page 4
Norman Mineta will
address graduates
Retirement within reach
for a handful of professors
FACULTY
William Harris, Jr. and
Peterand Linda Biehl
will be awarded
honorary degrees
by Eva Sevcikova
QC News Editor
Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta will be
the keynote speaker at the
2002 May Commencement.
He will also receive an honorary degree from Whittier
College, along with the College Trustee William V.
Harris, Jr. ('55) and Linda
Biehl ('65), who established
the Amy Biehl Foundation-
with her late husband Peter
Biehl ('65) to enhance South
African communities. Peter
Biehl, who died on March
31, will be awarded the degree posthumously.
As a Secretary of Commerce in Bill Clinton's administration, Mineta became
the first Asian Pacific Amer
ican to serve in the Cabinet.
Among his many accomplishments, he co-founded
the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and
served as its first chair. He
was also called the driving
force behind the passage of
the Civil Liberties Act of
1988, which officially apologized for and redressed the
injustices endured by Japanese Americans during
World War II. Born in San
Jose, California, he was
among the 120,000 Japanese
Americans relocated to internment camps during the
war. Later in his life he
served as the mayor of his
hometown as the first Asian
Pacific American mayor of
a major U.S. city.
Harris graduated from
Whittier College as an Athlete of the Year with a degree in Chemistry. One of
his many contributions to the
College includes the construction (along with his twin
brother Ben) of Harris and
by Kristen Drew
QC Assoc. News Editor
Five faculty members
plan to retire at the end of this
academic year. Distinguished
Service Professor of History
Don Nuttall, Professor of Economics Steve Overturf and
Professor of Anthropology
Emelie Olson each will retire
at the end of the semester along
with Associate Professor of
Business Administration
Mary Finan and Associate
Professor and Associate Director of the Whittier Scholars Program Irene Carlyle,
who are both currently on sabbatical.
In the fall 2002 Professor
of Psychology Maurine Beh-
rens plans To return as a Distinguished Service Professor;
she will beging her retirement
at the end of Spring 2003.
After 41 years of service
to the community, Nuttall
wishes to spend his retirement
writing. He joked that he has
no plans to take up golf. "I
have material I've collected
for over 40 years," he said. "I
did research in Mexico City
and Spain and now I am going
to write."
A native of San Diego,
Nutall joined the campus in
the fall of 1961 as the first
full-time employee in the History Department. Throughout
his 41 years at Whittier, he
was Faculty Chair of the
See FACULTY, page 4
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Norman Mineta.
Turner Residence Halls. He
most recently served as
chairman of the athletic cam-
paign committee during
Whittier's $70 million capital campaign. The Committee raised more than 2.7 million toward the George Allen
Fitness Center and the complete renovation of the
Aubrey Bonham Track, leading to Whittier's being able
to host competitive track
meets for the first time in
See MINETA page 4
Alleged vandals caught
on their own videotape
Other recorded acts
"challenge values" of
Campus Safety;
evidence will be
turned over to W.P.D.
by Amy Stice
QC Editor-in-Chief
An alleged night of drunken vandalism backfired on two
guests of a College student on
Saturday, April 20, when
Campus Safety responded to
a call from Wanberg Hall and
confiscated a videotape documenting the suspects smashing a fire exit sign in Turner
Hall, Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis said.
The tape also showed the
two men being admitted to
Wanberg by a student at
around 4 a.m., and kept recording as one suspect "drops
his pants, spreads his cheeks
and makes a deposit," Lewis
said.
"I had my values challenged," when viewing the
tape, Lewis said. The tape
was confiscated by Campus
Safety but because of technical problems was not viewed
in full until Tuesday afternoon. The evidence of vandalism will be turned over to
the Whittier Police Department (W.P.D.), he said.
Campus Safety was
called to Wanberg early
See VANDALS, page 5
ISSUE 24 • VOLUME 88
Armenian Genocide
Day
Editorial remembers 1.5 million
deaths and the government which
denies them.
Opinions, Page 2
Profiles galore
Wouldn't you like to get an
article all about yourself? Well,
you can live vicariously through
people who deserve it.
Campus Life, Pages 8
Performatry
Laurel Ann Bogen does a fully
mind-body reading at Garett
House.
A&E, Page 10
Again?
Men's Lacrosse Head Coach
Doug Locker becomes the second
coach to resign in as many weeks.
Sports, Page 16