The QC, Vol. 87, No. 23 • April 5, 2001

              ■ Letters!
After weeks of work, we've
managed to offend enough people
to fill our page of letters.
■ disABILITIES
Students discussed issues connected
with disabilities on a panel during
the Diverse Identities Week.
■ Heavy Metal and
Men Dressed Like Bea
Arthur
We cover fhe WIMP Music
Festival.
■ Men's Lacrosse
Sticks Out Another Win
By defeating Colorado College 10-
7 on March 31, the Poets have
increased their chances at a playoff
appearance.
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C.P.A. Bill Limits Future COR
Allocations for Rest of Semester
■ COR
by Amy Stice
QC News Editor
Due to an unforeseen bill from
a certified public accountant
(C.P.A.), the Council of Representatives (COR) will be extremely limited in allocating any more
funds for the rest of the semester,
junior Treasurer Prithvi Nobuth
said. Although COR has approximately $1,600 in its account, this
money will be designated as an
"emergency fund." The situation
was revealed to COR at its last
meeting on Monday, April 2.
In accordance with the COR
Constitution, COR is audited by
an outside accountant every fiscal
year. The group is a nonprofit
organization and therefore does
not have to pay taxes, but the cost
of the C.P.A., who performs the
audit, was higher than expected.
Additionally, the bill was apparently not paid last year, and COR
is paying off its debt, Nobuth said.
Senior Liria Katrova, who held
the office of Treasurer at this time
last year, could not be reached.
The first organization to suffer from the lack of funds was the
Inter-Society Council (I.S.'C),
which requested $ 151.00 on Monday, March 26. The Budget Committee recommended $0 because
it did not want to use any remaining money.
Nobuth says that I.S.C. will
still probably receive money because organizations which have
been previously allocated money
do not always spend it all on their
planned event; when COR allocates money, it is actually just
agreeing to fund the planned event
up to a certain monetary value.
Often, a portion of the money is
not spent. I.S.C. will be eligible to
receive this unspent funding.
"We can take care of other
clubs, too, depending on how
much they ask for," Nobuth said.
According to Nobuth, several
clubs have already turned in receipts for events and have not
spent all of their allocated money,
meaning COR will have more
funds to further distribute to clubs
and organizations. A few events
with allocated funds have also
been cancelled this semester.
Nobuth says that clubs should
not be overly worried about the
COR funding because the events
on the Master Calendar were funded during Block Funding at the
beginning of the semester. However, the remaining $ 1,600, out of
which the C.P.A. fee will be taken, will not be touched to fund any
more clubs or organizations this
semester. It will be saved for
COR's internal use to pay unexpected bills, Nobuth said.
Two anonymous students hung the word "FROG" over
the edge of the John Stauffer Science Building at approximately 11 p.m. onTuosday, April 3, I"he ietti
were made out of questia.com advertisement flyers
featuring their mascot the Question Marquis that were
formerly posted all over campus. The letters were removed by the morning of Wednesday, April 4. Accoid-
ing to the students involved, they ch>. hewo*"d
"frog" because it is a derogatory term for French people,
and they wanted to critique the use of the Question
Marquis as the figure of questia.com's ad campaign,
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Faculty Approves Graduation Honors Changes
Group Also Modifies 30-Unit Residency Rule, Forwards Change in Dean's List Policy to David Muller
9 ACADEMICS
by Amy Stice
QC News Editor
The Whittier College faculty
has approved a proposal by Registrar Wayne Van Ellis to adopt a
new grade point average (G.P.A.)
requirement to determine student
academic honors at graduation.
The former system determined the
Requirements for
Graduation Honors:
Summa Cum Laude:
Previously: Top 1% of class
Now: 3.9 G.PA. or above
Magna Cum Laude:
Previously: Top 3% of class
Now: 3.8-3.89 G.PA.
Cum Laude:
Previously: Top 7% of doss
Nm 3.7-3.79 G.PA.
recipients of honors based on the
comparative G.P.A.s of the graduating class; the top seven percent
of the graduating class was awarded Summa Cum Laude, Magna
Cum Laude or Cum Laude honors. Because the honors were
based on a percentage comparison of the entire class, seniors did
not know if they would be honored until they read the graduation bulletin the day of the ceremony.
"If [the students] are working
on their own merit, that's what
[the honors] should be based on,"
Van Ellis said. "A student's G.PA.
is not a competition."
Under the new regulations,
Whittier College students with a
3.9 G.PA. or higher will be awarded Summa Cum Laude honors;
Magna Cum Laude will be given
to students with a G.P.A. between
3.8 and 3.89 and a 3.7 G.P.A. will
qualify a graduate for Cum Laude
honors. At least 60 credits must
have been earned at Whittier College to qualify for the honors, and
at least two-thirds of the credits
earned must be taken for letter
grades.
The G.P.A. requirements were
determined by looking at the average overall G.P.A.s of the honored graduates. Van Ellis said that
about the same number of students will probably be honored.
Under the old system, it was
possible for students with the same
G.P.A. to be cut off from receiving honors because only a predetermined number of graduates
could be recognized, Van Ellis
said.
Of the colleges in the area that
Van Ellis surveyed, only one—
Claremont McKenna College,
which honors the top 22% of the
graduating class—determined
honors based on comparative
G.P.A.s. One, Azusa Pacific University, bases its graduation honors on criteria such as "faculty
recommendation of attitude and
character."
Van Ellis also submitted a proposal to similarly change the requirements to qualify for Dean's
List honors. The current system
awards the top ten percent of each
class. Van Ellis proposes to change
this requirement to a 3.7 semes-
terly G.P.A. on at least 12 class
units.
Under this system, fewer students will probably be honored,
Van Ellis said. He said that last
semester, Dean's List honors were
awarded to first-year students with
G.P.A.s as low as 3.2.
Van Ellis said that this proposal was submitted to the faculty
last week for review and again
this week for approval. According to Professor of Biology and
Faculty Chair David Bourgaize,
the proposal is not under the jurisdiction of the Faculty Executive
Committee and has been forwarded to Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
David Muller.
The faculty also approved the
30-unit residency requirement,
which dictated that the final 30
units of a senior's education must
be completed at the College in
order to receive the Whittier College degree. The new policy requires only that a total of 30 units
be completed at the College.    ■
Van Ellis said that the former
policy would present a problem
for a student who transferred to
the College as a j unior and wanted
to study abroad. According to the
proposal submitted by Van Ellis,
"this change would save the registrar's office many hours of Xeroxing and faculty many hours of
reviewing petitions and discussing cases."
With additional reporting by
QC Opinions Editor Eric Dzinski.
news
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