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The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914 SPORTSFEST! Sportsfest is over, but you can live it all over again with this two-page photo spread • Campus Life, Page 8 Thursday, December 4, 2003 MEN'S BASKETBALL The men start off the basketball season with two wins and two losses • Sports, Page 16 SSUE 13 - VOLUME 90 Web.Whittier.Edu/QC PAUL GALLAHER / QC ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR Renovation of College Hall is underway to accomodate the needs of the Alumni Relations, Public Relations and Development departments, which plan to move from their current off- campus location to the former home of the S.P.A. program. The move will take place in January. Move to College Hall will save $75,000 annually after renovations Patrick Holmes QC News Co-Editor Renovations are taking place in College Hall (also known as the Speech Pathology and Audiology [S.P.A.] building) to accommodate Whittier College offices that are located off-campus in the Whittier Square office building off of Penn Street. According to Vice President for Advancement Bedford Mcintosh, the offices of Public Relations, Development and Alumni Relations will move into College Hall. "This was seen as a vacant space and [the move] was primarily a business decision," Mcintosh said. "We realized that we could move into that space, and after incurring some renovation costs, in the not-very-long-term the college could save a lot of money [by not having to pay rent at the current facility]." According to a public email sent out by President Kate Will, the move will take place in January. "To be habitable, the building will require a 'face lift' of the interior, including paint, carpet, ceiling, etc., along with some minor reconfigu ration to provide necessary office workspace and storage," Will said. According to Mcintosh, "The new building will be a squeeze for us, but we're just happy to be back on campus." "We estimate the cost of renovation to be about $125,000 to $140,000, which includes $15,000 for contingency," Vice President for Finance and Administration Jan Legoza said. "The rental cost [at Whittier Square] is about $75,000 a year, so there is roughly about a two year payback." According to Legoza, the work is being overseen by Director of Facilities Mark Ursic of the Sodexho firm that the college contracts maintenance operations to. Work has begun on the building, including the "demolition of old carpet and bathroom fixtures and reconfiguration of electrical work for the new layout of offices," Ursic said. "It is mainly a cosmetic improvement that consists of painting, carpeting and some tile work in the bathrooms, exterior paint and a new entry awning above the door." Mcintosh said that the new location on campus will allow for the departments to be more involved in the community, with easy access to students, faculty and staff. Mcintosh also said that when alumni come to the alumni office, they are already taken to campus, and the new location will make this easier. "[The move] uses what is currently an underused institutional asset," Legoza said. According to Mcintosh, the offices located in Whittier Square moved there in mid-2003 from their previous location in the Menden- hall basement. College Hall has been vacant since the closing of the S.P.A. program, and according to Ursic has been used for storage ever since. The program opened in 1946 and closed its doors in December of 1998. The program did not move into College Hall until 1983 [The Rock, vol. 69, no. 2]. Before serving as the S.P.A. building, College Hall was a men's residence. The house was acquired by Whittier College in 1951, the same year Wanberg Hall was erected. Conference to be held at Whittier next fall Patrick Holmes QC News Co-Editor The 12th annual Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (S.C.C.U.R.) will be held at Whittier College in the fall of 2004. "I'm anticipating there will probably be 500 people here so the conference will be held all over our campus," Associate Professor of Biology Cheryl Swift said about next year's conference. "The folks that have been putting it on for a while wanted to have it at a small liberal arts school like Whittier because that is how the conference began." While this year's conference was at a large school, the first two conferences were held at the California Institute of Technology, and according to Swift, participants feel that there is a better conference experience at smaller schools. "Whittier College has faithfully been sending students to the conference almost since the beginning, so it only makes sense as a small school in the Los Angeles area to join in the rotation of schools to host the conference," Swift said. She anticipates that the conference will be held in the library, Hoover Hall, Deihl Hall and the Science Building. The conference will be held on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004, so interference with classes will not be an issue on the weekend. Swift encourages all Whittier students to start thinking about "When you are presenting alongside students from Pomona and Occidental... and asking if we are as good as them, what you find out is that the answer is yes." Cheryl Swift Associate Professor of Biology possible projects for next year's conference. "I think it's very common for students in the sciences to go to S.C.C.U.R. because they are doing experiments and are in the lab," Swift said. "I'm not sure that students in other disciplines are aware that they are doing research as well, and that a paper for a class can be a jumping off point for a large project. Once you stop just reading material and start synthesizing ideas and come up with your own ideas based on that research— then you are doing research." Swift also said, "Students need to stop seeing themselves as paper writers and start seeing themselves as researchers." "The most important thing you can do at Whittier College is to stop thinking of yourself as a student and start seeing yourself as a sociologist, a writer or an artist, for whatever field you are in," Swift said. "[The benefit of presenting at S.C.C.U.R. is that] when you are presenting alongside students from Pomona and Occidental and the schools that we at Whittier are constantly comparing ourselves to, and asking if we are as good as them, what you find out is that the answer is yes." 29 students and faculty members participated in S.C.C.U.R. 2003 held at the University of California, Irvine, on Saturday, Nov. 22. NEWS YOU CAN USE On Thursday, Nov. 20 and Friday, Nov. 21, junior Jessica Robledo was elected COR president, junior Terrell Tucker became vice- president, junior Kristen Oase was elected secretary and sophomore Amethyst Polk was chosen as the external affairs commissioner. The four members-at-large elected include juniors Carolyn Trapp, Jess Brown, Elsbeth Detwiler and sophomore Kirsten Kershek. Robledo's plans as the newly elected president include, "To meet with [current A.S.W.C. President senior] Zach [Winters] and talk about his experiences and what he has been through as COR president. Then to talk to all of the members of COR to see what their ideas are. I have so many new ideas, but I want to hear what is important to them first."
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Title | The QC, Vol. 90, No. 13 • December 4, 2003 |
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 | December 4, 2003 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
Type | image |
Format of digital version | jpeg |
Repository | Wardman Library, Whittier College |
Rights-Access Rights | Property and literary rights reside with Wardman Library, Whittier College. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections. |
Date-Created | 2013-11-15 |
Image publisher | Whittier, Calif. : Wardman Library (Whittier College), 2013. |
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Title | 2003_12_04_001 |
OCR | The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914 SPORTSFEST! Sportsfest is over, but you can live it all over again with this two-page photo spread • Campus Life, Page 8 Thursday, December 4, 2003 MEN'S BASKETBALL The men start off the basketball season with two wins and two losses • Sports, Page 16 SSUE 13 - VOLUME 90 Web.Whittier.Edu/QC PAUL GALLAHER / QC ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR Renovation of College Hall is underway to accomodate the needs of the Alumni Relations, Public Relations and Development departments, which plan to move from their current off- campus location to the former home of the S.P.A. program. The move will take place in January. Move to College Hall will save $75,000 annually after renovations Patrick Holmes QC News Co-Editor Renovations are taking place in College Hall (also known as the Speech Pathology and Audiology [S.P.A.] building) to accommodate Whittier College offices that are located off-campus in the Whittier Square office building off of Penn Street. According to Vice President for Advancement Bedford Mcintosh, the offices of Public Relations, Development and Alumni Relations will move into College Hall. "This was seen as a vacant space and [the move] was primarily a business decision," Mcintosh said. "We realized that we could move into that space, and after incurring some renovation costs, in the not-very-long-term the college could save a lot of money [by not having to pay rent at the current facility]." According to a public email sent out by President Kate Will, the move will take place in January. "To be habitable, the building will require a 'face lift' of the interior, including paint, carpet, ceiling, etc., along with some minor reconfigu ration to provide necessary office workspace and storage," Will said. According to Mcintosh, "The new building will be a squeeze for us, but we're just happy to be back on campus." "We estimate the cost of renovation to be about $125,000 to $140,000, which includes $15,000 for contingency," Vice President for Finance and Administration Jan Legoza said. "The rental cost [at Whittier Square] is about $75,000 a year, so there is roughly about a two year payback." According to Legoza, the work is being overseen by Director of Facilities Mark Ursic of the Sodexho firm that the college contracts maintenance operations to. Work has begun on the building, including the "demolition of old carpet and bathroom fixtures and reconfiguration of electrical work for the new layout of offices," Ursic said. "It is mainly a cosmetic improvement that consists of painting, carpeting and some tile work in the bathrooms, exterior paint and a new entry awning above the door." Mcintosh said that the new location on campus will allow for the departments to be more involved in the community, with easy access to students, faculty and staff. Mcintosh also said that when alumni come to the alumni office, they are already taken to campus, and the new location will make this easier. "[The move] uses what is currently an underused institutional asset," Legoza said. According to Mcintosh, the offices located in Whittier Square moved there in mid-2003 from their previous location in the Menden- hall basement. College Hall has been vacant since the closing of the S.P.A. program, and according to Ursic has been used for storage ever since. The program opened in 1946 and closed its doors in December of 1998. The program did not move into College Hall until 1983 [The Rock, vol. 69, no. 2]. Before serving as the S.P.A. building, College Hall was a men's residence. The house was acquired by Whittier College in 1951, the same year Wanberg Hall was erected. Conference to be held at Whittier next fall Patrick Holmes QC News Co-Editor The 12th annual Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (S.C.C.U.R.) will be held at Whittier College in the fall of 2004. "I'm anticipating there will probably be 500 people here so the conference will be held all over our campus," Associate Professor of Biology Cheryl Swift said about next year's conference. "The folks that have been putting it on for a while wanted to have it at a small liberal arts school like Whittier because that is how the conference began." While this year's conference was at a large school, the first two conferences were held at the California Institute of Technology, and according to Swift, participants feel that there is a better conference experience at smaller schools. "Whittier College has faithfully been sending students to the conference almost since the beginning, so it only makes sense as a small school in the Los Angeles area to join in the rotation of schools to host the conference," Swift said. She anticipates that the conference will be held in the library, Hoover Hall, Deihl Hall and the Science Building. The conference will be held on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004, so interference with classes will not be an issue on the weekend. Swift encourages all Whittier students to start thinking about "When you are presenting alongside students from Pomona and Occidental... and asking if we are as good as them, what you find out is that the answer is yes." Cheryl Swift Associate Professor of Biology possible projects for next year's conference. "I think it's very common for students in the sciences to go to S.C.C.U.R. because they are doing experiments and are in the lab," Swift said. "I'm not sure that students in other disciplines are aware that they are doing research as well, and that a paper for a class can be a jumping off point for a large project. Once you stop just reading material and start synthesizing ideas and come up with your own ideas based on that research— then you are doing research." Swift also said, "Students need to stop seeing themselves as paper writers and start seeing themselves as researchers." "The most important thing you can do at Whittier College is to stop thinking of yourself as a student and start seeing yourself as a sociologist, a writer or an artist, for whatever field you are in," Swift said. "[The benefit of presenting at S.C.C.U.R. is that] when you are presenting alongside students from Pomona and Occidental and the schools that we at Whittier are constantly comparing ourselves to, and asking if we are as good as them, what you find out is that the answer is yes." 29 students and faculty members participated in S.C.C.U.R. 2003 held at the University of California, Irvine, on Saturday, Nov. 22. NEWS YOU CAN USE On Thursday, Nov. 20 and Friday, Nov. 21, junior Jessica Robledo was elected COR president, junior Terrell Tucker became vice- president, junior Kristen Oase was elected secretary and sophomore Amethyst Polk was chosen as the external affairs commissioner. The four members-at-large elected include juniors Carolyn Trapp, Jess Brown, Elsbeth Detwiler and sophomore Kirsten Kershek. Robledo's plans as the newly elected president include, "To meet with [current A.S.W.C. President senior] Zach [Winters] and talk about his experiences and what he has been through as COR president. Then to talk to all of the members of COR to see what their ideas are. I have so many new ideas, but I want to hear what is important to them first." |
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