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QUAKER CAMPUS Volume LXXVIII, Number 22 March 26,1992 ■ir 1111 QUAKER CAMPUS NEWS ACADEMIC GOALS The faculty and administration are in the process of setting long-term academic goals for the College. Page 4. VIEWPOINT U.S. AND ISRAEL Staff columnist Mike Swords discusses the strained relationship between theU.S. and Israel. Page 2. FEATURES AIDS CRISIS Although the public is becoming more knowledgable about AIDS, students still aren't taking the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of the disease. ARTS & ENT. WHITTIER HILLS Whittier College alum George Angelo presented his documentary film "Whispers," which is about saving the Whittier Hills from development. Angelo graduated from Whittier in 1980 and from the USC graduate film school in 1989. Page 12 SPORTS THIRTY-ONE IN A ROW The Whittier College men's lacrosse team extended its three-year winning streak to 31 games Tuesday night with a 21-7 win over Santa Clara. Page 16. INDEX News Editorial Comics Features Classifieds Arts & Ent. Sports 1, 4-6 2 7 8-10 10 11-13 14-16 Culture andEducation Committee Resigns from Program Board By Julie Amiton News Editor Due to an alleged lack of communication between members of the Culture and Education Committee of the Program Board and Board Chair Tina Jeha, Committee members submitted a letter of resignation last week to Jeha. Committee members senior Alycia Sanders, junior Jason Fish, sophomore Ellen DeLacey, and freshman Sandy Sternshein, stepped down for two main reasons. Accordingto Sanders, Chair of the Committee, there was a series of misinterpretations that occurred between Sanders, Fish and Jeha. The second incident involved BOG presidential elections. The letter stated: "... our sense of professionalism is time and again insulted in our dealings with BOG members claiming maturity, responsibility and correctness, even as they exhibit childishness, abuse of the responsibilities of government, student or otherwise, and factual, political and even intellectual incorrectness, as pointedly evident in theirrecent handling of perceived (but not investigated) problems with the Manzarek-McClure event. "Over the last two years, during the administration of Tina Jeha, power has slowly shifted away from Program Board to rest, with this last proposed set of changes, in the hands of ASWC the president Alycia Sanders alone. It continued: "If the changes, which, as we understood them as of February, include requirement of presidential approval on all Program Board expenditures over $1000, BOG approval of all publicity for Program Board events, and the power to arbitrarily dismiss any Program Board committee or subcommittee members without guaranteeing that member the right to an audience, are made, Program Board will have effectively lost its raison d'etre — to generate and administrate student-fee-sponsored programming for the student body. "The idea of BOG as an all- controlling, monolithic honor- society, holding final decisionmaking power over all aspects of how student fees are spent, without a checks-and-balances system (which seems to be the direction the latest proposed Tina Jeha changes are heading) is appalling." Jeha said: "I am really happy they resigned. They overstepped their bounds." According to Sanders, both she and Fish attended a National Association of College Campuses (NACC) conference in November to generate different ideas for programming and, from the conference, it was apparent that Program Board was inefficient. Fish said: "I saw Program Board as two things: an internal body to handle events like Luminarias and Homecoming, and a separate unit to deal with speakers, concerts and other special events." These new boards would be smaller, separate units, working on individual projects. "This way, each structure would get the attention it needed," Sanders added. Sanders then presented these ideas to BOG. However, Jeha interpreted this as the Committee trying to completely restructure the Program Board, Sanders said. "Speaking to BOG looked bad to (Jeha)," Sanders said. Fish added, "From her perspective, it looked like a conspiracy." When Fish and Sanders got back from the NACC conference, Jeha said, they had "no regard for process. Alycia went to the BOG meeting and did not tell me she had a proposal. She walked in and asked that Program Board be divided from BOG." The programs Sanders wanted did not fit the limited Please see BOG on page 5. Committee Formed to Discuss and Review Policies Orthogonians Request to be Pictured By Adam Webster Copy Editor Orthogonian president Kevin McGlynn will present a case to the Publications Board today and to the Society Advisory Board tomorrow in an attempt to include the Orthogonian Society in the 1991-92 Acropolis yearbook. Two main obstacles that may prevent the Orthogonians from appearingin the Acropolis are editor Rob Kessler's current editorial policy and the sanctions that were placed on the Orthogonians by the College over the summer. "It is my editorial policy that clubs and societies have to be recognized by the College in order to appear in the yearbook," Kessler said. Under this definition, groups such as the Sachsens and The Artorian Order of the Knights of Pendragon (AOKP) would also be excluded from the publication. However, Liz Carver, one of the six governing members of AOKP said they were not aware of this fact. "We are supposedly a club with an advisor and everything. Steve Gothold knows we have an advisor. To my knowledge we're in," she said. Rob Kessler said: "My main goal is to define what it is meant to be recognized. Is it b/ the Administration or by the students? If it is by the students, I have to find a way to define student i PHOTO on page 4. By Megan Hobza News Staff For the first time at Whittier College, a formal body of students, faculty, and administrators has been formed to discuss campus issues and work to change campus policies in an open forum. The Student Affairs Committee, formed by Steve Gothold, Dean of College Life, in February, has begun its work with task forces on alcohol, diversity, community service and the College's judicial system. "These kinds of discussions happened previously but behind closed doors, even when students were involved," Gothold said. "My main purpose in this is to get all the right people interested in the same things together to talk. I want students involved all the way." Michael McBride, professor of Political Science, said that the Student Affairs Committee has a broader goal to serve as a "think tank." He said, "It's a chance for people to sit back, throw out ideas and discuss them. We want to relax, think things out, talk about them at length." The committee meets every Friday morning and is comprised of Gothold; McBride; Irene Carlyle, director of the Speech and Hearing Center; Dave Leonard, Associate Dean of Residential Life; Ken Kelly, Director of Activities; Michael Swords, senior; Anthony Navarrette, senior; and Kevin McGlynn, BOG president. Faculty members were appointed by the Faculty Executive Committee, administrative members were chosen by Gothold, and student members were chosen by a recommendation, application and interview process by BOG. Each task force is made up of recommended students, faculty, and administrators, especially those who are members of relevant special interest groups. If the task force sees a need for a policy change, the recommendation is given to President James Ash and the Board of Trustees, who are responsible for all campus policies. "We [each task force] Please aee POLICY on pages.
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Title | The QC, Vol. 78, No. 22 • March 26, 1992 |
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 | March 26, 1992 |
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 | 2013-10-06 |
Image publisher | Whittier, Calif. : Wardman Library (Whittier College), 2013. |
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Title | 1992_03_26_p001 |
OCR | QUAKER CAMPUS Volume LXXVIII, Number 22 March 26,1992 ■ir 1111 QUAKER CAMPUS NEWS ACADEMIC GOALS The faculty and administration are in the process of setting long-term academic goals for the College. Page 4. VIEWPOINT U.S. AND ISRAEL Staff columnist Mike Swords discusses the strained relationship between theU.S. and Israel. Page 2. FEATURES AIDS CRISIS Although the public is becoming more knowledgable about AIDS, students still aren't taking the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of the disease. ARTS & ENT. WHITTIER HILLS Whittier College alum George Angelo presented his documentary film "Whispers," which is about saving the Whittier Hills from development. Angelo graduated from Whittier in 1980 and from the USC graduate film school in 1989. Page 12 SPORTS THIRTY-ONE IN A ROW The Whittier College men's lacrosse team extended its three-year winning streak to 31 games Tuesday night with a 21-7 win over Santa Clara. Page 16. INDEX News Editorial Comics Features Classifieds Arts & Ent. Sports 1, 4-6 2 7 8-10 10 11-13 14-16 Culture andEducation Committee Resigns from Program Board By Julie Amiton News Editor Due to an alleged lack of communication between members of the Culture and Education Committee of the Program Board and Board Chair Tina Jeha, Committee members submitted a letter of resignation last week to Jeha. Committee members senior Alycia Sanders, junior Jason Fish, sophomore Ellen DeLacey, and freshman Sandy Sternshein, stepped down for two main reasons. Accordingto Sanders, Chair of the Committee, there was a series of misinterpretations that occurred between Sanders, Fish and Jeha. The second incident involved BOG presidential elections. The letter stated: "... our sense of professionalism is time and again insulted in our dealings with BOG members claiming maturity, responsibility and correctness, even as they exhibit childishness, abuse of the responsibilities of government, student or otherwise, and factual, political and even intellectual incorrectness, as pointedly evident in theirrecent handling of perceived (but not investigated) problems with the Manzarek-McClure event. "Over the last two years, during the administration of Tina Jeha, power has slowly shifted away from Program Board to rest, with this last proposed set of changes, in the hands of ASWC the president Alycia Sanders alone. It continued: "If the changes, which, as we understood them as of February, include requirement of presidential approval on all Program Board expenditures over $1000, BOG approval of all publicity for Program Board events, and the power to arbitrarily dismiss any Program Board committee or subcommittee members without guaranteeing that member the right to an audience, are made, Program Board will have effectively lost its raison d'etre — to generate and administrate student-fee-sponsored programming for the student body. "The idea of BOG as an all- controlling, monolithic honor- society, holding final decisionmaking power over all aspects of how student fees are spent, without a checks-and-balances system (which seems to be the direction the latest proposed Tina Jeha changes are heading) is appalling." Jeha said: "I am really happy they resigned. They overstepped their bounds." According to Sanders, both she and Fish attended a National Association of College Campuses (NACC) conference in November to generate different ideas for programming and, from the conference, it was apparent that Program Board was inefficient. Fish said: "I saw Program Board as two things: an internal body to handle events like Luminarias and Homecoming, and a separate unit to deal with speakers, concerts and other special events." These new boards would be smaller, separate units, working on individual projects. "This way, each structure would get the attention it needed," Sanders added. Sanders then presented these ideas to BOG. However, Jeha interpreted this as the Committee trying to completely restructure the Program Board, Sanders said. "Speaking to BOG looked bad to (Jeha)," Sanders said. Fish added, "From her perspective, it looked like a conspiracy." When Fish and Sanders got back from the NACC conference, Jeha said, they had "no regard for process. Alycia went to the BOG meeting and did not tell me she had a proposal. She walked in and asked that Program Board be divided from BOG." The programs Sanders wanted did not fit the limited Please see BOG on page 5. Committee Formed to Discuss and Review Policies Orthogonians Request to be Pictured By Adam Webster Copy Editor Orthogonian president Kevin McGlynn will present a case to the Publications Board today and to the Society Advisory Board tomorrow in an attempt to include the Orthogonian Society in the 1991-92 Acropolis yearbook. Two main obstacles that may prevent the Orthogonians from appearingin the Acropolis are editor Rob Kessler's current editorial policy and the sanctions that were placed on the Orthogonians by the College over the summer. "It is my editorial policy that clubs and societies have to be recognized by the College in order to appear in the yearbook," Kessler said. Under this definition, groups such as the Sachsens and The Artorian Order of the Knights of Pendragon (AOKP) would also be excluded from the publication. However, Liz Carver, one of the six governing members of AOKP said they were not aware of this fact. "We are supposedly a club with an advisor and everything. Steve Gothold knows we have an advisor. To my knowledge we're in," she said. Rob Kessler said: "My main goal is to define what it is meant to be recognized. Is it b/ the Administration or by the students? If it is by the students, I have to find a way to define student i PHOTO on page 4. By Megan Hobza News Staff For the first time at Whittier College, a formal body of students, faculty, and administrators has been formed to discuss campus issues and work to change campus policies in an open forum. The Student Affairs Committee, formed by Steve Gothold, Dean of College Life, in February, has begun its work with task forces on alcohol, diversity, community service and the College's judicial system. "These kinds of discussions happened previously but behind closed doors, even when students were involved," Gothold said. "My main purpose in this is to get all the right people interested in the same things together to talk. I want students involved all the way." Michael McBride, professor of Political Science, said that the Student Affairs Committee has a broader goal to serve as a "think tank." He said, "It's a chance for people to sit back, throw out ideas and discuss them. We want to relax, think things out, talk about them at length." The committee meets every Friday morning and is comprised of Gothold; McBride; Irene Carlyle, director of the Speech and Hearing Center; Dave Leonard, Associate Dean of Residential Life; Ken Kelly, Director of Activities; Michael Swords, senior; Anthony Navarrette, senior; and Kevin McGlynn, BOG president. Faculty members were appointed by the Faculty Executive Committee, administrative members were chosen by Gothold, and student members were chosen by a recommendation, application and interview process by BOG. Each task force is made up of recommended students, faculty, and administrators, especially those who are members of relevant special interest groups. If the task force sees a need for a policy change, the recommendation is given to President James Ash and the Board of Trustees, who are responsible for all campus policies. "We [each task force] Please aee POLICY on pages. |
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