The QC, Vol. 78, No. 22 • March 26, 1992

              QUAKER CAMPUS
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March 26,1992
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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.