The QC, Vol. 75, No. 22 • May 4, 1989

              QUAKER CAMPUS
'blume LXXV, Number 22 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ May 4, 1989
Volume LXXV, Number 22
Mills Decade Called The Most
Fruitful" In College History
SOLO GUITAR:Jen Foster performs her original song 'Benjamin's Balloon' at Spring Sing. She was judged 'Best Solo
Performer/
Students Unhappy About
Spring Sing Guidelines
By Nathlie Given
Whittier's 38th annual
production of Spring Sing, All
That Jazz,' was held April 29 in the
Harris Amphitheater. While many
students praised the show as a
success, there was some
controversy about the audition
process, and one member of the
Program Board, Camille Smith,
ended up boycotting the whole
event.
Freshman Tammy Dietrich, who
disagreed with the tryout policy,
said of the show, "I thought it was
good but it didn't go with the
theme and there wasn't much
contrast between the
performances."
Dietrich said some people had
worked for months on their
performance, yet because they
didn't turn in their lyrics on time
they weren't allowed to
participate. She added that the
only information she knew ofthe
process was the sign up dates and
the audition dates.
"It seemed like only a chosen
.few knew they had to turn in
lyrics," said Dietrich.
Sign Up Dates
The organizers of this year's
Spring Sing were co-chairs Linda
Bone and Betty Hart, and
tabulations coordinator Debbie
Sullivan.
March 15 and 16 were the two
days advertised in fliers around
campus or in the QC for audition
sign ups. Anyone unable to sign
up on these days were to call
either Bone or Sullivan by March
14 to make arrangements.
Sullivan said the contact person
of each group put their name, box
number and phone number on
the sign up sheet and this infor
mation was put in a computer.
When each person signed up
he or she was given a rule sheet
which stated the date and time
when lyrics and music was due,
midnight of March 30, and that
any special sound or lighting
arrangements were to be made
by March 31.
Sullivan said the rules were the
same as in the past, only more
strict. She said the organizers
were trying to avoid problems by
not being lenient.
"We ;were| trying to make
Spring Sing the best it |could| be,"
said Sullivan.
Missed Deadlines
Sullivan said when only 19
people out of the 40 who signed
up for auditions met the lyrics
deadline the organizers called the
missing applicants and told them
their audition scores were being
lowered because of the missed
deadline, and if they didn't get
lyrics in by the extended deadline
of April 3 they wouldn't be
allowed to audition.
"Those who didn't meet the
deadline we didn't know what to
do aboul. We were willing to work
with them," said Sullivan.
Sullivan said the auditions
forced people to plan ahead and
be more prepared, and having
lyrics and music decided on prior
to audition was part of this
preparation.
Bone said, "If I didn't have the
performer's music or lyrics in, I
couldn't tell whether there were
duplicates. As far as I'm concerned it was their negligence."
By the April 3 deadline only two
Please see SING page 3.
By Chris Perkins
"Looking at the history of
Whittier College, I would say that
the decade under Dr. Mills has
been the most fruitful of any in
the history of the college, by a
long shot," said current Board of
Trustees member and former
chairman of the Board Chandler
Meyers in assessing President
Eugene Mills' term in office. Mills
is resigning this year after serving
as president since 1979.
Mills is leaving his post in order
to write a history and analysis of
Elderhostel, Inc., a project he has
been associated with since its
inception in 1975.
A Retrospective
Mills' first action when he came
to Whittier in 1979 from the
University of New Hampshire,
where he also served as
president, was to write a
100-page inventory of the college,
targeting specific areas of
improvement. "That led [the new
administration) to recognize a
variety of things we had to do."
The report showed that there
were three main areas that most
needed to be addressed: the
need to gain the college national
recognition, the need to develop
financial support, and the need
to improve the physical plant.
In gaining natonal notoriety,
Mills said he realized that a
reputation as a college with a
strong academic program was
important. As a result, several
innovations in the curriculum
took place.
Model Program
The Liberal Education
Program, unique to Whittier, has
been lauded as "a plan that has
become a model for other
colleges" by 'US News and World
Report.'
The Whittier Scholars Program
was initiated in 1979 to "offer
individualization, self-direction,
intellectual stimulation, examination of values, and close
faculty assistance," as an
introductory pamphlet distributed to students stated.
Of Whittier's academic growth
over the past 10 years, Mills said,
"I think it's really fair to say we
have moved the college forward
to a new level of academic
distinction."
An indicator of the college's
increased academic prominence
was its ranking as one of the
nation's five best smaller comprehensive colleges in both 1987
and 1988 by'US News and World
Report; The magazine credited
Whittier's faculty and Liberal
Education Program as academic
highlights.
Though Mills stressed the fact
that Whittier's improved
academic reputation has been a
result of the work of faculty, staff
and students, Meyers
commented, "[Mills] has to
receive the primary credit for it.
It was his style of leadership and
initiatives which have most
advanced the college."
Meyers continued, "He's a
national figure... he is prominent
on the national educational
scene, which has reflected in the
college's developing national
standing."
Please see MILLS page 3.
Administration Requests Farmer To
Direct Intramural Sports Programs
By Stephanie Wiggins
The intramural sports program
has been completely restructured
and is scheduled to expand from
four activities to 13 next year.
Greg Farmer, assistant professor
of physical education and recreation, will take over coordination
of all intramural activities.
In addition, the administration
of the intramural program will
come under the auspices of the
physical education and
recreation department instead of
the student run Program Board
which had previously managed it.
Farmer has now been named
head of intramurals and will no
longer be coaching men's water
polo.
According to Farmer, vice
president for Academic Affairs
Robert Marks asked him to be in
charge of intramurals. "Over the
last three or four years, Bob Giomi
has been kind of an adviser in
making suggestions while the
students did all the decisionmaking," said Farmer.
Logical End
"I think intramurals should
logically be run...in close
association with the RE. department," Farmer said.
"The PE. department has
better resources as far as
providing field space and the use
of available equipment;' he said.
According to Farmer, P.E.
majors will help in administration
of the sports. He also plans to
expand intramurals to 13 sports
as a result of a survey from 300
students.
The activities include—mixed
double tennis tournament, pool
tournament, men's football, co-
recreational ping pong tournament, softball-co-recreational,
wallyball (four person volleyball
in a racquetball court), frisbee
golf, miniature golf tournament,
bowling, racquetball, men's
basketball, volleyball and
innertube waterpolo.
Current Problems
Students had complained this
year about the lack of organization in the intramurals program.
"I will not be involved in the
slightest," said junior JT. Wheeler,
this year's chairperson of intramurals, on his involvement with
the intramural program next year.
"Time is a major problem in
organizing because as a student
I work 50 to 60 hours a day, then
I have to work on intramurals,"
said Wheeler.
This year Wheeler organized
four intramural sports, football,
volleyball, water polo and
basketball,   the  latter  sport
causing  the  most  problems,
according to Wheeler.
Juniors Kevin Marshall and
Marty Musker said that the
intramural basketball scheduling
and rescheduling was a bad
problem.
Marshall said, "You can't play
a game once a week, intramurals
should be done and over with in
less than four to five weeks. This
dragged on too long for seven
weeks."
Musker said Wheeler
scheduled teams to play during
spring break.
"It was bad planning," he said.
Senior Ishmael Cantu said," It
was chaos, we never knew if we
were gonna play a game."
Wheeler said,' There was a first
schedule but it had to be revised,
and the second schedule people
could not follow so we had a third
schedule and some people
understood it and half didn't so
I stopped intramurals, had a
meeting with the coaches and set
up a tournament."
Farmer will still coach
swimming, but he said
overlapping seasons of
swimming and waterpolo made
it difficult to coach both.
Lawrence Redone
See Page 4.
Season's Recap
See Page 7.
Summer Jobs
See Page 5.
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