The QC, Vol. 78, No. 05 • October 3, 1991

              QUAKERCAMPUS
The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914
Volume LXXVIII, Number 5
October 3, 1991
INSIDE THE
QUAKERCAMPUS*
NEWS
HARVEY ON AB 101
Whittier College professor
Richard Harvey, a
recognized authority on
California politics and
government, is interviewed
in regards to Gov. Pete
Wilson's veto of AB 101.
Page 5.
EDITORIAL
CLARENCE THOMAS
Four students offer their
views on Supreme Court
nominee Clarence Thomas.
Page 3.
FEATURES
LARGER THAN LIFE
David Gallagher's award-
winning cartoon makes its
first appearance in the QC.
Page 7.
CRYING IS GOOD
Features editor Jonelle
Ruyle talks about crying and
its benifits in "A New Set of
Ruyles." Page 10.
ARTS & ENT
FASHION
Arts & ent. editor Jenny
Colville discusses fashion in
her "Art Insight" column.
Page 12.
SPORTS
FOOTBALL LOSES
The Poets are now 1-2 on
the year after having lost to
the Menlo Oaks, 14-7, on
Saturday in a non-
conference match-up. Page
16.
SOCCER WINS PAIR
The men's soccer team
improved to 2-2-1 with
SCIAC wins over Cal Tech
and La Verne last week.
Page 16.
INDEX
News 1,4-6
Editorial 2-3
Features 7-10
Classifieds 9
Arts & Ent. 11-13
Sports 14-16
Stein Sheds Light On "Shining Path"
By Jennifer Buddemeyer
Assistant News Editor
Steven Stein, professor of
History from the University of
Miami, addressed members of
the College community on
"Sendero Luminoso," a radical
guerrilla group in Peru on
Tuesday night.
Stein showed a video called
Terror: The Death of Reason"
that gave further information
on the group and provided
visual understanding of the
situation in Peru today.
The group began in the
1960's as Maoist
revolutionaries who disagreed
with the racist, Western
European- ruled Peruvian
government.
Stein said that "one of the
most distinguishing features of
Sendero Luminoso was the long
and careful preparation" ofthe
members before action was ever
taken against the government.
Based at the regional
university of a small town called
Ayacucho located in the South
Central Peru in the Andes
Mountains, Sendero Luminoso
was made mostly of the sons
and daughters of peasants
attending the university,
according to Stein.
Because of the ethnic
makeup of the members, "they
were virtually indistinguishable
from the other peasants" thus
making identification by
authorities difficult, Stein said.
The group did not make any
public action until 1980 when
members "burned ballot boxes
in a small town" during an
election, he said.
From there Sendero
Luminoso guerrillas "blew up>
bridges and electrical towers...
killed representatives of state...
and they now kill non-
Peruvians, including Japanese,
French, and tourists," Stein
said.
Their purpose is to show
that the government is not
functional by encroaching a
situation of chaos that the
government can not handle,"
he explained.
This contempt for the
European government stems
from the Spanish conquests of
By Eric Berg/QCPhotographer
the area hundreds of years ago
that are said to have turned
"everything upside down and
inside out," according to a
translation of a Peruvian
expression.
The Spanish conquests laid
seeds of racism between whites
of European descent and Indians
indigenous to the region that
continue to thriye today,
accordingto Stein, and "has been
exacerbated by Sendero
activities."
Parsons Program Ends
By Michele Apostolos
News Staff
Whittier College is no longer offering a 3-2 program with
Otis Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles in which students can
receive two degrees in five years, a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Whittier and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otis.
In the program, students spend the first three years taking
classes from Whittier and Otis simultaneously, and the last two
years are spent at Otis full time.
According to David Sloan, professor of art and advisor to 3-
2 students at Whittier, the decision to discontinue the program
was a mutual one between Robert Marks, Vice President of
Academic Affairs and Roger Workman, President of the Otis
Parsons Art Institute.
Anthony Padilla, admission counselor at Otis, said, There
are currently 17 students in the program, and four students
enrolled this year. The four students this year will be the last to
complete the program."
The program has been in existence for five years.
Sloan said, "Logistically, it is a very difficult program to keep
going." Some of the main reasons for the cancellation of the
program include difficulty in scheduling and lack of continuity
between each school's requirements.
Trying to dovetail course requirements here and there is
difficult at best," Sloan said. "Compromises have been made on
both sides."
Typically, students in the 3-2 program take classes at Otis
on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and they have classes at Whittier
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Pat Larson, a sophomore working to receive his B.A. in
Applied Art and his B.FA. in Commercial Design said, "It really
limits our choices ofthe classes we can take at Whittier, it's just
impossible to work out schedules."
"We get 'forced' into a lot of classes. It is difficult to take lab
classes because they are usually on Tuesday and Thursdays and
that is when we are at Otis. Also classes that are every day, we
can't take those," he added.
Junior Jennifer Brakehsiek Kriowles, who is pursuing her
BA. in Applied Art and her B.FA. in Commercial Design, said,
_  Please see PARSONS on page 4.
Retention Discrepancies
Cause Some Confusion
By Adam Webster
Copy Editor
Discrepancies over the
exact, number of black
students at Whittier have
prompted contrasting
perceptions held by students
and administrators.
Black students make up
4.4 percent of Whittier
College's 1991 new student
(freshman and transfer)
enrollment, up .5 percent in
1990, according to Robert
Marks, Executive Vice
President and Dean of
Faculty.
Contradicting figures
were submitted by Tom
Enders, Associate Vice
President for Enrollment.
According to Enders, the
percentage has dropped from
5.5 percent to four percent.
Marks and Gerald Adams,
Associate Academic Vice
President and Registrar,
stated that the total amount
of black students on campus
has increased by five (from 40
to 45) over last year.
Marks said that this year's
overall retention rate is the
highest since the College
started tracking the figures
in 1980. The rate jumped 1.1
percent, up from 80 percent
last year. Included in this is a
93.8 percent retention rate from
freshman year to sophomore
year for black students. The
retention of 15 of the 16 black
freshman is a jump from the one
out of nine the previous year.
These two points are in
accordance with President
James Ash's proposal for
increased recruitment, retention
and graduation of black students
as outlined in the May 3, 1990
issue ofthe QC.
In his letter, Ash expressed
the following goals: the
appointment of a coordinator for
black student services, increased
recruitment of black students, a
component in orientation
dealing with minority issues,
and reviewing the College's
affirmative action program in
their hiring practices.
In addition, Ash planned on
encouraging faculty to offer
courses dealing with black
history and culture, an
institution-wide observance -of
Black History Month of
February 1991, a Multi-Cultural
Center, and increased
communication with student
groups, (BSU and the Minority
Caucus in particular).
Ash concluded his letter by
stating, These measures are
Please see BLACK on page 4.