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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.
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Title | The QC, Vol. 78, No. 05 • October 3, 1991 |
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 | October 3, 1991 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
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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 | 1991_10_03_p001 |
OCR | 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. |
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