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Image:Whittier college.jpgTemplate:Clearright Whittier College is a private college in Whittier, California.
In recent years, Whittier College has become known as a locus of independent scholarship and ideological diversity among faculty and students. The student body is well known for its social diversity. As of 2003, the college boasts 1,535 enrolled students.
The liberal arts university was founded in 1887 by members of the Religious Society of Friends, who named it after Friends (Quaker) poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Student athletes at Whittier College are known today as the Poets in his honor. The college is no longer affiliated with the Friends, though it does retain some of their ceremonial traditions. Image:Whittier 006a.jpgTemplate:Clearright
Whittier College is one of the more diverse liberal arts college in the country, serving students not only of different ethnic and geographic backgrounds, but also of a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. Minority and international students make up nearly half (49%) of the student body. Whittier prides itself on dealing with issues of diversity and difference through debate and interaction, not only politically correct speech.
Whittier College has over sixty student-run organizations and clubs and a high involvement in the campus community seems to be the norm. The college also has four local fraternities (called "societies"): The Franklin Society, The Lancer Society, The Orthogonian Society (founded by Nixon), and the William Penn Society; as well as five local sororities: The Palmer Society, The Ionian Society, The Metaphonian Society, The Thalian Society, and The Athenian Society. Other long-standing campus groups include the Arturian Order of the Knights of Pendragon (A.O.K.P.) and the Sachsen Society.
Former President of the United States Richard Nixon remains the college's most well-known and controversial alumnus. His actions associated with the Watergate scandal and the ignomious end to his administration cast a shadow over the institution to this day. For Whittier, his successes and failures as a leader are both a source of (conditional) pride and (exasperated) indignation. That a U. S. President graduated from Whittier is mentioned in many of the college's advertising documents--but that President's name is usually carefully omitted. Image:Whittier College Library.jpg Template:Clearright Whittier College revisited a chapter from its past in 2002 when an electronic bugging device was found in the office of the college newspaper, the Quaker Campus. The discovery quickly made headlines on the Drudge Report, the Student Press Law Center and other media outlets due to the similarity to the bugging of the Democratic National Convention in 1972 that brought down Nixon's presidency in the Watergate scandal. The source of the QC wiretap was never conclusively proven, but one strong theory suggested that disgruntled members of the student government planted the bug to spy on student journalists during the early 1990s, when ongoing political tensions between the faculty and the Orthogonian Society were reported in the newspaper.
Whittier Law School and Accreditation Controversy
Whittier College maintains a satellite campus for law studies in Costa Mesa, CA. Whittier Law School was founded in the Hancock Park Section of Los Angeles in 1966 as Beverly Law School. It became Whittier Law School in 1975 and moved to Costa Mesa in 1997. Whittier Law School now boasts a network of 4,000 alumni practicing in 48 states and 14 countries. Whittier Law School has been accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1978 and has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) since 1987. According to The National Jurist, the ABA has recently placed Whittier Law School's accreditation under probation, citing "persistent noncompliance" with ABA standards.
Notable alumni
- Richard Nixon, former U.S. President
- George Allen, NFL coach
- Andrea Barber, actress