Previous Whittier College Campus Safety regimes have their share of horrors to disclose, notable among them the failure to warn Sierra Nevada College, Nevada's only private liberal arts college, about ex-Whittier College President Dr. James Lee Ash, Jr.. Ash, now also an ex-con (he was convicted multiple times and was finally imprisoned in Nevada for trafficking a controlled substance), and still subject to court orders restraining him from being alone with males as well as females under the age of 21, was, according to Nevada court transcripts, involved with illegal drugs and engaging in sexual relations with boys in L. A.. while still President of Whittier College.
Ash's criminal activities and the attendant bad P R destroyed Sierra Nevada College, a unique and promising school, as well as damaging the lives of an unknown number of boys. Like Campus Safety didn't know about Ash's criminal conduct. Why do you think Ash resigned from the Whittier College presidency without giving any reason for doing so? whittiergate has been informed by multiple sources that Jim Ash was providing drugs to and engaging in sex with boys, including Whittier College students, in Wardman House, the Whittier College president's residence. (Ask neighbors, including Whittier College Trustee Ruth Shannon, like they didn't know!)
And let's not forget Campus Safety's evident involvement in the bugging of the Quaker Campus editorial office and the cover up of that illegal electronic eavesdropping, a felony in California where there's an expectation of privacy. A private investigator looking into this crime concluded that Whittier College was at the top of the suspect list.
The Whittier P. D. detective who was assigned to this case previously worked for Campus Safety, and admitted his investigation of this felony led to a former Campus Safety Chief, but absurdly claimed he came to a dead end because that former Chief had moved out of town. As we've noted previously, evidently one can evade responsibility for crimes committed in Whittier by simply moving out of town!
But we must concern ourselves now with the immediate threats posed to students, to the entire community, by the current Campus Safety regime...
Campus Safety's current Chief, Bernard Alex, and Assistant Chief and spokeperson, John Lewis, both came to their positions at Whittier College from USC. The story told by multiple sources is that Campus Safety's Roy Cochran 'lost' the applications of other candidates for these positions. Former Reserve Officer Parra, involved in the unwarranted detainment of and assault on, and the sexual battery by his partner Sgt. Rick Thomas, now with the Antelope Valley College police department, on an Officer of the Superior Court properly making required legal service on student Nicola Jagessar through John Lewis at the Campus Safety office, followed Alex and Lewis from USC to Whittier College. We note that there is no statue of limitation on sexual crimes. Cochran and Bernard are both African-Americans. John Lewis, who is White and a Whittier College graduate, serves as the acceptable front man for this USC Cabal and racist Whittier College.
John Lewis is also a Sachsen Society member, indeed he persuaded then incoming President Sharon Herzberger to reinstate the Sachsens on campus. (See the new whittiergate 'Inside the Sachsen Society' page...) Despite denials of any involvement by Lewis with the Sachsens while they were banned from campus and he was already Campus Safety Assistant Chief, Lewis has been involved continuously with the Sachsens. Lewis, the number two man and spokesman for Whittier College Campus Safety, to this day continues his involvement with the Sachsen Society, as the Society's Advisor and as a Sachsen Society member, while the Sachsens continue to engage in criminal activities in an organized manner to destroy the moral fiber and ethical capacity of its brainwashed members.
Go to the Sachsen Society web site, you can link to it through the official Whittier College site. Yes, Whittier College promotes its undergraduates joining Societies, while knowing all about those Societies' misconduct and crimes, and most importantly the harm they do to individual students - because Society member students contribute more services and then as alumni more money to the College than do non-alumni students and graduates.
At the Sachsen Society site you'll see that the current Sachsen President is 'Whitney Co.Cane', a pun intended by her - Whitney Cocaine's MySpace profile is even more blatant - and evidently just fine with John Lewis, who is well aware of the illegal drug provision and use and other crimes committed by Sachsens. To go beyond the Sachsen Society site main page you'll need a Sachsen 'Mug Name'. Shall we look at some Sachsen Pledge Books and see how many times John Lewis' mug name is signed therein - while he was supposedly no longer involved with the Sachsens? Lewis' being a continuously active Sachsen poses an insoluble conflict of interest while he is employed by Campus Safety.
"The too small step from refusing to enforce the law to committing crimes oneself has already been taken at Whittier College." - Bart Brown
Lewis makes, and must make because he is a member of a secret society engaging in immoral, unethical, and criminal activities, moral, ethical, and criminal mistakes as Assistant Chief of Campus Safety, not only by his participation in that Society's crimes but also through his official advisory role and his obscuring and covering up crimes committed by his fellow Society 'family' and Societies 'clan' members (all Whittier College's secret Societies try to supplant their pledges' real families and are linked together by a faux lineage as a clan), and his role in luring new, naive, pledges into the criminal gangs called Societies. John Lewis must go, this College can no longer tolerate the liabilities he embodies.
How John Lewis and Campus Safety can get away with stating that all Whittier College student rape victims (and we refer here to only those rapes that haven't been ignored or swept under the rug, more numerous than those admitted to by Campus Safety) over the past few years have "declined police involvement" is outrageous beyond words. Campus Safety is obviously influencing Whittier College students who've been raped to decline police involvement, instead of stopping the rapists! God help rape victims at Whittier College - because Campus Safety isn't going to help them! One can just hear Bernard Alex telling the victims, like the victims of burglaries and other invasive crimes committed against students on campus, that it's the victim's fault! And John Lewis can say this with a straight face? And then we learn that Campus Safety officers are committing sexual assaults on campus!
Sharon Herzberger already knows all this
Questions have been raised by multiple sources about Campus Safety budgets. New uniforms have been purchased only rarely, necessary equipment has not been replaced when it wears out, and allegations of kickbacks on Campus Safety auto repairs have been made. Campus Safety vehicles are deficient in several respects, making Campus Safety less effective and the College community less safe than Campus Safety and Whittier College would have us believe.
Campus Safety vehicles are not even worth the amount reportedly charged for repairs allegedly made on them. Officers have been ordered to take Campus Safety vehicles to out of the way car washes, wasting money as well as time, and together with the general sad state of Campus Safety equipment and the alleged auto repair kickback scheme, suggests a highly rationalized looting of the Campus Safety budget.
whittiergate is informed that Whittier College President Sharon Herzberger has received at least one communication detailing the Campus Safety auto repair kickback scam as well as an assault on a female Whittier College student by Campus Safety employee Demetra Kimble, who is alleged to have also assaulted a male Campus Safety Officer and sexually assaulted two male students. Kimble was then promoted!
There is no doubt that Sharon Herzberger knows every allegation whittiergate has published to be true, and knew about them in most cases before whittiergate learned of them. What kind of college president believes it's more important to keep wrongs quiet, therefore multiplying them - and their victims - than to protect students and the college itself from the inevitable consequences of wrongdoing?
Campus Safety Kickback Contest
Send whittiergate.com the name and address of the local Whittier auto repair shop from which it's alleged Campus Safety's Chief and it's believed others in the know receive kickbacks (and where repairs are allegedly not even made) and win a prize!
Note: Past and present Campus Safety employees and Whittier College President Sharon Herzberger are eligible to enter the Campus Safety Kickback Contest, but are ineligible to receive any prize - because they already know all about this kickback scam.
President Herzberger has simply stonewalled complaints about Campus Safety wrongdoing. Numerous complaints have reportedly also been lodged with Human Resources with no meaningful action ever being taken by H R either. Whittier College's modus operandi is to stonewall, and because students and even most faculty members and other College employees are ultimately transients; it's a relatively simple matter to ignore those who will be going on their way soon enough, and are, while still at the College, unable to break through the threats, character assassination, and censorship the College marshalls against them, and who are fearful of nearly certain further retaliation if they do manage to make themselves heard.
For President Herzberger to know and do nothing about Campus Safety policy violations and crimes is to condone past offenses and to facilitate further immoral, unethical, and criminal acts by Campus Safety employees. This is not leadership, this is not acceptable. Every unethical and criminal act committed, every individual harmed, by College employees not only reveals Herzberger's incompetence but also makes her culpable.
Multiple sources have expressed a concern already published by whittiergate regarding confiscated drugs and weapons, evidence that's stored in a Campus Safety closet secured by a simple padlock. When questioned about where the drugs and weapons are removed to periodically, Assistant Chief John Lewis has lamely tried to be amusingly coy, but has declined to answer the question. Let us ask, again: Where are the drugs and weapons confiscated by Campus Safety officers going?! Laws are being violated in this regard by Campus Safety, by Whittier College, and by John Lewis as a named individual.
Beware Crimes Under Color of Authority
Many sources unanimously decry Demetra Rena Kimble-Ross' general lack of professionalism, and believe that she benefits by a special relationship with Campus Safety's USC Cabal. Why are Alex and Lewis endangering their personal Whittier College ATM for this pathological clown "Mama Reese' AKA Demetra or Dede Kimble? The answer to this question must be interesting, and disgusting, indeed.
whittiergate has been specifically informed that now Sgt. Kimble has assaulted a male former Campus Safety Officer, assaulted a female student working for Campus Safety, and committed sexual battery against two male student athletes, at least one of whom also worked for Campus Safety - and we've no doubt that this is just the tip of the iceberg of Kimble's criminal acts under color of authority - and all this was known to Campus Safety leaders and many others, including Whittier College administrators, up to and including President Sharon Herzberger, before Kimble was again promoted!
Kimble has already been exposed by whittiergate (on our 'Whittier College Student Memoir' page, where 'Mama Reese' is described) engaging in a questionable response to marijuana use in a dorm room complaint. What was on duty Campus Safety officer Demetra Kimble doing in that dorm room with undergraduate students smoking marijuana for so long? Not to mention the fact that nothing happened to those students smoking dope - their dope wasn't even confiscated! - on campus, pursuant to a complaint.
Campus Safety Chief Bernard Alex needs to stop blaming students for allowing crime, like out of control drug addicts invading the campus, and start accepting responsibility for crimes committed on his watch, or just resign. Who's minding the store while Campus Safety officers who are supposed to be on patrol are instead partying or busy assaulting other officers, students, and legitimate campus visitors?
At the same time that Chief Alex and Assistant Chief Lewis turn blind eyes toward Demetra Kimble's unprofessional and alleged criminal actions, multiple sources inform whittiergate that the State of California is investigating complaints that false accusations of sexual and other misconduct have been used to push good officers out of Campus Safety. Multiple sources also report harassment of such ex-Campus Safety officers, which has made it difficult for these good officers to make a post-Whittier College living. The turnover of Campus Safety personnel, aside from the USC Cabal, their facilitator Roy Cochran, and the otherwise universally condemned Demetra Kimble, is unusually high. It seems that the rotten apples remain, to spoil or drive out any good apples brought in.
Campus Safety, spending so much time and so many resources on facilitating, ignoring, covering up, and committing crimes, evidently has none left for crime prevention. Campus Safety simply blames students for the crimes committed against them by other students and campus visitors and intruders. And Campus Safety leadership treats officers who are clean, who are not corrupt, who care about their work, protecting and serving students and College employees and visitors, as enemies, not the corrupt and corrupting bad apples - because the leaders are the rottenest of the bad apples in Campus Safety.
whittiergate has also previously reported an assault by former Reserve Officer Parra and former Sgt. Rick Thomas, and a sexual assault by Thomas, under color of authority (See this site's 'Whittier College Safety Officers Assault Officer of the Court. Who's Next?' page). There is no doubt that stonewalling crimes by Campus Safety personnel results in more crimes being committed, in more victims.
Justice is coming to Whittier College...
Meanwhile, whittiergate has received communications suggesting that the College will negotiate an out of court settlement with a wrongfully terminated Campus Safety officer's attorney that will result in a six figure pay out to avoid bad publicity. The results of an investigation by a State of California agency reportedly supports the complainant in this case. And this case is said to pale in comparison with a class action suit to be brought against Campus Safety and Whittier College. We call on Whittier College, on President Sharon Herzberger, to stop hiding the truth about the dangers to students, to the community, to Whittier College itself, posed by this criminally out of control Campus Safety regime, and to clean up this mess. .
Campus Safety's Bernard Alex and John Lewis, and accomplices like Roy Cochran and Demetra Kimble, would do well to give some thought to the fact that they also pose a danger to themselves. For some Campus Safety employees the best move would be leaving this College of their own volition, now - because there will be more investigations, more media coverage, Campus Safety is going to be spotlighted like a thug under a police helicopter searchlight until the perpetrators are apprehended and brought to justice.
What you can do
If you have been victimized by Campus Safety personnel, if you have not been served and protected by Campus Safety personnel when they were obligated to do so, if you know of instances of unprofessional conduct and/or wrongdoing by Campus Safety employees, contact us.
As things stand now, any student or student parent who would entertain for a second the notion of a student attending Whittier College, well, you can contact us for a counseling referral regarding that notion - because you need it; and, if a student does attend Whittier College, then you may very well need such a referral even more later.