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WHITTIER COLLEGE J*~'~^^ ^"^ November 16,1995 Quaker Campus ► SPORTSFEST Sportsfest '95, "The Fight for the Hill," begins tonight. Opening ceremonies will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Harris Amphitheater. A variety of games and sports competitions will be held throughout the weekend. pg 14 CAM ▲Ahhhhh.... Papers. Tests. Projects. And what is that? Yes, finals are approaching. But, there are ways to deal with the pressure, pg 7 C O L L E G mm*m*m<- ► Magical Feaste The Choir's annual simulation of a medieval feast, includes food, period costumes and music. A free presentation will be held Thursday, Dec. 7 during lunch. pg 10 news you can use ► So, Are Your From Around Here? The number of foreign students at U.S. colleges has declined this year. Still 452,635 students from around the world come to the U.S. for their education. • Japan has 45,276 students studying here. (+3% this year) •China has 39,403 (-11%) •Taiwanhas 38,407(-3%) They are the largest groups. • Denmark has 1,022 (+4%) The smallest group. California has 55,685 foreign students (the largest). • Brigham Young U. in Hawaii (a bachelor institution) has the largest proportion of foreign students in the U.S. Whittier students can study abroad. Contact professor Mike McBride at x4854. Info from The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 Bryan McNally Elected ASWC President ELECTIONS ► Uncontested running for ASWC President and Secretary positions may have led to a low voter turnout for this year's executive elections. by MARCY HOLMER QC Staff Writer Landslide victories in last week's COR elections came as no surprise to two of the three elected candidates in last week's ASWC elections, in fact they were expected with candidates for the offices of president and secretary running unopposed. New ASWC president Bryan McNally, a junior, and sophomore Mike Garabedian, the newly elected COR secretary, were unopposed for their positions. Sophomore Keristofer Sary- ani garnered the majority of votes to defeat sophomore Dan Williams in the election's only contested race for COR Vice President. The lack of competition for two key offices resulted in a relatively quiet campaign week, undisturbed by the typical plethora of posted campaign fliers and promises, according to the newly elected members. "The only real race was for Bryan McNally ones who had to put every ounce into it," Saryani said. Current COR Secretary Wal- ly Rosales, the election chair, reported that the lack of candidate competition may have resulted in an apathetic voter turnout, with a noticeably lower percentage of students casting ballots. This year 291 students voted, 23% of the student body. Last year 433 students voted in the ASWC election. "It was dumb because people were going to win anyways, and you didn't even know who the people were," said Sabrina Lee, a senior. Running unopposed has given McNally a few extra days to contemplatechanges that he hopes to implement during his year-long presidential stint which will begin vice president. We were the only in January. Keristofer Saryani McNally said that he will try to transform the presidential office to better accommodate students' needs. "Before I devise any cohesive plan, I will seek the opinions of students through some type of forum to find out what they are concerned with most," McNally said. "My agenda will be to push the student body's agenda." McNally pointed to the following areas as needing the attention of the student government: curriculum revision, retention rates, societies, refurbishment of the Club and the creation of an improved student union or student center. McNally also noted that he has begun to contemplate one of his more immediate duties, the appointment of a COR treasurer. However, he has yet to choose someone. Members of the recently elected executive cabinet will be meeting periodically until their terms begin. Vice president Saryani said that he will use these executive meetings to discuss ways of getting students more involved. "I want to work with students to see what they want. After all it's their school," hesaid. Saryani plans to focus some of his attention to improve conditions for off- campus students by overseeing the renovation and reopening of The Spot and repairs within the Student Union. He stresses the fact that his purpose is to serve as a liaison between students and COR. "The vice president is the chairman of COR and doesn't get to vote, it is therefore my duty to work with COR to make sure that we have students' viewpoints and are working to serve them," Saryani said. As vice president, he said that Please see ELECTIONS pg. 6 iiiiil ► More on Elections One candidate for ASWC president is unprecedented. pg. 5 SPEAKER Three Students Robbed at Gunpoint Near Uptown Gould Speaks on Equality CRIME by ALEXANDER MACKIE QC Editor-in-Chief Three students were held at gun point and robbed on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. as they walked toward the College on Wardman Avenue. The students, who said they were not injured, said they were walking along Wardman Avenue toward the College after dinner in Uptown when three 15-17 year old Hispanic males approached them and pointed a single barrel shot-gun at the head of one student and demanded wallets, a watch and a back-pack. "I froze," said Aaron Derego, a freshman student who had the gun pointed at his head. "I felt the gun when he shoved it in the back of my head and I just froze, I just couldn' t do anything. I went numb. I wasn't scared, I wasn't anything." The students said the armed Please see ROBBERY pg. 4 Painter ymi.:W:. Friends St. Matthias Episcopal Washington! Dcsi Danganan/QC Graphics Editor I @ I 1 m p- Do You Feel Safe? Is Whittier College and the nearby area safe? Tell us how you feel, call the Comment Line, ext. 4856. by CATHERINE PAYNE QC Asst. A&E Editor "Human equality arises as a contingent fact of history, not as necessity of nature's laws," Stephen Jay Gould told a near capacity audience in the Shannon Center last Monday night. Gould, who regards himself as an evolutionary biologist, is a professor of geology and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. "What I found most interesting was the way he integrated the contigency of history along with evolutionary biology's view of something that we often consider to be a moral issue: the equality of humans," senior Jeremy Cosand said. Gould's speech centered on the fact that equality between racial groups exists because a chai n of previous events occurred to produce that outcome. Had any thing been altered in the chain of events, the end result might Bryan Alvrafcr/QC Staff Photographer Stephen Jay Gould have been quite different it has only been as recently as the past twenty years, says Gould, that theories have been developed promoting human equality. Avocation of equality has been made possible by new scientific techniques, speciftcally\ the development of tracing and Please see GOULD pg. 6 ISSUE 11 • VOLUME 82
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Title | The QC, Vol. 82, No. 11 • November 16, 1995 |
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 | November 16, 1995 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
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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 | 2013-10-15 |
Image publisher | Whittier, Calif. : Wardman Library (Whittier College), 2013. |
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Title | 1995_11_16_001 |
OCR | WHITTIER COLLEGE J*~'~^^ ^"^ November 16,1995 Quaker Campus ► SPORTSFEST Sportsfest '95, "The Fight for the Hill," begins tonight. Opening ceremonies will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Harris Amphitheater. A variety of games and sports competitions will be held throughout the weekend. pg 14 CAM ▲Ahhhhh.... Papers. Tests. Projects. And what is that? Yes, finals are approaching. But, there are ways to deal with the pressure, pg 7 C O L L E G mm*m*m<- ► Magical Feaste The Choir's annual simulation of a medieval feast, includes food, period costumes and music. A free presentation will be held Thursday, Dec. 7 during lunch. pg 10 news you can use ► So, Are Your From Around Here? The number of foreign students at U.S. colleges has declined this year. Still 452,635 students from around the world come to the U.S. for their education. • Japan has 45,276 students studying here. (+3% this year) •China has 39,403 (-11%) •Taiwanhas 38,407(-3%) They are the largest groups. • Denmark has 1,022 (+4%) The smallest group. California has 55,685 foreign students (the largest). • Brigham Young U. in Hawaii (a bachelor institution) has the largest proportion of foreign students in the U.S. Whittier students can study abroad. Contact professor Mike McBride at x4854. Info from The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 Bryan McNally Elected ASWC President ELECTIONS ► Uncontested running for ASWC President and Secretary positions may have led to a low voter turnout for this year's executive elections. by MARCY HOLMER QC Staff Writer Landslide victories in last week's COR elections came as no surprise to two of the three elected candidates in last week's ASWC elections, in fact they were expected with candidates for the offices of president and secretary running unopposed. New ASWC president Bryan McNally, a junior, and sophomore Mike Garabedian, the newly elected COR secretary, were unopposed for their positions. Sophomore Keristofer Sary- ani garnered the majority of votes to defeat sophomore Dan Williams in the election's only contested race for COR Vice President. The lack of competition for two key offices resulted in a relatively quiet campaign week, undisturbed by the typical plethora of posted campaign fliers and promises, according to the newly elected members. "The only real race was for Bryan McNally ones who had to put every ounce into it," Saryani said. Current COR Secretary Wal- ly Rosales, the election chair, reported that the lack of candidate competition may have resulted in an apathetic voter turnout, with a noticeably lower percentage of students casting ballots. This year 291 students voted, 23% of the student body. Last year 433 students voted in the ASWC election. "It was dumb because people were going to win anyways, and you didn't even know who the people were," said Sabrina Lee, a senior. Running unopposed has given McNally a few extra days to contemplatechanges that he hopes to implement during his year-long presidential stint which will begin vice president. We were the only in January. Keristofer Saryani McNally said that he will try to transform the presidential office to better accommodate students' needs. "Before I devise any cohesive plan, I will seek the opinions of students through some type of forum to find out what they are concerned with most," McNally said. "My agenda will be to push the student body's agenda." McNally pointed to the following areas as needing the attention of the student government: curriculum revision, retention rates, societies, refurbishment of the Club and the creation of an improved student union or student center. McNally also noted that he has begun to contemplate one of his more immediate duties, the appointment of a COR treasurer. However, he has yet to choose someone. Members of the recently elected executive cabinet will be meeting periodically until their terms begin. Vice president Saryani said that he will use these executive meetings to discuss ways of getting students more involved. "I want to work with students to see what they want. After all it's their school," hesaid. Saryani plans to focus some of his attention to improve conditions for off- campus students by overseeing the renovation and reopening of The Spot and repairs within the Student Union. He stresses the fact that his purpose is to serve as a liaison between students and COR. "The vice president is the chairman of COR and doesn't get to vote, it is therefore my duty to work with COR to make sure that we have students' viewpoints and are working to serve them," Saryani said. As vice president, he said that Please see ELECTIONS pg. 6 iiiiil ► More on Elections One candidate for ASWC president is unprecedented. pg. 5 SPEAKER Three Students Robbed at Gunpoint Near Uptown Gould Speaks on Equality CRIME by ALEXANDER MACKIE QC Editor-in-Chief Three students were held at gun point and robbed on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. as they walked toward the College on Wardman Avenue. The students, who said they were not injured, said they were walking along Wardman Avenue toward the College after dinner in Uptown when three 15-17 year old Hispanic males approached them and pointed a single barrel shot-gun at the head of one student and demanded wallets, a watch and a back-pack. "I froze," said Aaron Derego, a freshman student who had the gun pointed at his head. "I felt the gun when he shoved it in the back of my head and I just froze, I just couldn' t do anything. I went numb. I wasn't scared, I wasn't anything." The students said the armed Please see ROBBERY pg. 4 Painter ymi.:W:. Friends St. Matthias Episcopal Washington! Dcsi Danganan/QC Graphics Editor I @ I 1 m p- Do You Feel Safe? Is Whittier College and the nearby area safe? Tell us how you feel, call the Comment Line, ext. 4856. by CATHERINE PAYNE QC Asst. A&E Editor "Human equality arises as a contingent fact of history, not as necessity of nature's laws," Stephen Jay Gould told a near capacity audience in the Shannon Center last Monday night. Gould, who regards himself as an evolutionary biologist, is a professor of geology and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. "What I found most interesting was the way he integrated the contigency of history along with evolutionary biology's view of something that we often consider to be a moral issue: the equality of humans," senior Jeremy Cosand said. Gould's speech centered on the fact that equality between racial groups exists because a chai n of previous events occurred to produce that outcome. Had any thing been altered in the chain of events, the end result might Bryan Alvrafcr/QC Staff Photographer Stephen Jay Gould have been quite different it has only been as recently as the past twenty years, says Gould, that theories have been developed promoting human equality. Avocation of equality has been made possible by new scientific techniques, speciftcally\ the development of tracing and Please see GOULD pg. 6 ISSUE 11 • VOLUME 82 |
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