The QC, Vol. 82, No. 11 • November 16, 1995

              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
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► 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
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► 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
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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
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