The QC, Vol. 82, No. 21 • March 28, 1996

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
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March 28, 1996
IAKER CAMPUS
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
A Men's LAX
Men's Lacrosse is
ranked amoung the top 20
teams as semi-finals approach. Several of the
players, including Brad
Downey, lead Division III
in scoring. pg 15
CAM
► We are the World
This year, over a hundred students are making
the annual trek up to San
Francisco to help put on
the Model United Nations
of the Far West. Find out
what it's all about...pg 7
C  O  L  L £  G
► Trista Rokitta
At the'age of 10, she
had her first work of art
displayed in a professional art gallery. Find out
what she's been doing
since then in this week's
A&E profile.       pg 10
news
you can use
> Room Draw
The Room Draw Card
and  i ment
are due in the Office of
Residential Life by 5:00
p.m. Tuesday, April 9.
Students wishing to live
on campus next year must
turn in their Room Draw
men) their
number for Room Draw.
Room  Draw will be
held on April 17 in Ball
Hall I «t the
rash ttr in
formation before Spring
Break,
William Gates of Hoop Dreams Selected as
Main Speaker for the Year by Program Board
SPEAKER
► William Gates will relate his
story of inner-city struggle
during a presentation to the
i Whittier Community in the
Shannon Center May 1.
by RENEE TOTI
QC Staff Writer
William Gates, starof the 1994
documentary Hoop Dreams, has
been selected as the major speaker for the semester and will discuss family, education and dreams
from the perspective of a young
African American who grew up in
the inner-city.
According to David Stimler,
Program Board Chair, Gates was
chosen because students will be
able to relate to the program, finding the experience both entertaining and enjoyable.
Gates became well known after his participation in the documentary, which shows the hopes
and fears of two voung men in
their struggle to make it into the
National Basketball Association
(NBA).
Program Board works with a
photo courtesy of Admire Entertainment Inc.
William Gates
limited budget to bring one major
speaker to the campus each year.
"This year the budget was at half
of its normal sum," said Stimler.
The Board had limited funds
this year because of the expense
of Luminarias. The Board had
transferred money from the speaker fund so that more students would
be able to attend the dance, said
Stimler.
Program Board had considered writer Kurt Vonnegut as
speaker of the semester, but with
the speaker budget cut, they im-
Students Assaulted While
Walking From Penn Park
CRIME
►A male and female student
are attacked with a shin-gun or
taser near Penn Park, roughly
two blocks from campus, last
Saturday night.
by CATHERINE PAYNE
QC News Editor
Two students, a male and female, were attacked on Penn Street
in front of Penn Park last Saturday at around 11:22 p.m.
According to Chief of Campus Safety, Ed Malone, the students said they were attacked by
two male latinos armed with a
stun gun or taser.
Responding to a call from a
student who lived nearby, both
Campus Safety and Whittier Police Department arrived on the
scene. "A person called to inform
us that two students from A.O.K.P.
were being assaulted by a taser or
stun gun by two hispanic males,"
Malone said.
According to the Campus
Safety report, at around 11:15
p.m., a white Datsun with five
people inside stopped in front of
Penn Park and started yelling obscenities at the two students.
"Then two male hispanics with
shaved heads exited the car,"
Malone said. "One of them came
up behind the female and tased or
stunned her in the back ofthe neck
and started to run west on Penn."
After being attacked, the female student turned around to see
"suspects kicking and punching
the male victim," the report said.
"The male victim was also tased
or stunned, then kicked and
punched." The male victim then
escaped, and ran towards Painter
Avenue.
Campus Safety arrived on the
scene at 11:25 p.m., and Whittier
Police Department arrived at 12:03
a.m. after being contacted by Campus Safety. The police spoke to
both victims who "refused medical attention and would not file a
report for any further prosecution
due to fear of retaliation," Malone
said.
The names ofthe two students
were unavailable from Campus
Safety.
According to Malone, this incident happened despite a 10 p.m.
curfew at Penn Park. Also, last
spring under roughly the same
time and circumstances, there
were two students who were attacked; one suffered a slight injury from a knife.
mediately began working toward
their second choice, Gates.
Filmmakers Steve James, Peter Gilbert and Frederick Marx
began Hoop Dreams as a 30
minute documentary for public
television. Their end result was a
176 minute film that was voted
best documentary by the audience
at the Sundance Film Festival in
'94. It was, however, left out of
the Oscar race, leading to a controversy about the Academy's criterion.
Hoop Dreams captures the
hopes, disappointments and
achievements of Gates, who like
many other young African-Americans living in the inner-city
viewed basketball as an opportunity for a better future.
Gates' ability on the court
earned him a basketball scholarship at St. Joseph High School, on
the outskirts of Chicago. Gates
endured a two-and-a-half hour
commute every day because knew
that St. Joseph's was his best
chance at professional basketball.
Gates continually had to struggle with his studies, and had to
accept the joys and responsibili
ties of being a teenaged father,
and overcoming two serious knee
injuries. The injuries healed, but
he never played with the same
confidence as before them.
His desire for an education,
and his dreams of someday playing in the NBA helped him to
overcome the challenges that
stood in his way. Before graduating from high school, Gates was
courted by many colleges, and he
ultimately chose Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.
His talent won him a full four-
year scholarship to Marquette,
where he earned a communications degree in the fall of '95.
Hoping to pass his good fortune on to others, Gates has created the Hoop Dream Foundation,
which will provide scholarships
and after school programs for 10
inner-city kids from Chicago, who
are active in basketball Gates said
in an interview with the Washington Post, in May 1995.
Gates has used his own 'hoop
dreams' to create many opportunities for his future. He is interested in using his communica-
Please see DREAMS, pg. 6
Decision on SPA Major Still
Sought, Issue Falls to FEC
CURRICULUM
U'HERINE PAYNE
QC Nkws Editor
With its members unable
io reach consensus as lo whether the Speech. Pathology and
Audiology major should be
discontinued, the Educational
Policies Comn 'O re
linquished the issue tothc Faculty Executive Council (FEC).
which met Wednesday and
early 1 lodis-
cuss the issue.
After Dean of Faculty Richard . ended
dropping the Geology and SPA
major; C decided to delay the decision on
Geology until the fall of 1996
and make the ruling on SPA as
soon as possible.
The issue was then passed
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► In the March 21 issue of
the QC the number of pro-
yof
00 and a low of
$43,000 was misstated, due
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"It will be F£Q's
responr at
this point to try
and reach a decision on SPA,"
Mike McBride. Chair of FEC
to EPC, which failed to come to
consensus on whether or not the
SPA major should be dropped.
FEC
Mike McBride. the committee
had deck ! if EPC was
unable to reach a decision, then
that decision would be turned
over to FEC.
"It will be FEC's responsibility at this point to try aruj|
reac^a decision oa SPA,"
Please see SPA, pg. 6
fo an editing error. The fac-
ulty group with this salary
range is full professors.
There are 37 full professors /-d.
§ error.
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