The QC, Vol. 83, No. 05 • October 3, 1996

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
^^"^W ^ -^ October3,1996
Quaker Campus
► Running Down a
Dream
Men's Cross Country
showed promise, finishing third among eight
SCIAC teams at the Red-
lands Invite.
pg 16
C  A   M.P   U/IS
»
► The Campus
Connection...
You were wondering.
You had almost given up
hope. But we told you last
week...Amy Benton is not
dead. And she never was
kidnapped by space
aliens; we finally have
proof.
pg7
► Send in the
troupes!
Two new comedy
sketch troupes emerged
on campus this year, causing wackiness for all and
abit of confusion as to the
difference between them.
Find more about their za-
ntness on
pg 10
news
you can use
► January, AL-
Yes, it's true. You
should have by now received your registration
card and list of classes for
Janu.. e ap
proaches when they'll both
be put to use. Remember
to get any signatures you
need well before pre-registration day; these classes
fill up   - ■    ly!
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
Salcedo Elected Freshman Class President
ELECTIONS
^■Freshman class officers,
hungry for involvement, were
elected this week in a close race
decided by more than a third of
the freshman class.
BY LISA NUNN
QC Co-Sports Editor
The Whittier College class of
2000 made its first collective decision last week in its election of
the Freshman Class Council.
One hundred and thirty-five
voters (a little more than one third
ofthe freshman class) cast ballots
in front of the mail room on
Wednesday, Sept. 25, and Thursday, Sept. 26, narrowly choosing
Trena Salcedo as freshman class
president and Juan Lucero as vice
president. According to junior
Mike Garabedian, COR secretary
and election committee chair, the
number of votes were "extremely
close for both positions." Garabedian admitted "I was careful to
recount; that's how close it was."
Both Stephanie Johnson and
Matt Feinberg ran unopposed for
the offices of secretary and treasurer, respectively. Feinberg
comes to Whitter from Durango_
High School in Las Vegas, NV,
and said that he ran for a place on
the student council because it was
one of his favorite experiences in
high school. "I like to be able to
make a difference," he said. Feinberg hopes to be able to organize
"more trips to amusement parks,
and more sporting activities. It's
always good to have rivalry between the halls," he added.
Johnson, served in several offices, including choir, Thespian
Society, and Opera Club as well
as the student body council during
her years at Eastlake High School
in Chula Vista, CA. She said that
she ran for secretary because she
"wanted to get involved" at Whittier.
Salcedo echoed the same sentiment: "basically, I wanted to get
involved," she asserted. "I am not
the type of person to sit back and
watch activities, I like to put them
on." As student body president
her senior year at Pioneer High
School in Whittier, CA and student body vice president her freshman year there, Salcedo too comes
to Whittier's Freshman Class
Council with experience under her
belt.
Pragmatically, she plans to
wait and see what activities already exist, and then proceed to
organize additional ones for the
freshman class as well as the rest
of the school to participate in. "I
would like to do something big for
a holiday," Salcedo mentioned,
"maybe cinco de Mayo, or another one."
Liza Gershman/QC Staff Photographer
Trena Salcedo
President
Liza Gershman/QC Staff Photographer
Juan Lucero
Vice President
Liza Gershman/QC Staff Photographer
Stephanie Johnson
Secretary
Her other ideas include a
camping trip for freshmen, a dance
for all students, hosted by the freshman class, and a possible newslet-
Chad Nicholson/QC Asst. Photo Edilor
Matt Feinberg
Treasurer
ter or other format to "unite the
freshman class and get them involved, and to keep them informed
of activities all over campus."
Student Suspended in Sexual Offense Case
CRIME
► A Whittier student was
suspended for two years after
being found responsible for the
forcible rape of another student.
by LORNA BELL
QC Editor-in-Chief
Early this September, both a
rape by force and a sexual offense
were reported through Campus
Safety involving Whittier students.
The rape case was brought
before the school's hearing board.
The alleged assailant, also a Whittier student, was found responsible and suspended from the school
for two years.
Neither the victim, nor the alleged assailant chose to comment
on the situation.
The victim in the case of the
sexual offense, according to Campus Safety's statistics, did not file
formal charges against the alleged
assailant, according to Dean of
Students, Susan Allen, but can
still do so at any time.
"A large majority of sexual
assaults occur within the first sev
eral weeks of school," Chief of
Campus Safetly, Ed Malone said.
Campus Safety defines rape
separately from other sex offenses; whereas the Whittier College
Student Handbook includes rape
in its definition of a sexual offense.
The rape case was brought
before a college hearingiboard in
keeping with the regulations outlined in the Whittier College Student Handbook. The hearing board
was chaired by Associate Dean of
Academic Affairs David Muller,
and included facutly members,
Anne Kiley (English), Jeff Decker (Business) and Mike McBride
(Political Science).
The Hearing Board's determination is based on whether it is
"more likely than not" that the
accused student violated the policy, according to the Student Handbook. Associate Dean of students,
Please see OFFENSE, pg 5
Disclosure Policy Challenged
by JED GILCHRIST
QC N. i or
lege policy regarding student
privacy in matters of criminal
activity was recently challenged by the Quaker Cam-
pus. after information concerning a sexual assaull was suppressed by administrators for
al records, and said access cannot be acquired without written an-, vmor
The language in FERFA
defines "educational records"
to mean those which contain
information directly related to
ancducational institution. With
The  dispute  revolves
around interpretation of two
!► For further information on
sexual assault and its prevalence oncoHege campuses, see
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one
dents' privacy and the other
jmpus
community of possible crimi-
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Tl. itional
Rights and Privacy Act (FER-
PA), one ofthe Higher Education Amendments passed in
i974. « im-
poriant pieces of legislation.
The Act states that students
age IS and up are guaranteed
access to theirown education-
been the ambiguity ofthe term
"educa " and
whether or not this term includes disciplinary records and
othei f.iained
by the college or university.
This debate, however, was
assuaged July 23, 1992 with
then President Bush's signing
into law an amendment to FER-
PA stating that campus law enforcement records are not to be
considered uonal
records."
A second act, however, has
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