The QC, Vol. 83, No. 19 • March 6, 1997

              WHITTIER      ♦       COLLEGE
^^-^^ March 6,1997
Quaker Campus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
► Talkin' Track
Rookies Chuck Reid
and Melanie Ragin and
returners Claudia Murillo
and Juan Rodriguez were
standouts in the SCIAC
opening meet at Oxy, despite the teams' losses.
pg 16.
CAMP   VmS
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► Ha* rsay H&y
What*s on the Campus
Life menu? Hay Cheam is
an active ingredient of the
Whittier College community.
pg8
COLLEGE
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► Seamys, We
Hardly Know Ye
Can it be that Physics
professor Seamus Lagan
has a background in the
fine arts? You may be surprised.
pg 10
► Immigration
Forum at Library
The City of Whittier
Public Library will host a
community discussion entitled "A on Decisions: Should Immigration
Be Restricted?" on Wednesday. March 19 from
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
There will be a preview
meeting on Wednesday,
March 12 at the same time
which will introduce the
topic with a video.
COR Allocates Tight Spring Budget
FINANCES
► With over $100,000 requested from organizations, and
having just over $60,000' to
allocate, the Budget Commitee
was forced to make big cuts.
by RENE ISLAS
QC Asst. News Editor
On Monday March 3, Whittier's student Council of Representatives (COR) Budget Committee
approved the allocation of funds
for student organizations. The
committee was forced to make a
number of cuts due to a general
lack of money, allocating only
59% of the amount requested. [See
chart on pg. 5 for a full list of
allocations.]
Organizations on campus
ranging from the Arthurian Order
of the Knights of the Pendragon to
the Lancer Society requested a
total of $106,912.40 from COR
forvarious projects. CORhadonly
$63,074.64 to distribute.
According to COR Treasurer
Lisa Rollins, the funds raised by
student fees were allocated to the
student organizations on the basis
of justification by club leaders.
Each organization submitted detailed plans for fund use, and were
granted money on the basis of
specific guidelines set by the Budget Committee.
Some of the committee's
guidelines included not funding
programs such as student parties
thrown at The Club that require
admissions fees, fund-raiser programs, events not-open to the entire campus, off-campus socials,
and publicity for any events.
Other items that have previously been funded had to be sacrificed, such as money for reim-
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"The sub-lounge [was] pretty much trashed," freshman and
second floor Stauffer Hall resident Sarah Ingalls said.
Stauffer Hall Rabid with Crime
RES. LIFE
► There has been a surge of
vandalism in Stauffer Hall in
the last two weeks. Authorities
suspect a gang of drunken
students.
by CHRIS ZIEGLER
Asst. A&E Editor
"Afterevery weekend, Stauffer
looks like a battle zone," sophomore Stauffer Hall resident Tim
Kazules said.
The casualties? According to
Campus Safety, a 24 hour span over
the weekend of March 1 saw four
exit signs destroyed, four window
screens stolen, two toilet paper dispensers broken into and the toilet
paper strewn across the hall, one
lock rendered inoperable by the "insertion of a foreign object," and one
hapless visitor slathed with garbage.
After falling asleep in the second floor men's lounge, the visitor, a non-student, awoke and
found himself smeared with shav-
bursement of mileage and funding for club retreats and trips.
"A lot of items that would
have normally been granted money had to be cut due to the economic scarcity we had to deal
with this year," COR President
Keristofer Saryani said. The "economic scarcity" is a result of the
loss of student fees from those
students withdrawing from the
school and "the growing amount
of groups requesting money,"
Rollins said.
However, some requests were
granted unconditionally. For example, all requests to fund speakers were granted this year, according to Rollins.
The average amount asked for
by organizations was $2,672.81,
and the average amount approved
was $ 1,495.30. A Thalian officer,
Valeri Termini, said "while we
are disappointed at the amount we
ing cream, covered with styrofoam
peanuts, with "Bite Me" scrawled
in pen across his neck.
"He wasn't, like, visibly wet,
so I don't think he was peed on,"
one eyewitness said.
Director of Residential Life
Dave Leonard estimates the damage toll to be three to four hundred
dollars.
"This weekend was a pretty
active weekend," he said.
Between March 1 and 2, Campus Safety responded to three separate vandalism calls in Stauffer
Hall which seem to be the latest in
a wave of property damage that
shows no signs of flagging.
"It'snotnormal/'StaufferHall
Area Coordinator Letycia Torres
Gomez said. "It's gotten increasingly worse. There'sclearly agreat-
er disregard for property and community than there was before."
Since January 1, there have
been 12 separate vandalism calls,
not counting unreported incidents
Please see STAUFFER, pg. 5
received, we are grateful that we
can depend on COR for funds."
Budget Committee member
junior Chris Mueller said "the
major criteria we looked at was
that they [the organization leaders] filled out the forms right."
"Other criteria were that the
clubs had specific dates and locations for the events they requested
money for," Mueller added. "We
checked to see if these events
weren't in conflict with other
events, and were already booked
for the venues."
"A lot of things they asked for
were out of our jurisdiction —
like stuff Publications Board
should cover," Mueller said.
Program Board—which historically receives 100% of the
amount they request from COR
everyyear—wasallocated75.46%
Please see COR, pg. 5
STUDENT
Car Accident Leaves Vallejo in Coma
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Tuesday morning, Feb. 24,
junior Andreana Vallejo was
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wood. Dean of Students Susan
Allen told the QC.
According to Professor of
Religion Joseph Price, who visited Vallejo on Thursday, the
car accident occurred when she
was on her way to school Monday morning. She was making
an unprotected left turn on to
Slausen A.ve. when she was hit
by oncoming traffic.
"It was a big. humongous
van and if didn't stop." Rebecca
Vallejo. Vallejo's mother said.
"She was already halfway into
Andreana Vallejo
which is a sign of hope."
'he secretary of the Redwood building,
who also visited her at St. Fran-
to take Vallejo there because it
On Tuesday. Vallejo un-
nal injuries, but no operation
.-for her bead injuries, according to Price, S
also received many bruises
which are slowly healing, her
mother said.
Price said "at the tit
[Thursday], the encouraging
sign was that as fWtily members were speaking softly to her
and rubbing her arm, her vital
signs became more intense -
trauma center.
Vallejo worked for throe
years in the Redwood building
with Butterly. "She was like my
•.id.
"When I saw her, she
seemed very aware when someone was standing next to her. h
seemed to me like she was re-
!g well, and the family
said there was a slight improvement," Butterly added. "And
she's :r."
ch 5.
Vallejo remained in a coma, according to her mother. x"Oniy
time wilt teil. We witt see wtott
happens." she said. "Only the
Lord knows; not even the doctors know."
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