The QC, Vol. 84, No. 05 • October 2, 1997

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
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October 2,1997
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ska punk sound.
SPORTS
■ Poet Pride!
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Friday the Squirrel
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and the rest of the
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crowd watched as
the Poets stomped
all over the Stags
on Saturday.
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
OPINION    TOPIC
SAAOKING.
So it slowly kills us. So what?
Students discuss the reasons for
and against lighting up.
CAMP
■ O Say Can
You Sing?
Professor of
Religion Joe Price
sang the National
Anthem at a recent
Angels game.
Farley's Life Celebrated at Memorial
■ MEMORIAL
by Adam Pava
QC Editor-in-Chief
Over 100 people gathered in
the Upper Quad on the evening of
Saturday, Sept. 27 to celebrate the
life of junior Seth Farley, who died
on July 20th in an auto accident.
Surrounded by 200 glowing luminaries, mourners participated in an
open microphone session and explored a gallery of Farley's art to
remember the dynamic student.
"We tried to reach all the senses at the memorial," said junior
Jaime Wemett, an organizer of the
event. "We attempted to make it so
one could see, hear, smell, feel and
taste Seth." Along with the open-
microphone service and art gallery
displaying Farley's work, the memorial featured the live band Viva
Malpache, an incense um in the
Buddhist tradition, large boards
where visitors could write messages to Seth and vegetarian pot-luck
and Middle-Eastern cuisine.
According to another organizer
of the memorial, junior Mike McKennedy, "It was the embodiment of
Seth. I thought it was beautiful."
The Wardman Gym—which
The Spot Now Serves
Beer on Weekends
Spraypainting furniture was one of the ways students expressed their emotions at Saturday's memorial.
Photo Courtesy ol Jaime Wemett
houses the art department,where
Farley spent much of his time—
was used to display his artwork,
home video movies, photo albums,
and a separate room which senior
Jeff Cain designed to simulate Farley's workspace. The room contained school papers, home movies, artwork in progress, childhood
pictures and a chair that Seth had
painted.
"I wanted to make a space that
1 thought would be able to create an
intimacy, a place where people
could go in there by themselves
and commune with Seth," Cain
said. "I put turquoise footprints
underneath the chair ofhis desk.
Turquoise is the negative color of
white flesh. I just thought it would
be nice to imply that maybe Seth
was there, in spirit anyway."
The organizers also set up over
30 pieces of furniture—mostly
chairs, painted white—stacked
high in the Upper Quad for visitors
to spray paint and decorate with
messages. "Seth didn't think there
was enough spray paint on campus," McKennedy explained.
See MEMORIAL, page 6
m THE SPOT
by Berto Lopez
QC Staff Writer
The Spot has secured a beer
and wine license from the City
of Whittier and has begun to
serve beer to of-age students on
Friday and Saturday from 4:00
p.m. to 12:00 a.m., or closing
time.
Student managers have been
trained on alcohol policies and
have received certification
;igh the statewide progiam
Alcohol Beverage Control
(ABC).
Wrist bands will be enforced, especially during nights
when The Club is having activities and there is more danger of
someone underage trying to
"sneak a beer." This should not
be a problem, Zamora said,
"with the help of Campus Safety we have had a positive outcome thus far."
Currently, there is a selec
tion of Budwciser and Bud
Light, but The Spot can have
any requested beer if the requester pays for it in advance.
Bon Appetit is responsible
for determining whether a patron is intoxicated or not and
when to stop serving that person. The following signs will be
used by employees to determine
if a patron is becoming intoxicated: inhibitions become relaxed, judgment is impaired, reactions are affected, loss of coordination and by examining the
pnysical appearance of the patron. Once it has been determined that a guest is intoxicated, Bon Appetit will no longer
serve alcohol to that individual.
Spot ManagcrCarlos Zamora said The Spot has been serving beer sincethe first week of
the semester and he hopes more
people will become aware of
this new service. He would like
to see more students come in
with friends and enjoy a glass of
beer in The Spot's environment.
Naylor Hall Renovation to be Completed by January 1998
■ CAMPUS
BUILDINGS
by Dennis Soto
QC Assoc. News Editor
The $1.5 million renovation
of Naylor Hall is set to be completed by Jan. 1, 1998, according
to the College's Project Management Consultant Nelson Park.
Whittier College's signature
building has been under construction since last spring.
Peck/Jones Construction is
currently working on giving Naylor a "seismic retrofit" which will
bring the building up to earthquake fitted requirements, according to Peck/Jones Superintendent Richard Pierce. This retrofit includes a new foundation,
which will work to support the
cement wall designed to handle
earthquakes. The building will
also receive cripple walls, which
will give it lateral support and a
new drain line.
The building is expected to
have new seats for the lecture
room, a new handicap ramp and
six units of air conditioning, as
well as cosmetic updates such as
exterior and interior painting and
window replacements.
When completed, Naylor Hall
will house the Modern Language
department, which is now located
on the first floor of Hoover Hall.
Naylor was home to the Chemistry department until 1987, followed by the Art department until
it was transferred to the Wardman
Gym.
The Ahmanson Foundation,
who is in support of Naylor Hall's
restoration, granted the money
needed for the project. .
"It's not coincidental that Dick
Deihl, the formal chairman of the
Board of Ahmanson Corporation
Naylor Hall in its current state of construction.
Jascha Kaykas-Wollt/QC Photo Editor
is the chairman of the company,"
stated Executive Director of Development, Jonathon Meer. "He
was instrumental with putting us
in touch with the corporation," he
added.
Parks said that the construction is under a "very tight schedule," but reassures that the
project's completion will be
around January of next year.
"I want to preserve [Naylor
Hall] and hope that no one [vandalizes] it," he added.
Naylor suffered damage during the Whittier Narrows earth
quake of 1987. It was later deter-
mind that the building's structure
failed earthquake safety specifications and so Naylor Hall was
abandoned.
Aside from surviving the
Whittier Narrows earthquake, "the
building also survived the Long
Beach earthquake of 1932," Park
mentioned.
"The biggest difficulty [we
are having is] window replacements and air conditioning," Park
said. "We're trying [to reach the
January deadline] and if we make
it, we make it."
The cosmetic stage of the
restoration is not scheduled to be
completed until late November or
early December.
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