The QC, Vol. 84, No. 06 • October 9, 1997

              WHITTIER
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The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
COLL
■ Mistress
of the Park
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Elvira headlines
Knott's Scary
Farm's ghoulish
and ghostly
gallimaufry.
OPINION    TOPIC
We've got spirit! Yes we do!
We've got spirit! How 'boutyou?
Students discuss whether school
spirit has improved with the
success of the athletic teams.
SPORTS
■ Fourth
and Down
In their fourth
game, the Poet
football team loses
for the first time
this season.
CAMP   IKS
■ Quaked
City
M
It's been 10 years since the Whittier
Narrows Earthquake. We recall
the truimps and tragedies of the
6.1 tremor.
Whittier Students Involved
in Earlham Auto Accident
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Baby Girl Born to
New History Professor
■ ACCIDENT
by Liz Valsamis
QC News Editor
Two cars were involved in a
minor injury collision on Earlham
Drive, in front of the Science
Building, on Friday, Oct. 3 at about
1:25 p.m. There were no major
injuries.
Sophomore Jennifer Winning-
ham was making a left-turn into
the Science Building parking lot
when a green Volvo—driven by
Pitzer College freshman Anthony
Edelstein, who was driving down
Earlham—collided with her red
Honda Accord.
Edelstein was accompanied by
Whittier freshmen Heidi Silver-
berg and Marie Atkins. While no
one received serious injuries, Edelstein and Silverberg received
burns from the fuel that operates
the airbag.
"I had a big gash on my chest
7 had a big gash on my
chest and the airbag burnt
my face. My boyfriend, who
was driving the car, had a
pretty bad burn on his wrist
and on his chest."
— Heidi Silverberg, freshman
and the airbag burnt my face,"
Silberberg said. "My boyfriend,
who was driving the car, had a
pretty bad burn on his wrist and on
his chest. The paramedics came
and looked it over and said it was
okay."
Both vehicles received extensive damage. According to Silverberg, the Volvo was totaled.
"It's gone. The windshield was
cracked and the sunroof buckled,"
Silverberg said.
Damage to Winningham's vehicle was less severe, although
the car is currently immobile. "The
front windshield was cracked, both
air bags came back out and the
right front fender is gone. The
other vehicle hit my right side, so
the wheel is bashed up and the
axle is probably messed up," Win-
ningham said.
Both drivers are insured, but
the driver at fault has not been
determined. Campus Safety responded to the accident; however,
Whittier Police Department took
the report.
"I had already called to find
out whose fault it was and they
said it takes 10 working days to
get a report," Winningham said.
"I was entering the parking lot
and I had my left blinker on
when the car came out of nowhere."
According to Silverberg, Winningham was at fault. "We were
going down Earlham and the other girl was coming up and she just
turned right in front of us. We had
no time to break, but we had the
right of way," Silverberg said.
■ FACULTY
by Shauna Rogers
Professor Jose Ore
2:30a.m. He and his wife named
the girl Naima del Carmen
Orozco-Valdivia. She is
Qrqzco's fourth child.
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health and weighed in at a <•>
pounds, 15 ounces and is al home
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daily activities at the moment
arc limited to eating, sleeping
and ciying. Orozco hopes thai,
"if she can get financial aid, she
will attend Yale University in
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'Naima was named after a
family friend. Orozco is not sure
of the name's meaning: "if anyone knows what Namia means,
please    tell me!"  For now.
though, he is satisfied telling
everyone that the name means
"daughter of a genius."
Although Naima is the family's fourth child, she is the first
£irl Her brothers are Spencer
Tina f\r
would get along with the newcomer, but after seeing him"car-
ry her like a dead fish" in his
anus, they are no longer wor-
Orozco is in his first year as
a professor at Whittier College,
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vard Graduate School. He is cur-
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Introduction to Africa and Comparative Immigration. Born and
raised in East Los Angeles,
.. -,-, <'., .-■ near
his hometown and teaching at
Whittier.
Orozco does not pian on taking a leave of absence to take
care ■- ■ * ->m.
SOMA to Initiate Campus-Wide Recycling Program
■ ORGANIZATION
by Victoria Pohlmann
QC Staff Writer
Students Organized! for Multicultural Awareness (SOMA)
plans to take over most of the
College's recycling beginning this
week. The co-project leaders for
the recycling are junior Jessica
Neaves and Karen Gifford.
The Ecology Club was in
charge of recycling last year, but
with the departure of its president,
Alex Weber, combined with the
lack of members, the club became
inactive.
Junior Mike McKennedy collected recyclable materials from
residence halls over the summer.
Now that school is back in session, the quantity of papers, cans
and bottles is too much for McKennedy's car to take to a recycling
Currently, there are recycling receptacles in the Stauffer and Ball
Hall lounges.
Chad Nicholson / QC Assl. Pholo Editor
center, he said.
Last year ,some residence halls
recycled their own cans and bottles. According to Neaves,"these
halls are opting to continue to take
care of their own recycling. The
halls used to do it themselves or it
just didn't happen."
The resident advisors in
Stauffer, Ball and Johnson halls
will continue recycling for themselves while Wardman, Harris,
Turner and Wanberg
Hall's will be SOMA'S
responsibility.
SOMA thought
they had found a company that was willing
to pick up the recycla-
bles at no charge, but a
change in ownership
led to a new policy in
which SOMA would
have to pay for service.
Instead, the club's
members have decided to take the materials
to a recycling center in
Pico Rivera.
Turner Hall's Area
Coordinator, Shelly
Strong, has agreed to
allow SOMA recycle the Hall's
recyclabes on the condition that
25% of the money made will go to
the Resident Advisor budget.
SOMA has agreed to the proposal.
There will be separate trash
cans for aluminum cans, bottles,
paper and plastic materials in
Wardman Hall. Other halls will
have boxes for paper and boxes
for all other recyclable materials.
Campbell is the only hall that
will not be recycling. Neaves
stressed,"we'd like to.get it in
Campbell, but it isn't possible right
now. My goal is to get SOMA
doing it and prove that students
will use the facilities if they're
made available."
1 SOMA hopes that the college
will eventually hire a company to
take care of recycling so that,
SOMA can focus its energies elsewhere.
The materials are scheduled
to be picked up by SOMA members on Wednesdays. Senior Ken
Shoji and junior Korey Hendricks
have volunteered to drive the materials to the recycling center.
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