The QC, Vol. 80, No. 16 • February 17, 1994

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A/EWS
INSIDE
THE
Sports Boosters Club
A new club has been formed
on campus whose main goals
are to increase enthusiasm
for Whittier College
athletics.
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VIEWPOINT
Need a Book?
Is the Wardmen Library
adequate to take care of
Whittier College student's
needs?
FEATURES
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A Slice oflife
A new feature begins this
week as the local pizzarias
are reviewed for the students
who are lookingfor something
different to eat
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-A&E	
Delicatessan Preview
Before watchingthe movie in
Hoover Lautrop Friday night,
read about the 88 lines about
it with almost 88 reasons to
go see it. ,
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SPORTS
Lacrosse Wins
The Poets men's lacrosse
team opend their season with
a 19-9 thrashing of Stanford.
While the women's lacrosse
team defeated SDSU and
UCLA
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Stephanie Grosz/QC Asst. Photo Editor
Poet JV Basketball players
fight for the ball in a recent
game against Redlands.
Lancers Given Mona Kai Funding, Not
Allowed to Charge for Admission
After deciding on most of the proposed budgets by looking at precedents, COR members made an exception by
denying the Lancer society the right to charge for admission to their annual dance. The motion was passed on
the second attempt after a heated debate which left some COR members second-guessing the decision.
by Janine Leigh Kramer
QC News Editor
The Council of Representatives set an apparent precedent
by passing a motion that will not
allow the Lancer Society to
charge for admission to the annual Mona Kai dance.
After approving several
other budgets that allowed
groups to charge for their events
and tabling the Lancers' request
to the end of the budget proposals, COR approved $6,215 for the
event with the stipulation that
the Lancers would not be allowed
to sell tickets.
With eight in favor, six
against and two abstentions,
COR voted to overrule the budget committee's decision to give
the Lancer's a lesser amount of
money and allow them to charge
$5 for singles and $8 for couples
and instead created the funding
stipulation.
"If the Lancers charged for
Mona Kai as they have done in
the past the $2,000 collected in
admissions would be given back
to COR for other programs." said
sophomore Cindy Bartok, member of COR budget committee.
The same motion had been
proposed at the previous COR
meeting which was unconstitutionally closed to the public and
the press, but failed by one vote.
The Council gave more
money than the budget committee had allotted to make up for
the loss of revenue from ticket
sales.
COR President JaMarr
Brown said, This Lancer situation, as it currently stands, will
not set aprecedent for all groups."
"The Lancers never make a
profit on the dance. In the past,
we have given approximately
$3,000 each year back to COR
and we have kept all our receipts." said Mona Kai Chair,
860101° Patrick Larson, who has
been a part of the event for the
last three years.
"When I went to the COR
meeting it felt very confrontational. No actual statement of
wrongdoings was made, but the
whole meeting seemed to be accusatory." said Larson.
"I don't feel that (the Lancer
situation) was handled as professionally as possible. Personal
interests will get in the way when
representatives aren't sure what
the students want." said sophomore David Fujimoto, COR At-
Large representative.
'Ifs not so important that
we charge, but it is the timing of
this that upsets us. An event like
Mona Kai requires long-range
planning and now we have to
worry about lack of space and
hiring more security and how we
will assure that only Whittier
College students will attend the
dance." said Larson.
"Regardless.theLancerswill
still put on the biggest Mona Kai
the College has ever seen." added
Larson.
The COR budget committee
has been in operation for the
past six weeks and in that time
has considered almost 35 proposals.
It is chaired by COR treasurer Kory Villabrille, with
Bartok and sophomore Nathan
Ho as the other COR members
on the committee. However, the
two non-COR members who are
mandated by the constitution
have not been appointed yet.
"The two non-COR members
would have hindered the budget
process because there would be a
lot more discussion on the budgets and it would have taken
longer." said Bartok
"I would have liked to have
had the two non-COR members
(on budget committee), but we
had time restraints. CORis definitely not complete without non-
COR members and we will do
our best to have them by Monday," said Brown.
"We needed to get things
done which is why we couldn't
wait for the non-COR members.
I don't feel that those members
would have affected the results
ofthe committee because we dis-
cussedeveiythinginfull and they
probably would have agreed with
us." said Ho.
The budget committee is
working on a list of formal guidelines for budget requests. "Precedent was very strong. We
looked at previous budgets. If we
Please see BUDGET pg. 4
Farmer to Speak on Personal Experiences in
American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
by Janine Leigh Kramer
QC News Editor
James Farmer, American
civil rights leader during the
1960s and acclaimed social reformer, will be visiting Whittier
College to speakon Monday, Feb.
21.
Farmer, who first spoke at
Whittier College in 1948, and
then later in 1965, will be speaking not only about his experiences, but also current events
like race relations and apartheid.
"He really gives a glimpse of
the civil rights movement. He's
living history." said Laura Butler, Area Coordinatorfor Turner
Hall.
Most of his life has been
dedicated to the causes of civil
rights and social reform, as he
was one ofthe "Big Four in Civil
Rights" during the 1960s. The
otherthreewere: MartinLuther
King, Jr., Roy Wilkins of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
and Whitney Young of the national Urban League.
Farmer was the founder and
former director of the Congress
of Racial Equality (CORE).
He devised a program of nonviolent direct actionin the found-
James Farmer
ing of CORE in 1942 and led the
first sit-in in a restaurant in
Chicago later that year.
Farmer lived through many
attempts on his life and has escaped a lynch mob.
In 1969, he was appointed
Assistant Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare, but resigned in frustration two years
later. In 1972,he served as Presi-
coairtcsy of Lordly & Dune, Inc.
dent ofthe COuncil on Minority
Planning and Strategy and later
that year served as Associate
Executive Director ofthe Coalition of American Publice Employees (CAPE), representing
organizations with nearly four
million public workers in all fifty
states.
Farmer has written two
books, and numerous articles
that have appeared inNewsweek
saATime.
Currently, Farmer remains
active as a keynote speaker, lecturer, political analyst, and
Chairman of the Board for the
Fund for an Open Society, which
makes low-cost loans to assist
integrating housing.
Farmer has received rave
reviews at the other schools he
has spoken at and has been given
fifteen rhonorary Doctorate degrees.
Among his literary credits,
Farmer has written his autobiography which he titledLay Bare
the Heart which received the
Southern Region Council's
Lillian Smith Award in 1985.
It was also nominated for
the "Los Angeles Times 1985
Book Prize Award", the "Gustav
Myers Center Book Award for
1985, andthe"RobertF. Kennedy
Memorial Book Award" for 1985.
He also authored Freedom -
When? in 1966.
"He has an important message. I've heard him speak twice
and he is a very dynamic, intelligent speaker." said Butler.
Farmer will speak at 7 p.m.
at the Shannon Center. The tickets are free, but reservations are
encouraged. If you are interested, call the box office atx4203.