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The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914 November 1,2001 QUAKER CAMPUS http://www.whittier.edu/qc 11 1 ill I 4111 mill MARIO NEAVEZ / QC PHOTO EDITOR Tardeada entertains First-year student Monica Fogelquist wooed the crowd while singing along with a mariachi band at Sunday's Tardeada. Members ofthe Hispanic Student Association, parents and students cheered heron. For complete coverage ofthe event, see Campus Life, page 7. Two students hospitalized Erotic City partying plans thwarted: A male and a female are taken from campus by ambulance to be treated for alcohol poisoning. by Amy Stice QC Editor-in-Chief Campus Safety contacted the County paramedics twice on Saturday, Oct. 27—both times to treat students who may have suffered alcohol poisoning as a result of drinking before the Erotic City event in The Club. The students, each 19 years old, were transported to the hospital, one by his own request, Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis said. The first incident was anonymously called in to Campus Safety at approximately 11:15 p.m. The caller reported that a female student was vomiting in the restrooms in The Spot. When Campus Safety arrived at the scene, the officer discovered the student leaning over and semi-conscious. She had a hard time responding to questions, but it was revealed that she had consumed 10 shots of alcohol on an empty stomach before arriving at the event. Paramedics were contacted and the student was taken away in an ambulance. The second extremely intoxicated student was a male found in Stauffer Hall after a Stauffer Residential Advisor contacted Campus Safety. The male's girlfriend, a resident of the hall, was holding the student up on her bed while he vomited. The drunk student said that he had consumed three-quarters of a bottle of B acardi-Limon—amounting to 15 ounces—before going to The Club and later returning to Stauffer. When Campus Safety arrived, the student was conscious and able to answer questions; the officer left about 15 minutes later. As soon as the officer returned to the station, however, the drunk student's girlfriend called and requested the officer to return. The student at this point was semi-conscious, sweating and shivering under a thick blanket, complaining of cold. The Campus Safety officer contacted Coun ty paramedics, who asked if the student wanted to go to the hospital; he said he did. Campus Safety reported two other incidents of minors consuming alcohol on campus that night. Neither resulted in severe intoxication. Five Campus Safety officers were present at Erotic City, Lewis said. This is an increase from the traditional number assigned to a Club function—most dances that do not serve alcohol are allotted two officers and events with alcohol have four. This year's Erotic City did not serve alcohol, a break from tradition but considered necessary by the event's organizers, who wanted to clear the beer garden area outside of The Spot so that more people could attend. Lewis said that the popularity of the event determined Campus Safe- ty's decision to assign more officers to the dance. "Considering the size of last year's event, we felt it appropriate to field five," he said. According to Campus Safety estimates, between 400 and 450 students attended the event. Gun reported in Stauffer Hall CRIME by Thomas Logan for the Quaker Campus A maintenance worker reported that there was a male student walking up and down the hallway ofthe south side of Stauffer Hall on Monday, Oct. 29, racking the slide of a semi-automatic weapon. The maintenance worker said that the suspect was a white male, wearing shorts and a T-shirt. Campus Safety immediately dispatched three officers to investigate the alleged gunman at 12:09 p.m. The officers checked every room on the wing, but were unable to find either a person fitting the description, or the weapon itself. Campus Safety has been in situations like this before, Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis said, and the officers were prepared to deal with the gunman. He also said that every officer working for Campus Safety has a police academy background and knows how to deal with potentially dangerous situations. "The issue is walking stealthily and paying attention to the environment," Lewis said. Lewis also added that there are all kinds of strategies and tactics involved. Campus Safety keeps locked away evidence confiscated on campus. Evidence includes hoards of knives and some switchblades. They also have a wide array of realistic looking guns— most of which were actually pellet or B.B. guns—along with confiscated shotgun shells and ammunition. In cases of pellet or B.B. guns being confiscated, the disciplinary actions are kept on campus, whereas if a real gun were to be found, then the police would have to become involved. Regarding the Federal Law against guns on any campus, Lewis simply said: "Guns have no business on campus. Period." Publication salaries cut; future uncertain PUBLICATIONS by Eva Sevcikova t. QCAsst. News Editor The Publications Board voted to end all salaries paid from student body fees that in past years were allocated to students working on campus publications at a meeting on Friday, Oct. 26. In a subsequent vote, publications were allowed to use the advertising money to pay for salaries of the staff. The decision will most directly affect the staff of the Quaker Campus, which has the largest staff of all publications and where not all students have a work-study award to apply to their job. Whittier College Radio—the other publication that had requested funds this year to pay salaries—withdrew their request to have them paid for this semester at a Publications Board meeting on Friday, Oct. 12.TheAcropo/wstaffismade up of workers who were all awarded work-study and are thus getting paid. Senior Whittier College Radio Representative Mike Wilkerson said that he introduced the motion because of what he feels is an inadequately-sized contingency fund. "It came to my knowledge that several other organizations on campus will submit their requests for funding and currently there is no emergency fund," he said in an interview. "Due to the fact that we have not resolved this stipend issue, if we continued to pay stipends at a current rate, the money would be soon exhausted." Wilkerson said that it was in the interest ofthe student body not to use the student body fees for salaries, and he thinks it would be a better idea to alio w the QC to use advertising revenue as a source of salaries. However, he abstained from the vote on allowing the QC to use advertising money. "I think the operation of the QC will not be affected in any way See PUBLICATIONS, page 6 ISSUE 9 • VOLUME 88 This is the City- Does Erotic City cause people to do bad things (besides wearing just a towel)? Opinions, Page 3 Mixed Bag Spanish celebrations, group orgies, tasty snacks and the nation of Islam. Such treasures await you... Campus Life No talent? Shirtless men play the guitar. And you can too. A&E, Page 10 Emotion on the court Women's volleyball slaughters C.M.S., leaving the opposition in tears. Sports, Page 16
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Title | The QC, Vol. 88, No. 09 • November 1, 2001 |
Publisher | Associated Students of Whittier College |
Description | The Quaker Campus (QC) is the student newspaper of Whittier College. The newspaper has been in continuous publication since September 1914. |
Subject | Student newspapers and publications -- Whittier College (Whittier, Calif.) |
Date | November 1, 2001 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
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Repository | Wardman Library, Whittier College |
Rights-Access Rights | Property and literary rights reside with Wardman Library, Whittier College. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections. |
Date-Created | 2013-10-07 |
Image publisher | Whittier, Calif. : Wardman Library (Whittier College), 2013. |
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Title | 2001_11_01_001 |
OCR | The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914 November 1,2001 QUAKER CAMPUS http://www.whittier.edu/qc 11 1 ill I 4111 mill MARIO NEAVEZ / QC PHOTO EDITOR Tardeada entertains First-year student Monica Fogelquist wooed the crowd while singing along with a mariachi band at Sunday's Tardeada. Members ofthe Hispanic Student Association, parents and students cheered heron. For complete coverage ofthe event, see Campus Life, page 7. Two students hospitalized Erotic City partying plans thwarted: A male and a female are taken from campus by ambulance to be treated for alcohol poisoning. by Amy Stice QC Editor-in-Chief Campus Safety contacted the County paramedics twice on Saturday, Oct. 27—both times to treat students who may have suffered alcohol poisoning as a result of drinking before the Erotic City event in The Club. The students, each 19 years old, were transported to the hospital, one by his own request, Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis said. The first incident was anonymously called in to Campus Safety at approximately 11:15 p.m. The caller reported that a female student was vomiting in the restrooms in The Spot. When Campus Safety arrived at the scene, the officer discovered the student leaning over and semi-conscious. She had a hard time responding to questions, but it was revealed that she had consumed 10 shots of alcohol on an empty stomach before arriving at the event. Paramedics were contacted and the student was taken away in an ambulance. The second extremely intoxicated student was a male found in Stauffer Hall after a Stauffer Residential Advisor contacted Campus Safety. The male's girlfriend, a resident of the hall, was holding the student up on her bed while he vomited. The drunk student said that he had consumed three-quarters of a bottle of B acardi-Limon—amounting to 15 ounces—before going to The Club and later returning to Stauffer. When Campus Safety arrived, the student was conscious and able to answer questions; the officer left about 15 minutes later. As soon as the officer returned to the station, however, the drunk student's girlfriend called and requested the officer to return. The student at this point was semi-conscious, sweating and shivering under a thick blanket, complaining of cold. The Campus Safety officer contacted Coun ty paramedics, who asked if the student wanted to go to the hospital; he said he did. Campus Safety reported two other incidents of minors consuming alcohol on campus that night. Neither resulted in severe intoxication. Five Campus Safety officers were present at Erotic City, Lewis said. This is an increase from the traditional number assigned to a Club function—most dances that do not serve alcohol are allotted two officers and events with alcohol have four. This year's Erotic City did not serve alcohol, a break from tradition but considered necessary by the event's organizers, who wanted to clear the beer garden area outside of The Spot so that more people could attend. Lewis said that the popularity of the event determined Campus Safe- ty's decision to assign more officers to the dance. "Considering the size of last year's event, we felt it appropriate to field five," he said. According to Campus Safety estimates, between 400 and 450 students attended the event. Gun reported in Stauffer Hall CRIME by Thomas Logan for the Quaker Campus A maintenance worker reported that there was a male student walking up and down the hallway ofthe south side of Stauffer Hall on Monday, Oct. 29, racking the slide of a semi-automatic weapon. The maintenance worker said that the suspect was a white male, wearing shorts and a T-shirt. Campus Safety immediately dispatched three officers to investigate the alleged gunman at 12:09 p.m. The officers checked every room on the wing, but were unable to find either a person fitting the description, or the weapon itself. Campus Safety has been in situations like this before, Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis said, and the officers were prepared to deal with the gunman. He also said that every officer working for Campus Safety has a police academy background and knows how to deal with potentially dangerous situations. "The issue is walking stealthily and paying attention to the environment," Lewis said. Lewis also added that there are all kinds of strategies and tactics involved. Campus Safety keeps locked away evidence confiscated on campus. Evidence includes hoards of knives and some switchblades. They also have a wide array of realistic looking guns— most of which were actually pellet or B.B. guns—along with confiscated shotgun shells and ammunition. In cases of pellet or B.B. guns being confiscated, the disciplinary actions are kept on campus, whereas if a real gun were to be found, then the police would have to become involved. Regarding the Federal Law against guns on any campus, Lewis simply said: "Guns have no business on campus. Period." Publication salaries cut; future uncertain PUBLICATIONS by Eva Sevcikova t. QCAsst. News Editor The Publications Board voted to end all salaries paid from student body fees that in past years were allocated to students working on campus publications at a meeting on Friday, Oct. 26. In a subsequent vote, publications were allowed to use the advertising money to pay for salaries of the staff. The decision will most directly affect the staff of the Quaker Campus, which has the largest staff of all publications and where not all students have a work-study award to apply to their job. Whittier College Radio—the other publication that had requested funds this year to pay salaries—withdrew their request to have them paid for this semester at a Publications Board meeting on Friday, Oct. 12.TheAcropo/wstaffismade up of workers who were all awarded work-study and are thus getting paid. Senior Whittier College Radio Representative Mike Wilkerson said that he introduced the motion because of what he feels is an inadequately-sized contingency fund. "It came to my knowledge that several other organizations on campus will submit their requests for funding and currently there is no emergency fund," he said in an interview. "Due to the fact that we have not resolved this stipend issue, if we continued to pay stipends at a current rate, the money would be soon exhausted." Wilkerson said that it was in the interest ofthe student body not to use the student body fees for salaries, and he thinks it would be a better idea to alio w the QC to use advertising revenue as a source of salaries. However, he abstained from the vote on allowing the QC to use advertising money. "I think the operation of the QC will not be affected in any way See PUBLICATIONS, page 6 ISSUE 9 • VOLUME 88 This is the City- Does Erotic City cause people to do bad things (besides wearing just a towel)? Opinions, Page 3 Mixed Bag Spanish celebrations, group orgies, tasty snacks and the nation of Islam. Such treasures await you... Campus Life No talent? Shirtless men play the guitar. And you can too. A&E, Page 10 Emotion on the court Women's volleyball slaughters C.M.S., leaving the opposition in tears. Sports, Page 16 |
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