The QC, Vol. 88, No. 09 • November 1, 2001

              The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
November 1,2001
QUAKER CAMPUS
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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