The QC, Vol. 88, No. 10 • November 8, 2001

              The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
November 8,2001
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JUSTIN HAND / QC CO-CAMPUS UFE EDITOR
Dia de los Muertos celebrated
Junior Chancellor Barjona, junior Travell Woods, sophomore Charles Evans and sophomore Connie
Romero attend the Dia de los Muertos event in The Club on Friday, Nov. 2. See Campus Life, page 7.
COR internal budget
regulated, not limited
■ GOVERNMENT
by Rebecca Wolf
QC Managing Editor
The Council ofRepresentatives
(COR) voted to require the Executive Council to present an itemized
estimate of their projected internal
budget, and rejected amendments
that would have limited the amount
of student body fees COR can spend
on themselves at the meeting on
Monday, Nov. 5.
Junior At-Large Member Carrie Stone proposed the constitutional amendments "to help clarify the
Constitution and further strengthen
the accountability of the Executive
body and all of COR."
The amendment to require an
itemized budget passed 10-4 with
the three voting members of the
Executive Council voting against
it. "You want an estimate, that's
itemized and it's rough on top of
that—what's the point?" senior
Treasurer Prithvi Nobuth.
In a separate interview, Nobuth
Letters!
Whittier responded to our
calls for letters in droves.
Opinions, Page 3
said, "This administration has been
very transparent with it's spending.
... When you elect people, they have
a responsibility to be transparent. It
doesn't have to be in the Constitution."
Stone said that she wanted to
use this administration's budget as
an example for future administrations. "What the current presidency
did is a good example of what should
be done," Stone said. "But if it's not
in the Constitution how will future
administrations know what to do?"
The second amendment proposed by Stone would have limited
the COR internal budget to eight
percent of COR's allotment of student body fees. The COR Administrative Committee, headed by senior Vice President Jenna Desormier, recommended the limit be raised
to 15% based on previous internal
budgets and to account for fluctuations in the size of the student body.
Stone's amendment also required
that any additional spending would
need to be approved by the body of
COR.
Senior President Jeff Cleveland
said in the meeting that it was important to leave the internal expenditures up to the Executive Council.
Cleveland said that at the beginning
of this semester before COR's first
meeting, the Office of Student Activities asked for money from COR
for the annual Activities Fair and
that with this amendment COR
would not have been able to help.
"I don't think there should be
any limit to how much the Executive Council can spend," Nobuth
said. "We need to be able to spend
money on things that will help the
student body."
Stone said that limiting the internal budget would require the
Executive Council to plan their
spending and allow for a contingency fund. "It would mean that more
money would go to clubs and organizations," Stone said. "I give $60
of my money to COR and I expect
it to be spent on clubs and organizations."
Currently the Executive Council creates an estimate of the inter-
See BUDGET, seepage 5
Campus to be
evaluated
■ CAMPUS VISITORS
by Rose Ochoa
QC Asst. News Editor
A site team from the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), a regional accrediting
agency for secondary schools, colleges and universities, will be returning for a periodic on-site visit of
the Whittier College campus from
Monday, Nov. 12 through Friday,
Nov. 9, evaluating the College in
order to potentially reaffirm its current accreditation.
The site team will be made up
of approximately eight "college professors and administrators from all
over the country," according to Professor of English Language and
Literature and Editor ofthe WASC
report Wendy Furman-Adams. It
will be led by President of Allegh
eny College in Meanville, Penn.,
Richard Cook. Vice President of
Academic Affairs, Dean ofthe Faculty, and Accreditation Liaison Officer to WASC David Muller emphasized the importance of having
a representative from a school similar to Whittier, such as Allegheny,
heading the visit while working with
WASC to form Whittier's site team.
"I'm really delighted with our site
team because they will understand
our issues and understand a private
liberal arts school.... Each site team
relies on the expertise of the experts," Muller added.
Upon arrival the team will be
housed in Johnson House. Tuesday, they will begin meeting with
faculty, administrative and student
groups, interviewing, attending
classes and visiting the campus and
having availability to have access
See WASC, see page 6
Fong named
Marshall finalist
■ SCHOLARSHIP
by Amy Stice
QC Editor-in-Chief
If nothing else, it is an occasion
to buy a suit. B ut senior Ryan Fong
hopes that it will develop into something much bigger. Fong was informed on Monday, Nov. 5 that he
successfully reached the interview
phase of competition for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. He is
the first Whittier College student to
do so in recent memory, according
to Professor of English Language
and Literature Charles Adams.
Fong, who is employed by the
Quaker Campus as a copy editor,
will travel to San Francisco next
week for the interview on Thursday, Nov. 15 with no idea what to
expect. Professor of Biology Warren Hanson, who is the Chair ofthe
College-level scholarship selection
committee, is organizing a mock
interview for Fong on Monday, but
beyond that, Fong is investing energy into seizing the opportunity to
beef up his interview wardrobe. "I
feel like it's the one thing I can
QC FILE PHOTO
Ryan Fong.
control," he said.
"Since being in college I haven't
had any occasion to wear anything
suit-like," he said. "Seeing as this is
my first 'real' interview, I'm using
this occasion to buy a suit and new
shoes."
The tone he uses to describe his
plans is much calmer than the attitude he had when Area Coordinator
Eboni Johns, sprawled across a
couch in the Ball Hall office, broke
the news to him that he had scored
an interview. Johns had taken the
call after a representative of the
Marshall committee was instructed
See FONG, page 6
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Sausage Noir
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Uptown. And the human soul.
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Record-breaking
Ginnette Kimbil breaks 12-year-
old record in season's first meet.
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