The QC, Vol. 88, No. 23 • April 18, 2002

              The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
April 18,2002
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REBECCA WOLF/QC MANAGING EDITOR
Spilled liquids, a stained carpet and ceiling and blotches of food on tables
and chairs were the results of a food fight that broke out in the Campus Inn
at lunch time on Thursday, April 11.
Students throw food
Other people clean it up
Fulbright for Wagner
Second faculty member in one year
awarded prestigious scholarship
FACULTY
by Eva Sevcikova
QC News Editor
It may be hard to be
abroad, away from your relatives and friends for a whole
semester. It may be even
harder to leave if your twin
daughters each gave birth to
a set of twins just recently.
For Professor of Education
and Child Development and
Director of Broadoaks Judith Wagner this may be the
hardest part.
Wagner is the second
Whittier College professor
this year who received the
prestigious national  Ful
bright Scholarship award to
go to Denmark. She joins
Assistant Professor of Sociology Zhidong Hao who was
awarded one three weeks ago
[see story in Volume 88 Issue 22].
As a scholar Wagner is
interested in how the social
and emotional development
in children is connected with
their intellectual development. Now it seems that because of her most recent accomplishment, she will have
to miss several months out
of her grandchildren's lives.
But as she says, "we will be
jamming the e-mail systems
with photos to stay in touch."
Her research project will
be titled "The Effects of Efh-
PHOTO COURTESY OF JUDITH WAGNER
Judith Wagner.
nicity andEthnicity Salience
upon the Peer Relationships
of Minority and Non-Minority Students in Denmark's
Newly Integrated Elementary Schools." To translate
into layman's term, Wagner
See WAGNER, page 5
FOOD FIGHT
by Rebecca Wolf
QC Managing Editor
It all reportedly started with a "milk
bomb." The food fight did not last more than
a minute at lunch time on Thursday, April
11, but by the time it was over, almost half
of the Campus Inn (C.I.) was covered in tuna
fish, salad and peas.
After the incident, the C.I. staff was left
with cleaning up the mess and had to request
help from the Maintenance Department. According to Custodial Supervisor Maria Cruz,
she spent about three and a half hours cleaning, together with Custodian Jose Mora.
"We had to clean and shampoo the carpets,
all before dinner," she said. "The worst part
was the ceiling—there was salsa and ketchup all over. It was a lot of work, and it was
very tiring." The floor was covered with
fries, burgers and remains of food and the
staff also had to clean the hallway outside
the C.I. to get rid of soda and strawberry
Jell-o, Cruz said.
"I would not expect this kind of behavior," Cruz said. "If we were to charge them,
we could easily charge them $150. I just
hope they don't do this next year. Please!"
It is not known why it started, but according to Head Football Coach Bob Owens
and Head Men's Lacrosse Coach Doug
Locker, athletes from the two athletic teams
were involved, and there "will be retribution."
Owens assured that there will be a day
See FOOD, page 4
TheDailyPoet.com launched
WEB SITE
by Kristin Drew
QC Assoc. News Editor
The Council of Representatives (COR) will launch
their new Web site, The Daily Poet, today. The Web site
offers students a variety of
services including teacher
evaluations, a book exchange
and campus classifieds. As
part of this Web site launch,
COR will also be offering a
five-night trip to Kapalua
Maui, Hawaii.
According to junior COR
President Jess Craven, the
Web site has been an ongo
ing project for the past year.
"[Former A.S.W.C. President] Jeff Cleveland appointed me last year, and it's been
a continuation," Craven said.
"We're trying to expand services, things COR has never
done. Jeff initiated the idea
and we're trying to take it a
step further."
According to Craven,
Bluestone Design, anout-of-
state company, was hired- to
establish the site. For the past
few months Craven has been
working on the site. After the
launch of the Web site, however, sophomore Ghalib Bel-
lo will be the official webmaster, a work-study position created this year, Craven
said.
The Daily Poet offers students a great deal of resources. "All the major features
we thought of this year," Craven said. "We looked at the
top five student body websites according to Student
Leader magazine and combined the most desired features of these five to utilize
them on ours, and then added
what we thought our student
body needs." The site will
contain COR positions available, updated minutes of COR
meetings, and the COR treasury report. Students will also
have access to each club's
See WEB SITE, page 4
Incident in Harris agitates student, Campus Safety
by Eva Sevcikova
QC News Editor
A male student filed a
complaint against Campus
Safety regarding an incident
in Harris Residence Hall
around 1:45 a.m. on Sunday,
April 14. While the nature of
the complaint filed by the man
on the same night of the incident is a personnel issue and
could not be revealed, "the
matter is under in vestigation,"
Assistant Chief of Campus
Safety John Lewis said.
The student involved in
the incident opted not to comment when asked for an interview by a QC reporter.
The Resident Advisor
who responded to the initial
noise disturbance could not
comment on the incident.
According to the Campus
Safety report, a Resident Advisor contacted Campus Safety when the residents he confronted for violating quiet
hours did not comply. When
Corporal Kenny Walton and
Officer Jessica Davila responded, they encountered
three males sitting in a room
with loud music, drinking alcohol, the report stated. The
students were uncooperative,
and one of them demanded
that he be allowed to finish his
bear. "He then chugged the
beer and belched loudly right
in front of the officer," Lewis
said. According to the report,
the men were very intoxicat
ed and there was a strong odor
of alcohol in the room.
The man then left the
room, while Campus Safety
remained there to question the
resident of the room. "This
guy then forced the door open
and said that he wanted the
rest of his beer," Lewis said.
Walton closed the door and
again attempted to speak with
the resident in the room, according to the report. The man
pushed the door open again
and Walton, who was stand
ing behind the door, was
"struck in his left arm and the
back, [the significant force]
pushing him forward off-balance," the report states.
Walton then stepped out
into the hallway and saw the
student attempting to enter his
own room. "[Walton] pushed
him on a sofa and sat on his
right hip area, face down and
slightly on his side," the report says.
Out in the hallway, the
confrontation between the stu
dent and Campus Safety continued, full of threatening and
cussing, including an antagonistic gesture on the side of
the student, Lewis related from
the report. Campus Safety finally calmed him down and
confiscated the beer for safekeeping, which was later released to him, Lewis said. All
men involved were over 21.
"We were just dealing
with his behavior, which in-
Sec INCIDENT, page 4
ISSUE 23 • VOLUME 88
Kai's the limit
Student responds to the
cancellation of the annual
Moni Kai dance. And there
are other letters, too.
Opinions, Page 2
Losers win! (almost)
A team of underdogs rises to the
top, making them topdogs. Read
about History Jeopardy.
Campus Life, Page 8
Bach in business
From cello chamber music to
the sweet delights of the your
fellow students, the Music
Department goes for baroque.
A&E, Page 10
NoMau
Head Coach of Men's and Women's Swimming and Women's
Water Polo Maureen Travers
announces her resignation.
Sports, Page 14