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■ Resolving the Iraq Dilemma SPARCS issues a resolution urging action against the US-led sanctions on Iraq. ■ Whittier in Havana Students share memories and pictures of a month spent in Cuba. ■ Airing Dirty Laundry of Community Theatre We review Private Lives, a play we wish had stayed away from the public eye. ■ Women's Basketball After having a chance at their first N.C.A.A. playoff berth in many years, the women's basketball team lost to C.M.S. in overtime. WHITTIER ♦ COLLEGE February 22,2001 Jofm QTtenUaf fefe,, "Wfuttia JdJ Quaker Campus The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 X**.,*——*. litt)i://www.whitUer.eilu/qc SCIAC Finals Defeat Library Purchases "eBooks" Booh Accessible Through Whittier College Website ■ LIBRARY by Amy Stice QC News Editor First-year guard Bah Katenay attempts a shot over a defender in overtime against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the SCIAC Championship game on Wednesday, Feb. 21. The Poets lost 69-61. This is the farthest the women's basketball team has gone in the history of fhe program. See page 16 for the story. The Wardman Library recently consorted with 60 other colleges and universities in California to purchase the use of 1,800 online "eBooks" through a collection called netLibrary. The books can be accessed through the server WALDO on the Library link of the Whittier College website and are free of cost to Whittier College students, according to Librarian Phil O'Brien. The books are noted with "EB" (for "Electronic Book") on the WALDO link, and students can search for the electronic books by title or by word in all of the volumes. After registering as a student online, the user can link to the full-text book of their choice and view it for 15 minutes, at which point the student can choose to "check out" the book for 24 hours via e-mail. When this check-out period has expired, the book will automatically be "ce: turned" and deleted from the user's com puter. The book can be repeatedly checked out after its automatic return. However, like a "real" library book, only one student can have access to the book at a time. Wardman Library chose to enter the consortium of colleges purchasing this service because of the extensive cost—approximately $80,000. Because of this program, the College is paying less than $3,000 for the books. Because the consortium has purchased the minimum number of books, it now has the option to buy additional individual titles. These can be purchased by the consortium as a whole or by singular libraries. O'Brien estimates that the books cost about $50—a price "very comparable to what you'd pay for a new book on the shelf." O'Brien and the Library will wait until they have more "experience and feedback" before purchasing additional texts. Although sophomore Gabe Currie is enthusiastic about the benefits of online books, he thinks that "if [they] replace [physical] books, it would take away the joy of reading." "You can't j ust take a computer outside and sit under a tree and read," Currie said. COR Preparing to Launch Website TheDailyPoet.com to be Unveiled Thursday, March 1 M COR WEBSITE by Raluca Zelinschi QC Asst. News Editor The Council of Representatives (COR) will officially launch a website designed to increase communication between COR and the student body on Thursday, March 1, according to junior COR President Jeff Cleveland. TheDailyPoet.com will be unveiled to the Campus Inn (C.I.) at lunch that day via enlarged projection onto the movie screen, and COR representatives will be present to answer student questions, according to junior External Affairs Commissioner Brett Sickmiller. The website contains the Constitution of COR, the Funding Policy, the pictures and biographies of COR members and a weekly message from Cleveland. A suggestion box, chat room and e-mail are also included, thus "giv ing people more options to talk to COR," Cleveland said. COR has additionally opened an Instant Messenger account, ASWC2K1, so that their constituents can communicate with their representatives. According to the designer of the website, junior Philippe Hug, who is also the webmaster of the Whittier College Radio site, the website "is an all-inclusive site that's very easy to use. We really tried to make sure students have access to a lot of different things, not just COR information." The website contains sports scores scrolled across the top of the screen, Quaker Campus (QC) news stories, local weather, dates to remember and the Campus Activities calendar. Links to Whittier College Radio, the Office of Student Activities and the Whittier College website are also included. The idea of building a website was first presented at the beginning of the school year dur ing the former COR administration, but the current administration started to work on the website in January. Cleveland and Sickmiller sketched the layout ofthe web page and hired Hug to design the website. According to Cleveland, Hug is being paid out of COR funds. Cleveland did not confirm the amount of payment at press time. According to Sickmiller, the website was put on in order "to keep students better informed of what COR is doing and also to have another way for them to voice their concern and suggestions." He hopes that in the future club pages will be added. "The website will be updated on a regular basis [and] students will be able to sign up for e-mail updates," Hug said. An incomplete version ofthe site is currently available at www.thedailypoet.com/pre- launch. The site will eventually move permanently to www.thedailypoet.com. Jebejian Reappointed Freshman Class President Resumes Office ■ COR by Eric Dzinski QC Opinions Editor On Monday, Feb. 19 the Council of Representatives (COR) approved the re-appointment of first-year student Nick Jebejian as Freshman Class President. He was re-appointed to the position by senior COR President Jeff Cleveland. Jebejian was elected to the position last fall but was removed in January because his grade point average (G.P.A.) fell below 2.2, the required minimum for members of COR. Jebejian was reinstated at Monday's COR meeting. Thg meeting was closed for the appointment. Jebejian took office immediately following the meeting. "I just overloaded myself first semester," said Jebejian. With the grade from his January Interim class, Jebejian's G.P.A. now meets the standard. According to Jebejian, his G.P.A. is now "above 2.2." Jebejian described his hiatus as See JEBEJIAN, page 6 Nick Jebejian. ISSUE 17 • VOLUME 87
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Title | The QC, Vol. 87, No. 17 • February 22, 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 | February 22, 2001 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
Type | image |
Format of digital version | jpeg |
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 | 2013-10-24 |
Image publisher | Whittier, Calif. : Wardman Library (Whittier College), 2013. |
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Title | 2001_02_22_p001 |
OCR | ■ Resolving the Iraq Dilemma SPARCS issues a resolution urging action against the US-led sanctions on Iraq. ■ Whittier in Havana Students share memories and pictures of a month spent in Cuba. ■ Airing Dirty Laundry of Community Theatre We review Private Lives, a play we wish had stayed away from the public eye. ■ Women's Basketball After having a chance at their first N.C.A.A. playoff berth in many years, the women's basketball team lost to C.M.S. in overtime. WHITTIER ♦ COLLEGE February 22,2001 Jofm QTtenUaf fefe,, "Wfuttia JdJ Quaker Campus The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 X**.,*——*. litt)i://www.whitUer.eilu/qc SCIAC Finals Defeat Library Purchases "eBooks" Booh Accessible Through Whittier College Website ■ LIBRARY by Amy Stice QC News Editor First-year guard Bah Katenay attempts a shot over a defender in overtime against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the SCIAC Championship game on Wednesday, Feb. 21. The Poets lost 69-61. This is the farthest the women's basketball team has gone in the history of fhe program. See page 16 for the story. The Wardman Library recently consorted with 60 other colleges and universities in California to purchase the use of 1,800 online "eBooks" through a collection called netLibrary. The books can be accessed through the server WALDO on the Library link of the Whittier College website and are free of cost to Whittier College students, according to Librarian Phil O'Brien. The books are noted with "EB" (for "Electronic Book") on the WALDO link, and students can search for the electronic books by title or by word in all of the volumes. After registering as a student online, the user can link to the full-text book of their choice and view it for 15 minutes, at which point the student can choose to "check out" the book for 24 hours via e-mail. When this check-out period has expired, the book will automatically be "ce: turned" and deleted from the user's com puter. The book can be repeatedly checked out after its automatic return. However, like a "real" library book, only one student can have access to the book at a time. Wardman Library chose to enter the consortium of colleges purchasing this service because of the extensive cost—approximately $80,000. Because of this program, the College is paying less than $3,000 for the books. Because the consortium has purchased the minimum number of books, it now has the option to buy additional individual titles. These can be purchased by the consortium as a whole or by singular libraries. O'Brien estimates that the books cost about $50—a price "very comparable to what you'd pay for a new book on the shelf." O'Brien and the Library will wait until they have more "experience and feedback" before purchasing additional texts. Although sophomore Gabe Currie is enthusiastic about the benefits of online books, he thinks that "if [they] replace [physical] books, it would take away the joy of reading." "You can't j ust take a computer outside and sit under a tree and read," Currie said. COR Preparing to Launch Website TheDailyPoet.com to be Unveiled Thursday, March 1 M COR WEBSITE by Raluca Zelinschi QC Asst. News Editor The Council of Representatives (COR) will officially launch a website designed to increase communication between COR and the student body on Thursday, March 1, according to junior COR President Jeff Cleveland. TheDailyPoet.com will be unveiled to the Campus Inn (C.I.) at lunch that day via enlarged projection onto the movie screen, and COR representatives will be present to answer student questions, according to junior External Affairs Commissioner Brett Sickmiller. The website contains the Constitution of COR, the Funding Policy, the pictures and biographies of COR members and a weekly message from Cleveland. A suggestion box, chat room and e-mail are also included, thus "giv ing people more options to talk to COR," Cleveland said. COR has additionally opened an Instant Messenger account, ASWC2K1, so that their constituents can communicate with their representatives. According to the designer of the website, junior Philippe Hug, who is also the webmaster of the Whittier College Radio site, the website "is an all-inclusive site that's very easy to use. We really tried to make sure students have access to a lot of different things, not just COR information." The website contains sports scores scrolled across the top of the screen, Quaker Campus (QC) news stories, local weather, dates to remember and the Campus Activities calendar. Links to Whittier College Radio, the Office of Student Activities and the Whittier College website are also included. The idea of building a website was first presented at the beginning of the school year dur ing the former COR administration, but the current administration started to work on the website in January. Cleveland and Sickmiller sketched the layout ofthe web page and hired Hug to design the website. According to Cleveland, Hug is being paid out of COR funds. Cleveland did not confirm the amount of payment at press time. According to Sickmiller, the website was put on in order "to keep students better informed of what COR is doing and also to have another way for them to voice their concern and suggestions." He hopes that in the future club pages will be added. "The website will be updated on a regular basis [and] students will be able to sign up for e-mail updates," Hug said. An incomplete version ofthe site is currently available at www.thedailypoet.com/pre- launch. The site will eventually move permanently to www.thedailypoet.com. Jebejian Reappointed Freshman Class President Resumes Office ■ COR by Eric Dzinski QC Opinions Editor On Monday, Feb. 19 the Council of Representatives (COR) approved the re-appointment of first-year student Nick Jebejian as Freshman Class President. He was re-appointed to the position by senior COR President Jeff Cleveland. Jebejian was elected to the position last fall but was removed in January because his grade point average (G.P.A.) fell below 2.2, the required minimum for members of COR. Jebejian was reinstated at Monday's COR meeting. Thg meeting was closed for the appointment. Jebejian took office immediately following the meeting. "I just overloaded myself first semester," said Jebejian. With the grade from his January Interim class, Jebejian's G.P.A. now meets the standard. According to Jebejian, his G.P.A. is now "above 2.2." Jebejian described his hiatus as See JEBEJIAN, page 6 Nick Jebejian. ISSUE 17 • VOLUME 87 |
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