The QC, Vol. 87, No. 17 • February 22, 2001

              ■ 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.
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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.
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