The QC, Vol. 87, No. 07 • October 19, 2000

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■ To Vote or Not to
Vote?
Student columnists debate the
impact of a lone vote on the
future of our nation.
■ Activism
Does ten kilometers sound like
way too far to walk for you? A
group of Whittier College students thought otherwise while
participating in the AIDS Walk.
■ Laughing at the 23rd
Floor
Jack De Vries directs Laughter on
the 23rd Floor this week in the
Shannon Center.
■ Poet Football Wins!
After an unlucky 13-game losing
streak, football breaks through
with a win over CMS.
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Erotic City Closes Early Amidst Fighting and Crowds
■ EROTIC CITY
by Amy Stice
QC News Editor
The Lancer Society's annual
Erotic City dance ended more than
an hour early on Saturday, Oct. 14
due to "overcrowding and escalating verbal fights," according to
Assistant Chief of Campus Safety
John Lewis.
When authorities working at
The Club estimated that the room
had reached its maximum capacity of 311, a Campus Safety officer was posted at the internal door
to regulate how many people entered from The Spot. However,
these measures were not enough
to prevent overcrowding throughout fhe area.
Additionally, afightbroke out
outside the entrance to The Spot.
According to junior Lancer Aaron
Ellis, students in the line outside
had "tried to initiate fights with
[the Lancers] and Campus Safe-
The five Campus Safety officers on duty at the dance herded
partiers off the dance floor and
into the parking lot, where students chanted in protest. The
Whittier Police Department was
called in to assist in evacuating
the parking lot.
"We requested Whittier P.D.
to help move the crowd, because
the crowd was congregating,"
Lewis said.
Sophomore Cora Poage was
one of many who was waiting
outside The Spot for admission
into the dance when the party was
broken up. She estimates that she
waited for half an hour.
"I felt [Campus Safety] could
have done a better job explaining
to us why we didn't get let in,"
Poage said.
Although they acknowledge
that the overcrowding of The Club
will have to be taken into consideration while planning future Erotic City dances, the Lancers at this
point are not considering moving
the dance off-campus. The society's annual Mona Kai dance is
held off-campus every year.
"We like having Erotic City
on campus, and we would rather
keep it there," Ellis said.
In the future, the Lancers may
have to "limit the guest list by
having [the guests] sign up prior
to the event. In order to prevent
overcrowding we should limit the
guests first," Ellis said.
Director of Student Activities
Janetta Dismuke feels that it would
be possible for many of the same
problems, such as fighting, to occur off-campus.
"Some things would have to
be discussed, and we'd have to
pre-plan ahead of time," she said.
Ellis feels that actions taken
by the administration present were
unnecessary. "It is anew administration—I think that they were
kind of overreacting because they
weren't expecting a turnout that
big," he said. Calling the administration of the dance "ill-prepared,"
he added that "in years previous,
the doors have never been shut,
even with this size of a crowd."
Additional reporting by Rose
Ochoa, QC Asst. News Editor.
Two Erotic City partiers talk to Campus Safety officers in the C.I. parking lot after the dance
was prematurely ended.
COR Allocates Semester's Funds to Clubs and Organizations
Three-Hour Meeting Results in $26,290 Distributed; Eight Groups Denied Funding
■ COR
by Amy Stice
QC News Editor
The Council of Representatives (COR) allocated 45% of the
money requested by clubs and
organizations on Monday, Oct.,
16 during their block funding process. The general body of COR
agreed to distribute $26,290 to 31
groups. Eight groups were denied
funding [see table, page 5].
Senior COR President
Jonathan Collard can veto any of
the allocation decisions until
Thursday, Oct. 19. At the time of
press, he had taken no action.
According to senior COR
Treasurer Jaison Battle, COR had
$74,000 in its account at the beginning of October. After deductions to fund events which have
already taken place this semester
and after setting aside money for
use during January, when COR
does not convene, $38,031 was
available to allocate during block
funding. A total of $62,536 was
requested by campus clubs and
organizations. Clubs which were
denied funding were typically requesting money for events that
COR does not fund, or that were
not yet scheduled on the school's
Master Calendar.
These clubs may later request
money from COR, although COR
had hoped to allocate the majority
of the available funds during block
funding. Sixty-eight percent of
COR's available funds were allocated. Clubs requesting money.lat-
er in the semester submit a request
to COR and go through a process
similar to block funding.
Battle points out that most of
the clubs that did not receive funding did not attend either of the two
informational sessions organized
by COR for club officers to explain the allocation process. He
estimates that fewer than 25 students attended the sessions and
that some of the representatives
may have been from the same
club. Club presidents and treasurers received notice of these meetings in their campus mailboxes.
Organizations requesting
money submitted the necessary
forms on or before Friday, Oct.
13. The COR Budget Committee—which is chaired by Battle
and made up of COR At-Large
members junior Jaason Roschke
and sophomore Armilla Staley and
two non-COR members, seniors
Diana Quesada and Desiree Garcia—met the next day to discuss
recommendations to make to
COR's legislative body. These
recommendations are based on the
COR budgetary policy, although
exceptions were discussed at the
Oct. 16 meeting.
The Model United Nations
Club received $4,440—the most
of any organization, although the
club had requested almost $ 17,000
to host the Model United Nations
conference in San Francisco later
this year. The Sociology Club received only three percent of its
requested funds—six dollars.
Although COR does not fund
itself via the process of block funding, it set its yearly budget at
$6,900—approximately $2,500
more than any organization on
campus was allocated. This figure
is in accordance with an internal
budgetary policy approved this
semester.
The remainder of the COR
funds will be allocated to clubs
and organizations who go through
the proper request channels on a
first-come, first-serve basis.
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Mid-Semester
Break Meal Hours
C.l.
Friday, Oct. 20
No breakfast
10:30 a.m. to 1 p,m.
4:30 to 6 p.m.
The Spot
Friday, Oct. 20
7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and
6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 21
6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 22
6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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