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■ Election Musings While the vote-counters in Florida frantically tally the votes, members of the Whittier polis blab on about their views of the elections. A, . ,; jf Is The End Night Three world-class experts on nuclear politics are brought to campus by the Economics Club. '-:■ ■ A&E Fears Not The Son Off Satan Adam Sandler's latest flick, Little Nicky, deals with such issues as Contemporary Religion and Ethics. No really, it does. ■ Football Tastes Bitter Defeat Football suffered a 40-34 loss to the University of La Verne on Saturday, Nov. 4. WHITTIER ♦ COLLEGE November 9,2000 ^—^ -| ^»—<h iNovemner y, zuuu Quaker Campus The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 Awn*—-«- htty://www.inriffltiei>.etlu/tic QC to Publish Through Semester Due to Relief Funds ■ COR by Amy Stice QC News Editor The Quaker Campus (QC) has resumed production this week due to an influx of funds from sources including $2,500 from the Publications Board emergency fund and $2,000 procured by Director of Student Activities Janetta Dismuke and Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Cultural Center Tracy Poon Tambascia. The QC was also allocated $8,653 of its requested budget from Publications Board, as well as $707.84—the amount given to each of the three major campus publications after budgets had been finalized. The funding is adequate to fund the printing of the paper through the end of the semester, but as a concession for the acquisition of the emergency funding, junior QC Editor-in-Chief Erin Clark guaranteed that the newspaper will print the next six issues, including the two during January Interim, despite the fact that the amount allotted will not cover both printing and labor costs. The newspaper will be responsible for fundraising the additional $3,500 needed to continue publishing with a paid staff. Publications Board agreed to allow the QC to continue to At one point, over 90 students, faculty and administration crowded the Publications Board meeting on Friday, Nov. 3. COR Adds Executive Council Position ■ COR by Amy Stice QC News Editor The Council of Representatives (COR) emerged fromits four- hour meeting on Monday, Nov. 6 with an approved addition to the Executive Council—an External Affairs Commissioner. The amendment also revised the duties of Vice President. The objective of the amendment was to divide the responsibilities of the current Vice President between two officers. After two similar motions for votes—one slightly rephrased in order to bypass the violation of repetition of the same motion specified by Robert's Rules of Order—COR decided that the Commissioner will be elected by the student body and will serve in the Executive Council along with the elected President, Vice President and Secretary and the presidentially-appointed Treasurer. Senior Program Board Chair Joe Cross expressed fear during the meeting that students without experience on COR may see the new position as an additional opportunity to enter the Executive Council without proper qualifications via a general election of the student body. The COR Constitution does not mandate experience when running for an elected position in the Executive Cabinet. Cross proposed that the position be initially appointed and then in a few years, turned over to be elected by the student body. This proposal was protested by junior At-Large member Morgan Galli, who objected that two appointed positions on the Executive Council would be too many and that the description of the Commissioner's duties could be compared to the job of an At- Large member. "It can be like, 'Super At- Large,'" Cross laughed. Senior COR President Jonathan Collard, who proposed the amendment on Monday, Oct. 23, cited the student government of San Diego State University (S.D.S.U.) to justify his reasoning for appointment. S.D.S.U. presi- dentially appoints six vice presidents and elects one. COR voted 11 to four—exactly the three-fourths needed— to approve the election of the Commissioner by the student body. The initial Constitutional amendment also required that the Vice President would run as a ticket with the presidential candidate. This failed to pass after a long debate in which COR members cited personal experiences with elections and service on the body. Cross referenced the 1998 election, in which there was only one presidential candidate and three vice presidential candidates, including himself. "What if I want to run for vice president and can't find a running mate?" he asked. Collard defended his position supporting the ticket system by acknowledging differences with Galli. "Idon'tthinkCORwouldhave been as effective as it was this year if [Galli] and I would have had to work together [as President and Vice President]," he said. Galli, in favor of the Vice President running separately from the President, defended her position. "In situations like that, when per- See COMMISSIONER, page 4 pay its staff contingent upon a successful fundraising effort. The Publications Board met on Friday, Nov. 3 in the Student Union to finalize budgeting for campus publications for the fall semester and to vote on the allocation of half of the emergency fund to the QC. More than 95 students and faculty members attended the meeting, but that number was halved when senior Publications Board Chair Shauna Rogers announced that the meeting was not a forum and that the onlookers were not encouraged to speak on behalf of or in opposition to the proposals. Prior to any discussion within the Publications Board, however, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Muller spoke in regard to Dis- muke's statements at an earlier Publications Board meeting that a decrease in student body fees contributed to the deficit in funding to publications this semester. Arguing that there is actually more student body money this semester, he stated that the situation required some "belt-tightening from all of us." "From the administration's standpoint, it is not an option to lose any of these [publications]," Muller said before leaving the meeting. "We are committed to keeping these things going." Muller further stated that it was a possiblity that the administration would "kick in" extra funding to Publications Board if the members could not resolve the issue of one or more publications shutting down prematurely. ThePublicationsBoardquick- ly voted on the allocation of the previously agreed-upon budgets for the campus publications, but debate ensued when senior Publications Board COR Representative Jonathan Collard argued that the QC should be allocated the emergency fund and reject the money obtained by Dismuke and Poon Tambascia because it did not come out of student body fees and was "probably slated for another use." He was the only abstention from the otherwise unanimous vote to give the QC half of See PUBLICATIONS, page 4 Registration Gridlock Registration temporarily halted on Wednesday, Nov. 8 when the Banner registration system shut down, causing a crowd of students trying to enroll in classes to conglomerate in Mendenhall. Sophomore Marisa Evans, who was next in line to register when the system ceased, could only explain that "it just froze." According to Registrar Wayne Van Ellis, the network was only out of com 20 minutes and the "worst-case nario" was that a student might have waited tor . . . . ... : - ISSUE 10 • VOLUME 87
Object Description
Title | The QC, Vol. 87, No. 10 • November 9, 2000 |
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 | November 9, 2000 |
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 | 2013-11-06 |
Image publisher | Whittier, Calif. : Wardman Library (Whittier College), 2013. |
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Title | 2000_11_09_001 |
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■ Election Musings
While the vote-counters in
Florida frantically tally the votes,
members of the Whittier polis
blab on about their views of the
elections.
A, . ,; jf
Is The End Night
Three world-class experts on
nuclear politics are brought to
campus by the Economics Club.
'-:■
■ A&E Fears Not The
Son Off Satan
Adam Sandler's latest flick, Little
Nicky, deals with such issues as
Contemporary Religion and
Ethics. No really, it does.
■ Football Tastes
Bitter Defeat
Football suffered a 40-34 loss to
the University of La Verne on
Saturday, Nov. 4.
WHITTIER ♦ COLLEGE
November 9,2000
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