The QC, Vol. 87, No. 10 • November 9, 2000

              ■ 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.
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Is The End Night
Three world-class experts on
nuclear politics are brought to
campus by the Economics Club.
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■ 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.
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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
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