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The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914 September 26,2002 Campus http://web.whittier.edu/qc Two students hospitalized ■ ALCOHOL by Patrick Holmes QC Associate News Editor Two unrelated incidents sent two Whittier College students to Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital because of alcohol poisoning this past week. An 18-year- old female was found showing signs of alcohol poisoning in Stauffer Residence Hall on Saturday, Sept. 21, and a 19-year-old female was found by restaurant patrons, passed out on the floor of The El Patio restaurant on Thursday, Sept. 19. "We're only three weeks into the semester and we have already had two hospitalizations—that is what is alarming about this," Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis said. According to the Campus Safety report, the first incident occurred in Stauffer at 2:20 a.m. The student in question had come back from the Franklin house after having "four Hawaiian punch drinks with tequila," Lewis said. She claimed to be "a very heavy drinker," and was worried that she had been drugged, the report said. Paramedics were called, but initial results show no signs of her being drugged. The student missed her appointment to find out the results of tests that were run, so there was no final word on whether or not she was drugged. See ALCOHOL, page 7 Ortiz retirement luncheon held ■ TRIBUTE by Martin Voss QC Associate News Editor Sixteen years ago, Rose Hernandez found herself in the unemployment office. Not long after she stepped foot in the building, she was approached by a man, who asked her if she was bilingual. She replied "yes," and before she knew it, she landed a position at Whittier College working for Martin Ortiz. Sixteen years later, Hernandez said to Ortiz, "Thank you for 16 years of working with a man...Who is not only a boss, but a friend, a confidant, who will stand by you regardless of color, creed, anything. And he will help you no matter what." She finished by adding, "I'll miss him, but I know I have a friend for life." On Friday, Sept. 20, Hernandez and about 75 guests gathered in the Mendenhall lobby to pay their respects to Martin Ortiz ('48), retiring director of Center of Mexican- See RETIREMENT, page 7 Election results COR by Lindsay Brengle QC Assistant News Editor Although only 18 percent of the Whittier population voted in the Thursday, Sept. 19andFriday,Sept. 20 elections, three new additions to COR were chosen. Junior Tpdd Spanier was elected vice president, senior Yohanes Fadillah was elect ed the new Member-At-Large, and senior Bryan Sterling became the Off-Campus Representative. Though former junior secretary Vivian Bodey had been serving as interim vice president since senior Carrie Stone's resignation last spring, COR decided to hold an open election. Spanier, who had been recommended and rejected for the position twice by senior president Jess Craven, ran unopposed. "T m glad that some of the mem- See ELECTION, page 7 HELENA NGO / QC PHOTO EDITOR Concerned parents wait outside the Whittier High gym for students to be released from lockdown. Alleged male gunman threatens Whittier High ■ LOCKDOWN by Christina Gutierrez QC News Editor Around 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, a female student of Whittier High School reported being accosted by an adult Hispanic male in the women's restroom of the high school's science building, according to Community Relations and Crime Prevention Officer Alan Dela Pena ofthe Whittier Police Department (W.P.D.). The gunman allegedly threatened the student with his weapon and made unspecified demands, stating that he would shoot the next person to enter the restroom if these demands were not met. Although no one was injured, W.P.D. is conducting a full-scale investigation. The student was able to get away from the intruder by unspecified means, and contacted the Campus Resource Officer, who in mm called the W.P.D. Once the officers were on scene, they placed the entire school on lockdown, which, according to Dela Pena, involved teachers keeping students inside classrooms with the doors locked and the windows closed. The rationale for not evacuating the students as soon as the alleged intruder was reported is "because if we don't have the suspect contained, we don't know if he's acquired a sniper's position," Dela Pena said. Once the students were secure in lockdown, W.P.D. conducted a three-hour-long campus-wide search for the gunman, with police helicopters from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs department to aid in the rooftop portion ofthe search. Since the suspect was not located and there were no eyewitnesses to the alleged confrontation, there has been some conjecture as to the actual existence ofthe gunman, according to Dela Pena. "Although there is a question as to whether this was a legitimate crime, we are not saying that it was the victim pulling a prank," he said.Tt could have been that the "gunman" was actually a student playing a practical joke." Legitimate crime or not, Whittier High teacher Wayne Walker, who was teaching a freshman geography class in the physical education building at the time the lock- down was ordered, describes the ordeal as "bizarre." "I was just letting the freshmen out of the room right before the end of third period when I heard the P.E. coach yelling, 'get back in the classroom, get back in the classroom!'" Walker said. After he gathered the students back into the classroom, he locked the doors, and waited for a phone call from the office to alert him to the situation at hand. "We never got a phone call, and we never knew what was going See HIGH SCHOOL, page 7 News You Can Use Campus Saftey has launched a new phone number, ext. 4911 to be used in case of emergencies. Ext. 4211 can still be used for non-emergencies. New QC Web site is available at http://web.whittier.edu/qc. CORRECTION: The numbers reported in last week's QC were incorrect. 0.12 percent of Whittier's population and 0.2 percent of the Los Angeles population are registered sex offenders. ISSUE 4 • VOLUME 89 Long distance call Our editor abroad checks in from swingin' London. Oh, Behave! Opinions, Page 2 Blast from the past! We dug deep in the archives to bring back old columns from the '80s and '90s...it's rad! Campus Life, Page 8 Internet investigation Be the first kid on your block to see the first Web site review in the history of the QC. A&E, Page 10 Splish, splash Late in the hiring season, Alec Raley was hired to coach men's and women's swimming. Sports, Page 14
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Title | The QC, Vol. 89, No. 04 • September 26, 2002 |
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 | September 26, 2002 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
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Repository | Wardman Library, Whittier College |
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Date-Created | 2013-11-11 |
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Title | 2002_09_26_001 |
OCR | The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914 September 26,2002 Campus http://web.whittier.edu/qc Two students hospitalized ■ ALCOHOL by Patrick Holmes QC Associate News Editor Two unrelated incidents sent two Whittier College students to Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital because of alcohol poisoning this past week. An 18-year- old female was found showing signs of alcohol poisoning in Stauffer Residence Hall on Saturday, Sept. 21, and a 19-year-old female was found by restaurant patrons, passed out on the floor of The El Patio restaurant on Thursday, Sept. 19. "We're only three weeks into the semester and we have already had two hospitalizations—that is what is alarming about this," Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis said. According to the Campus Safety report, the first incident occurred in Stauffer at 2:20 a.m. The student in question had come back from the Franklin house after having "four Hawaiian punch drinks with tequila," Lewis said. She claimed to be "a very heavy drinker," and was worried that she had been drugged, the report said. Paramedics were called, but initial results show no signs of her being drugged. The student missed her appointment to find out the results of tests that were run, so there was no final word on whether or not she was drugged. See ALCOHOL, page 7 Ortiz retirement luncheon held ■ TRIBUTE by Martin Voss QC Associate News Editor Sixteen years ago, Rose Hernandez found herself in the unemployment office. Not long after she stepped foot in the building, she was approached by a man, who asked her if she was bilingual. She replied "yes," and before she knew it, she landed a position at Whittier College working for Martin Ortiz. Sixteen years later, Hernandez said to Ortiz, "Thank you for 16 years of working with a man...Who is not only a boss, but a friend, a confidant, who will stand by you regardless of color, creed, anything. And he will help you no matter what." She finished by adding, "I'll miss him, but I know I have a friend for life." On Friday, Sept. 20, Hernandez and about 75 guests gathered in the Mendenhall lobby to pay their respects to Martin Ortiz ('48), retiring director of Center of Mexican- See RETIREMENT, page 7 Election results COR by Lindsay Brengle QC Assistant News Editor Although only 18 percent of the Whittier population voted in the Thursday, Sept. 19andFriday,Sept. 20 elections, three new additions to COR were chosen. Junior Tpdd Spanier was elected vice president, senior Yohanes Fadillah was elect ed the new Member-At-Large, and senior Bryan Sterling became the Off-Campus Representative. Though former junior secretary Vivian Bodey had been serving as interim vice president since senior Carrie Stone's resignation last spring, COR decided to hold an open election. Spanier, who had been recommended and rejected for the position twice by senior president Jess Craven, ran unopposed. "T m glad that some of the mem- See ELECTION, page 7 HELENA NGO / QC PHOTO EDITOR Concerned parents wait outside the Whittier High gym for students to be released from lockdown. Alleged male gunman threatens Whittier High ■ LOCKDOWN by Christina Gutierrez QC News Editor Around 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, a female student of Whittier High School reported being accosted by an adult Hispanic male in the women's restroom of the high school's science building, according to Community Relations and Crime Prevention Officer Alan Dela Pena ofthe Whittier Police Department (W.P.D.). The gunman allegedly threatened the student with his weapon and made unspecified demands, stating that he would shoot the next person to enter the restroom if these demands were not met. Although no one was injured, W.P.D. is conducting a full-scale investigation. The student was able to get away from the intruder by unspecified means, and contacted the Campus Resource Officer, who in mm called the W.P.D. Once the officers were on scene, they placed the entire school on lockdown, which, according to Dela Pena, involved teachers keeping students inside classrooms with the doors locked and the windows closed. The rationale for not evacuating the students as soon as the alleged intruder was reported is "because if we don't have the suspect contained, we don't know if he's acquired a sniper's position," Dela Pena said. Once the students were secure in lockdown, W.P.D. conducted a three-hour-long campus-wide search for the gunman, with police helicopters from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs department to aid in the rooftop portion ofthe search. Since the suspect was not located and there were no eyewitnesses to the alleged confrontation, there has been some conjecture as to the actual existence ofthe gunman, according to Dela Pena. "Although there is a question as to whether this was a legitimate crime, we are not saying that it was the victim pulling a prank," he said.Tt could have been that the "gunman" was actually a student playing a practical joke." Legitimate crime or not, Whittier High teacher Wayne Walker, who was teaching a freshman geography class in the physical education building at the time the lock- down was ordered, describes the ordeal as "bizarre." "I was just letting the freshmen out of the room right before the end of third period when I heard the P.E. coach yelling, 'get back in the classroom, get back in the classroom!'" Walker said. After he gathered the students back into the classroom, he locked the doors, and waited for a phone call from the office to alert him to the situation at hand. "We never got a phone call, and we never knew what was going See HIGH SCHOOL, page 7 News You Can Use Campus Saftey has launched a new phone number, ext. 4911 to be used in case of emergencies. Ext. 4211 can still be used for non-emergencies. New QC Web site is available at http://web.whittier.edu/qc. CORRECTION: The numbers reported in last week's QC were incorrect. 0.12 percent of Whittier's population and 0.2 percent of the Los Angeles population are registered sex offenders. ISSUE 4 • VOLUME 89 Long distance call Our editor abroad checks in from swingin' London. Oh, Behave! Opinions, Page 2 Blast from the past! We dug deep in the archives to bring back old columns from the '80s and '90s...it's rad! Campus Life, Page 8 Internet investigation Be the first kid on your block to see the first Web site review in the history of the QC. A&E, Page 10 Splish, splash Late in the hiring season, Alec Raley was hired to coach men's and women's swimming. Sports, Page 14 |
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