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The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914 March 20,2003 QUAKER CAMPUS http://web.whittier.edu/qc As war begins, Steel advocates U.S. mission PATRICK HOLMES / ASSISTANT CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR Shawn Steel addresses reasons the United States should go to war in front of an audience in Hoover Hall on Wednesday, March 19- ■ WAR by Amy Stice and Meredith Wallis QC Editor-in-Chief and Copy Editor Shawn Steel's introduction came in the form of President Bush' s voice, broadcast through a tiny radio in the Lautrup-Ball Cinema, announcing that war had begun. Steel, the former leader of the California Republican Party, snapped off the radio and announced that "the liberation has commenced," then, as students stared ahead, absorbing what had just happened, he launched not into his position on war, but his analysis of what is happening to the Left in the United States in general and the university system in particular. While Steel opened by directing his ire against college adminis- Broken fire sprinkler floods Turner rooms ■ CRIME by Christina Gutierrez QC News Editor Turnerresidents were awakened at 3:34 a.m. on Sunday, March 16 when someone used what Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis referred to as an "unknown object" to break a fire sprinkler on the second floor male wing of the Turner Residence hall. The broken sprinkler sent an electronic signal that caused the fire alarms to sound as a "heavy stream of water" gushed from the broken head, soaking the area between rooms 228 and 242, according to Lewis. The water also soaked through the floor, reaching rooms 128-142 on the first floor. The preliminary estimate for damages to the building and electrical equipment alone is between $30,000 and $40,000. This figure does not take into account the significant property damage that the water caused. Area Coordinator Arman Davtyan assured Turner residents that they would not be charged for the damages. "You guys were the victims in this, and it's not fair to make you pay for it on top of things," he said at an all-Turner War What is it good for? Gen-er-ating letters Huh! Say it again ya'll Opinions, Page 2 Hall meeting on Tuesday, March 18. "It's not like when your guest rips down an exit sign". The Whittier Police Department (W.P.D.) and Fire Department responded to the call along with Campus Safety officers. "Everyone got to join the party," Lewis said. After the Fire Department determined that the sprinkler's activity was a result "My room sucks right now. "It's wet, cold, mildewey and smelly. I get up when the alarm goes off and put my feet down on a wet floor." Tom Logan Junior of tampering with the equipment instead of an actual fire, W.P.D. took a report. According to Lewis, the individual(s) who committed the crime are guilty of felony vandalism because the damage exceeded $10,000, along with misdemeanor tampering with fire safety equipment. Tampering with equipment of this nature is only a felony if injuries were sustained as a result. No one was injured in Sunday's course of events, Lewis said. Lewis stressed the seriousness ofthe incident: "It's one thing to set off a fire alarm," he said, "but it's quite another to cause tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage. This is not a prank. There are probably a lot of unhappy folks in Turner right now." Junior Turner resident Lizzy Craze agreed, commenting that when the sprinklers and alarms went off, "It was sprinkling, it was cold and the people outside were drunk." The water from the sprinkler also got into the electrical system of the newly replaced fire alarms, causing them to sound continually throughout the night and the next morning. Craze, like other Turner residents, was annoyed with the constant noise. "I couldn't even take a shower in Turner [on Sunday morning] because of the noise. I had to shower in the [Ruth B.] Shannon Center." Eventually, Campus Safety shut off the system and posted a "fire monitor" in the residence hall to See SPRINKLER, page 6 tration [see related story, page 7], he used this momentum to transition to a criticism ofthe peace movement. Citing several instances in which the United States has intervened in foreign countries in the name of preventing atrocities— namely, against Hitler and Mussolini—Steel said, "I want to thank the peace movement for its massive failure over the last 67 years." Citing moral atrocity after moral atrocity, Steel detailed what he believed to be the lack of moral and emotional response in America's Left: "Where is the left's heart? Where is the peace movement's heart? There is no heart or compassion in the peace movement or in the leftist community. They have become accomplices. It's laughable." To make this point, Steel pointed to the death of the Left, and feminism in particular, asking where the feminists were when the Taliban was forcing women to live as slaves and stoning them in the streets. He also wanted to know where feminists where when Clinton was "abusing women." After detailing the failures of the Left, Steel moved on to the reasons for "liberating" Iraq. Although he detailed Hussein's human rights atrocities, he remarked that human rights violations alone are not enough to go to war and that this war is primarily about disarmament. Steel also listed previous terrorist acts and the threat of future terrorism on U.S. soil as a reason for war. "If s not that we might have a problem or might get attacked, but that we've already been attacked," See WAR, page 7 ALLISON CORONA / QC PHOTOGRAPHER The root structure of the tree that fell in front of the Stauffer Science Building on Monday, March 17 as a result ofthe combination of 50 mile-per-hour winds and soil that was wet from the weekend's windstorms. The tree was one of the two larger trees destroyed as a result of the weather. See page 7 for the full story. ISSUE 21 • VOLUME 89 You talkin' to me? We've got more speakers than in your mom's car. Speaking of your mom, maybe she wants some salsa...we've got that too. Campus Life, Page 7 Rat Season Willard brings a hoard of rats while The Hunted pursues just one. But film reviews aren't the only thing to be found.... A&E, Page 10 All-Weather Athletes There was no baseball, no tennis and no barbecue on Saturday, March 15 due to rain, but those crazy track kids competed anyway. Sports, Page 16
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Title | The QC, Vol. 89, No. 21 • March 20, 2003 |
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 | March 20, 2003 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
Format-Extent | 16 pages ; 17 x 11.25 inches |
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Date-Created | 2013-11-12 |
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Title | 2003_03_20_001 |
OCR | The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914 March 20,2003 QUAKER CAMPUS http://web.whittier.edu/qc As war begins, Steel advocates U.S. mission PATRICK HOLMES / ASSISTANT CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR Shawn Steel addresses reasons the United States should go to war in front of an audience in Hoover Hall on Wednesday, March 19- ■ WAR by Amy Stice and Meredith Wallis QC Editor-in-Chief and Copy Editor Shawn Steel's introduction came in the form of President Bush' s voice, broadcast through a tiny radio in the Lautrup-Ball Cinema, announcing that war had begun. Steel, the former leader of the California Republican Party, snapped off the radio and announced that "the liberation has commenced," then, as students stared ahead, absorbing what had just happened, he launched not into his position on war, but his analysis of what is happening to the Left in the United States in general and the university system in particular. While Steel opened by directing his ire against college adminis- Broken fire sprinkler floods Turner rooms ■ CRIME by Christina Gutierrez QC News Editor Turnerresidents were awakened at 3:34 a.m. on Sunday, March 16 when someone used what Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis referred to as an "unknown object" to break a fire sprinkler on the second floor male wing of the Turner Residence hall. The broken sprinkler sent an electronic signal that caused the fire alarms to sound as a "heavy stream of water" gushed from the broken head, soaking the area between rooms 228 and 242, according to Lewis. The water also soaked through the floor, reaching rooms 128-142 on the first floor. The preliminary estimate for damages to the building and electrical equipment alone is between $30,000 and $40,000. This figure does not take into account the significant property damage that the water caused. Area Coordinator Arman Davtyan assured Turner residents that they would not be charged for the damages. "You guys were the victims in this, and it's not fair to make you pay for it on top of things," he said at an all-Turner War What is it good for? Gen-er-ating letters Huh! Say it again ya'll Opinions, Page 2 Hall meeting on Tuesday, March 18. "It's not like when your guest rips down an exit sign". The Whittier Police Department (W.P.D.) and Fire Department responded to the call along with Campus Safety officers. "Everyone got to join the party," Lewis said. After the Fire Department determined that the sprinkler's activity was a result "My room sucks right now. "It's wet, cold, mildewey and smelly. I get up when the alarm goes off and put my feet down on a wet floor." Tom Logan Junior of tampering with the equipment instead of an actual fire, W.P.D. took a report. According to Lewis, the individual(s) who committed the crime are guilty of felony vandalism because the damage exceeded $10,000, along with misdemeanor tampering with fire safety equipment. Tampering with equipment of this nature is only a felony if injuries were sustained as a result. No one was injured in Sunday's course of events, Lewis said. Lewis stressed the seriousness ofthe incident: "It's one thing to set off a fire alarm," he said, "but it's quite another to cause tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage. This is not a prank. There are probably a lot of unhappy folks in Turner right now." Junior Turner resident Lizzy Craze agreed, commenting that when the sprinklers and alarms went off, "It was sprinkling, it was cold and the people outside were drunk." The water from the sprinkler also got into the electrical system of the newly replaced fire alarms, causing them to sound continually throughout the night and the next morning. Craze, like other Turner residents, was annoyed with the constant noise. "I couldn't even take a shower in Turner [on Sunday morning] because of the noise. I had to shower in the [Ruth B.] Shannon Center." Eventually, Campus Safety shut off the system and posted a "fire monitor" in the residence hall to See SPRINKLER, page 6 tration [see related story, page 7], he used this momentum to transition to a criticism ofthe peace movement. Citing several instances in which the United States has intervened in foreign countries in the name of preventing atrocities— namely, against Hitler and Mussolini—Steel said, "I want to thank the peace movement for its massive failure over the last 67 years." Citing moral atrocity after moral atrocity, Steel detailed what he believed to be the lack of moral and emotional response in America's Left: "Where is the left's heart? Where is the peace movement's heart? There is no heart or compassion in the peace movement or in the leftist community. They have become accomplices. It's laughable." To make this point, Steel pointed to the death of the Left, and feminism in particular, asking where the feminists were when the Taliban was forcing women to live as slaves and stoning them in the streets. He also wanted to know where feminists where when Clinton was "abusing women." After detailing the failures of the Left, Steel moved on to the reasons for "liberating" Iraq. Although he detailed Hussein's human rights atrocities, he remarked that human rights violations alone are not enough to go to war and that this war is primarily about disarmament. Steel also listed previous terrorist acts and the threat of future terrorism on U.S. soil as a reason for war. "If s not that we might have a problem or might get attacked, but that we've already been attacked," See WAR, page 7 ALLISON CORONA / QC PHOTOGRAPHER The root structure of the tree that fell in front of the Stauffer Science Building on Monday, March 17 as a result ofthe combination of 50 mile-per-hour winds and soil that was wet from the weekend's windstorms. The tree was one of the two larger trees destroyed as a result of the weather. See page 7 for the full story. ISSUE 21 • VOLUME 89 You talkin' to me? We've got more speakers than in your mom's car. Speaking of your mom, maybe she wants some salsa...we've got that too. Campus Life, Page 7 Rat Season Willard brings a hoard of rats while The Hunted pursues just one. But film reviews aren't the only thing to be found.... A&E, Page 10 All-Weather Athletes There was no baseball, no tennis and no barbecue on Saturday, March 15 due to rain, but those crazy track kids competed anyway. Sports, Page 16 |
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