The QC, Vol. 90, No. 10 • November 6, 2003

              The   Voice   of   Whittier   College   Since    1914
QUAKER CAMPUS
WOMEN'S SOCCER WINS SCIAC
The Poets finish first in their division with a 2-1 win over
Pomona-Pitzer in double-overtime ■ Sports, Page 16
Thursday,   November   6,   2003
Issue   lO   -  Volume   90
CONCERT REVIEWS
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Erotic City: Plates,
people get smashed
Alumnus transported to hospital after
reportedly having 20 shots of tequila
Brycie Jones and Patrick Holmes
QC News Co-Editors
Fivealcohol-related incidents,
including one hospitalization, occurred on Saturday, Nov. 1, the
night of Erotic City.
At 9:41 p.m. a male was transported to the hospital from the
front porch of Turner Residence
Hall due to severe alcohol intoxication. The male stayed overnight and was released at approximately 6 a.m. on Sunday, Nov.
2. The male is an alumnus of
Whittier, but according to Assistant Chief of Campus Safety John
Lewis, he is "very involved in the
social life on campus."
The male had consumed 20
shots of tequila while pre-party-
ing for Erotic City, an amount of
alcohol that Lewis said could have
been lethal.
The Los Angeles County Fire
Department, who transported the
male to the hospital, gave the College its second citation this year for
vehicles blocking the Turner Residence Hall. Two of the vehicles
were unregistered and had to be
towed; the other vehicle was registered with Campus Safety so
the owner was able to be contacted and move the vehicle. "So if
you want to get your car towed,
park it up at Turner [Residence
Hall] and jeopardize everyone's
lives up there because it is convenient for you," Lewis said.
Two students were also evaluated by paramedics at The Spot
during Erotic City; both were determined not to require hospital
care. According to Lewis, during
one of these instances, a female
student was interfering with the
treatment of the intoxicated student and had to be escorted out of
Erotic City and handcuffed. Two
other students who were handcuffed at the entrance to The Club
were anxious to get in and fight,
according to Lewis.
"There was definitely an in-
SeeEROTIC CITY, page 7
Vandals cause over $1,200 in damage
to Garden Dining Room, Bon Appetite
Patrick Holmes
QC News Co-Editor
Damage caused to the Campus
Inn's Garden Dining Room by vandals on the night of Saturday, Nov.
1, is estimated to be in the amount
of $1,220.89.
"They took our china and threw
it out the window," Bon Appetit
Operations Manager Rich Cowan
said. "We found our plates outside
on the patio." Cowan said that they
suspect the vandal got access to the
building through the back kitchen
door. "We have an alarm that is set
by Campus Safety, but they had not
set it yet because the cleaning crews
were still here," Cowan said. "We
found no damage in the kitchen
with all of the refrigerators with
food being padlocked, they also did
not gain access to the office."
Cowan estimates that $300 was
lost in plates and linens. "They also
broke into a lower storage room
where they bleached linens and uniforms," Cowan said. He also said
that it was suspected that the vandal
thought they could regain access to
The Club from the back of the C.I.,
but there is a wall separating the
two.
"The most extensive damage
was done to the windows," Cowan
said. "The glass people were out
here Monday, but we are not sure
how long it will take to get the
windows fixed. Until then, Campus
Safety will be watching our doors
closely and we are working with
them to ensure that the alarm is set
each night."
See VANDALISM, page 5
JOSH LOWENSOHN / QC CAMPUS LIFE CO-EDITOR
Students get down at the Lancer Society sponsored Erotic City event in The Club.
Suspicious odor prompts Harris D
evacuation; fire department called
The Los Angeles County Fire
Department sent several fire trucks
to Harris.D Residence Hall to investigate a suspicious odor on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 1:43 a.m. After
inspecting the evacuated building,
firefighters were unable to detect a
smell and the building was reopened to students.
Junior Resident Advisor Katie
Johnson was the first to report an
"unusual smell" to Campus Safety
after one of her residents reported
the smell to her: "I walked into the
resident's room and it really did
smell bad and I think it looked kind
of hazy, so I called Campus Safety-"
According to Assistant Chief
Brycie Jones
QC News Co-Editor
of Campus Safety John Lewis,
Campus Safety officers went to
investigate and were unable to determine the source of the smell,
which the officers described as similar to the smell of "burnt rubber"
in the report on the incident. The
officers then placed the call to the
fire department.
"When Campus Safety first
came up, they told me to evacuate
the building just to be safe,"
Johnson said. According to
Johnson, most of the Harris D residents were present when the building had to be evacuated. The fire
department later cleared the building for re-entry after it had completed its investigation.
"It smelled pretty bad in Harris
so we all hung out on the balcony
and it was pretty fun," sophomore
Aron Lipkin said. Junior Carolyn
Trapp said, "I thought it smelled
like pooh, it didn't smell that suspicious."
Johnson and Lewis confirmed
that the fire department reported
no smell or safety hazard.
"It is better to have the fire
department come out and identify
the problem and then be able to
eliminate the issue if there is an
issue... it isn't like when [the fire
department] comes out because
someone tampered with fire equipment, so we won't be fined for this
incident," said Lewis.