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The Voice of Whittier College Since 1 9 l 4 Quaker Campus Thursday, October 5, 2006 Issue 5-Volume 93 QC@WHITTIER.EDU Tallarida and Poet Revolution Party elected Lauren Camacho QC Campus Life Co-Editor The new Whittier College student government political party, the Poet Revolution Party (PRP), was successful in its first Council of Representatives (COR) election as all four candidates earned 297 votes collectively to be elected Members at Large. In addition, Alex Tallarida was elected Freshman Class President, Ellie Maas as Freshman Vice President, Jessica Farrell as Freshman Secretary, Lauren Moison as Freshman Public Relations and Caroline Cox, Freshman Treasurer. PRP members junior Malyssa Robson, senior Ricky Cardenas, junior Rev. Adam Steinbaugh and sophomore Maddy Cereghino won against opponents senior Laura Jones and sophomore Nadine Bar- ragan. PRP promised to help the student-run organization Poet Online Bookstore Swap (POBS), which allows students to sell books directly to each other. Sophomore Cassey Ho, the co-creator of POBS, voted for the party and feels that its attention to POBS was a good political move. "If the PRP can actually accomplish revising the bookstore's contract with the school, then it'll bring a lot of respect for them and increased usage on the POBS website," Ho said. "I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels passionately about this issue." It is this passion for issues that the PRP believes contributed to its success. While urging that the purpose of the PRP was not to win votes, Steinbaugh said, "I think we won because the student body supported the issues on hand." He believes that the roles of Members-at-Large are to voice the ideas and issues that students have, and that is precisely why the PRP was formed: to discuss see ELECTIONS, page 5 COR allocates over $26,000 Justin Velasco QC News Editor The Council of Representatives allocated $26,553.73 to student organizations during Block Funding on Monday, Oct. 2. $23,378.86remains [see "COR allocates $26,553.73 during Block Funding," page 5]. COR members feel this semester's block funding went smoother and faster when compared to last semester. Six percent of the money was allocated to academic events, 45 percent was allocated to cultural events, 16 percent was allocated to recreational events and 65 percent was allocated to social events. Campus Relations Director sophomore Steve Addezio said he is glad COR was able to allocate money to nearly all requests and that COR "didn' t have to feel like the bad guys." According to COR Treasurer senior Chelsea Manfredi, this semester's procedure remained the same, but the circumstances were "very different." Last semester, COR received approximately $25,000 more in requests than they had available to allocate [see Quaker Campus: Issue 19, Vol. 92]. This year, COR recieved was $10,000 less in requests than what they had. see FUNDING, page 5 LAURA JONES / QC PHOTOGRAPHER Poets sure love a good fight Students joined over 1100 others in eating dragon soup while watching a battle unfold at Medieval Times on Friday, Sept. 29. For the full story, see "Whittier goes Medieval," on pages 8 and 9. Renovation of Campus Center on schedule Justin Velasco QC News Editor The renovation plans for the Campus Center are on schedule, according to Director of Student Activities Barny Peake. Preparations are being made to transition the dining services currently offered to students into their temporary facilities during the construction. The Building Committee, which consists of faculty, staff and students who oversee the renovation process, is working on coming up with solutions to the anticipated parking shortage as well as working on art designs for the center. Construction is expected to begin at the end of the fall semester, and is expected to finish in January 2008. Building supplies are being brought in to complete the Sprung Structure in the Amphitheatre Parking Lot. Dining services and the bookstore will be temporarily held in the structure during construction. It will take about six weeks to install the structure and construction should be ready for the transition after Thanksgiving break, but the Building Committee may hold out until after Winter break, Peake said. Images of what the Sprung Structure will look like can be viewed at www. sprung.com. The Acropolis, the Council of Representatives (COR), KPOET and the Quaker Campus will move from their offices in the Student Union to the basement of Hoover Hall between the Thanksgiving and Winter breaks. Only one room will remain for classes, and the rest will be occupied. According to Peake, the design and development stage, which was worked on over the summer break, is completed. He added that the Building Committee is now working on completing the construction documents for the city to approve.- From these documents, the contractors will be able to hire sub-contractors. The Sprung Structure currently occupies many of the parking spaces in the Amphitheatre Parking Lot, and more spaces are expected to be occupied in the Campus Inn Parking Lot during renovation, but it unclear how many, Peake said. "Parking is going to be a major concern and it's going to inconvenience people on campus during this construction," Peake said. "I guess what we are asking for is patience and understanding, while we are building this great facility, because once it opens no one's going to worry about parking." The Council of Representi- tives has formed a Safety/Parking Committee to help come up with ideas to create more spaces. Public Relations Director Steve Addezio, who is the chair of the comittee, said he is hoping to get the street parking from Painter up Philadelphia open on the college side for parking. "We're going to get cracking on that, and stay hopeful that people still have a place to park." "When it [the Campus Inn Parking Lot] all disappears, it's going to get nasty," Addezio added. "People are going to be showing up at 7 a.m. for 11:00 classes." During the anticipated parking shortage, Peake advises see CENTER, page 5 FACULTY MUSICALE For the Music Department, those who can do, also teach. A&E, Page 12 AOKP Finally, a club with real educational value. Campus Life, Page 8-9
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Title | The QC, Vol. 93, No. 05 • October 5, 2006 |
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 | October 5, 2006 |
Language | eng |
Format-Medium | Newspaper |
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Title | 2006_10_05_001 |
OCR | The Voice of Whittier College Since 1 9 l 4 Quaker Campus Thursday, October 5, 2006 Issue 5-Volume 93 QC@WHITTIER.EDU Tallarida and Poet Revolution Party elected Lauren Camacho QC Campus Life Co-Editor The new Whittier College student government political party, the Poet Revolution Party (PRP), was successful in its first Council of Representatives (COR) election as all four candidates earned 297 votes collectively to be elected Members at Large. In addition, Alex Tallarida was elected Freshman Class President, Ellie Maas as Freshman Vice President, Jessica Farrell as Freshman Secretary, Lauren Moison as Freshman Public Relations and Caroline Cox, Freshman Treasurer. PRP members junior Malyssa Robson, senior Ricky Cardenas, junior Rev. Adam Steinbaugh and sophomore Maddy Cereghino won against opponents senior Laura Jones and sophomore Nadine Bar- ragan. PRP promised to help the student-run organization Poet Online Bookstore Swap (POBS), which allows students to sell books directly to each other. Sophomore Cassey Ho, the co-creator of POBS, voted for the party and feels that its attention to POBS was a good political move. "If the PRP can actually accomplish revising the bookstore's contract with the school, then it'll bring a lot of respect for them and increased usage on the POBS website," Ho said. "I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels passionately about this issue." It is this passion for issues that the PRP believes contributed to its success. While urging that the purpose of the PRP was not to win votes, Steinbaugh said, "I think we won because the student body supported the issues on hand." He believes that the roles of Members-at-Large are to voice the ideas and issues that students have, and that is precisely why the PRP was formed: to discuss see ELECTIONS, page 5 COR allocates over $26,000 Justin Velasco QC News Editor The Council of Representatives allocated $26,553.73 to student organizations during Block Funding on Monday, Oct. 2. $23,378.86remains [see "COR allocates $26,553.73 during Block Funding," page 5]. COR members feel this semester's block funding went smoother and faster when compared to last semester. Six percent of the money was allocated to academic events, 45 percent was allocated to cultural events, 16 percent was allocated to recreational events and 65 percent was allocated to social events. Campus Relations Director sophomore Steve Addezio said he is glad COR was able to allocate money to nearly all requests and that COR "didn' t have to feel like the bad guys." According to COR Treasurer senior Chelsea Manfredi, this semester's procedure remained the same, but the circumstances were "very different." Last semester, COR received approximately $25,000 more in requests than they had available to allocate [see Quaker Campus: Issue 19, Vol. 92]. This year, COR recieved was $10,000 less in requests than what they had. see FUNDING, page 5 LAURA JONES / QC PHOTOGRAPHER Poets sure love a good fight Students joined over 1100 others in eating dragon soup while watching a battle unfold at Medieval Times on Friday, Sept. 29. For the full story, see "Whittier goes Medieval," on pages 8 and 9. Renovation of Campus Center on schedule Justin Velasco QC News Editor The renovation plans for the Campus Center are on schedule, according to Director of Student Activities Barny Peake. Preparations are being made to transition the dining services currently offered to students into their temporary facilities during the construction. The Building Committee, which consists of faculty, staff and students who oversee the renovation process, is working on coming up with solutions to the anticipated parking shortage as well as working on art designs for the center. Construction is expected to begin at the end of the fall semester, and is expected to finish in January 2008. Building supplies are being brought in to complete the Sprung Structure in the Amphitheatre Parking Lot. Dining services and the bookstore will be temporarily held in the structure during construction. It will take about six weeks to install the structure and construction should be ready for the transition after Thanksgiving break, but the Building Committee may hold out until after Winter break, Peake said. Images of what the Sprung Structure will look like can be viewed at www. sprung.com. The Acropolis, the Council of Representatives (COR), KPOET and the Quaker Campus will move from their offices in the Student Union to the basement of Hoover Hall between the Thanksgiving and Winter breaks. Only one room will remain for classes, and the rest will be occupied. According to Peake, the design and development stage, which was worked on over the summer break, is completed. He added that the Building Committee is now working on completing the construction documents for the city to approve.- From these documents, the contractors will be able to hire sub-contractors. The Sprung Structure currently occupies many of the parking spaces in the Amphitheatre Parking Lot, and more spaces are expected to be occupied in the Campus Inn Parking Lot during renovation, but it unclear how many, Peake said. "Parking is going to be a major concern and it's going to inconvenience people on campus during this construction," Peake said. "I guess what we are asking for is patience and understanding, while we are building this great facility, because once it opens no one's going to worry about parking." The Council of Representi- tives has formed a Safety/Parking Committee to help come up with ideas to create more spaces. Public Relations Director Steve Addezio, who is the chair of the comittee, said he is hoping to get the street parking from Painter up Philadelphia open on the college side for parking. "We're going to get cracking on that, and stay hopeful that people still have a place to park." "When it [the Campus Inn Parking Lot] all disappears, it's going to get nasty," Addezio added. "People are going to be showing up at 7 a.m. for 11:00 classes." During the anticipated parking shortage, Peake advises see CENTER, page 5 FACULTY MUSICALE For the Music Department, those who can do, also teach. A&E, Page 12 AOKP Finally, a club with real educational value. Campus Life, Page 8-9 |
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