The QC, Vol. 93, No. 05 • October 5, 2006

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Thursday, October 5, 2006
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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