The QC, Vol. 94, No. 07 • October 18, 2007

              'he Voice of Whittier College Since 1914
Quaker Campus
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Issue 7 - Volume 94
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Parking problems, increased violations
COR attempting
to prevent
Campus Safety
from booting cars
Justin Velasco
QC Editor in Chief
First-year student Trisha
Scherer drove her car up from
Las Vegas on Sunday and parked
on campus. The same day she received a $25 ticket for failing to
register. Scherer went to Campus
Safety Tuesday to fight the ticket
and register her vehicle.
Students not registering their
vehicles is a common problem at
Whittier, Asst. Chief of Campus
Safety John Lewis said. Scherer
was told she could probably get
the ticket removed but if she
waited, her vehicle could be
booted.
"Booting," or the immobilization of a vehicle through placing
a Denver Boot on the vehicle's
wheel, is used by Campus Safety
to identify unregistered vehicles
and get them to pay their parking fines. However, this practice
is up for debate by the Council
of Representatives (COR), who
presented a first reading of a new
resolution to encourage Whittier
to stop booting.
The resolution argues that
Campus Safety should not have
the authority to immobilize vehicles. The document says that
the California Attorney General's
August 12, 2004 opinion 03-
1204 states: "A private security
firm...may not immobilize a vehicle... parked in a private parking
see BOOTING, page 5
PHOTO BY ANTHONY BURSI / QC PHOTOGRAPHER
Campus Safety Sgt. Kenneth Nelson cites an illegally parked vehicle in the Ball Hall parking
lot. According to records, such violations have increased dramatically since last year.
Citation increase
attributed to the
fewer parking
spaces available
Joey Weber
QC News Asst. Editor
As a result of the parking
shortage, Campus Safety has seen
an increase in parking violations
this school year. In Sept. 2006,
392 parking citations were issued
compared to the 449 issued this
last month.
"From a calendar perspective
we have seen an increase in parking
violations for a couple of reasons,"
Assistant Chief of Campus Safety,
John Lewis said. "It is mostly supply and demand switched around."
According to Lewis, Campus Safety
is being more lenient because of the
construction. Seventeen warnings
were issued in the month of September. "We make a specific effort
to try to communicate not just in the
form of a ticket; warnings educate
people in that perspective."
Campus Safety has six vehicles
on record that have been booted by
the vehicle immobilization device
so far this semester. Two of those
were Earlham residents parking
on campus during business hours
(7a.m.-5p.m.) "They were taking
up student spots, so there we are
looking out for the students, too,"
Lewis said. Those who received
this punishment were not first-time
offenders. They fell into one of two
categories: either they had been
issued three citations for failure
to register, or they were a repeat
offender with the maximum five
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see VIOLATION, page 4
New library cards enable easy copying and printing
Neal Behrendt
QC News Asst. Editor
The Wardman Library has recently enacted a credit system that
gives every student $30 of copying
and printing per semester for free.
The library has also adopted the
use of copy cards. Students can
now buy prepaid cards without
putting money directly into the
copy machine.
This new plan, called Bonnie
Bucks, is intended to increase
student use of the library. One
major reason for the change was
the arrival in May of Whittier's
new library director, Katherine
Gill, who had worked at Boston
College and Yale prior to Whittier. Among the new additions
to the Wardman Library are two
photocopy machines, one color
and one black and white.
Other services have been
added free of charge, such as a
"I want the library to be a
place where students feel
welcome."
Katherine Gill
College Librarian
microfilm scanner, page scanning and two computers one
Windows and one Mac equipped
with Photoshop and other
programs in the new Adobe
Creative Suite. The library
currently has old volumes of
newspapers, including the QC,
on microfilm catalogue. This,
along with students using the
scanning functions on the computer and copiers, will reduce
paper use.
"I saw the staff was spending
a lot of time trying to fix the cards
used to photocopy and print and
I realized that part of the expense
of photocopying and printing is
the device that charges students
itself," Gill said. "It took us a lot
of time just to fix it." Gill stressed
that she wants students to use the
library more for a study and work
space. "Our relationship with stu-
see CARDS, page 4
ROCK CLIMBING
Read this story, don't belay!
Campus Life, Page 10
CROSS COUNTRY
Partida leads the pack.
Sports, Page 14