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WHITTIER * C O L L E G E ^^"^V y^^ May 1,1997 QUAKER CAMPUS The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 Students Mistaken For Armed Robbers COMMUNITY NEWS • Three African-American students were detained at Ross Dress for Less after an assistant manager called the police. BY CHRIS ZEEGLER QC ASST. A&E EDITOR Jascha Kaykas-Wolff/QC Photo Editor Sophomores Karl Robinson, Tino Rimando and Derek Grant • CHAMPS! walked into the Ross Dress For Chad Nicholson/QC Asst. Pholo Edilor Chad Nicholson/QC AssL Photo Edilor Chad Nicholson/QC Men's lacrosse con Less store at the Whittier Quad on Karl Robinson Derek Grant Tino Rimando quered University of Ari Thursday night, April 24 as col zona for a second straight lege students. They walked out as investigate. tier Police Department (W.P.D.), about me," he said. "I've never WCLL championship. armed robbery suspects. "I see Derek with his hands who responded to what they been pulled over by a cop, I've pg 16 While Rimando purchased a up, I see policemen—they got their thought was a possible armed rob never been arrested, F ve never had shirt, Robinson and Grant returned pistols," he said. bery. After a half hour or so, the a speeding ticket. It's not like I'm to their car, noting that the parking Robinson waited in the back police released the trio with an walking around with guns and dy C A M.P U/IS lot had been blocked off by police. of a police car, cuffed, confused explanation and an apology. namite strapped to my chest. The "Right when I got ready to get and frightened, with no idea why "[They were] just in the wrong only suspicious thing I can think of in my car, three cop cars drove up he had been detained. "I heard on place at the wrong time," W.P.D. is my skin color." behind me," Robinson, who is also the [police] radio that the third Community Relations Officer & "I am very concerned that our Vice President of the Council of armed robbery suspect was exiting Chuck Drylie said. students are treated properly in our Representatives, said. "[They] got the building," Robinson said. The next day, Robinson ap community," Whittier College • O give me a out of their cars, drew pistols on The acting store manager had proached Chief of Campus Safety President James Ash said. "I and home. • • me, and told me to back away from mistaken Robinson, Rimando and Ed Malone and Dean of Students several other [college] officials are my car." Grant for the armed robbers who Susan AMen, unsure if he and his following up with law and city Learn the ropes of liv Inside the store, Rimando have hit six Ross stores since Feb friends had been mistreated—and officials." ing off campus and rent glimpsed the police surrounding ruary. Reacting to information in a if so, if it was because of their race. ing apartments from those his friends and hurried outside to company flyer, shecalled the Whit- "There's nothing suspicious Please see ROSS, pg. 6 who know. pg7 Student Fee Increase In Works FACULTY FINANCES at-large representative Vicky C O L L E GG I* Yang said. Students proposed al Molecular Biology Professor Hired • COR proposes an increase ternatives to the raise, but after all • David Bo TO .. TO, who of student fees by 14 percent ideas were exhausted, the students due to growth in student group came close to consensus allowing currently teaches at Colby funding needs. COR to authorize the raise in stu At dent fees. out the Biology Department > A Plutonic Relationship BY RENE ISLAS "[In the end], I think people with his expertise in molecular QC ASST, NEWS EDITOR were in favor of it," Yang said. and genetic biology. Six strangers are thrust "This increase is viewed fa into close quarters when a The Council of Representa vorably by most students since it BY LINDSAY ROODMAN nuclear accident blocks off tives (COR) drafted a letter di is apparent that COR is in dire : QC STAFF WRITER. ' any means for escape. No, rected to Vice President of Busi need for more monetary resourc it's not a new sitcom on ness and Finance JoAnn Hankin es," the letter to Hankin stated. Professor David Bourgaize Fox, it's Angels Fall, the proposing a raise in student fees The money will go toward theater department's final from $88 to $100 per semester organizations currently funded by and genetics specialist for the Biology department on April 16. production of the year. beginning next year. This is an COR. "Raising these fees will help David Bourgaize pg 10 increase of 14 percent, and has not [COR] allocate more money and His position will begin in the yet been approved. close the gap between how much 1997-98 academic year, and was The proposal will have to go money clubs are asking for and created by the Fletcher Jones en ciaiist that has typically been through a number of steps before how much we are able to give dowed chair, ihe seventh and taught by temporary instructors. being approved. First it will go them," Yang said. newest endowed chair of the pro- : under the review of Hankin. She In addition, the Publications • 'TOTOVTO Caropaijiff. " rtfic- will then present it to the Budget Board—which funds the Quaker !?-• ::•_•-:!•••-..- •• .'-• TO ing," Bourgaize said. background in molecular biol • Seniors! and Finance Committee at a meet Campus, Acropolis, KWTR and I ^hit- ing on May 1, who will, if they theLiterary Review—will be aug ogy, receiving his Ph.D. in bio tier • .<in- Political Science pro approve the proposal, forward it mented with a raise. chemistry at the University of erary included lecturing a Biol- fessor Richard Harvey will to the Whittier College Board of In the letter to Hankin, COR Massachusetts. He currently rous be calling out the names Trustees. The trustees will vote presented a detailed rationale for teaches such courses as Bio engagements with students and of seniors at Commence- on the increase during a meeting raising the fees to students and chemistry. Cellular and Molec fatuity on campus. ment, and needs help with in May. If passed, the raise in administration. It notes that both ular Biology and Biotechnolo Head of the Biology Depart prom? student fees will increase for the COR—which funds societies, gy at Colby College in Maine. ment CI iff Morris attended Bour- He would appreciate 1997-1998 school year. clubs and events—and Publica He decided to apply for the gaizes' lecture and was very SC.TOT. p ...m pho The decision to draft a letter, tions Board need more money to position at Whittier for a change pleased. 'The students seemed to netic spellings of names which was sent on Friday, April compensate for a ri se in the cost of of pace. "I have lived on the East have thoroughly enjoyed ihe lec though campus mail, by 25, came from a student forum in living. At the same time, each ture. He had an effective style of stopping by his Hoover The Spot last Wednesday, April year shows a rise in the amount of said. "It's time to try something asking and answering questions ig." 007 office, or by calling 23, where the forum addressed proposed activities. new/' Bourgaize was also at his office at Ext. 4313 or the student fees increase. "[The raise] will help us keep tracted to Whittier for the chal The selection committee for lenge of permanently tilling the home at (562) 697-0675. Participants at the forum were up with inflation," COR Treasur "somewhat resistant at first," COR er Lisa Rollins said. role as molecular biology spe- Please see BIOLOGY, pg. 6 ISSUE 25 • VOLUME 83 "Science has its intricate history and evolution through time that made some rather enormous impacts on- the development of society. Just ask Dr. Rafael Chabran about the relationship between science and poetry, science and literature, or sci ence and language." Robert Knowles please seeViewpoint, pg. 3 OC EDITORIAL LETTERS • •••••»-... Hot Dog! Look What We Dug Up! Released Professsor Praised kay. Get this. They're going to dig up Richard Nixon's dog. Check ers, and rebury him next to our beloved presidential alumnus and his Dear Editor, agenda... I don't know. O She has literally reminded me time and We thought this was the kind of ground-breaking news that all au courant I am writing in response to news I time again that I have what it takes to go to Whitt received recently about the loss of one of graduate school, a fear that surrounds me. According to this week's U.S. News and World Report, library officials at our adjunct professors. It was ironic that I As individuals I think we have all at one Nixon's birthplace in Yorba Linda said that, although final plans for the dog's found out as I walked with her to Dr. time or another been self conscious of our exhumation and reburial have not yet been made, they are "keeping [their] paws Chabran's house for dinner and a discus abilities, never quite believing we have dry." Dog-gone hilarious. General rule of thumb: library officials should not try sion with a panel from the LA Gay and what it takes, to be a teacher... a doctor... a to be funny. Lesbian Center. This event, as well as the lawyer... a parent... whatever you have As you might remember learning about in U.S.