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# # • Son of a Bush! • Can the QC Possibly • You Could Be Men's Basketball Get Any Better? Dancing in the Dark In just seven short days, the new For an overall record of 10-8, Men's President has stirred up quite a bit Perhaps with the help of incoming What do you do when it's dark in Basketball ripped past Pomona-Pitzer of controversy. Students analyze L.A. Times Metro"guru" John Turner? What do you do when on Wednesday, Jan. 31. his actions. Mitchell, we can. Mitchell is it's dark in Turner earl-eye in the profiled on page 9. marnin'? WHITTIER • COLLEGE February 1,2001 John QrcenUaf Quaker Campus ^^ The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 A«-i*——•Htlp://ww™.rahittiep.edu/ii- c Cleveland Inaugurated in Chattering Campus Inn Incoming Council of Representatives President Outlines Vision for 2001, Aims to Unburden Students • COR vision for the upcoming year in know anything about COR, be more responsive to the needs of augurated Cleveland, asking him INAUGURATION COR. He began by saying that cause I don't pay attention. I don't the students and to listen to their to uphold the ideals of COR and to most people don't usually consid care," she said. "It's not a huge concerns. serve the students of Whittier er COR in their daily lives, and issue that's important to me. After his speech, Leonard in- College. by Eric Dzinski that was the way things should be. That's why we vote—so that the QC Assoc. Opinions Editor He said that government is "really people I vote for can take charge, more of a burden" than it should and take care of stuff I don't want "Stop talking and listen," be, and that his administration to deal with." Dean of Students Dave Leonard would work on letting students Cleveland emphasized that "I said while presiding over the in focus on their own concerns. may not know much about auguration of senior Associated First-year student Andrea A.O.K.P., the Photo Club or Students of Whittier College Pres Smith attended the inauguration what's going on in Stauffer this ident Jeff Cleveland. While it week, but I do know people, and I seems from Cleveland's speech like you people." that the policy of the new Council "I may not know much He said that the duties of COR of Representatives (COR) will be about AO.K.P., the Photoinclud e the allotment of student just that, the lunchtime crowd at Club or what's going on in body fees and the opening of lines the Campus Inn (C.I.) continued of communication between stu to converse during the half-hour Stauffer this week, but I do dents and organizations. He also ceremony. know people, and I like you outlined the agenda of the new The ceremony began at 12:30 people." COR body, which includes p.m. with a brief speech fromjun- launching an A.S.W.C. website, i or COR Vice President Jenna De Jeff Cleveland establishing a COR Instant Mes sormier. Desormier said that the senger account (ASWC2K1) and COR President inauguration ceremony was one moving the Public Voice section of many moves by COR to make of the weekly COR meetings to the student government more vis ceremony to support her team the start of the agenda. [For fur ible to the student body. The tradi mate on the swim team. She is in ther detail of COR's 2001 goals, tion of a COR President Inaugura agreement with Cleveland's the see story, page 7] tion was implemented last year. ory on the place of COR in a Giving a brief word of advice After he was sworn in, Cleve student's life. to the incoming COR administra J unior Jeff Cleveland was sworn into COR office on Wednes land gave a speech outlining his "As a first-year student, Idon't tion, Leonard urged them to be day, Jan. 31 by Dean of Students Dave Leonard. Nobuth Appointed COR Treasurer funior Envisions Treasurer as Resource, Not Barrier College Limits • COR student body. "The new Execu tive Council is a bunch of very File-Sharine Access effective people," Nobuth said. by Erin Clark "It's not just a one-man show. • ONLINE MUSIC QC Editor-in-Chief There's a great deal of trust there. remains accessible on campus, I trust my Budget Committee. I according to student reports, at tempts to download files now Junior Prithvi Nobuth has been trust the Executive Council. I by Amy Stice result in the site sticking in appointed to the position of Trea know that when they' ve been giv QC News Editor "searching" mode rather than ac surer of the Council of Represen en a job, they'll do it." tually locating and downloading tatives (COR), becoming the fifth Nobuth's plans for renovating Contrary to the assumptions a file. Other music file-sharing and final member of the new COR the office of Treasurer include of students who have not been sites, such as iMesh and Gnutel Executive Council. Nobuth looks holding four information meet able to access Napster or other la, produce similar results. forward to "do[ing] my fair part to ings for club treasurers prior to online music services from on- enhance the community of Whit spring budgeting and increasing campus computers, Director of According to Greenup, "Ap tier College" through his service communication so students better Computing and Telecommuni plications like Napster are de signed to use as much network on COR. Prithvi Nobuth. understand the procedures in cation Services Troy Greenup According to Nobuth, his main volved with applying for funds. claims that the College has not bandwidth as they can consume. objective as Treasurer will be to cording to Cleveland, Nobuth was Nobuth's previous experience banned such services. Rather, If left unchecked, Napster would maximize the amount of money appointed due to his "service vi includes service as the Treasurer he says, traffic incurred from easily account for the majority given to clubs and organizations. sion for what the job is." Cleve of the Society of Physics Students services like Napster is now of our total bandwidth." He says "I want to do what other people land feels that Nobuth will be able and Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics tightly managed so as not to that some other colleges have weren't able to do," Nobuth said. to help students do things instead Honors Society. He is also the slow on-campus computers at disallowed Napster for this rea son. Junior newly inaugurated of serving as a roadblock. Vice President of Inter-Club and tempting to perform other on COR President Jeff Cleveland Nobuth feels that the new COR an active member of the Econom line functions, such as websurf Greenup says that some col- praised Nobuth's vision of trans Administration will enable him to ics Club. He has previously served ing. Sec NyJPSTER, page h forming the office of Treasurer accomplish a great deal in increas as the President of his high school While the Napster website from a barrier to a resource. Ac- ing distribution of money to the student body and Inter-Club. ISSUE 15 • VOLUME 87 QUOTE OF THE WEEK I may not know much about A.O.K.P., the Photo Club or what's going on in Stauffer this week, but I do know people, and I like you people. EDITORIAL • LETTERS • COMMENTARY —Jeff Cleveland • see News, Front Page OCtolTDRIAL CHEERS & JEERS Cheers to the 150 dol Okay, okay. We know lars in Spot points which will the C.I. has been the butt of When in Rome, thankfully arrive at the start many a jeer over the course of the spring semester. For of the past school year. those of us who squandered However, the insistence on away our money in two using styrofoam containers Do as Becca-Do weeks, visions of chicken for to-go boxes is an envi Somehow this Business major/Economics minor fingers, smoothies and que- ronmental faux pas. Styro slipped past the watchful eye of the pre -requisite gods, sadillas have been dancing in our heads for months. foam was so eighties. and I found myself among the 30 chosen students in the "Dante's Florence" pair. I spent three weeks of my Jan Cheers to red, white and blue balloon arches. We were Jeers to the ever increasing razor scooter traffic that Term t-aveling the Italian country side, seeing a pleth so happy to see student funds spent on spirited patriotism. plagues the campus. Now, skateboarding, rollerblading ora of cathedrals and frescos. The class v\. .-. for and biking we can handle; there is riding ettiquette for me—I wasn't willing to spe . but Cheers to less frequent power outages, period. those well established forms of transportation. Yet scoot I was also not content earning my en; e :-^ree in the ers zipping across the Lower Quad? Stop the maddness. United States. An admittedly biased but heart-felt cheer for the return I doubt I experienced the typical trip to Italy. of Managing Editor Rebecca "Becca-Do" Wolf from Italy. Jeers to the Question Marquis ads. If you need to see My first impression of Rome was left in my back While frolicking abroad, we had to suffer through a Wednes one, look at the bottom half of page 9. That man is one of pack and was the size and shape of a car's side mirror.