- pd • To Vote or Not to • Activism • Laughing at the 23rd • Poet Football Wins! Vote? Floor Does ten kilometers sound like After an unlucky 13-game losing Jack De Vries directs Laughter on Student columnists debate the way too far to walk for you? A streak, football breaks through the 23rd Floor this week in the impact of a lone vote on the group of Whittier College stu­ with a win over CMS. Shannon Center. future of our nation. dents thought otherwise while participating in the AIDS Walk. WHITTIER • COLLEGE October 19,2000 Jofm Qrunkaf Quaker Campus ^•" The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 J.ftttp://v»ww.wWttier.etlu/!|e h*,./AMmlvtm„ Erotic City Closes Early Amidst Fighting and Crowds Director of Student Activities • EROTIC CITY Whittier Police Department was pre-plan ahead of time," she said. big," he said. Calling the adminis­ called in to assist in evacuating Janetta Dismuke feels that it would Ellis feels that actions taken tration of the dance "ill-prepared," the parking lot. be possible for many of the same by the administration present were he added that "in years previous, by Amy Stice "We requested Whittier P.D. problems, such as fighting, to oc­ unnecessary. "It is anew adminis­ the doors have never been shut, QC News Editor to help move the crowd, because cur off-campus. tration—I think that they were even with this size of a crowd." the crowd was congregating," "Some things would have to kind of overreacting because they Additional reporting by Rose The Lancer Society's annual Lewis said. be discussed, and we'd have to weren't expecting a turnout that Ochoa, QC Asst. News Editor. Erotic City dance ended more than Sophomore Cora Poage was an hour early on Saturday, Oct. 14 one of many who was waiting due to "overcrowding and esca­ outside The Spot for admission lating verbal fights," according to into the dance when the party was Assistant Chief of Campus Safety broken up. She estimates that she John Lewis. waited for half an hour. When authorities working at "I felt [Campus Safety] could The Club estimated that the room have done a better job explaining had reached its maximum capac­ to us why we didn't get let in," ity of 311, a Campus Safety offic­ Poage said. er was posted at the internal door Although they acknowledge to regulate how many people en­ that the overcrowding of The Club tered from The Spot. However, will have to be taken into consid­ these measures were not enough eration while planning future Erot­ to prevent overcrowding through­ ic City dances, the Lancers at this out fhe area. point are not considering moving Additionally, afightbroke out the dance off-campus. The soci­ outside the entrance to The Spot. ety's annual Mona Kai dance is According to junior Lancer Aaron held off-campus every year. Ellis, students in the line outside "We like having Erotic City had "tried to initiate fights with on campus, and we would rather [the Lancers] and Campus Safe- keep it there," Ellis said. In the future, the Lancers may The five Campus Safety of­ have to "limit the guest list by ficers on duty at the dance herded having [the guests] sign up prior partiers off the dance floor and to the event. In order to prevent into the parking lot, where stu­ overcrowding we should limit the Two Erotic City partiers talk to Campus Safety officers in the C.I. parking lot after the dance dents chanted in protest. The guests first," Ellis said. was prematurely ended. COR Allocates Semester's Funds to Clubs and Organizations Three-Hour Meeting Results in $26,290 Distributed; Eight Groups Denied Funding • COR and after setting aside money for informational sessions organized exceptions were discussed at the use during January, when COR by COR for club officers to ex­ Oct. 16 meeting. by Amy Stice does not convene, $38,031 was plain the allocation process. He The Model United Nations news QC News Editor available to allocate during block estimates that fewer than 25 stu­ Club received $4,440—the most you can use funding. A total of $62,536 was dents attended the sessions and of any organization, although the The Council of Representa­ requested by campus clubs and that some of the representatives club had requested almost $ 17,000 • • •...::.:.:::.:. :.... • tives (COR) allocated 45% of the organizations. Clubs which were may have been from the same to host the Model United Nations Mid-Semester money requested by clubs and denied funding were typically re­ club. Club presidents and treasur­ conference in San Francisco later Break Meal Hours organizations on Monday, Oct., questing money for events that ers received notice of these meet­ this year. The Sociology Club re­ 16 during their block funding pro­ COR does not fund, or that were ings in their campus mailboxes. ceived only three percent of its C.l. cess. The general body of COR not yet scheduled on the school's Organizations requesting requested funds—six dollars. Friday, Oct. 20 agreed to distribute $26,290 to 31 Master Calendar. money submitted the necessary Although COR does not fund No breakfast groups. Eight groups were denied These clubs may later request forms on or before Friday, Oct. itself via the process of block fund­ 10:30 a.m. to 1 p,m. funding [see table, page 5]. money from COR, although COR 13. The COR Budget Commit­ ing, it set its yearly budget at 4:30 to 6 p.m. Senior COR President had hoped to allocate the majority tee—which is chaired by Battle $6,900—approximately $2,500 Jonathan Collard can veto any of of the available funds during block and made up of COR At-Large more than any organization on The Spot members junior Jaason Roschke the allocation decisions until funding. Sixty-eight percent of campus was allocated. This figure Friday, Oct. 20 Thursday, Oct. 19. At the time of COR's available funds were allo­ and sophomore Armilla Staley and is in accordance with an internal press, he had taken no action. cated. Clubs requesting money.lat- two non-COR members, seniors budgetary policy approved this 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and According to senior COR er in the semester submit a request Diana Quesada and Desiree Gar­ semester. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. cia—met the next day to discuss Treasurer Jaison Battle, COR had to COR and go through a process The remainder of the COR Saturday, Oct. 21 $74,000 in its account at the be­ similar to block funding. recommendations to make to funds will be allocated to clubs ginning of October. After deduc­ Battle points out that most of COR's legislative body. These and organizations who go through 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. tions to fund events which have the clubs that did not receive fund­ recommendations are based on the the proper request channels on a Sunday, Oct. 22 already taken place this semester ing did not attend either of the two COR budgetary policy, although first-come, first-serve basis. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. ISSUE 7 • VOLUME 87 YY^,_,,., - . :;:::::.;.: ^Vi4, ' QUOTE OF THE WEEK Though it is difficult to see my family on a regular basis, I feel like I'm back home seeing • so many people come together at one time. EDITORIAX •LETTERS • COMMENTARY - - Junior Radha Pertaub •'see Campus Life, page 7 Tiyilfii' :"»§;./& OC EDITORIAL LETTERS Rock the What? Lancer Angry About Shutdown Voter Apathy: The Eighth Dear Editor, over-occupancy crowd. Anyone in the dance can attest, As a member of the Associated Students of Whittier this is ridiculous. First, there were no counting devices Wonder of the World College and the Lancer Society, I was extremely disap­ employed in estimating the attendance at Erotic City, and pointed by the mismanagement, on the part of the admin­ secondly the Club itself was 1/2 to 3/4 full when the doors "The lesser of two evils" doesn't even begin to istration, of the Erotic City dance this past Saturday, Oct. were shut. Indeed, it seemed almost empty to many in approach describing the feeling that most students felt 14. As the dance was beginning to get entertaining and attendance. in the pits of their stomachs when they flipped on the most people had started to arrive around 11p.m., Campus The Lancer Society has been putting on Erotic City for Presidential Debates this past week and perused the Safety, under the guidance of the New Director of Student more than 13 years, without the doors being shut on the options. Dubya"? Algore? Are these people? One won­ Activities Janetta Dismuke, ordered the doors into the students, leaving them out in the cold, and every year we ders i f they were indeed bred in a test tube in some TV Club, and later into the Spot, closed. have at least as many students in attendance. I can only producer's basement, the true forefathers of the infa­ The doors being shut aggravated (justifiably) the scant­ assume that this incident represents over-zealousness on mous sheep- mutants created for the express purpose ily clad and. very cold crowd outside, causing them to the part of Campus Safety and an attempt to establish Ms. of providing the appropriate soundbite before disap­ initiate arguments and even some fights with both the Dismuke's authority. pearing into baby-kissing seminars and workshops Campus safety officers and the Lancer Society members I hope that every event that a large portion of the entitled "How to Win the Swing Vote." holding the doors shut.