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o F COL U M B I A CO L LE G E November 11, 1996 Bridging The Foreign Gap Coming To America RECEIVED NOV 12 1SSS
CKuwait They come from all over the world. From the rain f orests of South America, the prairie flat lands of Canada, the close-packedjigsaw puzzle of European countries, the swatches ofp arched deserts to the sun-lit coastal escarpments of Africa. Over 400 international students study here, representing some 45 countries from every continent ill the world-Columbia has gained world prominence and, perhaps, even a guiding light in higher education. But why have some traveled great distances to come to America? And what does Columbia offer that beckons them? Over the past month, Senior Writer Leon Tripplett has talked to international students from Kenya, Kuwait and Japan who made the voyage to America and made Columbia their home. This week the Chronicle talks with Davissa Fernandes from Kuwait. FrODl Kuwait to ColuDlbia
Davissa Fernandes Photo by SCOIl Bllxti"
By Leon Tripplett fusion," and eventually wnr. Kuwait." she said. Senior Writer Fernandes remembers that uneasy night. Fernandes remembers the residential the eeri e prelude before reality drove home building across the street from that was It is not often that great events intrude in the understanding understanding that she bombed that afternoon. "We heart! a loud our lives, accelerates time and brings our would never be the same again and neither sound. followed by more sounds and we all world to a standstill. For a young Ku waiti would the rivcrlcss, hot desert. '" remember rushed downstairs to the basement of our girl , life stood still. She grew up earl y waking up to bomb shell noises early in the bui lding," she said. enough to know that war-lOrn Kuwait would morning," Fcrnadcs told the Chronicle in ,I Days latef. as waf loomed, the Fernandes never be the same. hysterical tonc. "My parenls came into the family did what most Kuwait fami li es were On a seemingly calm Thursday morning, room and tried to calm us down. They told doing-they left the mvaged, hot desert for Davissa Fernandes was looking forward to us that 'everything was going to be O K.'" Jordan 10 stay with relatives. '" had to leave a day out on the town with her mother-she She recalled the next day: "My parents my friends behind, the place where I was had just turned 16. Her hope were dashed, were walk ing up and down :.lIld all I t.:()uld brought up," Fernandes s'lid. however, when Iraqi soldiers invaded her think was, ' What is going on here.' My But they were leaving more than friend~ tiny, oil-rich, Middle Eastern nation of mother remembered reading through the behind--their whole homeland was Kuwait. There would be no shoppin g spree Reuters news service, the day before at and no day out on the town,just "chaos. con- work, that Iraq was plnnning to invade See Kuwait, page 5 PrintIng policy met with mixed reviews By Jill Schimelpfenig fl oor of the 600 S. Michigan Ave. out of a lab:' said Danie l Henrick. anoth So much paper had been w;\stcd last SlafJ Wriler Bu ilding. For $ 10, the card allo ts 20 print er lab assistant. year that the department's budgct dcplet jobs of one to 10 pages each. Re becca Courington, at.:ting chair of ed early and the labs were out of paper The new printing policy administered Academic t he two weeks before the end of the spring by the Academic Computing De partment Computing At.:ademic semester. has taken off with some minor complaints D epartment Cumputing Courington has had no one in her and a few angry refutes, according to fac lab assistant Is the new printing policy fair? Department. office to complain ahout the polit.:y. " By ulty and lab assistants in the department. Matt Cotten, See editorial, page 9. explained and large. I think mo:-.t peuple understand As many students may be aware by a junior, said that the rea- that it's cost ant! it needs to be paid ror," now, printing a document in Columbia's that he has I son for the she said. computer labs is no longer free. r eceived pol i e y Her sentiments have been echoed by Beginning this semester, each print job many complaints from students who do change was people abusing the use of some students at Columbia. costs 50 cents. not like the idea. Other lab aids have had computer labs. She said, " We'd have stu Imholep Zoser, a sophomore music stu Students can purchase a print card similar experiences. dents printing up a hund red copies of dent, is not offended by the policy. "You through the cashier's office on the fifth "A guy got really upset and stonned 'I'm having a garage sale ... · See Poli cy, page 2 NEWS Novemb er 11 1 996 THE CHRONICLE Pulitzer-winning poet visits College Journalism Department By Jennifer Prause Beauty," "Region of Unlikeness" place or time or creed or race or 623 S. Wabash Ave., Suite SlaffWriter and "Materialism," "The Dream gender or even a specific lan The "Poetry Review" is • 802 of the Unified Field: Selected guage." nationally distribute~ map· Chicago, Illinois 60605 Jorie Graham. the winner of Poems 1974-1994" was pub Being trilingual, Graham has a zine edited and pubhshed by this year's Pul itzer Prize for poet lished by the Ecco choice of language Columbia students. It is aYair News desk: ry. read from her works last Press. .----- to convey her poetry able in the spring, usually May. (312) 663-1600 Ext. .5343 Thu rsday in the Hokin Gallery. Graham loves in but feels English Paul Hoover from the Graham won the Pulitzer, litera being a poet. She has "is such a vast muhi Poeuy Department said the ture's most prestigious award, for Photo desk: always been attract cultural language, magazine is "Forty percent "The Dream of the Unified Field: ed IQ the kind of (312) 663-1600 Ext. 5731 having in its marrow Columbia student worlc." Tho Se lected Poems /974-1994:· thinking necessary more other lan magazine was only for stu.. Born in New York. City in for writing poetry. guages than any dents up until three years ago. Advertising desk: 195 I, Graham was a recipient of " It 's the experi- other instrument. Then the department decided (312) 663-1600 Ext. 5411 the John D. and Catherine T. ence of going " I feel especially to allow professionals to COD MacArthur Fellowship. She now through one's lucky to have ended tribute. Because of an increase FAX: is on the faculty at the University life- through the up thinking and feel of diverse work, circulation (312) 427-3920 of Iowa's Creative Writers' crises, as well as the ing, searching in has increased from, according Workshop. s urpri ses - with it...it felt like com to Hoover, "Five hundred to e-mail: "Any prize feels simultane poetry's way of ing upon the Pacific three thousand" issues sold, Chron96@ interacess.com ously like a roll of the dice and a thinking as a guide Ocean from some including Canada. great honor ... As for the Pulitzer that's addictive. inland brook. Who Students start to publish tbo itself, it is a great honor, particu Form, technique, wouldn't want to try magazine in January. The edl Web page: larly because it's the only award [and] the language to learn to swim?" tors are chosen from the http://wwwS.interacess.com that address so many different of metaphor are all Her plans are to "Selected Advance Poetry IchronicJe uses of language-dramatic, amazing rudders by Jorie G raham keep writing and .Workshop" classes. novelistic, journalistic, which one steers teaching as best she Anyone can contribute to poetic- all of them searching for through the mess of things," she can, "To try to go through life the magazine. The deadline to Editor-in-Chief versions of the truth," Graham said. and not, accidentally, slip around submit work is Dec. 15. You John Henry Biederman stated. She was influenced by many, it." She feels poetl)! should be can purchase sample copies for "The Dream of the Unified including teacher Donald Justice taught in school like math, geog $6. If you bave any questions, Managing Editor Field" yields 20 years of writing, and others she refers to as "teach raphy or history, contact Paul Hoover in the Cristin Monti revealing the growth of an aston ers not there in the flesh" includ "The routes of perception English Department. For a ishing poetic voice. Investigating in g Dickinson, Hopkins, poetry opens in a forming response, send a self new types of territory, she has Berryman and Keats. soul-paradox, the pleasures of addressed, stamped envelope News Editor broadened her connection with She feels poetry is never out ambiguity, analogy, irrational and a brief letter to: Columbia Bob Chiarito each succeeding book. dated. No matter how long ago logic-tend to be, today, intro College English Departmont, Her other works include, somet hing was written, "The duced to children only through 600 S. Michigan Ave~ Assistant News Editor "Hybrids of Plants and of knowledge poetry requires-it advanced mathematics and Chicago, 1160605. Allison Martin Ghosts," " Erosion ," "The End of doesn't tend to be specific to physics."
Features Editor Kimberly Watkins Open mic sets stage for emotion Entertainment Editor Ryan Healy By Michele S. Gomez ticular reading there were 22 participants who weren't afraid to stand Staff Writer in front of an audience and reveal some of their deepest thoughts. A Opinion Editor sure cure for stage fright, there were newcomers as well as pros. David Harrell While the Fiction Department's Open-Mike reading of Nov, 7 was Various emotions swept through the room, carrying the sounds of subject to numerous snafus getting started, spectators and participants love, pain, joy, laughter and excitement. seemed more than fulfilled when the event actually happened, " Porky" was a wi ldjoumal entry read by Josephine Lipuma which Photography Editor When students and faculty arrived in the Torco Building'S 11th made the audience burst into laughter through her tales of pigs having Natalie Battaglia floor faculty lounge for the reading, they found nothing. But that did sex and Barbie doll pornography, Karen Stein, vice president of n't stop them- they wandered the floor looking for it department's student board. also captivated the audience with her Assistant Photography After asking around, and being directed from floor to floor and humorous tale about the letter she wrote to her landlord explaining the Editor room to room, people found the smiling face of Andrew ferguson, co reason she broke her screen door-her ignorant boyfriend who was Laura Stoecker advisor of the Fiction Writing Department, welcoming them into a missing until 6 a.m, without explanation and a female's business card small room on the 12th floor. in his pocket. Copy Editors The show was running 45 minutes behind schedule and more The first open m ike event was held a few years back and received MemaAyi inconveniences were mounting-they didn't even have a microphone such a positive response from students that a committee was needed to ready. But it didn't take five minutes before all the seats were occu handle it. The Fiction Writing Department then created their Student Rob Eng land pied and people began sitting on the floor, leaning against the walls Board, composed of both faculty and students. Jim Perez and blocking the isles, The Fiction Writing Department and their There will be two more readings held in December: Another open Student Board appeared in front of their audience, introduced them mike on Dec. 6 and "The Rookie Reading" on Dec. 8. Advertising Manager selves and the show began. For more infonnation on these or other upcoming events, contact Amy Pickle The open mike is the Fiction Writing Department's most popular the Fiction Writing Department at Ext. 5611 and look for further post event and everyone is encouraged to attend or participate. For this par- ings, Senior Writers Robert Stevenson Policy, from page 1: Free printing is a thing of the past in Leon Tripplett Academic Computing-and students are sounding off Read the Chrollirl'·... Web Page Editor have to look at both sides of the story," he said. Even then, however, these students are Mark Dascoli " 1 can see [the policy] when people print out only allowed to print for free the work they resumes, but if I just print out a paper, I should have completed inside the classroom, n' t have to pay,"' said Jeff Redlinger, 23 , a For instance, if a student is assigned a 20- Staff Writers senior academic computing and film major. page paper for a class that meets in a lab, if YUlI kllu\\' \\hal's Jonathan Bethely Faculty in the department said they would printing the document will cost two print Michelle DuFour consider an alternative to the current policy jobs because the work was done outside of guud IIII' yUlI. Jason Falkinham if it does not impose on the budget and is the classroom, Michele Gomez equally fair to students. Students are But, Courington said, "There is no way to Danielle Hirsch encouraged to bring their suggestions to the enforce [the policy, in this case]." Charles Jord an department. Other ,private BOOK Now Jason Kravarik The print colleges In the Jennifer Prause card policy Chicago area, such FOR THE HOLIDA YS! Jill Schirnelpfenig isn't new to as DePaul and Co lumbi a. "It's [new printing poli Loyola universi London Staff Photographers "We used to ties, do not have Scott Buxtin have a print cy] whacked, it sucks." print fees for a Paris card in basic print job. Blair Fredrick place, several Frankfurt Jo Machado Sean Finn, a years ago," student at DePaul Madrid Courington -Anna Seifert, University and Rome Faculty Advisor said. The past full -time staff Jim Sulski few years, student member in Prague when the D ePau l 's Attlens copies were Computer Science The Chronicle is a student free, were an Department, said Aviv run newspaper of Columbia "experiment" that caused the department to "For the tUition we pay, they better not College Chicago. It is pub lose money. charge us." lished weekly during the By consulting with lab managers, At Loyola, use of the Epson printer is school year and distributed on Courington made the decision to revert back free but anything printed on the laser com Mondays. Views expressed to print cards in order to cover the cost of puters is five cents per copy. in this newspaper are not nec computer maintenance and paper. Regardless of explanations from the C lass fees charged to students in the essarily those of the department, many Columbia students, like beginning of a semester do not cover com fre~hman Anna Seifert, are angry about the Journalism Department or the puter lab costs, said Courington, unless the policy. college. student pays a fee for a lab-assigned class. " It's whacked, it sucks," she said. November 11, 1996 NEWS 3
coffee shops. I didn 't know anybody that airbags could be dangerous, some On wanted to know anything about thing we now know to be true. Starbucks. Also at Fox, reporter Mark How's The station known for its infamous Saxenmeyer delivered a highly infor " High Heel Hell" story, WLS-Channel mative report on a legal, but danger Media 7, opened its menu of soft stories with ous, new drug circulating at all-night a repon on " lite" Illenu items that may dance parties. not be so healthy. To their credit, Overall, there have been less cor Your Channel 7 also ran two solid repons: a ruption stories than we're used to see Chuck Goudie investigative report on ing from the Big Four (WON-Channel clu es into a northwest suburban mur 9 does not regularly run investiga~ der and Kathy Brock's look into cancer tions). So far, politicians, the school Steak? Jason Kravarik outbreaks. Brock's report was informa system and the rest of local govern tive, but it wasn' t quite an investiga ment have escaped the wrath of Pam tion, as the station promoted it. Zekman, Dave Savini and Walter With Channel 5 was first to draw criti Jacobson. John Henry Biederman cism with its Unit 5 investi gation OTHER TV NOTES: Channel 7 We' re well underway in the most " Hidden Hote l Horrors," which found recently unveiled its " ABC 7" station important time of yea r for te lev ision: grotesque stains on hotel bedding 10 , a rip-off from Channel 5, which the November sweeps. That's one of usi ng an ult ra-violet light. Compared calls itself"NBC 5. " ABC 7 a lso intro four mon ths (a long with February. to th e government waste stories we're duced sleek new graphics. Now all Help! May and July) designated to set adver lI sed to seeing from Unit 5, this piece they need to do is get out of the '70s tising rates. It's also when we see the came across as a tasteless opportunit y with a new set. ."ome people pay hundred~ C?f dollars to "escort" best each station has to offer in an to show disgusting stains on hotel bed Showing signs of di scomfort in services for their kinky thr;J/s. Others go to attempt to get more viewers. (And sheets. their anchor lineup, Channel 2 otTered "bondage nights" at clubs. Me? I get my hair cut. when we see the worst a station has to Unit 5 reporter Dave Savini Bill Kurtis his old jon of principal Thi.~· may sound strange, but I pay three times offer.) bounced back, however, with an effec news anchor. Kurtis declined and is what / 'd pay in (l barber shop--jor thrills alone. With the exception of a WMAQ tive repon on stolen military weapons now reponedly trying to leave the sta That :s right. I have no other reason to go to an Channel 5 investigation into water and how they could be ending up on tion through a contracl buyout. upscale, pricy sa/on. Take (/ look at my picture! heater safety, most stations staned out the streets. Nonetheless, Lester Holt, current lead (That:s no reflection on my stylist, Chris, a/Cur/up much so fter than usual. WFLO-Channel 32 newcomer anchor at Channel 2, has to be scratch and Dye on North Clark- I mean, look at what she WBBM-Channel 2, which usually Sylvia Gomez (formerly of Channe l 2) ing hi s head. The station apparently has to work with !) comes out swinging. opened with a lead Fox into th e November sweeps isn't quite as dedi cated to him as th ey Thal:~ right! The femininity turns me on like a report on what riverboat casinos do to with a report on the rising use of hero were when Holt originally took the job neon light! Manicures, hair talk, pedicures,feminine lure women. An interesting piece, but in. The story lacked depth and relied over from Kunis. clothes- and to top it off, I 'm usually the only he t ~ not quite the hard-nosed investigative too heavily on video of people doing ChannelS's news director could be erosexual guy there, so I get special treatment. story Channel 2 usually opens with. drugs. on his way out. Mark Antonitis is " Stupid." Someone says as I' m writing this in the The following week, Channel 2 ran Fox's investigative reporter Larry weighing an offer from a CBS affiliate Chronicle office, surprising me from behind. a fluff piece on everything anyone Yellen delivered his usual solid repon, in Sioux Falls, S.D. to become vice It 's my old ... er, friend, Knuckles Von Chuckler. would want to know about Starbucks this time on a former auto industry president and general manager of the "This has got to stop," he says. employee who, in the '60s, insisted station. " What are you talking about? Go away!" "This column. I mean, really. I' ve never seen any thing sill ier in my life. You never write about any thing remotely newsworthy. You ramble about sick little things in your head that nobody cares about, fill Two students create support it up with obscene little inuendos ... " " Shut up and get out of here. Who asked you?" Okay, where was I? Now before you send letters refering me /0 Dick group for Chinese transfers Morris ' support group, I'll explain myseljf urther: " Do you mind?" I feel Knuckles' eyes on my By Jonathan Bethely anyone and could barely help of a student associa experience before. We can computer screen. Staff Writer speak English. Chinese stu- tion. He said the group's give them a better chance. "Erase that. Write abouL.the elections. Yeah. dents from Roosevelt mission will be to help stu We have several Chinese Write about the elections." Ming-Lung Tsai and University and dents with academics on and students here, we just have "Bug offl" Daniel Wan g did not have Northwestern University off campus and inform s tu~ to find them ." " Have you forgotten that I'm your PR man?" the opportunities they now helped her adjust to her new dents of Columbia's policies The organization's first "Are not!" hope to give Ch inese stu home and student life at that are not readily known. meeting on Nov. I wasn't Being a member of Generation X- although I'd dents at Columbia. Both Columbia. " I didn't know anyone," we ii-attended, but Wang like to divorce myselffrom it- I've noticed that... entered Columbia void of " We ' re trying to get said Wang. " I tried to find a said another meeting will be vrrooom vuooom' goes Knuckles' chainsaw. help from a Chinese student friends of ours and some group that could help me, held at the end of the month. .. . the predominant style of dress these days is group. body who is interested in but I couldn' t find one. Interested students in the enough to induce vomit. Femininity in dress is out, I But now the pieces are in Chinese culture," Tsai said. " We ' want to help new group will have a chance to guess because it s easier to change superficial out place and Columbia's first Student organizations students who don ' t know meet the founders and ward appearance than anyth ing tanglible, and. .. Chinese Student need a minimum of 15 anyth ing about being here," receive more information on He's got a chainsaw!?! Association is searching for members in order to be offi Wang said . " We 've had the the organization. "Knuckles .. . Knuckles, put that down ... " enough members to keep cially recognized by the col "No-not until YOIl write abollt something that building. lege. Two years ago another somebody in thei r right mind cares about." Wang, a senior double attempt at starting the orga r------, " You ' re not serious, are you?" majoring in art design and nization fell short by nine WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE AN vroom vroom vroom! computer graphics, j our students. " I'm not writing another co lumn about the elec- neyed from Taiwan to This time around, Wang, tions! " America in search of a better who serves as president of ~ ~ STUDENT??? "Then how about something ... intcrnational?" education without much the fledgling group, said " I've got just the thing:" knowledge of what life was they have about 14 mem I am in love with Aung San Suu Kyi, the silenced like in America. bers. Organizations seeking Then, don't take any chances! leader nf Burma s pro-democrac..y movement. So I'm Wang found help settlin g official recognition will offering to do my part for the cause by marrying her. in America from student know their statu s by the end Vroom vroom! organizations at other col of November. "Watch it! You shaved some hair off my head! " leges but not at Columbia. With the formation of 00 Ymmn.l " Write a serious column! " Similarly, Tsai, a senior Columbia's first Chinese "This is a serious column, it 's just comes across majoring in film/video and Student Association, Wang as less preachy when ... " one of the founders of the said he doesn't want WE HAVE ANSWERS! ! vroom yroom! Chinese Student Chinese students new to Knuckles looks especially evil fl ailing a chainsaw Association, came to Columbia and America to (to your Science about. 1 want to grab the phone, call security, but [ America two years ago from experience adj ustment the & Mathematics questions) don't know if I can reach it before he .. "Write something about business. Go on." .Yn.l2m. Taiwan. She didn't know way he did- without the You don't ever have to be . without the right answers, YrQllIDl ever aga!n .... What s with White Hen? Do we really need a deli there? I always walk into the place when one STUDENT TRAVEL employee s working and three or four boneheads are f ordering sandwiches while the line grows like voter FOR ASSISTANCE: apathy. The point of White Hen is convenience but ... V!s!t the Science & Mathe.at!cs Dept. "Aargh!" I yell as Knuckles throws a lasso around STA Tra ••1 II Ih. world', large" Learning Center my waist. "You' re a maniac! And watch that rope! Leave my arms free, or else I won't be able to type!" 1.... 1 o.... niJallon lPocI.llzln, Wabash Building "That, my pointless little friend, is intended." In low-cost travel for stUdents. Room #511 " But Knuckles!" I cry. " I can write something serious. Here:" Mon l Tue, Wed. Thu 9 am - 7 pm • Student Alrt&rllll '10 Card. &< • Sprtnr HNlllk Fr! 9 am - 5 pm Another election has come and gone, and while • DuHlISIIUU D1M.lOunl4 H_1i>1 Mcmberahlp • Tl1l.vellnM umru. , Or, Call 663-16001. Ext. 5545 media continue to treat it like the biggest story on for more informst on. Earth, the public bliziupoiUl;Iag;Ikmbok. .. • F.urall Pu_ • Around the World I, Knuckles Von Chuckler, have hog-tied THEN, SAIL RIGHT THROUGH THE SEMESTER I ! and kidnapped the How's Your Steak! Idiot, rssll Ctinl umllhln lin? STA Tlutilin &rut sllidlnl alrl,rn to dl$li~,ti.nl arouftd til, world. so I'll be In control of this column from now on. You can look forward to a meaningful col- , urnn here next week. • ••WOW . Oh, and don't worry about the Chronicle, ~H-D?~~-s~050 -!1/j John's evil twin, Nlpsy, will be in control. [3J Nobody will notice, trust me. John's expend- Chicago, tL 60605 STA TRAVEL La=.b"l.;:e,-' ______-' "'"'w r,I, •• 1, "" Wu'vebm'nthcl'c L. ______.J
No v emb er 11, 1 996 NEW S 5 New group brings unity to black women By Mema Ayi Bridgett Scarborough, a junior li be ral from experts. Tongues of Fire encourages African Copy Editor arts major, is vice president and co "I like them having an outlet to express Amerit:an women to have a voicc. to founder of the group. On and off campus, themselves. I like the idea that they arc ex.plore their options :md to learn about In the African-American community. Scarborough planning to self and spiritual enham:ement. "It's a way there are many issues thai arc not readily said, black come up for us to make a statement about who we discussed. Homosexuality, depression and w a men with strate are as African-Amcriciln women." health issues are often avoided completely. don ' t sup gies (to Scarborough said. Tongues of Fire. a support group for port or "There's no unity here. solve prob This semester, Tongues of Fire will African-American women, is ready to face respect one People put up facades. And Ie m s J ' " have discussions on herbal healing. spiri taboo issues head-on and give black another. B a ldwin tual healing, establishi ng leadership in the women on campus a comfortable forum to 'There's no there is a lot of tension said . community and sexual harassment and express themselves. strong sense Black rape. Tongues of Fire is building a founda of commu between [black] staff and women have Each of the two-hour sessions begin tion on campus to educate, support and nity among s i mil a r with an hour of free expression where par create opportunities for networking with African students." problems ticipants arc encouraged to bring songs or other African-American women on cam American and con- poetry re lated to the topic. Reading poetry pus. women on --Synira Allen, cerns at or listening to songs can help create a more Synira Allen, a senior li beral arts major. camp.us. A student C o lumbia intimate atmosphere. especially for per is one of the group's founders and its pres strong com- but don 't sonal or hard-to-discuss topics. ident. She hopes the group will bring m u nit y realize the The second hour of the session includes African-American women at Columbia understands and rewards its own. They most feasible way to solve problems is to a guest speaker. During this hour, the together, destroyi ng walls they've built to encourage positivity and leadership. ,. come together. "We need to come to tenns speaker and group come up with ways of separate themselves from one another. Sheila Ba ldwin is the faculty advisor with what's going on with us. Every othcr tackling the problem ;It hand. "We don't 'There's no unity here," she said. "People for Tongues of Fire. She said she looks for ethnic or social group has someplace on want people leaving wi th no solutions," put up facades. And there is a lot of tension ward to seeing thesc women become the campus they can go to reach oul. We Allen said . between [black) staff and students." leaders that they can be and seeking advice don't," Scarborough said. From Kuwait to Columbia: a student's odyssey From page 1 the dorms or in their classes, its styled dorm s on Plymouth Court, a most students to Columbia- our always hard to make new fri ends," major step up from the dorms in th e method of educating. "We didn ' t do a devastated. "We had never seen said Assistant Dean of Support Herman Crown Center. lot of hands-on work at Frederick. At Kuwait that bad in our lives. The Services Gigi Posejpal , Co lumbia's "I think the atmosphere obviously Columbia there is morc in s piration. roads were so uneve n, tanks were o n direct link to interna tio nal student s. had a lot to do with me stayin g here .. ' Since I'm un interi or design major, I the streets." Fernandes recalled her first week But now that the atmosphere was can just walk down the street and look Although Kuwait, where Fernandes in Chicago as a culture shock. " It clear, what about gettin g to know peo at some of the buildings and get in spi spent most of her c hildhood, lay made it extra hard for me to come to ple ? She found it a challenge. "I n ration." bounded by As ia on the southwest and th e r Cyprus, people were very fr iend ly, What shocked Fernandes mos t Iraq on north, she and they wen t out o r the way to talk to about Amcric.:ans was n' t the c.: ustoTllS hadn ' t felt co n ~ yo u. " she said. "At Columb ia , it and educat ional process but the la c.: k fin ed . From her seems that pe ople were into their own of geographkal knowledge . "It's sur native home in thing. I would have to go ou t of my prising how some people don ' t kn uw In dia to Kuwait way and make friend s." And that's about the rest of the world." she said. City and a brief exactly what she did. " I did n' t expect them lO know about s pell in Cyprus, "M y roommates helped a lot to KUW :lit. where she went 10 make it a good experience for me, we But Kuwait did appear o n most stu school at the dents' rad'IT in high sc hool wi th the Frederick Institute escalati o n or thc Gulf War in 1991. of Technology, she when UN forces fl exed muscle to get has been a nomad Iraq oul of Kuwait. Even if most of sorts. couldn ' t explain t he conflict, Ihey It was through a could tell you who Saddam Hussein look in the was from watching the TV c.:overage . Peterson's Guide Fernandes is not short on words of Colleges and over the invasion o f Kuwait, but she's Universities, at not harboring hate ror the Iraqis and Frederick, that she Hussein-she has a much bigger mi s found Columbia s ion. " I wan I to buy a building for the College homeless and design it myself," she Chicago-and it said. The ed ucation she's getting from beCKoned to Columbia will playa major role in Fernandes from a making that goal poss ibl e. distance. But s he B ef~re coming C.:ohmibi,., k th t Davlsa Fernandes hved through "Everyt hing that I learned, here and nel W b. lad Persian G ulf War in her native Kuwait. from abroad, I' ll put it together to Co urn la wou make it happen." accept her credits from the Frederick "It 1.------" Ins ti tute. "I was ini tiall y going to go to Colorado for school, but I con wanted to A guide to Kuwait's recent history vinced my dad that Chicago was the back home." July, 1990: Elections were held to center of architecture," she said. That When was a deciding factor since her major establish a new consuitati ve National arrived at the Assembly. is interior design. college last August 2, 1990: Iraq invaded and occu Fernandes admitted that trying to year, to her sur pied Kuwait. sell her father on Columbia wasn't an prise, there was October, 1990: The Kuwaiti People's easy task. "My dad didn' t want me to no room for her Conference was conducted in Saudi come to Chicago, he wanted me to be . Columbia's Arabia. as close to him as possi ble. He wasn't November, 1990: The United Nations really keen on the idea of me coming do rms o n authorized use of "all necessary means" to to America," she said. "I had to tell Plymouth remove Iraq from Kuwait after January 15, him what my dreams were, but he sup Court. She was 1991. January 16, 1991 : Coalition military ported me and, most importantly, he sent to the Herman Crown Center on went shopping cooked together," forces intiated a ground campaign against believed in me." Wabash, where neighboring Roosevelt Fernades said . Fernades made her initial journey Iraq. University students reside. There would be other problems. February 26,1991: Kuwait was liberat ~ to America with her father. After "I was very depressed that entire Trying to acclimate herself to an ed from Iraqi occupation by Allied being dissatisfied with the education week," she said. "I called my mom American process of education is a Coalition mHitaly forces under the aus she was getting in Cyprus at the and cried and told her about eondi~ natural hurdle for international stu pices of the United Nations. Frederick Institute. she was hoping tions at the dorm." dents. Although she speaks several March 11, 1991: Iraq renounced ils Columbia would give her what Fernades wanted to go back to foreign languages, understanding the annexation of Kuwait in a tetler to U.N. Frederick couldn 't. But fitting into Kuwait. "My mom told me that it was pro fessors here in America was, to Secretary General Perez de Cuellar. another country with stark differences up to me," she said. her, foreign . March 14, 1991: Kuwait', Amir, Shiek in values and customs would be her She remembers talking to Posejpal, "The American system of language Jaber AI-Ahmad A1-Sabah, relUrned to his first chall enge. who made her transition better. And was difficult for me, because 1 studied homeland after seveD and a half months in For most students coming to col· the British system for so long." That exile. after going to several meetings with November6, 1991 : Lastof751 burning lege for the first time, leaving the the international students organiza meant longer study hours for Fernades comforts of their native towns to trav or damaged oil wells was capped. tion, Fernades began to fit in. "I told just to keep the same pace as the other October 5,1992 The first election afler el to another stale, city and, in her to give it another semester before students. But Fernades was willing to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was held Davissa's case, another country, try she made any decision," said work as hard, or harder, than anyone under lhe terms of the old constitution. . ing to make new friends can be diffi Posejpal. Then, the break Fernades e lse. November, 1994: Iraq nolified Ihe cult-and it was no different for was looking for came. She heaved a One major difference Fernandes Security Council of Baghdad's recognition FeTnades. sigh of relief when she found out noticed between Columbia and of Kuwait "Until students actually get busy in there was room for her in the loft- Frederick was oerhaos what invites
November 11, 1996 FEATUR ES 7 Pixel Stew mixes multimedia mayhem
By Kimberly Watkins Features Editor
Have you had your dose of Slew yet? Pixel Stew, that is. Or maybe you've tripped over those sets of televisions chained on the fl oor? "~ixel Stew" is the latest Acailemic Computing multi mecha extravaganza on exhibit in the Hokin Gallery. This is the first show where most of the art can actually be secn where it was meant to be seen, on the computer monitor. "The computer is our medium," said Academic Computing fa culty member Barbara Iverson. "This show case allowed us to actually show the work on the comput ers, previously we had to print them out. " . ~tudcnt work for the showing was j uricd by Iverson. Nlkl Nolan and several part-lime faculty. They tried to keep the work as close 10 "real world" situations as possi. ble. "~a ny of th~ students wi ll be working in the digital world In teams, like on an advertisi ng campaign or with Web pages." said Iverson. "Here, sound, video, program· ming and graphic arts students can come together." "Low Resolution! Revolution'" is one such coll abora· tion involving nine students. Seven TVs sit chained together. The video on the technologically·chall enged monitors battles the ongoing conflict of high·end technol· ogy and ideas forced through low·end resources. Most of the work can be achieved through many of Academic Computing's classes, Iverson said. Upon com· pleting Foundations of Computer Applications, Intro to Computer Graphics and Desktop Multimedia, students can begin to create their own digital masterpieces. Elements of Multimedia is the beginning course and jumping off board into the world of multimedia and all its avenues. "We want to let students know what kind of work they can do," said Iverson. In classes like Video Compositing, Computer-Controll ed Installation Environment and CD· Rom Multimedia Production. students learn to put what they mentall y visualize onto the physical computer screen. Photo by Natalie Battaglia Sophomore Jose D. Mateo, majoring in Multimedia, This is but one of the bizarre multimedia pieces on display for " Pixel Stew," which runs in the Hokin gallery uses his knowledge to do just that. His interactive through Nov. 21. It is the first show at Columbia to feature the form where it was meant to be shown--on the com· "Graffiti" CD· Rom is accessible in the computer kiosk on puter monitor. After taking just a few Academic Computing classes, students can make their own, similar works. the east side of the gallery. "Graffiti is close to my heart." said Mateo. "It was my ''I'm a digital artist." said Mateo. " I can use visuals and Columbia student Charles D. Mo isant shows us voice when I was younger. Now the computer screen is sounds to portray my message so that everyone can have Strength . Death . The Devil and The Empress. Death and my wall ." access to il. the Devil illustrate some beautiful graphics and in·depth Mateo attributes the course Intro to Computer Graphics "It 's a revolution. Every company has a computer no w. coloring. Sunnower visions come to life in Najaree and many long Saturdays in the computer lab as instru creating an open market of creation." Chavysak's work . Linda Grogan presents some challeng- mental in helping him to achieve hi s work. Students c'tn One of the best points of the exhibit is that the work ing black and white images. Step into the "discontinuous visit the walls of Mateo and other artists through the sim being reated can be achieved by anyone wi th some di s- timeline" of Brian Cho's installation. And Carrie Dressel ple click of a button. They can also create their own mas cipline and training, not just rocket engineers. "These X-rays the human condition. terpiece with red, blue and green spray cans on a graffi ti courses are open to business majors, dance majors or the "Pixel Stew " rllllS through Nov. 2 J ill th e Hokill wall . rest of us," said Iverson. Gallery. 11th Street sculpture garden a good place to park it
used to park every day. acquired in 1982 (whe n th e La Sall e " I always call it the sculpture lot," Street Station was de moli shed) in to the Taylor said. insisting that gardens gen nine-foot-long and ten· erall y refer to plush grass and colorful foot-deep vault flower arrangements. " If thi s is a gar The " I Will" den, then its an asphalt garden." Taylor said he hopes to eventually use the garden as an outdoor classroom for stud ents to work on li fe·sized art projects during class lime. Tayl or works with an annual budget of $6,000 for projects on the \0 1. " I see the space bei ng used as more of a partici patory space for more direct involve· me nt with students," Taylor said. BUI for now the theme C h icago 'S of the lot s uccessful rebUIldi ng spi rit aftl.!r the Great icago Fire. Origin'lll y 1.!~II.: h car wa~ pai red with 4.l wolf- each facing C"·····A'"'' one anoth er. Taylor ~a id the idea with was to suggest that the human need for responsibility the automobile confrollb our nced for of making an nature. The display eventunll y attractive space el(plained, through grapl1H': mcasure~. out o f an asphalt lo t, humanity's dcpendcnct: 0 /1 the automo Taylor ~ aid he wanted hile and their di ~n:gar J for nature. As Photo by Jo MachCldo 10 add character to the time went on, Taylor "aid people dam· lot wi thout taki ng away it s original pur· aged and knocked over th e wolves. but Students are advised not to park in Columbia's sculpture garden, located on the pose-parking. Taylor's love/hate re la le ft the cars a lone. northeast corner of Wabash Avenue and 11th Street. ti onship with the automobile gave way Now the concrete wolves-minus to his vision of the sculpture garden. two-stand e rect. more defiantly, at the By J onathan Bethely too precious to leave in the car. ''To respond to the fact that it still e ntrance to the concrete garde n in front Slaff Wril t' r In 199 1, Columbia purc hased the looked like a parking lot, I thought it of an eight-foot w<.lll protecting the con corner lot that was previously a parking would be interesting to put some cars in crete covered cars. And a concre te raven Contrary to popular belief, Columbia lot. But in order to take it off the tax the lot," Taylor said . But these are no is perched at the top of the wall for an does own a parking lot of sorts. On the rolls, Tom Taylor. fi ne arts coordinator ordinary cars. Each car is covered with extra eye. Although one of the wolves is corner of 11 th Street and Wabash in the Art Department, said that the concrete. reading a book, the cars are still there. Avenue, five cars are parked everyday, space was turned into a sculpture gar· At the back of the lot, Taylor said he The the me of the lot is concre te. guarded by three wolves and a raven. den. In order to be deemed a garden, the wants to put a keystone Columbia There's even a vault to store valuables school planted five trees where cars 8 OPINION November 11 1996 Letters to the editor Animal dissection has no place in academics By Jonolhan IIok:ombe prising in a busi ness where the ''merchan bear the thought of dispensing with hands-on for classroom use is nOl known, it is certainly dise" is goi ng 10 end up dead anyway. contact with a preserved animal, human not ecologically beneficial. pproXimn,c/y, 7 million ve rt eb~ l e TIlen there arc human social concerns. cadavers offer the full·seale experience with Moreover. the world needs people who animals arc killed each year for dls Dissection is intrinsically violent; it involves out the associated ethical problems (people value environmental stewardship and c~ A seclion in U.S biology classrooms. killing, preserving, cutting apart then discard are not ki lled for the PUIJlOSC of dissection passion for life; dissection fosters neither. To iIIuslnllC the magnitude of this many ani ing an animal. However well-intcntioned an and the patient voluntarily donates hislher Perhaps there are a few fields, such as veteri mals. consider that if you lined them all up instructor's desire to teach respect for ani body). nary medicine, for which cuning open and end to end. they would stretch more than mals. the typical dissection exercise will lend Even the economics of dissection do not examining the insides of dead animals is twice the length of California. to undennine it by devaluing the lives of argue for ilS usc. The HSUS recently did a indispensable. But even vet schools don't And for wha.t purpose? What gains arc other crealures to the level of expendable cost comparison and found that, for all five need to deliberately kill animals to train their made when students cui open and explore the objcclS. species we looked at (shark. frog. rat. pig. studenlS. Conducting spay! neuter surgeries insides of frogs and cats and fetal pigs and Thcrc is also quality of education to be cat), the cost of purchasing a broad range of on animals from the animal shelters. and dogfish sharks? TIle Humane Society of the considered. Teachers who continue to use alternative materials was lower than that of procuring deceased calS and dogs from their United States (HSUS) believes that whatever animal s in dissections or other invasive class purchasing animals to dissect. For 270 stu· owners who sign a consent fomt are amana benefits arise from dissections arc far out room exercise." are apparently unaware of or dents (two students per animal) over a three the ethical ways that growing numbers of vet weighed by the COSls. unmoved by the foct that more than a d07.cn year period, money saved ranged from $344 schools are procuring animals for their train First there is the animal suffering studies have shown that students using (bull frogs) to $4.342 (calS). If you want to ing programs. involved. Investigations into the dissection humane alternatives Icam anatomy and phys save even more money. just borrow the alter Is there any justification for animal dissec trade have documented eals being drowned iology as well as or better that students who native. lhe HSUS, for instance, operates an lion when it has so many counlS-animai len al a lime in burlap sacks or prodded use animals (The HSUS wi ll provide an Altematives Loan Program that currently has killing, animal suffering. violation of stu roughly into crowded gas chambers. rats annotated list of these studies to anyone who over forty items available on a temporary, dents' sensibilities, mediocre educational embalmed with fonnaldchydc while still liv requests it}. Ahundant resources arc avai lable frcc --of-c harge basis. merit and environmental disruptioo-against ing. dozens of live frogs pi led into sacks for for leaming anatomy, physiology, genetics. Finall y. there is environmental protection. it? We think not. days or weeks without food and sickly turtles toxicology and other animal-related fields Many of the animals hanned or killed for Jonatlwn Ba/combe. Ph.D .. is a biologist kept in filth y, overcrowded holding tanks. thai do not require animals 10 suffer and/or classroom use arc caught in the wild. and arsocioJe director for education for ani 11lese sons of conditions appear to be quite die. TIlcse include film s, computer simu la Populations of frogs and sharks, for instance, mnl research issues with The Humnne Society commonplace. and although inexcus.1blc and ti ons, models. books or a trip to the local vet· have been seriously declining in recent years, oflhe United States. sometimes illegal. they arc perhaps not sur· erinary clinic. To anyone who si mply cannot and while the specific impact of their capture
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Arout a The Chronicle's stuff is not kept up to d Visit the Chronicle's web-site WWW.5INTERACCESS.CO CHRONICLE November 11, 1996 FEATURE S 9 This Stuff Is From This Staff Bob Chiarito Jennifer Prause Silence deadlier than words Fear of elevators in£~vit:able With a record low voter turnout in Okay, I've read the Chronicle arti TIlinois, this year's presidential election was cles about our elevators malfunction a good indication of just how hypocritical ing, but up until a couple weeks ago. I we have become. was never stuck on one. In case anyone forgot. when President It happened during a break from I ainton was first elected, he only received class, when was going from the lobby to the 12th noor in the 624 43 percent oflhe popular vote. This year, he I received 49 percent, despite not living up to Students not happy South Michi gan Building. hesitated many of his campaign promises of 1992. geuing into the elevator because there Many people who voted forOinton told were so many people in it. But if I did n' t get on, I would be latc. me they did so because he was the "lesser There were at least 11 people in the of two evils," 'That may have been true in about new print fees elevator. Right after we hit the eighth 1992, when Qinton ran against Ross Perot noor, the e levator stopped. I couldn ' t and Geo!ge Bush. BUI the real reason any e know, through experience, how tough it is to get students excit help but lament my bad luck. But then one would v()(e for Clinton this year is sim~ I realized it was the school's fault that ply because they compromised their beliefs ed about any issue on campus. We also know that circumstances I was stuc k w ith II screaming and vOled fa< the so-called ''more inclu that cause student uproar are nearly impossible to predict. In our strangers and a lack of oxygen. sive" Qinton. While talking a big game, W I heard people behind me scream Ginton has not done anything for homo office, we've winced numerous times anticipating student reaction to op-ed pieces-only to hear nothing upon publication. And some of the stories that ing, "Ring the bell!" "Oh my God!" sexuals or blacks, two groups thaI he and 'There's no oxygen!" pledged to help in 1992. Like Clinton vot have seemed innocent to us have in fact prompted strong student protest. The lady next 10 me ran g the emer ers, many free speech advocares arc com In the case of Academic Computing's new print card policy, as delineated gency bell, and soon the phone rang. A promising their beliefs and taking the polit male student answered the phone, icaJly correct approach to the current by Jill Schimelpfenig's front-page story in this issue, we understand the stu dent uproar that has resulted. asked what they were going to do. He Texaco scandal. then informed us that the school was Last week, Texaco executives were As Rebecca Courington, acting chair of the Academic Computing getting someone to help us. The lady caught on tape referring to their black Department, has indicated, something had to be done. Students were given behind me screamed, "Do they know employees as "niggers" and "block jelly the freedom to print documents as needed and that freedom was abused. And this is serious?" beans," and they joked aboul the African while it appears that this is another case of a few bad apples spoi lin g a good There was a teacher who used the American celebration of Kwanzaa. phone to tell security to call her Texaco, as well as the executives, have thing for a majority of responsibl e students, Academic Computing has a bud department and let them know she been rightfully lambaslcd by !he press and getary bottom line to keep in mind. would be late for class. One passenger African-American groups around the coun Yet with all the money each of us pays for college tuition-including fees pushed us to keep ringin g the bel l. by as being ra:ist While this is undeniable per class-we find,this development regrettable. Whe n security called again, the true, the way the public learned of the story same man answered and asked who should scare both whiles and blacks. So far, Most regrettable is the fact that some students will abuse thi s process by was coming to get us. Security this story has been widely ignored by the printing hundreds of copies, and thai the consequences of their behavior is responded that we had to wait for the press, once the leading fighter for freedom felt by al l. We' re not sure it has 10 be that way. elevator company to come to our res of speech. Rather than take an unpopular Academic Computing, located on the fourth floor of the Wabash Building, cue. The teacher screamed for them 10 stand, they are choosing to focus on the call the fire department. Security politically correcl angle of the stO!)'. is set up in such a way that this should never have happened to begin with. responded thai they couldn't- we had 1l1e tapes in question were made by When a student prints a document from a lab, they have to retrieve that doc to wail for the elevator company. Robert Lundwall, who was senior coordi ument in "the cage" with the help of a work aide. And students are supposed The male student then as ked where nator of personnel services in the compa to leave an ID with aides so they know exactly who's in which lab. the company was coming from and ny's finance department Lundwall not only security didn' t know. Because it was made the tapeS secretly, bUI used them as Isn't it part of a work aide's duty- paid duty-to crack down on abuses of raining out, we were sure it would take revenge fodder after he was fired. any sort? And couldn't the definition of an "abuse" of printing privileges be a long time because traffic was bad . ... Forget for a moment vihat was on the set, allowing students to print, say 20 copies before they have to leave the The male student finall y opened our tapeS and think aboul the more importanl lab? elevator doors 10 bring in some air and aspect freedom of speech. Fnscdom of see where we were. We hadn' llefllhe speech no! only for !hose who are political Maybe we're being too optimistic about human nature-or about th e eighth noar. He saw people through ly COO"ecI and righl, bul for !hose who are nature of students who are, mostly, scrimping and saving at every chance to the doors and screamed for he lp. ignornnl and full of hate. begin with. But, again, it's just such a shame that we have to shell out even Nobody responded. Over the yean; groups from the Black more money to this institution. Chaos erupted. No one knew what Panthers 10 K1u Klux Klan and people like to do, so we kept ringing the bell and Malcolm X and Pat Buchanan have made But if even more fees are necessary in thi s case, we slill cannot understand yell ing. There was no way out. We comments or statements of their beliefs that the screwy system that has been put in place: Students pay 50 cents per print couldn', look around or move. are offensive and degrading to many pe0- job, and a print job can be anywhere from one to 10 pages. When it costs th e Then thc people on the other side of ple, yet they are nOl barred from speaking. same to print one page as it does to print 10, some students are, in effect, the elevator opened the doors so there Many believe that. since the Texaco was enough room to get out. We just ra:ists made their comments at an "official" paying for the actions of others. That's a decent price for a student printing had to be careful not to fall in to the company meeting,Jhey should be fired. But 10 pages, but a little steep for one page--or even a few. shaft. The male student jumped out people should nOl jump on the politically Again, we admit that Academic Computing is having a problem with prinl first. I fo ll owed. As soon as the correct conspiracy-theory bandwagon. ing abuses, and that the blame mostly li es upon the shoulders of a few bad teacher tried to exit after me, security Remember Voltaire. who said "I may not caught her and yell ed that she had to agree with a word of what you say, but I wi ll apples. But we don't believe the current policy is fair. get back in the elevator! When securi defend, until death, your right to say it" As Schimelpfenig's story related, faculty in Academic Computing have ty asked who opened the doors, At Columbia. a school that prides itself indicated that they' re open to alternative policies. How about something nobody answered. on its students' individualism and indepen closer to a copy shop card where students pay what they please and have Ihe When the male student who had escaped the elevator with me left, tak dence, there is not a single student group amounl deducted per copy? that is controve~ ial . Even those that may ing another elevator, I said goodbye to have seemed controversial years ago do not And to the students who' re suffering from the abuses of others: Faculty has my peers who were slill stuck (after at alarm anyone today. That's because groups indicated that Ihey're open to suggestions. Bring Ihem some- or suffer in least ten minutes) and ran for my life today often disguise their agenda by saying silence. up four nights of stairs. they are "pro-this," or "in support of that," When I walked into class, late, my whi le they are really "anti-something." teacher asked where I had been. I told While I am not advocating the fonnation her the truth. One Ill an in my class said of any hate or supremacist groups here, it they should go check the elevators to would be interesting to see how the pol iti see if I was lying. One woman said cally correct masses at Columbia would DEAD? that she heard the bells rin gi ng when react. So far in Columbia's history, no hare.. she came back from break and ful or militant group has been created. But bel ieved me. the three people in charge of approving new Then don't write us. Howeve r, if you're alive with some brain activity going When my class was over, the eleva tor was work ing. I don', know how studenl groups-Dean ofSludcnlS Jean Lee, on, we want to know about it. Mail or bring your letters or opinion pieces to Dean of Sludenl Life Madeline Roman long the others were slUck. Vargas and Student Organizations Council David Harrell at 623 S. Wabash, Suite 802 OR email: CHRON96@INTERAC This happened in a schoo l where President Melissa Wendel-aU told me I've been in elevators four days a Columbia would respect the formation of CESS.COM. Hurry--you're losing brain cells! week for three years. I'm now a little leery of entering the elevators again. any student group as long as it met the But there is no way I'll walk up 13 or school's criteria Only time will tell if they 12 nights of stairs when I have cl ass. live up to their word. 10 FEAT URES Nove m b e r 11, ,1 996 Archers of Loaf: Forging a step ahead By Ryan Healy your wrisis o f your arms of your shoulders Enl~rtainmt'nl Editor o f your neck of y~ ur head .o f ~ higher place and we're all gomg to die, If not from a The Archers of Loaf will kick your album than the Archers have good thing. done in the past, so let's all take a brief The Archers arc Eric Bachmann (guitar, mo ment of silence and thank them for not vocals). Eri c Johnson (guitar), Matt spoon-feeding us the same stuff we've Gentling (bass) and Mark Price (drums). already come to love like little helpless They fonned in 1991 in North Carolina children, but challengi ng us with new and have since released three full-length sounds we digest as adults. albums on Alias Records. In the span of their career, the Archers Their fi rst. "Icky Mettle" ( 1993), was have carved their own ni che, their own called Ihe "Bcst indie rock album of the place. as Bachmann and drummer Mark year"' by Interview Magazine. Their sec Price recently discussed in an interview o nd . "Vee Vee" ( 1995). remained o n with Milk Magazine (I would've had my CMJ's top 50 chart for 14 weeks. Their lat own interview but I missed it because I est, "All the Nation's Airports," recorded just can't seem to get anything right these at Iron Wood Studios in Seattle, is being days because I swear there arc forces embraced by critics and fans across the working against me and t hope the Archers globe. won' t hold this against me). On the new album. the Archers forge "I did an interview in Fargo, North yet another step ahead. Their daring. blar Dakota recently where' was misquoted," ing. mind-clearing. in venti ve guitar surg said Bachmann. " I said we're in this midw ing is still there. And so are those weird die ground where MTV doesn' t play us lyrics we' ve all gro wn to love ("E\,j( and the indie rock elite docsn' tlike us. The creeps alollg the coastlille! Ullderneath the writer that interviewed me misconstrued belly of Alaska "). what I was saying as a negative thing; it's The title track from the album is classic a positive thing. Yo ur crowd isn't indie Archers. It combines melody with disso rock c1ite snobs or whatever. and they're nant breaks and just when you think it nOl those dumb MTV kids." can' t get beller Bachmann's squawking "That's the kind o f audience you hope Photo counesy of Dennis Kleiman guitar sneaks up and tweaks your car. The for," added Price. " People who listen, who back-to-back combination o f "Worst aren't just there because it's the hip thing." boys and girls in love didn't embrace cept, people actually listening to music Defense" and "Attack of the Killer Bees" '" wasn't whining about it at all," con Alanis Mori sette as a queen (give Janis because they loved it, it moved them, the showcases the Archers' abil ity to take you tinued Price. " I think it's great. t prefer to Joplin a listen). A place where attitude sounds inspired them to get off their asses for a ride. l ean ' t decide whether these two keep that kind of fan base throughout our smoked indie rockers didn't frown upon and move. songs are more like sex or surfing, but whole career as a band, to keep that gen you because, well, hell, you just weren' t Well, guess what kids? Gather around whatever they are, they're good and uine listener." cool e nough. A place devoid of o ne-hit closerw-for I know a secret but I must whis demand a second li sten. And " Vocal Now come with me if you will, reader. wonders, bad guitar bands and that oh so per: I know of such a place. It's called Loaf Shrapnel" sho ws no mercy. Imagine a place where young suburban annoying alternative radio with the even Land. Yes, that's right, Loaf Land. It's a But the Archers also shift gears, decid boys with acne and braces and bad haircuts more annoying OJ's who make you want wondrous place where the music matters edly on the brooding track "Chumming the didn't jump on the Green Day bandwagon to pull out a .38 and shoot your radio like (yes, the music does matter) and the peo Ocean," so sit back, relax , light up a and declare themselves punks because goddamn Harvey ~eilel in the " Bad ple are nice. You must give it a' visit some smoke and stare at your hands and reali ze somebody somewhere suddenly decided Lieutenant." time. once again that they're just an extension o f punk was hip. A place where silly little What a place it would be, what a con- 'Romeo and Juliet' reflects modern day society By Sheryl Tirol Corr~spondent "Tu'o households. both alike ill digllity, III fa ir Vero na (where we lay our scene) From ancient grudXt! break new mutillY, Wh e re ci vil blood makes civil hands IInclean From forth thl! f(llalloills of til eSt! two foes A pair of star-erossed lovers take tlreir lives . .. --William Shakespeare O nce again. the be loved story o f ''I've always wanted to do ' Ro meo and William Sha k es pea r e'~ " Romeo and Juliet,'" Lurhamnn explained in a press Juliet" has been redone, this time by direc re lease. 'These themes it explores. the tor Baz Lurhmann. tragedy that is born of a prohibited love in Verona Beach. a sexy. violent, prescnt a world of learned hate, is o ne o f those pri day world ruled hy two feuding fami li es, is mary myths that appeals to all people. where the \ wry is sel. The film stars ' Romeo and Juliet,' like a ll of Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Claire Shakespeare's plays, touched everyone, Above ;md below left: Scenes rrom the new film, " Romeo and Juliet." The film Dane "> a\ Juliet. Lurhmann adapted the from the street sweeper to the Queen of stars Leonardo DiCaprio us Romeo nnd Claire Danes as Juliet. The film is adapt. play to the \(.; rcen with Craig Pearce and England. He was a rambuncti ous, sexy. ed rrom the original Shakcspeare piny and wus directed Du Lurhmann. "Romeo produ(.;er G ... tmclla Martine lli. VIo lent, enlcrtaining storyteller. We're try and JuliN" is currently playing in thcntcrs c\'crywhere. ing to make this movie ram Photos cOllrttsy ofTwtnlittlr Ctnlury Fo:r bunctious. sexy, violent and e nt erl:lining the way Shake!-opcarc might hnvc if he II stagey \'ersion of the classic play so he o f d ilTercl11 rnccs. Wl}!-o a filmmaker." decided to· cast young Americans for the DiC:lprio nnd Danes piny their roles Lurhrn,ln n'" illterpret;uion role s of Romeo and Julie t :lIul the oppos t,.' .'(ceplionnlly well. Danes' ponraynl of n uf "Romco ;a nd Juliet" I:Ikcs ing C:lpul ct nnd Montnguc gangs, letting yuung and innocent Juliet is well depicted. place ill our modern em. '111e them speak the fmnous lines in their own espcl'il1l1y in the scenes in which she wenrs IUC:llion uf filming WllS Americlln accents. white. symbolizi ng purity nnd innocem..'c . MC)I;u.:u Ci ty: fmm The movie is nut dull. drnh or drugging. DiCllprio's rcprcscntnlio n o f Ro meo is Ihlll C huruhu\co Stud ins III the II has 1\ gucxl p:1Cl~ nnd keeps Ihe lIudiclll'e of l\ rehel. and tlS Lurhmunn said. "He docs hadlands of 'lc)I;cOCII to the ill suspense. In steud of mundane l'~) lnrs secm to sY11lholizIl his gencrutio n. I j ust city 's fllllled Chap ultapcc appc:lring in Ihe film, hright, ho ld , vivid thought he'd be tl perfect Romeo. it wtl.~ us Cllstlc . A ll o f these hccollle illlllgCS m il Ill'TOSS the st.:rl'ell. simple us Ihnt." the se ttin ~ of Verull u Beach. The heautiful Ill1lll m:ulluc Henri uf Overull. thIJ film rcflcl.:ts n modem dny The 1'11111 cuptures lIIuny Mary Church, whil'h hccolllcs St. Peh:r's inmgc lind til the smne timo is nhle to aspects III' the '90s, frolll fll st 'hurt.: h in the iii III , is 1111 incredihlc piece c mbrncc the 1011gu080 l)f SIU\kespenrc dri ve n cars tu Hawaiian-style uf architectu re thu t is shown. It is IIlso Ihe while hold ing true to tl\\) lrlldilion nnd the Hhins to quick . l1in Hi n ~ Huns. plucc where RUlIlell lind Julh:1 IlIl1rry tllIll limn of whut III~p pc n l!d to ,wo "younH star Aheml the unly IhinH thut WIIS' whcre the twu yOllllg lovers mcet their crossed lovers, n' l chungcd frtJITi Ihe origlnul own deuth. It is 1\ rcl1lnrkublc mill und c*,pturc:s lhe pillY ill the IiIfl Kuugc- the Anolher inlcrestin" IIspeet o f the nllll is re.linM' or thu twu lovcrs lit • limo or hQtc uriginnl ShllkclIptlirc le"" t Ilils the divcrll it y uf tho ellsl . Mercutio (Hurn ld lind pllln, been kept. Pcrrillollu), IIl'tllin I)rlnco (Vondlc urIIII · Lurhlllunn wllnt cd Iu IIvold 1·11111 ) IIlId 'Iyhil lt (luhll Lo¥ull,lIl1l1l) Ill'll 1111 November 11 1996 FEATUR~~E."'EO 11 f 6M Century play 'The DUciJ888 of NOIJ 1 -"'rr ~~""""""''''''''''''''~~~====''''i1 MaNi' Benda motlern ...day m888Dge ' )LUM81~ By Danielle Hirsch organization and interpretation. Perkins coor Staff Writer dinates all clements of production, including coaching actors, sceni c design, li ghting, cos Horror, corruption, revenge and integrity tumes, makeup, sound and fight choreography. linger deep in the backbone of the Columbia At the same time, Perkins must use interpreta College Theater Department's latest produc tion to make sure the story gets told. ti on, "The Duchess of Malti," opening Nov. 7 "The Duchess of Malfi" is a one-selling at the Getz Theater. show that takes place over a six-year period, "The Duchess of Malfi is nol some dusty 1504-1510. The play includes bloody fight old classic," said director Kathleen Perkins. scenes, choreographed by David Woolley, and. "This play conveys a lot of contemporary special effects dealing with corruption and overtones." death. Charles Jolls designed the lighting that "Duchess" takes place in 16th Century Italy sets the different moods of the play. during the High lIalian Renaissance period. The design cC! ncept of the play keeps to the Unbeknownst to, and against the wishes of, period of the 16th century. A huge marble her brothers. the young, beautiful Duchess of staircase with crumbling balusters creates the Malti marries the steward of her household, various locations of the play. Antonio. who is below her class. "The deteriorating baluster sy mboli zes cor A spy named Bosola. planted in her palaee ruption," said Perkins. by her brothers, reports the births of the The dark and deep. colors of the Duchess' children. Her brothers become out Renaissance surround the staircase. The play raged when they discover what the Duchess wiIJ include music that was part of the original has done. When her brothers find out the iden production. tity of her husband, they move in for revenge. The play is dedicated to Frances Maggio, They capture the Duchess and two of her chil head of the Costume Design Department. dren, confiscate her land and imprison her. Initially, Maggio was going to design the cos Bosola, who becomes her torturer and execu tumes for the play. However. she was in a car tioner, has a change of heart as the play pro accident and is now learning to live in a gresses and becomes her avenger. wheelchair. The costumes were instead "Bosola has blamed everyone else for the designed by Patricia Roeder, with the input of hardships of hi s life," said Perkins. "His Maggio and Perkins, and are based on choices are motivated by greed and a desire to Renaissance paintings by TItan. Raphael and advance in his career. He has left behind the Lorenzo Lotto. desire for knowledge and goodness. He thinks, A great deal of preparation has gone into at first, the Duchess is like himself, however, the production. The 23 cast members began when he realizes this is not the case, he tries to rehearsing the second week of the fall semes follow her example." ter. However. Perkins said she has been According to Perkins, the pl ay is an exam preparing for the play for many years. ination of life experiences. " I did my graduate school paper on the play "The Duchess takes risks to shape her life 5 years ago," Perkins said . fE~ 1§J:J~~~;~~ .: ~~I3!ri~ .0~3~::-K CO","" - ~. "00 Ph an Thi Kim Phuc, who as a little girl was the (::1' S""bnw'l< 1,800A 4 08~~., subject of one of the Vietnam War's most riveting Motel 7... In the Ua""i,on !-jot.1 ,",0_, ,~'''"'O, ,"<~loo. "'00, ro, photos, will speak at Columbia Nov. 13. ",,~eJ .... ,,',j ,,,!"V.ce ~ "~,, <:; ~·'lc"boo ..... L "~ "J "'I roo .... 0'1 :>~"'''''' St"';",,l J, Admission is free. To respond to a Permnal Cld , write to l he code number In core of The Chronde. 600 S M;ch'gan Ave . Ch,cogo. II November 11, 1996 12 • I'll' F ,E A T V RES DON'T B E A ~~ PAL 0 0 KA " ! 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ONE TICKET (ADMIT TWO) PER PERSON. ~r~·nIl 8AMUELOOLDWYN COMPANY 13 FEATURES November 11, 1996 AllENTI 0 N STUDENTS! ~\J~_~~",_- Livent, producers of this 5-time ' Tony· Award-winning musical, is pleased to provide students with an unprecedented opportunity to see Broadway's most honored show at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago for only $25,00'! ACT NOW! There are a limited number of specially-priced student tickets available at each performance, excluding Saturday evenings. These tickets are ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE AUDITORIUM THEATRE BOX OFFICE, AND ONLY ON THE DAY OF PERFORMA NCE! You must present a valid Student ID Card to take advantage of this offer! CASH ONLY - 14 FEATURES Nove m bee r 11 1996 Columbia fashion students win awarJls in effort to halt Chicago's 'whack' reputation Fashion Forum! II's the one day of the year ion show. This year it was held on Oct. 30. not take first place is this: Because the deadline is when fashi on s lu(k: nls from all over the Midwest The day kicked off with a motivational speak· during our first week of classes while other put on their shin y sho,cs and navy suilS ;.\Od stand er I was not impressed wi th at all . She was schools are in their fourth or fifth, Columbia stu strai ght with resume m hand as they rub elbows from Avon. Avon? I was bored to death. She read dents do not have enough time to create. wi th the big wigs. hoping they wi ll find someone her speech (w hich says it all ri ght there) in a However, if Columbia College students took these (ha[ might be interested in them for fulure monotone voice. It was long and dry. Then 10 top competiti ons more seriously, acted professionall y clllploymcnt. it off, she w;.ts showi ng slides of babies as she and planned ahead, then Columbia would have Personall y. it disgusts me to see these "fash spoke about how o ne woman found happiness in taken home the first places, a pretty nice monetary ion" people from all parts of Illi nois and other ;.tdopt ion. I am not sure what she wa~ trying to say, award that could be of some use, not to mention Midwest fann lands venturing oul but e ither way, whal did into the "big city" one day a year. slides of babies have 10 do We.tring their high, platinum hair Fashion wit h motivating people in with hig gold earrings nnd IwO their careers? Kinda twisted. piece '80s-style suits and pink lip Maybe she was saying, stick. they walk around in hud "Don't worry if you work dles. like a chccrl cading squad Nation too hard to develop any lo() king for jobs. relationships-you can Al this point. I understand always adopt"'!'!? where all the dreadful navy comes After the speech, we from and why it seems as if were sct free to go to the Chicagoans can't get away from three seminars that we it. They ;.t re t;.tking us over, and signed up for. There were those of us th;.u rcall y know what Melissa Wendel approximately thirty differ· is up ;.tre mi grating to Los Angeles ent seminars with topics and New York and saying that covering fas hi on markcting, C hicago is whack! But it doesn' t buying, writing, managing, have to be. licensing, merchandising, I know I ;.tm offending a lot of designing and even fashi on pcop~c, considering that many of you are from on the Web! A ll seminars were taught by working these fannlands, but if you arc studying here. in a professionals. city where fashion business is taking place in stead Every year I find these seminars extremely of imagining it from there. then you already know interesting because they give you a chance to hear what is up and I am not referring to you. But. if the fac ts , straight from the boss. The professionals you arc from C hi cago and go to one of those do not teach you how to do the job, they tell you Midwestern "frat" universities to " learn" fashion ho w it is. Alo ng the way you pick up valuable tips instead of making it happen here. then I am talk· and learn professional conduci appropri ate fo r ing to you. However, if I' m wrong-Write me! venturing into the industry. Anyway. Fashion Forum is an all·day event The day ended with the student competition created and produced by Fashi on G roup fash ion show. This year it included a written com· International (EG.J.). It is held at the Apparel petition for merchandising students with a S I ()()() Center and begins with a mo ti vational speaker, award granted to the winner. (There were no followed by seminars. a box lunch and job recruit· Columbia College participants because the dead· that someone of importance might see your work ment, and ending wi th a student competition fash· line for entry fe ll during our first week of school.) and decide to sponsor you. Just a thought. But now that I am telling you ;.tbou t it. ne xt year I would like to add that these winners are the we wi ll have Columbia College participants. Just on ly people from Columbia that submitted some· contact Dianne Erpenbach, Columbia's F.G.1. thing and every one of them placed. Hmm? What member and fas hi on retai l coordi nator at Ext. would have happened ir we' d have planned 565 /. Plan on it now! P'" _, b B . R dl ahead? The design compe· lW os y aratn¥s. an e F.G.1. also has a student membership titian had six cate· F hioD t de tI from eraJ group. This group is chaired by Columbia gories: Child ren's ~ t I!...!.. -....w..~td. College's very own Patti Thomas . They Wear. Sportswear. the F~G5- ·'j~':;;;:;Uoa:; have done an excellent job arranging free ~~~~~;;:~ar su~~sd ~;: SDtud:P Competition ~e~~~~iter~ t~dyen~ceov~7~~ :n$.G~l.~~~~~~ Fantasy. The first·· member. you arc also invited to F.G.l.'s place winners were At I It: The F "'-- r_~_ formal events, at a discount and to some or from the International Ii t e lac • ner"-~f.I;;i:;{ their meetings. But. more importantly, it is Academy of flit,a r :b: , ~ t Y an excell ent way to network, and learn M e r~ hand isi n g and . U:sklrt.l&~bo\'e:tA =-:~ more about the industry. Besides. it looks DeSIgn and Harper ~ts d tbe ". ing great on your resume. Pretty much every College. 5 uown nmwa~ ear professional is a F.G.L member, so when Columbia College all au rwear comped n entry. they are interviewing you they will proba. took horne a few hon- bly make a reference to your membership ors. In Sportswear, Jessica Riggs took second and that is rtlways a great time to start name drop place for her blaek and white linen jacket and ping. I say this because thi s is what happened black pants. In Outerwear, Ki nga Szal took sec- when I was working in New York over the sum· and place for her black double breasted coat and mer, and it worked out for the best. Also, remem Kittotpee Vccrakul took home two sccond·placc ber that FG.!. is internatio nal. If you arc interest· awards, o ne in Evcningwear for hi s natural hand- ed in becoming a F.G.1. student member and want painted top :tnd long skirt and one in Fantasy, for more information, call Diane Erpcnbach at E:a. hi s absolutely fabu lous beige haskeHveave top 565 /. I have been a member for three years and it and skirt. is worth your time if you arc serious nhout the My philosophy o n why Columhia Coll ege did f:. shi on business. UPCOMING CCFA EVENTS 11·26·96 Ten fabulous alumn i who have done somelhing wilh Iheir fashion relmed degree will relum 10 give us the in si de scoop! 12·10·96 A rare Ireal! The meeling will be held in Ih e visilors lounge al Marshall Fields on Slale slreel where Amy Meadows, direc tor of visual merchandisin g there, will share the secrets of those always-so-fascinating Christmas windows. 2·12·97 Meel and speak inlimalely wilh Susan Glick, Chicago Apparel Cenler fashi oa direc lor and Peggy Lanigan, Chic;'lgo ApP;'lrcl Center assistant fashion director, abou t the glamorous world of fashion shows and Ihcir producli on. Is il really all Ih al glamorous??'?? 3-'/·97 Two speakers have been us kcd and we arc wuiting for their confinllulion. Final confirmation and date wi ll be posted, printed here, in the CCFA ncwslcucr and on wu ll s nen r YOll . 4· 1·97 through 4·(,·97 New York Trip. A Irip vi tal 10 your career and fo r your enj oymenl ! 4·2H·97 Fa .. hioll Colum hia opening ni ght ! 5·H·97 Elld of year PARTY alld e1eclionsllll!I!!!!! STAY T UNED FOR TilE CCI'A NEWSLE'.,.ERIII Cheek th e Fashi on Design and MUlIlIgCIIICnt Dcpart lllcnt s ur IIsk It member. .November 11, 1996 FEATURES 15 30\1.1 c:hat'1l1 beyond 1 3ight -. t/ wouldn't it bg mgrgly too pgrFgct iF g"gryt~ins turngd ~ out as you gxpgctgd'? w~at a miraclg t~is damngd world . L-______~ ~ Novem b er 11, 1996 FE ATURE S 16 "" Green Mill speaks of bygone jazz era By Kimber ly Watkins F{,(III1rt'.fEtiilor ''Thi s is it?" I as k. "This is ii," he says. On the outsitk. it's nothing spectacular. Above a large showcase window wi th a typi cal storefront door hang the words "Green Mill Cocktail Lounge" in a brilliant ncon green. ~ "Just wait 'Iii YOli gel inside," he says. It 's our onc·ycar anniversary. 10 the day. I was ex pec ting a nicc. quaint rcstuurant maybe, with violin ists strollin g from table to table wail ing for requests. I start to sc ratch my head and look back toward the c:.tr as I fec i my arm bei ng yan ked toward the door. "Was that too much to ask ?"' I silently question and beg in 10 moan, " Why? Why?" " W hoa!" Now in side the bui lding. my eyes need time 10 adjust to the dim lig ht ing. A doorman ushers liS past a blur of a bar to it small booth near the back. Walls are covered with '20s memorabilia. The white tablecloth of our table shimmers under the seductive dance of a fat green candle. In fact, the entire room has a relaxed calm and romanti c glow about it. ''I'm starting to like this place," I thi nk. And the piani st's rendition of Bi llie Holi d The (;n'c li Mill , IIH..' utcd un Luwrcnce und Hruudwuy,ls one of <": h k u ~o's musl lush und cozy juZl clubs. Home 10 the original Uptown l'ut.' lry Shim, MI~h t y lUue K I I1 ~ s und I-n trlcin Barber, Ihe Mill uUructs j uzz umdonudns young und old.