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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Columbia Chronicle by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. RECEIVED i THE COLUMBIA DEC 1 3 2005 INSIDE Columbia holiday gift guide ... Pull-out page 6 The danger with strangers . CHRONICIF Page 15 iiiiiiiiiiiiiii;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;iiii December 12. 2005 Volume 40. Number 15 iiiii;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;i;i;iii;i~iii;i~;;~~~;;iii;iiii;ii.;.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;- Fundraising sputtered under former official
Chronicle exam shows spent $2 million on fundraising endeavors. donations down while During that same period for the expenses increase 2003-2004 fiscal year, Ross' first as vice president of institutional By Jeff Danna advancement, Columbia brought Editor-In-Chief in $3.8 million from non-govern When Sam Ross was hired as ment sources, a decline of 48 per vice president of institutional cent. This is the least amount in advancement at Columbia in donations Columbia has brought October 2003, his basic ambition in since 2000-200 I, when the was to help Columbia raise funds school received $3.4 million. and become less dependent on Also during 2003-2004, the tuition as a source of revenue. school spent $2.4 million on phil But it turns out that, Columbia anthropic efforts, $400,000, or 20 ra ised significantly less money percent, more than the previous under Ross, who abruptly vacated year. his position Dec. 2. According to Documents for the 2004-2005 an e-mail sent from Columbia fiscal year are not yet available. president Warrick L. Carter's Michael DeSalle, Columbia's office, Ross left to "take advan vice president of finance and Chief tage of other opportunities," and Financial Officer, said he has not co llege officials have declined to had a chance to research the infor elaborate on the details of Ross' mation in the 990s, and he could departure. not conunent on why Columbia Federal 990 tax forms obtained saw a drop in contributions. Ho-ho holiday party through the IRS and Columbia's In the realm of fundraising, Office of the Vice President of Columbia also spent significantly Finance reveal that from more on compensation top Members of Columbia student organizations and HUB faculty pose for a photograph with Santa September 2002 to August 2003, administrators, the salaries of Claus at the a nnual HUBadays Holiday Party. The holiday celebration in the HUB , 1104 S. Institutional Advancement staff Wabash Ave., Dec. 9 was open to the entire Columbia community. The people posing with the fiscal year before Ross was Santa are Donnie Kim lin (bottom left), coordinator of student leadership, Jessica Coney (bottom hired, the college received $7.3 and travel. DeSalle said these spikes can right), Cassandra McCottrell (left of Santa), Ebone McCloud (right of Santa ), Kathy Kubala (far million in contributions from rig ht), Dominic Cottone (top left), director of student leadership, John Spring (top right). non-government sources and See Ross, Page 8 Students gather holiday cheers for the needy Propo~ed aid Holly Jolly Trolley ho! ho!" coffee, hot cocoa and bagels this year because of a larger CUtS will not Food Drive raises Santa Claus, the Columbia donated from local businesses. budget. rm· pact Radio Department and the cam-Students could also spin a wheel " It's a really good cause," money, food pus radio station, WCRX, joined for the chance to win a variety of Wylie said. "And it's something Columbt" a By Jessica Pearce volunteers from the Greater prizes from classical music COs we can do to support the Audio Ass istant Campus Editor Chicago Food Depository in the to T-shirts advertising the movie Department." By Hayley Graham third annual Holly Jolly Trolley The Chronicles of Narnia: The Anita Padilla, NBC5's morning Campus Editor Food Drive to raise money and Lion. the Witch and the Wardrobe. anchor and reporter, helped Students walking into food for the Greater Chicago The Holly Jolly Trolley idea WCRX with the broadcast, which Proposed cuts to federal stu- Columbia's 33 E. Congress Food Depository. came out of a Radio Department ran continuously throughout the dent financial aid would not dra- Parkway building Dec. 8 were DJs from WCRX provided staff meeting in 2003, said Cheryl day. Padilla, a Columbia alumna, matically impact Columbia stu greeted by a familiar sight of the conunentary throughout the day Morton-Langston, director of said that people forget who bene- dents, officials said. season- a man dressed in red and as students brought canned goods WCRX. fits from the donated food. In November the U.S. House of white, cheerfully bellowing, "Ho! and other food to donate, bought "We were having a large dis- "People forget that the homc- Representatives approved a cussion on conununity service," less are not just individuals," she budget bill, which would cut she said. "We thought we needed said. "Families are homeless, too. $ 14.3 billion from student loans to do something. We were singing A lot of people lost their jobs this over the next five years. The silly [holiday] songs and came up year. People need to understand Senate proposed and passed $8.8 with the idea of filling up a trolley that they could be in this situation billion in student loan cuts in an with canned goods." very easily." effort to ease the U.S. budget According to Ruth lgoe, direc- Igoe agrees that there are a lot deficit. tor of communications for the of misperceptions about people The House and Senate are cur Greater Chicago Food who use the food depository. rently negotiating the budget bill. Depository, last year the school "Thirty percent arc the working which will have to be passed by a donated a total of 73 1 pounds of poor," she said. "Another 30 per majority in each house before it food and $ 1,000. This year, the cent are children. There are 91 ,000 can be signed into law by Student Government Association people in Cook County every week President George W. Bush. donated $ 1,5 00 to the shelter in who rely on the food depository A majority of the cutbacks addition to the money raised by that could fill Soldier Field one and would come from el iminating the students giving as they walked a halftimes." federal Perkins loan program, through the building. Columbia Although the Greater Chicago which Columbia does not partici presented the SGA's check in a Food Depository appreciates all pate in, according to Jenni fer ceremony Dec. 8. the donations it receives during Waters. director of student fina n Igoe said the $ 1,500 will pro- the holiday season, lgoc wants to cial services at Columbia. vide about 6,000 meals for the remind students that homeless Waters said students wi ll not be men, women and children who ness isn't just a winter problem. affected if the cutbacks are use the shelter. "Hunger is a 365 day a year passed until 2007 or 2008. "We're so appreciative," she problem," she said. "Ninety per "Nothing is reall y going to said. "Events like this help raise cent of all food drive donations change for this year," Waters awareness and bring people to are in November and December." said . action." Igoe said that the food deposito- Stafford loans. which 70 per Junior Raquel Vega (right) and senior Mike Ha nsen (middle), Courtney Wylie, vice presi- ry welcomes volunteers all year cent of Columbia students both radio majors, speak to Steve Scott, associate producer dent of the SGA, said this is the long. receive, would experience an for Goodman Theatre's Christmas Carol while co-hosting the second year it bas donated For more information, or to increase in origination fcc, which WCRX Holly Jo lly Trolley broadcast on Dec. 8 a t Columbia's money to the shelter. The SGA donate your time. call (773) 247- Congress Parkway building, 33 E. Congress Parkwa y. was able to donate more money FOOD. See Loa ns , Page 9 NEWS&NOTES December 12, 2005 IN THIS ISSUE Protesters miss the point By Jeff Danna, Editor-in-Otief I Campus News he words of John P. Murtha, divert attention away from the pro their criticism, the protesters were a Democratic congressman testers by asking questions that also clearly in the wrong place at T from Pennsylvania, have would elicit strong reactions from the wrong time. After all, the audi sparked the latest ideological audience members, but most eyes ence members made it clear they mentary debate over the war in Iraq. still remained on those creating the did not want to put up with the The 73-year-old representative, disturbance. hecklers: who served 37 years in the Marine She then told the protesters that Protests can be effective if exe Corps, called for the removal of she would address the issue of the cuted correctly. If those involved American troops from Iraq wtthin war later and that people in the can present clear rea~ons why they the next six months during a ses audien~e had no patience for the are speaking out and alternative sion of the House of scene they were creating. solutions to the issues they are Representatives last month, and in After a few minutes of shouting challengi ng, they have the potential a statement t•n his webpage, he and struggling, security guards to change minds. If they are organ wrote: managed to escort the protesters ized and hold their demonstrations "The lack of clear objectives and from the building, and the crowd in forums where the public can consistent policies has left us with a cheered. Clinton continued to respond to their ideas, they can gain weakened security both at home speak for another 45 minutes, and respect. Announcements and abroad. [There is] a weakening toward the end of her presentation Prior to Clinton's speech, ofpublic support not for our troops, she gave her position on Iraq as she William McNary, of grassroots who have done everything we've promised. organizations USAction and asked of them, but of the president "I do not believe there are quick Citizen Action/lllinois which both and his job in Iraq." and easy solutions in Iraq," she promote public interest, talked pas Textbook Buyback Murtha's remarks regarding the said. "I do not believe we should sionately about the need for young Make some money for the holidays. Textbook buy war are highly critical of the Bush have gone into Iraq before the people to become politically active. back begins Dec. 12 in the bookstore, 624 S. administration, but they are also inspectors finished their work.... I But politically active doesn't just Michigan Ave. Students who bring in textbooks and reasonable. He has made excellent, disagree with those who believe we mean holding up signs with idealis their student lD can receive ·up to 50 percent of the pointed comments about the devas should immediately pull out, and I tic slogans and disrupting events; purchase price of the book. Buyback runs through tation the war has caused, noting disagree with those who believe we politically active means campaign Dec. 17. The bookstore is open Monday through the dramatic increase in attacks in should stay without end." ing, voting and taking part in Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, the past year. While Clinton's moderately left organized protests that can facili 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information. call Chad Ifonly all critics of the war could leaning remarks did not completely tate change. Nale at (312) 344-7588 be so informed and eloquent. jibe with the protesters' points of "There are people that make On Dec. 3, Sen. Hillary Rodham view, they did create an atmosphere things happen; there are people that Clinton gave the keynote speech at conducive for a healthy debate let things happen; and there are the American Democracy about the war. If anyone were to people that don't know what's hap Student Jam Showcase Institute's youth summit in speak out against Clinton's posi pening," McNary said. The HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo Ave., will host the Roosevelt University's Auditorium tion, this would have been the time. While not everyone is in a high Student Jam Showcase, Dec. 14 from 7:30 p.m. to Theater, and just minutes after she Unfortunately, the protesters lost profile position to "make things 10:30 p.m. The showcase will feature students from took the stage, groups of protesters their chance to make a profound happ~n" like Congressman Murtha, the Music Department Student Jam Series and cover in the audience stood up and inter statement. Clinton's position on the everyone is in a position to educate styles from hip-hop to R&B. For more information. rupted her. war was not as drastic as the pro himself or herself on important call Gary Yerkin at, (312) 344-6110. They chanted and held up signs testers led people to believe. Their issues and organize campaigns that with slogaru like, "Out of Iraq rhetoric would have been more can convey a message through rea Now" and "Hillary Supports War," effective if it had been directed son. they dropped leaflets from the audi toward a politician with more of a Because, in the words of torium's bakonies; and they "stay the course" mentality on Iraq McNary, "I'm so sick of whiny refused to let Clinton acbowledge rather than Clinton's idea of com progressives." Notes Around the Margins their concerns. promise. Midwest Photographers Project Artists Industry of At first, Clinton aneml'ted to Along with being misdirected in [email protected] the Ordinary is celebrating the publication of its newest book, Text Book: Notes Around the Margins, Dec. 15 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan Ave. The evening will How can Columbia improve in the feature a discussion between participants in the proj ect and
Puppetry, Pageantry, Spectacle The Art and Design Department is once again offer ing the "Puppetry, Pageantry and the Art of Spectacle" class during Spring Semester 2006. The class teaches students how to create, build and decorate the many "Lower tuition and make more days "I didn't get to take any classes in my puppets that make up "Spectacle Fortuna," the center available to take classes. " major this .~emester. " piece of Columbia's Manifest, the school's annual cel ebration of student work. For more information. call - Lori G reenlee, junior, -Kate Freund, freshman, the Advising Center at, (3 12) 344-7645. television graphic design
:fHE COLUMBIA CHRONICLE If you have an upcoming event or "I don 't tlrink I 've been here long enough "Night clasul· are horrible. They are announcement, call :fhe Chronicle's news to j udge, but I'd like to meet some students not convenient for non-traditional from other majors." students." desk at (312) 344-8964 or e-mail [email protected]. --John Warburton, freshman, - Nette Johnson, junior, photogr aphy radio December 12, 2005 3 Columbia adviser's song recorded by Merle Haggard
Song is on musician's After all this time, he's still try "The last shot is the drummer. latest album ing to be like his dad ." and a big tear rolls down his Although the song was actually cheek," Blinn said. By Cathleen Stanger wrinen about Blinn's grandfather, British artist Charles Staff Write r he wrote the song as if looking Landsborough also recorded the back on his father. Blinn's father song in 2000. It was a major hit in Columbia adviser and alumnus passed away when he was very England, remaining in the top 20 Bob Biinn and his wife were young and his mother and grand for 43 weeks. strol ling down a street in 1983 parents raised him. Of the three versions of the when they passed a :esale store. "I figured I would write the sor.g, Blinn said he likes His wife spotted a brown fedont in song as if it were a fa ther because Haggard 's the best. the window and pointed it out to it would probably appeal to more " He did a really good job.'' Blinn. The hat looked o much like people than if I wrote it about a Bli nn said. " It 's kind of a sad a fedora his grandfather used to grandfather," Blinn said. song. and it needs to be done right wear and Blinn became inspired. The song revives Bl inn's mem to get the message across." The song he wrote, after the ories of his grandfather, like play In an interview for a biogra retai l shop experience, "I Still ing outside together. cull ing down phy accompanying Chicago Can't Say Goodbye," was a tribute the Christmas tree, and fi nding his Wind, Haggard said Blinn's song to his grandfather. Now it has been grandfather 's brown fedora and " manifests the enduring pain of Erin Mash/The Chronicle recorded by country artists Chet trying it on. [his] greatest tragedy- the death Columbia adviser and alumnus Bob Blinn wrote a song that is Atkins and Charles Landsborough, "ll was a real true song," Blinn of his father when Hag was nine featured on Country Music Artist Merle Haggard's new album, and it was recently released on years old." 'Chicago Wind.' Merle Haggard's new album, Blinn credits his wife, Mary, as Chicago Wind. "He did a really good job. inspiring him to write the song. New York International Film think different people are going "Every guy remembers when It's kind of a sad song, The day they saw the hat in the Festival, held March 2005, and to be picking it up and using it he was a kid, trying on his dad's and it needs to be done store window sparked the idea. the Chicago International Film for different reasons." hat," Blinn said. "Even women right to get the message " It kind of got me thinking," Festival in October. which was M ickey Leventhal, media rela identify with it. It's pretty uni across." Bob Blinn said. 'Then during the ti tled Super 8. Blinn said that tions director, said Blinn is one versal that you try to emulate week it just hit me, so I sat down he's been writing songs for more of many advisers at Columbia your parents by the way they - Bob Blinn, and in like 45 minutes I wrote the than 20 years, but " I Still Can 't who have their own creative out dress and act." C olumbia advisor and alumnus words and the music, and the Say Goodbye" was the first one lets. Blinn explained that the song is whole thing was done." he had published. He has been at "I think that obviously the fac about a middle-aged man who Others have said that the song Columbia for 15 years. ulty are all working professionals, can't sleep at night because he's said. "All that stuff in the song hap bears a message that many can Pan ie Mackenzie, a teacher but I th ink the unsung heroes are think ing about his father. pened." relate to. and adviser in the Marketing staff members that are working "He's looking out the window After Blinn finished writing the "T he song 's simplicity and Department has worked w ith artists in their own right," and everything appears the song he sent it to a publisher in imagery is what makes the song Bl inn for three years, and the Leventhal said. "We think part of same; the streetl ights come on Nashville. The publisher sent it to so universal," said Mary Bl inn, two have become good friends. the reason that some of these peo and go off, the moon is still in guitarist Chet Atkins, and on a assistant to the chair of "I love the song; it makes me ple are attracted to Columbia is the sky, and he's thinking about 1986, Cinemax TV tribute to Columbia's Music Department. cry," Mackenzie said. because there's a support for their his dad.'' Blinn said. 'T he song Atkins, the guitarist perfo rmed For the past co uple years. She also believes the song will artistic life. There's a general jumps to the present as he is the song. Blinn said he's been more last a long time and continue to be environment of creative ferment walking by the Salvation Army When Bli nn watched the T V involved in producing short rediscovered. that helps feed and encourage store and he sees a brown fedora. special, he recalls audience films than writi ng songs. He's ''I think it 's going to keep their art." It's symbolic because it's li ke members crying while Atkins worked on six or seve n, one of evolving," Mackenzie said. "It's - Additional reporting done by the one his dad used to wear. performed the song. which was accepted into both the going to have this amazing life. I Jessica Pearce Exhibit explores cocktail party era through dresses By Hayley Graham roles.'' said Amy Fricilone, one of history," said Myiesha Gordon. Campus News Editor the students who developed the another student who helped create exhibit. the exhibit. "It 's academic. but it Columbia graduate students in The exhibit will feature a vari will also be entertaining." the Arts, Entertainment and ety of styles and designs. from the "Shaken & Stirred" explores Media Management Department quintessent ial "little black dress" the parallels between the styles of spent the past semester develop to a bullerscotch velvet dress, that cocktail dresses and women's ing an exhibit that explores the will be displayed in the four glass roles in society. Gordon said that cocktail party, its significance in cases at the Conaway Center. All during the 1950s when women society during the 1950s and its were typically housewives and resurgence in the 1980s. "Although it seems like mothers, their cocktail dresses The exhibit, "Shaken & Stirred: it 's light and fun and were very fe minine and preny. Dress and Cultural History of the social, it's important During its revival in the 1980s. Cocktail Era," will launch on because it is an aspect when women were gaining more Dec. 14 with a cocktail party power, their dress styles became style opening reception. It will of women 's history and more excessive wit h vibrant col run through Jan. 4 in Columbi a's social history." ors and big shoulders. Conaway Center, I I 04 S. Wabash "Women arc told to look per Ave. The opening reception of - Myiesha Gordon, fect in society's expectations of "Shaken & Stirred" wi ll also dis 1>articipant in 'Shaken & gender roles.'' said Cara play original cocktail dress Stirred ' Schill inger, a graduate student designs by I 0 Columbia fa shion who helped deve lop the exhibit. majors, faculty members and or the dresses arc from Schilli nger said those who local designers. Colu mbia 's Fashio n Study helped decided to examine the T he students who put the Collection, whic h has an array of cocktail party era of the 1950s exhibit together are a part or the clothing from various periods and and t h~ 19SOs because of the sim Vi sual Arts Exhibition cultures that students can use as ilar economic booms of those Management class. Creating the an educational resource. Dresses decades. 1l1e opening reception uj exhibit was the students' semes by two well-known Chicago 'Shaken & Stirr<'cl' IS Jmm 6 p m ter-long project. designers, Tirfani Kim and Mark to 8 p.m. un Dec f.!. m the "We've done a lot of research llcistcr, will also be on display. Conl\'ay C<'nter 110-1 S lll•ha.,·h Amy Fricilone (right) and Cara Schillinger, both arts, entertain on the cultural history of the "A lthough it seems like it's Al'e. Th e exhibit is free and open ment and media management graduate students, put a cocktail cocktail party to see how these light and fun and social, it's to 1he public, and guexts are dress on display for the exhibit 'Shaken & Stirred: Dress and dresses fi t into society during the important because it is an aspect encouraged to H'Cflr cocktail Cultural History of the Cocktail Era' in Columbia's Conaway 50s and the 80s and women's of women's history and social attire Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. 4 December 12. 2005
Composition 3 Recital 3:00PM Advanced Composition Recital 7:00PM i ·5 Wedr.e:- Thursday December 15 New Music Ensemble 3:30PM Congratulations. you're nearly a Singing On Stage Columbia alumnus! Be sure to keep 7:00PM c hecking the website www.colum.edu/alumnl for more information! Friday December 16 MIDI Recital Good luck out there! 3:00PM Best w ishes. Saturday December 17 Alumni Relations International Contemporary Ensemble in Concert 8:00PM Columbia (3 COLLIII CHIC AIO December 12, 2005 5 r Columbia r!iollett~com COLLEGE CHICAGO I C ' ; bookstore network Columbia Bookstore *Current market value applies. 624 S. Michigan· ph:312/427-4860 • efollett.com **See store for details. December 12, 2005 NEW! columbia college chicago president's club Recognizing exceptional promise in sc holarship the arts, media and communications $10,000.00 AWARD! THE PRESIDENT'S CLUB SCHOLARSHIP WAS DESIGNED TO ASSIST EXC EPTIONAL WHO CAN APPLY? HOW ARE THE AWARDS DISTRIBUTED? Outstanding full-time students who will have earned Each $10.000 scholarship is distributed as follows: STUDENTS COMPLETE THEIR DEGREES 60-72 credit hours by the end of the Spring. 2006 se $2.500 awarded in Fall 2006; $2500 awarded in mester: have demonstrated financial need, and have Spring 2007; $2500 awarded in Fall 2007; $2500 AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO. a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. awarded in Spring 2008 HOW MANY AWARDS ARE AVAILABLE? DEADLINE: April 3. 2006 Up to ten (10) award s will be announced this Spring! APPLICATIONS ARE AVAI LABLE FOR THIS PRESTIGIOUS OPPORTUNITY AT WWW.COLUM.EOU/ SCHOLARSHIPS ./ --:;> Columbia~ ... COLLEGE CHICAGO PR~SIDENT'S CLUB / December 12, 2005 Campus News 7 Time for repair up in the air at dorms By Rashauna C. Hulll In contrast, residents of other dreds of students apiece, the First Year Contributor donns reported problems in their Congress facility houses only about Columbia students are reporting apartments and rooms within the 110. inconsistencies in the maintenance first weeks of moving in. But some " I think it is easier for mainte of student housing, with some of these issues have yet to be nance to address any of our prob donns receiving top-notch service addressed. lems [at 18 E. CongressJ because while others wait to receive any '"I had put in a report about my there are not as many students living service at all. missing towel rack about two weeks here," Rivera said. Some students living in on-cam after I moved in," said Tracie Evans, But the larger issue is simply how pus housing at Columbia have gone a sophomore film major who lives the donns are managed, according two weeks this fall with no lights, at 2 E. 8th St. "'It has still not been to other students. broken blinds, leaking dishwashers replaced." Rosanna Nicodemo is a junior and clogged bathtubs. Others have More than 700 students from fashion major who has lived in both had maintenance problems Columbia and Robert Morris the University Center and 2 E. 8th addressed almost immediately. The College live in the 2 E. 8th building, building. She has noticed the differ difference appears to stem from and they are served by four mainte ence in maintenance. "'The UCC is who's managing the building. nance workers at any one time, much newer and in bener shape The new, state-of-the-art according to staff with the build than the other housing facilities, and University Center of Chicago, ing's management company, because of that there are not as which opened in fall 2004, houses College Park Communities. The many problems in the UCC," Roosevelt, DePaul and Columbia workers have specific duties. mean Nicodemo said. students and is managed by U. S. ing they aren't always able to Students at the UCC also pay the Equities. Residents say mainte accommodate the students on most in comparison with the other nance problems are taken care of demand. housing facilities. A two-bedroom, efficiently in the building. This issue is also relevant in 731 four-person apartment in the Before residents even make S. Plymouth Court, which houses Plymouth and Congress buildings maintenance requests, University more than 340 Columbia students costs $7,442 a student for each Center staff periodically stop by to and is managed by Columbia. semester compared with $7.980 at 2 fi x problems in the donn, according Kelli Collins, associate director E. 8th, and between $8,530 and to freshman journalism major for Residence Life at Columbia, $8,960 at the UCC. Nastasha Prunty. said it is inevitable that some main Others point out that students "The maintenance staff would tenance requests would not be may not be taking care of all of the post flyers on residents' doors to addressed immediately. buildings the same way. infonn them when they would "When you have 340 college stu For example, students have come," Prunty said. dents living in one building, you are drawn graffiti on the walls of 2 E. University Center residents are bound to have five clogged toilets or 8th. Incidents such as these take not the only ones satisfied with how five leaking sinks all at one time," away from the time needed to repair i I maintenance issues are addressed. she said. "Students need to be con other, unintentional damage within Construction workers •Nork on the fa\.Clde of the University "Maintenance responds to our siderate of the fact that we can not the housing facilities, Collins said. Center dormitory, 525 S. State St. Residents of the dorm complaints in a day," said Jessie address every student's needs in the "Students need to take more say they are happy with the response of UCC staff to their Rivera, a freshman journalism time they that want them to." responsibility for their actions," she complaints. Students in other dorms; however, are not as major who resides in the 18 E. Unlike the Plymouth Court and 2 said. pleased with the condition of their facilities . Congress Parkway donns. E. 8th properties, which house hun- Success in career requires both diploma, experience in field By .Andrew R. Stecke l man~ write-ups in the prestigious on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, is First Year Contributor music magazines Billboard and worried about money now as Creem, Chicago stations QI 0 I well as after graduation. Elia Emhorn was a Columbia and WXRT 9J. l FM have "HBO is one of the highest student when he fo unded his played their songs, and they've paying gigs, but [they] make band, the Scotland Yard Gospel perfonned alongside many suc you cut your poem down from Choir, with Matt Kerstein in cessful bands, including the three or four minutes to two," 200 I. Einhorn, while majoring Violent Femmes, The Walkmen, he said. "Some artists are in music performance, took Arcade Fire, and Tegan and unwilling because it requires a classes in classical, jazz and Sara. lot of shuffling and possible rock fusion guitar, classical and Einr crn's views are similar to sacrifice of integrity. Most pop piano, songwriting, electric those of other artists who poets get (a master's degree] to hass, drums, marketing, sound a:tended Columbia. Some say teach as a backup plan." engin~edng and music law. the schoo l helped provide key Charlie Fromm has been able Ian Hilde bra nd, a freshman photography major, listens to h is He, like many other students knowledge, but to make it in to test his Columbia education iPod between classes in the Underg round Cafe in the Alexandroff Campus Building, 600 S. Michigan Ave. at Columbia, was prepared to their field, they had to rely on at internships. Fromm, a junior, enter his field in a different way the1r own decision-making, cre began as a design major before than other musicians out there ativity and hard work. switching to photography. Don't tune out safety "[Columbia] built me up from Alvin Lau, a junior poetry "The photography program is almost nothing to having pro major at Columbia, believes great," he said. "The teachers By Allison Riggio ""It sends a message that fessional skills by the time I that students have to put in a lot are first-rate working profes First Year Contributor you' re not paying attention. thereby visually making you an graduated," Einhorn said. of their own work to comple sionals with invaluable advice." Columbia student Annie Erb Even so, Einhorn said he had ment Columbia's services and His expectations were met easier target," Hardwrick said. listens to her headphones on her Though the Chicago Police to figure out on his own how to find success as artists. He's more often than not. Fromm way to work every day. She said make his education productive. been able to combine his mar said his teachers have given him Department hasn' t documented she li stens to music to pass the any criminal incidents involving " If I didn't decide to go out keting skills, hts performance the tools to make his vision hap time during her nearly 30- side the performance track [of talent and Columbia's resources pen. headphones, Sgt. Eugene minute commute. Mullins, a department marketing and music law] I to advance in his field. Lau While he loves taking pic Erb is part of Chicago's ever wouldn't l_,e aware.'' he said . pt •.:ses the faculty in tures, Fromm also has inclina spokesman. said that kind of growing population o f head detail isn't likely to be included "[But] one thir.g about Columbia's Poetry Department , tions to follow other, more phone-wearing pedestrians and in a police report. Even if some Columbia is they'~e extreme ly and said they're willing to fi nancially rewarding pursui ts. citizens. Whether walking, rid thing had happened, there may disorgar.izcd and you have to spend quality time with stu Fromm did his first internship ing or doing any number of be no paper trail. take it upon yourself to navigate dents. But the education, he at Fader magazine as a member other activities, these According to the website the system. [If you] take said, is ultimately as much as a of its street team and was most Chicagoans tune out the world Citizen !CAM, a searchable resources they provide and student makes it. ly involved with behind-the and tune in to their favorite database of reported crimes in combine it with your own Lau 's ability to break into the scenes grunt work. mus ic. Chicago, there were six assaults savvy, it works." industry is as much about his The experience at Fader But safety experts say there in the I s t Chicago Police Einhorn's savvy paid off, and work ethic and opportunities set helped Fromm get a job at Push, may be hazards to headphone Distric t between Nov. I and now he is in a successful band. up by his agent as it is about his a now-closed skateboard shop, to wearing. Columbia's Security Nov. 14. The I st District covers Scotland Yard Gospt>l Choir has education. do promotions, event planning, Operations Manager, Aimee the South Loop and includes the been ranked number 75 on the Columbia can be expensive project work and marketing. Hardwrick, said that any such Columbia campus. College Music Journal 200, a for many self-supporting stu Fromm met a lot of people at distractions may leave students Students have mixed feelings chart of the most popular music dents. Lau, who will be visiting Push who became part of a net at risk while walking around in college radio. They've had New York next year to perform work that he still works within. campus. See Safety. Page 10 8 campus News Oecembef 12, 2005 these events for the remainder of tation is growing and will eventual controversial personnel chmges, tax forms obtained from Ross: the school year, acCO SELL YOU OOKS 1 ...... ~ 1 i flJ I Ujj I BOOKStliE Cit·Y University Center Building I 545 S. State St. I 312.291.1111 Weekdays 10- 6 Saturday 11-6 We buy books every day. You heard it. December 12, 2005 Campus News 9 Loans: First year students tnostly satisfied Possible loan By Bethel Swift MeSun Barnett, a freshman film are signifi cant, students also she was surprised at the intensity of First Year Contributor major. answered questions about how they her core classes. cuts would be Fiim and video major Azania were adjusting to their classes at " I spend my entire weekend As they w rap up thl!ir fi rst Jarvis agreed. Columbia doing homework," she said. largest in history semester, most Columbia freshmen " It is too good to be true. "Classes are a touch longer than A number of students were dis are pleased with the school, Everyone is so supportive and I am used to," said Gurther pleased with class availability. Continued from Front Page engaged in campus events and approachable," she said. Shabady, a freshman audio arts and Heather Barry, a transfer student is a percentage of the loan's prin planning to return for another term, Time spent commuting was one acoustics major. majoring in photography, said she ciple balance. However, the according to a Chronicle survey of o f the students' biggest com Lily Xue, a fashion design major was disappointed to find out that impact on individual students more than 100 fi rst-year students. plaints, along with cost of atten who transferred to Columbia this classes she had seen in an older would be minimal. Students The Chronicle talked to 93 fresh dance and organization on the fa ll, agrees: course catalog are no longer would have to pay an extraS 10 to men and nine transfers enrolled in administrative level. Students "The once-a-week classes are offered. S I 5, according to Waters. req•Jired New Millennium Studies: were divided on coursework and long," she said. Sixty-five percent of the students The typical freshman Stafford First Year Seminar courses. Most orientation. Latham Williams, a film and surveyed said their teachers were loan is $2,625 and ri ght now stu students indicated they were happy " Books are way too much video major, said he hasn't learned very supportive and available, and dents pay a I .5 percent origina with their fi rst tenn ac Columbia. money; so is the cost to (li ve in the] a lot of new material in his classes another 34 percent said their teach tion fee, which comes to $40. If The averag~ ~atisfaction rating donn[s] on campus." said Christina at Columbia. ers were at least somewhat avail the legislation is passed into law, among the surveyed students was Newbauer, a freshman majoring in "[I'm] not too impressed, consid able and supportive. Only one the origination fee will be raised 4.1 on a seal~ of I to 5, with 5 being public relations. "I spent almost ering how much I'm paying," respondent said the teachers at to 2.5 percent, according to the highest. $400 [my] first semester on added Marie Heilich, a freshman Columbia were not available or Waters, increasing the fee on a Ninety of the ~tudents , or 89 per books." who won't be returning to supportive at all. $2,625 loan to 565. cent, said they would continue at Newbauer said she usually Columbia. "So far, I like Columbia," said "Just because it doesn't impact Columbia. Just seven students, or 8 spends at least an hour each way on Gissela Faggi, also a film and Katie Faltus, a freshman majoring people individually doesn't mean percent, indicated they would not her commute from her horne in video major, disagreed. She said in theater. you shouldn't express your return, while three, or about 3 per Lockport, south of Chicago. The unhappiness w ith it, because it cent, were und~c i ded . cost of Columbia's dorms is keep does represent a cut in funding for According to the survey, students ing her from living in the city, she students," Waters said. were most pleased with their class said. Molly Massell, a junior illus mates and Columbia's downtown In spite of the distance issue for tration major, thinks it would be location. commuters, a majority of the stu harsh to cut student loans to attended an " I love being in downtown dents surveyed said they have got on-campus event lower the federal deficit. Chicago," said Ali Kangas, a fresh ten involved in Columbia's social "I'm depending on loans, and man majoring in fashion/retail scene. About 20 percent of the stu isaiiid.,teawe<;;e"-~pportive I'm going to have to pay them management. ''There are so many dents surveyed said they were back," Massell said. " It they were opportunities for the future." involved in at least one student club cut I wouldn' t have the money to Kangas said the school does have or organization at Columbia, and pay for school." some drawbacks, though. She said about 72 percent said they had If the budget bill is passed it she wishes there were athletics at attended an on-campus event this will be the largest cut to federal Columbia, and added, "It's kind of semester. student aid in history. hard to meet people when you Newbauer said she loved "I find it ironic that the govern commute." Columbia's convocation and wish ment, as of late. has been looking Still, the survey showed that 95 es the school would have more for ways to cut the budget." said percent of those new students sur school-wide events li ke it. Adam Pluth. a junior graphic veyed were not having trouble " ! bved the costumes, the free design major. " Instead of. you making friends at Columba. stuff and the overall idea of the know. not starting wars in the first "I didn't expect to find really creepy circus [theme]," she said. place and spending money like close friends so fast here," said While extracurricular activities oil tycoons." U-Pass pick-up rm G!J NEW STUDENTS DISTRIBUTION DATES AND TIMES take it." During on-campus distribution, 01/19 10:00 am to 6:00 pm '<\'\WJ.transitchicago. com new students should go directly to 623 S. Wabash Avenue., Room 01 /20 10:00 am to 6:00 pm l-888-YOUR-CTA 311 to aquire a new U-Pass. Bring 01/23 10:30 am to 6:30 pm your student ID and schedule to verify your full-time student 01/24 10 :30am to 6:30 pm status. 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She said Wearing head that either way, she has minimal design for creative typography fears of something happening to phones can be a her while she wears her head By Cathleen Stanger Columbia. The classes involved exhibition manager at the Hokin phones. Staff Writer included David Trinidad's poetry Gallery, the show was a collabora safety risk "The thing that most concerns The exhibit "Word" focuses on workshops and to Marlene tive effort on the part of the C me is traffic," Olson said. "I poetry and graphic design illustra Lipinski's Type is Image class. Spaces staff. The idea was devel Continued from Page 7 always triple check." tions using typography and runs "Word" is new to Columbia, oped with the help of the instruc Olson, Erb and Zavala all said unti l Dec. 14 in the Hokin Gallery but is similar to an exhibit that tors and students who took part in about when they should wear it was unlikely they would stop of Columbia's Wabash building, Columbia held a couple years the show. headphones. Erb said that she wearing their headphones in 623 S. Wabash Ave. ago. . ca.lled · "Typewriter." Both Neysa Page-Lieberman, assistant only wears hers in public while pub! ic, even if they heard of an The show is a collaboration exhibits concentrated on words director of C-Spaces, said "Word" riding the subway. She said that incident taking place. between classes from the Art and and the images they can portray. was created to represent under she feels safer there because she Hardwrick said there were no Design and Poetry departments at According to Nancy Julson, served departments. is stationed in one spot where recently reported instances on "It's really easy to show paint she is able to see everyone campus related to headphone ings, photography and sculptures," around her. But whenever Erb is wearing, but noted that the risks Page-Lieberman said. "But classes walking around on the street, she are definitely present. like illustration and poetry, it's turns her music off. "One of the dangers involved much more difficult to feature "If someone is walking behind in this type of behavior is that it those in an exhibit." me, I'm paranoid," Erb said. limits response time," Hardwrick The exhibit is a !,'TOUp effort that Columbia student Freddy said. "If someone with bad inten began with graduate students in a Zavala is just the opposite. He tions walked upon a student, the poetry class writing poems for the said he listens to his headphones student would not be aware until show. The poems were then typed nearly every day as he walks the very last minute." and creatively laid out by the from street to street on campus. Hardwrick said that Columbia design class. "Once I step out of my house officials warn new students Graduate student Jamie to come to school, I just put them about using devices that may Kazay's poetry is featured in the on right away," Zavala said. impair any of their senses, like exhibit. She said her poem "The Jackie Olson, a 21-year-old headphones, cell phones or even 88th Room" is a metaphor about journalism major, listens to her hats or hoods that may block marriage and the wedding night. headphones regularly as she vi sion. She suggests that volume Kazay had originally written the walks around campus. Strangers levels on portable musical poem before coming to are less like Iy to bother li<;r when devices should not be so high Columbia. It 's the first time she's w~aJing hc;adphones, she that listeners can't hear their sur she's had her work shown in an said, so she _s'oln'd~~;l!u.ts them roundings. exhibit, and she said she is thrilled with the results. "The words 'see;n to' ~~r~ life the work. The process of making "It's amazing to see my work oftheff.tlwn," Kazay5aid.- . decisions, such as which illustra affect someone," Kazay said. Twenty poems 'Were view~ and tions to enlarge and how the art She is also impressed with the critiqued upon entry into th~· show, work should be laid out on the collaborative effort ofthe'art and but only 12 were chosen aud>,fea- walls. fell on the curator, design classes that designed the tured in the exhibit. >;:q. Jonathan Gitelson. format of the poetrY: She had not A group effort chose wha"t"art "It was a lot more responsibility yet met the person who designed work would appear in the exhib than it usually is to curate, because Mauricio Rubio/The Chronicle and formatted her poem and pre it. Jul~on and Lipinski went into not only did Jon have to decide the A Columbia student looks at pieces on dispii!Y in the 'Word' sented it to be shown. but she is the d'ssFs that contributed poet poem. hut also the illustrations," exhibit in Columbia's Hokin Gallery, 623 S. ~b~s h Ave . . itljpressed with the outcome. ry a~tj i·r1u strati ons and c ri~qued Julson said. 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Seriously, I don't know lungs. anyone who would intentionally Now. j ust imagine, if a purchase those lame excuse.s for smoking ban is this awesome. toaster pastries. They're bas1cally card how awesome would other board! And yet, I can think of multiple bans be? I can think of a mil instances of poor students spending their lion things I'd like to see last dimes on a package of pop-tarts !Tom banned in the city. a vending machine, only to be devastated What about Southerners? when they realize they bought the frost I'm s1ck and tired of their ing-free variety. If they were banned, accents and NASCAR hats. then we wouldn't even have to thrnk They have no idea ho"r to before buying pop-tarts. I mean, basical drive in snow, and their deep ly every flavor is good, as long as the fried, syrup-smothered food frosting is there. Aldermen: Get out your certainly isn 't good for public ban-hammers and clean up the Pop-Tart Banned like health. Clogged a11eries have population. killed just as many people as And don't even get me started on the yer mom! lung cancer, I'd wager. Get rid Internet. Now, I know it's a good source of'em. for porn and information, but I'm con I.ast we~k . city aldermen fi nally passed Next up: headphones. I totally hate it vinced that it's encouraging Chicagoans the long-debated ban of smoking in when a fly girl is sitting on the train, read to spend even more time sitting on their restaurants and bars. I think that's j ust ing a book with headphones on. I'll be bloated butts. This city needs some exer brilliant. I fondl:v remember a night in the totaily be hollering at her, trying to get cise, and I think the Internet is responsi recently smoke-free New York City in her attention, and she totally can't hear ble for holding it back. If we could only which I stood inside a nice, cozy bar. me because of those headphones. Plus, I ban it, I guarantee we'd be the fittest city pointing and laughing at the smokers think I read something once that said in the country. huddled outside like a bunch of high headphones are really bad for your hear Basically, bans are the answer to every school kids sneaking cigs behind the ing. It's science: th ey'r~ damaging the thing. Why didn't we think of it before? gym. well being of the Chicago public. Get It's so simple. If something is hurting us, "Take your cancer elsewhere!" I said, as them out of here. ban it. We'll be living in a utopian socie I high-lived the bartender, and we all raised Oh, and what about Pop-Tarts without ty before we know it. women should not be faced of the men not wanting a smart, inde with the dilemma of career pendent woman as the next girl. versus relationship. And the A guy I dated briefly over the summer more investigating I did on the made it abundantly clear that men like subject, the more I realized this exist--even at Columbia. "I don't that there was absolutely noth care if my wife takes my last name or ing liberating about the not," he said, "But my kids are having my RedStreak article. Women name. .. aren't so much happy to be ''My" kids? Was he serious? I couldn't single and focused 'ln their h3ve been more turned off. While I have careers as they are forced to be often dreamed of a successful writing single because they are career, a cute, vmtage apartment on the focused on their careers. Men Lower East Side of Manhattan and a man don 't want a woman to pay who respected me and shared my val attention to her fi~ances , her ues--quite possibly the 2005 version of a next promotion, or getting her white picket fence-! realized that I had This is no master's degree- they want no clue about men, and most men had no WfJmen to pay attention to clue about me. them. No, not all men swear off an educated modern "When a woman needs you woman. and not all women long to marry for money, it 's less hkely a rich man and dabble in baking for the they'll leave you !ugh and rest of their loves, but it's strikingly obvi romance dry," a male friend of mine ous that many women have fallen off the recently confessed. "When a feminist boat and have disregarded the woman is smarter and more 1960s liberation that once made us feel I, like most college students, have financially independent than a man, the so free. I recently attended a wedding developed a fairly regular morning rou man feels inadequate." with my friend Adam only to have this ti~e I force myself out of bed, brush my Oh, poor baby. We wouldn't want you theory proven further. His friend since teeth ar.tl do my morning Web searching. feeling madequate, would we? That's our grade school, Carissa, was marrying her The other mnrning was no d1fferen1, until JOb, n ght'! boyfriend of two years. o~spite her great I got to my fnend Tmh 's blog, and I Wrong. job, her entire family living in Chicago t.eca1r.~ so con.~umcd m the top1c that I The more I thought about it, the angri and MBA from DePaul, she was moving tnought o! nothmg else all morning - 1 er I became, and I realized that it's no to Seattle the following week because even forgut to check Gapers Ulock. wonder women embrace "Desperate "Paul likes it there, nnd he got a job." Her b!og was titled " A tale of Housewives," or that three girls I gradu Whose litull is this? Is it the men for rom~nce" and mcntumrd a RedStreak ated with from my all-girls college prep refusing to put their egos aside and real article announcing that many womer. hig!1 sch,ICII dropped out of college and ize that women nrc just as cnpnble as wete becommg less cag<:r to t1c the knot got marned. 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As a kid, ly marked. the loser's perspective, and he when we played cowboys and What sparked your awareness takes that up a notch in his new Indians, I always wanted to be an of this 'zeitgeist '? comic book, Loveless, drawn by Indian. I never wanted to be the I don't know. You just kind of Marcelo Frusin. Loveless takes cowboy. felt it. I can't put my fi nger on it. place shortly ~.ft e r the Civil War The Western is a pretty old It 's funny because when I think and follows Wes Cutter, a genre. I n what ways can the the Republicans took the office, Confederate soldier who, along Western be new and exciting? [they] stole it li ke catt le barons. with his wife , Ruth, tries to Well, I think when any genre It's funny you mentioned that reclaim his Southern home from goes through a bit of reinvention; because there a re sp ecific the occupation of Union soldiers. it's being reinvented through a scenes in Loveless that seem to Azzarello, a Chicago resident of filter of the time that's reinvent be drawn from current events. 15 years, discusses how current ing it. Things now are much If you connect the dots, good. events helped him transform the more cynical than originally I'm happy you did. Anybody Western genre into something when the Western genre was big who doesn't connect those dots, new and relevant. in Hollywood. There's a real ele that 's fine too. But it's certainly C hronicle: W hat were some of ment of racism to them that was there for me. I think that the peri your favorite westerns as a probably fin e at the time but od Loveless takes place in, the kid? seems very awkward, and that's reconstruction o f the Sout h, Brian Azzarello: As a kid, the just because we have a different there's a lot of parall els to what's only Westerns that I really liked outlook on those sorts of things. I going on in the world today. The were kung fu, and that really don't want to say we're more South was an occupied nation fo r wasn't a Western. I suppose it enlightened because I don't all intents and purposes, and the was, once I discovered the believe that for a second . carpetbaggers went with the spaghetti Westerns like Fifty Do you believe there is a renais blessing of the U.S. government Dollars More; A Fist Full of sance of the Western taking to make money and take advan Dollars ; The Good, Th e Bad, and place r ight now? tage. I don't want to preach or the Ugly; My Name is Nobody; I think that there have been a anything, but the parallels are and some of the ones that came few films, and "Deadwood" is really apparent to me. over here early and got kind of a somethi ng else that has spear As a storyteller, wh at is the wide release- that's when my headed it. I started to sense it just most important thing for you opinion of Westerns completely in the zeitgeist about six years to get on the page first when ,. anged. I was never a John ago. It's like something's going you' re sta rting a new project? Wayne guy. on here where there's that need The most important thing for I_n wh8t ways did you not like fo r kind of a manifestation of an me, because I' m dealing in seri alized fiction- l' ve got to get the hook out there first. If the hook's not there, there's no reason for the reader to come back and then I'm out of work. What can readers wh o are familia r with both your previ ous work, such as I 00 Bullets, and the new work expect from Loveless'? I think Loveless is 100 Bullets' mean little brother. Some of the situations and characters in / 00 Bullets are rather bleak, and 100 Bullets is just a ra y of sunshine compared to Loveless. It's com pellingly dark. How will you tackle such issues as racism'! It 's hard not to touch on racism consi dering the period. Slavery has been abolished and the U.S. was about to embark on a mass genocide. But, again, I don 't want to be preachy wi th it. i\t a ll . I'm sure there's going to be a lot of things in Loveless that's going to piss people off. These charac ters, being from the South of that ti me, their particular views on race are not going to jive with yours. As a storyteller, how ·do you handle something like that'? Initia ll y it's not easy. Once you fi nd your character's voice and their particular honesty, it's easy. You just have to worry about not getti ng in the way of your char acters. The first two issues of this monthly comic book are out now Azzarello enjoys a cigarette (top) as main character Wes Cutter Just one example of how Azzarello explores the possibilities of and can be found at any comic from 'Loveless' (bottom) enjoys a gun fight with some cowboy the Western genre. book retailer for $2. 99. jerks. December'l 4 Lewis solo debut heoven sent Rilo Kiley frontwoman explores gospel, bluegrass roots in new album By Jennifer Sabella/Managing Editor Jenny Lewis has the life. like the after life and forgive behind Bright Eyes, Oberst, She's gorgeous, talented, lives ness by a higher power. In "The make appearances on "Handle in L.A. and schmoozes with Charging Sky" she sings, "And With Care," a cover of the song iiber-hip indie rock dudes like it's a surefire bet I'm gonna die I by the_ Traveling Wilburys (a Connor Oberst and Ben So I'm taking up praying on "super group" formed in the late Gibbard. While that lifestyle Sunday nights I And it's not that '80s by Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, may be intimidating to George Harrison, Jeff Lynne some. the Rilo Kiley front and Roy Orbison). " Handle woman writes songs relat with Care" is one o f the able enough to have attract more upbeat songs on the ed legions of fans who album, o ne of those rare hang on her every word songs your dad would actu and nghtfully so. ally appreciate. To the delight of Rilo Although it's considered a Kiley fans everywhere, this solo effort, Lewis also winter Lewis will release worked closely with the Rabbit Fur Coat, a solo Kentucky-born Watson al bum that provides much Twins, who provided some needed relief from the cold . gospel-like harmonies to the The album may throw already gorgeous arrange some Rilo Kiley fans off ments. it replaces a lot of the key It's unclear exactly why boards and poppy guitar Lewis dectdcd to record a riffs (a Ia More solo album rather than take Adventurous) with folksier, I believe in your a! might I But I some time off during Rilo country-infused songs complete might as well as insurance or Kiley's break, but it's an effort with religious undertones. bail." her fans will appreciate. 'Rabbit While a spiritual record from f)e::.pite the religious content. Fur Coat ' hits stores on Jan. 24 the girl who recently crooned Rabbit Fur Coat does have a from Team Love Records. "Baby, I'm bad news" sounds few love songs in Lewis's peculiar, don't be too wary. always narrative and relatable 'Rabbit Fur Coot' From start to finish, Rabbit Fur voice. "You Are What You by Jenny Lewis with the Coat is as emotional, lyrically Love," and "Melt Your Heart," Watson twins solid and vocally diverse as are examples, and two of the Lewis has ever been. She makes best songs on the album. it clear that she has done some Lewis also uses her indie rock not-so-good things in her life, connections well. Death Cab for but she shows concern for things Cutie 's Gibbard and the man Jenny Lewis fondly remembering her performance in 'Foxfire.' SELL YOU OOKS University Center Building I 545 S. State St. I 312.291.1111 Weekdays 10 - 6 Saturday 11 - 6 We buy books every day. You heard it. December 12, 2005. Page 5 Fi:tii•);i•i 'Memoirs of oGeisho' kicks up storm Create REAL Change in Jopon ond Chino Make a Difference in the Film adaptation of New York Times bestseller draws criticism from fans Lives of Children By Tim Johnson and Emi Doi/KRT EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Arts Integrated Education Undergraduate Majors: Teacher Certification (birth-grade 3) Center Director (birth-age 12) Undergraduate Minor: Education Above: Zhang Ziyi stars in 'Memoirs of a Geisha' as Sayuri, a role that doesn't set well with some fans in China. Call312-344-7990 China and Japan, whic h are at each the United States, is an international pro other's throats over any number of issues, duction. Its American director, Rob fi nally seem to agree on one thing: Marshall, is known for the 2002 Oscar Hollywood's latest release is a cultural winning movie Chicago. In addition to dud. Zhang Ziyi, the movie stars Japanese Memoirs of a Geisha, a film based on actor Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai), the bestselling novel by Arthur Golden, Chinese actress Gong Li and Malaysian premiered in Tokyo on Dec. 6, triggered martial-arts star Michelle Yeoh, an ethnic concern in Japan because none of the Chinese who's playing the role of mentor three lead actresses are Japanese; two o f to the movie's protagonist. them are Chinese and the other is "It's a bit awkward that the main char Malaysian. acter, Sayuri, isn't played by a Japanese Citizens polled about the matter in actress when the movie primarily focuses Tokyo questioned why Hollywood chose on Japanese culture," a woman who iden Chinese actresses to portray geishas, who tified herself onl y as Kai told Japan Today are typically Japanese women trained in Online, which is a news website. traditional arts of singing, dancing and "I think Hollywood people don't care accompanying wealthy men. whether (the actressesJ are Japanese or If there's dismay in Japan, there's out Chinese," said Chiaki Miyazaki , a 46- ra ge in China, but for a different reasc·,,; year-old music producer from Kyoto. Many Chinese are beside themselves that "When I was in the United States, the film's star, Zhang Ziyi, China's best American people thought Japanese, known actress, is depicted in the movie as Chinese and Korean are all the same." having sexual relations with a Japanese One of Chi na's best-known film direc man. tors, Chen Kaige, who directed 1993's "She deserves to be chopped into a Farewell My Concubine, questioned why thousand bits," said one Internet user, one Japanese actresses weren't found for the of more than I ,000 people who posted on leading roles. in a speech in the Japanese the subject at Tianji, a Chinese web por city of Kobe on Nov. 9. tal. "I just don't understand why," Chen "Zhang is a shameless prostitute," said . "Geisha is a centuries-old Japanese another posting said. "She should be tradition and cannot possibly be portrayed deprived of Chinese citizenship." by Chinese actresses. The geisha have a Relations between China and Japan, the sophisticated way of walking, holding a two powerhouses of East Asia, are still fan , smiling and looking at people." rough around the corners. Despite deep The release of the movie in China has ening economic ties with Japan, China been postponed to Feb. 10 tentatively sti ll harbors bitter feelings toward the because censors are haggling with pro island nation dating to the period before ducers about whether a sex scene can be and during World Wa r II , when Japan cut in length, China Radio International invaded large parts of China and dealt reported this week . brutally with the Chinese peopl e. Many Some of the publicity about Memoirs of Chinese, censored from voicing their a Geisha appeared to be the result of mis views of their own authoritarian govern chief-makers in China, who distributed ment, express anger whenever they per fake pi ctures of Zhang and Watanabe in a ceive any sign of national weakness nude scene from the movie. The doctored before Japan. photos are all over Chinese websites. The film, which was released Dec. 9 in Fillf4•l;J•j December 12, 2005. Page 6 The Word's The holidays are here, and In America that means one thing: SUper Awesome It's time to shop. We at The Chronicle know how stressful Columbia's new class schedule has been, so we decided to lend a helping hand. We've got sure-fire gift selections for just about everyone, from your reclusive fiction-writ Ing roommate to your fussy fashion design friend. Major by major, we've provided the perfect gift Ideas, because let's face It-gift certificates are weak. 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Michigan Ave. December 12, 2005. 8 Boozin' on obudget The Chronicle experiments with new line of Aldi alcohol By Todd Burbo/A&E Editor Upon ncanng that Aidt, the only was it the cheapest, but the was tested further, as Aldi chose international grocery retailer owl on the label was simply not to refrigerate its beer. After known for its low prices and adorable. spending some time in the fridge, inventive br.md names, was now Wine in hand, I moved on to the the beer was ready to go. I popped selling booze, I was overcome beer- in my opinion, the most the cap off a bottle and took a ten· with a mixture of excitement and exciting prospect of Aldi 's new tative sip. The beer·Ieft no immedi skeoticism. product line. It offers six-packs of ate impression. It wasn't bad in any A six pack of Gen:l8ll beer tha! ~?tt l ed beer from Germany and way, but it dido 't seem particularly costs less than five dollars was aq Mexico, as well as a few 12-packs flavorful for a European beer. I exciting idea, and a $2.50 bottle of of indistinguishable cans. Now, my took a larger swig, trying to pay Cabemet doesn't sound bad either. favorite thing about Aldi is its abil closer attention to the taste. It defi However, anyone who has ity to choose brand names that you nitely has a certain German hearti shopped at Aldi knows that the could've sworn you've seen at one ness, but it seems slightly dulled. quality of its products can vary to time or another, but can 't quite Whether this is from a lack of extreme degrees. At their best, they remember. Its beer is a great exam freshness or an inferior brewing are as good as anything on the mar ple. I chose the S4.49 six pack of process, I don't know. It's not bad, ket. At their worst, they 're inedi Wemesgrijner, a dark bottle of beer but it's not as bright and flavorful ble. Experimenting with new items with a gorgeous gold foil label and as a German beer should be. is always a risk, but when the new a non-twistable cap--further proof Most importantly, though, the item in question is alcohol, it 's a that it is indeed German. beer works. After a second bottle risk I'm willing to take. My girlfriend, who had gra (still trying to understand the com After patiently waiting out my ciously driven me to the store, was plexities of the hops, I swear), I felt workday, dreaming of my budget intrigued by the wine coolers, a a sudden and strong buzz. I buzz, I hightailed it directly to the product I had nearl y overlooked. In searched the bottles and packaging Aldi at 1767 N. Milwaukee Ave., the interest of quality journalism, for the beer's alcohol content, but which is one of its nicer locations we decided it would be best to try couldn't find the information. in the city. Entering the store, I was all three product lines, so she Nevertheless, I was convinced that immediately greeted by a moun grabbed a four-pack of Bartles & it was enough. tain of wine bottles, immediately Jaymes (which I could 've sworn As for my girlfriend, who was followed by a large mound of beer was a law firm ) Fuzzy Navel bot sipping on her sugary "Fuzzy cases and wine-cooler four-packs. tles, and we headed to the register. Navel," she assured me that the After pausing for a moment to col While checking out. we excited drink was "gorge." Whatever that lect my thoughts, I began examin ly asked the cashier what he means. ing the prices. thought of Aldi's booze. I can 't speak for her bright Aldi offers a decent selection of Unfortunately, he wasn't a beer orange, peach-flavored candy red and white wines from around man, citing its "nasty taste"- but drink, but I can say this: For less the globe, ranging from $2.49 to he did seem amused by it. than five dollars, you won't find a S6.99. I quickly decided on a S2.49 "They're trying to come up," he more satisfying six-pack than bottle of Winking Owl Cabemet said, laughing. Wemesgrijner. Sauvignon from California. Not Arriving at home, our patience 'Enchonters' imilotes life ·Brian Costello uses his hometown, music lifestyle as inspiration for debut book, release party By Tiffany Breyne/Assistant A&E Editor Orlando is a difficult place to book ·s publishing company, ideas happen, and at first they're Capote voices or something. visit, much less live. The bright Fcathcrproof Books, and rejected and then they're just We ' re just telling a good story colors, the rich people- it 's all Eiizabeth Crane, author of When accepted as a matter of course. and making it as fun as possible barely tolerable, especially when th~ Messenger is Hvt. The fea [The book shows] a surrealist for the audience." you're a kid growing up in the tured bands will be The kind of ridiculous next step in Since the release is at the midst of it all. At least that's how Krunchies. The Mistreaters und youth culture. [The characters] Empty Bottle. Costello hopes to Brian Costello, author of Th e Human Eye- which. in try to create something entirely have an audience outside of just Ench11111ers vs. Sprawlburg Costello's eyes, is one of the best organic und new and bizarre." book lovers and English majors: Sprfnt,s, felt living in the Disney bands in music at the moment. Costello joined up with he wants to reach the people who lied area of Florida. While !>iJrinl{.l' follows the tule of a Messinger and Zach Dodson. the are there to see bands as well. C011tello, a fiction writing teacher boy who works us a squid cutter other co-founder of independent since they may be able to relate to at Columbia, may have hated it, in a restuurunt, joins a band und Fentherproof Books. after they Spri"gs ' characters. he used it to his advantage for the then tnsptres other neighborhood asked to hnve Spri"l:l·' be the first Eric Westra, chief officer of book. kids to start bands. eventuully book under their new publishing promotions at the Empty Bottle, " Part of [my tnspiration) wns creating a "minor surrenlist revo J! fOUp . Costello suid it wns a per• thinks it's important for the liter where I grew up in Orlando," lution in this God-awful d ty," feet mntch since they were nry audience to reach 0111 to the Costello satd. " It was ju1t n very Costello said. fri ends of his nnd the book musical audience and vice vvsa. sprawled out nightmare of a Aside from his hometown " mnt c hc~ the spirit" of ~o the venue holds releue partie place an air-condtttoncd night lnsplrntion. Costello credits the Fcntherproof. lie ulso snid pub whenc\'cr they come it1 way. ma re of strip mulls end mansions. fuct thnt he hns hecn 111 hnnds ltshtll)! unllor Fentherpronf nllows "We've worked with Brian And fucking idiots." hhnself fvr nbout ltnlf hos ltlc . him nwre crentive freedom with bef'ore. with a lot of his fri By Patrick Gavin/The Diamondback (U-Wire) '·His actions have caused alarm and dis "Matt- he gets some flak every once in a may amongst our allies abroad, and given while;· Clooney said of his co-star and considerable comfort to our enemies. And close friend. "In fact , I'm gonna give him 1vhose fault is that? Not really his. He did some flak later t0day." n 'i create this situation of fear; he merely Syriana began filming about a month exploited it- and rather successfully." after the two actors wrapped Ocean j· /'o:l), this is not a question (or is it an Twelve. During the break Clooney packed answer?) from last night's episode of liber on 30 pounds in the 30-day span between al "Jeopardy." And thumbs off your signal the projects. ing buttons, contestants, because in this "The truth is it "s not nearly as fun as it case, the question is not, "Who is George sounds, the idea of putting on that kind of W. Bush?" weight," said Clooney, who also grew a This biting quote was lifted from George thick beard for the part. "My job was just to Clooney's Good Night. and Good Luck, the eat as fast as I could as much as I could. Edward R. Murrow biopic currently in the Mostly you just ate until you wanted to aters, which chronicles the legendary news throw up and made sure you dido 't." man's instrumental role in the fall of While Clooney was in front of the cam Senator Joseph McCanhy. era for Syriana, he also had experience And yet, you've got to be living in a spi behind the scenes, directing. His film der hole if you didn't pick up on the implic Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was it parallel drawn by co-writer and director lauded by many critics, and Good Night. Clooney between the juntor senator from and Good Luck is already generating buzz Wisconsin who cried "Red," a~d the cur as an Oscar contender. Clooney said, with rent president. both experiences under his belt, directing is This month, Syriana, Clooney's polit a bit better. ical thriller, hits multiplexes on the heels "With directing you get to be the boss all of Good Night. Despite the subject mat the time, and acting you gotta listen to the ter, the 44-year-old actor claims the film director,'' Clooney said. "So it's fun to be is not imended as an overt criticism of the boss." the president. Clooney doesn't plan to entirely disap "This film is goi ng after 50 or 60 years of pear from the sih er screen anyttme soon. flawed policies in the Middle East," considering the former People magazine's Clooney said in a telephone conference "Sexiest Man Alive" is still in high demand call. "TI1is isn't something that happened in on screen. the past four and a half years. So, in gener "Both films that I directed I had to be in al, we certainly weren't making this a 'go to get the funding for them," said Clooney. get-Bush thing."' who played bit pans as news producer Fred But with a project full of well-known Friendly in Good Night and a mysterious left-wingers, including Clooney, Matt Cl A agent in Confessions. "Otherwise I Damon a.1tl writer/director Stephen wouldn't have been in them at all. It 's no Gaghan, the Oscar-win!1ing scribe of fun [to direct yourself]. It's no fun to actu Traffic, Wamer Brothers will be hard ally talk to yourself and say. ' Hey, good job, pressed to convince moviegoers, panicular George."" ly those in red states, that Clooney and The sensitive topics covered in both company have no agenda. Syriana and Good Night are somewhat "Our argument is to raise the debate," famil iar territory for the actor. For example, said Clooney, who also produced Syriana. he has sparred with Bill O'Reilly, and he's "If yol! ' re going to have a war against an not afraid to draw comparisons between his idea, which is terror, then ~'OU have to work and his real-life opinions. understand the elements. You can't just say While describing an interrogation scene, they're evil. We're not going to be called the actor slipped in a zinger: "I was getting unpatriotic for asking questions." buckets of water thrown on me, which isn't And it's because of Clooney's history in the film anymore. There's a lot more tor that Syria.oa is being called "George ture to it that you don't see ... son of like Clooney's controversial new movie," and what we're doing in the [Bush] administra not, say, Matt Damon's. tion. Just kidding." "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN" OPENS IN CHICAGO ON DECEMBER 16TH! serious in 'Syriana .' Fiii§•J;I•Joecember 12,2005. Page 10 way to do that is surround them Vizioli, who is originally from with people who are not as big," Italy, "Rigoletto" sees the aesthet Silverstein said. "I know that ics, setting and supernumeraries 'Rigoletto' is the kind of piece as a key role in the opera. where a very important aspect of "The idea is that the set is not Topless Design it is the psychology of Rigoletto simply decoration," Vizioli said in and the court that he is in. It a production presentation with set Lyric Opera will feature more skin, shorter could be that the director is try designer Robert Innes Hopkins. ing to make an exotic and fright "(It] is always reflecting a concep decorations in newest production of 'Rigo/effo' ening, nightmarish kind of look tion, and especially is reflecting based on the psychology of sometimes the metaphor of what By Tiffany Breyne/Assistant A&E Editor Rigoletto." is the meaning of the opera." Silverstein believes that since 'Rigoletto' opens at the Lyric he words "topless" and "opera" Vizioli, than past productions to do with the psychology of the audience attends an opera !O Opera of Chicago, 20 N. Wacker usually don't belong in the and Apartment & Roommate Marketplace Help create a family. 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WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AND 10 AM . 7 PM ON MONDAY AND THURSDAY The Wa ll and the Page-Drawings and installation by Amy Rathbone and Brad Brown •• # November 1D · December 16 . 2005 Glass Cur tarn Gallery rs delighted to brrng together the intrrgurng worl< or two master vrsual and conceptual artrsts I / Amy Rathbone combrnes rnstallatron and works on paper She uses famrlrar Obi ects- wrre. steel wool. sandbags. gouache and graphite- to explore line. extremes rn scale. and 2D versus 3D space Rathbone rnsrnuates these materrals rnto the walls, columns. and corners or the &allery in a playful challen&e to our everyday rela t.lonshtp weth mter.or s pa~£ Sonce 1987 Brad Brown has been ma r ~ r n g. tearrng. taprng. pastrng. stepprng and sprllrng on hrs drawrngs on paper. all the whrle amassin& thousands or pieces rn a body of wor ~ ne calls ' The Look Starns · These wor~ s on paper-combrnrng parn trng. prrntrng and drawrng- are the accumulations of Brown's exploration into PfOCess . ttme. chance mar-<.ng and the re fu sal or closure ' C33 GALLERY, 33 E Con&ress A.enue HOURS 9 AM . 7 PM MONDAY . 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Even with the mer vice president of insti dent of institutional advance goal of a I 0 percent annual tutional advancement at ment on Dec. 2 was quite a increase outlined in Wilberforce University in s hake- up to Columbia' s Columbia's 20 I 0 plan, those Ohio, out of retirement to administration. While Ross aspirations seemed too lofty. take Ross' place. But it is will go on to "take advantage But as Ross' predecessor, likely that administrators of other opponunities," the Woodie White, told The could spend up to a year school is seeking to perma Chronicle, "The basic ques searching for a permanent nently fill the position. But tion is: How do you position replacement for Ross. his deputure has also called Columbia to raise significant It's imperative for anention to the manner of dollars?" Columbia to consider the fundraising at Columbia. Even though efforts like previous track record of In Ross' first year at the Conversations in the Ross' successor in its search Columbia. the school Arts: Up Close With series if the college is to succeed. increased its spending on are designed to tum potential At his Dec. I student press efforts to raise money by donors on to Columbia, the briefing, President Warrick roughly 20 percent, only to fact remains that these events L . Carter once again see a drastic decline in con require the school to spend expressed his commitment to tributions. money to make money. reducing the percentage of Before coming to Columbia officials have Columbia's dependency on Columbia in October 2003. said that the Office of student tuition. Ross spent nearly two years Institutional Advancement Surely one of the best at Sl. Boniventure University will not change its fundrais ways to do that would be to in New York, where money ing strategies. While they spend as linle as possible to directed at fundraising would not elaborate on what raise the most funds. If increased by men than S I this means, if the school con Columbia is hoping to see a million. But despite more tinue.s to cultivate donors generous increase in gifts spending. cootributions from through costly events with five years from now, then public souTCes ~ained linle success, it will ulti Ross' successor must realize Slagnmt. mately end up not bringing that investing more money And Ross set the bar high in as much money as it does not necessarily trans late when he toid The Chronicle would like. to receiving more. New life in death penalty debate n 1911, Stanley Took~ maintained his innocence tice. Americans would prefer W"tlliMu was coovicted until the verv end. and to sec: convicted murderers I of murdering four people Cantu's long-siienr c.o-defen put to death rather than during rwo robberies in dM!t signed 1 sworn atrrdavit return to civilian life: bur California and was sen s.ying he allowed hi.!! mend support for the death penalty InKed to death in San to be falsely accuted. The is not as fervent when com TO THE Qumtin Stale Prison. Sinc.e lone eycwitneu in the case pared to life without parole. lETTERs EorTOR: then, Williarm.. a co-founder told the HOUSion C hronicle Additionally. many studies well as its overall image. (Besides its or the Clips png in !As that he felt prcss11red to iden· have indicated tha t it actlllll· obvious etTecr on Columbia ·s non Angela in 1971. ~ main trfy the then-1 7-)ear-old ly costs rupaycrs more black students of color- irs bad tamed his innounc:e. He is Cantu a.s the man who shO( money- more than S I mil· enough being ignored in real life, but J ------~---~-- 05WM81A CHRONICLE ~= ... -~i =::.~ .... • SIIWll ==r:A.. Fet:.,._..~U.., ~ ...... ==..., lit= a: -~~ ...... December 12, 2005 Commentary 1 5 Keep it to yourself, creep Roamin' By Jemfer Dorsey Fischer der me? Or was he just getting gering safety for al legedly forc ing And Sjodin was the cousin of Numerals Copy Chief some kicks yelling at me from his a woman off the road at rine one of my fonner high school car? point- which ended only after he classmates. My heart still aches for I ex ited the el last Wednesday I don't care what his intent. or saw her infant daughter in the car. her fami ly. My mind cannot com morning bundled in fu ll-on winter the intent of any street harasser, is. Avery has been charged with prehend how that demented man $500,000 attire- parka, wool scarf and hat We have a right to wa lk in the llalbach ·s murder and with muti was even walking free. pulled down over my ears. world with both our dignity and lating her corpse. His arraignment Not every case hits so close to Minimum amount Mike ·'Mmm ," some slime ball cooed sense 0f security intact. We have a is sched uled for Jan. 17. home or even makes the news, but Bolognue had in vested into my ear, li ke he was slobbering right to go to work or school or One of my fr iends knew Teresa every case of sexual violence and in his northeastern Ohi o over a juicy steak dinner. I could wherever we may need to go, with Halbach. I can't imagine the anger harassment of women is sickeni ng . tavern, Legends Sports feel his breath and his jacket as he out feeling that our sexuality is and sadness Halbach's family and and heartbreaking. And there are brushed by me. being violated. I am sick of having fri ends are enduring. far too many. Pub and Grille, only to Awesome. I headed for class these expe According to the nat ion's largest di scover the state sick to my stomach and royally riences and ant i-sex ual assault organization, would not grant him a pissed off, ready to slug the next hea rin g Rape, Abuse and Incest National liquor license. low-life who crossed my path. about the Network, there was an average of Bolognue plans to serve I wish I could say that was the s i m i I a r 223,280 victims of rape, attempted food until May. when first time I'd encountered such encounters rape or sexual assault in 2002 and harassment, but I can't; it's a regu of o t her 2003. RAI NN reported th at in voters will decide lar occurrence- at least once women. 2003 only 40 percent of rapes and whether to approve every-other week. I am amazed by The se sexual assaults were reported to alcohol sales. the population of ill -mannered repulsive law enforcement. The organization men who roam this world. Since I moment s also estimates that every two and a walk and take public transit almost strip us of half minutes, somewhere in everywhere, I have dozens of sto o ur pride America, someone is sexually ries- some rather chilling, in and make us assaulted. That estimate does not fact--of sleazy guys harassing me want to hide factor in rape or attempted rape. 413 on the street. our femi Both RA INN an d the U.S. Every time I start to feel thank ninity. They Department of Justice defi ne sexu Number of satellites fu l that I li ve in such an emotional make us al assault as completed or attempt the United States has in ly advanced society, one tilled with feel weak ed attacks usually involvi ng outer space, according men and women who respect one and vulner unwanted sexual contact between to a survey conducted another and consider one another able. They the victim and the offender. This by the Union of as equals, I am reminded that there infuriate us definition includes verbal threats. Concerned Scientists are still a sufficient num ber of and make us The Department of Justice creeps. r ese nt ful ati onal Sex Offender Public released Dec. 7. The Early last summer I was walki ng t owa rd Registry cites that there are over rest of the world has to work at 7:30 in the morning men. 500.000 registered sex offenders 382 satellite ' . broad daylight, with people drop The s e nat ionwide. ping thei r kids ofT at school and feelings are But they all don't remain in jail walking their dogs- when a man reinforced forever. According to the u.S. Chris Gallevo/The Chron icle in a red BMW slowed down and further Department of Justice's National $2,500 started making lewd sexual com when I hear about women who are Unfortunately. that isn 't the only Crime Victimization Survey, com ments to me. He then foll owed me, violated in the worst way; women headline-making case I' ve fe lt per pared wi th non-sex offenders lagging behind unti l I was away like Teresa Halbach, the 25-year sonally connected to. released from state prisons. Reward given to water from other people. After doing this old freelance photographer whose Two years ago the murder of 22 - released sex offenders were four meter r~ader Gerardo - for several blocks, he came me up remains were fo und last month in year-old Uni versity of North times more likely to be re-arrested Ruiz for returning a to where I was and I turned to him, the Mishicot, Wis., salvage yard Dakota student Dru Sjodin made for a sex crime. And they are walk winning lottery ticket shaking with anger and fear, and owce<;l by the fam ily of Steven national news. With every televi ing among us like ticking bombs. yelled at him to " leave me the fu ck Avery, a man who was exonerated sion broadcast, I was physically There is no way to tell the hann worth $25,000 to Mike alone." He sped ofT as another car of a rape conviction in 2003 after sickened by the sight of Alfonso less creeps from the seriously dan Sargent. On Nov. 15, approached. serving 18 years in prison. Rodriguez Jr., the level-three sex gerous ones. Though I refuse to Sargent lost the My blood boiled. My body trem Though DNA evidence cleared offender who was charged with live in fear of the criminal mon scratch-off ticket he bled. What was his plan? Did he him of the crime he had been serv ending Sjodin 's life. Rodriguez sters and refuse to let the ill-man purchased in Alvarado, hope I would hop in his car and ing time for, Avery had a 25-year had a history of sexual contact and nered men who harass me change Texas, but received a beg him to take me off to some hi story with the court system, attempted kidnappings of adult who I am, I wi ll never understand place we could be alone? Did he which included cruelty to animals, females. Rodriguez's trial is sched any of them. But I will certainly let call from Ruiz fi ve plan to grab me, rape me and mur- fe lony burglary charges and endan- uled to begin July 2006. my opinion of them be heard. days later saying he found it while working Boozing with strangers can be fun five houses away. By Hunter Clauss our shifty eyes and our wild, really j ust a junior stranger in train had to say. So I did. I got to know a Assistant A&E Editor disheveled hair, but what does any ing. I decided the best and safest great deal about her- how she Choice Cuts one really know about strangers? way to handle the situation was to graduated from Northwestern They're eve r yw here - in It's hard work riding the bus all day just wave back. University and how she started a libraries, dark alleys, bars and rest or hanging out in back alleys all It was the same bizarre uncertain company with her husband. But we rooms across America. They can night long. That stuff takes pure ty that I had experienced at the also talked about the current politi even be sitting next to you right dedication. Holiday Club, a swanky little bar on cal cl imate in America and the War "If she dies, I will kill now, and as luck would have it, I, We're told at an early age that we the comer of Sheridan and Irving on Terror and, even though we did Michael Schiavo and too; am proudly one of them. I'm a can't trust strangers for anything, Park roads, I stumbled upon two n't agree on some topics, we still the'' judge . This is real!" stranger, and I'm annoyed with how but I've realized that "stranger dan other strangers who I later would had an enjoyable conversation. the media portrays us as candy ger" is not as bad as my parents and discover were just two human Since I mustered up the courage to Statement posted to an loaded child abductors. my teachers made me believe. I beings. I was ordering a shot of converse with her and her husband, Internet message board Sure, the candy's great, but a lot mean, really, didn't we resolve all something when the woman next to they bought me a shot of tequila and of us strangers don't even like kids. of this during the Cold War when me at the counter complimented me two rum and cokes along the way. by Dera Marie Jones, 32, Yes, there are some with whom a the USSR was the alpha stranger to on my attire. She was easily twice They even offered their couch to me regarding the decision in child shouldn't be left alone. But is the U.S.? my age but still very pretty. When when they realized that I was quite March to remove Terri that really the stranger's fault? It's a For example, when I was riding people compliment me on anything, intoxicated from their free drinks. Schiavo's feeding tube. known fact that strangers and chil on the bus to work the other day, a I get really shy and don't know There are many misconceptions Jones was convicted by dren get along as much as the cur 5-year-old girl said goodbye and what to say. This hesitation to con about us strangers and they have rent pope and the Nazi Party, but waved to me as she was exiting verse with what turned out to be a gone on for fa r too long. We 've a federal jury on Dec. 6 you've got to have lemons to make with her grandfather, who could very wonderful woman struck me been discriminated against by the for sending a death lemonade. have been a stranger-in-training. as a bit off. media and the PTA for far too long. threat across state lines. Strangers are vastly misunder Regardless, I got really nervous and Instead of running away in terror Sure, we might give your kid some stood. Everyone expects the worst didn't know what to say. My moth as the kind, older woman began candy, but chances are we' II also out of a stranger, but we can't help er always informed me to never talk talking to me, I decided maybe I buy you a drink for a friendly con it. Sure, we look suspicious with to strangers, and this little girl is should just stay and hear what she versation. 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[email protected] [email protected] www.ColumbiaChronicle.com 16 City Beat December 12, 2005 Santa's final 'Ho, Ho, Ho' nnder Marshall Field's name AP es only the name wi ll change, not half-dozen of whom are scattered the holiday traditions that have throughout the downtown store's made visiting the State Street store fifth-floor toy section listening to At the end of a long line of excit to see its elaborate wi ndow dis children's Christmas wishes. ed children and decked out in the plays, giam Christmas tree and, of "It's sad, because the Christmas traditional red suit and beard, course, Santa Claus, an annual ritu traditions are so tied up with the Frank Arostegui is spending his last al for generdtions of families. Marshall Field's name," said Jim Christmas season as a Marshall Hi;t<>·ians say the store, which Roetheli of Chicago. "I feel real Field's Santa Cl"us. was bui lt in 1892, began decorating pride in being a Marshall Field's By next season, the vtnerable its window fronts in 1897, put up Santa. This is the Cadillac of downtown department store, a its first Christmas tree in 1938 and Santadom." decidedly Chicago store, will be opened its Santa land, called the Chicago movie critic Roger renamed Macy 's, which is decided Cozy Cloud Cottage, in the 1940s. Ebert, an opponent of the name ly New York. "We're committed to preserving change, complains that while the "Marshall Field's is synonymous the traditions at Marshall Field's," store's new owner plans to keep the with Christmas in Chicago," said said Fieid's spokeswoman Jennifer same traditions, they will be differ Arostcgui, a 64-year-old retired McNamara. "We don't have any ent. factory manager-n1med Santa. "I plans to change them." "It won't be Field's Christmas think they're making a huge mis But the name change, which traditions," wrote Ebert via e-mail. take." should happen by fall, has been "It will be Macy's." Federated Department Stores reason enough to lower the spirits All 62 Marshall Field's stores Inc., which bought Field's, promis- of this year's crop of store Santas, a across the country will be renamed Macy's by Cincinnati-based Federated, which also owns the Marshall Field's State Street store is decorated for the holiday Bloomingdale's department store season as pedestrians walk past. Customers have been flock chain. ing back to the store for its final season before it is renamed That wi ll force one Field 's Macy's. Christmas tradition into the history books. While children will sti ll be want most for Christmas is for the In the 1950s, Marshall Field's able to visit Santa at the downtown name to stay the same," said Jeff claimed its nearly four-story high store, the memento buttons they Allen of Chicago. "But they also balsam fir was the world's largest receive will no longer say: "I saw say they'll keep shopping here no indoor Christmas tree. Today, the Field's Santa." matter what the store's called." tree is artificial but still elaborately That's tough to swallow for McNamara said there has been decorated with 2,400 crystals and Arostegui, whose parents brought more traffic through the downtown 15,000 lights. him to see the store's Santa in the store, partly due to sentimental Lori Miodus of Fort Wayne, 1940s, and he later brought his own journeys by Field's devotees. She Ind., recently came to Chicago three children. said shoppers also are snapping up with her daughter and parents to 'The only real Santa was at Christmas tree ornaments and other visit the store during one last Marshall Field's, there was no items emblazoned with the Field's Christmas season before it question about that," Arostegui logo, although she could provide becomes Macy's. said. no sales figures. "My first Christmas and many While children still ask the At the store, another popular Christmases since were spent in store's Santas for the latest toys, Christmastime tradition is a meal at the Walnut Room," said Miodus, Jim Roetheli, a Marshall Field's Santa Claus, takes an escala their parents have another wish this the stately, seventh-floor Walnut who was raised in C hicago. " It tor to a lower level, in downtown Chicago. By next season the year. Room, where the store's glittering, was so important for us to do it store will be renamed Macy's. "Some parents said what they 45-foot Christmas tree stands. as a family one last time." To Students Ffom Apple City Beat Frequent thefts threaten safe1y in South Loop By Chelsey Klasmch acts of battery in areas near campus. First Year Contributor Students say they generally feel safe and confident about walking in the area, Thi s past fall. Columbia student Josh but many are still concerned about the Rubin was standing outside of a crowded criminal activity. Walgreens two blocks from campus, "Theft is always in the back of my when someone stole his wallet. When he mind, but I try not to think about it- oth realized it hours later. he retraced his erwise, it would freak me out even Michael Jarecki/ The Chronide steps, but he knew had just become a vic more," said Courtney Nagel, a freshman tim of theft. fashion major. The electric battery for the 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid (left) located in the rear, "My wallet was stolen from my back Many students also have a preference powers the vehicle up until it reaches 30 mph. The gas engine (right) kicks in pocket," said Rubin, a freshman art and for certain streets. when the vehicle goes above 30 mph. design and film and video student. "My "I feel the most uncomfortable on State drivers' license, Columbia ID, key card Street," Rubin said. "So much attention Hybrid: So far Escape purchasers have been people to the donn and $80 in cash were in my is placed north on Michigan Avenue, like who are concerned about high gas prices as wallet," on the Magnificent Mile. Cops are more Tax breaks give buyers well as the environment, Fick said. Police statistics show that thefts do abundant there versus State Street." " Unfortunately, that is a small percentage of happen around Columbia's campus-and Police officials say students shouldn't incentive to get hybrids the population," Fick said. they happen often. worry about street crime. Continued from Back Page The Escape is powered by batteries in the According to Chicago's Citizen "Most of these thefts occur at restau vehicle's electric engine for speeds up to 25 to !CAM, a Chicago Police Department rants where a purse is set on the back of 30 mph. For higher speeds, or when the vehi website that keeps an unofficial tally of a chair," said Sgt. Ross Williams of the Escape hybrids in its fleet and in 2005 was the cle has torque, such as towing or going up crime, 29 thefts occurred in October and department's C hicago Alternative largest midwest purchaser of the vehicles in hills, the gas engine immediately kicks in, November on Michigan Avenue, Wabash Policing Strategy office. "Victims of 2005, a move that helped strengthen the com Fick said. Avenue and State Street within a mile of pick-pocketing and thefts are rarely col pany's standing, said Patrick Pineau, The battery recharges itself through a Columbia's A lexandroff Campus lege students." spokesman for Exelon Corp. regenerative braking system that stores energy Building, 600 S. Michigan Ave. Pat Camden, deputy director of the CornEd has seen a savings of about 30 per every time the vehicle is in motion or braking. But theft is only one of the crimes police department's news affairs divi cent on the hybrid SUVs over their traditional Price-wise, Fick said, the Hybrid Escape is committed around campus. In fact, phys sion, agreed that the area near gas fleet and is expecting the new bucket about $4,000 more than the standard compa ical crimes happen more often than theft, Columbia's campus is safe. trucks soon, Pineau said. rably-equipped gas engine model, but people according to information on !CAM. "Most crime is based on opportunity," "We're trying to be a leader and set an can save just as much in gasoline if they use In the last two months, seven robberies he said. "If a student isn't aware of their example to cut down on emissions and the vehicle primarily within city traffic. occurred within a mile of the surroundings and gives an opportunity, dependence on foreign oil," Pineau said. Emanuel also urged the Federal govern Alexandroff building. In two incidents, they become more vulnerable to criminal However, Richard Fick, a sales manager at ment to pursue the hybrid market and provide suspects used a handgun. Half took place activity." Lynch Ford, 5333 W. Irving Park Road, said funding for state transportation fleets by 2015. between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., when many Williams advised students to be aware the Escape is the only production hybrid This year Emanuel secured $2 million for students are on their way to and from of any suspicious activity. If students available through Ford Motor Co., and sales the world 's first ethanol-to-hydrogen fueling classes. approach a street where they feel uncom are not as high as the company had predicted station in Chicago through the Energy and Other incidents including eight fortable, they should take a detour, he for average consumers. Water Appropriations bill, Connery said. assaults on area streets and another on said. Anyone who is a victim of a physi 'That would be fantastic if the additional tax "Emanuel always said, 'When it's good college property have recently taken cal crime or personal theft should report credit passes," Fick said. "It would certainly energy policy, its good environmental policy place and there were also I I reported it immediately. stimulate hybrid sales for average citizens." and good economic policy,"' Connery said. COLLEGE SURVIVAL TIP ASKING THE FOLKS FOR MONEY. THEY WANT TO GIVE. YOU JU ST HAVE TO HELP THEM REALIZE IT. S USTAINABLE ART C• ~)St S J AN l b. ?006 Always a ddicarc convcnonion, ir's wuaHy best ro hit them up before . gradts come our. R~uaas are best preceded by observations like .. h s so cold 10 her~ 1 can sec my breath.. and ""Wow, I'm just wasrU. away from hunger... And here's ~othe~ suar~ _for m' · •g a linlc ~xua scrat~h : Fr« Chtcking _from Washington Mutoal. r hcrc s no m1mmum oalan~ r~uued t~ tvo.•d a mon~}y scrvtcc chatF i.S frc:c to sigll up fur . vosa• Check c.m. Plus thcn:s fret on». boll P"Y av:ubblc ar W>ffiU. .,__ • • Next to good rdations with the parental unirs, Frr< Ch FREE CHECKING WITH NOMONTHLY FEE c Washington Mutual NO MATTER WHAT YOUR BALANCE 18 December, 12 2005 City Beat Performers: most people he talked to in Snow settles over city Chicago thought street musi New proposal cians helped businesses. cracking down on " It makes the streets more of a communal place where people street musicians can share things," Nutt said. "Without that, it would lead back Continuedfrom Back Page into a society where people stay indoors and use the street simply whether it be through words, as a passage way to get quickly music or performance. from one place to another." "I usually get a tremendous Natarus didn't comment on the response from people, tourists status of his new proposal but and locals ... Currie said. "It's said he is not out to get street always been nothing but posi musicians like a lot of people tive. I play the bagpipes, and seem to think. they ha ve really only one level "I'm not against street musi you can play at; I can't really cians. In fact, I'm the one who turn them down." put them on the street in the first Tim '\utt. founder of place," Natarus said. "It is my Streetnote. a nonprofit organiza constituents." tion based in San Francisco that Matt Richards, who works at provides opportunities for street the Gap at 555 N. Michigan musicians to be heard by making Ave., on the stretch the new and providing demos for street street performing proposal is tar musicians to have free of charge geting, said that he personally said street music is a crucial hasn't heard many people com aspect of the culture of any city. plaining about street music or "We live in real noisy cities performers. and the noise that surrounds us is "I don't recall anyone ever traffic and people screaming," complaining about street musi Nutt said. Street music brings in cians," Richards said. "In my an element of triangulation experience, it has been the oppo between the music, the perform site of that. A lot of people from ers and th e people walking the out of town seem to actually streets" enjoy that sort of thing. Being N utt visited Chicago last sum able to experience something mer during the Chicago Loop like that in an urban area is what Alliance's (formerly the Greater they are here for." State Street Council/Central Remington Pettygrove, a street Michigan Avenue Association) musician and sophomore busi Anthony Johnson spreads salt in front of the DePaul School of Law, 25 E. Wabash State Street Live event, which ness major at pePaul University, Ave., on Thursday. Dec. 8 the day after a snowstorm. The snowfall was the first featured street musicians and said he doesn 'f agree with the significant accumulation since the city's winter parking ban went into effect earlier performers from around the city. new proposal. this month. Nutt said he was surprised at "Street musicians are part of how much it the city was helping Chicago," Pettygrove said. out musicians by g iving them " That's what makes up our designated areas to play. He said culture." 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Correa suggested treating smoking the way the city handles liquor- requiring businesses to obtain a smoking license. Others, however, support the ban. "I like being able to go to places and not have to smell smoke," said Natalie Hall, a fi rst-year graduate student at Roosevelt University. "' It 's better for my health." Hall, a non-smoker who moved Eric DavisfThe to Chicago from Wisconsin, A Southwest Airlines plane comes to a stop at the intersection a t Central Avenue a nd 55th Street on Dec. 9 where a similar ban was enacted, after sliding off a runway wh:ie attempting to land at Midway Airport on Dec. 8. Fl ight 1248, carrying 98 passen said many of her friends are upset gers and five crew members, s truck two vehicles in the intersection, killing a 6-year-old passenger. The plane about the ban. is expected to remain in place until the National Transportation Safety Board wraps up its investigation. " It's freezing . If I always had to stand outside to smoke I would understand, too," Hall said. Gallery opens art up to everybody, creative crowd In Thomas' eyes, most of the art gal "Most places are either high-end gal the gallery will be cycled out after Jan I, By Kim Haburn leries in Chicago are "too snobby, and leries where they won't show your stuff Ruby said. The gallery has so much First Year Contributor new and emerging artists don't have a unless you're already famous, or gal work to show- much of it from Thomas shot at getting in the door." leries in Wicker Park that only local own collection- that it needs to be The John Galt Gallery doesn't have At first sight, Thomas himself seems people come to," Amft said. rotated. any pricey oil paintings or watercol like an unlikely figure to open an art Part of Thomas' goal in opening the The gallery is two-thirds photography ors- j ust photographs of blues legends, gall ery, but hi s interest in art is nothing gallery is to teach customers, especially and one-third miscellaneous artwork, shadowboxes with hand-drawn cartoons new. younger ones, how to collect art. including oils, lithographs and three inside and 3-D art featuring Barbie " I've been a coll ector for 30 years," Gallery employees should understand dimensional pieces. All an is featured in dolls. Thomas said. He added that he began that some visitors are new to art. He has group shows. Artists consign their work, The gall ery, at 3222 N. Clark St., collecting photography after he opened a particular interest in attracting atten and the profits are split in-half with occupies space formerly used by The hi s cigar store, Blue Havana, 10 years tion from Columbia. Thomas. Most of the artwork ranges Alley, a collection of stores owned and ago. "Columbia kids have been a part of from $200 to $I ,200. operated by Mark Thomas. The alley Photographer Peter Amft was com The Alley for years," he said , noting that A Ithough the gallery occupies space stores have an unusual array of prod miss ioned to make prints for the store, Columbia students have been All ey formerly used by The All ey, it's separate ucts, from leather jackets to cigars to and Thomas wound up hanging most of employees as well as faithful customers. from the store. The floors are wood and s ilver jewelry. This time, though them in his home. Jason Ruby, an employee of Thomas' the walls are painted gray so that the art Thomas has turned his eclectic tastes to Amft will be the artist in residence at who has just started working at the work doesn't have to "'compete" with starting a different kind of art gallery. the gall ery. Based in Chicago, he has gallery, said he is a newcomer to the art white walls, a suggestion made by one Thomas took the name of the gallery photographed many musical artists that scene. He heard that Thomas was open of the photographers featured in the from Atlas Shrugged, the novel by Ayn have come through Chicago including ing a gallery and volunteered to work. gallery. Rand, after the character Galt, who B.B. King, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Although he doesn 't know much Thomas said he always wanted to brings the others to enlightenment. Stones. Amft even worked as the official about art, Ruby said he is learning open an art gallery, and the opportunity The items in the store don 't seem I ike tour photographer when the Ro lling quick ly. His favorite pieces so far are finally presented itself. they're suitable for an upscale, "artsy" Stones hit the road in 1972. paintings by Chris Berg. Ruby describes The gallery is open from noon to 7 crowd, which is good considering that a Amft believes Thomas will help them as "sort o f a fairy tale meets Cat in p.m. on Wednesdays. Thursdays and snooty crowd is just what Thomas wants unknown artists by g iving them a the Hat." Sundays, and from noon to /0 p.m. on to avoid. chance to display their work. The artwork currently on display in Fridays and Saturdays. Underco\·er bag bust Knocks not heard quickly enough Two undercover pt•:ice officers were conducting On Dec. I, a 53-year-old man woke up to knock surveillance at the corner of State Street and ing on his door around 7 a.m. at the Hilton Chicago, Roosevelt Road on Dec. 3 when they "observed a 720 S. Mi ch igan Ave. A man of an unknown age was man running at a frenzied pace carrying bags." The on the other side complaining of chest pains and officers identified themselves, showing their badges, shortness of breath . The witness sat the unidentified and requested that the offender stop so they could man down in his room and called 9 11. Paramedics conduct an interview. The offender then jumped on transported the man to Nonhwestem Memorial the back of one of the officers, a 33-year-old man, Hospital , where he was pronounced dead on arrival and punched him in the back of the head. The other from cardiac arrest. officer, a 36-year-old man, apprehended the offender and placed him under arrest. Hungry woman too fu ll to pay Dangerous donations A 42-year-old mentally handi capped woman ordered a small pizza, chicken strips and a drink at Police arrested a 44-year-old man after he was Edwardo's Pizza, 52 1 S. Dearbom St., and then observed soliciting funds from motorists on Dec. 2 refused to pay after eating it on Dec. 5. A 31-year near 500 S. Dearbom St. The man was walking in old male employee wanted the incident to be docu and out of traffic, endangering the lives of motorists, mented but didn't want the woman locked up. The pedestrians and himself, police said. meal was valued at $16.68. Compiled by Chronicle staffthr ough information provided by the Chicago Police Department. CilYBEAT N o joke: Proposed ordinance may drown out street performers no smoke Alderman wants can't enjoy their apartments," performers to quiet Natarus said. "That's all this City council votes [ordinance] is designed to stop." down, pay more The new limitations would Chicago to be require all street musicians to smoke-free by 2008 By James Ewert pay a $ 150 permit fee (up from Associate City Beat Editor $50), display photo identifica By James Ewert If 42nd Ward Alderman tion at all times and stay away Associate City Beat Editor Burton Natarus and his con from the area around the Jay stituents get their way, street Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium For months, aldermen have musicians along Chicago's Park during concerts. Street debated and put off deciding Magnificent Mile will be musicians are also prohibited whether smoking should be singing a softer tune. from performing on what the banned in the city, and they At the Nov. 30 city council new ordinance calls "the highly have finally reached a conclu meeting, cong ested sion: Chicago will be smoke Natarus pro "This is clearly a consti area" of free- eventually. posed revisions tutional issue about the Michigan The city council voted Dec. 7 to the current right the public to public Avenu e law regarding to pass a compromise ordi spaces." between East nance, effectively banning street musicians Delaware smoking in all indoor public and performers. - Bill C urrie, street musician Place and East places, eventually including all The new guide Superior bars and restaurants. lines proposed Street. The ban, which goes into by Natarus reduce the distance Bill Currie, a street musician, effect Jan. 16, 2006 will require musicians can be heard from said he was effectively banned all public indoor places to go 200 feet away to 50 feet, as well by police from playing his bag smoke-free and gives restau as raise the minimum fine for pipes too loud in front of Water rants, bars and stand-alone tav violations from $200 to $300. Tower Place earlier this erns until July 8, 2008, to do so. Natarus, who proposed a more September. Violators will face fines from ri gid ordinance in 1999 that "This is clearly a constitution $100 to $500, while owners and failed to make it through city al issue about the right the pub managers that fail to comply council, said he has revived lic has to public spaces," said would face a fine of $1 00 or less efforts for new guidelines Currie who has hired a lawyer for the first offense and a fine of because the people in his ward, and plans to file a class action no more than $500 for the sec which incorporates much of the lawsuit against the city for the ond offense. Central Loop and Gold Coast, citation he received. "I think this is one of the best have been calling for it. Currie said constraints from things to happen in the city "The point of the matter is, I ordinances continue to pile up council. This is what the legisla Guitarist Remington Pettygrove, a sophomore business major at just don't see the value of peo on top of each other and are tive process is all about," said DePaul University, plays for commuters waiting for the CTA Red ple pounding on cans and people beginning to hinder the public's Alderman Burton Natarus of the Line at the Chicago stop on Dec. 7. A proposed ordinance would with a drum set pounding away right to express themselves 42nd Ward. "This was a very lower the distance musicians can be heard from 200 feet to 50 with no music or anything else tough issue and an issue that's fee~ and increase permit fees by $100. and making noise so people See Performers, Page 18 not finished. We have a lot of work to do over the next two and a half years." Natarus said he and his col Tax credits aimed to encourage hybrid sales leagues stayed up until 3 a.m. Illinois businesses endar year 2005 may claim a tax Emanuel that the company is Charbonneau said. the morning of the Dec. 7 meet deduction of up to $2,000 on also committed to reducing fuel Eventually external funding ing trying to find a compromise pressing forward with l 040 forms, said Sue Hales, usage by optimizing hybrid was put towards development that combined the two previous hybrid technology spokeswoman for the Illinois diesel engines and lowering and Exelon Corp., the parent ly proposed ordinances. The IRS. harmful emissions. company of Chicago's first ordinance, proposed by By Alan J. Baker As of Jan. 1, that deduction "Being a large producer [of Commonwealth Edison, placed Alderman Ed Smith of the 28th City Beat Editor will drop to $500, according to commercial vehicles] we take an order. Ward, called for the elimination Hales, but consumers who pur seriously the need to conserve "The utility industry saw the of smoking in all public indoor In an effort to boost sales of chased vehicles in 2004 can still fuel and reduce emission," value of the production and they places with no exceptions. The hybrid vehicles nationwide, U.S. claim the credit on their 2005 Patrick Charbonneau, vice presi were pushing the heck out of us second ordinance, proposed by Rep. Rahm Emanuel, a democrat taxes. dent of government relations at to bring this to the market," Jim Natarus, called for the elimina from Chicago, announced he Emanuel's tax credit must first International, said. "Frankly, it's Williams said, director of sales tion of smoking in most public would introduce a tax break for be drafted into a bill before being our responsibility to do that." and distribution at International. places, but had exceptions for consumers and businesses that assigned to a committee for International began pursuing "Something I have never seen in stand alone restaurant bars and purchase alternative-fuel vehi review, said Kathleen Connery, the technology after the utility my forty years at International." taverns. cles. spokeswoman for Emanuel. industry nationwide came CornEd now has 24 Ford "It's a rare opportunity for us, The American Hybrid Tax "Chicago is really on the cut together and encouraged them to as a [legislative] body, to save Credit Act of 2005 would ting edge of hybrid technology," develop more efficiently running See Hybrid, Page 17 li ves. Today we have that increase credit for purchasers of Connery said. "The tax credit vehicles, such as bucket opportunity," Smith said. hybrid and other alternative-fuel will make it easier fo r people to trucks for power Chicago will join New York, vehicles by $3,000 if they arc purchase the vehicles." line repairs, Boston, Los Angeles and a long manufactured in the United Emanuel's legislati on will also list of other U.S. cities that have States. increase credit for ----=~~~::::::: passed smoking bans. Chicago's " Making hybrids more avail a lternative motor ban, however, is foggy because able to consumers and small vehicle technolo 11 has one possible loophole: If businesses is a hat tric k in gy from 20 per C\lablishmcnts can prove that Chicago," Emanuel said during a cent to 40 per venti lation and filtrati on sys press conference Dec. 5 at the cent, an initia t em~ can completely clear the 19th District Police Station. " By tive for manu atr, they may be exempt. increasing the tax credit current factures to keep II poll on the c ity of ly avai lable to purchasers of researching nnd Chicago's website found 71 per hybrids, we wi ll reduce our developing within cent of respondents in fitvur of dependence on fi>rcign oil und rnurket. the ban, while 29 percent arc create u clcuncr environment." Of'ficiuls from lntcrnutionul aga inst it. When it comes to Under the Wo rking Families Truck und Engine Corp., one of MlchHI Jll'tCkVTht Chroniclt ~u pp ort from college students, Tux Reli e f' llcl of' 2004, pur the nut ion's lenders in hybrid The 2006 Escape Is the only hybrid vehicle available through Ford chase'H of quulif'ying hybrid gus technology for conuncrciul Motor Co. A proposed hybrid credit Incentive would provide an addi See Ban, Page 19 electric vehicles during th e cui- vehicles, unnounccd ulungsidc tional $3,000 credit to consumers who purchase hybrids In 2005. www ColumhtaChrontclr 'mn