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Does the government 'Image Impressions' Wrigley Field is waste your tax featured in the open for business money? Hokin Annex Page 12 P-Fac contract now up Photo essay: Rays of for member, trustee OK Salary increase is the ers taught the equivalent of a fuJI-time o schedule. Between teaching classes at main focus of the contract both Columbia and other colleges, teach­ ers were still living on less than $20,000 a By Georgia Evdoxladls year. According to the Office of Planning and Institutional Research, 78 percent of Copy Chief Columbia's faculty is part-time. Previously, teachers had to have taught A new contract for Columbia's part-time at least eight hours, effectively two semes­ faculty has been presented to the Board of ters, to become unit members. Now any Trustees and to members of the Part-time teacher who has taught at Columbia for Faculty Association. The previous con­ even one semester will qualify fo r the con­ tract expired at the end of February and tract. The unofficial change was made negotiators have been working to come up about a year and a half ago, according to with a replacement. The proposed con­ Laiacona, but this is the first contract to tract details governance procedures, work­ reflect it formaJl y. load and salaries. Another important issue for teachers was Highlights of the contract include saJary job security, Laiacona said. Under the old increases, stricter grievance and gover­ contract, not renewing a part-timer's con­ nance procedures, an increase in the tract was as easy as leaving a voicemail. amount of credit hours that may be taught Cancelling a class taught by a part-time by part-time faculty and a lower standard teacher was also easier. for membership in the unit of teachers. The proposed contract lays out more spe­ P-Fac President Joe Laiacona named cific rules for such procedures. For salary increases as the teachers' top prior­ instance, if the college wishes to discon­ ity. tinue a teacher 's employment for unsati s­ Under the proposed contract, part-time factory perfonnance, the teacher must first teachers' salaries will be higher than they be offered an opportunity to remedy his or are currently. For example, a teacher who her teaching deficiencies. has taught 49 credit hours wi ll be paid Additionally, it would be easier under the $3 ,000 per three-hour course, up from proposed contract for teachers to move up $2,470. in the pay scale. But teachers who have "We also wanted to attain parity, or equal taught 200 or more hours wiJl no longer pay for equal work," Laiacona said. He also said many Columbia part-time teach- See P·Fac, page 5 -$100,000 grant brings ~ancer-lati to ColUmbia New lab's director will o in the quest for better treatments. Michael SchmidVChronicte conduct basic prostate The lab wiu also be used to teach Chronicle photographer Michael Schmidt recently vis ited New York City. cancer research CoJumbia students how scienti fic His work is featured in th is week's photo essay, found on pages 16 and 17. research is done and will further inte­ By KevIn B. O'Reilly grate artistic concepts intO the study of science. In addition, the lab will be Assistant Editor available for use by Chicago Public Choices final for bands Schools teachers who study and do Columbia's Institute of Science research al the Science Institute during Education and Science Communication. the summer. will open a cancer resean:h Iaboratmy "Columbia's art and communications headlining at Mayfest April 30 with $100.000 from the students will be called upon to intelli· National Science Foundation. gently communicate research results Ozomatli one of main hip-hop. "It's really an anomaly to give a high o Fred Anderson. who is the "renowned concerning cancer, the imnllme system, acts at college's month-long ""ienf;e grant to an arts and communica· reproduction, etc.)" said Science giant of Chicago jazz..' according to Kelly. tions college." said Science InstituIA: Institute bead Zafia Lennan, who was festivities will also be one of the big names playing at faculty member Kenneth Uio. who will out of the country and responded to Columbia. direct the resean:h facility. "But we're questions by fax. By lillian Helmer Oliver Mtukudzi. the popular artist from doing solid researcll, and this is impor. "'There is no bener way to learn how Managing Ed itor Zimbabwe. was a hit perfornler at the 2000 tant for students too. There is a reallaclc to report results in these fields than by Chicago World Music Festival. of science communicators out there." conducting research and learning to Throughout May. Columbia will show­ Thornella Davis. the fourth headliner in The lab will primarily support lIio's communicate the results through 'video. case student work and talent to the Chicago the Mayfest lineup. is a blues singer. prostate cancer research. llio's work, DVD. CD-ROM. film. illustration. community during a month-long fe stival. All events will lead up to the event's May which is part of a larger research project script writing.joumalism. etc .... Lennan Mayfest. Plans for this high-proli le event 23 climax. when the Columbia community based at Northwestern University's said. have been in the works for months, but with wi ll overtakfJ Wabash Avenue from Uroiosy departmen~ will utilize lines of "Colwnbia students who are interest· May drawing nearer, plans arc now being Harrison to lit 1 streets. normal and abnormal cells 10 study the ed in enhancing their professional port· finalized. Mayfest is really about two things. Kelly development of prostate cancer. folios." Lennan added, "will now be With the help of the House of Blues, one said- the month-long series of events "This is a small part of cancer able to produce projects combining their of the main sponsors of Mayfest, Columbia showcasing student work. and then May 23. researcll," llio said. By establishing a mai<>r and scientifio research, greatly has finally named the headlining musicians "May 23 is what we hope will become thc liDo of undifferentiated cens, llio and improving their chances for exceptional who will perform at the event. major student event of the year. evcry year. IIUdenI oeoearchers will be able to study career options." According to Mark Kelly. vice president fo r the coll ege, and not just for students. but bow growth tiIcto<s affect the patIB of One of the Iaboratmy devi<:es students of Student Affairs, the headliners will be for the college community." Kelly said. ....... l11li abnormal ceUs. may find especially useful. said lIio. is a Ozomatii, Fred Anderson. Oliver Mtukudzi The May 23 festival will include the Dio otreaed that this work aJooe otate-of·~ image-capturing micro­ and Thometta Davis. recently chosen headlining acts. along with wadd not yield any major break· scope, which would provide image The first headliner, the Grammy Award­ six galleries of student art, a screening ofthe ...... in prostate .....,.. .....-II, best work out of the Film and Video depart­ modeliDg of cellular bio~ concepts. winning Ozomatli, is a Latin fusion band• ... dill it would ...,.' .. a basis of The lab would also provicIo • bock· whose current album, Embrace the C haos, ment. a showcase of theater students. and u-1odF for other reo6utIIors to use , See lib, page 5 blends Mexican and Cuban influences with See Mayfest, page 2 Joe S. Tamborello/Chronicle Early fall and summer Tom Patzelt, interactive multimedia student registration to begin (Left), talks with Bill Leubscher, at-large Registratio~ for the summer 2002 semester will be held from Apnl22 to 25,10 a.m . to 6 p.m. Continuing cand idate for the Student degree-seeking undergraduate students will register Government Association. in the Hokin Annex with academic and freshman advisers. Undergraduate students-at-Iarge will regis­ ter during open registration in June. There will be a second registration session from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., June 3 to 6 and June 8, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. New freshman and transfer students will register at this time. All graduate students will be eligible to register dur­ ing these two weeks. Early registration f~r Fall 2002 will be held April 30 to May 9. All registration will take place in the depart­ ment offices. Class schedules for both semesters are available now in various campus locations. Contact the Records Office with any questions at (312) 344-7224. Film and Video department hosts festival of student work Climbing the ladder to an audio arts career o In this week's series: What to know than those that just have great technical skill s," Kanters This week the Film and Video department wi ll be said. hosting MTake 1,' a juried festival of student films cre­ when breaking into the so und industry Step four: Network as much as possible.

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