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VOLUME 33,NUMBER 10 COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO MONOAY:NOV EMBER 29, 1999 CAMPUS VITALITY SPORTS Sun-T inJCs columnist NCAA H oops 1999-00 Mary Mitchell DVD rc,·icw on " Life" Couch make..; tu.s pi<·k.s! rclum s to Columbia PAGE3 INSIDE BACK PAGE Duff still ranks as one of the highest-paid presidents: survey JAMES BOOZER seventh floors of the new building which is 70,000 Presidents in Top Pay Braa<ets Editor-in-Chief square feet more than their former space. During the 1997-98 academic year, I ,821 students 40 Columbia President John B. DufT remains one of the anended the Chi cago campus and the university also 40 • In the $300,000. In the $400,000s highest-paid private college presidents according to a has campuses in Evanston, Wheaton, Wheeling and 35 • More !han $500,000 33 recent survey. The survey, conducted by the Chronicle Elgin. 30 29 of Higher Education, found that in Herron was widely blamed for the universi­ 25 1997-98, the presidents of eight pri­ ty's financial difficulties in his last years as zs vate institutions earned more than president, according to the Chronicle of :tO 19 $500,000 per year in pay and bene­ Higher Education. fi ts while 13 others topped $400,000. His total compensation for 1997-98 includ­ 15 13 10 Sixty-one presidents- about 13 per­ ed retirement payments and a severance 10 8 8 cent of those in the survey- earned package, which will be paid over time. 5 4 5 4 more than $300,000 according to the Efforts by the Chronicle to reach school offi­ survey. cials at NLU for comment were unsuccessfuL 0 Duff's pay and benefi ts for 1997- Following DufT on the list of the top paid -=c~won~c~.~ 98 totalled $392,43 1, which was officials at Columbia is the director of the lower than what he received during Institute for Science Education and Info rmation courtesy of the Chr·--onicle of High... er Education the 1996-97 academic year. Duff's Communication, Zafra Lerman. Her pay for -- pay and benefi ts during that period JOHN B . DUFF the 1997-98 period was $179,537 and she Facts & Figures was $407,227 which ranked him as also received $52,065 in benefits. Lerman the number one person in the catego­ retains the number two spot she held during Columbia College Chicago ry of Master's Universities and the 1996-97 academic period. 1997-98 Revenue:$72 million 1997-98 Expenditures:$69 million College 1 and 11. Columbia's Executive Vice President Bert Institutions in that category otTer a Gall is listed third with a salary of $1 35,192 •Note: Benefits include $109,000 in deferred com- full range of baccalaureate programs and $39,206 in benefits. R. Michael DeSalle, pensation and other and are committed to graduate edu­ vice president of fi nance received $131,575 deferred benefits to adjust '96-'97 '97-'98 '97-'98 for pension·plan revision. cation thro ugh the master 's degree and $38,159 in benefi ts, and John Mulvany, Pay Pay Benefit according to the Carnegie former chairperson of the Photography and John B. Duff, President $198,695 $219,598 $172,833- Fo undation for the Advancement of Art Departments received $131, 142 and Zafra Lerman, Director $1 62,339 $179,537 $52,065 Teaching. They award 20 or more $38,03 1 in benefits. S urprisi ngly listed six on of Science Institute master's degrees in one or more dis­ the list is Philip Klukoff, associate vice presi­ Albert C. Gall, Executive Vice $130,751 $135,192 $39,206 ciplines. dent of Columbia 2, the college of conti nuing President In the latest survey, DufT moved to BERT GALL education. second place behind Orley R. Columbia 2, which began in the spring of R. Michael DeSalle, Vice President $124,058 $131,142 $38,159 Herron, former president of National-Louis University, 1996, is an educational program for professionals inter­ of Finance who received $639,694. In October of 1997, Herron ested in the arts and communications. KlukofT, former John Mulvany, former chair of $116,810 $131,142 $38,031 resigned as presidenrafter serving for 20 years. chairperson of the English Department, was asked by Photography and Art Department In September, NLU relocated its downtown Chicago Duff to fill the position of assoc iate vice president. Philip Ktukoff, Associate Vice President, campus from 18 S. Michigan to its new home at I 22 S. Columbia 2 (Not fisted) $131,061 $38,00 Michigan. The university occupies the second through SEE SURVEY , PAGE 2 Information courtesy of the Chronicle of Higher Education JAMES BOOZE R/CHRONICLE South Loop among the highest-risk college communities in Chicago DANIELLE HAAS "Our ana lysis doesn't take you inside the coll ege StafJWriler walls, but frankly, all campuses are pretty safe," Port said " But some of them are in sections of c ities According to a new federal Jaw, next fall , by that are deeply troubled. They are surrounded by October 2000, Columbia safety and security statis­ social disarray." tics will be forced to include crimes committed on Columbia's current safety and security pamphlet, any property adjacent to Columbia campus build­ published annually, lists a total of three campus ings, including the area in front of and behind the crimes through December 1997. These were two buildings. burglaries and one robbery. These statistics don' t "Colleges and universities generally report crimes reflect crimes committed ofT campus property such that occur on campus, but do not include what hap­ as last year's rape and the recent muggings. pens on its borders or on the public streets that run Columbia currently has 30 security officers, con­ through the campus," sa id !.Robert Port, whose tracted through the SDI Security Company as well company, APB commissioned the campus security as an evening patrol car provided by SOl. study. Just this past year, Columbia acquired its own The 1999 College Community Risk Assessment security vehicle, a pickup truck marked with was published in Barron's Profile of American Columbia's logo. It also roams throughout the Colleges. Columbia was one of the many urban evenings around campus property. schools evaluated in the study. The truck was acquired shortly after the rape that Columbia's risk factor was a nine out of I 0, on a occurred last spring. Columbia security officer Mike Brown, stationed in the scale of one to I 0, with I 0 being the highest. An escort service was started last spring, as well, Wabash building, gives a student a helping hand. Columbia ranked 31 in the list of more than I ,400 but was discontinued, due to Jack of student interest Columbia recently topped a list of Chicago area col­ Illinois schools as the highest risk. The University in the program. "If 1 were to get a feel for added leges that were located in high crime areas. of Chicago placed two above Columbi a and DePaul interest we could start (the escort service] again," placed 32. S EE SECURITY , P AGE 2 COLUMBIA C H RONICLE NOVEMBER 29, 1999 News Briefs I JAMES BOOZER 1 EDITOR-IN-cHIEF I Hillary Clinton to run for U.S. Senate in New York C HRIST OPHER R ICHERT I BUSINESS/ ADVERTISING MANAGER T R IB U NE M EDIA SERVICES B ILLY O'K EEFE : VIEWPOINTS/ N EW M EDIA EDITO R NEW YO RK - H ill ary Rod ham C li nton made her bid for a Senate scat from New York official last week, saying "The answer is yes, I K IMBERLY BREHM intend to run." CAMPUS E DITOR It's time to get moving and get started," s he said. " I' ll be traveling around the state and campaign ing." Her li ke ly Republican challenger J ILL L O PRESTI is New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. M rs. Clinton made her com­ V ITAUTY EDITOR ments while addressing a teacher's union. Randi Weingarten, head o f B EN JAMIN T'R ECROCI the United Federation o f Teachers, had asked Mrs. C linton, " Is is yes SPORTS EDITOR or is it no?" Then at a news conference fo llowing the event, she said: " I believe BRIAN C A M PBELL that th is is time for me to answer a direct question (about her candida­ AsSISTANT E D ITOR cy) and I did so, because I believe that this campaig n is about the G RAHAM COUCH issues that people are ta lking to me about." , AsS ISTANT E DITOR M rs. C linton was in New York C ity today for her fi rst campaign­ like appearance in the state in two weeks. She had been in the M ideast M ICHAEL O'B RIEN and Europe.