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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. THE CHQdJn~ LE 0 f C 0 1 U M 5 A C 0 1 1 E ~uaurcw£Gu~ t1 I C A C 0 VOL. XXIX, No. 11/T cR~ May 20,1996 Speck and the Fourth Estate Chicago media man Bill Kurtis at the forefront as Congress evalu ates prisons By Jason Kravarik Media Columnist
Minors were told to leave the room. T V cameras were ordered to turn away. Snapshots were forbidden. Then, an explicit videotape made by convicted mass mur derer Richard Speck and two other inmates was shown to the House Judiciary Committee in Springfi eld on May 15. Those packing the heari ng room watched as Speck's fel low inmate, Ronzelle Lari more, rubbed money on Speck's but tocks and forced several bill s Photo by Jason Kravarik into Speck's rectum. The 100 or Bill Kurtis or Chicago's WBBM-TV (Channel 2) shows the now-inra mous pornographic videotape so spectators cringed as Speck reaturing serial killer Richard Speck. Curtis appeared on May 15 berore a House Judiciary and Larimore then engaged in Committee in Springfield which was investigating the Department or Corrections. oral sex. "That's enoug h. Stop the Department of Corrections of a 45-minute question-and- coming in [to the prison]?" tape," said committee vice (DOC). To do that, the commit- answer session on topics rang- asked Rep. Tom Dart (D- chairman Peter Roskam (R tee heard testimony from ing from religion to Speck's Chicago). Wheaton). anchorman Bill Kurtis, who murder convictions of eight "We have learned that it was Having seen Speck, used portions of the tape in his Southeast Side nurses in 1966, from the guards," Kurtis said. Larimore and a third unknown Richard Speck investigation and another 45 minutes of his 'The DOC has not inquired inmate freely make a two-hour broadcast over the last two sexual exploits. Speck was also about this? It seems outra- Video, i ~~s up to the commiuee weeks on WBBM-TV (Channel seen snorting a white sub- geous," Dart replied. to determine how such a tape 2). · stance, which appears to be Kurtis said simply, "No, could have been made within During his first-ever govern- cocaine. they have not." Stateville Prison back in 1988, ment testiJTIOny, Kurtis told the "Were you able to get infor- See Speck, page 2 and to examine the role of the committee that the tape consists mation on where the drugs are New Forum The fight to retain students to address Too many students who enroll at Columbia end up technology leaving, and administration is starting to explore why By Eric Steffen many students are leaving Columbia. discover at Columbia Currt.rpondent ing the reasons why they withdraw is crucial to By Bob C hiarito administrative efforts to increase student reten New.
THE CHRONICLJ Stude-nts pedal for AIDS cause By Jackie Gonzalez area: AIDS Care, Canticle Place, Chicago everyone," said C.H.I.P.S. president, Journalism Department Staff Writer House, Community Response. Howard Kristen Cone. 623 S. Wabash Ave., Suite Brown Health Center and Sinai Family Fischberg is also holding a fund-raising 802 Two Columbia students have unusual Health Centers. event in the faculty lounge of the 624 S. Chicago, Illinois 60605 plans for the summer. These organizations assist people with Michigan building May 29 from 3-5 p.m. 312-663-1600 ext. 5432 Jill Fischberg. a graduate student in AIDS by offering support groups. coun Hansen has taken a different approach 312-663-1600 ext. 5343 Dance/Movement Therapy, and Rob seling, testing, HIV education and preven to his fund-raising efforts. He has written FAX 312-427-3920 Hansen. senior Graphics Design major. tion programs. letters to family members and friends ask e-mail: will spend a week ridi ng in the Twin It is the first time the AIDS Ride will ing for their support. Chronicle@ Cities Chicago AIDS Ride, a six-day, 450- take place in the Midwest, and the event is He also had an article written about mail.colum.edu mile bike ride from Minneapolis/St. Paul expected to raise $4 million. him in his hometown newspaper, and Web page: to Chicago July 1-6. Before riding, participants mu st com hopes readers wi ll contribute. Fischberg heard about the bike ride mit to raising a minimum of $2,300. "People always say they believe some http://www.colum.edu/ from a friend at dinner one evening, and To reach her goal, Fischberg has enlist thing is a good cause, but can't afford it," -chronclelindex.html Hansen saw a Oyer in a movie theater. ed the help of a few student organizations. said Hansen. "Even a contribution of a "I had never heard of anything as pow Lambda Force. Columbia's gay, lesbian dollar would help." Editor-in-Chief erful as this ride," Fisch berg said. and bisexual student organization, will Fischberg agreed, "If every student Nancy Laichas Hansen, who enjoys riding his bike, hold a masquerade ball on May 24 for all donated a dollar. the money would really said he will be participating for two rea Columbia College students. Lambda add up." Managing Editor sons. Force will have several booths at the Students and faculty members interest John Biedem1an "Not only will it be a lot of fun, but it 's event to help Fischberg. ed in donating to the AIDS Ride can attain for a worthy cause," he said. Fischbcrg also has the backing of pledge sheets from either the Student Life News Editor Seventeen hundred riders will bike 70 Columbia's Chronic Illness Pain Support and Development Office on the third to 90 miles a day to raise funds for six (C.H.I.P.S) group. noor, or the graphics lab on the ninth noor Bob Chiarito AIDS organizations in the Chicagoland "AIDS is a reality that is affecting of the 623 S. Wabash building. Features Editor Cristin Monti Speck, from page 1 said that drug problems in the In another part of the tape. Speck stood prison system are reOective of Entertainment Editor in front of the camera to reveal breasts that society. He also said the DOC is Ryan Healy were unusually large for a male. The com cooperating fully with the state mittee concluded that Speck had female investigation. Photography Editor hormones. The committee members agreed Natalie Battag lia Sitting in women's underwear, Speck that their investigation will contin told Larimore. "If they only knew how ue, reaching prison guards and Copy Editors much fun I was having. they would turn me other DOC employees. Because loose." Speck has been dead since 1991. Kim Watkins After viewing the tape. Roskam said it and the identity of the inmate who Yasmin Khan was inconceivable that Speck had the free shot the video is unknown, most of David Harre ll dom to make the video without getting the committee's investigation will caught. rely on Larimore. Advertising Manager "You saw the look in that man's eye- "The only person that has all the Sandra K.Taylor completely cavalier." he said. answers is Ronzelle Larimore," "It's as if he's reading Time magazine on Jones said. "In order for Senior Writer a Sunday afternoon. He knows he's not Corrections to get any answers. he MiThaela Mills going to he disturbed. In fact. junior high holds the key." kids smoking cigarettes in a bathroom are Washington said that Larimore more fearful than Richard Speck is (in the had already been placed in protec Staff Writers video)." tive custody. Aliage Taqi The DOC held a press conference after Kurtis' production company Bill Kurtis, of WBBM-TV (Cbaunel 2). Sandra K. Taylor the comnuttcc meeting. purchased the video for $5.000 Leon Tripplett "Our employees ha ve a very difficult joh from a Chicago attorney who form on Kurtis' A&E ~ries on May II. Lisa Manna day in and day out," said DOC Director received it. apparently as payment, from He said that the investigation should not Jackie Gonzalez Odie Washington. another Stateville inmate. stop with how the video was made. Christine Lock "It's important to remember that if you Kurtis would not disclose the attorney's "I'd love to sec a full-scale investigation take an incident that happened eight years name to the committee. of the prison system," he said. Staff Photographer ago. you have to be careful...thcre have Kurtis said the Speck tapes have ''That doesn't only mean guards, correc Laura Stoecker been a lot of thmgs that have changed in the received more political action and press tions officers, and gangs. It means the entire past eight years." attention than he expected. and he is thing out there that is getting worse and Washmgton maintained that the Illinois pleased with the reaction he is getting to the worse. I hope someone can act on it before Web Page Editor DOC is one of the best in the nation. He story. which appeared again in documentary we have a serious problem." Mark Dascoli Faculty Advisor Jim Sulski Roundtable, from page 1 When the fact that more com puters arc needed for students Retention, from page 1: Most agree that a Thompson. Gall and Latta came up. one faculty member greater sense of community would help n,e Chronicle is a student explaining how and why the said. "it's almost a crisis." run newspaper of Columbia TLTR W:llo created and quick ly Mark Kelly agreed but con Columbia's rate of returning students, but College. It is published foc used on issue< that affect the ceded that there arc not enough weekly during the school year entire college community. funds to make everyone happy. the question of how remains to be answered and disuibuted on Mondays. Several prohlems were hrought "Students have expressed frus Vtews expressed m this news up. ,. well a' po>s1hlc solut ions. tration ... We're never going to government could g1ve students said. paper are not necessarily although nothing was set in have enough re sources to do a feeling of personal involve ''The school needs to have ment in the development of col those of the Journalism scone. everything.'' he said . "We (the more general activities, not just lege policies and activities. ones for particular groups." Depaitrnent or the college. Among the first prohlcm dis TLTRI have to decide which we cu>scd wa• the fact that although arc going to do and to what Finally. the study recommend Others felt that a sense of , ... Columbia is entering the com level." ed that special courses or community couldn't exist at _ puter age. many students arc Computer registrati on. which videos to help students with Columbia because it is not a more knowledgeable than faculty hcgan this year. was brought up. stress management und critical large university where students Next week: when it comes 11> technology. A show of hands was taken to thinking. live on campus. Short-term computer courses sec how many faculty mcmhers Columhia College is making "I do feel some sense of Dmltmiss for faculty were suggested. along preferred it over Columhia's old an effort to entice students to community," said Jennifer with a technology immersion >ystem. hut there wasn't an over stay hy foc using on some of the Labnl. "but since Columbia is a the Chronicle's month. which Thmnpsun said whelming response towards snme problems thnt hoth Del commuter school I'm not sure a could be held 1n June 'incc full either system. Mnr and Allegany fnccd. n:al s~nse of community is pos last issue until time faculty arc ' till on contract. Thompson said thnt when In a report concerning stblc. But Latta cautioned ngainst computer registration began. the Columhiu's retention rutc. the The report by Columbia fall. falhng onto a cndlc•• cycle of goal wns to service students with college recognited thut cducu concerning retention policies tra1ning. renundmg the gruup of less than 45 credits und student> tionnl succes. is nut solely an indicutcs significant ch11ngcs in We're going to let II\ goal. w1th XH or more credits. hut they issue of uc:odcmic prcpnrntion college pructiccs are needed to " llow much t ec hn o lu ~y i> hnd to huck down hccnu>c facul and skill. hut encmnpnsses ull address retention. Bob Chiarito l au~ lll compared 111 how much ty wusn'tuscd to the new sy,tem. aspects nf •tudents' expero For cxumple. the report sug t cc hnolo~y " " 'cd to teach'!" ' he llcrt Ciull •nul C'olumhiu i• ences while in schuol. gests 11sscssing the needs of nil write, edit and '"ked elmer w hnving culltputcr regis· The report went un to sny incoming freshmen in order to Mo't of the ptohlcnl\ that trut 1on lor nil >t udcnl\ than 11 wn' thnt (\1lumhin is concerned help them select the best pro desiqn the entire were rat, cd ha ve no 1111111 Ct.li:IIC a 7.car ngn. hut ' aul how ci(I\C " with •tude11t>' •odul. culturul. gnllns und courses for them. \olutum,, althou~th m1c )acuity ' 1111 ll ()UC,llllll . pcrsoual nml l•cuuonllc cm·um The respnnsihilitics defined for paper. And just IIICIIIhCt \ U g~c , l cd I CtJc,l gfllll): He ' "'d that Cnlum h1a may ' lllllce' '" well11' thl'ir ncudl·m the fucu lty mise issues nhout da"rown' "' lhat ' 11uJcn1 ' arc need nne 111 o1c cycle where hall ic pctl\lrmmH:\!. wurl.louds. evnluution critcri11 think, after next IIIII \hlcldcd hy ClllllpUlCI 11111111 · the ' ludellh 1cg1.tcr cady 1111d When •tudcnts were n•l-ed if untl the role of pnrt-time fncul l OP~ hull rcg"lcr lat er to nvuid they felt II senSl' of C
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Seniors Only! May 20, 1996 NEWS 5 The new job search: Surf the net Where the By Colleen DeBaise career placement sites already on the SIUdents increasingly arc usin g the jobs are College Press Service Net. Internet because job listings arc con Increasingly, students are turmng to stantly updated and available 24 hours JobDirect http://www.jobdirect.com Leafing through classified ads. the Internet for their job search, as a day, Borgert added. This service is geared specifically to Trekking across campus to the career more and more companies are tuning By using the Net. job hunters also ward college students and allows users center to check the latest job listings .. into cyberspace to recruit employees. demonstrate that they have skills in to fill out an electronic resume form. Mailing out stacks of resumes. say college placement officers. onl ine research. a relatively new talent The resume is then stored in a data To Sara Sutton and Rachel Bell , it Jeannette Fromm, a graduate stu that many companies are seeking, she base. which companies can peruse. didnt make any sense that job hunting dent in computer science at the said . Students also receive job listings in should be s uch a hassle. So, the two University of Dayton, accepted a job A student can check out the variety their in-box. Job Trak http://www.jobtrak.com college students decided to do some offer as a programmer after only a of job placement services on the Net Bills itself as the nations leading job thing about it. two-month job hunt. conducted entire by clicking on a search engine such as li sting service. Job Trak is partners with Sutton, a junior at the University of ly online. Yahoo or Excite, then using a keyword hundreds of university career centers California-Berkeley, and Bell, also a The previous times I had been look search such as jobs or careers For example, the site CareerPath and utilized by over 200,000 employers. junior at Hobart & Will iam Smith ing for a job, I would have to go to the Over 700 new jobs posted each day. was created by six major newspapers, Colleges, took a year off from school [UD] Placement Center during the CareerPath. Com http://www.career to establis h Jo bDirect. an hours they were open. make copies of including The New York Times and path. com The Washington Post. and features Internet-based placement service that job listings and take them home to Features more than 40,000 officiall y launched in mid-May. work with, Fromm said. more than 40,000 job lis tings. help-wanted ads from six major newspa We were talking about this whole But this time, by checking web sites NationJobs site features a little guy pers, including The New York Times, job process, said Sutton, of herself and created by variety of career placement named P.J . (thats short for Personal The Washington Post and Chicago Bell, a childhood friend. We saw the services. she was able to switch on her Job)Scout, who will find job listings Tribune. stress of the job hunt. computer and look for jobs at any time that match a users credential and send College Grad Job Hunter With JobDirect, students can fill out of the daywhether it was in the morn them via e-mail. http://www.collegegrad.com an online resume form, lis ting info r ing before classes or late at ni ght. Other sites. such as College Grad Describes itself as your link to life mati on such as their major and activi Job searching on the Internet has Job Hunter, which describes itself as after college and gives advice on resume ti es. been increasingly popular among stu your link to life after college. give writing. They also can check their area of dents in the past six months, according advise on resume writing. The Catapult interest, whether its business, law or to Sue Borgert, assistant director o f job Chris Wiley of the UD Placement http:/lwww.jobweb.org/catapult/cat s ports. The information is stored in a development in the UD Career Center cautions students to be careful apult.html database for companies to peruse, and Placement Center. about what information they post on Contains in formation on companies. can be updated by the student at any More companies are posting job the Internet, and suggests using only grad schools, financial aid, interviewing time. listings, more web sites are offering an e-mail address rather than a tele skills and more. Also, the sites database sorts job searches, and more siUdents are phone number or home mailing NationJob http://www.nationjob. com through job listings and places good using the Net to post their resume and address. Provides thousands of job listings matches in students in-boxes, Sutton land a job, she said. Also. the case and convenience of and a featu re called P.J. (for Personal said. Chris Wiley, who works with UD using the Internet may be misleading, Job) Scout, a little guy who will find job To date, she and Bell have recruited alu mni searching fo r career opportuni Wi ley warns. listings for you and store them in your 25-50 companies larger o nes like ties, said that when job li stings first The Internet services should supple e-mail account. AT&T and Xerox, as well as small- to began to appear online. they were pri ment, rather than replace, conventional £-Span Inc. http://wwu:espan.com medium-sized businesseswho plan to mari ly for techni cal positions. job-hunting techniques, such as net Obtains a personal profile and match use JobDirect. Now were seeing more and more of working and looking through classi fi ed es jobs with your credentials and sends Their site joins a variety of other an y type of position, she said. ads, Wiley said. them directly to your e-mail account.
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"It's a chal Columbia film grads Neil Laird and Oral ·Hoop Dreams.· said Laird. weighong heavily o n s tudents' lenge for a person who wants to User have j us t finished their documentary "I worked with Frederick and later minds. some Columbia students are improve their writing," said Taylor ent it led "Savin g the Sphinx," shot on when I started 'Saving the Sphinx' 1 asked finding relief --and getting a foot But Leonard, who is scheduled location in Cairo. him for help a nd he in the door--through internships. to do an internship with Sony "Saving the Sphinx" agreed. He's been Junior David Leonard. a Music Records , maintains that it's the is Laird's documentary great. ''Laird is also co Management major with an impres only way that you can get ahead. thesis and foll ows four founder with User of a sove resume decorated with several "Sometimes that is what you have experts try in g to multinational documen internships. knows he wants to go to do to get noticed by employers," restore o ne o f the tary production compa into the music business. he added. seven wonders of the ny call ed Rosetta Films. He's made that appare nt by Internship coordinator, Bob world. the Sphinx. He said he started starting out as early as his sopho Blinn, who works closely with the "We follow the the company a year and more year and volunteering at Film Department says that team that restores the a half ago, and since music seminars and functions Columbia sets film majors up with statue. It is about their the n, the company has According to Columbia's stable some of the best in the country. li ves. how they work, shot a number o f films of internship coordinators, whose "We don' t send our students out and how they a re li v throughout the Arab sole purpose is to connect students to just any type of internship," said ing in Cairo. It is more and Islamic communi to their majors in the real world, Blinn, who has paired students up of a personal ties. internships is the best way to make with Hollywood filmmakers and approach," said User. Laird and User arc a foray into your industry. Columbia graduates. the fi lm's Director of joined by a nother " It gives you lots of experience Unpaid summer interns hips, Photography. Columbia grad Hesham and allows you the opportunity to though, can be difficlut to manage Laird realized very little has been doc lssawi, who co-produced the project. network and communicate with since most students are trying to umented about the restoratio n or other The compa ny is currently trying to sell those with whom you want to hire work to pay for the rising cost of topi cs in archaeology in Egypt. and decid "Saving the Sphinx." They arc lookin g you," said Nadine Sterk, an intern coming to college. ed to be one of the fi rst to tap in to the suh into PBS and cable companies and hope to ship coordinator with the "I' m glad that my internship is jcct. air the piece in 1997. Television Department. paying, because I wouldn't be able ''I've always hcen enamored by ancient ''I'm hoping to parlay the sale of this Networking is not foreign to to do it if it wasn't," said Leonard. hostor) ... saod Laord "I went to Egypt a film mto a scncs of ancoc nt Egypt." Laird Leonard. who landed an inte rnship But according to Blinn. few years ago and became interested in the said. "If 1 can get the funds. 1 p lan to go with Silk Productions because of Leonard's feelings are shared by archaeology there. I have some friends on back and do a six- or seven-piece series on networking he did while volunteer many s tude nts. "That's the major the antiquities hoard ~o I pc'tcred them to Egyptian archaeology." ing. reason why internships are so low help. Thos subject hasn' t been document Laird >aid getting intcrmhops while he A typical internship can vary during the summer." acknowledged ed on TV so I "anted to get a JUmp on it." wa> at Columhoa helped him get the expe from menial work such as getting Blinn. Laord directed and "rotc the o ne-ho ur rience he needed to do this film. lunch and coffee to writing press In the meantime, Leonard knows documentar) and saod monc) wa> a doffo l;urd also said Columhoa instructors releases. that he only has one year left and c ult thong to come h) for the have been very helpful on ht> project. Sandra Taylor. a Public the game pla n is to get as much prujcct."Largcl). ot "J' out uf Ill) O\\n "The Documentary Center at Columbia Relations Major. feels that menial experience as possible. pocket." he >ao d. " I gut a lot of 11 from wa> great." he saod . "Judy Hoffman and work works against the purpose of "I know that this internship is independent >O urcc> and pnvatc dona Ron Poll were really helpful. They gave an internship. "How can you learn going to be worth a lot even if I ti on, . Columbia nen ga'c me a lottie." rnc a lot o f encouragement antJ anccnllvc." anything if you're busy getting cof have to do menial work," said fcc'!"shc asks. 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The biggest of three boobs Bob blows (more smoke) ave you seen the new Penthouse, n a couple of weeks, some of you with its pictorial of Pamela Lee will be released from prison--that is, H Anderson and Tommy Lee? I graduate. If you have read the have (I was lied-down by a band of toughs ,v -;.r ffil•t I v Chronicle lately, you would know that and forced to look), and I fo und it disturb many more will bail out by not returning ing. Seeing Pamela naked uuerly failed to to school next semester. produce even a tinge of sexual excitement. There are many reasons for this phe Why? I couldn't get over her breasts. In Tension over retention nomenon, but the lack of a "community fact, I'm not sure if those things on her feel" has been touted as the main culprit. chest should be referred to as "breasts." fter witnessing our crammed elevators, world-class events and As you know, I rarely side with the admin I strongly recommend that you get a istration on any issue and am not afraid to glimpse of them, just to keep abreast of numerous students who have chosen to move here from other states and countries for an educati on, one would never expect Columbia let them know it. But when it comes to low the boob-job trend. You don't even have to A retention rates, the school is not responsi view her naked- you can flic k on College Chicago to have problems retaining students. ble, you arc (you dim-wiucd morons). Baywatch and see her run along the beach. But it does. Students complain that there are not You ' II notice that her breasts don' t According to correspondent Eric Steffen 's front-page story, "The fi ght to enough school-related events and groups bounce. And they defy gravity in an eery, on campus. The last time I looked, there unnatural manner. Naked, Pamela looks retain students," Columbia's rate of retention for students is far below that of were groups at Columbia for every type of like the product of a mad scientist who other college's nationwide. President John Duff named an increase in reten weirdo and creep on campus. Some even supernaturally mated a human male with a tion one of the colleges goals in 1994 as Columbia stands to lose accredita hold events that bring out rejects from the blow-up doll. We need to start educating tion, and government funding, should rates continue to plummet. Gcraldo show. Sorry for that reject slam, I women in the truth-here in reality, away The obvious target in a search for blame would be Columbia's open admis meant to say a cross-section of Columbia from Hollywood. Not all men find these students. permanent falsies auracti ve. Overall, sions policy, for e nroll ing a bevy of students unequipped to handle the acad Another reason often cited for the lack we' re not as breast crazy as you' re led to emic pressures of coll ege academics. But Columbia's retention rate comes up of a "community feel" is the fact that believe. short even among other schools with open admissions policies. Duff-and Columbia has a city campus and vertical The president or some feminist group other coll ege administrators, considering retention is a problem by no means buildings. Most students commute and arc should establish a commission to get this only on campus long enough to fall as leep word out. In the mean time, I'll start the unique to Columbia-has indicated that efforts need to go beyond the acad in class and sneak a smoke in the stair campaign (Clinton, Dworkin, Stcinem emic, that we need to search for ways to keep students involved with the col wells. you can contact me at any time). lege community beyond simply attending classes. We agree. Well. Columbia has always been like I can' t count the times I've seen an oth Certainl y, intra- and inter-departmental cooperation is lacking, one solu that and if you don' t like it you shouldn't erwise lovely woman bearing artificial have registered in the first place. Columbia tumors where mother nature originally put tion is obvious: We have a great many students producing wonderful works President John Duff has been unable to her breasts. A woman who probably within their respective fields whi le feeling alienated by the masses of other solve si mple problems like registration for looked marvelous with her original, students doing the same. In the Journalism Department (to cite an example years, so only a complete idiot would think streamlined body but has instead chosen to we' re famil iar with), the ties between the Chronicle, Chicago Arts and Duff and his cohorts could change the feel impersonate an android that was screwed Communications and broadcast productions such as CCEN are flimsy at best; of the school overnight. up proportionally on the factory line. To the many stupid students who com Of course, implants are experimental likewise, teachers make almost no effort to integrate class projects wi th plain about Columbia's campus, com and unhealthy- the most important con departmental productions-a scenario most certainly linked to Columbia's plaining is a waste of time. Change is not cern- but we don' t need to explore that regrettable lack of full -time faculty. going to happen unless you ta ke the initia any further. Besides, the danger hasn't put We also believe that on-campus employment could prove to boost ~ = tudent tive. But if you had the common sense to a dent in the demand for make-shift mam do th at, the problems that plague maries, so it's time we nipped it in the bud retention, but therein lies a tricky task: More money is the only solu tion. Face Columbia would have probably been by attacking the reason women get them. it, with all the talent Columbia possesses, many students are easil y lured sol vcd years ago. Namely, that belief that all or most men away by the multiple job opportunities Chicago boasts--especially when If you ask me why I continue to allcnd like them. those at the college only pay a minimum wage. Columbia, a feeling of community has I'll have to admit, an awful lot of men nothing to do with it. I once read an inter do like them, and I can' t dispute the fact These are but a few solutions for bringing a greater sense of community to view with Spike Lee and when asked why that Ms. Lee Anderson is a popular sex our campus, and we're sure administration has the means to recti fy the prob he allended New York University, he said symbol. But I can tell you that factory-line lem. But we must urge caution in any solu tions applied because Colu mbia's his main reason was to have access to film hooters tum off a lot of guys. "non-campus" air is, ironicall y, part of the reason so many of us have sought equipment. I auend Columbia to write for A friend of mine, Jim, works at a it out. Thus we urge students and administrators ali ke to keep more stereo the award-winning Chronicle, allempting restaurant on the Gold Coast, frequented to enlighten the illiterate every week. I largely by people who don' t relate well to typical college ideas away, such as implementation of a Greek system. also plan on graduating, which seems not wealth and gold diggers. One of his Sure, Columbia is due for some changes. But we must take every step nec to be a goal of many students around this biggest complaints is the number of artifi essary to ensure that it remains the Columbia we're grown proud of. place. As far as the feeling of community, cial breasts. "Some are so bad," Jim told if I wanted to be friends with losers I'd me, "that I swear they' re winking at me or drop-out now and join the c ircus. something. I almost think that one of those If you're wondering if I feel I am beucr babies is gonna light up or start talking." than most of Columbia's students, I am. Contrary to popular belief, males are Business get benign? But if you think about it. being beuer than remarkably diverse about what is and what most of Columbia's students is nothing to isn't physically auractive. (We can be e li ve in an age where the term "corporate" has become a dirty brag about. legitimately criticized for placing too word. An age of monstrous media mergers, expanding part-time Indeed, there arc some Columbia stu much importance on physical auractive slots, shri nking benefits, and talented college graduates unable to dents who work hard and have their eyes ness, but part of that's nature's fault, and W on the prize. But they arc as rare to the as most men mature, factors like personal find a better job than tending a fast-food counter. school as 40-hour work weeks arc to ity become higher priorities.) We're not all But there are occasional harbingers of something better to come, li ke the Columbia's administrators. into Hollywood's definition of female sex May 16 White House conference on corporate citizenship. It seems to me that the sense of com uality- ! know an awful lot of guys who According to Labor Secretary Robert Reich, the White House inte nded to munity at Columbia is just an excuse for think the obligatory Hollywood breasts are "show that doing well by employees is not only compatible with doing we ll the many unmotivated, ignorant and lazy in fact too big. students that poison our classrooms. It Gelling back to maturation in the male by shareholders but may also be a necessary precondition." President Clinton seems that Columbia can stop the nood of sex drive, you have to look at what breast outlined his views on good corporate citizens at Cincinnati's Xavier these slackers if they axed their open implants really say about a woman. Any University, praising companies like Starbucks for being one of the few food admi ssions policy. I am not suggesting set human being who plasticizes his or herself and beverage chains to offer health insurance to its part-time employees. ting Harvard-like standards, but knowing despite the serious health risks involved how to read should be a must. But of needs a good therapist. I' ve heard "self Yes, it's an election year, and yes, the event was all talk and no policy. But course that would mean enrollment would esteem" bandied about as a defense for at least it's an issue of tangibility--which is a welcome change. decrease, although more students would these Oeshy atrocities, but se lf esteem has What's more, the White House is not alone in its cries for corporate sensi no doubt remain at Columbia throughout absolutely nothing to do with the physical tivity. On May 15, Wall Street guru StephenS. Roach- a long-time advocate their careers, thus making up for lost and everything to do with the mental. for corporate downsizing as a means to material success-pulled an about money due to low enroll ment. If that isn't enough to convince poten I do not expect the administration to tial implantees to rethink, keep this in face, declaring in a company newsletter that, "The mass downsizing of the figure it out anytime soon, and I also do mind: Any man who'd ignore you now, past fi ve years hasn't been well thought through," after which he went on to not expect the students to change things by only to hit on you once you're sporting criticize AT&T for their recent lay-offs. themsel vcs. No one should expect that fal sies, is somebody you' re beUer off with much. Remember. the students arc only as It j ust goes to prove that old adage, "Anything is possible." The human smart as the system in which they learn. out. race might just c ivilize itself yet. 8 FEAT URES May 20, 1996 • May ~ s flowers ID bloom at Ha~npton's ·"·~~~-~ 'f:!Jill f:O~t!MB1!A ~ ~~~~~· only lo grail the public's allenlion, bullo say, 'Hey, we're here and look what we have,'" said an employee. If you 've seen the films "The The chain of Henry Hampton floral Package" and "The Fugitive," then ho utiqucs also has hranches in the you' ve also seen the work o f a neighbor- Palmer House and the Hi lio n Hotel. The hood fl oral shop. flo ral center is staffed by professional Henry Hampton Floral Inc Flo ral designers who have extensive experience Center. located at 828 S . Wabash. was and courteous sales staff. selected 10 provide ,------, T he shop delivers arrangements for I he two lhroughoullhe city and the movies when they were WHAT· world. For $7.50-$10 you fi lming al the Chicago • can have anything dcli v- Hillo n and Towers. crcd in the city: suburbs There's nothing hcller Henry Hampton Inc arc extra. than giving o r receiving Floral Center The shop carries a vari- llowcrs. a cute teddy ely of cards and interest- hear or any of the other ing, unusual g ifts for any gift -giving ideas thai WHERE·. occasion. Also available Henry Hampton F loral hy request arc fruit and has 10 offer. gift bas kets individually The shop has hccn in S. Wabash tailored to your needs. business for seven year.;; 828 Though the floral ceo- owners Earl Maupins ter docs not advertise dis- and David Waldvogel counts. they do give dis- have hccn in the floral counts on large orders or industry for a total of 40 WHEN: group events. year.;. They contrihute 10 the They provide presen community through many lalions and rcnlal of Monday - Saturday dona loons lo schools and plants-simple anJ c 'ol 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. c hurch-affilo:Hcd groups ic. green and !>loom and eve nt ~ ~ut: h as the ing-for partocs. wed l'nnler' Row Bool. Pair ding>. funcr.ol' and con- Sunday: .ond cvcnh for Columhia vent ions. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. College. Walking hy 1hc shop. "We really try 10 help you migh1 notice the '------' o ut the neighhorhood, 10 Photo by Laura Stoecker "indow di,plays. crea1ed and tk>~gncd hnglucn up the p lace, .. 'au.l the employ- Sitting pretty along South Wabash, the Henry Hampton Inc F1oral by Waldvogel. ee al the fl oral shop. Center is a sight for sore eyes. AI one umc. a >ign in the windcm TI1e ' lore al'o offer> wccl.ly 'pecoab, such "' a fre'h bunch of dao>~e' for S 1.<)<) or daffodols for S2.4'J. " We hl.c 10 help hnghten up every nne·, home. 'Cl we WORKS lN PROFESSlONAL, o ffer good Je.oh each "eel.... the emplc>)ee 'aod. Some of 1hc hoi APPLlED AND FlNE ARTS Item' on ,,,k• fnr tht.• Sccrel.oroc' · D.oy 'Acre t.'o ltcc mug' "Hh h.olloon' .md lropoc.ol flnr.ol arr;•ngcmc..·nt' "We 'old .oil o f Columbia College Art Gallery our mug' and a 101 of <:<>Iori ul hunchc' uf nu,\cr,," ,.ud Eleventh Street Campus C.trol. ,, m.m.tgt.• r .11 lhc 'I"'P 72 East Eleventh Street ·· Prl''l' n 1.11 1on houquct' and t:or '·'l:.!C' .1rc "Hill' nf lhe more popul.tr purch."c' h) wl lcgc ' llu.knh lor d,IIICe' .ond 'llCCI.II EXHIBITION DAT E S Plmto IJ\ l.tmru Stun ~t' l l'' cnh " Hr nry Hampton Inc co-o,. ncr. David Wald,o~:cl . i> hard llcnry ll.u11p1on at work on anothtr or hi-. n•any c n ·atiun,. H or;ll ' "'·" 'ur· pr ''cO lh.lt n"c' May 17 through May 31, 1996 were, hy f.ar. the read, "CUSTOMI: RS WAN'! ED """I popul.or Hem und l. oml of llower INQUIRE W IT HIN" Th" w:" 111 lei lhe 'old lor Mother', D:oy. Columbia College Art Gallery puhloc knuw thai Ihe \ hup wa' open dur 'I he ' hop plan' o n h.IVIU~ .1 "hu mer' ong lheor 'low peru><.! after V;olcnllne\ Mar~cl " fur 'ummcr !Jay and hclorc M<~lher \ Day So lhe nexl lime you gel on .o loglu But hu\lnc" " ha H'M'P:/1 Purchase Award WWW.cowM.£DU/CHRONICWINOEX.HTML llt't.oll' fuo lht· 'uhuol"lnu ul wtll~ urr 11 ~" 11' ~1 mll,hh· l'hr Mll\rum of Cll nl~mpM.u l'hntnu•••i>hY uoul lh~ t'ulumllln ('nllrur All llullr l) May 20, 1996 FEATURES 9 By Rusty Osgood chemicals that kill most of humanity, then tries to save it. Cornspomknt Watch Chuck recite lines from Woodstock . . . very 3 1. WICKER MAN- Christopher Lee plays a pagan touching. priest out to give a 50-year-old virgin cop a real hot time. Brill Ekland is the naked singing priestess. I. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK- Kurt Russell Kicks 23. CLASS OF '84 - A bunch of ronen punk rockers all of New York 's Ass!!!! wreak havoc on a high school. and if that's not good 32. FRIDAY THE 13TH - Hated around the world, this enough, Michael J. Fox hangs himself from a nag movie has some decent scares, nude Monopoly, and 2.ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL-The Ramones pole!!!!!!!!!! Kevin Bacon. P.S. Don't forget, the town crazy!!! run t~ school and the first assignment is to Rock out!!! 24. POLYESTER - Class-sick John Waters. Shoe sni f 33. FRIDAY THE 13TH PT. 2 - As Jason matures, so do 3. DEATHRACE 2000 -- David Carradine is the Master fers, decapitations, porno movies. Also: a delicious his murder techniques! Racer in the race where you rack up points by running Divine is seduced by pizza boy fantasy. Filmed in over the innocent!! Yeehaaaa!! ODERAMA!!!!!! 34. DOCTOR JEKYLL & MR. BLACK - Bernie Casey plays a welfare doctor who 4. IT'S ALIVE - Larry Cohen's Maternal Monster 25. MY BLOODY VALENTINE- See invents a Masterpiece; saw this when my mom was pregnant with this and realize why the band cure for disease that turns him into a killer my little sister, yeeeoowww!! of the same name are pimp. A very deep film. pussies by 5. THE HOWLING - A summer retreat for werewolves, 35. SILENT RUNNING - Bruce Dern how nice!! This film contains some of the best is a plant-loving spaceman who would make-up effects of all time, all hail Rob rather kill humans than greenhouses. Bonin! Douglas Trumball, the FX wizard of "200 I: A Space Odyssey," shows 6. NIGHT OF THE why computer effects suck in com LIVING DEAD - If parison. you haven't seen this film you are either dead 36. R EPO MAN- Punk rock or haven't been born. One spawned a movie and its name of the scariest, best films was . . .. Uh huh, uh huh, uh ever made. huh. Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez open up a can 7. DAWN OF THE DEAD of WHUP ASS on Cali. If you li ke malls, zombies, and bikers, you cannot lose 37. TAPE HEADS - Not . with this film. Tom Savini, the quite Repo Man, but close make-up master shows us a real enough. Tim Robbins and ghoul time!! John Cusack before they started making "impor 8. SCANNERS - The first five tant" films like "I.Q." and minutes contain one of the great "City Hall." est gore scenes of all time. r \>o\ntS· 38. HALLOWEEN - 9. RABID - Bad skin grafts turn tr\at\S ~ 0 Hands down, one of the porn star Marilyn Chambers into a t\ \>edeS greatest horror films of all times. But blood-suckin' cannibal. It's a beauti ~ dO~ you knew 0 ful David Cronenberg world. d \ ..,ers !t\ that already. e car r com- 10. GREMLINS 2 - The Hulk Hogan tO\)\), rae parison. 39. PINK FLAMINGOS - A swell movie that includes appearance alone is worth the price of "'l'ace a singing anus, dog doo eating, and a mother truly suck admission. Very funny, very nuuy. I l)eat" 26. KENTUCKY FRIED ling her son. John Waters, John Waters, John Waters!!!! highly recommend! 11;. 0ut\ \t\ MOVIE- As many adolescent sex jokes as \...00 any fun-loving moron could wish for. The center- 40. EATING RAOUL - Paul Bartel's classic black com II. THEY LIVE - "I came here to do two piece is a kung-fu movie send up. edy about a sweet wine-loving couple who murder things, chew bubblegum and kick some ass. swingers to raise money for a restaurant. And I'm almost out of gum."--"Rowdy" Roddy Piper. 27. ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS - Most of the 41. HELL NIGHT 12. THE THING - Linda Blair and some The original was crazy college kids stay good but John the night in a haunted Carpenter's version mansion. Fucking is amazing. In the beautiful. Vince Van top five of best Pauen is on hand to make-up effects add beauty to the fi lm. ever seen in a film. 42. GET CRAZY - 13. PIRANHA Malcolm McDowell is "Jaws" with a sense a rock god with a of humor and no wacky talking penis. Shpielberg. You go Who said show busi piranha!!!! ness is dead? Fear and Lou Reed come in for 14. HAIRSPRAY - added brain damage. With $6 million dollars John Waters """"""""''"""'-""'*.....,_. 43. USED CARS - does what Hollywood couldn't with $40 million. Ernest fi lms are preuy decent, but this is the creme de Ia Kurt Russell plays the sleaziest car salesman in the un i goon. He's the Jerry Lewis of the nineties. verse in one of the funniest films of all times. Lenny and 15.THE HILLS HAVE EYES - Scary, Squiggy are video pirates with a taste for tits. creepy, good. Cannibalistic hillbillies take 28. THE FUNHOUSE - Watch out for the sexually on the ultimate nuclear fam ily. Why repressed split-faced boy in the House of 44. TALES FROM THE CRYPT - Fuck the weak TV doesn't Wes Craven make movies like Fun--he's had a bad life. Years show, this here is the real burial. Joan Collins gets this anymore? more fun and bloody than whacked by Santa, who could ask for anything more? any A.L.F. 16. FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL 45. DEADLY BLESSING - Ernest Borgnine is an angry KILL - O.ne of the greatest movies Amish Satan worshipper with trouble in mind. If only the ever made. Three buxom bitches beat protagonist had thought of stealing his soul with a ihe hell out hillbilly goons. And that camera. ain't the half of it! 46. 2,000 MANIACS - Another movie 17. MOTEL HELL- "It takes all about ghoulish crackers; only this one is kinds of criuers to make farmer about the dead southern kind. Crushing Vincent's friuers!" What makes tourists with boulders is one of many local their sausage so darn tasty? amusements. 18. THEATER OF BLOOD 47. SHAKES THE CLOWN - "The Vincent Price plays a failed 'Citizen Kane' of alcoholic clown movies." Shakespearian actor who kills Bobcat Goldwaith's swan song. Any film his critics in the most horrible with mime-beating is an instant classic!!!!!! ways. Prizewinner: Wil ford Brimley eats a poodle pie. R 48. THE NINTH CONFIGURATION - A ernernb good-time mental hospital for vets, equipped 19. SOYLENT GREEN - er those with their very own knife-wielding nun. Stud-ham boy Charleton Heston does his days 1 R best to find out why the crackers of the future leave · e/j Ve 49. CRITIERS 2 - The fi rst Criuers is good, but such a bad aftertaste. 'ern in I? 2 is the only gore film I can think of with a pro-veg episode. OcJc 'n, etarian message and a guy gelling chewed up in a 20. CARNIVAL OF SOULS - A woman in a car acci bunny suit. dent wanders into a circus of dead people . . . but is she 29. THE DEVIL'S RAIN - RoiJ IIigh one of them? Shatner, Borgnine, and Travolta plus Schoo} 50. PHANTASM - The penultimate blood-sucking blood in the name of Old Dad. Need I say · sphere movie. Totally wild and creepy. Good plot. 21. LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH - A modern more? This is one of my favorite low-budget films ever. day vampire tale about a bisexual vampiress. The only film I know that can terrify with lilting wallpaper. 30. MOTHER'S DAY - Two sadi stic brothers argue the 51 . KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE aesthetics of Punk over Disco as they mutilate the inno Giant clowns menace a small town with deadly popcorn 22. THE OMEGA MAN - Chuck Heston develops cent. A real coming-of-age story. and lethal colton candy. The Dickees do the soundtrack. 10 FEATURES May 20, 1996 • Designer DliXeS style and pizzazz get a sense that she feels one does not learn to design, it has to be in one's blood. She agrees that it is terribly important for everyone to take time to Sandra Taylor thi nk about clothes - not an enormous Fa.rlrion Writer amount of time- but certain ly enough time to enable one to dress well every day of one's life. Barbara Bates is another designer who Stevens admires. "Bates gave me my first opportunity to design clothes," she says. And she is currently interning The French word doyenne refers to for Bates. After graduation Stevens will the senior or highest-ranking woman of work at Bates' design studio as an a group. In the fashion business. the Assistant Designer. Her goals while doyenne of fashio n design is Terri work ing for Bates will be to help pre Stevens. Stevens, a senior is the presi pare Bates' company for the new mil dent of Columbia's student ran organi lennium. Stevens would like to see zation EXES. She is also vice president Bates' designs worn by every five out for the Student O rganizati on of ten women in America. Committee at Columbia. This will be an easy task for As for fashi on, Stevens has been Stevens, since she has receive her train sewing since the age of nineteen. She ing in the fashion business by some of used to visit department stores and walk the best in the industry, such as Nancy around on the designer lloor critiquing Berman, Executive Director of The the clothes of her favorite designer Apparel Industry Board of Chicago. Thierry Muglcr. While attending Columbia, Stevens Her own designs arc in spired by Dr. participated in Fashion Columbia dur Suess and Michael Jackson- what an ing '94, '95 and '96, and she continues unusual combination. This inspiration to turn out new designs twice a week. has led Stevens to create designs that She would like one day to own her very will he duplicated by other designers. In own boutique. Her name she has select the fashion world, imitation is the s in ed for design is "Michael Joseph" and cerest form of llattcry. we can guess where that name came An indi vidualist and a perfectionist, from. As we all know, Columbia pro her design policy is to always present vides the training for many o f the newest and the most original in America's future leaders. fashion. Some of your hcst fiction writers, Stevens philosophy is rellectcd in journalists, photographers, public rela the eclectic fashions which she designs. tion and film directors have received The word that comes to my mind when their initial training at Columbia. So it ever I'm looking at Ste vens' clothes is should come as no s urprise that "pizazz"- her creations have plenty of Columbia is also producing a few great pizazz. fashion designers. There arc so many Stevens has a strong opinion on wonderful fashion designers in clothes and fashi on. She knows that Columbia's fashion design program, clothes alone don' t make the person, but I wanted to pay homage to just one hut she agrees with me that one's phys of those fabul ous people and that per ical and mental well-hcing arc of equal son is Terri Stevens. Those who know Columbia student Terri Stevens designed importance. and every effort should be Stevens will agree that as the doyenne, this cotton cable knit body dress in mid made to care for one's body and stimu fashion design is certainly an all night with deep set pockets. It is priced at late one's mind. Talking with Stevens. I encompassing force in her life. $225. Another Stevens design. Her bare foot model is clad in a 100 percent Photos by Katja Heinemann light weight wool crepe Glen plaid single button, knotted collar jacket with inverted pleat pants. It is priced SuD101er Jobs at $500. CLASSIFIED ADS Set your own daytime sched FUND RAISING NO GIMMICKS EXTRA INCOME NOW! ule, Mon-Fri. Business to FAST FUNDRAISER Envelope stuffing- $600- RAISE $500 IN 5 DAYS $800 every week. GREEKS, GROUPS, Free Details: SASE to: business telemarketing. CLUBS. MOTIVATED International Inc., 1375 INDIVIDUALS. 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For others, it is a media. You can do many things with hobby. For 27-year-old Claude Willey, a sound different sounds." major at Columbia Co llege, it is an art that he Frequent trips through local 20th wants to share with the world. century art galleries have had a great Last summer, Willey put together a very un ique deal of influence on Willey's music. collection of music. 'There are many parallels in music, A German label named Katyn Records took art and photography. They' re all so interest in Willey's latest project and in February interrelated," he said. released " Hupp," an album Willey described as For Willey, it is all about fun and "electroni c isolationist" music. expression. " I' m not really interested In Germany, there is a large foll owing for such in making a lot o f money selling music, Wi ll ey e xplained. records. I just want to put this stuff " If Euro pe was the size of the United States, it out." would be absolute ly huge over there." he said. Willey has been producing music 'T he re arc so many labels in Europe that put out and putting out albums for years. Prior experimental music." to his recent endeavors, he was in a Willey recorded " Hupp" at his home in Newark, band known as Batz Without Flesh. Delaware. and sent tapes to about I 0 different He described Batz' music as "really labels. hard, electronically-influe nced dance He decided to go with Katyn Record s because music that you can't dance to." the label had previously handled his fri ends in the Batz released a number of albums Chicago band Illusio n of Safety, and he was overseas, creating contacts with nume r impressed by their results. ous European labels along the way. Willey expl ained What that he created the m u s i c sounds on " Hupp" d o e s by recording W iII e y tunnel vision." sounds from a vari listen to? Willey feels too many musicians spend so much ety of old synthe " I like a lot o f time practicing and perfec ting their playing and sizers and loading techno-type stuff, but theories that they lose their ability to produce new them into a digital I don't like a lot of music. sampler. straight-out dance "Some of the best music I've ever heard has " I record chunks music," he said. been done by people that don' t know what the hell of sound, a nd then " I like it to be a lit they' re doing," he said. break them up into tle unusual." Recently, Willey has been working on a number little p ieces," Although Willey of new projects. Willey said. admits he has neve r He is preparing another album similar to " It's like paint traditionally learned " Hupp" for Katyn Records that he said will be a bit ing in a way. I j ust how to play an instru more on the quiet side. put o ne layer of me nt, he operates Willey also recorded an album this spring with stuff down over around a theory that a member of Illusion of Safety, in which they another and meld things togethe r." explains his ability to make unique and unusual incorporated flutes and airport sounds and even Willey came to Columbia last Se ptember aft e r music. played bass guitars with violin bows. hearing that the school offe red a bac helor of an s "For some people, having too much musical Whatever musical direction Willey decides to program with concentrations in sound and art. An knowledge can be a hindrance," he said. take next, one thing is for sure. It will be unique is something that is very impon ant to Willey and "It seems like someone who is really good at and he will be doing what he loves doing most can be easily traced through his music. playing a guitar, for example, has a te ndency to get producing an. 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