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For more information, please contact [email protected]. • • • Newsletter for Alumni & Friends of Columbla College's Master of Arts in Journalism Program Fall 2000 Columbia College Chicago Life, 15th Class Love & 1 Graduates Journalism Lake County News-Sun Public Affairs Reporter Ed Collins, a youthful 67, claims to be the oldest graduate or our Peter Hans von Buol, Class of 1996, master's journalism program begun in Fall 1985. See Ed and others in returned to teach part-time in our a photo spread on 1995-2000 commencement celebrations, including this graduate broadcast journalism year's at Navy Pier and past ones at the University Club. sequence in 1999, after triumphing in love, beating a life-threatening dis­ ease and succeeding as a freelance GOA Winners Beat the Odds journalist. After a decade of Michigan, launched a "Not only did I graduate, but my the­ "almosts," graduate jour­ national publication on sis aired on cable in Hawaii and nalism students tri­ federal legislation affect­ Chicago, I was diagnosed with cancer, umphed in the highly ing women. She is now a and I got married! Whew!" said Peter. competttive, college-wide senior communications "It would be an understatement to say Graduate Opportunity specialist/manager at 1996 was a significant year of my life.· Awards. Mollie West suc­ Commonwealth Edison. West Peter found out he had non- ceeded in being the first Eiranova-Kyle Eiranova•Kyle, a native Hodgkin's lymphoma a month before journalism student to win; then Diana of Argentina, headed the Coalijion for he was to be married. He and Carrie Eiranova-Kyle won the following year in Justice, advocating the successful Neumeyer went ahead and got mar­ 1999-2000. release of accused murderers Rolando ried but postponed their honeymoon While in graduate school, West, who Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez. Prev­ Continued on page 2 previously worked as a reporter in iously she was a reporter at La Raza. Public Art and Public Affairs Federal Plaza's Calder Thompson Center's Oubuffet Graduate students pause en route to reporting assignments in downtown Chicago, our living laboratory and outdoor sculpture museum. Daley Plaza's Picasso Life, Love & Journalism believe. are the result of the overthrow While finishing up his documentary, of their monarchy 100 years ago. The Peter worked part-time at WBBM-AM in Native Hawaiians also feel that their the Traffic and Continufy Department status is not on the same level as that He later became a regular contributor of other native Americans." to Access. the monthly magazine of the He added: "For as long as I can American Dental Hygienist Association. remember, I have had a great interest Aeaid a cover story fcirSafiin in the ... peoples of the Pacific Ocean magazine, a Kenyan version of the and their cultures. The Field Museum Smithsonian, based on the true has given me the opportunity to story of the man-eating lions that become involved in a very real way became the basis of the Val with two of these cultures, the Maori of Kilmer/Michael Douglas movie, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the indigenous people of Hawaii. Your "The Ghost and the Darkness." graduate school...emphasizes public Peter wrote about Field scientists affairs and t would like to study the who retraced the steps of the charac­ current ramifications of. .. New ter played by Kilmer and found the Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi, the cave which Col. John Patterson effect of which. granted Great Britain thought contained the bones of the Peter and Carrie Buol on their post· sovereignty over New Zealand. and lion duo's human victims. He had a poned Hawaiian honeymoon pose In the overthrow of I.he Hawaiian monar­ faulty compass and the cave location front of a statue of Queen Liliuokalani, chy and the subsequent annexation of was lost for a century. Hawaii's last reigning monarch. Hawaii by the United States: Peter also has written for Pacific Islands Monthly. and another cover to Hawaii until after his round of eter oecided to analyze t'h~e~­ story is scheduled to appear in Swaro. chemotherapy was completed in issue of Native Hawaiian sover­ the magazine of East African Wildlife March 1997. eignty in l,ght of an upcoming vote Society magazine this fall. about a "Cancer treatment wasn·t too bad by native peoples there to deter­ large type of lion which appears to be because the disease was localized mine what form of self-autonomy to closely related to the extinct cave lions and easily removed," he said. • I use to decide the course of theif of Europe, according to Field scientists. underwent about five months of own affairs. As one of the first students to com- chemotherapy treatment, but I was plete the two-course graduate broad­ never really sick." While taking a full complement of cast sequence in 1996 under then The Chicago native, who had been graduate courses. he spent months of Broadcast Director Steve Corman. edttor of his high school newspaper, research induding exclusive on-site interviews in Washington, D.C .• and Peter returned after graduation to Gordon Tech Rampage, did his under­ assist Corman's successor, Lillian graduate work at Columbia in televi­ Hawaii and ttacking down archival Williams. He became an official part­ sion. He then worked for a few years footage from sources such as C-Span time graduate faculty member in 2000. as television field producer and an and the Bishop Museum of Hawaii. associate producer for SpottsChannel After additional months of editing on ··­- -Chicago, where he did both news campus and at Chicago Cable Access, packages and features. his 40-minute video news documen­ He volunteered at the Lincoln Park tary aired in two states just !>efore the Zoo where he met his wife. and also vote that ended with less than an esti­ worked at the Field Museum of mated 10 percent participation. A con­ Natural History Where he received the stitutional convention has yet to be President's Award for volunleer ser­ called and the U.S. Supreme Court vice as a writer, German translator and recently struck down the new office of editor for various departments. Hawaiian Affairs' election qualifications Pe er came nto our mas er s pro­ procedure. •Almost immediately after I finished, I gram as the only applicant knowing sent a copy to Hawaii, where it aired in what he wa,nted to research. He Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii. I stuck witb his initial thesis topic also sent a copy to a friend who works from his preliminary interview for on Radio New Zealand. He is the graduate school through the entire host of a program that features news f ram. from ... Polynesia. My program didn"t In his application materials, Peler air in New Zealand, but its contents wrote, "Many Native Hawaiians would were discussed on the air." He also like to see some of their problems was interviewed by Clark Weber on Peter's cover story on man~ating lion addressed. Some of these, they WAIT-AM 850. legacy has a Chicago connection. 2 CL.ASS"" NOTl:Sl Occupational Typecasting? . --------·1999-2000 Edward Collins Jr.'s thesis, "Traffic Congestion- ls It Killing lake County's Quality of life?' is set to appear as a five-part series in the Lake County News-Sun. a 30,000-cir­ culation Waukegan daily where Collins has worked as public affairs reporter for the past decade. He for­ merly worked as a reporter for the Providence, R.I., Journal & Evening Bulletin, the Imperial Valley (El Centro, Calif.) Press and was news editor of the now defunct Brawley (Calif.) Daily News. He got his B.A. in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley on the G.I. Bill after se,ving in the Korean War. Simone Orendain (center) rehtarses her lead role in a summer Chicago Dramatists' Trent Hanneman was promoted earli­ staged reading of "Chagrin Falls" as a graduate joumalism student wof1<.ing on her the,. er this year to senior producer at the sis about the death penalty, In real life Simone, who holds an undergraduate degree Charlotte, N.C., NBC-TV affiliate from Columbia in theatre, recentl y completed her master's thesis on career choices of Filipinos and Koreans who came to Chicago after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality where he had been 11 P.M. newscast Act Amendmenls. A Dwight Follett Graduate Fellow in Journalism, Simone has intern ed producer. His thesis project on south­ at WBEZ-FM and Tribune Media Sel'Vices. Earlier at the Tribune, Simone worked as a em state lotteries was to air on his part-time Voice News Network newscaster. In 1998, she was an evening news desk station. Prior to that he was producer intern for WGN-AM, and before that spent six months as a radio and TV news anchor of the Six O'Clock News for Channel for Rajah Broadcasting Network In her native Philippines. 6, WPSD-TV, the NBC affiliate in Paducah, Ky.