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INSIDE Campus 13 Vita1ity Get ready for a Get fit at the gym Fire red hot in the good scare playoffs! Bey docks at Columbia Seminar of success Sylvia Barragan photographer. In the beginning he took street shots Hy Leslie McClellan Swjf Writer Sia}f Wriler of people. snapping and then runni ng away. H considered this type of street photography a form The students all carne shuflling in one by one but these weren't This Fall, Columbia College welcomes well­ of mugging. He then learned to take pictures w ith ordinary Columbia college students. The students who gather every known pho!Ographcr Dawoud Bey. As those famil­ a type of Polaroid camera. so that his subjects Monday in room 504 of the Wabash bui lding arc part of a special sem­ iar with the Museum of Cont emporary cou ld have a copy immediately. In 1979, he held inar for public high school teachers. The program , " Hands-On, Mind­ his first one-man exhibit in Harlem. "There is · Photography in the 600 S. Michigan building may On, Feet-on Science and Mathematics Enhancement Seminars: A tendency for photographers to make picltlrcs some­ know, this is not Bey's first experience with Road to Success," is funded by a $ I million grant from the Chicago Columbia. where , then take them somewhere else to sho Public High Schools and is run by the Columbia College Science Bey worked on his first project with high school them or publish them so that people can look at Jnslilule Department. students i n I 993. He shot 20 x 24 inch photos of them and basically marvel at how different they ar " We show teachers how to present material so their students rec­ students at Phillips Academy in A ndover, Mass. from the people in the photographs," says Bey. B ognize that chem istry, math , physics and biology arc part o f everyday keeping his photos in the community, Bey discov­ and students in the neighboring community of life," says L ee Scnnhohz, the physical science coordinator for the L awrence, Mass. Bey describes Lawrence as "an ered that he could develop a relationshi p between seminars. economically depressed community, very unlike community and an institution. The Columbia College Science l nsti!utc offers a series of twenty Andover. " This project was his way of bringing Most people focus only on the aspect of African­ free seminars on a variety of topics such as mathematics, biology, the diverse student bodies and communities togeth­ American pride within Bey's work. He challenge chemistry, physics, and earth sc ience. Seminars meet about once a us to see past that; there arc formal and conceptual er. Denise Miller, Director o f the Museum of week for three hours and run umil June of 1999. Sometimes, teachers Contemporary Photography. asked him to exhibit aspects to his photography which deserve equal must meet outside o f the sc heduled time for speakers or other special the work at Columbia. He accepted and proposed aucntion. Most pictures focus on taking one projects, but the program is set up to coincide w ith the Chicago Public a similar project between Columbia students and moment ou t o f time. He wants to take several School sc hedule. Phillips' sister sc hool, Providence St. Mel, located moments out of time. He focuses on the shi rting ol Teac hers earn three Lane Promotion credits by taking one of these on the west side of Chicago. T he project worked the human body and how the hllman eye sees thin' seminars. L ane Promotion credits allow teac hers to improve thei r out well and long-lasting friendships were estab­ versus how the camera docs. His works represent salari es by tak ing sem inars such as these or taking college level cours­ lished. Bey the psychological es depending on their contracts. and the and emotional According to Mary Slac, the Biology coordinator for the biology staff kept aspects ol sem inar, the Science Institute stresses act ive learning in the class­ in touch teenagers. "I'm room. T his program is set up to gi ve teachers a hands-on approach to over the interested in look· teaching certain topics within mmh and science, and tl1csc lessons years and ing at things. I also take into consideration classroom time and space. mutu all y usc the camera l< For instance, one uf the math seminars concentrates on the usc of agreed that do something w blueprints to teach high school st udents proportions. Seminars arc set if the arc generally not up so that teachers go through a project together and then discuss the opportuni­ able to do in the forms in which they can apply these projects to their own classrooms. ty present­ course or spatial ed itself, i n teractio n . See Science, page 4 he would People say, don't come back stare. T hrough the I o photos, not only Columbia do I stare, but I What's new at Columbia 2 on a long allow viewers 1 lly Rach cal Silvers statement, "Columbia is an term basi s. stare at the sub­ Sian· Writer undergraduate and graduate col­ This fa ll, j ect to sec things lege whose principle commit­ Bey has that they cannot Columbia 2 is a continuing ment is to provide a comprehen­ returned as sec with a casual education program for profes­ sive educational opportunity in a part-lime glance." sionals interested in the arts and the arts, communications, and f a c u I 1 y Aside from bcin co_mmunication s, which began in public informati on. Columbia's member. L------- -------------------' a photographer, the spring of I 996 after intent is to educate students who How did Dawound Bey gel started? M ore impor- Bey is a freelance writer and a drummer (currently Columbia College President John will communicate creatively and lan!ly, what were his significant cha llenges and looking for somewhere to play in Chicago). H Duff instituted a !ask force to shape the public's perception of why did he conlinul! through them? Bey. was born says the only way for someone to keep doing what research the possibility of creat­ issues and events and who wi ll in Queens, New York in 1953. His parents had they arc doing is to have passion for thei r work. ing a continuing education pro­ author the culture of their time." lived in Harlem a number of years earlier and were "The work has to ma!!cr to you. It has to come out gram at Columbia. Columbia 2 will in turn shape, very active in the community. D awoud was politi- of things you arc i nterested in , things you car The research focused on the educate, upgrade, and advance cally actiye and aware from a very young age. At about, things that upset you, th ings that make you competitors in Chicago's contin­ ski lls of professionals already 14 years old, his grandmother gave him an Argus feel good, Iori things you think people need to uing education community, the working in their fields, or even C3 camera that had belonged to his late grandfa- know. I f it comes from a real place personally, I benefits of an arts and communi­ those in search of a career !her. " I was laking it to be polite, really," remcm- think you'll be able to sustain it. " cations continuing education pro­ change. bers Bc.y. The most difficult challenge for Dawound Bey gram, and the audience to whom "John Duff and Burt Gall con­ Approximately a year later, there was a photo and possibly for any artist is to have fai th in th the school would cater. ceived this entity and allowed exhibition at the Metro Museum o f Art in Harlem, work. "Making the decision to become an artist, 1 The task force proved that me room to experiment," said entitled " Harlem On My M ind." There was much val ue the work that you arc doing, that much is ' since Columbia was already Philip Klukoff. " We arc current­ controversy in the community regarding the almost real act of faith. There's no telling what's going 1 well-known in the Chicago com­ ly working in conjunction with completer exclusion of art by African-Americans happen. I think if one docs the work, cvcrythin munity and beyond for its superi­ the University of Guadalajara in with the exception o f James Van Dcr Zcc. Bey else kind of falls into place. When you begin, you or art s and communications pro· Mex ico to develop programs for wen! to sec !he exhibit because of the controversy, can stop and the world won't stop turning but you grams, Columbia 2 would corner their School of A rt, Architecture, not the photography.