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Newf'olumu Papal Art: don't miss it Discs have landed 'On the Sidelines' . · ~a~£es 6-7 Page ll Page 12 co1u111bia chronicle Vol. 13 No.5 Columbia College, Chicago September 26, 1983 Columbia gets 2 million dollar face lift Photos by: Peter Rindskopf By Robert Bergsvik What does Columbia get for two million dollars, a summer of con· s truction and hu ndreds of blueprints? A headache fo r students trying to find some classes. The dust has settled on Columbia College's most ambitious rennova· tion ever, resulting in a larger and more modern 11th Street Theater. Moreover, the 600 S. Michigan campus now houses a new student lounge in the basement, 15 extra classrooms a nd additional library, computer, and broadcast space, according to Bert Gall, Dean of Student Services. Columbia has rented six other classrooms at Spertus College of Judaica, 618 S. Michigan. The 11th Street Theater, benefit· ting from a $1.3 million restoration and remodeling, now contains a new student lounge, extra music practice rooms and a " brand new" theater interior. In fact, two stories built onto the rear or the lith Street building. as well as other construction, have added 29,000 square feet or "effec· tive" space, said Gall. The photography and film departments have both gained large studios there as a result. The Photography Department ( :onl. Ufl vu:::r ' Page2 Columbia Chronicle September 26, 1983 ·. B u dget wars (41stl ward office. It Is Interesting by Bob Bergsvik to speculate on the number of Irate phone calls and sudden visits ChlcagoFest flopped, yet plan received on that one by the 29. ning continues for a 1992 World's Mayor Washington, during a Fair. The White Sox are setting primary campaign stop at Colum Comiskey Park on fire, but the _bla College, called this pressure prospect of a Chicago schoolteach "massive heat" - a sort of mass ers strike has taxpayers gripping buttonholing of uncooperative their wallets. aldermen. But the people on the For every good note, the city Is chopping block were the Council staggered by some bad news. majority's own, many of whom are This summer, Chicago politics the nuts and bolts of the old was much the same. We've had one " Machine." alderman kidnapped, 23 tax appeal Predlctibly, the main per board members Indicted for cor formers In the budget drama are at ruption and an alleged plot to It again. assassinate Mayor Washington. Another 734 got the ax early In Between the city layoffs, financial September. crisis and potential violence things Burke's lawyer has filed a certainly haven't been boring. restraining order seeking to halt What has dragged on, however, the newest layoffs. and instead · Is the pace of the city's fiscal and furlough the workers four days a political reform. Ever since last year. The proposal. according to spring, when the Mayor and Ald. Washington's staff, Is more costly Burke tried to out-do one another to the city tha n an outright firing. with open city records proposals, Moreover. the proposal seems to few compromises on reform have be the only one available to the 29 been reached. - they keep trotting it out like last A glaring example Is the city year's news. budget battle. After a summer Enough already, Chicagoans useless debate. the Vrdolyak 29 should be screaming. The broken almost 'tell over themselves to ap record of missed compromises. prove a limited form or the heated firings and hindering Mayor's original budget request - lawsuits by the Council majority Letter to the Editor. $11.9 million. Unfortunately, the members must stop. Beside the approval came on the eve of cost of carrying 734 una fforda ble Washington's Ill -fated visit to New city workers, and court costs Dea r Les Brownlee. lege a little bit closer. people I didn't know a thing about, York City investment bondsmen. <guess who pays for that?l, there I J UST recently graduated from I PROPOSE that at some time and that made rne feel very empty Curiously - but not so surprising is the continuing danger to Columbia, and I was very disap during the year, you give room In Inside! There really Isn' t an~ to some pundits - the 29's change Chicago's shaky BBB plus credit pointed about the way Columbia your newsletter to the graduates. memoriesof this college except for You might try sending out an Inter or heart came only after the Issu rating. handled graduation. what I did at the Dance Center. view to each candidate for gradua ing of 2,045 city pink slips, In Unless the 29 offer a realistic I was at the Dance Center con· I sincerely hope that you can try cluding hundreds or police and fire budget plan, one that looks beyond stantly a nd very Isolated from ac tion. The Interview would contain to work something out In the future tivities at the main campus. Information about past experience, officers. embarrassing the mayor, they had graduates. I'm sure everyone But the 29, not the Mayor, took better allow other initiatives to be Therefore, when I did graduate, I present preoccupation, and future would appreciate lt. I know th~ passed. They can' t stall city felt very bad because I hardly plans. You might even try featur· wouJd have. the heat from laid-off city workers. lng a small picture of them practic An NBC News segment broadcast finances with hot air, and then cry knew a soul. sour grapes when we go broke. I am writing you this letter in the Ing his/ her art. Sincerely, the angry crowd of newly-fired I'm suggesting this because I policemen and firefighters hound How much more fence hope that you might bring the Kathy Broughton feel I graduated with a bunch of Ing Alderman Roman Puctnskl's straddling can Chicago stand• future graduates of Columbia Col- Mlnooka, IL Another Vietnam? Art students... by Peter Rindskopf dead and many injured. Here's your chance to break into her name In the Columbia Chroni Now, whatwe'relooklngforla811 The situation in Lebanon Is a print. The Columbia Chronicle Is cle masthead, and will receive original design that )VUI appeal to History will repeal Itself and serious one. America has already sponsoring Its first " Logo Competi recognition In the Oct. 24 Issue. everyone. America Is once again fighting so made a commitment. Is it, In other tion" and everyone Is welcome to Please submit up to three logo Drop off your designs In the Col meone else's war, a war that Is words, too late to pack it up and submit up to three original Colum designs on a 10 Inch by 1 'h-tnch umbia Chronicle office In lounge on polntless·and useless to explain. leave? bia Chronicle logo designs. piece of sturdy cardboard (the ac the basement level just below the America will always fight so America Is too strong a nd proud The deadline for the competition tual size of the logo on the front stairway. meone else's war despite the to leave Lebanon. Reme mber the Is Oct. 15, 1983. The Chronicle staff page>. You can submit one or two Remember, the deadline Ia Oct. bloody lessons that are taught each U.S. Embassy In Saigon In April, will then choose one design that designs, but your chances of win 15, 1983, so get those designs In our time we gel involved. 1975? We weren't too strong a nd will appear on the front page in ning are better If you submit three hands by then. If you have UIJ Vietnam is still fresh In our proud to leave then. America every Issue of the Chronicle this designs. Put your name and questions, call us at 66$-1100, ex· minds. We don't like to talk about doesn't want another VIetnam, the semester. telephone number on the back of tension 343 or stop In anytime. Vietnam, well we try not to only way to avoid one from hap The winner will receive his or each design. anyway. pening again Is to leave now before That small, arid country in the we are much more committed in Middle East called Lebanon Is fighting someone else's war. We where our boys are dying right can't be too proud to do that. The COLUMBIA now. It Is quite ha rd to believP. this world may look down upon Is happening agatr., American Gls America, but we can say we tried, CHRONICLE dying on foreign soli on a and that Is all. peacekeeping mission that we all People die In Lebanon everyday. should be proud of. Lebanon must learn to solve their It was exciting at first. The mis own problems. We a re not fighting sion displayed American might In communis m In the Middle East, MANAGING the Middle East.