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Fl Meet Mutilation trial Big film· George Bailey examined promotions P age 2 Page7 Pages 8 and 9 T HE CDLUMBIA COLLEGE Enrollment declines at Columbia By John Goldfine Corrtsptmdmt college freshman majored in busi ness, while five years later that Reputation and strength in par number declined to 12 percent. ticular programs are among some "In that time, we've increased of the reasons some local colleges our ousiness enrollment 14 per say freshmen enrollment has in cent while the other schools that creased, while other schools, like we compare our enrollment with Columbia College, statistics have decline 7 percent," said have declined. Abn·hamson, referring to 20 other figures recently published in the Mid Nest colleges, public and Chicago Sun Times indi<;aled priv.tte, that DePaul compares that Columbia's freshman class in their enrollments to. the current semester is down 3.6 percent from last fall's total of Another reason for DePaul's 1,062 students. · remvndous growth, according to "I'm surprised that Columbia '" ' tamson, is the "growth plan" has lower enrollment," said Rita .. wooich the school is currently J ung, a college counselor at Senn mvol'led. "We've expanded our High School on Chicago's north facil; ·jes by adding a dozen builcl side. "I thought that quite a few of ings Jol 10 years. Our reputation is James D. Squires speaks during the 19th annual Chicago Communications lunch Tuesday. our students from Senn liked the up dr.unatically." idea that the faculty are in the As for reputation, J ung agreed business and that they like the that DePaul is very strong in that Luncheon highlights communications majors. Many of our students area. "DePaul recruits quite ex want to get into radio and tensively a nd of course that By Martha E. Hernandez television." News Editor dent and general manager of basketball team is another draw. The Weisman Memorial Jim Conroy, a college counselor WFLD-TV, (Fox 32). Bronner A lot of people like that school and Scholarship Fund was established at New Trier High School in north The 19th annual Chicago Com- said that she plans to expand Fox have heard about it more because in 1974 to encourage Columbia suburban Winnetka, said that the munications luncheon Tuesday, to a 24-hout.news station. of the basll:etball team." students to complete projects in all radio and television majors are November 9, at the Chicago Mar- ''The goal is to make the station "It's the name value," Jung said. fields of communications. The now keeping students away from riou brought together veteran news credible in the news arena," said ''The name is there all the time. fund was named after the late AI Columbia. executives who debated Bronnerabout"FaceTwo"of Fox · laybe some of the other school Weisman, a Columbia trustee and "I think that things run in JUSt don't have that name out there "Newspapers and the Media Mix." 32 News. a well known and respected com James D. Squires, former editor Chicago Communications is a cycles," said Conroy, "and a! I the time." municator. Columbia College puts its em Jung mentioned that DePaul is of the Chicago Tribune, Gregory coalition of 40 media organiza Graduate and undergraduate stu phasis on the fine and performing very expensive in comparison to E. Favre, former managing editor tions, that sponsor the annual dents can apply for the scholarship, of the Chicago Sun-Times and luncheon to benefit the Albert P. arts as well as broadcasting. That Columbia, however, according to but they have to be currently en John Callaway, host of Chicago Weisman Fund which provides certainly goes with the cycle that Conroy, that may not be such an rolled with at least 15 credit hour~ Tonight talked about newspapers' scholarships to Columbia College when jobs are not available, important issue. "Sometimes col chances for winning and keeping Students. in the fall and spring semester people don't go into some areas leges put more money into their like that" audiences in today's highly com- One of those students is Ernesto combined. Applications may also financial aid and then kids can ac petitivemixofprintandelectronic B. Eusebio, who started a literary be submitted by graduate students At DePaul University, this cept the package more." fall's freshman class increased media. publication, Hyphen Magazine, who are working on a Despite many attempts, Debra ''The difference in the press and with the help of the Weisman thesis/project or by a group of stu 27.8 percent. Last year's enroll McGrath, Columbia's Director of the media is that one has a job of scholarship. dents working together. ment of 960 is up to 1,227, the Admissions never responded to educating the public so they can "The scholarship helped me. Scholarships have been given to largest in the schools history. repeated messages. One of her better govern themselves and the Without the scholarship I wouldn't projects in many fields including: "One reason for our growth, I assistants, Maurine Herlehy, other one's (tv) job is basically have been able to launch the pub Creative Writing, Photography, think, is business," said Tom refused to answer why delivering advertising," said lication," said Eusebio. Hyphen Sculpture, Dance, Film, Public Abrahamson of E nrollment Columbia's freshmen c lass Squires. Magazine is being distributed Relations, Video, Poetry, Opera, Management at DePaul. declined in number this fall. How The program was introduced by throughout the United States and is "In the past several years, there's ever, among private schools in Stacy Marks-Bronner, vice presi- , doing very well. Luncheon been a shift from business to arts Chicago, it wasn't ncar the most Seepage2 and sdence," said Abrahamson. significant drop in freshman en- notinl( that in 1988, 14 percent of lt. That dubious honor fell Enrollment Sci/Math dept. hosts breast cancer lecture See page3 By Kim Wright this year and one in nine women and patterns of health care. Corrtspandtnl will suffer severe implications of According to the Division of the disease. Cancer can strike at Vital Statistics, National Center for In an effort to expand its out any age. Mortality rates indicate Health Statistics and the Depart reach to the Columbia College that cancer kills more children be ment of Health and Human community, the Science and Math tween the ages of 1- 14 in the U.S., Services, 1991 estimates of cancer ematics Club is sponsoring a than any other disease. deaths among blacks are higher " Breast Cancer Awareness Males should be concerned overall than any other ethnic Forum" on Wednesday, Nov. 17, about this deadly kille~. too. Breast population in the U.S. from noon to 1:20 p.m. in the cancer is not just a female disease. In the 1980s, according to the Myron Hokin Student Center. Reports from the American Cancer American Cancer Society, there Troy Lair of the American Can Society indicate that an estimated were estimated to be more than 4.5 cer Society has arranged for 300 men in the .U.S. will die from million cancer deaths , ap· Wendy Richards, M.D. , to be a breast cancer in 1993. proximately one/ninth were guest speaker. Following the lec According to the American Can blacks. Among other e thnic ture, two registered nurses will cer Society, breast cancer now groups, Asian-Pacific Americans demonstrate self-examination claims more women's lives than have the second highest cancer in through videos and breast models. any other cancer, with the excep cidence rate of any American This is available to the flfSt 50 tion of lung cancer, and is now one ethnic group. Furthermore, women who sign-up in advance at Pholo by lisa A<kh of the leading causes of death reports show that overall cancer Caroline O'Boyle, director of Career Beginnings, speaks with Jon the Science a nd Mathematics among women in Illinois. Data incidence and mortality rates are departmenL Land, international best-selling author and originator of the Adopt shows that women in the U.S. are considerably lower for Mexican a-School program in Rhode Island. They discussed problems in The American Cancer Society at greater risks due to environmen Cancer estimates that 46,000 women in the education and illiteracy, along with challenges they both have faced tal and cultural factors such as diet, See page 4 U.S. will die from breast cancer in the classroom. Land's new novel, Day ofthe Delphi, is reviewed smoking, reproductive behaviors on page II of this Chronicle. 2 Th~ BUZZ - - -- By Matt Kurten E.rta~tiw Editor Here we are, 1993, almost '94, and the media, in conjunction with many human interest groups, have been working over-time to alert everyone that AIDS does not discriminate. Neither does cancer. Except in the case of gender specific strains of cancer such as prostate, ovarian, uterine, testicle and breast.

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