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VOWME 33, NUMBER 3 COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO OCTOBER I I , I 999 CAMPUS VITALITY SPORTS Students get animated Columbia graduate scores Fall movie reviews over special-effects veteran on the airwaves PAGE3 INSIDE BACK PAGE Convo <jt~ first st eJS Th~EIVED Freshman ocr 1 2 1999 • COLUMBIA Re t en tkQJiLEGE LIBRARY DANIELLE HAAS Staff Writer Every year a new group of freshman enter Columbia ready, will ing and able to take on what we all know is not character­ istically your typical school. This year the start of their career here wi ll be marked with a New Student Convocation on Friday, Oct. 15. "The New Student Convocation is a very typical event at most colleges. It is a cere­ monial assembly where new students are Students design divine bovine we lcomed to the college. and what you hope to accomplish is to impart some of TONIKA L EWIS The cow is none other than Columbia's in January, and I knew it was going to Columbia's values and traditions to be suc­ cessfu l," Mark Ke lly, chairman of the Staff Writer own artistic contri bution to the summer be big and receive a lot of publicity," lon·g publi1: art exhibition "Cows On Stein said. "So when Phi l asked the class Freshman Retention Task Force. Out of all the cute, funny and artisti ­ Parade". if we wanted to partici pate I said Hell The Assembly is being held at the cally quirky cows that decorated Columbia purchased the white fi ber­ yeah, I' ll do it." Congress Plaza Hotel and fo llowing it will Chicago's downtown streets, glass cow from the city earlier this year Like all new class projects in the be a street party in a South Loop parking and brought smiles to the faces of visi­ for $2,500 and approached part-time art beginn ing "there were a lot of volun­ lot. The assembly will feature several tors; did anyone happen to notice the teacher, Phi l Berkman about giving art teers," but of course, schedule connicts speakers, including poet Paul Hoover and chocolate brown "How Now Cow" with students the opportunity to paint the arose and a sudden lack of interest sifted Lillian Williams, of the Journalism the silver bullet in it's head? bland bovine for the upcoming display. the class's cow committee until only Depanment. The street party will feature Perched on the Michigan Avenue Berkman then gave his new recent Columbia graduates, Jon Stein, three different bands as well as most of the median directly across from the 600 S. Contemporary Art Form Installation Susan Rooch, and Anne-Marie Rounkal student organizations and services and vari­ Michigan building hotel, it is the first class the option of painti ng the cow as a remained. ous busi nesses from the community. cow South Loop drivers see as they class project. Just as fast as Berkman The cow was delivered to Stein 's "It will be the largest event of the year, make their way into downtown. could present the project to the class, Wicker Park gallery two months after outside of graduation," Kelly said. The hershey colored "How Now student Jon Stein eagerly accepted the All freshman are required to allend and Cow," as it is jokingly referred to by it's challenge. allendance is strongly recommended for designers Jon Stein and Susan Rooch. "I had read about the cow exhibition SEE COW, PAGE 2 transfer students. "The Convocation will show that there is student and faculty interest in them and that they are not inv isible," Caroline Lalla, Student Government up and running Columbia's Academic Dean said. The Student Convocation is the firs t step SUM begins recruitment drive with Welcome Dance and Freshman Convocation in Columbia's Freshman Retention Program. Colum bia currently graduates 15 According to Jeffers, the U-Pass is one significan t issue in which percent of its freshman within a six year PATRICIA OROZCO SUM took a part of last semester. Blumenthal hopes that this period. This rate is incredibly low, not just Staff Writer semester SUM can get students involved in working to get the U­ compared with the national averages, but Attracting more students to the organization is at the top of Pass for graduate students as welL also when compared with other open­ Columbia's first student government's agenda this semester. At "It [U-Pass] is presently available for undergraduate students," admissions schools. only two weeks into the fall '99 semester, the Student Union says BlumenthaL "It [U- Pass] is not available for graduate stu­ "I think in the grand scheme of things Movement (SUM) is already concerned about getting more stu­ dents." this wi ll help Columbia. We won't just be dents involved in the student government. "I would love to see them [students] take control of their lives," gelling th~m in, we'll be gelling them out," By taking part in the Student Organization Day, the Welcome says BlumenthaL David Bl umenthal, president of the Student Dance, and the Freshman Convocation, SUM plans on getting Blumenthal expects to stay involved with SUM as well as with Union Movement (SUM) said. other students interested in joining the organization. SOC this semester. SOC is a organization in itself comprised of The Freshman Retention Program hopes "We need to bring in new students," says David Blumenthal, one student representative from each student organization at to increase that percentage by creating chaim1an of SUM and the Student Organization Council (SOC). Columbia , the elected student executive officers, a special funding more of a structured, community environ­ "We want to see if we can engage the freshmen to get involved." committee, the director of student life, director of minority affairs ment, not only departmentally, but campus Like Blumenthal, Hugh Jeffers, the present assistant dean of stu­ and a graduate assistant. SOC was organized in order to help orga­ wide. dent life, emphasizes student input and the need for students to nize and support all student clubs, says BlumenthaL The F r ~shman Retention Task Force has attend the Thursday meetings and take part in the SUM election Blumenthal hopes that a major campus issue and major advertis­ proposed a number of new additions to the process. ing will help SUM stay al ive. SUM plans on beginning its presi­ college: a student deve lopment office, "You' ll know what it's all about," says Jefters. "then you'll be dential search on Thursday, October 7 at 2:30p.m. in the 623 S. which will be fully staffed by the end of the able to make a decision... as to who you want as officers." Wabash building, room 304. SUM will meet every Thursday in the year, a fi nancial aid advocate, whose main Four years ago, SUM was just a proposal. This past semester, 623 S. Wabash building room 3 11 at I p.m. All students are duty will be to serve new Columbia appl i­ that proposal became a reality. With only a semester of existence, encowaged to artend. The SOC will also meet every Thursday at cants, a curricul um integration project, and SUM, managed to successfully take part on campus issues in 3:30 p.m.in room 3 11 , Wabash building. an updated Web page. spring 1999, says Blumenthal. SEE CONVOCATION. PAGE 2 CAMPUS NEWS OCTOBER 1 1 I 1 999 Skrebneski debuts at Columbia's J AMES BOOZER photography museum EDITOR-IN-cHIEF CHRISTOPHER R ICHERT CARRIE BRITTAIN BUSINESS/ADVERTISING Copy Editor MANAGER If you haven't already noticed the win­ I BILLY O'KEEFE dow display on the 600 S. Michigan VIEWPOINTS/ building, Victor Skrebneski's work is now NEW MEDIA EDITOR showcased at Columbia's Museum of I Contemporary Photography. I JOTHAM SEDERSTROM Skrebneski, a world-renowned photogra­ CAMPUS EDITOR pher, is displaying "Skrebneski: The First ! JILL LOPRESTI Fifty Years" at the museum. I VITALITY EDITOR According to Karen Irvine, the museum's special projects coordinator, Skrebneski BENJAMIN TRECROCI also held his 40th retrospective exhibition SPORTS EDITOR at the museum. He has donated 162 prints to the muse­ KIMBERLY BREHM um's permanent collection. He donated AssiSTANT EDITOR five of his prints in the past, and he donat­ ed an additional 157 for this exhibit. BRENNA. MCl.A.UO HL.IN/CHRONICLE GRAHAM COUCH Approximately 55 of these prints have Kathleen Balog, a freshman photography student, admires some of AssiSTANT EDITOR never been published before, and all together, the prints on exhibit are valued at the Skrebneski pictures. MICHAEL O'BRIEN an estimated $500,000. In the 1970s, Skrebneski exploded onto "He based it on the fact that we are very AssiSTANT EDITOR The 69-year-old Skrebneski studied at the the celebrity scene. He photographed professional in handling our collection," School of the Art Institute of Chicago and many, all wearing black turtle necks.