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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Columbia Chronicle by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. TheCohnnbia Onunide VOLUME 24 NUMBER 15 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS MARCH 25, 1991 Here's a sampling of the most recenl Harrison buildings fail inspection We're violations at the By Nancy Thart the city time to file complaints tio n, per day, until the y a rc Harrison parking resolved, Bcal said. Staff Writer and serve the appropriate parties garage. involved," said Marilyn Johnson, The time given to comply wilh outta the vio lations. and the fines • Window frames: All win The fate of the Harrison Park a deputy corporation counsel. levied, if any, are up to the discre dow frames rusted, 18th ing Garage now rests with the City records show that the tion of the judge assigned to the floor front window frame courts. garage a nd hotel are owned loose. Dangerous and haz case, Johnson said. here! On Thursday, Chicago build through a blind trust at the Cos ardous. ing inspectors cited the garage, at mopolitan National Bank. But a Some of the violations cited on Cynthia Horvath 1989 Housing Court suit against • Window panes: Broken, 605 S. WabashAve.,and the Har Thurs day may be the same Staff Writer missing or defective win rison Hotel, at 65 E. Harrison S t, the building lists Harold Nyberg problems that appeared on the in dow panes. Dangerous and for 28 violations of the city's as a co-defendant, and Ralph s p ectio n report issued last The number of bookworms hazardous. building code. Nyberg, who may be related to November, a little more than a turning into beach bums bound Harold, is listed on the city's in • Parapet: Front parapet out The case will now be turned week after the garage's front for break may be less than a bus spection records. of plumb. (Fortnication out of over to Housing Court because facade fell from the 13th and 14th full this spring due to war and Ralph Nyberg could not be line with front wall below.) the owners of the buildings failed floors onto Wabash A venue. recession reperc ussions ex to submit structural engineering reached for comment, but Harold Three people who were at perienced by students. Nyberg was reached by phone at • West wall: Bricks loose, reports at last week's inspection, tending a Columbia Annual Fall Only 28 students have signed pulling away from building. said Joe Beal, district director for his Lincolnwood home and at his Open House were injured by the up for the economical vacation the city Department vf Buildings. office in the Harrison Hotel. falling debris. getaways to Florida, according to • Lintels: All building A court date has not yet been When asked if he owned the When asked if he was aware of Campus Marketing Inc. agents, thresholds rusted. assigned but is expected in about building, Harold Nyberg said he the incident, Harold t..: yberg said, Sandra Flor and Tom Ptak. was "the operator." Source: OricagQ Depanment of lnspec- three weeks, a spokesman for the "I'm not familiar with it, but I've Two trips are being offered by The buildings' owners could tiona! Services. corporation counsel's office said. CMI this spring. Students can 'The three week period gives face fines of up to $200 per viola- See Harrison, page 2 travel to Daytona Beach or Panama City Beach. Trips in clude bus fare and deluxe ac Evaluations have no method to their madness comodations at oceanfront hotels By Tim Berry hiring or firing practices. Evalua Samuel Floyd Jr., academic dean departments are not addressed. available. The price for a full of student affairs, is currently ex· For instance, lhe fonn has no week stay runs $239 in Panama Staff Writer tions are primarily done to give lhe department head some sense amining the effectiveness of tilL questions about writing assign City Beach and $279 in Daytona. "Use number two pencil only. of how the students are reacting evaluation system. The commit ments, obviously an area critical to According to Jan Berry, rep This instructor grades fairiy. A. to the teacher, he said. tee includes Betty Shiflett, of lhe the English and fiction writing resentative for CMI, "The war Strongly Agree B. Agree C. Dis Probationary full-time faculty fiction department, John Mul departments but perhaps not essen md recession have inevitably had agree D. Strongly Disagree. I are evaluated by !heir students vany, chairman of lhe photo/art tial to evaluating a music teac~r. :>Ome effect on students' travel v.ould advise other students to once a year; other full-timers are department, Leslie Van Marter, Some of the committee mem plans this year." Berry attributed take this course. A. Yes B. No." evaluated every three years.No chairman of the liberal education bers expressed concern wilh lhe some of the decline to a lack of You've probably, at least once, set schedule exists for evaluating department and Chappelle difficulties inherent in a single resources a vailable to un slammed some lame teacher on the part-timers. Freeman, of the film/video questionnaire. "We need to see ifwe employed students. student evaluation fonn. But there After s tudent s complete department. can get more in that fonn ," Shiflett "Resources such as Christmas he was again next semester. You evaluations, lhe results are col According to Mulvany, the said. "I don'tlhink we're gelling all money, mone tary g ifts from had to wonder: Does anybody ac lated at lhe dean's office into a committee ensures !hat evalua lhe student feedback we need." parents and grandparents for tually read !hose lhings? single fonn and sent to lhe ap tion is accomplished and While the standardized fonn vacations and early graduation Whelher student evaluations propriate department head, who provides feedback on how lhe must be employed in all full-time just aren' t as plentiful !his year. of teachers are a necessary then discusses the assessment process might be improved. faculty evaluations, department Money is tight for many people baromete r o f fac ulty perfor wilh the instructor. The discus "We' retaking lhe temperature may come up with their own right now. mance or a futile ritual marking sion can range from a pal on the of the college on lhe evaluation questions. "Despite the decline, students lhe semester's close, the impact back and a " nice job," to an in process," Freeman said. The absence of a school-wide have been known to rush in and of those evaluations is ques depth analysis of what lhe teacher One problem lhe committee policy for lhe evaluation of part sign up at lhc last minute for lhe tionable and ambiguous. is doing right or wrong. When a will examine is lhe standardized time faculty will also be ex Florida trips," said Berry. The According to Nat Lehnnan, teacher is doing well, Lehnnan form on which students evaluate amined by the committee. Under deadline is Mon.,March 25. She journalism department chairman, said, "I j ust say, 'You' re doing full-time faculty. Not all ques the current system, !his is left to also expects an increase in enroll student evaluations do not direct great, lhe kids love you, keep it up."' tions are applicable to all depart the discretion of department ment now that the war is over. ly affect salaries, promotions or A committee headed by Dr. ments and issues important to some See Ev:tluations, page 2 Vince Ke lly, junior, film major, attests to !his idea and said, "I wouldn' t miss going to Florida for the world! It's a great time, I ' d recomme nd it to everyone!" Kelly we nt to Daytona lhrough CMI last year and added, "The cost of the trip is dirt cheap for everything you get. Students were upset wilh last year's trip because CMl didn't provide information regarding at tractions like Disney World,said Ptak, a senior majoring in film, and hotel accomodations were not good. But things should run smO< :· ly !his year, he said. "CMI was pushed to get students into lhe best hotels and say !hey will.'' Like many students, Ptak and Kelly work part-time to meet !heir vacation expenses. They es timate the total cost will be some· where around $600 each. Kelly admined laughingly, "What I should spend and what I could spend are two different things. If I run out of money, I'll just whip out the old credit card and worry about the bill later!" • But Karol Kuehn, a senior majoring in journalism, said, "''m staying home !his year there's too muc h work to do before graduation." The Columbia Chronicle Page 2 March 25, 1991 Photo museum: amateurs need not apply
staff is willing to help out. muse um. Some of th e more By Tim Berry famous photographers whose Staff Writer "Student;; can come in and say, 'I'm interested in color work has been displayed arc Vic lOr Skrcbneski, Dorothea Lange To most s tudents , the photography,' or, 'I'm interested and Helmut Newton. Museum Of Contcmporar) m architectural photography,' or Photography may seem to be < landscapes or portraits, and we Faculty members occasionally quiet, unobtrusive tenant of th< ~an pull together some interesting have exhibitions. Often, th eir 600 S. Michigan, but the behind things for them to look at," work fits into a theme the the-s~enes a~ tion is just as inter Vliller-Ciark said. museum is doing, or, on occasion, esting as the photographs on dis The museum's role goes the museum will celebrate their play. 'lcyond exhibitions. It also features work alone. According to Denise Miller lectures and video programs, William Fredcrking, who Clark, director of both the Millcr-Cimk said. The museum hao. teaches Studio and Light museum, which Columbia owns published I 0 catalogs about ing/Photography III and Ad and the Columbia College Art various photographers to accom ..:need Studio Lighting, was the Gallery, choosing which photog pany the exhibitions. nost recent faculty member to raphers to ex hibit is a complex Founded in 1984, the , xhibit work. He did a show on process. ''Photogmphers come to museum's purpose is to "educ<•tc ·he museum 's small upper level, us directly through portfolio ;ailed "Facing the Consequences people on contemporary photog reviews. They send me things in of Our Actions." raphy through exhibits and the the mail," she said. permanent collection," said John The museum serves not only "If I sec a book or publication Mulvany, chairman of the those interested in photO!,'Taphy. and I'm interested, I seck the governing board for the museum. Anyone curious about the day-to photographer out. I go to gal day opemtions of a museum or leries. I talk to dealers. I talk to Rather than exhibiting the wort<. gallery can take Miller-Clark's of student p hotographers, the other curators around the country. c lass, M useum and Curatorial museum is meant to serve as a I get suggestions from the faculty Pr:tctices. and the students." "v•sual resource" to all stucl?.nts in Student;; also may be unaware tcr~sted in photography, Mi ller Museum officials said they do of the mu seum's permanent col Clark said. The museum gears its not know how many visitors the lection, whi~ h consists of ap exhibits toward student needs, she museum has attracted, but with proximately 3,500 images by said. 750 members, it has not gone un can go in and check it out." celebrate the SOOth anniversary of more than 350 photographers. "For example, we might have noticed. The museum is used ex Columbus ' disc overy of According to Miller-Clark, fu The museum built up the collec an exhibition that deals with tensively by people inside and America. A Spanish scholar who tion through the s uppo rt of outside the school, according to ture plans include "opening up will be writing an essay for the documentary photography, while our program to even more of a Columbia Coll ege, patrons, ar Mulvany, and outreach programs catalog book to accompany the another show might deal with global arena, to have a lot of in tists, collectors and private foun bring students in from other local show, and one of the exhibiting professional or commercial ap ternational interchange. We'll be dations, as well as numero us schools to see the exhibits. photographers will lecture. plicatio ns of the me dium. bringing in people to give lec grants. The next exhibit is "Irving Another show might include "! visit virtually every exhibit tures." The col lection is stored in a photography in tandem with they have," said Andrew Balazs, a Penn Master Images", and. will temperature-controlled vault, and another form o f art, such as paint ;urtior photography major. "!think For instance, the museum is open Saturday, March 30. The students who wish to view pic~es ing," Miller-Clark said. a lot of people go to see the ex planning an exhibit for January, museum will host an opening from the collection must call for Only the work of profe,siPnal hibits- it's convenient. If you've 1992 by 16 contemporary reception on March 29 from 5 an appointment. The museum photographers is exhibited at tile jUt an hour between Classes, ruu Spanish p hotographers, to until 7 p.m., open to the public. Evaluations clcnts would be more honest in from page 1 their opinions if there 3rc peers around." chairs. "I think it wo uld be good if the Shillctt said she thinks the school had a standard policy group discussion idea will be im where (all teachers) do the plcrr.~ntcd, but nothing has b<.!en evaluations, or nobody docs," finalized. said Stuart Feiler, a part-time in ::, udcnt evaluation of a structor in the journalism and teacher's in-cla.-;s pcrfom1ance is liberal education departments. j ust one pan of a larger picture. According to Christine Sot: .; According to the Columbia Col rvillc, associate academic d e~~. lege Chicago Faculty Handbook, part-timers make up about75 per faculty members also arc jt"lged cent of Columbia's facul ty. by their professional activity out At it;; las t meeting on March side the school and collegc,com I I, the committee considered as munity service. king students for their opinions But Mulvany said s tudent on the e va luation process. opinion is the heart of the syotcm. "That's definitely a better way," "Ultimately, they're the r >t ; said Christina Scmfini, a fresh tomcrs,'' he said, "You can 't ig man at Columbia. "I think stu- nore what they're saying." garage was closed last week Harrison pending repairs to the building's from page 1 front ftrc escape. hP.ard of it." C ity officials said tn• The I 7 violations for the park building's owners would need a ing garage include falling plaster barricade permit for the work. on walls and l-eilings and exit doors "You need a permit when you do that arc welded shut. The 11 viola work on a public way such as a tions at the hotel include rotting sidewalk," said John Pukivit.o, a and rusted metal on ftre escapes spokesman for the city Pc. mit and water damage in rest rooms. Department. City officials said The sidewalk in front of the they could find no evidence that Wabash Avenue entrance to the such a permit was ever issued. VIDAL SASSOON HAIRCUT MODELS NEEDED!
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PI•••• ••nd me Information on the Coa•t Guard Officer Candidate School CONTACT JENNIFER AT Nam•------( 312) 33'7- 949'7, OR STOP ~ ------City ------Stat. ____ Zip ______BY THE 3RD. FL. OF THE WATERTOWER Telepltone ( ------Graduation Date------College Major ______PINso mall coupon to: U.S. Coast Guard Information Center, 14180 Dallas Parkway PLACE. 6th Floor- Suite 626, Dallas, TX 75240 $12. 00 FEE REQUIRED Or calf: 1· 800-424-8883 Ext. 1084 The Columbia Chronicle Page 3 March 25, 1991 Columbia tutors tackle teaching at elementary level ·By Karen Sobus One way Reynolds teaches he is more than their tutor; he is Elementary School. schools asking if they arc inter Staff Writer students is by doing class work their friend. Students are required to tutor ested in having tutors at their with them, not just correcting Belinda Howard, Suder's in four hours a week. English Com school. According to Blouin, ap Ron Reynolds isn't a teacher, them. When tutoring reading tensive reading improvement position I is the only prerequisite pro ximate! y 20 schools but when he walks into a typically comprehension, Reynolds reads a coordinator, who supervises for the class. responded positi vely. Tutors can busy classroom at Henry Suder paragraph and tells the students Reynolds, said she is very pleased Rose Blouin, director of the also work at other schools if the Elementary School, he has all the what he thinks it is about. Stu with him. Howard said the school Literacy Outreach Program at administrators are amenable. students' complete attention. dents take turns doing the same has enough teachers, but students Columbia, teaches the class with " We need to create a better While some Columbia stu- thing. ~an always use more help to give Phil Klukoff, chairperson of the world. You don't have to be part • dents sit in classrooms listening ' ' I try to take pan in it. I try not them that extra push. English department. of a movement or fund, it can to lectures, Reynolds, a junior to be different, so I put myself in " St!idents look up to ''Students enrolled in the class simply be done by sitting down broadcast journalism major, takes the position of the student," he (Reynolds). He is their role have been wonderful," Klukoff with one person and teaching class participation to the extreme said. model. ·He is young, energetic said. " I couldn't have selected the;,. to read," Blouin said. by tuto ring fourth and fifth Although Reynolds' tutoring and has a different view than the students myself that could do a One out of every four adults graders at Suder. is most! y restricted to four stu teachers,'' Howard said. better job." in Chicago is functionally il The Tutoring English course dents-two fourth graders and Some Columbia students took Blouin said she has never had literate, Blouin said. Offering offered at Columbia gives stu two fifth graders-in reading, the tutoring class because they a problem with inexperienced tutoring is a way students can dents first-hand experience tutor wri ting and mathematics, all of want to be teachers, while others tutors. Elementary schools teach volunteer to help those that need ing elementary school children in the students get excited when he signed up just for the three hours basic skills that all college stt.: extra help. Chicago public schools. walks into th e c lassroo m. of credit. Whatever the reason, dents know, she said. Tutors who "They didn'treally prepare us "Students are willing to Reynolds tutors the rest of the many of them are glad they did. have a rocky foundation in some for tutoring, they just told us to go learn," Reynolds said, " but students once in a while to try to "You feel like you're doing .s kills can still teach lower grades. out and talk to them (children)," before I came, some of them be fair. something for the kids, like The class was developed three said Joice. " You're thrown into didn't do their homework. You Fourth graders Greg you're their little savior," said years ago as part of Columbia's it. You tltink to yourself, what do fight against illiteracy in have to motivate them. I dress like Campbell and Eric Crensha both Wendy M. Joice, a sophomore See Tutors, page 7 them, eat with them and talk to said they are lucky to have fiction writing major, who tutors Chicago, Blouin said. Columbia them." Reynolds as their tutor. They said at St. Thomas of Canterbury sends letters to Chicago public At right: Columbia Junior, Dawn Wolf, tutors two Franklin Arts Academy students In drama. Below: A Franklin Arts Academy claaa practices algn language with teacher Mary Bonn..._ Jill S. Dolan for The Chromck
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Nurthwt~tt· rn l lniH"rsit\ Sumnwr :\4.•:-...,iun '91 l OO.i Sheridan Koad E~"JIISton , Illinois 60lOX-l MU The Columbia Chronicle Page4 March 25, 1991 Perseective: Shouldna' done it Is anybody out there? ' We care about what you think, so we're givin~ you a ~han.ce to S!'und ~fT. P lease answer the fo)- By Mary A. Johnson lowing questionaire, and send your resgon~ v1a earner Plf,e!'n1 mcontment puppy, or drop 1t 10 Managing Edilor the box at the Chronicle office, Room 8 2, m the Wabash utldmg. Tell us what you love about the Chronicle: I can vividly recall the exasperation in my mother's voice after I had >~· a lked off my latest job because of some injustice I had suffered. "Girl, you would cut off your nose to spite your face," she would say. Tell us what you hate about the Chronicle: And though I never admiued it, her words would ring in my ears as 1 pounded the pavement looking for a new job, usually for less money :u1d a new set of injustices. Those same words should ring in the ears of local black politicians If you could torture the Chronicle staff, what method would you employ? with the unveiling of Gov. Jim Edgar's lean and mean 1991 budget. Proposing to cut $500 mill ion from state programs, mostly from aid for the poor, elderly and disabled, Edgar is serving up a stew that black leaders should have known was on the menu. Complete the following sentence: If I were editor, I would: And if they didn' t know, maybe it' s because they were too busy trying to repay the Democratic Party for kicking the rival Harold Washington Party off the ballot in the November 1990 elections. That was when Judge R. Eugene Pincham lost the Democratic Name three alternative uses for the Chronicle: primary for Cook County Board President to Richard Phelan and became the Harold Washington Party candidate for the office. The Democratic Party went to court to bar the HWP from the ballot. Da re us to publish three stories· Angered by the Democratic Party's treatment o f blacks, Pincham urged his supporters to withdraw their support from Neil Hartigan, the Democratic candidate for governor, and support Edgar. The lllinois Supreme Court stepped in at the last minute and got the Any lin a I snide remarks, slings, arrows or barbs? HWP back on the ballot. But influential black leaders pushed African- Americans to punish the Democrats for their insulting behavior. And t11ey did, giving Edgar unprecedented support and effectively denying Hartigan the governor's office. While I agree that African-American Democratic politicians have a r ight to be mad as hell when they arc shut o ut of the ball game in their Here's what you said-no kidding! ho rne park, their constituents shouldn ' t be left to pay for the ticket. In this case the price is extremely high. W hat you love: Stories you'd like to read: rison Garage, bound and Edgar's budget leaves nearly two-thirds of the low-income people I. It's free. I. Interview Grant Park burns. gagged, for three days. n ow receiving Gcncml Assistance ineligible. The program currently 2. It comes out once a week. 2. Co-ed mud wrestling. 2. Put a funnel in each staff p rovides temporary allotme nts of S I65 a month to 84,000 Chicagoans. 3. Love is a Strong word. 3. Write a story about music/ members rectum and dump Hospitals and physicians, already squawking about low and slow W hat you hate: theater majors because we get hundreds of thousands of red g•ovc mment payments for health care services provided to the poor, I. No original cartoons! no recognition whatsoever at ants into their anal cavity, then ·ould suffer a 5 percent reduction in reimbursements. Some hospi tals 2. Way too formal, way too II th Street! duct tape their hands and buns. "m ay be forced to close, whic h means that more people will have to rely boring' Loosen up! Ad vice for the editor s and Other comments: 0 n the already overburdened Cook County Hospital. 3. It has no classified section. staff: I. You have a tough job trying The average citizen may be ecstatic about Edgar's promise not to Three a lternative uses for I. I nsen student art. to please this transitory stu- raisc our taxes, but many black Americans know that =~s arc like the Chronicle: 2. If we wanted real news we'd dent body- must be difficult. d eath- you don ' t know when ,but you know they're coming. I. Bird cage liner. get a real newspaper. T his is 3 This is the only communica- So what are black leaders saying now that Edgar has laid his cards 2. Kindling. student paper; have fun! tion I have had from the school n the table? They are stmngcly silent. 3. Hair spray dcOector for Cr eative tortures: other than letters from the But the problems in the community scream o ut for auention. women with big hair. I. Place (the staff) in the Har- financial aid office. . one-third of the A frican-American popul ation lives well below the poverty level. . the black population is aging, producing a whole new class of Off with Saddam's head! elderly in need of social progmms. By Tariq Ali about 200 miles away from the Islamic law . . adequate medical care is sti ll out of reach for a large segment of Chronicle Correspondent theater of opemtions, they could T he Arab coalition believes the community, a nd preventi ve medicine is practically non-existent. hear the exploding Scuds, and Saddam was guilty of ignoring Maybe, next time, black voters won ' t j ust get mad, they'll get even. As a boy, !lived in Dhahran, a we re reminded da ily b y the this basic Islamic teaching, when city in eastern Saudi Arabia. It is presence o f uniformed allied sol he plundered Kuwait and fired The Columbia Chronicle a very flat city. There are no tall diers that Saudi Arabia, once a Sc uds at the Sa udi capital of 600 S. Michigan A venue buildings or huge shopping malls, haven of safety, was threatened. Riyadh, and the coastal city of but, t11crc is a bustling seaport A week after the war ended I Dhahran where my family lives. Chicago, Illinois 60605 where ships dock carrying every spoke to both my father and According to my father, one thing from cars to clothing. Ahmed about post war condi wa y to ensure Saddam pays for Editor-in-Chief Lance Cummings Like thousands of others, my tions. They were eager to talk his crimes is to convene an inter dadS. Shujaat Ali, and a family about Saddam Hussein. national court. Executive Editor Ma ry L Kens ik friend , Wahccd Ahmed, were "Saddam should be captured An international trial would lured to Dha hmn by the bustling and punished fo r committing war involve all of the Arab coalition Managing Editor Mary A. Johnson oil industry, to the country with crimes," said Ahmed. But ap countries. Since the majority of iL5 promise of a better lifestyle. prehending the besieged ruler Arab leaders follow the teachings Senior Editor J oyce A. Littleton Ahmed and my father became will be diffic ult, he said. "Any of Islam, this would presumably foreign nationals, and soon beg.m punishment sho uld come from satisfy all concerned that Saddam Copy Editor Amy Ba rthelemy calling S
By Timothy Bentevis specialty writing involves a cer Chronicle Co"espondent tain culture, and you have to learn the rules of that culture and the Peter Gomer always had a people who are in it You would craving for scientific knowledge. also have to know the kind of But it took self-motivation to ef literature that is applied to science fectively utilize his talent. writing. This would hold true for At the age of 15, Gomer began a sports writer, business writer, his extrordinary career with the movie critic, etc. City News Bureau, where he remained for seven years, work Do you believe that science ing his way through high school intimidates people? and college. Ater receiving his bachelor's in science from Yes, especially editors. Northwestern University, Gomer They're all afraid of it. They joined the Chicago Tribwte. He know that it's important, but it subsequently worked as a critic, scares them. Also, the more spe reporter, editor, feature writer, cialized science becomes, the and science correspondent. more it's gotten away from the In 1987, Gomer, along with public. So our work becomes close friend and colleague Jeff much more difficult because we Lyon, won a Pulitzer Prize for have to simplify things tremen their Tribune series on gene dously. What we are to the public therapy. Since then, Gomer has is interpreters who are grounded Pulitzer prlze-wtnner and Science Writing Instructor Peter Gorner produced many science stories enough in the sciences that we're and is completing a new book covering. We are not scientists, story ,because they understand the "Science Writing" entail? their tool box. I give my students with L yon entitled,"Altered but we can relate to scientists and rules. The course is a year long. In credit for coming into class and Fates: The Promise of Gene understand what they're saying the beginning, I give my students struggling over science journals Therapy." so that we can get it out to the in you·r opinion, what area of scientific studies to analyze and and trying to make sense out of Besides interpreting science public more plaint y. science is the most laborious to write about. This is the kind of them. These students are cover for the public, Gomer also write about? audition that students will en ing the hardest stories in jour teaches Columbia students the Aside from winning the counter when they apply for jobs, nalism. fundamentals of science writing. Pulitzer Prize with J eff Lyon in Learning molecular biology, if they claim to be science writers. His underlying message to stu 1987, what would you say was biochemistry, a nd genetics is What I'm most interested in is a You and Jeff Lyon are work dents who are motivated to learn your most significant achieve very hard. This area of science is student's ability to look at a study ing on the final chapters of your the structural basics: You can do ment in life? the most exciting of our time. You and see if it's newsworthy or not. book,"Altered Fates: The it if you're willing to work. just can't walk into a genetics lab I try to keep the topics current, so Promise of Gene Therapy." and start talking intelligently to that they can hear about it on the Professionally, the Pulitzer. Tell me about it. Much of your writing But my kids are a significant scientists. Journalists are per radio the following day, or see it focuse s on science. What achievement. You can't compare petual students, and we were on television. I also try to make generated your interest in this one with the other. lucky enough to be taught by them as savvy as possible about It's an outgrowth of a series we topic? Winning the Pulitzer is old some of the top people in the what they cover. This is because did in 1987. We predicted gene news. It's a lovely award and I world - including Nobel Prize every science has its own lan therapy would come on line in For many years I was a general think that everyone should win winners. This wasn't because we guage and its own jargon. three years, and it did. The ftrst feature writer for Tempo. We had one. But I don't think you gear were such bright people, but be During the second semester, I human experiments are under to generate our own stories. There your life or your career by win cause we were from the Tribune make my students come up with way at the National Institutes of was· no time to wait around for ning prizes because most of them and we were willing to learn. their own stories. We read them Health for an immune system dili assignments. Therefore, I started are like shots in the dark. It's like There's nothing to see, nothing to aloud in class and edit one order, and for terminal cancer to write about science, because being hit by lightning. I think that touch, nothing to hold. It's all in another word by word, idea by patients. The book is a history feature writing about science in ~ome people who deserve to win, tellectual . This is because genetic idea. Whether these students be leading to the ftrSt experiments the '70s was a new field. Tribune do win. And other people who engineering is made up of atoms, come science writers or not, I and how this revolutionary Tempo writers were the fi.rst to should win, don't. T here's no ex molecules, enzymes, proteins, don't know. But it's defmitely a therapy will soon be applied to have the luxury of time and space planation for it. chromosomes and genes. But tool that they can carry around in many other major diseases. that we could devote to science scientists are dealing with secrets subjects. Back then, Tempo was What are some of the requi of life. If I had to do it all over into the soft sciences. We would sites that a n aspiring science again, I would probably be a cover psychology. psychiatry, writer must master in order to molecular biologist. Summer Employment child welfare and human rela succeed in this growing field? Opportunities tions. Today, we cover more of Do you feel science writing the hard sciences. There's more Let's put itthis way , I want my should become part of the core emphasis on health and medicine, kids to be artists. I don't know if j o urna lism c urriculum at The English as a Second Language Program a t and then extending that to biology I can make them artists. But the Columbia? Or should it remain Northwestern University Is looking for college and the.life sc i~nces. ftrst step in becoming an artist is a n elective? students to act as residential assistants for forty to become a professional. high school students. How many science writers There are things that I can It should be mandatory . show my students about writing Science has become an important are currenUy employed by the The program teaches English to non-native Chicago Tribune? What and covering science, because I part of o ur lives. Journalists s peakers u sing learning activities involving drama branches of science do they do it everyday .I view myself as a should know how to cover it. cover? coac h , a me ntor. I've always A chasm exists because jour a nd mus ic. Positions are available for college worked with a small group of no nalists are reluctant to go into an s tuden ts who are s tudying music. drama. speech. Basically, there are four of us more than I 0 students. For a large area that requires deep under or dance. who cover science: Ron Kotulak, class you would need a more ex standing and research as science perienced teacher like Carolyn Jon Van, Mike Millenson, and journalism does. Journalists as a Residential assistan ts live in the residence hall myself. We overlap sometimes, Hulse. I've seized upon what their rule arc not science types. They with the s tudents. work with the program faculty. butcoverdifferentareas.Jon Van other teachers are doing. I set do n' t take a lot of science in covers technology and is very in them up in an intimate situation school. They take a lot of and coordinate learning and social activities. terested in computer science and one that can be very tense. I ex humanities, history, politics and physics. Ron Kotulak cove rs peel my students to be journalists jo urnalism courses. I think Com pens ation includes summer room and board. health and medicine, and is par firs t, a nd scie nce journalis ts science, throughout society. has salary a nd expenses. and one course tuition ticular!y partial to astronomy and second. I've tried it both ways. become a religion, and I think that scholarship. cosmology. Mike Millenson is I've had as interns two young it's important to understand who into the nitty gritty of healthcare scientists from the American As the priests are and what we logi policy. I tend to specialize in life sociation for the Advancements cally can expect from them. There NORTHWESTERN UNIVERS I TY sciences, natural history, and of Science, who are unskilled arc science stories everywhere - journalists. It's much easier to write a lot about animals. on the smallest paper, in the smal For a complete job description and appli cation take trained journalists and teach lest town. But you have to acquire What separates scien ce them how to write about scie nce. a familiarity with this subject in lnfonnatlon. call S teve 1:•ylor at writers from other jourl!alists? Whether my stude nts become order to be comfortable writing (708) 49 1· 5250. science journalists or not, I hope about it. I don't think they are different they will be better journalists and from any other journalist. Any won't be afraid to tackle a science What does your course The Columbia Chronicle Page6 Tiny transmitter fails to dim local enthu.sUsn for WCRX By Theresa Volpe Instead of being a typical al StaffWriler ternative college radio station, such as those at Northwestern or Despite a transmitter that's the University of Chicago, dwarfed by many home stereos, (where basically there is no for radio station WCRX (88.1 FM), mat, and DJ s play all types of has a small but devoted following music), Columbia decided to take of young, mostly black and a different approach. The station Hispanic li steners. Unforturtate looked at the Chicago radio ly, few of them are Columbia stu market and found that there was dents. a hole where a dance music sta Even though Columbia stu tion could fit in. dents appear unenthused, this "It's ironic that within the last tiny but ambitious station has year or so this format has become reac hed beyond its natural very popular with the commer audience to find a niche with lis cial stations," Cavaliere said. teners outside the college. "We had no way of knowing that Last year, when the radio sta it would be so big." tion tried to get students to listen, "Wecan'tjustletourDJs play they responded by ripping the around and do whatever they speakers from the walls of the want. We are training our stu lounge in the Michigan building, dents and want them to be said Karen Cavaliere, general prepared professionally," she Derrick Loftin, a broadcast jour show different by doing rather play Madonna all the manager of WCRX. said. "Out in the real world some nalism major, who said he oc humorous bits that occasiortally time,"he said. "S tudents kept ripping down body is going to set a format and casiortally tunes in to CRX. "The get him in tro uble. " I got Carballo is known to his B96 the speakers in the lounge, ap pick their music for them. They station should advertise more; suspended only once-for using listeners as "Peeping Tom." parently because we play dance won't be playing whatever they maybe put a sign up or something." a bit involving Bart Simpson. I Since B96 is located in the same music (rap, house and mixes), want." Loftin said he likes the station had a guy in here and he kept building as Channel 2, Carballo and it's not your typical XRT or WCRX's operations manager because you can hear mixes that saying the same joke over and said he was given the name when Loop sound," she said. and news director, Jennifer a re n't played on more over. Every time he said the joke, his co-workers said they caught When WCRX's chief en Keiper, a junior, said the station mainstream stations. "CRX is I would play the drop that said, him peeping at anchorperson gineer, and Columbia's ad has more people in the general different because they don't play 'Watch your mouth smart ass!"' Linda McClennan while she was ministration discovered that public listening to them than the same songs over and over. putting on her makeup. "I wasn't, students didn't want to listen to Columbia students. "I don't mind They take a chance on playing Carballo said he still thinks the but I'd love to," he said. their own station, they took the that students do not listen. It's new and different artists. But you suspension was unnecessary be A call-in WCRX listener, speakers out of the lounge. gratifying enough to know that at can tell they are amateurs," he cause to him, challenging limita Aracelia, 16, said she listens to Some students don 'teven know least one person is out there lis said. ''There are a lot of stutters tions is what college radio is all the station because it plays all Columbia has a radio station . tening to us, whether they are stu and pauses." about. "We have to push it here types of music. "Some stations "What station?" asked Amishi dents or not," she said, "As long "I listen to it," said Nick Bar because when we get out in the just play new music, but CRX Sanghvi, a sophomore. "If! knew as we're on the air getting the tolo, a junior, "because I'm real world, we're going to get ftred plays all of them , old and new," the frequency and what type of experience, that's what counts." curious to see what it's all about. for doing stuff like that," he said. she said. music it played, I might tune in." With only a 100-watt trans The music is all right but some If it were up to him, Carballo Perhaps if WCRX opened "I'd like to listen to the station mitter, WCRX'sbroadcastsdon't times they play pretty bad stuff." said he would change the music radio positions to all students, it just to see what it's all about," reach large portions of Here'san example of what the at CRX to something more would gain a broader listenership. said sophomore Laura Craig. Chicagoland. "Our listeners are station has to offer. Tom Carbal mainstream, to appeal to the stu "We won't just put anybody "But I can't get the station either predominately young and black lo, a junior, is a DJ at WCRX and dents. on the air," Cavallero said. ''The here or at home. And I only live or Hispanic. We have the ethnic also works at Chicago commer board is incredibly complex if five blocks away." audience because the music tends cial station B96. He was offered Ill: " I think there are a lot of you don' t know what you're Students may find it difficult to appeal to them," said B96 job, as an evening-show JIOCiocer people here who want to hear al doing. We're being broadcast to to pick up WCRX 's signal be Cavallero. arxl wccl You are not alone ... You do not need a student I.D. card to receive our low prices. If you're feeling dcprc,,cd. lonely. or unmntivatcu. you arc We have a complete Darkroom Department! not alone. 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"The Five Heartbeats" traces the With Sarge's help, the triumphs and trials of a fictional Heartbeats soon have a stage voeal group that sings like the show that would give James "Four Tops" and dances like the Brown a run for his money. This, ''Temptations." combined with their great songs The story is as old as Newton's and sex appeal, wins them a local law of gravity: What goes up following and they sign with a must come down. It's the often charming but unscrupulous record told showbiz parable of success ..:ompany owner, "Big Red." followed by heartbreak. But this Soon after, they have a hit time, Townsend overcomes th~ rerord. But their happiness at cliches by blending music, danc bci ng successful is tempered by ing, romance, comedy and humiliations the group undergoes tragedy !O deliver a wonderfully as they tour the segregated south. uplifting film. The Heartbeats are further disil This movie fulfills the promise lusioned when they discover that Tow nsend demonstrated in his their album cover doesn't have 1987 credit-card financed film their picture on it. "Crossover Despite all the heartbreak in this other details convincingly depict a portrayal of Big Red, the crooked ''The Hollywood Shuffle." In that sales, you know," explains one of ftlm, Townsend displays a sure eye bygone era. record company owner. Smooth movie, he effectively satirized Big Red's minions. for comedy throughout The antics Townsend himself turns in an and charming at fust, he later dis Hollywood's deplorable tendency When they return , Big Red and sight-gags of the Heartbeats as fme performance as Duck, the in plays a nasty streak a mile wide, to cast African-American actors in greets them with five brand-new they performed are a joy to behold. trospective songwriter who is the making him one of the most vil stereotypical roles playing pimps, Cadillacs wrapped in ribbons, but Townsend's satiric view of the essence of the HeartbeaiS. lainous characters to ever set foot pushers and gangsters. brushes off questions about record industry is also good for Of the other Heartbeats, on a screen. The characters in "The Five record royalties. more than a few chuckles. Michael Wright's performance as Townsend directs the film Heartbeats" are real. They love, But with great fortune comes Songs ·are an important part of Eddie was particularly outstanding. with a frenetic energy, never let· they laugh, and they aren't per even greater tragedy. The any musical, and this film is no Especially harrowing is the ting up on the pace, and never fect. We don't get to see that Heartbeats have to fire Eddie, exccption.In addition to Motown scene where Eddie, now a home allowing a dull moment. He has many multi-faceted black charac their lead singer, because of his favorites performed by the Four less and broken man, confronts an eye for the interrelationships ters in movies today. involvement with drugs, while Tops, the Dells, and the Del the Heartbeats in a parking lot af1er of his characters that is reminis When we first meet the Potter, who has discovered that foni~s. The Five Heartbeats in a concert He begs to rejoin the cent of Frank Capra. Like Capra, Heartbeats in 1965, they are a Big Red is ripping them off, troduces 13 original songs· many group, and starts singing their old l1is movie has a lot of details talented, but unpolished and un meets with a mysterious accident. of them mimic the style of that hilS in a pitifully raspy voice. llte which can only become apparent disciplined group. They can't However, it is not tragedy but time so well that only a check of Heanbeats can only slip him some upon subsequent viewing. even win the amateur night in the large egos and jealousy that are the credits reveals that they were cash and say Stay in touch, Eddie. But it takes only one viewing to sleazy local lounge. finally responsible for the written today. The many supporting actors in see that Townsend has cemented The Heartbeats are going Heartbeats' breakup in the late The music wasn't the only this film also acquitted themsel his reputation as a talented director nowhere fast until Jimmy Potter, seventies. But the film ends with thing Townsend got right in this ves well. Among them is Haw· and storyteller. Go see this movie. a savvy manager played by a touching reunion and recon ftlm. The cars, the processed hair, thorne James, who almost steals I'm sure this ftlm will steal your Chuck Pauerson, spots the group ciliation of all the Heartbeats. the sharkskin suits, and a hundred the show with his bigger-than-life heart as it did mine. merchandising major, tutors fust and sixth graders in drama. She Tutors and her students at Franklin Fine THEY WERE JUST fiVE GUYS fROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD, from page3 Arts School read sc ripts aloud and act them out. BUT TOGETHER THEY CREATED A SOUND THAT ROCKED AMERICA. I do to get the kids to talk to me.' ' The class meets weekly to review tutoring strategies and dis " You feel really good abou: cuss the students' tutoring ex yourself when you leave," Wolf periences. Each child ha s said. " It is immediate gratifica different needs. Some need extrJ tion. You feel like patting your· help in English, while others need self on the back and saying help in mathematics. 'Wow! I taught them that. ' " Wolf said she never thought "One boy I tutor is very quiet. about being a teacher, but could He was a hard kid to get to open see why people would want to be. up to me," Joice said. "He like; She also said she looks forward to art, so I'm trying to connect an !t•toring every week. with English. He draws a picture and I l•ave him write a short story " The little kids are a 101 about it." smarter than we give them credit for," Wolf said. " In fust grade Tutoring is done on a one-to· you wouldn't think they would one basis, or in small groups. know words like ' information' Columbia reimburses tutors for :m~ 'lovingly' for instance, but transportation costs. Tutors get they do." background information on the students from their teachers before tutoring begins. HELP WANTED 1. Would you lllc.t to wor\ tor yourulf? "Teaching now is different 2. Woofd you llkt to 111 your ov«~ houn? than what I learned as a kid,·' said 3. An you ulf-motiYaltd? Kelly Curry, sophomore English • · All you • bit of an .nlrtpeneur? major, who tutors second graders If you :~~swsrtd vtS to all of the aboYt, you art )utllht ptrton wt' rtl~no fOfl at South Loop School. "The> At an Amtrlnn p, ..,, C1mpn At p· write outlines for their stories. rtnnltlln, you wtll bt rttpontiblt lor These kids are at a higher level. pbcing odvtrtitlng on bullttln bMrdt You willoltohav•lh• opportunity lowortt They're really smart.'' on matttstlno program• tor eud'l dltntt ae Amsric.-. hpttll, Ford, and Botton lklivtrtlly. Thtu art no salts involved Teachers fi.ll out an evaluation Mlln)' of our rsp~ slay ¥otlh IHIIono anu gr;,doatlon. For more lntonnation, can or sheet for each tutor, detailing writ• ueetthtlollow1ngeddrtu: their progress with the children. These forms are given to Blouin AMERICAN PASSAGE and Klukoff. Blouin saiti she has NETWORK never had a bad report. 1·800-727 -6783 2iiW11tHertiUift Dawn Wolf a junior fashion lultlt, WA 11111-(107 The Columbia Chronicle Page R The Back Pa e 1 "1l<,J( ( ,,.,.1:\pa S \\ ~ r ti r (;tHKh \in Bobhy Pern Juo:iur Junior Sophomore Senior llruadnl~ t Journa lism Televison Fiction Writing Music!fheatre Ov,·r till' spnng break. I plan I' U be in Boca Raton soaking I will spend it honing my writ· I'll be working mos1 of the o gn v'"' ' OIIIt' very close fri end~ up some rays, not even think ong ing skills wo th hopes of complel· time. However. I also plan 10 do a1 Westm1 llhn01s University . I Jb0ut schooL ing a book at the end of the year. some '>ludio work. singing demos haven' t seen th e m since and singles. Christmas. and '""plan 10 party. Science/Health Update UV rays and skin cells are not the only things that don't mix well . Aspirin and alcohol, combined, tan also produce harmful effects that students may not be prepared fot. Don' t mix aspirin and alcohol, UV and skin In a study reponed in the Jownal of the American Medical Association researchers determined that blood alcohol con· Uy Kathleen Troher The majority of those cases will be basal-cell o centratiuns (BACs) were allercd in subjects who received Srirncl' \\'rilr'r ,quaouvll-'·Ccll, cancers, which seldom become life thrCllten aspirin before drinking. With sprmg break just around the comer many swdenL' ing. The rest of lhe cases will be melanoma. the most seriou> are drl.IJlung of val·:ttJonong on sUimy locations and retumin& type of slcin cancer, which will be diagnosed in 32,000 peoplr "Some people think they know mote or less how much to Chit ago flau nting 1hd r bronLc bodies. But before spend· this year and result in 6500 deaths. alcohol they can 1oleratc," said Dr. Enrique Baraona, one of ing nc't \\Ct'~ 's p:t)'<'h..x· ~ on a tluorescem pink bikini, it may Melanoma begins in the melanocyte cells, with a stron the researchers who conduclcd the study. "Whal we found is b.: "IS<' to r.·m,·mtx·r Lhat there's no such thing as a healthy tendency to spread to other parts of the body. Early warn in ~ if people take aspirin before they drink IIley may actually be llUl. signs include changes in the size, shape or color of a mole able to tolerate less alcohol because the aspirin intensifies the "Tha,··s nothong tcrnbly healthy about getting to lhe and the presence of sores on the sltin thai do nol heal. alcohol's e!Tccts." llUln<-d st:ttc soncr that means cellular damage has taken Because of the possible linlc belwee n severe sunburn early Baraona and his colleagues swdied fi ve men who were place," saod Dr. Allen Lorincz. professor of dermatology at in life and an increased risk of cancer in laler years, the each given a meal either with or without two tablets (SOO mg) lhe Univr n; ity of Chicago. American Cancer Soc iety warns thai today's sun worship of aspirin. One hour !alec each of the men drank the A sunlllll is esscnti:JII )· lhc body's Ill tempt to defend itself ping can become tomorrow's nightmare. Tiley recommend equivalenl of seven 0\UlCCS of wine. Blood leSU revealed the ngains1 lhe sun 's hamtful ultraviolel (UV) rays. Upon ex· thai individuals stay 0111 of lhe sun as much as possible, men who received lhe aspirin absorbed signifx:antly mo«e posure to the sun . the md anocyte cells release melanin, lhe especially between 10 a m. and 3 p.m. when UV rays are alcohol into their bloodsueams and experienced ~ pigment char gives skin. hair and the iris of the eye their suongcsL physical impairments. l'Oioring . If exposure cannot be avoided, wear a broad brimmed hat. As ml'lanon inrn:ascs it produces a protective layer in the sunglasses that block UV rays and sunscreens with a Sun Baraona said the resulu of the study should make people form of a sunllUl. Rqx.tlt'd c.'posure to the sun, however, can Protection Fac10r (SPF) of a1Ieas1 15. aware of lhe unexpected effects of taking aspirin and con result in more than just 3 llln. h can cause wrinkles, dark Dr. Lorincz said thai allhough no sunscreen tan totally suming alcohoL He warned that individuals who do 110t p3tches and. ul tim:u~ l y . skan C31K"er. block all harmful rays, those blocking UV A and UVB rays expect to become intoxicated may auempt tasks such as A cording 10 tht' Amall' an Cancer Soci~ ty, three types of are th~ t-.esL Consult a druggisl for available products. driving can ot operating Olher machinezy which require a l'anet·r "ollr:JuSt' 600.000 cases of the disease in 199 L high degree or menl.al and motor coordination.