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Withe alums Lozano and Szynal Community Media Workshop Photojournalists show us at the controls, sports fans teaches nonprofits how the pain, the joy, and get more than just the score to make themselves heard the complexity of the world 10 16 24 A series of conversations with iconic cultural figures about their lives and art ... Richard Roundtree Thursday, February 15, 7:30 p.m. The Dance Center of / 1306 S. Ave. Best known for his starring role in , Richard Roundree has been a force in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years. He has appeared in more than 70 feature includingSeven , Once Upon A Time … When We Were Colored, and Steel. CONVERSATIONS Wednesday, March 14, 6:00 p.m. IN THE ARTS Harold Washington Library / 400 S. State St. PRESENTED BY COLUMBIA COLLEGE The author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most CHICAGO respected and controversial writers. In both fiction and nonfiction, Rushdie uses his unique upbringing and personal history to make bold statements about life. His latest collection of essays, Step Across Tickets to all events are $50 and will This Line, centers on themes of religion, culture, and politics in an age of rapid modernization. be available at www.ticketweb.com or 866-468-3401. For more information, Jane Alexander visit www.colum.edu/upclose. Thursday, April 26, 7:30 p.m. location to be announced President’s Club members enjoy A Tony and Emmy Award winner and four-time Oscar nominee, Jane Alexander has starred in dozens VIP ticketing and an exclusive cocktail of movies, including The Great White Hope, All the President’s Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Eleanor reception with the guests following and Franklin, and Testament. Her stage credits include Shadowlands and The Sisters Rosenweig. the conversation. For more information She was Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993 to 1997. on joining the President’s Club, call 312 344 8652. Sponsors for all or part of the 2006/2007 series include:

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3 Letter: from the President 5 Wire: news from the college community 7 Portfolio: View Masters: Seven photojournalists show us our world. Featuring (’72), Zajakowski (’82), Phil Velasquez (’75), Antonio Perez (’85), Pablo Martinez Monsivais (’94), Misty Keasler (’01), and John H. White. 36 Get Lit: new books by Kathie Bergquist (’05) and Robert McDonald, Cris Burks (’02), Andrea Kampic (’91), J.A. Konrath (’92), Joe Meno (’96), and Brian Ulrich (’04) 39 Spin:new recordings from Cougar, Fake Fictions, Rick Goldschmidt, Trillium, and 33 out here :our special alumni section featuring letters from readers, alumni news and notes, faculty and staff accomplishments, and more 40 Point & Shoot: CAAN alumni events across the country

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8 Margaret in Motion Choreographer Margaret Morris (’05) brings spirituality and contemplation to postmodern dance. By Lucia Mauro. Photography by Erika Dufour (’97) 10 Put It On the Board… (Yes!) With TV alums Sergio Lozano (’90) and Jeff Szynal (’83) at the controls, Chicago sports fans get a show-within-a-show when they check the scoreboard. By William Meiners (’96). Photography by Corey Minkanic (’04). 14 Come With Me A poem by Donna Pecore (’07). Drawings by R. Scott Whipkey (’07). 16 Can You Hear Us Now? Community Media Workshop teaches nonprofits how to make themselves heard, utilizing the media to raise public awareness of often underrepresented issues. By Micki Leventhal. Photography by Evan Berkowitz (’05). 21 The Home-Away-From-Home Team A look at how alumni in Hollywood network in, and on, the field. ByChris Coates (’04). Photography by Drew Reynolds (’97).

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Lee Greenberg (B.A. Photography, ’05) Emil, 2005. Archival ink-jet print, 22 x 22 inches Emil Pawlick, 67, understands the expression, “Age is relative.” Pawlick, a heptathlete, holds a list of track-and-field records that encompass the entire of the sport. Pawlick and others like him are among a rare breed of individuals who pursue sport and a healthy, active lifestyle in their old age. Lee Greenberg says, “I worked with Emil and other masters track and field athletes as part of my senior thesis project in photography. My intent was to capture athletes as heroic individuals and suggest that age really is relative.” FALL/ WINTER 2006/ 2007 

EXECUTIVE EDITOR DEMO Markland Lloyd, Ph.D. Assistant Vice President VOL1 ISSUE3 Marketing and Communication EDITOR dear Ann Wiens CREATIVE DIRECTOR readers Mary Johnson ART DIRECTOR Guido Mendez EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD As we were wrapping up production on this, our third issue of Demo, I got a call from Bill Randall Albers Parker, a 1948 graduate of Columbia’s television program. Parker is one of several alumni Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin interviewed by Mara Tapp for “Radio Days,” her feature looking back at Columbia’s role as William Cellini / ’94 Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Ph.D. a training ground for broadcasters of the 1940s and 1950s (see pages 12 – 19). After Mark Kelly graduating from Columbia, Parker enjoyed a -long career in broadcasting in Upstate Jim MacDonald as the beloved star of local children’s television programs including “TV Ranch Alton Miller Brian Shaw / ’86 Club,” “Captain Galaxy,” and “The Officer Bill Show,” as well as several radio talk shows. Kari Sommers / ’90 Jeff Spitz As we talked about Columbia College then and now, Parker told me a story about a trip Jim Sulski / ’84 Crystal Williams he and his wife made to Chicago a few years ago. They were leading a tour group on a trip CLASS NOTES EDITOR from , through Windsor, Canada, then down to Chicago for a few days. James Kinser /’05 In Chicago, the group spent an evening taking in the entertainment at Tommy Gun’s Garage, EDITORIAL INTERN a dinner theater that stages a lively, crowd-pleasing rendition of a 1920s vaudeville show, Rebecca Mielcarski /’05 replete with flappers and gangsters. “There was part of the show,” Parker told me, “where COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO the actors got ‘volunteers’ from the audience to come up and participate in an old 1920s radio show. My group pushed me up there, and I played along pretty well, I think.” CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES Allen M. Turner PRESIDENT “Well,” Parker continued, “the young actors caught on that I’d perhaps done this before.” Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D. After the show, they asked Parker about his background, and he told them about studying VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT broadcasting at Columbia in the 1940s, and his subsequent career. “They said, ‘You’re Eric V.A. Winston, Ph.D. kidding!’” said Parker. “It turned out they were all theater students at Columbia, working ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS in the show at Tommy Gun’s to pay for school.” Joshua Culley-Fosterm ALUMNI RELATIONS COORDINATOR Columbia College has changed dramatically since Parker was a student here, yet a common James Kinserm DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS, thread of creativity and determination runs through its alumni, from his small cohort of WEST COAST pioneering broadcasters to the some 2,000 students who graduated this past May. This Sarah Schroederm DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS, issue concludes our first year of publishingDemo , and we’ve enjoyed the opportunity to tell EAST COAST the stories—and demonstrate the contributions—of some of those alumni, students, and Alfred Szymanski others whose hands and minds have formed Columbia’s culture of creativity over the years. 

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The arts are big business these days. A recent book published by Rutgers University Press suggests that this country’s arts, media, and entertainment industries generate more than $850 billion in economic activity each year. The arts have become integrated with all aspects of our economy—from web design and to automobiles, dentistry, and food services.

At Columbia College Chicago, we prepare students to play leading roles in these industries. Columbia alumni are journalists in and filmmakers in Hollywood, writers in New York and advertising executives in Miami, arts managers in Chicago, and a host of places in between. They operate scoreboards at sports arenas and run festivals in Dallas. Parisa Khosravi was one of two successful professionals honored as Alumni of the year for 2006.. Parisa left Columbia in 1987 to begin working for CNN in Atlanta, where, today, she is vice president in charge of international newsgathering for the CNN News Group. In her 19 years with CNN, she has played a central role in covering the most significant international news stories of our time—including the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the genocide in Rwanda, the Asian Tsunami, Tiananmen Square, the Israeli—Palestinian Conflict, and both Gulf Wars. Her work has earned numerous awards, including a Peabody, an Emmy, a DuPont Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and two Overseas Press Club Awards. Our second awardee was Peter Teschner, one of the most sought- after film editors in Hollywood. Over the past two decades, he worked on more than 30 projects, including, most recently, the box-office hitBorat ,

Photo of Warrick Carter but also I Spy, Legally Blonde 2, Charlie’s Angels, Dr. Doolittle, Private Parts, by Robert Drea and Deadly Weapon. When parents come to me during college open houses and ask whether there are jobs to be found for their sons and daughters who want to be “artists,” I answer with an unqualified “yes!” There are jobs in the arts. But equally important, I tell parents, there are opportunities to make a difference in the world, to change attitudes or effect social change. There are opportunities to bring the world to our doorsteps, to use one’s artistic eyes to help others see the changing world around us. And there are opportunities to provide a place of respite when news of war and famine and disease and destruction threaten to overwhelm our sensitivities and deaden our creative spirit.

Warm regards,

Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D. 1SFTJEFOU $PMVNCJB$PMMFHF$IJDBHP CriticalEncounters:

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CriticalEncounters is a college-wide examination of the ways important social issues affect, challenge, and change our thinking as a culture. Through a year-long series of events, exhibitions, and curriculum, Critical Encounters invites the college community and the public to explore and refl ect on an important social issue. This year, Critical Encounters examines the ongoing implications of HIV/AIDS. Through this multifaceted examination of a single, complex topic, we can better understand the impact of that focus in relation to our roles as artists, communicators, and media makers.

PUBLIC EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

Dress Up Against AIDS / November 20, 2006 – January 4, 2007 Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. An exhibition of dresses constructed of condoms by Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini.

Picturing Hope / November 8, 2006 – January 7, 2007 Hokin Gallery, 623 S. Wabash Ave. Photographs by children affected by HIV/AIDS. Presented in partnership with the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.

World AIDS Day Program / December 1, 2006, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. The international day of recognition and remembrance is marked by a program featuring appearances by writer Dan Savage, the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus, and Vida/SIDA executive director John Colon.

Visit www.colum.edu/criticalencounters for additional events and information. 4 DEMO DanceAfrica Chicago Artistic Director “Baba Chuck” wire Davis, DAC festival 2004. News from the Columbia Community

A five-alarm fire destroyed the historic Wirt Building on Wabash, shutting down two Columbia buildings for several days. Photo by Josh Culley-Foster (’03).

Fire Destroys Historic Sullivan Building; Disrupts Following the distribution of a Classes, Displaces request for proposals to invited Faculty and Staff community organizations last spring, an advisory panel of college The college evacuated five of its representatives, DAC community academic buildings north of Balbo DanceAfrica to leaders, sponsors, and community on Tuesday, October 24 as Move to DuSable volunteers reviewed submissions a five-alarm fire raged through the Museum from groups willing to assume vacant Wirt at 630 presentation responsibilities for the South Wabash Avenue, across the After 15 years of producing year-round program and festival. street from two central academic DanceAfrica Chicago (DAC), the The DuSable Museum emerged as buildings. The building that burned, largest festival of African and the strongest candidate to continue built in 1887 and designed by African-American arts and culture DAC’s mission and presentation. noted architect , was in North America, Columbia not a Columbia property. It was College will transfer presenting “It is our expectation that the completely destroyed. responsibilities to the DuSable DuSable Museum will retain Museum of African American DanceAfrica Chicago’s unique spirit The fire appeared to start slowly History in the coming year. “The of engagement with the community,” at around 3:00 p.m., but grew in size and scope of this program said Carter, “but we also believe intensity throughout the afternoon is no longer sustainable in its they will transform the cultural and evening, keeping firefighters The building was the second present form by the college,” said celebration and find innovative ways working for nearly 24 hours straight historically significant Sullivan President Warrick L. Carter, adding to preserve and maintain the vitality to battle the blaze. The evening of structure to be lost to fire this year that the college believes “this kind of the festival.” the blaze, five academic buildings (along with of community arts and cultural were closed, affecting 209 class on ’s South Side). Known program is best ‘owned’ by the The college will remain a financial sections. By morning, all campus as the George Diamond building community itself.” sponsor of the festival and assist buildings except 619 and 623 for the famous steakhouse it once the new DanceAfrica presenter South Wabash had reopened. housed, the six-story structure The festival has cost the college in making an effective transition. Closures of those two buildings, had been deteriorating since more to present than it has brought Dr. Charles “Baba Chuck” Davis, however, continued to affect up to Diamond’s death in 1982. The in for the past four years, which led who is also the inspiration 200 class sections daily, until the college had explored the possibility administrators to the decision that and creative force behind the buildings could be safely reopened of acquiring it several years ago, those resources might better serve Washington, D.C., and New York the following Monday. More than but determined the asking price students and the college mission versions of DanceAfrica, is expected 900 college employees were was unrealistically high given the in other capacities. to continue as its artistic director. displaced from their offices. building’s condition. 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(’08), Peter Catrambone(’07), Courtney executive board, fromleft:ErinNathan The StudentAlumniAssociation achievement statewide. strategies toimprove student develop theirownsite-specific created throughtheprojectto canaccesstheresources andfamiliesthroughout educators the collegedevelops, ensuring that distribution ofthemethodologies documentationand support ChildhoodEducation,Early will of CCAP andtheDepartment between involves apartnership In addition, thisgrant, which between familiesandschools. barriers issuesthatform underlying communities andtoaddressthe to parentsofchildreninthese toprovide opportunities structure PIRC willutilizethissuccessful environments. CCAP’s proposed inhigh-riskurban living andlearning to meettheneedsofstudents implementing programsdesigned Public Schools, developing and insixChicago Schools partnerships Community established arts-based Over thepastfiveyears, CCAPhas $2,975,559 over fiveyears. Center Program(PIRC)totaling Parent Research Information ofEducation States Department awarded agrantundertheUnited (CCAP)was Partnerships Arts Columbia’s CenterforCommunity Resource Center Information Create Parents Million to $2.9 CCAP Awarded Columbia Partners with Nano TV to Produce Hollywood’s First Wireless Film Festival Art + Design to Bridging leading-edge technology, Fashion Design student Launch M.F.A. Crystal Hughes (’08) creativity, and education, the screens a film on a Programs Focused on Third Screen Film Festival (TSFF) handheld device for David Sustainable Design debuted on dozens of tiny screens Kronke of the L.A. Daily News at the Third Screen at the Museum of Television and Film Festival. Photo bys Responding to changing best Radio in Beverly Hills in October, Lee Salem. practices in the larger architecture and on more than a million others and design community, Columbia’s over the past few months. A new Department of Art and Design partnership between Columbia will refocus its M.F.A. programs in College and Nano, America’s Architectural Studies and Interior first short film channel available Architecture, beginning in fall 2007. wirelessly on MobiTV, TSFF Reflecting evolving practices in the showcased films produced for the fieldand recent shifts in municipal “third screen”—mobile phones building codes and industry and other wireless hand-held standards from the federal level devices. The festival, directed by down, the program aims to educate Jon Katzman, head of Columbia’s future designers to understand Semester in L.A. program, allowed practices of sustainability and one million-plus viewers to vote the belief that sustainability is for their favorite film as part of a Columbia Ranked paramount to current practice contest that was open to student From June through October, nearly Among Top Colleges of architecture and design. filmmakers, amateurs, and 1,000 filmmakers submitted for Entrepreneurship by professionals alike. entries, which could then be viewed The Princeton Review Chicago has positioned itself on on Nano-equipped cell phones, the leading edge of sustainable In addition to providing a new forum portable devices, or online, and In a recent survey published design, with several architectural for filmmakers, the festival put the shared via email or blogs. Viewers by The Princeton Review and firms among the most respected Columbia name in front of millions had the opportunity to vote online Entrepreneur magazine, Columbia practitioners in the field, enhancing of film lovers and introduced a or via text messaging, powered was ranked among the top 25 the value of the program’s location crowd of industry executives to by Mozes.com. On award night, undergraduate schools in the country at Columbia. “The new program the college’s innovative Semester a panel of judges viewed finalists for entrepreneurs. Criteria used benefits our students and the in L.A. program. The festival drew on cell phones at the Museum to determine the rankings—in a community in so many ways,” the attention of the Hollywood of Television and Radio, text survey of more than 700 colleges said Sabina Ott, chair of the Reporter, Daily Variety, The Los messaging their votes in real time and universities—included the Department of Art and Design. Angeles Times, and the New York to award the $3,000 jury prize entrepreneurial emphasis of the “Not only will they encounter Times online. Among the attendees to Matt Paige of Santa Fe, New curriculum, mentoring, experiential a rigorous curriculum, but the and panelists at the October 26 Mexico, for his 90-second film, learning, faculty credentials, and program will operate much like awards presentation were David Pumpkin. The festival’s top prize— the success of graduating students a laboratory within Columbia Gale, executive vice president of a $10,000 filmmaker grant— and alumni. Columbia, which and the city. Students will be new media with MTV Networks; was awarded to Todd Spence of offers its Arts Entrepreneurship working with our own Office of Virginia Heffernan, television Glendale, , for The Lost, and Small Business Management Campus Environment to develop critic for ; and which garnered the most votes Program through the Department green buildings on campus, and Suzanne Zizzi, senior vice president overall. Other winners included of Arts, Entertainment and Media communicating with the City’s of Lion Rock Productions. Panelists Tim Saccardo of Hollywood for Management, is the only institution Department of the Environment, also included James Choi, manager Slideshow, and brothers Pedro to make the list that does not offer as well as with other schools and of movies with IFILM; Chris Gore, and Ramiro Castro of Chicago its program through a school of community organizations. We see founder of FilmThreat.com; and for The Great Poker Chase. business. The complete rankings our graduate students working in Daniel Tibbets, executive vice Winning films may be viewed at (Columbia is number 16) were listed the field as they actively participate president of GoTV Networks. www.thirdscreenfilmfestival.com. in the October issue of Entrepreneur. in the ‘greening’ of America.” margaret in motion

“I was introduced to a form of magic. I had never seen a dance before, and I thought, wow! these people are floating and flying. I didn’t know what ‘postmodern dance’ meant, but I wanted to be a postmodern dancer.” 8 O EM D BY Lucia Mauro / PHOTOGRAPHY BY Erika Dufour (’97) enrolled in the dance program. enrolled inthedanceprogram. however, she was hooked, and taking adanceclassatColumbia, Columbia CollegeChicago.After to beforetransferring University and thenatIllinoisWesleyan tuition-free MeritSchoolofMusic, had studiedasateenageratthe voice—whichshe arts—classical in adifferentareaoftheperforming movement, chosetomajor Morris she was attractedtopostmodern duets.Although deeply personal women engagedinathleticor womenliftingmen; partnering: Shineflug’s (’85)unconventional She wasby struck Columbia school. elementary gave atMorris’s aperformance Shineflug’s ChicagoMoving Company dance studioaltogether, untilNana Then afalldrove heraway fromthe andt-shirts. she couldwear shorts opted forthetumblingclass, where oldatthetime,Seven years she class onChicago’s SouthShore. when shejoinedhercousininballet (B.F.A. DanceChoreography, ’05) didn’t impressMargaretMorris ballerinas. Buttutusandtights Many dreamofbecoming littlegirls alum alum photography businessinChicago.Seemore atwww.erikadufour.com. photography,Photography atColumbia.Inadditiontoher fine-art shemaintainsacommercial Lucia Mauro Dance” programat the ChicagoCulturalCenter. Chicago premiere inspring2007. Laying ofHands practice inanew full-lengthpiece, of spiritualityandcontemplative She continuesherexploration about whatmakes lifemeaningful.” and allowthemtothink a person in open upthoselittlechambers a transcendentexperience:“to hopes togiveaudiences Morris through thebody. Inperformance, an invisible forceispassing release, givingthesensethat constrict alongthespine, then by Torsos ecstatictremors. gradually becomesconsumed the HolySpirit, eachdancer healing.” Asifbeingtouchedby interest indance’s “capacityfor piece isaperfectexampleofher In Tongues Herquartet, choreographers. young neighborhood thatfosters space inChicago’s Wrigleyville intimate, experimentalperformance Residency atLinksHall, an completed asix-monthLinkUp This pastspring, Morris, 25, been dancingsixyears. she’smid-career artists—and only Forum grant—generallyawarded to $15,000 ChicagoDancemakers recently awarded aprestigious She graduatedin2005andwas atthenationalfestival. perform inlife)—werepurpose selectedto improvisation questioningone’s Resigned Circumstance of schizophrenia)and (addressing thesplinteredaspects her psychologicalworks— her timeatColumbia, andtwoof College DanceFestival throughout intheAmerican entered herwork choreography opportunity. She student took advantageofevery dance-writing classes.Andshe composition, contactimprov, and devoured herfundamentals,Morris magazine, andonChicagoPublicRadio’s “848.” Shealsohoststhemonthly“About is a dance critic and arts writer whose work appears inthe appears writerwhosework is adancecriticandarts , debutedthere.The , scheduledto To Faith and (structured (structured Diptych Erika Dufour “Through movement, It’s magic.” ofme. but alsoapart that’s biggerthanme an intelligentpower I feelconnectedto in thisamazingway. synthesizes everything prescribed steps: discovery,internal notaseriesof for Morris, becameajourney of her chakrasandenergy. Dance, Columbia, taughtheraboutfinding at andTheaterdepartments Arts on facultyintheInterdisciplinary base inHamlinPark. Shineflug, at theChicagoMoving Company’s established holisticchoreographer mind. Soshesoughtoutthe energy, ShineflugcametoMorris’s As ifspeakingthroughthestorm’s todancenow.”I gottagolearn and voice.Butmy feelingwas, someday Iwouldcombinedance to beachoreographer. Maybe “Iwanted dynamism inperson. recalls Morris, whoevokes aserene work, butI’mnotacomposer,” “I realizedIwanted tobe her burieddesiretomake dances. mythic momentofclaritytappedinto added tothedrama.Thisnear- flashes andaloudthunderclap held ahighnote, brightlightning broke when astorm out.Asshe in thechapelatIllinoisWesleyan she was practicinghersingingalone toColumbia,before transferring Oneevening, world. supernatural to have aninnateconnectiontothe The dancer-choreographerseems (’97) earned aB.A.in (’97) earned making , PUT IT ON THE BOARD... YES!

WITH ALUMS LOZANO AND SZYNAL IN CONTROL, SPORTS FANS GET MORE THAN THE SCORE WHEN THEY CHECK THE BOARD. 10 DEMO BY William Meiners (’96) PHOTOGRAPHY BY Corey Minkanic (’04)

These days, however, the crowd may be a little more demanding High above the gawking crowd, seated regarding what it considers worthwhile entertainment. before a wall of small televisions tucked into Remember the old line about a seventh-floor room, Sergio Lozano (’90) going to a boxing match and On this September Sunday, when having a hockey game break the Hawks are just warming up the calmly quarterbacks cues into a headset. out? At a late-September Chicago preseason ice, the Chicago White Lozano is the director of scoreboard operations Blackhawks preseason game, Sox are playing their last game of for the . It’s no small operation. one might have sworn that a the season at U.S. Cellular Field. fashion show had busted loose Directing the scoreboard operations When the Blackhawks play, he’s directing up in the United Center. Sure, with there is another Columbia grad, to 16 people—four camera operators, CG the power-play goals, the fierce Jeff Szynal (’83). From a two-tiered board checking, and the nosebleed room perched above the press character generators, replay operators, directors, fights on the ice, even the fans box and behind home plate, he switchers, and a slew of other technically with the nosebleed seats got to orchestrates the efforts of some experience some old-time hockey. sound individuals. Make that 18 folks when 22 to 25 technicians on a day he But from the Ice Crew (the spandex- describes as the most “non-normal the Bulls play. All for the show within the show— clad female skaters who clean up game” of the year, with much of the the show 20,000 fans are watching play out ice shavings with snow shovels scoreboard activities focused on during timeouts) to the scoreboard end-of-the-season fan appreciation across the United Center scoreboard. watchers looking for their own and giveaways. mugs displayed at superhuman size before God and everybody, For both alums, the prestigious the spectators’ present game-day Chicago sports fans have long director positions mark the experience could be a testament managed to entertain themselves culmination of work begun even to attention deficit disorder. irregardless of the talent levels before their days in Columbia’s of the teams placed before them. studios. In the ’70s and ’80s, “Basically, we’re putting on a They’ve shown up in droves for Szynal, then Lozano, each took show for 20,000 fans in the the (mostly) afternoon games at eagerly to the same television arena,” says Lozano, who earned to watch the Cubs— production class at Curie Metro The United Center a B.A. in Television from Columbia High School on Chicago’s South scoreboard offers a show- barren of a World Series title now College in 1990. “It involves within-the-show during for nearly a century—if only for a Side. “One of my goals was to a pre-season Chicago directing , shooting the beer (or several), a brat (or two), be the next voice of the game. game with our own cameras, Blackhawks,” says Szynal, who Inset: Sergio Lozano and a seventh-inning sing-along showing our own replays, along with (’90) directs scoreboard to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” discovered that although he lacked operations from the stats and graphs, and entertaining And long before da Bears, Jordan’s the pipes for radio, he had a control room. the fans during timeouts.” Bulls, and last year’s stunning passion for the camera work that White Sox, a Chicago sports takes place behind the scenes. With much of the show pre- aficionado could honestly claim scripted after working closely with that he, or she, took to the various representatives from the other fields and stadiums just for the teams, Lozano’s crew’s challenge shared experience of the crowd. is to take the script and produce it from a video standpoint. “We create whatever needs to be created,” he says, “making sure we have the right graphics for certain shots.” DEMO12 The scoreboardatU.S.CellularField. cross pathswithLozanothere. Szynal says. Hewouldalsofirst shoot, anddoaliveproduction,” “I taughtthemhowtoannounce, a television clubforstudents. so inspiredhim.Hestarted television productionclassthat to CurieassistStephensinthe After graduationSzynalreturned cared fortheirstudents.” were who alsoexcellentteachers the businesswas allabout.They experienceofwhat had first-hand Szynal says, “my Columbiateachers alotofthisinhindsight,”learned calledESPN.“ThoughI network events forabrand-new sporting affiliate inRockford, andshooting freelancing atplaceslike theCBS Columbia, whenhestarted shape whilehewas stillat Szynal’s careerbegantotake really seeafutureinit.” enoughto And they were smart was like walking intoCBSorNBC. equipment,” Stephenssays. “It cameras. Itwas “gorgeous withportable shooting sports high school, wherethey began first of theequipmentatabrand-new came whenthey tookadvantage and Szynal, accordingtoStephens, enough.” forLozano start Theearly whenthey’rethat isstart young shoulddo,that everybody and enthusiasm: “They didsomething Lozano atCurie.Herecallstheir (’77), taught Szynal, then Television program, JohnStephens graduateofColumbia’sAn earlier sporting event.”sporting of entertainment, morethana areaplace have foundthatsports all, asSzynalmaintains, “People valuefurther.entertainment After latest technologiestopushthe chance todiscover andinstallthe a and theoff-seasonoffers days forbothmencanbelong, replay Game atCellularField. Center, andLozanorunning behind acameraattheUnited to time, withSzynaloccasionally They togetherfromtime stillwork home oftheHawks andtheBulls. for thedirectorpositioninnew 1994, SzynalrecommendedLozano gave way totheUnitedCenterin And astheoldChicagoStadium aftergraduation. the Soxshortly withSzynaland working and started whileincollege, with NBCsports own success.Heheldaninternship Meanwhile, Lozanowas findinghis in2003.) U.S. CellularField opened in1991.(Itwas renamed in thenew Comiskey Park, which the videoscoreboardtonew levels offered apositionthatwouldtake at theendof1980s, Szynalwas Park was standingonitslastlegs Education. AstheoldComiskey fortheBoardof and somework that withhisteachingschedule for theWhiteSoxin1984, juggling homegames Szynal beganworking

United Center, September21, vs. theColoradoWildat 2006. TheHawks wonthe The ChicagoBlackhawks pre-season match5-2. Left: Director of Scoreboard On the South Side, the last home Operations Jeff Szynal (’90, center) game is a winner for the crowd and his crew (all Columbia alumni, as the Sox beat the Seattle from left): Justin Tuazon (’03, animation and video specialist), Mariners 12-7 in a slugfest, and Roman Farias (’04, graphic a bunch of fans walk away with producer and video editor), Szynal, appreciation tokens announced Rocco Fusco (’02, digital video editor and producer), and Melanie on the big screen. But a World Ramsay (’02, production). Series repeat—within the week— would prove itself out of reach.

On the West Side, one season is turning to another. The Indian For two lifelong Chicago sports summer weather outside feels a fans well versed in the art of video little too warm for a hockey game, entertainment, this bodes well for but the Blackhawks fans inside the job security in positions they love. half-crowded stadium seem pleased Though Lozano doesn’t get much with the scoreboard operations. of a chance to cheer for his Bulls Just before the national , or the Hawks when they’re playing at a video montage shows a rapid-fire home, “There are certain moments history of the Hawks, one of the of a game you can enjoy,” he says. six original National Hockey League “But everyone has their role in our teams. The final score finds them production, so you want to keep superior tonight to the Colorado everyone in line. We take great Wild, with a goal count of five to pride in the show we put out there.” two. And though they probably don’t keep stats for it, smiles by Szynal boasts of a similar the hundreds—a few of them even allegiance and philosophy when old hockey-busted—have splashed it comes to working with the across the enormous United Center White Sox, his favorite screen. There’s little doubt that team. Baseball lacks the near- these good times are especially constant action of hockey and gratifying to a couple of Columbia , so Szynal, who’s also grads pulling the technical strings the team’s official historian, says in studios behind the scenes. they work hard to keep the fans interested between innings. “Our job is to educate and entertain the fans,” he says. “They’re here first and foremost for the game, but we supplement that game with interesting facts, trivia, and music.”

William Meiners (’96) earned an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing, and makes a living as a senior writer for Purdue University’s College of Engineering. He’s also the editor-in-chief of Sport Literate, a Chicago-based literary journal that had its genesis in a graduate class at Columbia. Meiners’s trials and tribulations as a 40-year-old immersion journalist impersonating a rookie semi-professional football player for the Lafayette can be found at www.sportliterate. org/blog1. Corey Minkanic (’04) holds a B.A. in Photography from Columbia, where he studied under - winning photographer John H. White. He credits White not only with teaching him the keys to being a great photographer, but also how to live life to the fullest. See more of his work at www.coreyminkanicphoto.com. When the Elma Stuckey Poetry Board decided to sponsor an annual undergraduate poetry award, they chose Columbia College Chicago’s poetry program—the first of its kind in the country—as the one to support.

The Elma Stuckey Poetry Award was established in 2005 in honor of the poet Elma Stuckey, author of The Big Gate (1976) and The Collected Poems of Elma Stuckey (1987). The award is presented by the English department to two distinguished undergraduate Poetry majors. In this inaugural year, the second-place prize went to B.J. Soloy for his poem, “Nearing Heliopolis.” Here, we present this year’s Elma Stuckey Poetry Award winner Donna Pecore’s poem, “Come with Me,” accompanied by drawings by current Fine Art major R. Scott Whipkey. Donna Pecore (’07), is a senior Poetry major and native Chicagoan. Pecore tells us: “I will give you a me who found poetry at Weeds, a Chicago tavern where diversity is celebrated and so is life, where I heard words that sang to me their siren song and entered my heart until I was obsessed to put pen to paper. In my late forties I decided to sharpen my pencil, along with my mind ... and found another passion, a passion for learning.” R. Scott Whipkey (’07), is a senior B.F.A. candidate in the Art + Design department. A painter and printmaker, he has received numerous awards, grants, and scholarships, including a 2005 Albert P. Weisman scholarship. His work is derived from his perceptions of growing up in Rockford, Illinois, and describing this new “western land.” Whipkey’s work may be seen in April 2007 at Columbia’s A + D Gallery. All drawings are pencil on paper, 2006. 14 DEMO c ome w ith m e

BY Donna Pecore (’07) / DRAWINGS BY R. Scott Whipkey (’07)

Bumper to bumper grey grease stained road rides past exhaust framed skyline, heading north, heading to freedom as the traffic thins, as the suburbs blurb, as the line between now and then thins. The sky turning from charcoal tinted whites to light bright sky blue with wisps of white floating by as my destination nears, just past the state line.

Grey geese slice the sky in formation, a physical punctuation pointing in my intended direction. Past a low slung redwood house, attached garage, and prefabricated barn, into the field, I park in line, enter the dark woods, following a line of candle lights, that light the path that leads to a hollow, where I hear “hullo, welcome,” and “a ho, where you been, how are you, what took you so long,” and so forth.

It is as if I fell back into the womb, the warm comfort of my friends, more than friends, but family, more than an extended family, but my spiritual family. We gossip, we share and compare, we comfort, we forgive, and we pray for ourselves and each other, and more than anything else we celebrate.

Surrounded by trees, and insects, an occasional bird breaks the line of leaves, there flies a red tailed hawk, that’s good luck, forget civilization exists, after awhile the world’s circumference contains only this hollow, goodbye Columbus. I don’t know anything, but here in this circle I find everything.

Do not cross the line between the fire and the pit. Sacred circle I look inside, it’s dark in there, is any one home, is anyone in there? This is the place to find that out. This is the place to remember. This is the place through the smoke and the steam that you share, that you care, that you dare, to breathe, to be someone, to become, to belong, to be healed, to be free, to be one, to be. This is the place. DEMO16 established ahome baseontheColumbiacampus. Gall—theWorkshop PresidentBert agreement withthen-ExecutiveVice ahandshake andMedia Managementdepartments—and Entertainment oftheTelevision,With anodfromthechairs , Radio, andArts, the invitation ofLya Rosenblum, deanofthe GraduateSchool. former been housedatColumbiasince 1993, when itcametothecollegeat as itspresident.Theorganizationhas and ThomClark, whostillserves Community MediaWorkshop was co-foundedin1989by HankDeZutter voices areheard.” give themthetools—themegaphoneifyouwill—tomake suretheir isthattheytheir work helppeoplefindandcultivatevoices and missions arepositivesocialchange,” heexplains.“To me, thesoulof tirelessly toassistorganizationsandindividualswhosegoals and marketing trainingfornot-for-profitorganizations.“The labors Workshop Workshop, organizationfocusingonpublicrelationsand aservice oftheboardCommunityMedia Burke isalsothechairman not-for-profit Bounce Learning Network. “It all getsbacktovoice. Network. not-for-profit BounceLearning You can’t have “It is increasingly challenging to sell your story toamediathatissaturatedby “It isincreasinglychallengingtosellyourstory sleaze, , andcelebrity,” Mike Burke, asserts director forthe publicaffairs BY Micki Leventhal can youhearusnow?

HTGAH BY PHOTOGRAPHY withouthaving equalvoice.”equal opportunity ECE OPOISHWT MAKE TO HOW NONPROFITS TEACHES COMMUNITY MEDIAWORKSHOP Evan Berkowitz HMEVSHEARD. THEMSELVES (’05) It’s ofshared values.” a perfectpartnership it comesdowntoisthisbedrock Americanvalueofequalopportunity. the missionofWorkshop, whichistogivepeoplevoice.To me, what otherwise nothave hadaccesstohigher education.Andthinkabout experienceofColumbiafor somanytransformative studentswhowould Columbia,” says Burke.“ThinkaboutthemissionofColumbia andthe “It isnoaccidentthattheCommunityMediaWorkshop ishousedat totheseorganizations. ultimately influencepublicpolicyonissuesimportant their stories—storiesthatneedtobetoldinordereducatethe publicand whocantell ofprint andbroadcastjournalists their issueswiththenetwork day,Midwest. Every theWorkshop connectscommunityorganizationsand 200 custom-designedconsultationsforagenciesinChicagoand acrossthe annually;andmorethan conference; about25special-subjectworkshops course, Professional MediaRelations;itsannualMakingConnections ofpublicitythroughitsfive-week intensive inthefineart staff andvolunteers Since thattimetheWorkshop hastrainedmorethan16,500not-for-profit To truly capture the essence of the Workshop community, you need to attend an annual Media Awards event, a gathering electric with purpose yet so charmingly nostalgic that you can almost hear Pete Seeger and Woodie Guthrie strumming Not surprisingly, many of the their guitars in the background. Terkel winners teach in Columbia’s In keeping with this grassroots Journalism department. The spirit, for the past couple of years Workshop maintains a valuable the crowd has been treated to a presence in the department, having revival-style sing-along, complete established two core courses: with Chicago Tribune columnists “Community News” and the and Eric Zorn on graduate-level “Local Government piano and banjo, respectively, and and Politics.” The Workshop also actor/musician Christopher Waltz grants a scholarship each year to a on guitar. This past spring, clients Columbia student for a distinguished and supporters of the Workshop documentary or journalism project rubbed elbows with the elite of that examines a social issue. In Chicago journalism as they joined 2006, the $1,500 award went together in a rendition of “This Land to Sean Patrick Fahey for his is Your Land, This Land is My Land” documentary The Tractor Builder. that brought tears to more than a few eyes. Nonagenarian Terkel, the Alton Miller, associate dean of quintessential crusading journalist, media arts and a member of the once again delivered a rousing Workshop’s board, notes that speech exhorting his colleagues “they put Columbia College at the to use their craft to create positive center of convergence between social change. newsmakers and journalists. For reformers and public-policy Journalists who have received advocates, it’s a resource for the Studs Terkel Award—which getting the message out. For recognizes excellence in covering journalists, it’s a standard bearer Chicago’s underrepresented for intelligent, principled media communities in their fight for practices. For students in both equality, social justice, and political arenas, there is no program at voice—include , Columbia that more strongly Teresa Puente, John Conroy, Carol promotes the college mission Mike Burke Marin, Phil Ponce, , Renee ‘to educate students who will Ferguson, Harry Porterfield, Laura communicate creatively and shape DIRECTOR Washington, and a host of others the public’s perceptions of issues Bounce Learning Network who represent the best practices and events and who will author the of the profession. culture of their times.’” “It is no accident that the Community Media Workshop is housed at Columbia ... it comes down to this bedrock American value of equal opportunity. It’s a perfect partnership of shared values.” DEMO18 Organizing was howIwas abletofind my voiceand “For years I struggled with how I thought the world withhowIthoughttheworld “For Istruggled years Jane AddamsSeniorCaucus should be and how the world really is. reallyis. should beandhowtheworld power andcreatechange.” XCTV DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE Lori Clark Visibility in the public media is essential when it comes to affecting public opinion or gaining support for changes in public policy that will enhance the quality of life for citizens of all ages, races, and economic conditions. A look at three of the Workshop’s client organizations illustrates how it helps those organizations succeed in their missions.

Jane Addams Senior Caucus (JASC), a grassroots senior-citizen advocacy “We all pick up the papers and wonder how some of the ‘news’ made it organization, turned to the Workshop in 2005 for assistance in raising in,” says Clark, who came to JASC after 12 years with the Lake County awareness of issues surrounding home healthcare for low-income seniors. Center for Independent Living. “For years I struggled with how I thought Community Cares, a program of the State of Illinois, provides personal the world should be and how the world really is. Organizing was how I assistants to help with basic housekeeping tasks so that older adults are was able to find my voice and power and create change. able to stay in their own homes rather than being prematurely forced into nursing homes. However, to qualify for this program, seniors had to be on “What is really important about the Workshop is that they provide us with the the edge of complete poverty; they were allowed only a minimum skills and savvy to bring important social-justice issues, such as giving older of financial assets.* adults a voice in determining their own quality-of-life issues, into the public debate. Because after all is said and done, the important thing is the issue. As part of its advocacy agenda, JASC decided to fight for a reasonable The Workshop helps us get the real stories into the news so that people can increase in the allowable asset level. “We’d been working on this issue get angry and take action.” since 2000,” says executive director Lori Clark. “In 2004 we succeed in getting the limit raised from $10,000 to $12,500, but this was still unrealistically low. We needed to create visibility for this issue in order to influence the state legislators and the budgetary decisions. We needed The Greater Chicago a strategic media campaign.” Food Depository is a not-for-profit food distribution and Clark and her board of directors secured funding from the Chicago training center that provides food for hungry people while striving to end Community Organizing Capacity Building Initiative and turned to the hunger in Chicago. The organization distributes donated and purchased Workshop for expert assistance in developing a customized media strategy food through a network of 600 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters to obtain feature placement for their organization and their issue. “The most to almost a half-million adults and children every year. important thing we learned was how to correctly pitch the right story to the right reporter for the best article, the best results,” says Clark. Ruth Igoe, the Food Depository’s communications director, came to the nonprofit sector after a seven-year career in newspaper journalism and two The results of this media effort were outstanding. JASC obtained feature years in corporate integrated marketing. “I always had a desire to give back coverage in the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. In April 2006, to the community and actively volunteered during my time in the corporate approved changes to the state budget, increasing world,” she says. “My work at the Food Depository marries my commitment the asset cap to $17,500. JASC also developed important and ongoing to civic life and giving back with my writing and communications skills.” relationships with reporters, so that this year’s priority—increasing home healthcare benefits for disabled seniors—is already getting feature coverage. What the Workshop provides for Igoe is a forum, a community with which to share concerns, knowledge, and strategies, plus newly honed skills in public speaking and messaging. “Several of the organizations the Workshop serves deal with poverty and hunger issues,” Igoe explains. “We oftentimes have to answer tough questions such as: How can obesity and hunger coexist among the poor? In that example, our challenge is to communicate that obesity is not necessarily a sign of bounty, but may be a sign of limited food options for people with low incomes. People don’t understand *In 1979 the limit on individual assets this and it takes clarity of message to communicate the complexity of this (i.e., savings account, stocks, etc., beyond issue. The Workshop provides an environment for the exchange of ideas one residence and one car) allowed in and insights about how to confront such communications challenges. order to receive assistance was set at Some of my most rewarding professional experiences have been spent $10,000, where it remained for over 20 brainstorming with colleagues in the cozy rooms of the Workshop.” years. In 2004 JASC succeeded in getting this asset cap raised to $12,500, but that increase was deemed inadequate in relation to the current economy. DEMO20 questions such as: How can obesity and questions suchas:Howcanobesityand hunger coexistamongthepoor?Ittakes clarity of message to communicate the clarity ofmessagetocommunicatethe “We oftentimeshave toanswer tough OMNCTOSDIRECTOR COMMUNICATIONS complexity ofthisissue.” Food Depository Greater Chicago Ruth Igoe effort tocontinue“thegoodfight.”effort organizations standoutintheir the Workshop anditsclient of themarket-driveneconomy, media isincreasinglyareflection isaconstantthreatand overload forward. wheredata Inaworld moving theirpolicyagendas in shiftingpublicopinionand that ultimatelyassistorganizations its clients.Itisthoserelationships events thattheWorkshop hostsfor conferences, andotheroutreach throughtheworkshops,journalists relationships hehasbuiltwith valuesthe Burke particularly provide.”workshops their without theongoinglearning says Burke. “Icouldn’t domy job for CommunityMediaWorkshop,” positiontodaycurrent ifitwasn’t “Iwouldn’tCenters. beinmy families throughitsEducare fromlow-income and preschoolers education forinfants, toddlers, careand Bounce provides early of childrenandeducation. a careerofadvocacyonbehalf in isthelatestsojourn Network director atBounceLearning Burke’s roleaspublicaffairs of not-for-profits,” hesays. thespecialneeds particularly been trainedinmediarelations, Academy ofPediatrics, Ihadnever communications fortheAmerican andajobdoingmember journalism an academicbackgroundin “Despite Media Relationscourse. a studentinthebasicProfessional with theorganizationin1990as Mike Burke beganhisodyssey Workshop asitsboardchair, Although henowhelpsguidethe in those courses. in thosecourses. totheskillsshelearned career ingreatpart of publicrelations.Sheowes hercurrent thefineart agotolearn more than15years adult education, tothe Workshop Micki turned With abackgroundinfeaturewritingand director forColumbiaCollegeChicago. Micki Leventhal in portraiture. He isafreelancephotographerconcentrating hisB.F.A.earned inPhotography fromColumbia. problems andchangingsociety.” insolvingthe citizens toparticipate empowerit caninfacttruly usas than human-interestpuffpieces, we withcanbesomuchmore work Good news fortheorganizations response tothoseproblems. the often-successfulcommunity on for thefollowup—thereport president. “Butwe alsopush Community MediaWorkshop facing society,” says ThomClark, job ofmediatotellustheproblems consumer stories, itremainsthe “Amidst thecelebritybuzzand Evan Berkowitz is the media relations isthemediarelations (’05) (’05) the home-away-from-home team

CHICAGO ALUMNI CONNECT ON HOLLYWOOD DIAMONDS

BY Chris Coates (’04) / PHOTOGRAPHY BY Drew Reynolds (’97)

The pitcher underhands a cabbage-sized softball to the brawny batter, who taunts him in a thick South Side accent. The batter swings. The bat makes contact with a pitchy “phump,” sending the plump ball spiraling into the outfi eld for a hit. The crowd roars; score one for the team in red. * It could be a bright summer afternoon on any ball fi eld of Cicero, , or Wilmette. Except for the palm trees. And the mountains. And the mustard-colored smog. * Welcome to Los Angeles and Windy City Softball, a scrappy league started four years ago by an ex-pat Chicagoan and Columbia alum who wanted to introduce the City of Angels to the Windy City tradition of 16-inch softball—a peculiarly Midwestern form of the game played with no gloves and a curious, extra-large ball. Today, the co-ed league has more than 15 teams and 200 players, the bulk of them Columbia alumni and Chicago natives. Rachel Krukowski (’04), Sarah Schroeder (’00), Shari Greicar (’04) Sarah Schroeder (’00), Rachel Krukowski (’04), DEMO22 “I

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to ff , columnist . by thelate and affectionatelyimmortalized leagues throughouttheregion, pubic schoolsandneighborhood ofthegame,form played in regarded 16-inchasthedefacto Like many Chicagoans, Pradt in GlennEllyn, Illinois. 16-inch varietyhegrew upwith longing forthemoreamiable, played,” andhesoonfoundhimself way thegameissupposedtobe recalls thinking, “Thisisnotthe playing inthatenvironment. Pradt he says, andhedidn’t reallyenjoy and pettyargumentswere the norm, The localswere fi 12-inch softballforanL.A.league. he was playing themorecommon Windy Cityin2002.Atthetime, instructor, created in L.A.coordinatorandColumbia reason Pradt, Semester aformer Socializing was theprimary their jobsfromthis.” he says. “We’ve hadpeople[land] happens,”uncommon. “Networking Geyer (’04).Pradtsays that’s not Columbia graduate, Derrick Windy Cityplayer andfellow withanother where sheworks upcoming talkshow production assistantonthe Krukowski isnowapost-production hard tomeetpeopleouthere.” league,” shesays. “It’s kindof the fi students. “OnceImoved outhere, week programforfi immersion Semester inL.A., Columbia’s fi hersenioryearin who participated (’04), aplayer fortheDillengers and videoalumRachelKrukowski admittedly alittleironic, says fi is tosports its studentswouldturn ideathat athletics department—the For Columbia—acollegewithoutan thingIdidwasrst jointhis Chicago Tribune ercely competitive competitive ercely .” Moochers lm ve- , lm meet peoplefromChicago.” know anybody. Thiswas aplaceto I fi says BrandonL’Herault (’01).“When easy placetomake connections, interests inacitynotknownasan benefi L.A. studentsjointheleaguefor Studio Cityfi Center lotamileorsofromthe has its“campus”ontheCBSStudio the SemesterinL.A.program, which students comingfromChicagofor the endlesstideofColumbia The leaguehasalsogrownthrough “It’s reallygrownquickly.” bringingfriends,”started sheadds. says. people “Overtheyears of Chicagoconnection, Schroeder the leaguestillhave somesort about eightoutoftenplayers in Even afternineseasonsinL.A., City districtofLosAngeles. year ontwodiamondsintheStudio a pairof13-week seasonseach Red Line, andOldStyle.They play Power,names astheSears Team teams withsuchChicagocentric These days, Windy Cityhas15 teams,” Pradtsays. been addingplayers andadding seasonsincethen,“Every we’ve 30 players. Thegamewas ahit. in L.A., who eventually recruited atSemester and somestaffers a few players fromhisoldleague to L.A., so hepitchedtheideato Pradt wanted tobringthegame cameouthere,rst Ireallydidn’t t offi nding peoplewithsimilar eld. Many Semesterin Columbia College’s championship softball team, late 1940’s. Photo: Columbia College Chicago archives. L’Herault, who plays for Team Ditka, now works as a music video producer in Santa Monica and wants to help other Columbia students fi nd their way on the West Coast. “I invited everybody on the team to my offi ce,” he says, to show them fi rsthand how things worked in the industry. For students, Sports? that interaction is At Columbia a major advantage, “ Zero fraternities, sororities, says Film and Video alum Dan Curran (’90), a former Columbia football teams, homecoming teacher who now works as a and plays softball for games. Zero colleges like the Blues Brothers. “I wish [] was [in] place when I was Columbia,” brags a banner in the a student. You meet a lot of new Amanda Maurer lobby of the college’s main building, people,” says Curran, who moved BY to Los Angeles in 1997. “That’s the Alexandroff Campus Center. The the great thing about Semester in L.A. That’s the great thing about implication being, if you’re interested this league.” Krukowski agrees, adding that Windy City helps her in athletics, you won’t fi nd ’em here. remember where she comes Columbia had a strong athletics program once, even boasting a from. “It’s a piece of Chicago,” championship- winning men’s softball team ... in the 1940s. While she says. “It’s a piece of home.” Amanda Maurer Columbia’s mid-century championships may be forgotten, Vice President Chris Coates (’04) is a staff is a senior Journalism of Student Affairs Mark Kelly says athletics have always been a part of the reporter for the San Fernando major and campus news college’s history. And students shouldn’t be surprised that they’re making Valley Business Journal in editor of The Columbia a resurgence. Chris Schroeder, a senior majoring in Interactive Arts Chronicle. * Woodland Hills, California, covering and Media, helped raise the profi le of sports at Columbia by establishing healthcare, public companies, the Student Athletics Association in 2005. The organization oversees the and tourism in Los Angeles. He college’s sports teams, dubbed the Renegades. Student interest in sports served as editor of The Columbia Chronicle from 2003 to 2004. has exploded, and as a result, the number of players on the baseball Los Angeles-based photographer and soccer teams has shot up this year. There’s even talk of launching Drew Reynolds (’97) revels in dodge-ball and volleyball teams. * “The whole idea of sports at Columbia mixing old and new photographic will never overshadow students’ true passions,” Schroeder acknowledges, processes using his 4 x 5 and/or “but it is part of the passion of who they are.” While there have been some digital SLR cameras. Some of his clients include: Forbes, XLR8R, setbacks, such as limited fi nancial support, Schroeder believes the teams Complex Magazine, Thrill Jockey are here to stay. * “With 11,500 students, how could we not have Records, and MCA Records. students who would want to be active athletically?” says Kelly, who believes the growing number of on-campus residents has contributed to the recent interest in sports. * Who knows—you may fi nd yourself making plans for homecoming weekend someday after all. DEMO24 view m “It’s notaboutprettypictures,” says of our lives in this world. of ourlivesinthisworld. beauty, thepain, thejoy, andthecomplexity exemplify theprofession, andshowusthe them intheirownwords.Theirchoices significant images, andtotellusabout choose someoftheirownmostpersonally to seven notablealumniphotojournalists people seetheirlife.” We asked Whiteand isthetooltohelp “Photojournalism professorphotojournalism JohnH.White. asters

PHIL VELASQUEZ (’75) graduated with a B.A. in Photography. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, he grew up on Chicago’s South Side. From 1977 to 1997 he was a staff photographer at the Chicago Sun-Times, and was chief sports photographer his last three years at the paper. He has been a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune since December 1997. Velasquez has won numerous awards, including photo prizes in the Baseball Hall of Fame and the NFL Hall of Fame. His photographs have appeared in Life Magazine, Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine, Sporting News, Time Magazine, Newsweek, People Magazine, and numerous other periodicals.

] July 8, 2003 Chicago skyline. Photo by Phil Velasquez © Chicago Tribune. “The Chicago skyline photo was taken from the rooftop of my condo building in the West Loop. My wife Robin saw the storm rolling in over the lake from our windows PRECEDING PAGES [ and alerted me to the eerie light and formation of the clouds. I took several images in a strong wind as the storm blew through the city.”

May 20, 2006 versus at U.S. Cellular Field. Photo by Phil Velasquez © Chicago Tribune. “This is Cubs catcher Michael Barrett punching White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski after a collision at home plate. It was a huge moment in the Cubs-Sox series, and it set the tempo for the cross-town rivalry. Pierzynski was safe and celebrated scoring, much to the dislike of Barrett, who let loose with a punch. Weeks later at Wrigley Field, Barrett would seek out Pierzynski and apologize for his loss of composure.” MICHAEL ZAJAKOWSKI (’82) got his start in photojournalism at Columbia College, in John H. White’s class in 1982. The portfolio he produced there got him a job as a newspaper photographer, which led to a career in photojournalism that has lasted 24 years. Zajakowski has won awards for photography and photo editing, managed a photo staff, been a foreign correspondent, and taught seminars in photojournalism and digital photo technology. Currently he is the picture editor for the Chicago Tribune Magazine.

July, 1998 Dharminder Singh holds his cousin Jagjot aloft at a Sikh temple in Merrillville, Indiana. Photo © Michael Zajakowski. “While working as the director of photography at The Times in Northwest Indiana, I was asked to participate in a photo-documentary project sponsored by the Northern Indiana Arts Association. My proposal was to document racial diversity in Northwest Indiana. While I was interviewing the imam at a mosque in Merrillville, he asked if I had been to the Sikh temple, which he pointed to out his window across a cornfield. The temple was a split-level frame house.I felt self-conscious making a cold call to this house, asking strangers to let me photograph them—it’s easier to approach people when you work for a newspaper. But after I made an effort at telling them what I was doing and why, the priest, Harpal Singh, invited me in. A few days later as I was photographing part of the family at the temple, Harpal’s nephew was holding little Jagjot in the air by her feet in another part of the room. I jumped over and started shooting in the few seconds before he let her down. Jagjot was so captivating, so full of life, that sometimes when I look at this photo it seems that he is holding her down, rather than up.” DEMO28 “I was embedded with the Headquarters Battalion of the First MarineDivisionwith BattalionoftheFirst “I was embeddedwiththeHeadquarters May 25, 2003 Photo by OzierMuhammad© Battalion, MarineDivision, First southernIraq.Headquarters Iraqi forceswere delighted, andsaiditwas divineprovidence thathamperedtheU.S.forces.” Iraq, throughsouthern moving twodays north afterleaving Kuwait. in sandstorms Theweather nastywithoneoftheworst turned OZIER MUHAMMAD and for a series of reports titled“Africa,Josh Friedman andDennisBellforaseriesofreports theDesperateContinent”for He was previously astaffphotographerat The New York Times Ebony Magazine . (’72) graduatedwithaB.A.inPhotography. Hehasbeenastaffphotographerwith , The CharlotteObserver , and New York Times . In 1986 he shared the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting with Reporting . In1986hesharedthePulitzerPrizeinInternational Newsday reporter JohnKifnerandfour reporter . recentmemory. Needlesstosay, the other journalists. other journalists. The New YorkThe Times The battalionwas since1992. April 22, 2003 Shiite Muslim pilgrims perform the ritual of Tatbir during the first celebration of Ashura in Karbala, Iraq, in 25 years. The celebration was forbidden while Saddam Hussein was in power. Photo by Ozier Muhammad © The New York Times. “The Ashura holiday brings Shiite Muslims from all parts of the Middle East to Karbala and Najaf, Iraq, to perform rituals celebrating the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad. The red blood streaming from the pilgrims’ heads is part of the ritual of Tatbir, in which the striking of the crown of the head with a sword symbolizes the suffering of Imam Hussein and his brother Abbas more than 1,400 years ago. * In 2003 I was in Karbala for The New York Times with reporter Craig Smith. I pushed for this story with the editor of the foreign desk and John Burns, the Baghdad bureau chief. I was raised in the Nation of Islam. Because of my upbringing as a Black Muslim, and then later Sunni Muslim, I was very keen on covering this Shiite pilgrimage, which was totally foreign to my experience as a Muslim.” ANTONIO PEREZ (’85) graduated with a B.A. in Photography. He has worked as a photojournalist/documentary photographer for more than 16 years, and is a staff photographer with the Chicago Tribune. His photographs have been exhibited at The , Smithsonian Institution, and the Wright Gallery at UCLA, and have appeared in People Magazine, The New York Times, Chicago magazine, and the Chicago Tribune Magazine.

March 3, 2006 A Show of Strength. A crowd estimated at up to 150,000 people assembles in Federal Plaza in Chicago to support immigration reform. Photo by Antonio Perez © Chicago Tribune. “My good friend Vicente telephoned me and asked if I was going to photograph the immigration rally. “It’s going to be huge, with hundreds of thousands of marchers,” he said. I took many photos on street level and from atop newspaper boxes, but I knew I needed to get up higher to show of marchers. I was refused entry at two different buildings, but finally, on the third try, someone gave me the okay to photograph from their office window on the thirteenth floor. When I got to the window I knew I had my shot. I leaned out towards the edge of the window, composed, and made the page-one photo. It was a moment that photographers live for, to be a witness to historic events and capture the event for the readers. The sights, sounds, and feel for the thousands of Americans of Mexican, European, African, and Asian descent, all coming together for one purpose, was an experience I won’t forget.” MISTY KEASLER (’01) earned a B.A. in photography. A freelance photographer, she contributes to Harpers, The New York Times, the London Daily Telegraph Magazine, Time, Dwell, Esquire, and Newsweek, among others. She was awarded the 2003 Lange-Taylor Prize, included in PDN’s (Photo District News) 30 Emerging Photographers and the book 25 Under 25: Up–And–Coming American Photographers. The publication of her first monograph,Love Hotels (Chronicle Books, 2006), will be followed by a show of the same title at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in January 2007. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Her first camera was a Polaroid given to her on her seventh birthday.

April, 2004 Smallest Children’s Room, Veritza Orphanage (Veritza, Russia). Photo © Misty Keasler, courtesy of Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas. “I have been photographing orphanages for more than five years now, and this project has had a greater impact on my life than any other. On my first trip to orphanages in Russia I expected I would make images similar to the ones I had seen before from such institutions: loose, grainy, 35-mm images that elicit sadness. But I was struck by a quiet strength in the children, and I began making portraits of them and their living spaces that I hoped would dignify them. I am attempting to strike a balance between bringing exposure to their tough situations and portraying them in a beautiful and dignified manner. The photographs have taken me to several countries and I have documented orphans in many different circumstances, including traditional government-run orphanages in Russia and children living in orphan-headed households in Kenya, where there is no government infrastructure to care for children orphaned by AIDS. Through this work I have developed a heart for orphans and am haunted by the sweet experiences I have had with them. It is my dream to one day have a house filled with adopted orphans.” PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS (’94) graduated with a B.A. in Photography. He is the son of a migrant laborer and the first of his siblings to be born in the . He grew up in Chicago’s Mexican-American community of Little Village. After graduation, he began his career as a summer intern for the Chicago Sun-Times and was then hired as a staff photographer. Since the fall of 1998, Martinez Monsivais has been a staff photographer for the ’s Washington Bureau. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for the team coverage of the impeachment procedings during the Clinton Administration in 1999, and has also received awards from World Press Photo, WHNPA, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

October 27, 2004 Marine One helicopter, Saginaw, Michigan. Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais © AP “Marine One helicopter, with President Bush aboard, blows around the autumn leaves as it makes its landing. As a member of the Travel Pool, which means covering each and every arrival and departure, you never know what might happen. You prepare for the worst and hope for the best. This was the latter of the two. The President was on the re-election campaign trail and my day started in Michigan, and would not end until Election Day almost a week later.” May 7, 2002 Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office. Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais © AP “U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell receives a pat on the cheek from National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, in a rare off-guard moment in the Oval Office of the White House. They were attending face-to-face talks between President Bush and the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The meeting lasted more than an hour, but failed to bridge differences on major Middle East Issues.” JOHN H. WHITE has been teaching photojournalism at Columbia since 1978, but his students will tell you he teaches as much about life as he does about photography. White began his career at the in 1969, and has been a staff photographer at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1978. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1982, the first (and only) time the prize was awarded for a body of “consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects,” rather than a single photograph. He bought his first camera “for 50 cents and ten bubble-gum wrappers” when he was a 13-year-old in Kannapolis, North Carolina, and has since won more than 300 awards for his work. His “Portrait of Black Chicago” series, an essay on the daily lives of African Americans, is part of the National Archives, and he has published two books on the life of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin.

September 5, 1981 Baptism, Chicago lakefront. Photo © John H. White / Chicago Sun-Times “I like to think there are two types of assignments: the Sun-Times assignments that you have to do every week—no excuses, you gotta have ’em—and the assignments that you get from life. This picture was one of those. I was at home, sleeping. I thought I heard some singing, and I thought maybe I left the radio on, so I got up to turn the radio off and nope, no radio on, but I knew I heard singing. And then my radar just said, maybe it’s singing from the lake, I know I heard it. I went to the lakefront and I got there while they were baptizing. * This reflects the spirit of worship in the church, but it also reflects a culture of people, a racial identity, and a pureness. For me, and for the readers of the papers, it was a glimpse of a moment that’s from the heart—instead of someone shooting or the new taxes. It’s like playing a song; everybody’s got a song. It’s not always the picture. It’s sometimes just .” February 13, 1990 Nelson Mandela in his kitchen in Soweto, South Africa, two days after being released after 27 years in prison. Photo © John H. White / Chicago Sun-Times “I went with Reverend Jesse Jackson to South Africa. We were going to go and try to free Mandela. The Saturday before he was released, we were at a rally trying to free him. At the South African , with guns and dogs, started to surround us and started shooting people. And I saw them shoot … and I started taking pictures, and they pulled a gun on me to shoot me. But the next morning, Mandela was released from prison, and here I was, out of all the places in the universe that I could be, I was there when Mandela was released. * That Tuesday Mandela went to his home in Soweto for the first time. I went in the house, and I was the only photographer in there. Mandela came in the kitchen to get his coat to go out and greet the world—he was just smiling and putting on his jacket. And that was the moment this photo was taken. This was Mandela in his house for the first time, and that moment was precious to me, and precious to the world, and precious to him. And I could share it with the world—a moment in history.” get lit New books by Columbia faculty and alumni Send publication notices to [email protected]

The Boy Detective Fails medicated, Billy resists rejoining the that which benefits ourselves. Joe Meno (’97) is a graduate of By Joe Meno (’97) outside world, or even an adult life. This is exemplified in an exchange Columbia’s Fiction Writing program, [Punk Planet Books, 2006. 328 between the hero and his arch where he is now full-time faculty. Meno’s pages, $14.95 paperback] But mystery after mystery presents nemesis, Professor Von Golum: previous books include Hairstyles of the reviewed by Guido Mendez itself to our emotionally stunted hero. Damned, How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender There’s the puzzle of the headless “But why, why did you do as Hellfire, and Bluebirds Used to Croon We all grow older. And, as it house pet of two children whom Billy the evil things you did?” in the Choir. Guido Mendez is the art happens, we realize that much of befriends, and the masked villains Billy asks suddenly. director for DEMO magazine and senior what we gain is balanced by what who plan to vanish skyscrapers and “Ah, because I could not designer in the office of Creative and we lose. Billy Argo, child detective, inconvenient relationships alike. imagine consequences ...” Printing Services at Columbia. is Joe Meno’s poster boy for how But Billy isn’t having it, at least not the Professor says. radically one can change when at first. For him, mystery itself has struggling to balance loss, identity, become unbearable. The presence Meno gently but insistently and ultimately a healthy world of inexplicable evils in the world reminds us that some of our Pacifist and other perspective. The genre of the is too much for the not-so-young most transformative moments Largely Humorous Stories of child detective provides a perfect boy detective. And so, he begins as we emerge from adolescence small Hopes Petri dish in which to witness this a greater battle within himself, come as the result of increasing By Andrea Kampic (’91) struggle: ingenuity and idealism exposing the cracks in his idealism— awareness of our inability to control [Blue Agave Press, 2005. 190 alloyed together to deal with a wounds as palpable as the scars most of the events in our lives. pages, $13.95 paperback] situation that seems bigger than on his wrists. Sometimes, finding answers to the reviewed by Ann Wiens our young hero could ever be questions that haunt us comes at a expected to overcome. The boy detective finds that his surprising cost, while on occasion, With its friendly orange cover, most consuming battles are less living without the comfort of neat unassuming size, and scrupulously It all begins with the loss of Billy’s about solving bank heists and resolution is part of the natural humble title, Andrea Kampic’s sister/crime-solving partner, thwarting villainous conspiracies order of things. Billy eventually debut volume makes no grand Caroline, at an early age to suicide. than about confronting a realization comes to a conclusion of sorts claims of depth, profundity, This is hardly an ending befitting that nature, with its succession about the loss of his sister, and importance, or entertainment a hero’s assistant, and we begin of random occurrences, is truly finds that his idealism can no longer value. Which makes the reader’s to suspect that Billy’s greatest horrifying. No longer wanting play the same unchallenged role in journey through these 23 challenges will be internal ones. to detect, he begins to fear all his expectations of other people or beautifully written, charmingly odd, Indeed, his grief is so extreme and mystery. Even the villains seem himself. Many of us have come to and bitingly insightful stories all the his expectations so shaken that locked in their battles of circular similar conclusions when confronted more delightfully surprising. following his own flirtation with logic to justify world domination with the cataclysmic events of suicide, he detours from a promising by creating safely reordered evil recent years, both culturally and Kampic sets the tone with the first career as astute crime fighter and utopias. Billy is confronted by individually. Meno offers us a story, “My Dream Dog.” The story’s finds himself in an extended stay at the possibility that doing evil is sweet but relevant cautionary tale, narrator, discouraged by “a series St. Vitus’s Hospital for the mentally actually a more familiar part of complete with judiciously employed of terrible dates and short turbulent ill. Now thirty years old and heavily our nature than doing good beyond irony and a relatively happy ending. relationships,” finds herself lonely 36 DEMO and depressed, “about to give up a man with a motley crew of MP3 is an elegant, slip-cased trio Brian Ulrich (’04) earned an M.F.A. on finding someone to spend my life imaginary friends, a post-utopian of books published by the Aperture in Photography from Columbia. with, maybe have children with, a amusement park called “Industryland” Foundation in collaboration A solo exhibition of his works, “Thrift,” companion.” (You know the feeling, that recalls the glory days of Gary, with Columbia’s Museum of runs December 1 through January 6 we’ve all been there.) Compared to Indiana, and the title story, “Pacifist Contemporary Photography (MoCP). at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in the men in her life, her dog, Charlie, Chicken,” about a cock who not only The volume highlights three stellar, Chicago. See more of his work at starts looking better and better. refuses to fight, but converts all emerging artists from the Midwest www.notifbutwhen.com. Audrey “He . . . was always interested in the other roosters to pacifism. The Photographers Project, a rotating Michelle Mast (’00) graduated with what I was doing and really listened stories have a surreal edge, yet seem archive established in 1982 by a B.A. in Critical Studies of Film and when I talked about my day; was absolutely grounded in a banal reality the MoCP to support the work Video. She is a contributing editor to up for anything, at any time; . . . that makes even the most ridiculous of Midwestern photographers. the weekly online publication Flavorpill never complained; gratefully ate scenarios weirdly believable. This is Recent portfolios by Midwest CHI, a regular contributor to Pistil anything I fed him; . . . never drank one of those rare books that made Photographers Project artists Kelli magazine, and a former editor of or did drugs; . . . had no religious me laugh out loud in public—reading Connell, Justin Newhall, and Brian F News, the monthly newsmagazine of or political views that I disagreed on the “L,” waiting for a friend to Ulrich are the subjects of these the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. with (I suspected he was a liberal show up for an after-work drink— 25-page volumes and a recent like me after listening to so much and that’s always a good thing. exhibition at MoCP. NPR); missed me when I was at work, and was so happy to see Andrea Kampic (’91) earned a master’s in Connell, who is from Ohio, Rusty Nail me when I came home.” Plus, he’s film writing and production from Columbia, uses a single model and digital By J.A. Konrath (’92) cute. She begins to wish Charlie and a journalism degree from the manipulation to create provocative, [Hyperion, 2006. 292 pages, were a man—he’d be the perfect University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has two-person narratives that $23.95 hardcover] man, after all. The next half-dozen worked in Hollywood as a photographer, explore narcissism and gender reviewed by Rebecca pages spin out an offbeat “be- camera assistant, and second-unit film in relationships. Newhall’s series Mielcarski (’05) careful-what-you-wish-for” tale about director while writing screenplays. This is is a wistful, contemporary road the difficulties involved in teaching her first book. Ann Wiens is the editor of trip down the Lewis and Clark With great descriptions Charlie the intricacies of human DEMO, and a painter and art writer. trail. And Ulrich’s Copia is a witty, and attention to detail, J.A. social etiquette, such as peeing in richly detailed exposé of American Konrath’s Rusty Nail is a colorful, the toilet (rather than the bushes), mores. Using a waist-level, medium- comprehensive murder mystery. using silverware, and “sitting on the format camera to candidly—often Konrath gives knowledgeable couch with his legs, not his arms, MP3: Midwest Photographers surreptitiously—capture the descriptions of a vast array of on the floor.” This doomed-from-the- Publication Project spectacle of malls, big-box stores, topics, from guns, ammo, and the start relationship story wraps up By Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, and other overstuffed retail Chicago Police force to fashion with a truly unexpected—and darkly Brian Ulrich (’04) environments, as well as the dazed, designers and martial arts. hilarious—twist. 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s Law / Cougar : [Layered Records, 2005. www.cougarsound.com] spin COLUMBIA CONNECTION: Horn player/ composer Joseph Hulbert (’07), graduate student in AEMM, development assistant in the Center for Community Arts Partnerships Recordings by THE SOUND: Experimental/Rock/Electronica Columbia Alumni THE WORD: First released to critical acclaim in Europe and the U.K., this and Faculty album had its American release in October 2006. The group describes the sound as “epic emergency rock.” Cougar posts a performance schedule To submit a recording and blogs about their tours on www.myspace.com/cougarsound. for consideration in DEMO, send disc and press release to: / DEMO magazine, Raw Yang Fake Fictions Columbia College Chicago [FP Records, 2006. www.thefakefictions.com] 600 S. Michigan Ave., suite 400, COLUMBIA CONNECTION: Drummer Ben Bilow is a graphic designer on staff Chicago, IL 60605. at Columbia. Engineer Gerard Julian Barreto (’03) is a graduate of the Priority will be given to recent Audio Arts and Acoustics program. recordings on a label. THE SOUND: Pop CDs will not be returned. THE WORD: Punk Planet’s Chris Burkhalter says Raw Yang is “Unpretentious and thoroughly listenable, it sounds like the Fake Fictions had fun recording these songs. More important, it’s fun to listen to.” Hear samples at www.thefakefictions.com.

Rick Goldschmidt Sings / Rick Goldschmidt [Miser Bros. Records, 2006. www.rankinbass.com] COLUMBIA CONNECTION: Rick Goldschmidt (’87) earned a B.A. in Illustration. THE SOUND: Rock THE WORD: Goldschmidt’s debut release features story-centered songs with Goldschmidt and Robin Wilson, the album’s producer on vocals. Guest musicians include Scott Johnson of the Gin Blossoms.

Over the Waterfall / Trillium [Little Miracles Productions, 2006. www.trilliumtheband.com] COLUMBIA CONNECTION: Bass and keyboard player Doug Lofstrom is the student assessment coordinator in the Music department. THE SOUND: Folk/Dixieland/Bluegrass THE WORD: Mainly instrumental, the group samples a wide range of genres. Traditional songs and standards are reworked in Trillium’s eclectic style. The group says their songs “represent the synthesis of a lot of creative energy.” More at www.trilliumtheband.com

American A Cappella / Bella Voce, directed by Anne Heider [Bella Voce, 2005. www.bellavoce.org] COLUMBIA CONNECTION: Gustavo Leone, composition studies director and associate professor in the Music department, composed “Art of Birds.” THE SOUND: Chamber choir THE WORD: A collection of music recorded in concert during the ensemble’s 2004-2005 tour season, conducted by Artistic Director Emerita Anne Heider. The group was founded in the Chicago area in 1982 under the name His Majestie’s Clerkes, and performs songs from a variety of American a cappella traditions. DEMO40 ou Champaign/Urbana/Normal— Washington, D.C./Baltimore— Wherever youare, allover thecountry! Kalamazoo/Battle Creek— Minneapolis/St. Paul— There are Columbiaalumni Miami/Ft Lauderdale— t you are not alone… youarenotalone… Dallas/Fort Worth— Dallas/Fort here Los Angeles— San Francisco— Number ofalumniby metropolitan area Indianapolis— Chicago— New York— Milwaukee— — — St. Louis— Rockford— Houston— Portland— Phoenix— Seattle— Boston— Atlanta— Detroit— as ofAugust 24, 2006 50,198 2,639 1,390 245 255 172 217 324 349 359 401 826 837 456 681 456 464 522 545 582 588 629 476 FALL / WINTER 2006 / 2007 make connectionsthatwork: Dear Alumni, National DirectorofAlumniRelations Josh Culley-Foster (’03) Sincerely, I lookforward tomeetingyouatanupcomingalumnichapterevent. aboutevents inyourarea and waysinformation youcangetinvolved. check outtheCAANwebsite atwww.colum.edu/alumni/CAAN formore the collegeinareasallover thecountry, Please andeventually theworld. willbeavitalextensionof the ColumbiaAlumniAssociation&Network school isarecognizedforceforeducation, arts,andculturalevents, and The Columbia hasgrownupconsiderablywithinthelastfew years. make CAANarealityispalpable. Francisco, SouthCarolina, Washington, D.C., andLondon.Thedesireto alumni inAustin, LasVegas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nashville, San in Atlanta, Denver, andLosAngeles.Ihave alsoheardfrominterested forevents photos fromtheseevents onpage46).Plansareintheworks Phoenix, andtheofficiallaunch oftheNew Chapter(checkoutthe York events thisfall:multipleevents inChicago, anexcitinggettogetherin As Iwritethisletter, we’re ofnetworking catchingourbreathafteraflurry organize alumnigroupsintheirareas. whoareeagertoreconnectwiththeirclassmatesand the country began organizingCAANlastyear, I’ve heardfrom alumnifromallover Sincewe ofchapters. 80,000-plus alumnithroughanationalnetwork ofCAANistohelpunitethecollege’s (CAAN)!Thepurpose & Network alumni relations—we’ve launchedtheColumbiaAlumniAssociation ofColumbia This fallhasbeenanexcitingoneforallofusintheworld

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1950 1980 be presenting the videos at the Way Scott Childers (’88) has spent s s Out West conference at Arizona State 17 years in the Chicago radio business University West in March. and completed his third year as Peter Klein (’58) died in Peter Teschner, a former student, is assistant program director and mid-day Summerfield, Florida, on July 25, the film editor for the comedyBorat: Imants Ozers (’85,’06) is teaching host at WERV: The River 95.9 / 2006. Klein was born in Chicago, Cultural Learnings of America for Make a motion graphics class for the Chicago. He also continues to provide and retired to Summerfield from Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Department of Film and Video at traffic and talk with Dean Richards and Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania, in that hit theaters in November. Columbia this fall. on Sunday mornings on 1998. He was employed in the radio WGN-AM 720. and television industries for nearly Julie Roberts (’81), a librarian of Taggart Siegel (’85) has been 50 years for ABC, CBS, and NBC in 21 years, participated in the Out producing and directing documentaries Tony Rizo (’89) will begin training Philadelphia. During his career, he of the Darkness Overnight Walk on and dramatic films for 25 years. His in November to become an aerial worked with every president from Chicago’s lakefront, and raised more latest documentary, The Real Dirt videographer with the United States Harry S. Truman to George H. W. Bush, than $1,000 for the awareness of on Farmer John, won 26 film-festival Air Force. Rizo also finished working in addition to many political dignitaries suicide prevention. awards around the world and is as the B camera operator on a reality and international celebrities. He was currently being released theatrically. show called “Speed Demons.” a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean Robin Reed’s (’83) first episode It debuted on the award-winning PBS Previously he spent three days War, and enjoyed treasure hunting, of her web series “Two Minute series “Independent Lens.” Siegel is working for Café FX on a videogame gemology, fishing, traveling, and the Sitcoms” is being featured on the executive director of Collective Eye, trailer for Sony called The Heist. theater. You Tube. For more information: Inc., a nonprofit media organization www.twominutesitcoms.com. based in San Francisco. Samira (Watson) Robinson (’89, ’01) has been teaching as an Bob Burgher (’84) was named senior Joan (Wojciechowski) Hammel’s adjunct professor in Chicago City vice president of Doner Mazda retail (’86) album Joanland was included in Colleges, and speaking to and Raymond G. Baker (’70), a.k.a. business in Southfield, Mississippi. four categories for the 2006 Grammy leading spiritual-development forums Ray Musicbear, has been pursuing He is responsible for regional Mazda nominations ballot. Samples can be heard for women’s groups and youth a career in music for the past business in the United States at her website, www.joanhammel.com. organizations. She launched her own nine years. After his debut CD, and directs the agency’s teams in communications consulting business Musicbear: Music By A Bear For The Southfield, Newport Beach, and the Jacqueline Rivera (’86) currently that works with new and small Bear Community, Baker followed with Mazda regional offices. works at Good Spa in Chicago and has companies, colleges, nonprofits, and CDs in both the electronic/dance developed a massage technique—the public services. For more information and show tunes genres. Since then, Jeanette Hablewitz (’85) opened an detox massage—that reduces stress, visit www.samirarobinson.com. he has returned to his original genre art studio, Studio Ashe, this year in the toxins, pain, and cellulite. For more of folk music. old Pauwela cannery in Maui, Hawaii. information go to www.goodspa.org. Hablewitz paints and gives private 1990s David Whiskeyman (’76) started lessons in drawing, painting, and John Watanabe (’86) is a radio host the -based company Whiskeyman mixed-media work. To view her work for two Southern California stations: Linda Dorman (’90) is the co-owner Productions in 1994 and since has online visit www.mauicreative.com. KDAR 98.3 Christian Radio in Oxnard of the contemporary art gallery provided video production services and KHWY 98 and 99 in Barstow. Uncle Freddy’s Gallery in Highland, to local, national, and international Karl Ochsner (’85) won the 2006 He also acted in a TV commercial for Indiana. Information on exhibitions clientele. For more information visit: Qwest/AzTEA Digital Classroom Charter Communications and Governor and openings can be found at www.whiskpro.com. Leader Grant. provides Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tax reform. www.unclefreddys.com. video equipment for the Kids Building Diana Johnson (’79) accepted a Character program. The initiative gives Brigid Murphy (’87, ’01) was Tom Gorrell (’90) is the associate position at Clayton State University students an opportunity to create and awarded a Grigsby—annual award for director for the Atlas Galleries in in Morrow, Georgia, as a technology edit a one- to three-minute video that Exceptional Achievement in the Art of Chicago. The gallery features works program coordinator. Johnson was teaches character traits to the school Solo Performance—from the Live Bait by classic and contemporary artists previously on faculty at Pasadena community as a part of the weekly Theater for her achievement and talent including Renoir, Picasso, Chagall, City College. video announcements. Ochsner will as a solo performer and producer. Rembrandt, Whistler, and others.

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Dawoud Bey (Photography) and Bob annual conference. Her topic is a web portal for alternative, community, Rod Slemmons (Museum of Thall (Photography) are among 45 eliminating shame and promoting ethnic, and other local news sources. Contemporary Photography) has photographers included in “Photographs self-esteem in dance technique classes been named Honored Educator by the by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty- through the use of Laban Movement David Jones (Anchor Graphics) Society for Photographic Education Some Years Apart” at the Art Institute Analysis concepts. and Marilyn Propp (Art + Design) and will present a lecture at the of Chicago through January 14. The presented their two-person show national conference in March. He exhibition compares works created by Ron Fleischer’s (Film + Video) “Union/Opposition” at Louisiana Tech will teach a graduate seminar on each artist 20 years apart, examining Animation Production Studio class University in October, and at Gallery Contemporary Photographic Theory the photographers’ ability to incorporate (2004/2005) had its film,QUIXOTE , Mornea in Evanston in November. and Criticism for the School of the life experiences in their work. accepted into the 2006 Midwest Art Institute of Chicago this spring. Independent Film Festival. He was the Friedhard Kiekeben (Art + Design) Bob Blinn (Academic Advising) debuted executive producer of the film. showed his latest wall installation, Joe Steiff (Film + Video) co-wrote and his film Sax & Violins at the Chicago Cascade, at the Ahlbergshallen Museum directed a collaborative feature-length International REEL Shorts Film Festival Paula Froehle (Film + Video) won in Ostersund, Sweden in October. An film produced by Split Pillow entitled in September. Sax & Violins is a short the Kodak Faculty Scholars grant accompanying publication, New Work, soulMaid, which screened at Chicago film that asks the question, “Why to produce a new short titled Lizard includes an introduction by Columbia’s Filmmakers this fall. Each filmmaker isn’t man kind?”—a glimpse of man’s Christmas, an adaptation of Cristina Art and Design chair Sabina Ott. did one fourth of the film, building off violence from the beginning of time. Peri Rossi’s short story. The final film the story and characters established will combine live action with CGi and Erin McCarthy (Liberal Education, by the previous writer/director(s). Adam Brooks (Art + Design) and motion control techniques. Cultural Studies) was awarded a Steiff wrote, directed, and edited Mathew Wilson (Art + Design), the 2006 Postsecondary Teaching Award “Chapter 4: Wiped Clean.” artist duo Industry of the Ordinary, Scott Hall (Music), director of the Jazz from the Oral History Association. In were among the featured artists who Studies program, produced a CD by 2004, she established a partnership Barbara Robertson (Theater) and performed “ambient happenings” at Mark Colby, Speaking of Stan: A Tribute with Chicago’s Hellenic Museum and Kirsten Fitzgerald (Theater) were @rtNight, the city’s kick-off party for to Stan Getz. Hall is also the music Cultural Center, in which students nominated for Joseph Jefferson Chicago Artists Month in October. director for the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. interview members of the Greek– Awards, along with alumni A.C. American community. This work has Smith (’86), Brian Herriott (’92), Mario Castillo (Art + Design) was Terrence Hannum (Art + Design) grown into an archive of community and current design graduate student invited to participate in a National presented “Evocation,” a three-channel history at the museum, which Grant Sabin (’05). Printmaking Portfolio published video projection and a series of recent nominated her for the award. this fall by Notre Dame University’s photos at 40000 in October. George Thompson (Art + Design) spoke Institute for Latino Studies. His work Laurence Minsky (Marketing at the Society of Typographic Aficionados is included in an invitational Day of the Ted Hardin (Film + Video) was invited Communication) has revised and annual Typecon Conference on the Dead exhibition at the Irish Cultural to screen his documentary One More expanded his book, How to Succeed in topic: “Gutenberg’s Box or how Johan Center in November. Mile: A Dialogue on Nation-Building at the Advertising When all You Have Is Talent, Genzfleisch invented the parking space.” Global Fusion conference in Chicago. for a second edition forthcoming Tim Cozzens (Interior Architecture) is This year’s theme was “Nation, State, in January. Published by The Copy Chuck Webb (Music) completed the participating in a November symposium and Culture in the Age of Globalization.” Workshop, the book gathers expertise score for the feature-length filmPieces on the future of interior design from creative leaders in the industry, of a Dream. The film has won critical education. The Council for Interior Design Paul S. Holmquist (Dance offering their stories and advice in acclaim at major film festivals, and is Accreditation Board of Directors invited Movement Therapy) has been named their own words. now screening around the country. 15 individuals to help describe priorities an ensemble member of the Lifeline for future interior design curriculum. Theatre. Holmquist has appeared on Amy Mooney (Art + Design) will have Bobbi Wilsyn (Music) performed and the Lifeline stage in Strong Poison and her article “The Performative Act of taught at the Sant’ Anna Arresi Jazz Diane Delin (Music) is artist-in- The Talisman Ring (2005), and directed Portraiture” published in the thirtieth- Festival in Sardinia, Italy in August. residence at the Cavalcade of Music the KidSeries production of Rikki-Tikki- anniversary issue of Callaloo: Journal Foundation’s renovated Skokie Tavi and Other “Just So” Stories. of Visual Culture. Richard Woodbury (Dance) received Theatre Performance Center. Delin critical notice for his work on the performed there in June with her Barbara Iverson (Journalism) and Michael Paxton (Art + Design) Goodman’s production of King Lear. He quartet for WTTW’s live PBS broadcast, Suzanne McBride (Journalism) has work included in the publication received an Ovation Award nomination “Centerstage.” She and the quartet were awarded a New Voices grant New American Paintings, volume 65, for Best Sound Design for his work last also performed at the Kingston Jazz for their citizen journalism project, published by Open Studios Press. spring on a production of ’s Festival in New York this summer. “Creating Community Connections.” All My Sons at L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse. They will work with students on how Sheldon Patinkin’s (Theater) production Laura Downey (Dance Movement to cover “hyperlocal” news, encourage of Cormac McCarthy’s play The Sunset Richard Zeid (A+D) will be a presenter Therapy) will present a workshop at the community activists and others to write Limited was produced in June at at the 2007 Hawaii International American Dance Therapy Association’s about their neighborhoods, and create Steppenwolf, and in New York in October. Conference on Arts & Humanities.

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Welcome to CAAN: the Columbia College Chicago Alumni Association & Network. Formed this year, CAAN is the college’s official alumni network, with chapters in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, and Atlanta. We held our first round of chapter meetings across the country this fall (check out the photos on these pages). To find out about upcoming events in your area, visit www.colum.edu/alumni or call 312-344-8611.

CHICAGO: The Chicago CAAN chapter held its first meeting at the Goose Island Brewery on August 30. More than 90 alums came out to discuss what CAAN will do and how to make this organization succeed.

[ 1 ] Unidentified alum, HIROMI SOGO (’03), DAVID MARTIN (’91) [ 2 ] MARIA SULTEMEIER (’06), JUSTIN KULOVSEK (’04), NICOLE HOFFMAN (’06) [ 3 ] GABRIEL PASTRANA (’04), ROXANA PEREIRA (’03), MICHAEL UNDERWOOD (’91), AL RASHO (’72)

PHOENIX: There were two reasons to celebrate at B.J.’s Brewhouse in Phoenix on October 16: Columbia’s first Phoenix CAAN chapter meeting, and the ’ come-from-behind victory over the Arizona Cardinals—the greatest such defensive comeback in NFL history—on “.”

[ 4 ] Holding banner: RICK DAVENPORT (’02), EARLIE JONES III (’02). Back left row: unidentified guest,T.S. THOMAS (’89), unidentified alum, JENNIFER BARKEY (’94), MICHELE FIORENZA (’91), ELLIOT ELROD (’71), DON FOX (’85), National Director of Alumni Relations JOSH CULLEY-FOSTER (’03), Vice President of Institutional Advancement ERIC WINSTON. Front Row: NANCY SCOTT (’86), MICHELLE MUNIES (’82), KELLEY DOUGHER, DONNA JAGIELSKI (’89) [ 5 ] ELLIOT ELROD (’71), EARLIE JONES III (’02) [ 6 ] DONNA JAGIELSKI (’89), unidentified guest.

CHICAGO: Chicago alumni took to the “greens” to hit a few balls and tip a glass of scotch at Glenlivet City Links, a nine-hole Scottish links-style miniature golf course constructed in a vacant downtown loft (compliments of Glenlivet).

[ 7 ] LARRY MANDEL (’70) [ 8 ] MARGI COLE (’90), JOSH CULLEY-FOSTER (’03), JUSTIN KULOVSEK (’04), MICHAEL UNDERWOOD (’91), BILL CELLINI (’94) [ 9 ] LURLENE BROWN (’00)

NEW YORK: Like the old Sinatra song goes, if you “CAAN” make it there, you can make it anywhere. Our New York chapter has arrived! More than 35 alums joined chapter president RICHARD MATSON (’98) at the Kanvas Cocktail Lounge in Manhattan on October 25.

[ 10 ] MARY ARAVALLO (’97) [ 11 ] GINA GAYLE (’99), RICHARD MATSON (’98), RODNEY CALHOUN (’01) [ 12 ] HETTIE BARNHILL (’06) holds up DEMO3 (that’s her on the cover!)

LOS ANGELES: This past summer, alumni relations and Semester in L.A. hosted the 2006 Los Angeles Summer Screening on sound stage 18 on the CBS Studio Center in Studio City. Guests included Semester in L.A. students, Columbia alumni, guest speakers, entertainment industry professionals, and faculty and staff. Outstanding student films from the Department of Film and Video and the summer Semester in L.A. directing and production design classes were screened and awards were handed out for the best comedy, best drama, and jury prize.

[ 13 ] DAVID MAHLMANN (’88), KATHERINE BULOVIC (’93) [ 14 ] JOE SIKORA (’98), CRAIG GORE (’98) [ 15 ] NICK REISE (’06), JOHN REILLY (’06), ASHLEY PRICE (’06) [ 16 ] SHANNAH TRAILOR (’08), JULIANNA BRUDEK (’06)

Photography by: Josh Culley-Foster, Justin Tulovsek, Robyn Martin (Chicago); Josh Culley-Foster, Don Fox (Phoenix); Josh Culley-Foster (New York); and Michelle Pullman (Los Angeles) DANCE

Noism07 February 1 – 3, 8:00 p.m. The Dance Center 1306 S. Michigan Ave. Tickets at www.dancecenter.org 312.344.8300 Jo Kanamori’s contemporary Japanese company presents NINA—materialized sacrifice, which shows the sustained tension between black-costumed, dominant-male dancers and slow-moving, mannequin-like female dancers.

Association NOA/ Company Vincent Mantsoe March 8 – 10, 8:00 p.m. The Dance Center 1306 S. Michigan Ave. Tickets at www.dancecenter.org 312.344.8300 Men-Jaro features a collaborative piece with composer Anthony Caplan, an ensemble of dancers from South Africa, Japan, France, and the U.S., and musicians of the African Music Workshop Ensemble playing indigenous instruments. calendar / SEE MORE AND GET INFO AT EVENTS ARE FREE UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE. OTHERWISE. EVENTS ARE FREE UNLESS NOTED

Chicago Jazz Ensemble. Photo by Todd Gustavson www.colum.edu www.colum.edu

Association NOA/Company Vincent Mantsoe (see Dance). Photo by John Hogg Noism07 (see Dance) Photo by Kishin Shinoyama

MUSIC

The Chicago Jazz Ensemble

December 15, February 16, 8:00 p.m. THEATER for Music and Dance at Urinetown: The Musical 205 E. Randolph St. Book by Greg Kotis and The CJE performs with special guests Music by Mark Hollmann Dee Dee Bridgewater in December February 7 – 18, various times and Ramsey Lewis in February. GALLERIES Getz Theater 72 E. 11th St. December 16, 3:00 p.m. Graphic Reality: Tickets at 312.344.6126 or HotHouse Mexican Printmaking Today www.colum.edu/theater 31 E. Balbo St. January 13 – February 24 Urinetown pokes fun at Broadway while Center for Book & Paper Arts at the same time paying homage to March 15, April 12, May 10, LITERATURE 1104 S. Wabash Ave. the Great White Way and questioning 8:00 p.m. 312.344.6630 the possibility of achieving positive Black Orchid Supper Club Story Week www.bookandpaper.org change in the world. 230 W. North Ave. March 11 – 16 Each of the seven Mexican Special guests include vocalist Bobbi Various times and locations printmakers in this exhibition has Paradise Lost by Clifford Odets Wilsyn, saxophonist Ada Rovatti, Anchee Min, Salman Rushdie, and an important role in revitalizing and April 5 – 14, various times pianist Helen Sung, and legendary Jonathan Lethem this year’s promoting the graphic arts throughout Getz Theater saxophonist Jimmy Heath. Story Week, which features a week Mexico and the United States. 72 E. 11th St. of readings, panels, interviews, Sponsored by the International Print Tickets at 312.344.6126 or Tickets and information for and other events around the Center New York. www.colum.edu/theater all performances are available theme “Cities of Words.” Complete Leo and Clara Gordon are the scions at www.chijazz.com or schedule and information available Pass It On: of a middle-class family, lovingly 312.344.6270. at http://storyweek.colum.edu. Connecting Contemporary attached to extended family and Do-It-Yourself Culture friends who try to navigate the March 1 – April 14 rough seas of the 1930s American A+D Gallery Depression. 619 S. Wabash Ave. 312.344.8687 www.colum.edu/adgallery or www.diychicago.org This exhibition examines the remarkable breadth of DIY in today’s culture, including self-publishing, personal journalism, podcasting, amateur science, architecture and design, and independent .

Barbara Probst March 30 – May 26 Museum of Contemporary Photography 600 S. Michigan Ave. 312.663.5554 www.mocp.org

Documentary, fashion, snapshot, Joel Rendón, La cucarache, la cucarache, woodcut. portrait, and street photography From “Graphic Reality: Mexican Printmaking Today” work together in this exhibition, (see Galleries) accompanied by a book designed and printed by celebrated German art publisher Stiedl.

Urinetown: The Musical (see Theater) THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND SUCCESS STORY: “When I was at Columbia in 1983 it was just a few buildings. But the city, the neighborhoods, the professionals working in the field ensured we MARKBIELLO weren’t just learning at a classroom level. When I got to CNN right after graduation, I was already a step ahead of the other entry-level employees.

“As an alum, I think it’s interesting and enlightening to stay active and reconnect with the college. And to try to find ways to take what I’ve learned over the years and give back to the students who are just entering the field. I’ve been able to bring some of the new portable equipment we’re using at CNN to show students at the college, and to show them that they’re PHOTOJOURNALIST learning on the same equipment we and others SENIOR PHOTOJOURNALIST are using in the field worldwide. WITH CNN SINCE 1983 “It’s important for us, as alumni, to support the ALUM college however we can—with our knowledge, B.A. TELEVISION, 1983 our involvement, and our financial support. DONOR That support is crucial to the growth of the THE ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND college and its programs.” – MARK BIELLO

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