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COLUMBIA COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS DECEMBER 17, 1990 Art students complain:· tenth-floor 'store' runs up charges of bad faith By Julie Sacharski the system and soured its good SllJffWriter intentions. Rick Ernst is a former Colum Attention all art students: this bia art student who remembers is the 13th week of the semester. when the class fee cards frrst Do you know where your class came into existence. fees hav.e gone? "In the beginning, the fee Columbia's Art department cards seemed like a good idea," has established a Wlique way of Ernst said. "People could buy charging class fees, but this sys what they needed right down the tem doesn't seem to be ac hall and actually see where their complishing all it set out to. class fees were going. But Since 1989, when the Art halfway through the semester, the department moved from the store ran out of supplies and said Michigan to the Wabash Campus, they couldn't order more because the department has issued class their funds were nearly depleted. fee cards to its students. With How could they be depleted when these cards, students are given the myself and practically all the responsibility of purchasing their other students had twenty or thir own class materials in a credit ty dollars of credit left on their card fashion. cards?" Supplies are available in a Cassidy says he re~izes the room on the lOth floor, common problem, but presently has no Peace march: Almost 4,000 peace marchers congregated outside the Daley Center Saturday, Dec. 8, ly referred to as the "art store," other way to operate the center. "I to protest the American military buildup In Saudi Arabia. They then marched to Grant Park. The Chicago which, in fact, it is not; facility think there is an injustice occur demonatradon, organized by the Emergency Coalition for Peace In the Middle East, was one of several manager Kevin Cassidy prefers to ring, but it is not intentional. No for a march on 26. call it the "materials distribution one is trying to trick students out center," and, Cassidy said, the of their money. But because this name itself may be causing much is not a store, I cannot restock Turntables missing from Radio/Sound: confusion about its purpose. supplies as a store would. Ideally, The center should ideally when the cards are filled, the sup security guard speculates on 'inside job' operate in the following way: plies should be gone, btit it doesn't seem to be working quite sembled. class fees are charged to art stu By Annesa Lacey and out of this building with dents based on their specific cour that way." Sf4jJWrlUr "Whoever did it dismant!ed it equipment all ofthe time. I cannot ses. The collected money is According to Cassidy, 80 per very carefully. There were no stop each student and qu~stion placed in a fund, from which art cent of the class fees are spent on More than $3,000 worth of signs of damage," he said. Parker what they're doing with Colum supplies are purchased. Students the actual supplies in the "store" audio equipment was stolen from also said new equipment was or bia equipment. I have no way of are then given class fee cards while five percent is used to buy the RadiO/Sound Department on dered the next day. Johnson knowing what these students are which indicate certain dollar miscellaneous office supplies for Monday, Nov. 26, according to verified the new turntables had carrying in their knapsacks," he amounts. When students run out general use throughout the department chairperson Al arrived that following Friday. said. of materials or need to purchase departm~nt. The remaining 15 Parlc.er. "We replaced it with the same Byres added that before different supplies, they present percent is put into the college's Brett Johnson, Radio/Sound equipment that was taken," anyone had missed the turntables, their card at the materials dis operating budget. , Department manager and chief Parker said. the equipment was already out of tribution center and ask the Ernst says many art students engineer, said that five Techni Page 16 of the 1990-91 the building. employee for the necessary were cheated out of supplies that ques 1200 MK II turntables were Columbia College student hand materials. The fee card is then should have been available for Parker said that the removed from Room 705 around book, under Student Conduct either hole-punched or marked purchase throughout the 8:30p.m. Radio/Sound department hasn't Code, states that "Abuse, van with the purchase price. semester. "I never got a chance to had any problems with theft, and "It could've been anybody," dalism or theft of College proper According to Cassidy, this use all the credit on my fee card. ty, or unauthorized entry to like all theft cases, this was a set fast-food type of service was I'd go into the center and all Johnson said. 'The easiest thing back. to say is that someone had a key. Columbia facilities may con designed with the convenience of they'd say was, 'No, we don't They had to have had a key, be stitute grounds for immediate dis ''They were professional turn the student in mind. have it, and we won't be reorder cause the door was locked that missal." tables. Even though the turntables "We established the center in ing it,'" Ernst said. "It got to the evening," he said. Michigan campus security were replaced, it was still a set an attempt to give students more point where I'd just buy According to Johnson, the guard J .L. Byres said that he feels back. Whoever took them ob choices and responsibility for the photocopies or books I didn't turntables were worth $620.00 it had to be an inside job, and it viously didn't take them for materials they'd be using with need, just to feel like I was break each. had to be more than one person. personal use. They are going to their class fees, and to prevent the ing even and my money wasn't Parker said that there is no way "It had to be teamwork. Whoever sell them. The losers are the stu wasting of art supplies," he said. wasted." of knowing who took the equip took the turntables had to have dents who used the tables, be The concept would appear to Students who have more than ment, but whoever did it knew had at least three or four other cause they needed them for be logical and sound, but a flurry how the equipment was as- people to help. Students ~orne in assignments," he said. of misconception has pervaded See STORE, page 2 Student mothers find ways to cope despite odds By Kathleen Troher number of students juggling academic and going to hold a program sometime in in the Torco Building where we can bring our Chronicle Comspondent family responsibilities is not known. February specifically targeted at this group. children while we attend classes." "No such statistics are currently being "Students as Parents/Parents as Students" Students who are also parents not only The next time you feel overwhelmed with kept," said Irene Conley, assistant dean of will be moderat.yd by Assistant Dean Conley need to share their concerns with others, they work, school and extra curricular activities Student Life. "But a lack of exact numbers and address the unique issues of students must also find ways to make their own per stop for a moment and think about Diane doesn't free us up from the responsibility of trying to establish that delicate balance be sonal compromises and keep their sanity. Willis. serving this population. We know they have tween being a parent and being a student The DeYoung, for example, said she As a student at Columbia, Willisjs work specific concerns that we need to address." program will include a panel of three who prioritizes her responsibilities and' prays ing toward a degree in Sound Engineering For Della De Young, who has a 23-month will encourage the group to discuss often. She is also a master at getting two with a concentration in Science Technology old son and is a student in the Management problems, exchange ideas and give advice. things done at once. "When I have to type a and Communications. She is the president of department with a concentration in fashion, "One of the things we know at Columbia paper and my son wants to play," she said, the African-American Alliance, a Science one of those concerns is the need for a sup is that we get our best support from one "I'll sit him on my lap and we work and play department Work Aid assistant, a port group.