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()o/.y ...y . (.) ~ < tl)~ '- O'J' ~ :;1 C\1 ~ 0 C> C\1 (.) .r:. (.) . •. Q) C> ·.' .. .SAVE THE HUMAN RACE Q) ..:. : 0 (..) C\1 .c Dear Colleagues and Students, E ::J On May 8, the Mother's Day Peace Walk & Festival shall take place in 0 Grant Park, Chicago. The Festival will feature a range of events-music, (.) theater; dance, mime, puppetry, art exhibitions and speakers. As was the case last year, we ne~ your help to allow Columbia College to contribute Its talents to make this day of peace a most successful one. - A meeting to plan Columbia's participation shall take place on Monday, ., March 7 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. - . Room 325 -_., All faculty, staff, administrators and students are welcome to attend this - > ~k~ ~ lf~ "1 meeting. if) • +-' Thank you, 0 co ~ ~I ~ COLUMBIA COLLEGE ~ - :c Concerned Faculty, Staff and Students for Peace 0 > COMMENTARY Registration- Mayhem lives ·ono: By Maryanne Giusti no of Columbia College survived that We were able to date complaints In that same issue or the Chroni· registration tn 1!113: '"nnie exhausting process called registra· about registration back to Fall of .cle students were asked to suggest and a majority of the ••••i Registration Is like the weather. lion. Tiley've coped with computer 1974. when· an article appeared in ways registration could be improv mained cheerful and all IIIII Everyone tallis aboUt lt,J>qt UtUe IS breakdowns. long lines. class clos the student newspaper ( then called ed. Some suggestions: best to cooperate wltb done to change lt. And they've been ings. and the overall lack of com C.C. Writerl titled " Mayhem: Col· - "Tiley should have chairs for another." some. thlnp dotng so for a long time. munication. Somehow they surviv· umbia's Formula" . The article people to sit In while waiting in change. Once again students and faculty e(J. reported the unexpected confusion line." that occured during registration - " How should registration be that semester. The "mayhem" improved'! Door prizes." was attributed to a sharp increase - "I think the key to any good in enrollment. Enrollment has registration is the food. I think that been on an upswing ever since. a salad bar and possibly a tray or Last Fall the Chronicle printed assorted cheese would be an an editorial critic izing the asset." registration process and sug· In 1974 one of the major pro gesting the administration in· blems during registration was the vestigate other means or registra· lack of a hostess to serve coffee lion. " As the size or Columbia in· and rolls to the faculty. · creases. so does the burden or ad· ministration ... It's time for the ad· Finally. a slatement made by the ministration to come to grips with writer or the 1974 article on the monster it's created." registration still holds true about CITY EDITOR · Letters to the editor laura AIOI)SO NEWS/FEATURE EDITORS Dear Editor: sclousness as the death of Dr. On January 12, 1982 we Marttn Luther King. Allysori' Bookley celebrated Dr. Martin Luther I keep asktng myself why we Sondra Brigahdi King's birthday at Columbia. I was need to be moved by such ex impressed with the actualization of tremes. How can we stay awake ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT keeping his ideas alive because and be more alive, each one of us, EDITORS they are powerful, useful, loving. so that we cease to continue kill· Jolene Jones 'J.£Y EPTON .•• YOU SURE YOU WANT TO RACEr I was impressed with the talent lng, so that we value life collec or our students and their active tively? Peter- Rindskopf participation and thought. What What wUI It take to keep us all STAFF touched me more was that we are conscious to prevent the next Roshon Barnwell so human. We forget our humani tragedy? Are we willing to commit Robert B~?rgsvik.•. · ty, more correctly, have lapses. It ourselves to our Ideas as a way or Cary·Carlson · springs out of the closet at bene life or are we just playing with • "Myma Daley • · fits, lectures, parad~s. weddings, wOJ'(Is? :'I funerals and other extreme occa Marttn Luther Ktng touched us Iris' Endeley-'Brown sions we celebrate. because he cbose to live his life Olayinka Gbaiiibianitra ·· We suspend daily celebration, tn love, strength, softness, with ex Dorothy Horton' •' dally humanness. All of us drift in ceptional Insights splritaully and Cynthia Keenan • to the forgetrult\ess or being half Intellectually. How many of us awake. We forget to live the lives have that kind of courage or com Theresa McGuire · By Mark Merzdorf the Republicans can starr them. we value, to value ourselves, each mitment to ourselves, let alone to Debra Monroe Why, It's almost like a New Years other. We are rudely reminded of each other, to our world??? Jody Oesterreicher Is the City or Chicago ready for a Eve party. But then, how many our intended phllosophy by tragic Answer me this. Beverly Pertent Black Mayor? Don't bet on lt. times has a Blaek run for mayor? .interruptions in our uncon- Natalle Mk:beala Stnce the Democratic primary, I Some Washington supporters Eleanor Porter have been asked for reaction to the told me that, "the time is now." Jacqueline Prince mayoral election. I have tried to My response was, "great, how do Jody Waldman disguise my sentiments concern you propose to throw out the racial Theresa WoffOrd ing the race, but time is runntng question?" Those supporters Ronald Wojtecki · '· · out. Harold Washtngton may lose stared at me in disbelief. How the race for mayor. could I shatter their joy of a Black RESEARCH COORDJN~'r<,!R Washtngton wUI not lose the elec mayoral candidacy by suggesting Jody Waldman tion because he lacks Intelligence. , he could lose? ADVERTISING He has plenty of that. InteUigence Washington races an uphill bat Kevin Thomas- Is hardly an Issue raised by most tle. The dirt which will be thrown GRAPHICS voters. tn his direction may cause him to ' ~ hriS ~~It' reflect on why he allowed himself ·.· ·.. Washlngton wUI not lose the elec to be drafted for this ktnd of abuse. AI Krasauskas · tion for lack of Issue orientation. Washington needs help. Lots ot • _Tracy Suzuki He Is a man of ideas and solutions. help. If Bernard Epton does ·· · ... rhn .saacs ·~ ·~ .: ~ ·" But solutions to problems rarely nothtng controversial, or dumb; play a role In Chicago politics. ){i.n~e Rincon debating Washington more than Washtngton will not lose the elec once would fall tnto the last .S~ott Sackett tion because he Is factng a can · .Gary Carl~ • didate of superior quality. All of us category, Epton can make history for the Republican party. PHOJOGRAPHY"EOITOR • realize quality has nothtng to do Little has been said about the · · · · ·Alex Taylor with Chicago mayor candidates. Lattno vote. These are the voters ..-: P~oJC?<?~rJiE~·-~ ·, Washington may lose the elec- wbo hold the future of Chicago in · , $~o~e La l!~e ,• . lion beCause he Is Black. And any their hands. If the Latin vote goes political observer in Tile City of for Harold Washington, Chicago 8obW~Il · .;· Chicago knows that being Black is will have a Black mayor. If the Rudolph FIOfellCe,•· · tbe greatest voter llabUity or all. vote splits, or Is fragmented, the Peter Rindsliopf · I remtnd you of the candidates .Republicans will be dancing tn the luanTaVbr repeating their pledge ·to keep streets. CONTRIBUT!N C,~~ racial matters out or 1he electl,on. Many politicians discount ·• the .. Mark MerzdOO For the most part, they did. But Latino vote tn this . city. Harolll, ;COlumbia Chronicle edlto~ were tniUated tn the Society of Prof-lonal that didn't stop party hardliners Washington can't afford tO dis,-.' :JOUI'Il8lllta, Sigma Delta Cbl, Feb. :M. Above, Mark Mendorf, Les FACULTY ADVISOR from dropptng a "what If," line to COWJt anybody. If Chicago doesn'( Brownlee, faculty advllor, Maryanne Glllltlno. Other memben IDclucle les Brownlee their ward bosses; who tn tum let put a Black into the mayors desk' Iii ·. ·' A.li)'IOII Buckley, KeaDeth Grec, Dorotby Horton and Du Pompeii. the word lUter down tbata vote for 11183, It may be anotber ten ye•ff;l' ?t• Pboto by Alex Taylor Daley would be a vote for the befQretheygetachance. ..,." r·-.'' ,.....,.........,,.....__________________ ,........, 81ac11,t r.or polltlcar wrtters, Cblca(IO<ta r ..• I b' Ch . I I The money Is pouring In from always full of surprises. Wh7o··· The .Co urn Ia . rome e we comes com ~ everywbere. From Springfield to would have believed that tbe racjl '' . · · . · ~ · d t' f d . Wdllngton. Bernie Epton never for mayor would not only be racy, ~ ·r,nents, C ritiCISm:~ , an reac IOnS rom rea erS.· lmew he had 10 many friends In but racial. : Letters are subject to editing. All material sub- hl'h Pla ces But then no Rarely are the luues of Chicago • ,.