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Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago Columbia Chronicle College Publications 3-3-1997 Columbia Chronicle (03/03/1997) Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_chronicle Part of the Journalism Studies Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Columbia College Chicago, "Columbia Chronicle (03/3/1997)" (March 3, 1997). Columbia Chronicle, College Publications, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_chronicle/375 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Columbia Chronicle by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. THE CHQONICLE 0 !" CO L U Ml) CO LLI~C I~ C II c 1\ c 0 VOL. XXX No. 18 March 3 1997 Fin. Aid workers suspended Drinking on the job costs one month's pay By Bnb Cbiaritn According to sources. Pendry wa~ not re pri lni'CJtigatirc l:'diror manded in any way. Financial Aid Director John Olino refused to comment on Columhia 's course or Financial Aid Ad\'isor Diane Brazier and recep actimt. tionist M:1rlita Da vis were each suspended last DircclOr of Human Resources Paul Johnson week for one month withnut pay. rcfu scJ to comment on the investi gation. hut did The suspensions. equal to the longest suspen say suspensions at Columhia arc rare. sions in Columhia·s history. came after the school's According 10 Johnson, Columbia has i;sucd administration investigated allega than ten suspensions in tions of on- the-job drinking. last eight years. the amount prompted by a Feh. 24 story in the ti me Human Resoun.:es has Chronicle. isted. During !hal time. !he As tirst reported last weck.the suspe nswn was a alle-gations were made by a long, equal to Brazier Financial Aid Department work and Davis' penal ty. aiJc. who wished to remain aJH.Hlymous, for mer Information ahout any di st·i pli nary action hcforc Financial Aid Department work aide Robert Human Resources was created was unavailahlc. Ste,·cnson and a Financial Aid advisor who also While il is unknown if Brazier and Davis admit wanted to remain anonymous. ted to the all ccations during the College's in vesti They each alleged that when Brazier. Da vis and gation. acco;(]ing to a \tatcmcnt .. _issued hy 19 year-old Pendry drank. they drank in Brazier's Columbia Counsel Da rryl! Jones, ··columbia's oftke between the hours of 5 and 6 p.m .. at which investigation supported the allegat ions." When tele time the Financial Aid office closes. phoned. Jones refused to comment further. Columbia brass makes it Fashion tougher for drug dealers Passion By Maria Tacderas voice mai l phones have been Staff Writer used in hi gh schools and certain areas of Chicago. while being Model Lancaster In the Fall of 1996. touted as a means to stop drug Columbia's powers-that-be dealing, as drug dealing is con slwws off a black switched from Ameritech and nected wi th pagers in public Sheffield Systems' subversive, opinion. silk crepe sheath voice mai l- accessible public Yet Traci Cargo, assislanl to phones to those of rival MCI the vice presi den! of fi nance at with a double skirt Metrocom, whose non- Columbia, said that the change and block-lined v o i c e was purely mail accessi profit-mo ti decollete. Fashion ble retrieval vated. system is w columnist Sandra touted as a never saw method to any mo ney JrayLor undresses slop drug ( f r o m dealing. Amerilech and Sheftield the myth behind the Non-voice mail accessible Systems)," Cargo said. " I'd phones do not allow a caller to walk by and see students lined dress. enter extra digits after a call is up to use the phone. Now, we connected. a process that is nec gel 10 percent from Metroco m. " essary to enter a number into Cargo also contends that the someone's pager or access an school has housed Mctrocom See page... ........ 7 ans wering machine or voice mail syste m remotely. Non- See Phones, next page Photo by PaJml Barin INSIDE Students a lucrative market for credit cards 'Spend now, pay la te r,' is m antra tn college By Cla udia Rivera application. After doing so, the Student :-. of America." whic h Stc~ff Writl'r applicant may 1101 actual ly expect provitks lo\\L'St ai rfarl':-., a tran.·l to he receiving a card in the mail ing s~..· rv i cc and purchase war The concept of "spend now hut. once it arrives. it hccomes rantiL'S . Amcrkan E\prc's ofkrs and pay later" has caught the :1 "Student nlch lur \lu impossihlc to di sctrd. \ ;1rd" ... attention Of Jllany COil Slllllers dl'nts enrolled in a four~ y\..·ar L'PI " I currently have nne s t o r ~..· who lind it easier to make pu r lq!L' o r uni\L'r~i t y. credit can.! hut I am loo~inc. mto c..:hases or go on trip~ wit hout c..:on t\ 1 thl' l llPiliL'II( of fL' L\.'1\ Jill.! ,I getting a Vi~a card," ~:tid :1 11 tcmplation. Credit card compa unidcntilll.·U Columbia ( 'ollL·i.!c L'fL'thl r.1rd. t ilL' burro" 111!~ h ~nu nies arc now targeting that mar siUdent. ~ hl'!.!lll\ li\U;llh .It .)-lOU tll: S500. " For Better or keting to a group easily persuad hul end quu:J... I} 1,11,.... Card i:-. suer~ .'-ouch as Vi.,a, ,..,...t,~..·' ·' ed hy that philosophy-college the m a:-. :1 r :ull 1..., u:-.t'd \l:ul} Verse, "debuts this week American 1 ::\pre~ ., and s tudents. (11\ll'~ :11\llll'll'llll'lll tll ,\, llltldl ,\\ with poetry from security Mas te rCard ha ve spl'l'ial pro Many st u dent ~ tJon 't have .'f,),OOO 1:- ofk!l'd to the cud grams fo r card mcn l hcr~ who arc officers Patricia Ridge steady johs or saviugs. yet they in colkgL'. hold~..-r. and Corporal Defo.rest arc considered to he a lun:llivl.' " r\II L'I h,\\'111 !.! Il l \ \'1~.1 ~o:.11d " Visa's 'ln~ta n t R L·w:1n l ' King market hecause they arc likel y to lo r .1hout ll\t' wcrl' Offers' inc!ULk:-. ~t u dcn t hreaJ... .... lfl~llllh-, , the~ carry hig halanccs d ue to undisci tlflcllll!! 1111..' :1 t 'lt'tlil lllL' I L'. I ~L' llf with airli n e~ o fkrinc. di,l'lHIIIh pline<] spcn<ling. .. :-.ud \. a .11 on airline IIL' kl 'b ;1;1d l l'l : uk J~ ~ -LOOO~ Vtl'~ ~t·111o1 Columh1.1. " It h.l\l' been Al though student s may no t ~ur h a~ Body and Bath WorJ... ~ ... mu ~ t hl'L' :IU.\L' I \\:1' doiiH.! 1l':1lh \\l'il have johs, many times ;Ill it 1 : 1k c~ ~aid lkathl'r ( 'orn w...-11. With Ill} 11\UIIIIJJ~ jl~ l ~ lllt'llj,, but is a completed appl icatinn to .)!L' I Con:-.umcr Credit ~bnag~o.·r !tll no\\ I' m 111 trouble." a card. Some ~ t mknts g~..· t Visa. "We h ; I \ 'L' ;1 1:11 1. Wlllll'l and ,\bnv ... tudcnh P\\ ll ~.·,~.·d!t intrig ul.'d w ith frcl.' g ilh ~ u c h a ~ ~ pring :-.enc:-. o l tll fcr, th.1t :lfL' L·.ud' ,uid 1\Hl\[ , 1!\ ' t·.llt\ 1!1!.! T- ~ h irls. w at l.'r hotl !t.:~ ami l.'Vl'll L·o n:-. tantly rhang111g." h.il.lllL'l'\ to11 l n ~h t.u I;·'! nil free rhone tard ~ o l k rnJ h\' C ll d Ma~tl'rCa rd tl l kl ~ a pro~l:llll i !-.!-.tJCr~ for !-.illlply lllli ng ;1111 an l':li kd " Out:-.tand1ng t 'olk·gc St·t· C n ·dit , m·xt pagt· 2 N E W S M a r c h 3 , 1 '9-~ 7 TIIE CHRONICLE Bittenbinder urges students to take control Journalism Department Top Chicago cop warns thieves prey on the weak 623 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 802 By Sheryl Tirol Bittenbinder said. "But we can teach our Officer, it happened so fast!" Chicago, Dlinois 60605 Corrtspontknt swimmers how to keep sharks off." A few simple suggestions BiUenbindcr He went on to say that, usually, thieves provided for avoiding victimhood werel News desk: On Monday evening of last week, a look for weak people. lowed-move, learn to manage private (312) 663-1600 Ext. 5343 Columbia College work aide was supposed to "You can not be vulnerable because your places and if you be on a nonnal walk home. But along Balbo, body language says a lot about you. Thieves don't like someone on the elevator-get out! Photo desk: between Wabash and State Street, a man dart don't want to be physically beaten, identified Follow your instincts. (312) 663-1600 Ext. 5732 ed out of a dark alley under the el tracks, or, obviously, caught by the police," Bittenbinder specifically addressed the grabbed her purse and ran off. Bittenbinder commented. crime carjacking. He said to always drive Ironically, guest speaker Detective J.J. He went on to say that lowering your head with your car doors locked and, if someone Advertising desk: Bittenbinder came and spoke to students when you walk past someone tells a thief does get into your car, to get out- there is no (312) 663-1600 Ext.