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RECEIVED COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO VOLUME 32, NUMBER 20 WWW.CCCHRONICLE.COM MARCH 22, 1999 CAMPUS SPORTS Government warning WrestJemania: Vital Lewis, Holyfield Ill students about drugs pick of the week! boxing debacle! on spring break Distance learning comes Low spring enrollment equal closer to reality here Kimberly A. Brehm ly involved in negotiations with budget shortfall for Columbia Staff Writer various companies that provide By James Boozer & each department, suggestin g seven percent thi s semeste the services to offer distance Bruno Va nderVelde possible areas to cut back The department is the larg.est How would you like to attend learning classes over the spending. In addition, the Columbia. class and never leave home? Internet," said Katz. "My plan is memo stated that $300,000 in Gall doesn't see the short According to Journalism profes­ to find a suitable company to cuts have already been made as a long-term problem sor Len help us get across the board. Columbia and fee ls the Strazewski, existing As this paper went to print, will be able to rectify the you may be c l asses DeSalle could not be reached Iem before the beginning oft able to into Web for comment. experience fall 1999 semester. form. In The letter also stated that higher addition, I When asked what certain cuts already made could l ea rning the school has if enrol need to get be overturned should the affect­ within the interested continues to decline, Gall ed departments make speci fi e the school would eval comfort of faculty to appeals to the Finance office. every option available-- e your natur­ look into Department representatives it meant tapping into al habitat. w h a t who discussed this matter with S o o n , courses school's $40 m iII ion the Chronicle do not yet know ment fund. Gall noted that i Columbia w o u I d where to cut their spending. s tud ents work in would be up to Columbia They're awaiting a re vised bud­ could have this type of Board of Trustees to make get sheet from the administra­ a decision. the oppor­ learning tion that I ists the previously Generally speaking, tunity to environ­ take class­ established cuts. endowment fund is the ment." Randall Albers, chairman of es exclu­ If all the Fiction Writing department, s i v e I y goes well, said although he had to cancel from home Katz said a via · the you bave a computer? Are you few dis­ I 0 classes this semester, he noted that the school's budget Internet. the commute? This could be you ! a n c e shortfall is not likely a long­ Various .___ c_l_a_ss_r_o_o_m_n_ex_t_y_e_a_r_! -----....J learning faculty c l asses term problem. Albers said that members attended a seminar on may be offered as early as the fall it's not surprising to see enroll­ distance learning, which uses the of 2000. This depends, however, ment level off after 30 years of Internet to instruct students. on departmental interest. remarkable growth. Strazewski said the instructors Strazewski said he is research­ Another department chair­ up two percent. learned positive information ing for appropriate journalism person, who asked not to be According to informati about the concept in order to classes to experiment with. "I named, suggested that the cuts from the Institutional begin experimenting. may teach a graduate class first. could be made in each depart­ and Planning Dept., the num Brian Katz, Developmental They can work on their own and ment's capital, personnel, or of new students this spr Webmaster in the Academic have the capability to roll with miscellaneous budgets. went down, from 871 to Dean's department, is looking the likely telecommunication Lack of growth has not last spring. However, con into purchasing a license for Web glitches-- they won't pan ic." affected the Film and Video ing students came back, as CT software. "It's all very pre­ department. Richard Coken, the denced in an increase from liminary right now. I'm current- assistant chairman, reported 6,497 to 6,595. see Distance, page 3 that enrollment there is up Proposed Center to "document" city Who said they weren't Jotbam Sederstmm times, and would be a place students, as well as a base for Staff Writer where people could go to con­ production, the center has been a making good films in verse about their projects. Even loose model for the documentary A group of full-time faculty at the dance program would be initiative. Chicago anymore? Columbia is discussing a docu­ invol ved, said Roberts, as a way The Center for Documentary mentary initiative that would to "document emotions." Studies at Duke University has archive Chicago's times and cul­ "lt seems to me," said also been investigated. Founded ture while merging the school's Academic Dean Caroline Latta, in 1989, Duke's program offers discipl ines and resources. "that there's a natural niche in all classes and resources to its stu­ The Urban Documentary of the disciplines we teach to dents, as well as those from two Center, as it is tentatively being explore the concept of the docu­ other area uni versi ties, and works called, would be used as a mentary so that Columbia with others within that communi­ resource, production and archival becomes known not just as a cen­ ty. center for students and faculty. ter for documentary film but a "We have a chance to break Every discipline - from film center for documentary in the some new ground," said Roberts. and video to dance and music - widest sense." But ground-breaking is still would play a part in documenting Two decades ago, mass media far from reality. Without a crisp a city that Fiction Writing and TV was limited to televis ion, radio conception of what the documen­ facu lty member, Wade Robens, and print. But today a variety of tary center wi II offer, building says "truly deserves to be docu­ media are competing for the pub­ space and funding is yet unclear. mented." lic's attention and the distribution While the McArthur "We're trying to forge a new process - wi th computerized Foundation and the Rockefeller definition for what currently con­ technology - _has become more Foundation have been cited as stitutes documentary," said complex. possibilities for funding, organiz­ Roberts, Interim Chairman of the "The distinctions between the ers aren't sure when the center documentary initi ative. media are becoming so hard to will be fully functioning, nor "It's an ongoing project to see. There's no real ownership in when a space will be decided on. study and celebrate documentary terms of whose medium has the "I'm certain that there's work in all of its forms in a upper hand," said TV depanment money available," said Associate decidedly different way." faculty member Brian Read. Academic Dean, Christine Contrary to what most people Currently, a documentary cen­ Somervill. "but as the conception consider a documentary, the cen­ ter at Columbia exists, but its Donnie Seals, Jr./Chronic/e of the center evolves, that will Columbia students Alexander Rojas, left, and Luis Perez, middle, ter would encourage reporting in focus is primarily film and video. determine where we go to look all formats, simultaneously at Offering classes and resources to for it." film their Film Tech I project, "Feces \'S. Boy," starring Alberto Villa nueva, right. 03V\3:.J.::rn MARCH 22, 1999 .f.. .f .a.s.t. ...f .o.o.d? Fly Home. Mom's sure to make your favorite for dinner. 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South Loop Review. h Submission forms are available in the English Dept.. 33 E. Congress. third floor. Artwork or photography should 'ca ptor~ the Center put flavor of the South Loop area.· Publication of South Loop Re1·iew is scheduled for late in the semester.