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V O L UME 33,NUMB ER 13 COLUMBIA COLLEGE C HICAGO MONDAY, JANUARY 10,2000 C AMJ •t J':• V!T At.rry SPORTS Hc,·crcnd Horton Head Studeut debt up j;uu at the Nktro PAGE2 PAGE 15 COLUMBIA Dance Center prepares to move to the South ~ LIBRAR'~ College moves ahead with its plans to bring the Center closer to campus JAMES BOOZER As a major presenter of contemporary dance in the Editor-in-Chief Mid west. the Dance Center has an attendance of more than 35,000 people each year presenting som~ of the After announcing last March to postpone plans to best international, national and Chicago-based artists. move the college's Dance Center to the South Loop, Since 1991 , the Center has presented Dance/ Africa school officials have decided to move ahead with its Chicago, the largest festival of African and African plans for the Center. American dance in orth America. At a special event "One of my goals has been to bring the Dance held last month to announce the move of the Dance Center to the South Loop," said Columbia's President Center, Gall presented architectural drawings and a John B. Duff in an interview with the Chicago Sun virtual reality video tour that highlighted the Center's Times. Duff will retire as president this summer. features. In November of 1998, school officials announced The college also officially welcomed Bonnie that the facility at 1306 S. Michigan would replace the Brooks, the new Dance Department chairperson. Dance Center's current home at 4730 N. Sheridan as a Brooks' responsibilities as chair include overseeing of part of the college's efforts to expand Columbia's all department academic activities and public pro campus. gramming of the Dance Center. Prior to coming to "The move of the Dance Center to the South Loop Columbia, Brooks was presi dent and executive direc is part of our plan to create a campus environment in tor of Dance/USA, the national dance service organi that area that will function well for the next 20 to 30 zation for eight years. ~;;;:;;;;:;;:,;;=,.-"'1 years," said Bert Gall, Columbia's Executive Vice Phil Reynolds. executive director of the Dance President. Center, will collaborate with Brooks on developing the The new site would provide twice the space of the Center's public programming. current Dance Center and will include a 275-seat "The goal is to bring dance into people's lives in black box performance space with stadium seating. new ways and become a lively resource for dance," New home for Dance Center is located at 1306 S. The Center also will include six dance studios, two said Brooks in an interview with the Chicago Sun Michigan Ave. classrooms, a sound lab, student dressing rooms, Times. "We hope to reinvent the Center in the South L-----------------------J lounge areas, and facu lty and staff offices. Loop." StudentMarket.com helps students with The faces of international students their finances Students from around the world have made Columbia their new home SYMON 0GETO and a lecturer, returned to his home country to shoot a fi lm project, several of his natives are said to have Special to the Chronicle MARY BETH COOPER shown an interest in joining Mogorosi college. With Staff Writer these desirable enrollment fi gures, it is a little difficult Symon Ogeto, advisor for international students at to doubt Mogorosi's claim. Have your college finances got you in a jam? Columbia, offers an inside look at how the number of Although there is no formal marketing program in StudentMarket.com may hold the key needed to finance international students have grown and what needs to be place to recruit international students into Columbia, your degree. done to bring more international students to Columbia. these provided findings would later pave way for the In the age of rising college tuition, students are buried establishment of a possible strategic recruitment drive. To someone like Gigi Posejpal, associate dean of in financial turmoil. Founded by students fqr students, Being one of the leading arts and communication insti International Student Affairs, it comes as no surprise that StudentMarket.com is an online student marketplace tutions in Chicago, one aim the drive will achieve is Asia still enrolls most of its students in American uni designed to help college students plan, meet and under boosting the college's foreign population relative to versities and colleges. Over recent years, this region has stand their financial needs. other local universities and colleges. Foreign students "For many students, loans make financing a higher been leading others in sending many of its students to Columbia. largely boost the national U.S. Gross Domestic Product education a reality," said StudentMarket.com Director (GDP) that is said to amount to approximately one sixth The unit of International Student Advisory in the of Student Affairs Oran Milgram, a recent graduate of the annual national revenue. Student Life Office, thro ugh the assistance of from San Jose State University. "We've found that stu In accessing total schooling cost for the 315 non Institutional research and MIS departments, unveiled dents are puzzled about the process of getting financial immigrant students, and assuming there are no scholar what may be considered important facts for Columbia's aid, and StudentMarket.com is committed to giving stu ships or any form of stipend, for this semester alone, the international student program. dents the loan resources and information they need." students will spend at least $1.8 million in the forn1 of In the I 999-2000 academic year, Columbia enroll ed 618 Company officials said they help students decipher tuition. This amount is calculated at an average rate of international undergraduates and 24 graduate students . available fi nancial options."We demystifY financial aid $5,720 per semester per student enrolled for 12 or 16 Though the actual figures indicate that this year's and let students easily take the next step," Milgram credit hours including the latest U-Pass fee of $65. So, enrollment was not as high as last year, this undergradu said. by the end of this academic year, given figures for ate population still constitute about four percent of the The site is designed to help students obtain informa undergraduates constitutes about 315 non resident (non entire college population o f approximately 9,000 stu tion about available financing. Company officials said immigrant Fl student or Jl- Exchange students) and 303 dents compared to six percent of graduate enrollment. the site guides students through the basics and speci tics resident (legal) students who have either gained Reflecting on global regional distribution, the Asian of financial aid and loans, including the difference American residence or citizenship through application, region, more particularly South Korea and Japan consti between Stafford and PLUS loans. StudentMarket.com parents, guardians or the famous visa lottery. tute 46 percent followed distantly by Europe with 25 also offers user access to the Free Application for On many occasions, legal status students, who constitute percent of the foreign population. Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). 49 percent of the greater international community, have Moabi Mogorosi, a film and video student who hap But the site isn't just for those who know what type not been largely involved in the several programs orga pened to be the first and only Msotwana student to of aid they need. The service is also equipped to assist nized in Columbi a. Reasons for this have not been attend Columbia in 1996, took credit for spreading the . students who wish to seek financial aid or approval for word about the college's unrivaled programs. Last year SEE STU DENTS , PAGE 2 SEE 5 T UOENT M A R K ET, PAGE 3 when Mogorosi, together with fe llow American students mCAMPUS r-.1£~- JANUARY 1 0, 2000 (0LUMBIA CHROHICL£ College student debt on the rise JAMES BOOZER EDITOR-IN-cHIEF PATR ICA OROZO Mae Corporation, about 60 percent of after the other without knowing what they Staff Writer undergraduate students and 96 percent of are getting into," Shanley said. Rehana now CHRISTOPHER RICHERT graduate students own credit cards. owns about I 0 or 11 credit cards. BUSINESS/ADVERTISING By the end of the holiday season, many "At [age] 17 I was working at an insur "I see it. I like it. I charge it," Rehana said. MANAGER students are left in debt and wonder what ance agency when I applied for my first "This week alone I've charged about $300 they will do next. Many college students credit card," said Sharon Rehana, a journal and I'm still not done yet," she said. "I'm a B ILLY O ' KEEFE don't realize that credit card debt can easily ism major." I didn't think I was going to 20-year-old.