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NEW COLUMBIA CHRONICLE CLASSIFIEDS Award winning Photo editor visits Sirott; Hardwork Free for students instructor college pays off and faculty Page3 Centerfold Page7 PageS COLUMBIA CHRONICLE Vol. 10 No.3 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, CHICAGO Nov. 9, 1981 Misunderstandings cancel CC show Left, " When I found out it was definitely going to air I went over to NBC ... they were thrilled. " Del/en bach Right' " The letter stated no broadcast use ... they should of stopped produc immediately. " Lyman WMAQ-TV. <Channel 5) for ced line," Lym an said. "The letter film and video tape competitions. WMAQ-TV who was in the show gram air ed. Ly man was called the postponing of " Television stated no broadcast use. When they He says that Dellenbach then was aware of the " Image Union" alter con sultation with Ad News" a Columbia student saw that they should have stopped rewrote the letter on .her own connection. " When I found out it ministrative Dean Bert Gall. the produced documentary that was to production Immediately they did several times without his was definitely going to air," she program was postponed until have appeared Oct. 2 on the WTTW not." knowledge. said, " I went over to NBC and told things could be worked out with Cb. 11 " Image Union" program . Passin said his students were The final letter, according to everyone, they wer e thrilled.'' WMAQ. The project was produced . by caught in a series of misunderstan- Passin did not contain the broad The show was due to air Oct. 2, In the next few weeks an accord Barrie Dellenbach of Jim Potssin's cast release clause. and that's when trouble began. It was wor ked out between Columbia visual production seminar class. It " If the press got hold of Finally. on tbe day befor e the appears that WMAQ-TV station and WMAQ. Channel 5 would not was delayed after complaints from this they'd make NBC look proj ect was due to be taped at manager Fred DeMarco was not oppose airing of the piece, but they Fred DeMarco, station manager of Channel 5 Dellenbach met with aware of the production until he would not issue a statement con WMAQ-TV. like the real vii/ian here. " Lionel Bolen of WMAQ, who com saw it m entioned in TV Guidon the doning the program . The program was taped in the - DeMarco posed a new letter in Dellenbach 's day of the airing. Columbia isolated ilsell from the newsroom of WMAQ-TV band on presence. At a meeting with DeMarco called Columbia to talk progr am, saying all decisions in the street with the Channel's re dings that ballooned into total con Lyman, Dellenbach said that Bolin to Thaine Lyman, who was out of the matter are lo come through porters. fusion. commented that the tape was not town at the time. He was reler ed to Dellenbach. In the production, WMAQ per "The whole idea from the start," to be used for commercial broad Passin. passin said that DeMarco Passin said that Dellenbach did sonnel talk about their jobs and TV he said, " was for the program. if it cast. told him, " There is no way this not sign the contract with " Image news in general. was good enough, to be aired on Dellenbach did not read the let tape will run tonight" Union". he c Passinl did, and I hat the documentary was copy-right While the show is not an expose, 'Image Union.' Why should the ter at the time because she did not He added that at another point in there are some critical comments students put in the m assive expect substantial changes to be the conversation DeMarco said, by Columbia. and that the school. about the r atings and economics of amount of time required for this made. " I 'd be the last one to suppress therefore still has responsibilily tv news. WMAQ r eporters Dick type of proj ect, to have it put on a T he taping began the next day anything. if the press got hold of lor the project. The show was scheduled to run Kay and Tom Korzeniowski ex shelf and be seen by maybe 30 peo and all those appearing in the pro this they'd make NBC look like the Halloween night. but was cancell press dismay over the amount of ple'!" gr am si gned f ull broadcast real villi an here." cdby WTTW. time devoted to ratings - grabb This is not the first project from releases. DeMarco was adamenl in his op Passin said he didn't see the let " We finally gave Channel t I per Ing f eature pieces during Passin's class to appear on position lo airing of the show say "sweeps" 1ratin g measurem ent ter from Bolin until a week later mission to run the program; they " Image Union", which specializcc· ing the students deceived WMA<~ and " hi t the roof" when he saw the did not run it, ·· said Columbia periods>. in independent productions, there about the project. Passin said al warning that " None of the taped Presidenl Mirron Alexandr olf. Passin said he feels WMAQ have been three previous ones. His one poinl he threatened legal ac mater ial will be used lor broad "This situation was unfortunate wanted the program sh el ved classes have also won several tion against the college if the pro- because It originally would have awards. including a first-place cast, but will become the property from a whole number of stand run opposite its own news show regional award in the American of Columbia College to be used lor " The controversies never points. The controversies nPvcr during a ratings peirod, ptting it in Film Institute/ Sony Student Com educational purposes only.'' should have occurred, but thcv did. to competition with itself. petition. Passin said that he immediatel y should have occurred, but and the result was salisfactOrv to told Dellenbach to write Bolin at no-onc.'' · According to Thaine L yman, they did, and the result Passin says that he or iginally WMAQ to clear up the mistake. Alcxandroff would not blam £' Chairman of Broadcast Com drafted a letter with Dellenbach Dellenbach said she was over was satisfactory to no anyone for the fiasco. saying it was munications at Columbia, the flap that gave Colum bia r lgbta to use whel med by the crush of getting a case or ··misinterpretation and began over a letter of authorization one. the program on public telension or the project ready for deadline and missed signals. I would not chasten from WMAQ. "They Hhe students) cable TV. as well as allowlag It to the :etter wasn't written. - Aiexandroff anyone involved. I would hope the Just illdn't read below the first be extered In a variety or lludent Dellenbach said that everyone at program will be shown." Page2 COLUMBIA CHRONICLE Nov. 9, 1981 \ ~ ) ~ f I Opinions ... Opinions ... Opinions ... Opinions.. commentary ''Think before thou speakest'' For as long as I can remember I have always loved a good politica l debate. The kind of discussion which r aises my blood pressure a f ew points and leaves m e breathless. I was involved in one of those political episodes the other day and was left speechless by my counter part's rhetoric. My opponent refered to me :os a "Radical Con servative.·· When I arrived home shaken and beat. I grabbed the dictionary and looked up the word "radical. .. The dictionary confirmed my suspi cions that I was being labeled un fairly. A radical was defined as "a person of extreme liber al views.'' A conservative '''as defined as a "per son l ending to favor the ex isting social order . distrusting of significant change.·· Somewhere along the road of growth I must have developed a The first flaw is that children perception of a limited nuclear at hand: these words arc used by split personality with regard to generally enjoy making fun about strike in Europe. What the presi the narrow rrinded and the m isin politics. On one hand. friends tell the differences in each other. Wh at dent meant to say was not rele formed: they provide a shallow me that I am a raving radical : starts out as a h•Jmorous comment vant: what he did say caused an in perception fnr those who use them. while other label me a conser soon becomes an ugly collect ion of t e rna tio n a l e mbarassmenl an attempt to explain something vative. I don't mind being called words and labels. And some of because or his inept usc of volatile which is beyond their grasp. one or the other. but the thought of those label s ar e meant to hurl the words. Statements which are ill-thought being both conservative and other child.

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