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Sports Nation reacts to 2001 Fall movie SporRJiC6:1VED tragedy SE? 2 G 2001 Pages 10 and 11 15 Back Page COLUMBIA Columbia responds to terrorist attaCKS LIBRARY 0 College takes action These efforts are being organized through the Institutional Advancement Office. during tragic times Paul Chiaravalle. the college's newly appointed chief of staff. said Columbia simply wanted be involved in the massive By Ryan Adair relief effort taking place across the coun Executive Editor try. ··we really fe lt that we needed to do There's no question the recent tragedy something." he said . that has crippled New York City and The college is also planning two sepa Washington. D. C .. has indeed affected rate blood drives in association with the the nation as a whole. The repercus. ions American Red Cross for faculty. staff and of Sept. II 's attack have been fe lt from students as the fall semester gets undcr California to Maine. Chicago. the coun wa). Details are pending from th~ OITicc try's third largest city. and now the nurn of Student Affairs. ber one economic center. is certainly not Besides the relief efforts put forward b) immune to the threat of such an assault. the school. administrators also acknowl Beyond the feelings of shock and sor edge the emotional toll such events can row. a tragedy of these proportions has ha~e on the college community. In reached each and every American. l lerc response. the Office of Human Resources at Columbia. the school is stepping up has set up a variety of counseling servic efforts to aid those in dire need" ho ha' c es available to the facult) and stalf "ho been directly affected b) the>e acts. ma) be struggling "ith the shock and The college is current!) ~xploring the aftermath of the assaults. option of establishing a scholarship fund ··we hope that b) setting up this service, that "ill aid students from the Ne" Yor~. it may help to answer any questions." said , ew Jersey and the Washington. D.C., Rhonda Hart. from Human Resources. area who may have lost a loved one in the "We wanted them [faculty and stafl] to attacks. Also in the works is the know that we are there for them and that Columbia College New York Relief Fund we really do care." which wi ll assist families and friends of The counseling services are availal>le those who may have died or been dis from the Salvation Army Family. the Dwayne M. Thomas/Chronicle abled by the Sept. II attacks. College Family Institute at Northwestern faculty and staff may have deductions WCRX station s upervisors Cheryl Langston (left) and Joel Yeast work on coverage of taken from their weekly payroll or they the tragic events in New York and Washington DC. can write a check payable to the fund. See Efforts, page 2 New office created to ease employment on campus 0 Student hourly minimum wage Student Employment Office. Assisting Evans will be said. Vickie Hayes, who has been the coordinator for the The office is already implementing new steps. Starting jumps 24 percent from last semester campus student employment over the past I 5 years. this summer the minimum wage for students was Currently departments at Columbia, including the increased to $7 per hour from last year's rate of $5.65 By Neda Slmeonova work-aid and work-study programs hire students for per hour. News Editor other functions such as tutors and part-time temps. The According to Evans, a brief survey of the colleges in authorization process was confusing, said Hayes, as the Chicago area showed that Columbia's base rate of some of the student employees had to get processed $5,65 per hour was among the lowest current pay rates In an effort' to reduce confusion and better assist stu through the Career Center for the Arts and Media, and among other colleges. This resulted in Acting Vice dent employees and their supervisors, the Office of others would go directly to payroll. President of Student Affairs Mark Kelly's decision to Student Affairs announced the formation of the Student "We are trying to have as a goal for all students [who keep the summer rate. The new program was recently Employment Office. are] currently enrolled and have a job to get through approved by Mike DeSalle, the vice president of Finance Over the years, the number of students employed by here. As long as they are working on campus they will at Columbia. Columbia has grown to approximately 850 students, be processed through the Student Employment Office," Evans thinks the new hourly wage will remain the which led to the development of the Student Evans said. same for the next several years. "The college wants to Employment Office. It will serve as a center to tend to The new Student Employment Office will deal with all see how much money we really are going to spend at this the needs of students seeking employment on campus student employees, which will help speed and ease the rate so they are probably going to keep it at this rate for and provide support to their supervisors. authorization process. · the next two years," Evans said. Maxine !;:vans, who previously worked as the associ "Everybody will benefit, it will make the process Changes are also being made to the requirements for ate director of the Financial Aid Office and managed the smoother for the departments, for students and definite Federal Work-Study program, is now heading the ly for payroll, who deal with the paperwork," Hayes See Employment, page 3 College faces changes in structure and administration 0 Columbia gets organized when the final agreement came from th~ School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ate division and Doreen Bartoni is dean with restructuring and creation College Council. which encompasses the Liberal of the School of Media Arts, which Under the new plan each of Columbia's Education department along side the encompasses such departments as Fi lm of new administration roles academic departments are organized to fit Math and Science departments. Odim, and Video, Television, Journalism and under one of the four new schools. The who is former chairperson of the Liberal Interactive Multimedia, among others. By Ryan Adair deans of the newly formed schools are Education department, received a Ph.D. The appointment of Bartoni comes after responsible for supervising their respec from Northwestern University and is a much controversy surrounding Executive Editor tive departments and divisions, in addi leading specialist in African-American Columbia's initial candidate named for tion to overseeing executive activities history and gender studies. She is also a the position of dean of the School of With the commencement of this aca that support the college as a whole. Fulbright scholar and author of For Media Arts. Wade Roberts, chair of the demic year, the college has completely "As an institution, we need to change," Women and the Nation. Interactive Multimedia department, had implemented the new structure approved said Columbia President Warrick L. Leonard Lehrer from New York been appointed by the college to head the last semester by Columbia administra Carter. "The restructuring plan will create University is the college's dean of the school, but that choice met with stem tors. mechanisms by which these concerns can School of Fine and Performing Arts, criticism as it was revealed Roberts had Set to give the college a more organized be answered. We need to work collective which supervises the Theater, Music and been accused of fabricating an article he format, the restructuring process took lit ly and will make sure it is as broad based Dance departments. In other appoint as possible." ments, Keith Cleveland, of the Graduate tle more than a year for approval and See~page2 caused some controversy last spring Cheryl Johnson-Odim is head of the School, is now acting dean of the gradu- o.:Jvr S1 News and Notes :.:/ 'career Center for Arts and , UJ arNJ«td.iCJ helps students find jobs ( ~II . ) I H I I · ~t"be~ tsf lobltlllg for pa1d work on campus th1s semes ter can get help 1n the search from Columb1a 's Career Center for Arts and Med1a at 623 S Wabash Ave 1n SUite 300 Career adv1sors can help students find JOb opportumt1es both on and off campus For more mformallon call (312) 344 - 7280 and ask to talk to a career adv1sor. or check out JOb leads online at www.colum edu/student-hfe/careerplannlngr. ndex.html Campus safety and security For the commencement of the new academ1c year the Department of Campus Safety and Secunty has released a list of safety and secunty tips. - Within campus facilities: Never leave your belongmgs unattended. Never leave an office or residential door unlocked, even for a few minutes.