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THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE Playboy Awards Student Fellowship By Nancy Lalchas port of such outstanding students story she wrote and eventually SIIJff Wriler as Tanisha, we hope to maintain would like to start her own maga­ Chicago's high standards of jour­ zine geared to African-American Columbia College student nalism excellence." families. Tanisha Douglas has been named Nat Lehrman, chairman of Ute Douglas advises Columbia jour­ the 1994 recipient of the Playboy journalism department, said Dou­ nalism students to take advantage Fellowship in Magazine Journal­ glas showed preparation with a of the journalism department's pub­ ism, a $1 ,000-award established by minimum of supervision. "Tanisha lications. Even if a student isn't able the Playboy Foundation to encour­ has been with Columbia for several to complete an internship, there's age students to pursue careers in years and has learned all the les­ no excuse not to have clips, she journalism. sons we try to teach about journal­ said. Douglas, a senior journalism ism," he said. "She's a good writer, She also credits the journalism major, has worked on two of the she's a good reporter, and she's faculty with assisting her develop­ journalism department's publica­ imaginative." All qualities that, ment as a writer and urges fellow tions. She is an associate editor for according to Lehrman, result in journalism students to get to know Columbia's annual magazine Chi~ engaging writing. their instructors. "There's so much cago Arts and Communication, In addition to the Playboy Fel­ there for us, we have a gold mine," and a former associate editor of the lowship, Douglas has won a John Douglas said in describing the jour­ department's monthly newsletter, Fischetti Scholarship and received nalism department. Inside Journalism. an internship stipend from the Chi­ Douglas is the fifth Columbia "Tanisha's talent and leadership cago Tribune Foundation. student to receive the Playboy Fel­ role in the journalism program at Upon graduation, Douglas lowship, which was established in Columbia College make her a de­ hopes to combine her interest in 1990. Fellowship recipients may serving recipient," said Cleo Wil­ magazine journalism with her love use the award to help pay their tu­ son, executive director of the Play­ for fiction writing. She is currently ition or to support an internship. boy Foundation. "Through our sup- seeking a publisher for a children's J udd Winnick ofMTV's The Real World speaks to Columbia students at the Residence Center on Thesday, Feb. 21. · Judd Winick Gets Real With Columbia Students By Katherine Huebner stand the disease. He said he no Comspondent longer saw Pedro as a person with a deadly problem. He learned com­ Students at the Residence Cen­ passion for Pedro as a person strug­ ter came to hear a funny lecture gling to live a normal life. from MTV'sJudd Winick last Thes­ Winick's lecture attempted to day. What they got was a serious educate Columbia students about talk about AIDS. AIDS and breakdown misconcep­ Winick's closest roommate, tions about how the disease is Pedro, died from the disease last spread. He also showed a slide pre­ year. He was a homosexual. sentation of Pedro on vacation with After Pedro's death, Winick de­ the cast of "The Real World" in cided that he had to tell his friend's Hawaii. story to raise awareness about liv­ "I thought he was exceptional," ing with someone who has AIDS. said Jennifer Gillett. a freshman When he became a cast mem­ music business major. "I am glad I ber of the show The Real World, attended." Photo for the Chronicle by Kristine Hung Winick met Pedro, who was also Winick is scheduled to appear Tanisha Douglas, a Columbia College senior and the 1994 rec:ipient.ofthe Playboy Foundation with the cast, and the two became at 4 more colleges in the next few Fellowship talks with Christie Hefner, chairman and chiefexecutive officer of Playboy Enterprises, friends and later roommates. weeks and plans to continue lectur­ Inc., who presented her with the award. Winick said Pedro taught him and ing to students through December other roommates to better under- of this year. Filin School Pays Off By Bob Chlarito Scenes weaves together the sto­ and R & B songs. But their pri­ Staff Writer ries ofthree different families (two mary goal at the moment is to get African-American and one Puerto the film released in time for the Recent Columbia College Rican), showing how everyday Cannes Film Festival in May. graduates George Tillman and people can work through common ''The icing on the cake would Robert Teitel have proven that if situations with the support of their be to get the film out in time to be you want something bad enough, families. seen on ' Directors Night' at you do not bave to stray from your Teitel said they never consid­ Cannes," Gasmere said. beliefs to attain it. ered waiting for Hollywood money Tillman and Teitel have also In the case of Tillman, 25, and to finance the film, a more tradi­ formed Menagerie Films, a minor­ Teitel, 26, the goal was to make a tional way of making movies. ity-orientated film company based movie on their own in Chicago and "There was no question that we in Chicago, and they both would sell it in Hollywood. That goal be­ would do it on our own," he said like to work on more films about came a reality. Scenes for the Soul, When the time came to try to lower-class African-Americans. produced in Chicago for $150,000, sell the movie, Tillman and Teitel They have come a long way was bought by Hollywood's Jackson drove to Hollywood with their vid­ since they first met in the & McHenry Entertainment for $1 eotape and their dreams. After a Roosevelt dorms in 1988, and million and will be released by Sa­ month oflooking for an agent, they Teitel said he will not forget where voy Entertainment in September. decided on John Mass of the Will­ he came from. "Columbia gave me Written and directed by Tillman iam Morris Agency. Once Mass the opportunity to work with many and produced by Teitel, Scenes for was hired, it didn't take long for different people," he said. "With­ the Soul took three years to make. Tillman and Teitel to become no­ out that, I wouldn't be where I am It was financed by 44 different ticed by Hollywood. toda y. " people and was not shown to any "We only went to one place Doreen Bartoli, one of film companies until completed [Jackson & McHenry] and it Tillman's former film professors, According to Alan Gasmere of worked out great creatively and fi­ was not surprised by Tillman and the William Morris Agency, nancially," Mass said Teitel's success. "George and Bob Tillman and Teitel's unusual strat­ Along with their million-dollar represent the idea that if you want egy paid off. deal with Jackson & McHenry something, go out and get it. If you ''They bet on themselves and came a guarantee to produce ttleir have the Vision everything else will now are paying back the investors second film. Tillman is currently fall into place," she said. who believed in them from the working on the script for their next Columbia College graduates start." Gasmere said. "It is impres­ film, tentatively titled Soul Footl. wbo worked on their film were Chip. sive that two guys fmanced and Currently, Tillman and Teitel Nusbaum and Harry Jackson, as Mel Jackson(left) and Cleodls Ingram appear in Scenes for the filmed the movie in Chicago where are working on the soundtrack for well as Cleodis Ingram and Marcia Solll, wlalch was written, directed, and produced by Columbia there are limited resources." Scet~es, which will consist of rap Wright wbo both starred in il CoUep craduates George Tillman Jr. and Robert TeiteL FEBRUARY 27, 1995 2 Columbia's Animation Technology Boosted By Neil Miller pecially in integrating with 3-D these rapidly growing fields."~ By Cheryl Woodruff and GresJ'tac,ek . eorr.. pcnt~n~t graphics. believe this partnership will ere. College Press Seruices •• · Goldbogen said, "In particu­ ate even more job opportunities ) .. , Special effects, animation and lar, this gift allow~ us to expand for them in the years ahead and When looking for the first "real" job, college graduate:: without other technological advances at our advanced animation courses they, in tum, will help create IIIDftl specific professional training tend to downgrade their abilities and Columbia College received a big opportunities for WavefrontThcb­ wind up underemployed. to include individual and team The smart ones hit the ground running right by taking a close look boost from a $550,000 donation studio courses." nologies," Nowakowski said. at their skills and the big picture of a given field, then fitting the from Wavefront Technologies Martin Nowakowski, regional Professionals in the entenain­ pieces together.