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Volume 13, No. 12 Monday, April23, 1984 Columbia College, Chicago Illinois competes f or high tech b ustnesses• State offers programs for small tech businesses to get started, renovate and expand ISSC worst unemployment rates of any area has permanently lost more by: Rick Guasco state. Last month's unemployment than half of the jobs available in rate climbed a full point, to 9.5 per 1980, because of plant closings and Gleaming new office towers line cent, as 589,000 were out of work. job relocations. deadline nears, up along the East-West Tollway. Known as the High Tech Corridor, At the same time, high tech has "OUT OF 50,577 jobs, 56 per cent this strip holds the companies of been booming. Most of the high just disappeared," said the com tomorrow; computers, tele-com tech firms in the U.S. are located In mission's Lynne Cunningham. applicants needed munications, microprocessors and California's Slllcon Valley. Illinois other products of high technology. Is boplJ!& tJLC~h In on tbe .boom as F urther west from South The corridor Is one' of the most pro well; trying to keep up with chang Chicago, parts of the state seem meet that deadline. sperous business areas In the state. Ing times in business and econ<> ripe, if not already thriving ·on the by: Scott Stone mics. fruits of the high tech boom. Al Pranske said 5,000 financial aid applications have been sent to Col On the other hand, heavy In ready the state has areas which More than 33,800 financial aid umbia students in the mail in addi dustry has been suffering for years A GOOD PART of Illinois' are home to high-tech. The Cham applications for the next academic in South Chicago. South Chicago economy is based on heavy in paign-Urbana area around · the year were received by the Illinois tion to those already handed out was home to heavy Industry - and dustry. But stiff overseas competi University of Illinois has attracted State Scholarship Commission by during registration. Also, any new home to the thousands of people tion, high union wages, a poor joint research with private com the end of March. students applying for admission to who worked In Its factories and economy. and In some cases, bad panies. Fermilab, in Batavia, is However, that number is down Columbia are being sent the ap steel mllls. But the factories and company planning, combined to one of the world's foremost atomic from a year ago when the commis plications. THE FINANCIAL aid depart mills have been closing down. Jobs put heavy industry in a slump. particle accelerators. Argonne Na sion had 34,300 applications on ment is being called the "nagging are being relocated or have disap tiona! Laboratory and Abbott hand, according to an ISSC official. peared altogether. In this com South Chicago and the Lake Labs, also do research. High tech Bob Clement, director for the mother" Pranske said. He said he munity of 63,400 people, 35 per cent welcomes that type of response to Calumet area are major centers corridors along tbe Edens Ex ISSC's Office of Information Ser the "beat the deadline" posters, in are unemployed. for heavy industry. But plant clos pressway and the East-West vices said last week that he hopes class announcements and other Ings have severely hlt this blue col Tollway nurture fast-growing, all needy students who meet the ILLINOIS HAS BEEN trying to reminders to students to file their lar community. Many companies young companies. commission's qualifications and attract high technology busi have moved their operations to Sun deadlines will be able to receive applications. nesses. At the same time, for Belt states or even to other coun grants. But, he said, "we only "I would rather have that than various reasons, the state has also "The main thrust bas been to tries, where labor costs are grow your own high tech," said spend what we're allocated." some student coming into my of been losing many traditionally cheaper. COLUMBIA, like other Illinois fice and telling me he has to drop heavy Industry jobs. Norm Peterson, of the Illinois Association of Commerce and schools and agencies, strongly out of school because of a money The state was hlt badly during According to the South Chicago Community Affairs. urges students to file their finan problem," he said. the recession and had one of the Development Commission, the cial aid applications before the Unlike previous semesters, continued on Page 2 J une I cutoff date. About 700 ap where his office has scrambled at plications from Columbia students the last minute to advertise aid have been received by the ISSC. deadlines, Pranske said he has The commission plans to strictly developed a long, drawn-out. and enforce this year's application "steady" campaign which will deadline for continuing students, · soon include 4" x 8" posters in the said Clement. Applications receiv lobbies of the main buildings. ed after that will not even be con THE CURRENT shortfall in stu sidered for a full-term award he dent aid is believed to be hitting the said. New students will have until ISSC the hardest. Other federal Oct. I to get their applications in. programs such as Pell Grant and ABOUT 70 ·percent, or-roughly the Guaranteed Loan Program will 3,150 of the 4,500 currently not feel as much of a pinch as the registered Columbia students are ISSC next year. A 6 percent fund receiving some type of financial ing increase the commission got aid. for next year will not be enough to That translates into almost S8 cover the tuition increases at the million Columbia will receive this public schools. academic year and could go as According to Clement, state high as $9 million for the next year. schools are seeking more than the Nearly 7,000 students were told 6 percent tuition increases they in December. 1983 that although had expected. As a result. state they qualified for state scholar public schools will absorb more ships they would not be receiving money than usual. any because money had ran out. The ISSC had originally asked MA NY ULTIMATELY did for Sl27 million for the next receive the money, Clement said, academic year but ended up after schoo ls lowered their receiving St08 million. The ISSC estimates. However. there is no budget for the '83/84 school year guarantee the same thing will hap was St04 million . pen in the next academic year. Approximately tt8.000 students As a result. Columbia's Depart received schol arship funds from Tbe Lake Calumet region, on tbe city's far Soutbeast side, has been home to heavy industry. Tbe area has suf- ment of Financial Aid has been the commission this year with the fered since factories have closed. - advertising extensively thro~ghout number expected to remain the ' ... " ... . ,...... ' ...... ,. .. ,. - • • ''"'. • . • . '"' I -. Page 2, Columbia C hronicle Video game industry sees - Facets/ new games as slump solution Columbia Game-makers hope to renew interest . . " The reactions or the arcade business to home Cinemateque by Can a Bolotto r games brought on the business' troubles." For video game arcade operators the past yea FLAKNE AND and Dillon said they expect Film Screenings at and a half has been a period or decreasing revenues business to reach It's worst point this summer, and and disinterested game player s. t x t to to pick-up In the fall. This Is because less people wlll Still, these same Industry partlclpanr~ e_ pee be playing the games this summer, causing arcades Columbia College come out or the current slump by o erong new to shut down. Wednesday, Aprll25 1-oo p m - Debra Hill in Person things to players. Business wlll Improve next fall because arcades and screenwr!ter of Halloween) RE PRESENTATIVES from the Ba~ l y Corpora· will be introducing new games, they said. (Prod~cer lion. which besides manufacturing vodeo games. That addition or new games, such as the ones that Discussion moderated by Tony Lqeb operates video arcades throughout the country, and use laser disk technology t as in Dragons Lair), and Thursday, April 26 Williams Electronics, a video game manufacturer, the refinement or existing games to give the game (ferguson Theater) say the video game business has dropped con· more memory and sharper defined graphics, wlll 8:00p.m.- The Sorrow and the Pity slderably because or player disinterest. . bring the industry out or its slump, Flakne said. Wednesday, May 2 "One and a half years ago, It ! playing vodeo games> DILLON SAID he sees a resurgence or Interest In 6:30-A Sense of Loss was very trendy - It was a lad," said John F~akne, mechanical games, like pin ball and shuffle alley, Marcel Ophuls in Person Bally's vice-president or marketing. "Now It s set· " because they are new to the player." Williams, Wednesday, May 9 tUng down to a basic steady business." which began making pin ball machines In the 1940s 6:30-The Memory of Jl!stice FLAKNE COMPARED the playl~g or video will soon introduce a mechanical baseball game. Wednesday, May 16 games with bowling, when that forst became 11 players become Interested In the new games. popular In the 1950s. Bowling went through a fad Dlllon said, the video game Industry may he able to 6:30/8:30 p.m.- Smash P~lace stage, he said. then many alleys had to close down. recapture percent or the business lost since the Wednesday, May 23 20 p.m.-Heart of Glass The remaining alleys then settled Into a steady industry's peak in 1982 . The industry has lost as 6:30/8:30 business. . much as half or the business It had during its peak Wednesday, May 30 · Bally operates 18 arcades In the Chocago area by lod 6:30/8:30 p.m.-Hamlet (Wim Wanders) the names Bally's Aladdin's Castle. B~lly 's Great pe~t Games Galor e. an arcade at 539 S. Wabash. Escape, Tin Pan Alley. and Electromcs 101. The manager Stanley Roberson said the addition or 10 Other Friday screenings will be a~nounced. Showino- are 8t and 7:30p.m. company acquired the last two arcades from m- new video games last month has helped business at dependent operators three or lour years ago. the arcade to increase to a level better than when Admission Is S2.50 for the general public and S2.1!0 for Colvnlbll College students, faculty and members of the Fnendl or~ Flakne said. , the arcade first o~ne '. M onday, April 23, 1984 Columbia Chronicle. Page 3 ~----Editorials~\ The art of nudity What might you ask, is the difference between nudity in art or photo display and nudity in Playboy? That is a troublesome question, yet an issue worthy of print. Several students have objected to the nude exhibit adorning the ninth floor cooridor leading to several of the Photography departments. It is not a substantial body, mind you, but nevertheless· a group whose inquiry should not be stilled by silence. One of the most enlightening prospects of Columbia's educational gifts isnt so much its alignment to acedemic regimentation, but instead the provocation of risk, or risk-taking. The core of liberal, urban education is acedemic and artistic freedom. The erosion of such would mean the dismantling of principles. Columbia's reputation was etched in large part by the ability of some to establish an educational center that encompassed communications and the arts. Columbia College is and should be a breeding ground to provide ~-----LETTER TO THE EDITOR~---1 the forum and access for students' works. Nudity in Playboy is done out of commercial zealousness and the exploitation of wf>men's bodies. The photos on the ninth floor are a celebration of the human body. Not only do they give us an indication on the rela tion between photography and life, but perhaps more Patterns a discipline importantly, the exhibit confirms the school's committ )rj j ) ment to its educational creeds. EDITOR, THE COLUMBIA·' Cbronlcle in order to avoid any years of cross·curricular coopera CHRONICLE: - misunderstanding. tion and interdisciplinary learning. Since Cultural Patterns is a Pro -A<:Wally, Cultural Patterns is a A second such program, the Com gram by: Suzanne Dowtin cllmblng classes at Devils Lake, A walk through lbe Lincoln Part Wisconsin. They are held every Conservatory, 2400 N. Llncola The weathermen say It Is spring. Saturday and Sunday through Oc Park or lbe Garfield Park Conler Mother Nature seems undecided. tober 12. vatory, 300 N. Central Park Ia fUll but that Is nothing new to Chicago. Wedron Canoe Base, East River to do during their Spring Flower Sooner or later It will warm up and Rd . offers free canoeing lessons Show through Aprll29. then what will we do? every Thursday and Friday at 10 All this activity Is bound to make There really arc run things to do a.m. anyone hungry. To satisfy your ap In Chicago, so stop procrastinating If that Is not exciting enough for petite, have your own Taste of and get yourself outdoors. you. then go rafting on the Ver Chicago. Invite your friends over WARM WEATHER Is what some milion River In Mathlesson State to create their favorlfe foods and sports enthusiasts wait for all Park every Saturday and Sunday have a smorgasbord. winter. Now is the time to lose at 9:30a.m. or I :30 p.m. THIS EVENT Is not complete those pounds you gained watching IF THESE SPORTS seem to be without a watermelon. Hollow out football and drinking beer this too much of a strain on your body. a watermelon, fill It with fruit and winter. then walk the dog or play frisbee. marlante it In vodka. The longer It Jog through the park and admire Frisbee may become an Olympic marinates the better It tastes. the flowers and trees In bloom - sport someday. Picnics are fun. Sandwiches, admire the other joggers. too. It Spring Is lbe time to let loose and have all the run you missed this The waiting Is almost over for fruit, cheese and wine are what will take your mind orr the amount winter. those who prefer surf to turf. The perfect picnics are made of. Don't of pain you are probably experi Grant Park soon too. pads. You may think they are silly, beaches will open June 28. Now is forget the can opener. encing. No one will know for sure if IF YOU DON'T like softball, why but If you have ever fallen on the time to check your inflatable . Not only does spring mean warm the reason you are breathing so not start cycling again? Some asphalt. then you know they are beach toys for leaks. Don't forget weather but for some It also means heavily Is because you are out of recreation departments like the worth the fashion risk. to bring the sunscreen, unless you romance. shape or because a good looking one in Evanston sponsor bicycle want to look like a piece of leather SPEND AN EVENING with so jogger just went by. maintenance classes. When your If you are really ambitious, then when you're forty. meone special In Grant Park Softball teams like the Bedford bike is in top shape you can enter enter a marathon. Psych yourself THE CHICAGO BOTANICAL listening to music from lbe band Sharks. Chicago Monks and Wln the Great American 50 Bike Race up for Lake County's Marathon Gardens Is open and features its shell. The Grant Park Concert neman Astros will be filling the April 29. and compete for $12,000 in <26.2 miles) or their Half Marathon display gardens where you can season begins June 23. parks. It is not too late to sign up cash and prizes. <1 3. 1 miles). They will be held learn where you went wrong with It is especially nice If you end lbe because many teams are still To keep your feet a little closer to April-29. your plants. Added attractions In evening with a tour around lbe recruiting. Roosevelt University's the ground, go roller skating. IT· IS- NEVER late to learn clude a greenhouse, a museum and park from a horse and carriage soccer team will be playing in Remember to wear knee and elbow ~'some~ g new. Sign up for rock an education center. ride. Eskimo artifacts ..U nf.reeze spirit world Collection of Inuit Art." kayak and by dogsled during his ICE CREEPERS, often made by: Carla Spann Most of the hunting implements. stay in the North. from animal bones or tusks. were ceremonial objects and utensils in THE 19TH CENTURY Alaskan the forerunners or the modem The "Eskimo Art and Culture" the " lnua" collection were Eskimo was concerned with the crampon used for ice climbing. exhibit at the Field Museum pro gathered from 1Bn to 1881 by Ed spirit world. He believed that SNOW GOGGLES, carved of vides an extensive "verview of Wth ward W. Nelson. a young. aspiring man's greatest danger was having wood and shaped like eye masks. and 20th century Alaskan Eskimo naturalist who was sent to Alaska to live by disturbing animals' protected the Eskimo against snow lire. The exhibit comprises two by the U.S. Signal Army Corps as a spirits. or "inuas." This belief blindness. parts: "lnua: Spirit World of the weather observer. Nelson adopted strongly influenced his <·ulture. "GRASP TIGHT the Old Ways" Bering Sea Eskimo" and "Grasp the Eskimo way of life. traveling The Bering Sea Eskimo believed presents 174 selected works of 20th Tight the Old Ways: the Kramer almost 5.000 miles on fool. by that man lived among the animals. century Eskimo art. and that his physical and spiritual Harry and Marcia Klamer spent preservation depended on the more than 20 years collecting ar respect he gave the animals and tifacts. Klamer. a Canadian and a their spirits. Therefore. the hunter merchant fur trader's son. became was caretul notto he able lo mamoge it and alter it in THE FOURTH floor and floors Program :ond the Art Depar tment. library which would take over lbe by: llyce Reisman the college's hest interest." nine thr11ugh 10 will be lelt unoc The sixth lloor. where the English front or the third noor of lbe The theater workshops have t·upied for future growth. Department is presently located. Michigan Avenue building, and already moved in and hy the com The eleventh floor of the will house together all of the stu would total about 25,00 feet or For the rorsl tome on alm1>sl 20 ong fa ll term. the .,;nglish. Liberal Mil-higan Avenue building will l)e dent ser vices. such as re<·ords. ad library space. years. Colurnhw (;t,Jicge het s more Educotion . .Journalism . A "No, but I 'm looking lor one at " I'd like to work at a horse stable "Yes, I have one lined up work NBC, I might have a chance lor it, lull-time cleaning horses and ing at a ticket agent for Northwest and I'm looking at places around riding. Right now I work lor a doc Orient hoping that it will be a my house." Jack O'Donnell, tor." Jan Shirley, Sophomore, growth-or iented position toward my major." Bonnie HJevyack, Junior, FUm/ TV. Photography. Junior, TV. " Yes, I 'll be working lor the " Working in a photo studio Evanston Park Distr-ict occa anything I could. I' m working sionally doing videos and other one right now. but I want to work in publicities." Phil Vernon, Senior, a studio full-time." Buck Baldwin, VT/VIdeo. Junior, Photography. Classifieds CJ and Gene: DB: Hope you enjoyed your spring Congratulations break in New York. Hope you two awaited come back. weren't too naughty. with love, Sis Leggs Phyllis W. Robane : Where have you been Whose short, dark, handsome friend? and in need of a woman? BT Cheryl D. I If the wedding does not happen The Columbia College ~hronicte by the end of this year, can I have d esper a tely need s el ectric Doug? typewriters. Any volunteer s please TC step forward. TRAVEL THE BALKINS WITH - BOB EDMONDS June 7-28, 1984 June 7 l eave Chicago Dear Advisor: 2) Maintain grades June 8 Dubrovnik via Belgrade Help! I received a tetter from 3> Demonstrate initiative June 11 Du brovn i k-Zagreb the Academic Advising depart 41 Develop a professional atti- By: The Department of ment recently . The letter in tude June 16 Zagreb-Belgrade Academic Advising dicated I was in trouble acade 51 Develop a portfolio June 20 Belgrade-Sofia mically. and som~thing about 6>Read trade magazines 75% of my course work. The 1 1 Qualify yourself ror I ntern During three days in Bu lgari a reason it has become so urgent ships/ Co-Ops there will be a one-day trip is that my parents opened it up Bl And network 1 It's a to Varna. Dear Advisor : first! I earned a 3.2 grade point peoples' business> Like most students. I' m ner average tG.P.A. >last semester 91 Join professional orgamza June 23 Sofia-Bucharest vous about whether I'm going to and don't understand. tions in your field. most have June 25 Bucharest-Budapest get good grades in my classes. Signed: Perplexed student chapters. June 28 What can I do to make sure I 'm Dear Perplexed: 10) Set goals and develop Budapest-Belgrade treated fairly by my instruc Relax. if you read the letter str ategies that are flexible. The June 28 Belgrade-Chicago for those who tors? carefully you woul d have notic communications arts field is ex do not wish to stay in Eu rope for Signed: Uptight ed it stated, contact your Aca panding, demanding and for a longer time. Dear Uptight: demic Advisor. You may have ever changing, so it becomes First, make sure you are do earned a 3.2 G.P.A. l ast seme important for you to be like ing all your assignments to the 5 ster. but !ailed to complete 75% wise. TOTAL PRICE: ' best of your ability. Really in of your course work, either by Please contact Columbia's 1885. vest yourself and carefully pre receiving an "I" (Incomplete>. Placement Orfice now Room : This includes all transportation, w hich is by air. from pare and present your assign "F" The 1ta111 of " DreamaJrla" from left: Deborah Burrell, Linda Leilani Brown and Amelio Walker are three llnlll"S Whole caree111lootely retemble the Supremea and other such trios. The lavishly costumed mualcal will be In town through July 1. by: Carolyn R. Hamilton ra mous trademark phrase. "I C. C. grad a metal maiden Filming ol "The Toughest pity the tool." . Man m the World." an upcum· MR. T SAID "Showbusincss the band's own company. Znowhite 'Never Felt Like This' whicl) Sharp ing CBS telecast in September is a job.. and .. tr someone tells by: Keith Wesol Management. " Greg is a lot of describes as their "metal ballad." starring Mr. T. was shot on you that you n m't achieve. they help. he's always on the phone "You have to be unique to get ACCORDING TO SHARP, who ltwatit•ll at the UIC Pavilion. on don 't V·mnt to see you achieve. dealing with all the work lliat goes noticed." said Sue Sharp, lead says the band's sound contains Racmc and Harrison. April 4·5. To m.:hieve is to do what your with this." singer/ manager of the local heavy elements of the Scorpions. Judas The crew ha s hccn filming for tcilchcrs says. no questions ask " It's also hard being in Chicago metal foursome Znowhite. com - Priest and Del Leppard. Znowhite .. three weeks in Chieago. at other ed when she or he says to do is preparing for a European tour because not many ads get signed menting on the band's rather u lo(:ations. such as M a xims. that your homework over ami prac· that will bring them to Holland. out of this city." said Sharp. nique line-up of three black upcncd only to a«.Tommodate lkc. pr<.lt'lice. prat'lJcc. ·· " We're kind of overlooked in this members fronted by a white. Denmark and Sweden. A Canadian the movie. The restaurant is He is a 31-year-old product of female lead singer. tour is also planned for the spring. city because in Los Angeles the under new management ~nd the Chicago housing projects record comp~ny executives can "Being unique helps. hut if you " We're also hooked up with a wi ll open in May. The movie is who is not nwrried. In his im company that might book us into walk out of their office. go down to don't have the music to deliver. the about a youth center that runs mediate family arc his mother. shows in Japan, Guam and the local club and sign a new band image isn't going to do you any nul ot funds to stay open. and 13- ye~r-old daughter. seven Brazil," said Sharp. right there." good," said Sharp. Mr. T enters an obstacle course brothers and tour sisters. In THE BAND has had its fair Sharp. a Columbia graduate who Sharp says Znowhite is your contest to win money to keep 1982, Mr. T began his acting share of ups and downs. Recently. now works in the Records office. average rock 'n' roll band" with all the center functioning. career and left his position as according to Sharp, the band was formed the band two years ago of the member s being self-taught ON APRIL 5, the set was fill· the bouncer at Dingbats Disco. musicians that have a strong sense supposed to open for the heavy after meeting fellow Columbia stu cd with numerous crew mem· • 247 E. Ontario. but that was nut of melody. The band has had con metal act Motorhead at the Metro dent Greg ~'ulton Oead guitarl and hers. musde-botmd stunt men. what he dreamed of doing. His tract offers from t wei ve European but was cancelled five minutes his br other Anthony