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T H E C 0 L U M B I A C 0 L L E "G E HRONICLE VOWME 26 NUMBER 7 THE EYES AND EARS OF COLUMBIA NOVEMBER 9, 1992 School to undergo ;major metamorphosis By Bum.ey Simpson slor'e remaining in the lobby. · Columbia's computer main SJII#Wrilter The jouma1ism and liler.ll arts frame and telecommunicati departments would also move Cl!l1fle£ are on the fifth floor there. Columbia will lose nearly into the Ton:o. Gall said movingthose would be $ID).(XX) a yearm rent at theTOI'CO "'n the Michigan building the tremendously expensive and buikmgwhen theStatec:illinois school plans to put a student difficult. IDIM!SoutmJure 19'X servicEs renter on the second And, even though Columbia That's what the Dlinois Depart­ floor by moving the Student Life recently CiDlCEied li!Oclasses due ment of Public Aid pays to offices and the Underground ID low enrollmmt, there are de­ OIDipy six floors in the 624 s. Cafe there; Gall said ~e also partments that could use more .Michigan Avenue building, said plan to coosolidatesomeadmin­ room. Helen Adoljan. a spoic.eswoman istrative offices, including journalism, for example, fut- Central Management Serv­ placement and academic advis­ CDUld have filled more classes. ices, the agency that oversees the ing." Placement and advising liberal Education is maxed out. stale's rental wntrads. are now in the Wabash building. The graduate program which is The move will free some 72,(XXJ The rroney to pay for the pro­ in its second year will be grow­ squarefeet;.allowingColw:nb to posed conversions, about $2.6 ing. The radio/sound make significant changes at the million, was included in the fi­ department has been growing Torco, Michigan and Wabash nancing of Columbia's purdlase by 20 to 30 per cent," Gall said. of the Torro Building, Gall said 'There are no plans to move the ~ Columbia inherited the stale's According to CMS, Dlinois radio departmen t from the lease when the building was pur­ pays Columbia $798,796 per Michigan building. chased in 1990, but Mwe don't year for spare in the Torm. In 623 S. Wabash, the art d e­ Pnirie File want to be a landlord,• said Gall said that converting the partment will expand into the Smith (right) were D1011S the pafomlas b ]oBrne ~ manage- c:l the Torco to Columbia's exclusive space on theeighthfloorleftby the "Get Hipoa Ilk" masic::al talent CIIIIIJiditiaa tlut will TOI'CO~ use would provide badly Journalism. Plans for the third tab "'t's not that the ~ needed space. MConsidering floorvising space and leftplacement by academic ii1cl¥de ad- __________________Pbce Nllftlliha U. from" pm at the HokiD Amlex. __, (with Public Aid)·is bad but we our recent growth, we will don'twarittobeinthebusinessof need that room to expand over renting," Harding said the next four or five years," he ;;:::'!n~:::u= Teacher masters BertGa11, provostandexecutive said. purpose classrooms. vice presidmt c:l Cdurrtia. said The li'brary must increase aurent plans are to move the li­ seating and shelf space but ha~;a~s:e= art of traveling brary to the fDt five floors c:l the can't move into higher floors in state will move out. Torco building with the bode the Michigan building because By Cristina Romo seven years' field work in the 5111/fWrim Himalayas her biggest and most rewarding accomplish- From India, China, Korea, In- ment because of the extremes Russell takes final bo-w donesia and the Himalayas (to and difficulties she encoun­ name a few places), Gabrielle tered. By Art Golab Other musicians who had worked o r Yablonksy has finally arrived uSeven years in the heat and SptdtliWritrr trained with Russell,including many of his at Columbia Col- cold, roughing it Columbia students, also performed. lege. was exciting, " Hal Russell, Columbia music teacher and The s how opened with a drum solo by the Y a b I o n k s y Yablonsky said . patron saint of avant-garde jazz, died at master himself, via videotape. Even in his teachesarthistory " In Ladakh, a age 67 this summer, but his spirit and mu- 60s, Russell pounded the drums in a dis­ and studio art. northeastern part sic lived on in a memorial concert held on tinctive, frenzied style. Originally from of India, I slept in Halloween. As Russell finished his solo, the NRG En- New Jersey, she the snow, in mi- A standing-room-only crowd packed the s e mble seemle s sly k icked in with a has spent a grea~ nus 40 degree Southend Musicworks, 1313 S. Wabash honking, braying caco phon y of two tenor dea l of her life we ather, in my Ave., to hear Russell's fo rmer band, the saxes locked in a dueL It b roug ht back travelling th e sleeping bag," she NRG Ensemble, pay tribute to their leader. memories of an autumn nigh t at the Chi- world studying said. "lnthetribes r.:->~--:~-~ cago Jazz Festival, when I w hat she enjoys of Central !ndja I hear d Russell for the first most: modem and was in 122 degree time. This was wild, free, printitive art. Gabrielle Yablonsky weather, where atonal, noisy jazz, but Russell Yablonsky has a barrel full of malaria and cholera epidemics played it with just enough academiccredentials.Shehasa existed. I never got sick melody a n d whimsy t o bachelor's degree with honors though," she added. make it accessible to some­ in philosophy and art history Yablonsky's original mission one w h o preferred Louis from Bryn Mawr College in was to teach in Bombay, India, Armstrong to Miles Davis. Haverford, Pa., and spent her but he r gut feeling over· Even without their leader, the third year at the University of whelmed her and she changed NRG Ensemble showed they Paris; a master's of fine arts in her mind once she arrived. had most of their old stuff. studio art (painting) from 6os- "I was supposed to teach in Manyofthebandmembersplay ton University; and a master's Bombay but when I went to more than one instrument, as degree in art history (African Bhutan I saw textiles in a mu­ did Russell. Their musical im­ art, primitive, modem and Ba- seum in Bhutan that looked like p lements ranged from the roque) from Yale University. a code I could decipher," she She is currently working on see Russell herPh.D. see YABLONSKY Despite Yablonsky's many late (t.r WI) wllh tt. •G EnMmble. page3 The Hal Russell, voyages, she considers her page 2 Nat & Madonna ... Do you have 20 lb. balls? Page 5 the saga continues. Page 2 Page4 said. The textiles turned out to be a key to understanding the Attention 1993 graduates! ~lf~dressecl return pre-Buddhist religion in the Students planning to graduate Img . T1de of entry and Himalayas, she said. in January, June or August of entrant must be on matn~.a. 1993 must apply for graduation and containers. ... that it's not everyday that a girl like myself has an earth Yablonsky is planning a shattering, mind blowing, "what the hell was that?" experience, multi-media exhibition of her in the records office, 611M, by paragraphdetcribing""'·--'•• Nov. 13, 1992 and receive a with main of but since it is in fact the "Year of the Woman," I figured it must work, which includes paint­ credits pubb be some kind of important sign, so I decided to ride it out and ings, drawings and graduation audit.. Film stu- tionandanon·retumablelllldc learn all the lessons this peculiar incident had to teach me. photography. And she is writ­ dents can enter the 12th anailadwbhileteEn~~lty ~ If ing a book on the living arts in Annual Black Maria Film and av_ · ..._ must ..., • . .. the Himalayas. Video· Festival. There are no Ice•vec:' by Nov. l6, 1992. Donat ... So, I'm standin' at home, alone in the kitchen, at the sink, She is also interested in the category restrictions and work use flbt;r-padded envelopes. trying to figure out who the overachiever was who invented contemporary art movement is judged solely on its own mer-1The. resJdue ruins tapes and dish washing, when someone comes up behind me and grabs in the US. and Europe. "Per­ its. Forty-five works equ~ment . Send entries ill me around the mouth and waist. My scream was lost in my haps one day I would like to do recognized by the festival will' stur ty, reusable contalnen or some short-term field work in · 1 t ti ·d t ' bubblewrapto: TheBlackMa- throat as he covered my mouth and pulled me to the floor. As CJICU a e na. on~• _e o m~re ria Festival, c/o Department of I covered my face for fear of being hit, the laughter from the Siberia, Russia and other parts ~an 40 host mstitutions ~~- Media Arts J City Stille figure before me set off a flood of emotions inside me.