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Latino Alliance is Controversial 'Brown • right-Columbia Sheep Project' lets it needs bilingual staff all hang out Riding the radio waves Latino Allia~DJ~:=-:..- assembly draws college officials 0 Administrators closed-door session to discuss their concerns. promise to address On Carter's behalf Kelly said, issues raised at meeting "[President Carter] is the first black president of a private col By Angela Caputo lege in Illinois. I think he under stands what the stakes are on this." Assistant Editor As of press time, Carter was More than 100 students and fac unavailable for comment. ulty, and five administrators, par Percentage-wise, faculty atten ticipated in a Latino Alliance dance was low. Despite the fact sponsored assembly Dec. 12 to that the Latino Alliance called all bolster administrative support for of the academic chairs and deans campuswide multicultural issues. campus wide, fewer than five The forum gave students an attended, said Guzman. opportunity to speak with admin "We were pretty disappointed istrators who made public commit that they dido 't show. It makes you ments to meeting the needs of wonder how much they really Latino students. care," Guzman said. "I think it was incredibly pro Beginning next semester, the ductive," said Mark Kelly, vice Latino Alliance executive com president of student affairs. mittee will join college adminis Latino Alliance President trators to lead a task force with Jessica Guzman said she agreed. the charge to fill gaps in the col However, Guzman said she feels lege's services to Latino students, "kind of iffy because the assembly Kelly said. Director of the Latino seemed to go too well- there was Cultural Affairs Office Ana no friction. Maria Soto will chair the com "We'll see how willing the mittee and the Office of Student administration is to work with us Affairs staff will also participate, and get things done," said Latino he said. Alliance Vice President Nick Among the issues students plan Gomez. to address through the task force Administrators present included are boosting the number of Provost Steve Kapelke, Acting Spanish-speaking faculty mem Dean of the School of Media Arts bers and financial aid representa Doreen Bartoni, Dean of Students tives, and to address Latino stu Sharon Wilson-Taylor, President dent retention and recruitment. Stacie Freuden!Jergi'Chn>nicle Warrick L. Carter's Chief of Staff Administrators were unable to Students from Dyette Academic School listen to Keysha Keyz, Disc Jockey at WGCI, explain Paul Chiaravalle and Kelly. commit to the number of new the Inner workings of the radio broadcast business. Students were also given a tour of Carter was not in attendance at faculty members that will be Columbia's radio station, WCRX, In the 33 E. Congress Parkway building. the assembly but he met with alliance leaders on Dec. II in a Seel.llllt,page2 Credit cards turn into campus nightmares 0 Students find them- the highest average credit card balance ($2,478), according to a study conducted selves with increasing in 2001 by student loan company Nellie amounts of debt as they Mae. move through school The most common attempt people make to lower credit card debt is trans ferring their balances from one card to By Danlelle Dellorto another, experts report. Contributing Writer Columbia student Shawna Wolff chose this option about seven months ago. Bills, Bills, Bills. From credit cards to "My debt got overwhelming," Wolff student loans, some students can't say no said. "I thought if I could combine all of to charging and are now buried in debt. it and pay all of it in on one bill; it would Twenty-year-old Ashley Jackson, a be a lot easier." junior majoring in broadcast journalism, Wolff, who had seven credit cards 67% 78% 8:1% said she already feels like she is in way before consolidating them, charged over her head. Jackson said she charges items such as clothes, books, Christmas AY.... I of cards :1.5 :1 4.15 ' everything from food to clothes and presents and vacations. books. Jackson has three credit cards By transferring her balances onto one " w11o llaft 4 or more 17% :11% 47% with balances totaling more than $4,000, card, she now has only one bill at a $1,879 $1,748 $1,:117 in addition to almost $20,000 in student lower interest rate than most of her other loans. cards had. Medtan debt per student $1,111 $1 ,1:16 $1 ,770 "Some days I think I will never be able "It is a good choice for me," Wolff to pay off my debt," Jackson said. "I said. "I choose to have the company take " wttll SJK to $7K In debt 14% IJ% 11% don't even know where to start to get the monthly bill right out of my check ahead." ing account every month, so I know it is " exceecltnJ $7K tn debt 10% 9% 6% And Jackson is not the o nly one. College students in the Midwest carry See Debt, page 3 All inlormation provided by Nellie Mae Graphic by Ashleigh Paceni/Chronicle PUS NEWS Around Campus-------- ,.. Famed author to address censorship for fiction class Playwright and filmmaker Sam Greenlee will discuss the industry, government and society cen sorship in Gary JOhnson's Critical Reading and Censorship class at 6 p.m., on Thursday, Jan. 9, in the 624 S. Michigan Ave. building, Room 1205. An acclaimed novelist and poet, Greenlee bat tled censorship writing his award-winning novel and later film, The Spook Who Sat By the Door which is about the CIA's first black agent who drops out to train young black Chicago militants. In continuous print since 1969 and translated into six languages with over a million copies in cir culation, Spook-Greenlee's satire of U.S. civil rights problems in the '60s and a serious look at black militancy-was called "deadly" by Newsweek. nme magazine said the book "blends James Bond parody with wit and rage." For more information, call (312) 344-7611 . The event is free and open to all. Angie Guzman, performing as 'Mya,' competes at the Wanna Be An Idol contest Thursday, Dec. 19, in the Conaway Debate tackles pending Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. The Columbia College Association of Black Journalists organized the event to raise U.S. war with Iraq money for their trip to the National Association of Black Journalists' annual convention, to be held in August 2003. Tbe Public Square, one of the community part ners of the Cultural Studies Program at Columbia, is sponsoring a public debate on the potential of war with Iraq on Jan. 6 at the Harold Payroll Department goes online Washington Public Library, 400 S. State St. The event is free and open to all. Some of the issues 0 Officials say they are still After talking to Robert Richley, PeopleSoft pro slated for discussion are: grammer and developer, Cargo said she decided the Should the United States go to war against working out some kinks in system most efficient solution would be to use the PeopleSoft Iraq? Alone, or only as part of the United product the school had upgraded. Richley accommo Nations? What are the goals of military inter By Ana Hrlstova dated PeopleSoft 8 to serve Columbia's needs and pre vention? What are the costs? What are the sented the system, which is now being tested in sever peaceful alternatives? Why Iraq? And why Staff Writer al departments. now? Columbia's Payroll Department is introducing a "It works for Columbia and it has saved us a lot of The event will begin at 5 p.m., in the Harold new online payroll system designed to eliminate money," Cargo said. " I have more people that are Washington Library Center Auditorium. paperwork and simplify the processing of student happy than unhappy with it." Admission is free, but reservations are strong workers. The system, which is still being tested in sev The Film and Video Department, the Writing Center ly recommended. eral departments, is expected to become the standard and the English Department are a few of the depart Check out the new online ticket form at operating procedure on campus by Feb. 15, 2003. ments participating in the pilot program testing the www.publicintellectuals.org/ticketform.html, or "The schoo l has grown and we have many stu system. call (312) 993-0682. dents," said Tracy Cargo, payroll director. "I had to "! like it," said Michael Bright, administrative assis The debaters will be: Peter Berkowitz, con come up with a way to get everything in on time and tant in the Film and Video Department, which is tributing editor to The New Republic, professor of make sure that the right people are paid." Columbia's largest student employer, with 170 student law at George Mason University, and a research According to Cargo, the new system which uses the workers.

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