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Chronicle Volume 15, Number 13 Monday, March 10, 1986 COlumbia College, Chicago Tension in Writing department surfaces By Greg Walker sure as much as others , because "It is not the end all and the· be and Sally Daly did it my way anyway ... all. .. Fofrner Columbia College writing Heinemann said that taking orders Heinemann said that the literary instructor and author Larry Heine· from people he did not consider to community is very much aware of mann, who resigned last semester be his superiors contributed to his Schultz, Shiflett and what he calls due to tension in the Writing/English decision to resign. their " doctrinaire approach" to Depanment, told the Chrookle that "Andy Allegretti was not going to running the Writing Department. it is essential for the "health of the tell me how to instruct a Workshop " I think it's essential for the school that (Department Chair· II class. " said Heinemann. " I can health of the school, .. said Heine· person) John Schultz. be pennanently do it in my sleep." mann. " for John Schultz to be ex· excused.'' Heinemann questioned the writing cused as the chairman.· 'Heinemann and other writing in· credentials of many of the people in Another instructor who was not in structors, past and present, have the writing department. agreement with top administration in voiced their opinions in the wake of " It occurred to me that I could the Writing Department is Steven recent changes in Columbia's writ· wait around for someone in the Bosak. Fiction writing instructor and ing department. The changes include department to publish (published author. He considers the changes in a restru~g in factilty and c'ur· work is required by many colleges the Writing Department to be posi· riculum, and have resulted in ex· and universities as part of profes· tive, and beneficial to the Writing tended sabbaticah for Schultz and sional development of instructors) Department and the school. the Di,rector of Freshman English, and I could be dead or very old," "I think it' s a very poSitiVe Belly Shiflett. said Heinemann. " I've published in step," said Bosak. "Each teacher tleinemann" 'silid that he was dis· Harper's Magazine, which is the has his unique background and satisfied with the way Schultz, Shif· . oldest literary magazine in the unique strengths in a given back· lett and former Assistant Director of '""'---....:...-"J--' country. Why am I supposed to take ground and will be allowed to bring Freshman Writing, Andy Allegretti, Writing department C hairperson, J ohn Schultz Oeft), talks to author mouth from Beny Shiflett or Andy these into the classroom, whereas nm Columbia's Writing Department. Don Bodey, at Bodey's Feb. 14'book partyjat the faculty lounge in the Allegretti?" before he may not have been al· Wabash Building. The party was for Bodey's book ·Heinemann, a 1971 graduate of lowed to." Columbia, was taught the Story "F.N.G."(Chrookle/Robb Perea) Heinemann was· taught with the Story Workshop method as a student Bosak said that under the previous Workshop method and instructed in the late '60s. He said that he is a Writing Department administration, bere, full and part-time, for 14 taking orders from literary am· the Columbia Writing faculty, only strong supporter of the method, but teachers were required to stick to year$. He is now under a writing ateurs·," be said. Schultz and Shiflett had more sen· that other approaches should not be the Story Workshop method, and contract with the publishing f1m1 of H eine mann taught Writing iority. ignored. that Schultz and other Writing De· Farrar and Straus. Workshop I and II, Fiction I and II, " I had enough seniority to tell partment administrators were too " After 14 years, 1 was tired of Prose Forms and Advanced Fiction people to take·a·hike," said "Story Workshop is an approach being treated as a hired hand and during his tenure at Columbia. Of Heinemann. " I didn't feel the pres· and a philosophy," said Heinemann. Continued on page 3 Gramm-Rudman to cut aid A large portion of the program's some "healthy changes" in the " Student aid has been supported By Judy Sluder problems stem from the Middle In· guaranteed loan program. as early as President rruman." come Student Assistance Act passed A multiple dispersement system stated Pranske. College students everywhere' will in 1978, said Pranske. will allow students to follow a According to the director, the feel the bite of a devasting reduction Essentially, the bill opened the budget more closely, he said . federal government should "spread . in financial aid programs if the guaranteed loan program up to The program will divide the the misery out. " The domestic pro· Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law is everybody, regardless of income, he money throughout the semesters - grams should not be the only ones passed, according to Ray Pranske, said. the student will r~ive half of the cut. Director of Financial Aid at Co­ "We had physicians going out loan for the fall semester and half Many officials say that as a result lumbia College. and getting loans for their sons and for the spring semester, according to of Gramm ~ Rudman. tuition increases Cutting federal funds provided for daughters, " said Pranske. " This the director. are inevitable , according to a Col· higher education is only pan of the was ludicrous." " This prevents anybody from lege Press Service news release. • huge reduction plan known as As a result, the cost of the guar· getting all of that money and not re· Right now, 70 percent of Colum· Gntmm· Rudman, according to a re· anteed loan program inc reased enrolling in the Spring," stated bia students receive financial aid. cent article in the Chronicle of dramatically, he said. Pranske. said Pranske. Higher Education. The federal government is con­ The article stated that the law sistently paying on the interest sulr According to the financial aid di· Plans are not definite as to j ust requires the federal budget deficit to sidies of the loans while students arc rector. Ill inois has a 95 percent exactly which programs will be cut be cut by $36-billion a year, so that still in school, according to the payment rate on student loans. the most and which students will be the e ntire deficit of approximately directo r. " This is a great pay·back rate." mainly affc<tcd. he said. $200-billion will be terminated by "The real problem stems from the he said. "Th1' i:-. ~ time of frustratio n." 1991. fact that so much money has already In the program's entirety. it has stated P r a n, ~ c. "Everything is up in Under the law, federal college been loaned out and the rea l cost of served the needs of "countless mil· the a ir. .. funding will be cut by some 4.3 the program o riginates from the lions of students." he said . "To me, Since the threat of such deep pereent which is about $244 million federal government paying interest it is an excellent investment. .. financial cuts arc looming in the deleted from the federal student aid on these loans ," stated Pranske. Students and their parents arc near future for many college stu· monies available this Spring, ac· By making the loans harder to urged to write their congressman. dents. Pranske advises to "apply fo r cording to the article. obtain for stude nts over the last fe w said Pranske. Students should not be aid and do it now - do not wait.·· "We know that the federal gov· years, the governme nt is bringing frightened by rheto ric about the law Pranskc is planning a trip to enunent wants guaranteed loans to those costs in line, he said. in the news. Washington, D.C. during the week be very difficult to get for stu· Pranskc a lso stated that the II· A brilliant effort is needed by of March I. and plans to uncover 1 dents," said Pranske. linois State Scholarship Commission students and taxpayers to stop the many unsolved mysteries about thl! The guaranteed loan program has will not be able to " make up the cutting of j ust domestic programs law. become very expensive and serious difference" that the deep c uts in and help avoid the destnoction of "Student' will be informed as to reductions are needed to gain re­ financial aid will cause. what has been created over the past what is going to be the impact of the sults, said the financial aid director. According to Pranske, there are 30 or 40 years, he said. program on them," stated Pranske. PAGE 2 March 10, 1986 NEWS Columbia Chronicle Columbia offers Public Relations degree By Marty Walsh growth. " The students seem to be The criteria for earning a bache­ is practical as well as educationally handle those types of situations," Kaplan said .