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'.,.Vol. XIV, Number I Columbia College, Chicagq ldeusconfidentaboutjob By Keith Wesol .about my appointment," said !deus. after graduation." As of July, Columbia College has a " I see my job as complementing some !deus received his doctorate in new Director of Career Planning and of the fine academic programs at the Guidance, Counseling and Ad Professional Placement. Dr. Harvey college so that students can utilize the ministration from the University of !deus took the position this summer af skills that they have learned here." Wyoming and also did graduate work ter it was left vacant by the dismissal of !deus wanted the job because he at Nebraska State College. He has also the former director Cheryl Jenkins knew he could "organize and generate done previous placement work for the Moore last year. systems that could make a difference University of Wyoming, the Illinois In Jenkins-Moore and the former here." He was hired by the school after stitute of Technology and the Univer Graduate Placement Specialist Ruth a series of interviews with Dean of sity of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. 1Geisenheimer were dismissed by the Student Services Burt Gall and others. As well as having done previous tschool last February after it was !deus' duties will include those of his placement work, !deus has written ar etermined that their office was not office as well being in charge of the ticles on a variety of subjects for roperly providing for student needs. cooperative education and internship several publications including The uring the interim, Assistant Dean of programs. Guidepost, The Journal of College !tudent Services Hermann Conaway " I think that there is a different Placement and The Midwestern. He and the remaining staff members had focus at Columbia as opposed to other has also co-authored a grant aimed at been assuming responsibility for the schools," said !deus. " I think there's helping the placement and career unctions of the office. more of a focus on professional ac development for handicapped students ~ "I feel good and very confident tivities that will prepare students for at Southern Illinois University.
Asst~ Bursar Dept. gailts im~inatlf)n ~ I I I ; ' I - " I , I' killed in crash By Rick Cuasco( · · ~Channe l 44), until the end of 1982. Morris criticized tile poor quality of Valarie Collins, an ) Columbia College's new TV Dept.' Following that, he set up his own scenic design in some TV programs. died July 21 'chairman, Ed Morris, is a former local production company, Morris Com- Also, Morris is hoping to put as a result TV station executive who has taught at munications. The company's last together a seminar on the theoretical 1sustaine:ct in an automobile accident on the school and now plans to put his project, a teen sex education special production of documentaries. Morris Shore Drive, July 7. Ms. Collins production knowledge and called, "Choices", will be aired on said he would like to see the eventual I. background to use in expanding the PBS stations later this year. production of a TV documentary by "'~~v•u"'"' to Bursar official Peggy • department. In addition, Morris taught a public students every year. . Collins had worked as Morris, 63, hopes lo add classes and relations class at Columbia in 1954 and With new classes, Morris hopes to bursar since September, seminars on the creative development more recently taught a graduate class allow students to specialize in the Ms. Collins previously worked aspect of television. While still having in Arts, Entertainment and Media technical and creative jobs within the Veterans Administration of- technical knowledge, Morris wants Management (AEMMP). Morris also television and learn about non-network students to better understand the was on a college committee which television, such as cable, corporate imaginative potential the medium has. worked to expand cirriculum. video and direct broadcasting. " You don't have to be the best " I feel it's a real cap for my career," This semester, specialized classes are technician in the world if that's not he said. "I'm very excited for and with being offered on the control switcher, your objective," Morris said in a my students." audio board, camera and lighting. A recent interview. " But you do have to Among Morris' plans are to include technical course on practical elec- understand the unlimited potential for classes in station management and fun- tronics is being offered. In addition, the medium of television." ction, development of ideas into the new TV van will be used for five Morris takes over as full-time chair- television programs and scenic design. remote production classes. man following the death last year of H. f 1 Thaine Lyman. Lyman was chairman since the TV department's inception, !1•11:!!!!!!!!!~ and is credited for its prominence. Lyman died last year of cancer. Radio department chairman AI Parker served last semester as acting TV chairman. "Thaine was a friend, and what ! hope to do is build on what he did," said Morris. " I want to add oppor tunities in my own expertise of program and idea creation." Morris has more than 25 years· working in the industry. He came out of the newspaper business in 1958 to wo,rk for WTIW- TV (Channel II) in public relations. Ascending to program director in 1964, Morris went to New York to become the liason between Time/Life films and the British Broadcasting ' 11\ Corp. He worked on several BBC/ PBS series. Morris' work on "Search for the Nile" earned him a Peabody !Award in 1972. ! Returning to Chicago the same year, Morris became the vice-president and Ed Monll, Colooabt. Coll•a•'• """TV O.portmrar : ••Jnaon. Pboto court.,;-' of Jock Rodrlauu. AJsbtont Burur Volorle Colllna, wbo died July ,general manager of WSNS- TV 21, wu "well-liked." fl . •-*-' -- _,. Page 2, Columbia Chronicle ·.. ' ~ Monday, October 1, 1984 Noted educator at Columbia Columbia's changing Dr. Harry Edwards, one of the 1968 Summer Olympics "wilere be was nation's leading socialogists and sports able to"J)ursuade-tale~~_ted \llac:It'llthletea intellectuals, will teach two courses as from participatina, inclu4ina Kareem By llyce Reisman The eleventh floor of the Michigan part of Columbia's teacher-in Abdul-Jabbar, then known u Lew uo you feel lost at Columbia? Are Avenue building will now provide residence programs, it was announced Alcindor, the leadina S(X)rer in the you going back to your old classrooms more room for the Interior Design by Dean Lya Rosenblum and_ t~e history of professional bultetball. Liberal Education department. or department heads and finding they Program and the Art Department. The are not there? Dr. Edwards, who in 1981 received Dr. Edwards is a Socioloay sixth floor houses together all of the an honorary doctor of Humane Letters professor at San Jose State,. where be'.a Well, don't worry, you are not going student services, such as records, ad from the college, will teach " Social perhaps th~ leadina authority ~n spo!U crazy. Columbia has made a lot of missions and financial aid. Problems in American Society" on and its social components. He Is the m changes and many of the departments The Wabash building has been Tuesday from 9:00- II :50 and " Sports ventor of the term, "SocioiO&Y and classes have moved to Columbia's totally remodeled. The lobby now has and Soceity" on Wednesday, from sport," and recently attracted national new Wabash building at 623 s. railings, archways and a ramp for the 3:30-6:20. attention upon his generally favorabl Wabash. handicapped. It is before the international sports response to the National Collegiat Athletic Association's demand for The bookstore is on the main floor lhe Wabash building was built in arena where Dr. Edwards has achieved of the new building. The second floor his greatest notierity, founding the tighter standards for collegiate 1895 as the Studebaker Carriage Mexico City Olympic Boycott at the elgibility regarding competitive sports. now has theater workshops and the Works, the predecessor of Studebaker third floor houses the development and cars. In the 1950's, a large number of public relations offices. federal agencies occupied it, and more The Science Department, Adver recently, it held a small assortment of tising Department and Journalism varied tenants. Department inhabit the fifth floor. The Eventually, but not in the near Liberal Education Department is on future, Columbia would like to build a the sixth floor and the seventh floor bridge leading from the Michigan carries the English Department. Avenue building to the Wabash The fourth floor and floors eight building, so students can go from through 10 are unoccupied and will be building to building without ever step !eft for future growth. ping outside. May Wah Chinese Restaurant 922-1929/922-1929 531 South Wabash ****A Friendly Place Reasonable Prices and Fast Services Welcome Back Art students Jim Sarantis Welcomes You The Art Department wishes you a Harrison Great year.... By the way, any work no~ claif!!ed by ?ctober 5 .... Snack Shop will be tossed! BREAKFAST-LUNCH-DINNER Jim's Special Texas Style and Other Breakfast Specials Open 6 a.m.-Daily Specials at Mod~rate Prices
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% Opinions ~ditorials: ... AM I aNDRoG'/NOU~ More for less? e~ooeu FoR 'lou, CiND't'? Each year Columbia's ad- time spent trying to find out from ministration develops its own system of somebody. arithmetic. It's called more for less. What students need, however, is a Under this accounting system, booklet that offers them more than a students are told they'll have to reach skeleton description of the classes of deeper into their pockets if they hope fered at Columbia. to afford an education. At the same While the majority of colleges in time they're not given anything they Illinois will send a course description haven't had before. booklet to any one requesting infor It's like paying more for last year's mation, Columbia won't supply a model. booklet even to its registered student As an example, every semester body. students are sent a registration pam We tltink Columbia has an phlet through the mail. This pamphlet obligation to its students to supply is designed to show students what type them with the information they need to and what times classes will be offered during that semester. make the proper choices during registration. The admininstration negligence in supplying such a course guide not only Without a course description deprives student access to information booklet, students planning their valuable to their educations, it adds to schedules in advance of registration a host of other problems including an must spend time telephoning or visiting increase in the number of course with the college if they hope to get their drawls and a more complicated and questions answered. frustrating registration experience. It isn't as though the booklets aren't Students need such a guide in advan compiled and available.A few copies ce of registration to ensure the course are available at registration tables to they take fit .in with their career goals help answer inquiries, but those copies and other interests. Students cannot be aren't readily available for use by the 'NG' means No Good expected to gleen the meaning of a four students. month course from a three-word As the cost of tuition again rises at Students shouldn't have to chase grades description. Columbia, students should expect to be Also, the guide provided by the given better services for their money. college contains asterisks next to some Although the cost of assembling, prin by Keith Wesol Many students agonize and worry courses usually meaning a prerequisite ting and distributing such a booklet This past summer 1 took one of the over their grades, waiting for the is required. But just what course is may prohibit the adminstration from condensed, six-week classes offered at report cards to tell them the results of needed in advance isn't given in the producing it, we feel its value to Columbia, and when I received my their work. They do not need the fur registration pamphlei. Again, more students mandates it. report card many weeks later I found ther complication and worry of having that I had been given a mark of NG. to hunt down their grade because some Looking at the back of the report teacher failed to do his/ her job. card, I discovered that an NG meant Students fail a class when they do not " no grade reported by the instructor." do their work. but what happens to There was no other explanation for the teachers when they fail to do theirs? mark and no further information that The fact that a student would have Student Council could help me in finding what had to chase after a grade is made even happened to my grade. more outrageous when one considers After speaking with several other the price that Columbia students pay students who had been in the same for classes here. Does that money also Sorely needed class, I learned that they had all pay for the right to go in pursuit of received " no grade" also. I talked to one's grade? After all, as the ad Last April, the Chronicle reported a when the board would seek out and try several of my friends who go to ministration of Columbia knows so rally was set for Columbia students to to help independent clubs and Columbia to see if they had ever en well, the bottom line is money. When a initate a council. The "come alive" organizations to develop extra countered this problem. A few of them student has payed for a class, the rally gained only lukewarm support as educational activities from Columbia had. student should receive a grade for that over 500 students anticpated grad students. Because the class I took was a class. The school should make sure that duation, and the rest of us scrambled School wide elections were to be held history class, I called the Liberal Arts they do. through finals wishing we were each April to comprise the board. Any Department to see if they could tell me There are several steps the ad finishing, too. part- or full-time student in good anything about my grade. There, it ministration of Columbia could take to As we begin a new school year, the academic standing could be an eligible remove this problem. In the event that same student concerns remain intact: candidate. Each independent group was explained to me that the teacher course description are collector's was to choose a representative from its had probably neglected to turn in the a teacher is unable to turn in the grades items; instructors miss grade deadlines; , eers to work with the Board. grades on time for them appear on the because of illness or personal there are too few available scholarships This would be an excellent place to report card. problems, there should be instructions to meet student needs; and, Columbia begin building student camaraderie I was also told that, although my in a letter, or on the report card, in lacks school clubs and intra-mural between the departments, which could grade hadn't appeared on the report forming a student about what has hap sports. lead to a snowballing positive force in card, it could probably be found on my pened to their grade. There should be Ironically, we still have no student Columbia to get student complai nts to transcript in the Records Office. So I more than just "no grade reported by council where we can air these grivan the administration. came to school, went to the Records the instructor." ces and get the administration to listen This semester, we could hold elec Office and, sure enough, there was my to them. We have no way to channel tions in each department to comprise grade on the transcript. this negative energy into useful school an initial board. From these members Furthermore, if a teacher consisten groups. officers would be elected to a commit: A couse description booklet should tly fails to turn in the grades without The popular arguments for not tee appointed to amend or reconstruct be made available to each student good reason, there should be some having a student government also this Student Activities Board con either directly or indirectly. They disciplinary action taken by the ad remain intact: Columbia is a commuter stitution into a workable council for should be sent through! the mail, ministration. There is no excuse for collegeland; we lack school spirit. Columbia students. We could get help distributed through an office or be subjecting students to unnecessary Some of us even utter in dismay, "you from other area colleges and the up made available for student use during complications for a grade that they mean we have to attend meetings?" coming National Conference on .registration. have already wo.rked hard for. Make any excuses you will for not Students Services at Chicago's Hyatt having a council. Electing student Regency. representatives to take your concerns The Chronicle received notice last to the administration is the best reason week that this conference will hold in The Columb11 Chronicle 11 a studcnl·run ncv. sJ)IIpcr pubhshed weekly and rck-.s~ cvn-y Monday. Views uprnKd htr(' arc not nectu~~nly those of for having one. dividual workshops November 3-6 the advbor or the Collcac. All opmions, ~·rnic1sms and comments meant At least once in Columbia's history where a wide range of student gover for pubhtallon should b<- K"ntto tht Chron.clc m tht rorm of a ty{Wwrirtttt there was some thought given to for nment presidents and College Deans ltutr·IO·Ihc·C'dilor. All unJoln:uC'd matcnalas iiubj«tto t'l.launa. ming a student council. The Chronicle will discuss subjects that hit home to Lts Brownlee obtained a copy of the Columbia ""'l'.diiOf·i• .CIIWf Pamtla Dta n Columbia like " The Commuter Auoriatt Edlton PaUtd: z. McGavin College Student Activities Board con College Blues: Combatting Student", a The student newspaper Tamara Spe-ro stitution from John Moore, Dean of workshop dealing with the problems of Scou Stont 1-:tath W tSOI Student Affairs, when the issue sur attracting students to school groups of Columbia College f nturn FAilor Sutannt Dowtin faced last semester. and other activities. Arb t:dlton PhllArYaa Da'<'tMolt In The Activities Board, each depar Room 8 - 106 Sportst:dllor Dcnnu. A!Kkrson tment was to be represented by a The resources are there if we would Co•trib•lhiJ FAIItor Rkhard Gu.a..w:o student with a declared major in that 600 S. Michigan Ave. A""l Vi~R a ncon come together and use them. The AliP.hut« Ca royln Jil. . Ha mahon department. Meetings were to be held question is: are we ready to take the Chicago 60605 Clrn~kotlo • lyk-tJil.tiSman once a month from October to May, step? Page 4 Columbia Chronicle Monday, Octo~r1, 1984 Fedtures He croons-, they -swoon· -tion. ·an(!" dnimmer Doug Deforest to ciify ·~ nesJd an(! another tO the Wlle OI a According to his concert program, on alone. · gallery owner for her private collec- The Un Grand Cafe displays his series "fwant to be a megalomanic," said And that is exactly what they did. ' of oil pastel portraits, "Posture For Columbia College student Robert Grayson and Deforest performed two TheiceAge." Grayson. shows at the Randolph Street Gallery. Grayson's acting career began in the : Grayson, a singer, lyricist, actor, Grayson stuck to the old adage the second grade. He did imitations of poet and painter, may soon find that show must go on, singer "Goldfinger" Batman's arch ene.mies the Penguin · his delusions of grandeur are no longer acapella to the beat of the drum. "It's and the Joker. delusions. not my style to drop out at the last He studied acting and voice while As a singer and lyricist, Grayson minute," he' said. performing through high school and performs with his band Robert Grayson is now looking for community theater. Grayson and Those Bright Young replacement for the band. . He likes to interact with his audien Things. From 1981 to 1983, Grayson .. ce. "The stage is not sacred," said. On sta2e with his hair slicked back traveled through Europe performing. ·. Grayson. - and wearing a tuxedo, Grayson resem- he described his tour as "a mixture of, Once during a performance, bles a tall -Joel Grey from the film culture and adventure." Grayson asked the audience to throw "Cabaret" minus the false eyelashes He began writing songs for a band in · brussel sprouts and onions at him. and lipstick. Germany and eventually recorded six , He also starred in "The Tangent", a He performs a mixture of his own of his own songs with composer Gun- · video by Roland Baladi that was finan contemporary music with oldies like ther Jaacks. ced by the French Ministry of Culture, " Million" Dollar Baby". He's sort of In Paris, Grayson did everything according to his concert program. from performing solo at Le Palace to an updated crooner. Grayson's goal is to ~ an all A few days before one of his recent selling newspapers at the Louvre. around entertainer. At the moment he shows, the other band members quit As an artist, Grayson has recently is considering auditions for the David due to personality clashes. This left sold a portrait of Noel Coward to Letterman Show with his acapella ren celbrated photographer Victor Skreb- _Grayson and fellow Columbia student . diti_on of "G~!dfiEac,:r.'~ .. Southern scholar loo k.s ·· .at her history' wrlt~ng FAMOUS LAST WORDS •. By tamara Sl?ero : . and grows into an autho;::-sbe- ~e$ references to--'stories written over a FROM FRIENDS TO FRIENDS. 'fo read "One Writer's Begincings" period of 50 years. is to experience the process of writing. Her belief in the deeper truth of fic Eudora Welty does not explain in this tion lead her to regret her father's lack best seller how she works her magic. of enthusiasm 'for novels. He did not "Are you OK to drive?" Narratjng, .connecting with her audien live to read any of her work. She ce and lilways remembering, it is in hoped he might come to appreciate "Whats a few beers?" conceivable for a reader to miss what "the fictional eye sees in, through, and Welty is d~ribing without its occurring. around what is really there," she said. The book is the text ot tnree lectures Fiction reveals life. she gave last April at Harvard Univer While discussing an analysis of hc;r . "Did you have too much to drink?" sity. This inaugurated a new series in ..'IYQIK with a Time Magazine rePOrter,' the graduate program in the History of Welty mentioned W.C. Fields "Who "I'm peifectly fine." American Civilization. read an analysis of how he juggled. He "Vision, dream, illusion, couldn't juggle for six years afterwar hallucination, obsession, and that most ds. He'd never know how it was done. "Are you in any shape to drive?" wonderful interior vision is memory," He'd just throw up the balls and is how her stories come to life, Welty juggled.'' "I've never felt better." explained. However, in writing, memory is fust The slim autobiography not only and foremost to Welty. She uses her tells of the private, shy author's life; it memory as a well of ideas, it stirs the successfully answers a question most imagination in producing fiction. "I "I think you've had a few too many." authors dread, "Where do you get drew quite freely-ttlle life, real your ideas?" ' people, fairy tales, Southern lore-1 "You kiddin, I can drive The first two pieces called drew it all quite freely. I made it into " Listening," and "Learning to See," this great big bouquet of fun and with my eyes closed." are remembrances of her parents to pleasure," she said. whom the book is dedicated, and their Welty is a master of the short story. parents. She describes with brevity and In 1972 she won the Pulitzer Prize for clarity her life up until age 10. "The Optimist's Daugher.'' Other . "You've had too much to drink, Christian Webb Welty loved travel, honors include the American Book gadgets and progress. He worked in Award for fiction; and the Gold Medal let me drive." life insurance. for the Novel, given by the American Chestina Andrews Welty was a Academy and Institute of Arts and "Nobody drives my car but me." woman of strength and independence. Letters for her entire work in fiction. She once ran into her burning home to On her 75th birthday last April 13, save a treasured set of Dickens in spite Mississippi recognized her skills by of her many phobias. declaring it "Eudora Welty Day." "Are you OK to drive?" The Welty's moved to Jackson as "One Writer's Beginnings" has been newlyweds, setting out to live in a place compared with "The Elements of· beers?" neither of them knew. Eudora was Style" by Strunk and White, and E.M. born and raised there. In the telling of Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" as a her youth Welty shows how her parents book that will grow in popularity as a gave her the courage and caution a teaching tool for would be novelists, writer needs. and other fiction writer's. It is a warm, Welty believes everyday objects, loving tribute to the art of story telling sights and sounds all tell a story. The and the history of one incredible striking clock, the Victrola, her woman. father's coverless little book given to him by his mother on her deathbed when he was seven years old. Welty's first box camera taught her "life. M08 S II 0 N 3 1 8 doesn't hold still." She felt a need to 3 D , 3 capture transient life with words in the II 3 1'13 II 3 1 '1/ 1'1'1/ II 3 1 s '1/.3 D "d way the camera captured a moment on S I H 1 N '1/ M-1'13 film, only more so. 8 0 I 3 II 3 N-1 , " Most of Welty's ancestors are 3 d YN-i .L 0 0 -31'1 DRINKING AND DRIVING "Northern people." However, she does S I 3 3 0 S I '1/ ~" .L i 31'1-il ...L not separate "Yankees" from Souther " , t CAN KILL A FRIENDSHIP. . ners." Her account of the interplay be- 3 8 n 8 II 3 .L " , d tween black and white, town and coun i 8 .LOll ".L i I 1 d 0:) tryside, and north and south while 3 " J 8 8 n growing up in Jackson is skilled obser 0 i 0 i i N i ".L no vation of human beings. Each one , " J .L 8 0" i 0 II U.S. Department of Transportation ~ u~iqu~ in his or her way. She highlights mmutlae. The third lecture is entitled "Finding L-.----,..,,_,..------...... -.....:---:._-_.:.__ ~ ~.L.:.l::..r.....:L&...i..l.J • - a Voice . ~: : !I~!'.~ _y.'_elty goes• t_o coll~ge • J ... 'o ' ~·• t • ' ~ .Monday, Octo~er 1, 1984 · · : To pl~~ee a classified or per- All classifieds will remainl IOUI ad, contact the Columbia confidential. Since personals season with silly goings on Oct. Scholars Chronicle Advertising mana_ger. are free they cannot be guaran- 26 and 27 at the 4730 N. National Endowment for the ~ '· Sheridan Rd. building. For in- Humanities are now available in 1, in ~oom B 106, by Chrorucle1teed of appearing regardless of" ByTamaraSpero formationcall271-7804. the placement office. The mad or <:aJ1663-1600 ext. 343 · . whether or· not they were sub-. ART-A week long Arts FILM-A free showing of program awards some grants of Submtt all personals and all mited before the deadline: the ' Festival begins October 21, 1984 "Nosferatu" (1922) at the $1,800 to students under 21 classified ad~ typed, doublelsame applies for all ads, copy, 1 spaced on typmg paper, or 4 x 5 and 'Other materials submitted at the Fourth Presbyterian ~University of Chicago Circle years of age. index cards. One message per for publication. Chruch of Chicago at 126 E. campus, room 605 at noon, 3:00 . sheet or card. Chestnut St. For information p.m., and 6:00p.m. PARADE-On Oct. II the 'ACROs$ JunCtion· ca11942-5579. The Field Museum offers free Chinese Independence Day 1 Fish eggs 4 Greek . The school of the Art In- films on different cultures in its Parade-Chinatown will take 4 Paid notice marketplace · stitute of Chicago is holding Edward E. Ayer Film Lecture place at 22nd and S. Wentwor· 6 Take unlaw- 5 Railroad lectures: John Vollner will Series. "South American Ad- th. lulty station CROSS on "The Psychology of' venture" is scheduled Oct. 4 at""""~ 11 CUrrent· 6 Scoffed IC'lothinlg" at 7:00p.m. Oct. 9; I :30 p.m. Timbuktu and POETRY-Gerald Stern will be breakdown 7 Symbol for Shea discusses her Beyond" will be screened Oct. featured in a reading at the 13 Wanted tellurium WORD 15 Pronoun 8 Lampreys lfiJ~urati•(e sculpture and her II at I :30 p.m. Poetry Center at the School of 16 Thicket 9 Farewell! as a clothes the Art Institute of Chicago 18 ~ 10 Unit of Oct. 16. GRANTS.:_Guidelines and ap- Oct. 12, 8:00 p.m. For lnfor- 19 Greek letter Bulgarian PUZZLE opens the forms the 21 Repetition currency 22 Comp_ass 12 Alternating potnt current: FROM COLLEGE 23 Second-rate abbr.' PRESS SERVICE horses 14 Prefix: down 26 Employ 17 Stalk 29 Tardy 20 Likely 37 Airplane 54 Character in 31 Encounter 24 Conduct attendant " Othello" 33 Note of scale 25 Diocese 42 Periods 55 Merganser 34 Hebrew 27 Slide of time 56 Hebrew letter month 28 Comfort 44 Hard-wood 57 Priest's 35 Three-toed 29 Tibetan tree vestment sloths priest 46 Lawful 59 Note of scale 38 River In 30 Son of Adam 48 Go in 62 Printer's Scotland 32 Care for 49 Newspaper measure 39 Exists 36 Electrified paragraphs 64 Symbol for 40 Pronoun particle 51 Apportion rubidium 41 Lavlsh fond- ness on 43 Back of neck 45 Everyone 47 Sea nymphs 50 Printer's measure 52 Need 53 Pronoun 56 Verso, e.g. 58 Showy flower 60 Morning 61 Click beetle 63 Come on the scene 65 Mixture 66 Rupees: abbr. 67 Nod DOWN 1 Debauchee 2 Expel 3 Latin con-
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thought of "Chic:aao Entertainment By Patrick Z. McGavin [ Connection's" demise. "So much bas ."Chica"go i~n't really an artists' happened here recently. People are town," Phil Ranstrom began. "It's a studying here. I also want to include political town; a work town," the the underground. The behind ' the ~ Columbia College television instructor scenes reports. One of the premises is said in reference to the difficulties en to juxtapose the powers that be of countered in presenting a television television to that of the up and coming pilot called "Chicago Entertainment talent in Chicago," he said. Connection." Perhaps an indication of the pilot's Ranstrom, an independent producer television life exists in what Ranstrom and director of such documentarie~ a~ felt was an encouraging screening, and "I remember Riverton" and last y~ar's includinlt such Chicago television stars contr9yersia!. _"Uptown Christian as "A.M. Chicago" host Oprah Soldiers," developed the project along • <•IAMI"'l. Jb.Mtro•. work~o~·~~~~~~~~~;~~·:Jf Winfrey. with student Richard Dane in an at- executive producer anct-=e"'d""n"'o"'r-.=== ::ABC (WLS) television for potential air- Ranstrom also reports that even tempt to Showcase area talent through should the pilot fail, it's a bring various artistic and social The pilot's content was filmed en- dates. However, more pertinent im- . . I' f'l I tirely within the college's television mediately, according to Ranstrom, is development in Columbia's television v1ces-mus1c, lterature, 1 m, te ev- facilities; the video was shot in revam- department, often criticized last year ·on theater and so forth the decision regarding a permanent sl • .ng t R 1 · h · ped studio A and the interviews con- host for the interviews. They've by a group of television students of its . Accordl o ans rom, t e enure dueled in studio B. Ranstrom said the alleged snobbery and lack of available ilot was an op o t 't 1 · 1 d d received strong indications the host P P r um Y o me u e a - show's initial presentation of new resources to properly train students. vanced telev1's'o1 n s t ud en 1s th e resour- music was "typical of the typ·e of would be John Mrvos, music director The presence of a television pilot, ces to work · f · 1 of WXRT (FM 93.1), also one of the m an pro ess1ona en- material we hope to develop." coupled with a state-of-the-art mobile vironment. Ranstrom concedes the most dl' f- guests of the pilot discussing new tren- 'I d 1 ds in music. unit for on-location shooting, are in The PI ot was screene recent Y at ficult aspect of judging origination of deed signs the department intends to the Cabaret Metro. It is a conconction material may be the arduous task of Another possibility is the prosperous . v1' d s al' f d suburban cable community, par- maintain a competitive balance with Of musle eo urre· 1 1sm perd torme deciding between commercial value ticularly the growing Centel operation. other schools. b y Th· e· Wt ay M· oves m hersperse o areaf and individual preferences. "That's a · However, according to Ranstrom, any mus1c" m erv1ews· " h on 1 t e hemergence b 'd f o hard issue," said Ranstrom. "I th1'nk link with cable would involve But what Ranstrom, Dune, and new mus1c, t 'd e atestt't' Y n o pop- the best programs are born through a solicitation of weekly subscribers to ot h er members of the television depar- rock/ new wave 1 en 1 1es.· t · commitment to personal involvement. subsidize the program. Ranstrom ad- .tment are relying on are strictly the Th. he d fima I pro d' d uc1 t R IS 1no QUite"W What are the proper topics for mits the resources for a marketing staff benefits likely received from the ex- poI IS e , accor mg o ans rom. e television? Practicality is a whole other may have to condense some of the con- issue... currently aren't available. posure of "Chicago Entertainment . h Whatever the odds of its eventual Connection," hopefully Columbia's tent b eca~se t h ere are spots w h1c, Original plans were to discuss the I d Chi drag," sa1d Ranstrom, the show s. _ .• show's future with representives from placement within the television elite, P e ge to cago's changing artistic Ranstrom remains undaunted by the-:-"developments. Vaughan's a classic ------.- .. ---.....c- ~-.... . ~~ · ded ve!_S_IOn (off "Couldn't Stand the By Phil Arvia Weather") of this tune is an eerie ex -In .. ifiese days of the so-called perience, given its uncanny accuracy resurgence of heavy metal, the-legen compared to the original. But in con dary, if somewhat elusive title of cert, it's hard to imagine (and here I ' "guitar hero" has fallen on hard times. run the risk of losing any and all While the oh-so-youthful record credibility) even Hendrix playing it any buying public lines the record stores to better. purchase the latest licks of Eddie Van Stevie Ray played then played most Halen or one of his -hack clones in ban of the material from his second album ds like Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, or occasionally mixing in a cut from th~ Ratt, those of us past the Clearasil first, "Texas Flood." His ad-libbed crisis years have had to be content to solos in extended versions of almost fo ndly remember the wizardry of the everything he played were simply over likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton·, or whelming, though standout tunes in Robin Trower. cluded: "Honey Bee," his tribute to All hope, however, is not lost. One Muddy Waters, blues classic " Tin Pan , Arts season opens performer has appeared who can right Alley," and current hit "Cold Shot." fully lay claim to that "guitar hero" If Stevie Ray has a fault, it's that he Giraudoux will be performed with the. \ role. As any one of the capacity-plus sometimes seems to be playing for him- By Phil Arvia help. of members of the Body Politic. . \ self, as if he forgets the audience ·s . - "Godspell" is slated for production in crowd at the Aragon Ballroom three 1 The cost of the professional theater weeks ago can tell you, Stevie Ray there. But this too, he turns into a ; the late spring. Vaughan is something special. strength. When he returned to the stage got you down? Don't worry, th~nks The college's music schedule in- Stevie Ray (all great guitar players, it for his encore, he took a seat and to Columbia's performing arts new eludes a performance of Duke seems, are referred to by their first totally absorbed in the instrumen• subscription series, you go to as many Eliington's "Concert of Sacred names only) blew into the Ballroom in resting on his knees, sizzled through as four events for as low as $18. In ad- Music" in November. Also, a perfor- the middle of his tour in support of his "Lenny", a soulful ins•rumental from dition, a new program started by mance of music by the Beatles, second album, "Couldn't stand the his first album (and from the soun- Columbia brings in local professionals Leonard Bernstein and Randy Weather." Fellow Texan and blues dtrack of the movie " Sixteen Can- to work with students on theater Newman will be staged in late May. guitar great Albert Collins opened the dies" ). Three songs later, he left the projects. With the exception of "The Mad: show, priming both the audience and stage again, the lone disappointment For the 1984-85 performing arts man of Chaillot," all theater and Stevie Ray with some inspired fret being the failure to include his first season, audiences are being offered music productions will be at the work. chart single, "Pride and Joy," in the various subscription packages com- Eleventh Street Theater. "Mad- set. bining theater, music, and dance. woman" will be staged at the Body Collins, the famed "Master of the Telecaster," long has been one of That disappointment was erased In an .effort to bring in new patrons, Politic. Stevie Ray's favorite performers, as soon enough, though, as Stevie Ray the packages offered include an $18- The dance series, to be presented at- was in evidence that night. As Collins and Double Trouble, and Albert $2 1 package for any three theater and the Dance Center at 4730 N. Sheridan smoke through an all too short opening Collins and his Icebreakers returned to one music event, $24 for two theater kicks off October 26-27 with Foolsf.ire. set, Stevie Ray could be seen in the the stage for one of the most and two dance events, and $24 for two This trio includes Bob Berky, and they wings, playing air guitar. Collins freewheeling jam sessions to come music and two dance events. will perform mime, clowning, juggling, seemed to have an equally profound around in a long time. Though the Some of the theater events include and vaudeville. effect on the crowd, given the disgrun show was nearly three hours old, the productions with local professionals. Former Pilobolus Dance Company tled moans and boos when the lights hot, crowded audience kept rocking as . Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," members, in their current incarnation came back on following his half-hour this twenty-ish white man and this ~ teaming Columbia students with artists ·of MOM IX are also scheduled in the of playing. middle-aged black man showed them )• from the Steppenwolf Theater will be series, as is a repeat of last season's After a short break, Stevie Ray took what the blues, rock and roll and · staged in October, though it won't be wildly successful "Collaborations: the stage, every bit as eager as the guilar were all about. ' 1 offered as part of the subscription New Dance/ New Music," plus per- crowd to to rock and roll. He and w.hen they finally left the stage, 1 pac kages. formances by Mordine and Company his back-up band rhythm section, Stev1e Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins • The December collaboration will be and ODC/ San Francisco. Double Trouble, raced through two in did so arm in arm. As for the audience, J Remains Theater on George Kaufman In (or at) any event, the Columbia nrumentals as they took the stage, then that warm feeling was there too the and Marc Connelly's "A Beggar on Performing Arts season promises to be broke into the Hendrix classic fee ling th at they had indeed shared Horseback." In February and March ns successful and entertaining as ever Voodoo Chile. Listening to the recor: somet hing special. !, ....·.. ·T -h• e-M•a•d•w• •m-o a.n_o,.f-Ciiohiiiao,;iiill•o•t'•',..;;;b~ y-·b;.e10f.;;.o;.re;.;,.______.... Monday, October 1, 1984 Arts &: -·Entertd.inment Page 7, Columbia Chronicle 'In The Spotlight ·;ByDavid Moll
,. •...... ,,.. •• .,.....*"".'""' .... •1 ~ - . · Welcome to the first installment of and Oates latest, Big Bam Boom, ~ In The Spotlight, a column that keeps should be in record stores now ...Toto ! \- , ·you up to date in the world of enter- has a new change of face with Dennis \ ' tainment which will include music Fredericksen as lead vocalist. i · news, coming attractions at the movies, Fredericksen was formerly of Trillion, · · and other local events. And now... a popular local club act in the · • Adults and teens will have to fight ' 70s ... Look for Prince and the •· for the cable switcher box this fall as Revolution to start touring in Novem MTV has announced that they will ber. Opening for Prince will be Sheila debut a "soft rock" video channel E ...Bostons back, sounding the same featuring the likes of Kenny Rogers as ever with their current single, and Linda Ronstadt... Not to be out- "Amanda." The band is also having done, Ted Turner, owner of "super- contact disputes. MCA Records has ' station" WTBS in Atlanta, will debut a reportedly signed them, but Epic is ' {Polydor), Hard To Hold {RCA), in the studio even during the groups competing 24-hour music channel in contesting... You can all but close the , Footloose {Columbia), The Big Chill current tour. While David Lee Roth December called Cable Music Chan- door on Styx with the release of new '\. {Motown), Two Of A Kind {MCA) and and the boys are stirring up a storm ael... Roselle Music presents their sixth solo albums from Dennis DeYoung 1 Yentl {Columbia) .. .Still looking for his back stage, Eddie is putzing around annual Midwest Talent Search this and Tommy Shaw. DeYoung has .; lost shaker of salt, Jimmy Buffet plans with new music for the next LP. And month. Winners will receive free studio released Desert Moon {A&M) while " on recording a country album, doing a while Roth is planning another adven time, video taping for cable broadcast, Shaw has released Girls With Guns concert tour and the film of ture in the jungle this fall, Eddie will music equipment and a concert . {A&M) ... Roger Hodgsen, formerly of Margaritaville ... remain stuck inside his recording showcase. Tapes of two songs should 1 Supertramp, has come out with In The studio•at home ... be sent by 10/ 31 to Roselle Music, 217 Eye Of The Storm. Listen for the IN CONCERT: Starting to tour this E. Irving Park, Roselle 60172 ... The Supertramp sound without all the ex October will be Daryl Hall and John Eagles reunion will become a reality cess baggage ... Heartbeat City by the Oates. Their North American tour will VIDEO NEWS: Patty Symth of Scan only if Glenn Frey wants to come back. Cars is the first full-length rock cassette be sponsored by the Pontiac Motor dal claims that they are the first band The other Eagles want to tour and do for Warner Home Video. The Cars Division of General Motors and will to be made by video. The band sup an albun:!, but Frey is content with his shot five new videos including a new run into April 1985. The duo's Rock posedly make a video demo of "Loves solo effort, The Allnighter, which is version of " Hello Again" ... Paul Kan 'N Soul Part One Greatest Hits album Got A Line On You," showed it to a poing well on the charts ...As if he has tner has left the Jefferson Starshlp af has already gone double platinum ... few people in New York, and the tape nothing better to do with his time, ter almost twenty years with the band. got them a manager, an agent and a gig Sting is currently in the Himalayas with He founded the group in 1965 under IN THE STUDIO: Those hosers from as well. The five-song EP from Scandal explorer Bill Grant in search of the the name Jefferson Airplane... Ted the Great White North, Bob and Doug reportedly became the best-selling EP Abominable Snowman, Andy Sum- Nugent has announced that he's McKenzie {Dave Thomas and Rick in Columbia Records history ...That is ·mers is trying his hand at acting in The working on the Penetrator Amp, which Moranis), are back after last year's Steve Perry's real-life girlfriend in his Fantasist, based on a book called will hit 12. 127 Sounds like something chart hit "Take Ofr' {assisted by video, " Oh Sherrie," and her name is Gooscfoot, by Pa_trick_ out of Spinal Tap. We'll believe it Rush's Geddy Lee). Look for their up Sherrie... Police's Andy Summers and McGinley ...Genesi s' Tony Banks is when we hear it...Eight soundtracks coming album from Mercury .. . Yes, King Crimson's Robert Fripp have scoring the film 2010: Odypey Two, have been certified platinum so far this )' Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are finished their first video from their new still around and with a new album on album, Bewitched. The setting for the Backstreet/ MCA records. The bands video for the single "Parade" was a last effort was Long After 19th Century insane asylum. The video Dark ... Diana Ross's autobiography cost an estimated $30,000 to film and should be out now along with her new was directed by director- producer album in which Daryl Hall is supplying Francis Delia, who directed "Mexican some vocals ...Trying to outdo their Radio" for Wall of Voodoo... Wendy 1980 smash High Infidelity, R.E.O. 0 . Williams has done it again. When Speedwagon will release their latest shooting the video for " It's My Life," sometime this month. The band is in Wendy climbs a rope ladder into an their fourteenth year ... Big Country has airplane from a car traveling at 70 finally finished their long-awaited m.p.h., just before the car runs off a follow-up to their debut LP, The cliff and crashes, all without a safety Crossing. The band released an EP a harness ... Michael Jackson has decided ...... while back to keep their fans pleased not to release footage from the summer Sapertftmp. ~- called Wonderland. The follow-up due tour fo r home-video or pay-TV this month, will be released through programs. There will be a documentary due out next summer ... Hall and Oates year, more than in all of 1981, '82 and Polygram .. .One -fourth of the group film of the tour, but the Jackson's will have earned more gold and platimum '83 combined. The soundtracks that Van Halen is in the studios. As a mat keep it to themselves ... Next week, a records than any other duo since the have topped the million sales mark so ,1 ter of fact, Eddie Van Halen has been look at the movies. Recording Industry• Association of far this year are Purple Rain {Warner ·: America began counting in 1958. Hall Bros.), Ghostbusters {Arista), Breakin' :¢, p=nz»ru(i... 2d"•N "mth «)" r .. ~ '$ • ' ,. • 01 't ( Dahl Goes Cable By David Moll · ployment. WLS-FM afternoon personality If the issue gets settled before today, Steve Dahl is once again taking the then Dahl and Meir will host " The plunge into television. This time, Steve Dahl Show" each Friday night at -though, Dahl is planning on bringing 10:30 p.m. by means of the Central his controversial radio show to cable Videopath cable network which ser television this fall . But if Dahl con vices more than 240,000 viewers in the tinues his walk out from WLS-AM {890) and WLS-FM {94.7), his plans Chicagoland area. The show will be an hour in length may fall through. and a direct extension of Dahl's show. Dahl and partner Garry Meier were The show will include phone-ins, taped forced to transfer from WLS-FM to segments, interviews and the same con WLS-AM, beginning September 17, troversial Dahl as we hear on the radio. but the duo were, and still are, no " The Steve Dahl Show" is sc heduled shows. The station is currently airing for a 13-week trial run and will air live, old tapes of the two and are prepared a task that was not easy. to take them to court to enforce their All of Dahl's callers for the show contract. will have to leave their name and num Dahl contests that the switch is a ber. They will be called back and breach of his contract and says that he reminded of FCC regulations {against will bt willing to work as long as it is obscene language) in order to par with WLS-FM. If not, Dahl and Meier ticipate on the show. : will most likely seek alternative em- Monday, October1,1984 Page 8, Columbia Chro nicle Sports
Manager Jim Frey tells why ·------·-·---· --·~- Cubs Win! Locker Room Lines By Dennis Anderson Bye, bye Bowie. And bring ce'' and accused Finley of tryi111 Twelve noon. Wrigley Field. people from all over baseball in War II movies," says Frey. "The ·------on Pete. to wreck the franchise----~. Finley Cubs' batting practice. the last two years and put them ones where a group of rebel Today is the day the baseball went to court to challenae Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher together on one team. And I guys are picked out of a world says goodbye to the ogre Kuhn's authority to intercede Kent Tekulve emer11.es from the thought that my job in 1984 was platoon, to charge a castle. And of a man, commissioner Bowie and lost. visitor's dugout pointing his to make them forget that they they all kind of rally around Kuhn and hello to its new ~~ober, 1979-Decreed that were Dodgers, Indians, Phillies, each other and take that castle. '. Wtlhe Mays could not be em- glove at Cub third baseman Ron commtsh, Peter Ueberr.oth. . ployed in baseball and while he Red Sox and get thinking as Well, that is what this ball club. Cey. Cey is lofting souvenirs to . To greatly appr~tate t~ts a job with an Atlantic Cit one. as Chicago Cubs. I really is like. They just go and fight it the bleacher fans from the bat umel~ exchange, _let s examme gambling establishment. Thr thought that that was my out together. ter's box. Kuhn s_ IS-year retgn. years later, Kuhn issued the Jtiigest job in the spring of ' 84. "We also have guys on this "You've been practtcmg. Bowte Kuhn was elected same order in the case of "So, I got th:SC t~ether ball club who have been with: You're learning," Tekulve commissioner of baseball Mickey Mantle. laughingly shouts at Cey. Cey February S, ~969, _on _a l Then fmally: . acknowledges. but gets back to somewhat tentative basts. H~s 1 November 1, 198~-At a his business. Another souvenir term was set at one year by hts meeting in Chicago, American finds the bleachers. bosses, the clu~ owners. He League owners voted for Kuhn, Tekulve's words were big for must have been hked. ll-3, but National League a man whose team is looking up Feb_ru~y, 1970-Suspend~d owners gave him the boot, 7-S, at the National League Eastern Detrott pitcher Denny Mclam two votes shy of the three1 Di-.;sion champion Chicago for three months o~ t~e regu~ar quarters he needed for reelec Cubs. Yes folks. that's THE season for assoctatmg wtth lion. Chicago Cubs. gamblers. With the Los Angeles Olym-1 And like Tekulve said. Cey is . Apnl, 1972-~uhn steppcdpics grossing a net profit of learning, and so are his team mto a contract dtspute_bet~een slOS million, Peter Ueberroth, mates. They're learning to win . Oakland owner Charhe Ftnley former president of the Los~ Cubs' fans are hoping their little and pitcher Vid~ Blu~. After a ,\~gel~ Olympic Organizin bears v.ind up v.;th a diploma at I ~-hour sesston mvolvmg ~uhn , Committee, not only will add the end of the World Series. Ftnley and Blue on Apnl 27 • strong financial background But what is the difference Blue agreed t~ terms. ~uhn which baseball lacked, but will between th~ beautiful losers fined and_ ~epnmanded Ftnley add strong leadership. and these " gettin' mean for cnllclZing the com-, This is what Ueberroth thinks Cubs? Cubs manager Jim Frey missioner's role in the affair. baseball needs: tell.s us. Now for some boneheaded- "From afar it appears to me " V.'hat you find between ball ness. . . that the game lacks economic dubs is that the star players are Apnl, 1974-Wtth the season viability.... Secondly, the in different. On some clubs. the about to start, Kuhn warned tegreity of the game-! told three or fo ur best players on the Atlanta Braves' preside_nt Bill them (the owners) 1 felt the team have a certain per and got them to think like Cubs Brtholomay not to ~tthho~d game had the highest integrity sonality." he says. "You can winners. Every guy on my~ rathct than sa)', 'l'••e got that coaching staff has been 1Henry Aaron fror:n the lin_eup ~n of any sport there is. Period. It think back to the great Yankee '