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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Columbia Chronicle by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. THE COLUMBIA OLLEGE HRONICLE VOLUME 25 NUMBER 20 THE EYES AND EARS OF COLUMBIA APRIL 6, 1992 Questioning standards
By Jade L. Williams and local black officials, who lack basic skills. Staff Editor are accusing the colleges of Journalism student Leslie trying to push minorities out Cummings spoke of a former The disenchantment over through testing and by writing class in which students open admissions and academic eliminating classes with low exchanged papers with each standards can still be heard in enrollment and high school other for editing and feedback. the hallways of Columbia Col equivalency courses. "The paper I edited was filled lege as the City Colleges of But Bush said the colleges with run-on sentences," she Chicago move ahead with will remain open to all, and said . "There's no way the girl I plans to expand their current only classes with very low en- exchanged with could have ~-~A assessment testing policy this given me feedback with her ~- fall. " Testing alters the writing skills." Lisa Adds Staff Photogra-phet The City Colleges, joining These comments can be heard S.O.C board members, (from left to right) Ryan Daniels, many community colleges mission of often from Columbia students Carmella Snook, Ivan Rivera, and Thurston Coleman. . ~ c ross the nation, decided in Columbia by in English, fiction writing and February that college-wide setting up two math classes, but many are , tl·sting was needed to help stu reluctant to go on the record, Latin Alliance, one dents benefit from college schools: people and some try to rationalize courses. with skills and their argument for pre-testing. " If people come in un people without Television major Cornell of SOC's top players prepared, we're not doing them Lambert said Columbia should any favor by letting them take skills." have a form of assessment test By Andrew Rohan Staff writer course that they are not ready Glen Graham ing to correct the broad fM-i t wi ll result in failure," said diversity of skills he has en Last Month the Latino Alliance got actor/ director Edward Sylvia Bush, director of the countered in some classes. James Olmos to appear for free at the Hokin Center. Center for Testing and Assess rollment will be canceled for ef "All students are not on the ficiency reasons. In February, the group sponsored a forum with state Sen. ment for City Colleges, said. same wave length," Lambert Miguel del Valle (D-Chicago) and Alderman Jesus Garcia (22nd). The measure, proposed by At Columbia, students con said. "It's been my position that The alliance is certainly one of the most active student groups the City Colleges Board of tinue to blame the college's Columbia should have testing open admission policy for on campus, but, it is only one of the 23 Student Organizations Trustees and Board Chairman Council members contributing to student life. Ronald Gidwitz, has come frustrations incurred in class See STANDARDS rooms with peers who they say Page 7 Other groups range from the radical (Students for a Better under fire by faculty, students World) to the obscure (the Yearbook Organization) to the techni cal (the Science and Math Oub). Latino Alliance president, Carmen Figueroa, who also sits on the board, said the group prides itself to being the most active and cost efficient organization. Figueroa snagged Olmos through a P.R. dept makes news friend who is active in the Latino Center, which puts on the Chicago Latino Film Festival. "Most of our speakers are not motivated by money," Figueroa said. By Cris Henry As a result the Alliance saves more of the Staff Writer school'sdollars. , "Combining the fall and spring semesters, thus Carol Bryant has a working budget of just under far our budget has not exceeded $3,000." $65,000 per year. She has a staff of only four . When students organizations hold an event or people. She has undertaken a task of immense group P.roject, they submit a proposal to SOC. The proportions at Columbia, and she is not only . . counc1l 's representatives then vote on the succeeding in its completion, she is thriving. ' ' proposal. If passed, the proposal is submitted to Bryant is the director of Columbia's college rela- j Dean of Students Hermann Conaway for final tions and development department. It is her job . approval. to make sure that Columbia holds a prominent 1 · The SOC's annual budget is $45,000, according place in the media spotlight. to President Ryan Eugene Daniels; the money " I've been here for 15 months, and I really enjoy comes from the Dean of Students' budget. it. Before I was here I worked for Porter /Novelli, The SOC encourages new groups to join and get a public relations agency, for 15 years. Columbia ·active. was a client of the agency's, and I worked on the "New organizations are welcome so long as they account. When this position opened up, Colum represent a student constituency and have a wor bia asked me to join the staff, and it sounded like thy mission or goal," Daniels said. In addition, the a neat organization to work for, so here I am." group must get the signatures of 10 student mem Bryant has also worked for Channel 11 and a bers. professional equity theater in New York, doing The Latin Alliance is also looking for new mem public relations. bers. "Recruitment is done primarily by word of Recently Columbia has been popping up in mouth," Figueroa said. "Friends bring in friends." both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun The Alliance meets at noon every Wednesday in Times. This is the work of Bryant and her staff. room 202 of the Wabash building. Members need "Our approach to p.r. varies completely depend not be Hispanic to join; of the 70 members, there ing on the subject at hand. We use pitch letters, are 30 non-Latins, including one Filipino and two public service announcements, and media alerts, African Americans. but sometimes it isassimpleasmakinga phone call. The Alliance and Students for a Better World, It's our goal not just to be pro-active by sending the with about 70 members each, are the two largest information, but to create opportunities." groups. This spring the Alliance will host a Salsa Bryant's office and the English department col concert and a Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May) laborated earlier this year to create a poetry celebration commemorating the Mexican Revolu contest for community college students. This con tion. test, open only to community college students The SOC itself sponsors several events, includ ing bands, lectures, and student films. Last spring it sponsored a See RELATIONS boat excursion See ALLIANCE Page 6 that was open to Page 2
Gambling stacks deck against city "campus one big ashtray," some say. Page 2. Pat Thompson of Dell Express on pages 4, 5. All bets off, Crescenzo says on page 7. PAGE 2 C H R 0 N I C L E APRIL 6, 1992 ;Jenny Smoking ban gets mixed results
~ Dervzn By Tricia Robinson Staf' Wnttr OKING "Whdt docs he do, this man you seck?" Smoking is no longer in "l ie kills women." vogue. " o ... that is inc1dcntal." In the 1990s, nearly everyone Killing women is incidental? You bet, if we're talking about acknowledges that smoking is "Silence of the Lam bs," one of the greatest movies of all time. o ne of the leading causes of air Ma ny lessons can be learned from this movie, including the pollution, lung cancer and moral that seemi ngly major events arc really incidental. Take, heart disease. Researchers have for instance, Ca rol \ll osely Braun's stunning victory in the found that people who don't Democra ti c Senatori al primary. smoke can contract lung dis "Wha t did she do, this woman you voted for?" case by inhaling stale smoke "She won the primary." from people who do, and they "No... that is incidental." have urged the federal govern It's a trick questio n, really. Her importance lies in what she ment to establish mo re didn't do-namely, spend a load of money, smear her can programs that will combat didates personally, lash out as the "angry'' candidate, and use smoking in public facilities. her race as campaign fodder. It is obvious to her supporters that Many public ins titutions she is an African-American female, running for an almost ex have already taken up the call. clusive Caucasian-male club. She threw the race card away. Columbia College and Gus Savage didn' t. And he lost. Big time. Roosevelt and DePaul univer "What docs he do, this man you didn' t vote for?" sities have instituted lisa Add1 "He ha tes non-black Christians." no n-~mok ing policies in com "No ... that is incidental." pliance with clean air laws Smoking is prohibited in the "Residents are permitted to Gus Savage blamed hi s defeat on the jewish and white passed by the state of Illinois Torco building, but no-smok smoke outside of the building," dominated press. In large, this means absolutely nothing. We and the Chicago City Council. ing signs have not yet been said Mike Ceras, a school know he did not raise money to spread misinformation about the Chicago's ordinance strictly installed, she said . spokesman. press. He raised money to win, and used fear in the process. He prohibits smoking in all public Virgil Clark, a broadcast jour DePaul's non-smoking policy warned his constituents they would lose their voice in Congress if buildings except in designated nalism major and a is similar to Columbia's. "~ they vo ted for Mel Reynolds. I guess the voters figured they areas. non-smoker, said, "I personally "Students are allowed to couldn't lose something they didn't have in the first place. At Culumbia, smoking is per do not have a problem with stu smoke only in designated Because of the re-districting, many white suburbs are now mitted in designated sections of dents smoking on campus." He areas," said Tom Gibbons, a part of the 2nd Congressional District, striking fear into the the Hokin Student Center, the opposes any school policy that school spokesman. Officials at hearts of many who might have been represented by Savage. So Folle t Lo unge, and the prohibits smoking. all three campuses said they are these white, jewish, Catholic, and other demographic groups Theater/Music Lounge on the Anna Curro, a junior, said in compliance with the city's pulled Democratic ballo ts to vote Reynolds in. Sure, it was a 11th Street campus. she wants to be more respectful ordinance. protest vote, but Reynolds has a chance to show them he's Columbia's non-smoking to no n-smokers. '1f they want "Universities that violate the capable of representing everyone. As winner by default, you areas are not clearly marked, to limit smoking to certain ordinance are granted a 10-day couldn't pick a better Rep than Reynolds. according to one student who areas, I'll abide by it," she said. grace period to post temporary In his "concession" speech, Savage was not endearing, would not give his name. "I see jeff Boddeker, a sophomore no-smoking signs, until they resigned or comfortable handing over his office to Reynolds. In no signs that are posted regard and ex-smoker said the non receive official no-smoking stark contrast, Alan Dixon left a lifetime of politics and a history ing designated smoking areas smoking policy has been very signs," said Susan Jacobs, a city of undefeated co ntcsts(hehad never, NEVER, lost an election) with on campus, so I consider the effective at Columbia. "Stu spokeswoman. grace, humor, wit and total support for Mosely Braun. I thought campus one big ashtray." dents are allowed to smoke City inspecto rs would I'd never have a ni ce thing to say about Dixon. I was wrong. But Martha Linehan, director during breaks but o nly in respond to complaints by meet· "What does he do, this man you didn't vo te for?" of Administrative Offices, said designated areas," he said. At ing with school officials to try "He ain't doing nothin' now." Columbia's designated smok· Roosevelt University smoking and resolve any problems, the Some areas of politics can be taken for granted. Candidates ing areas are clearly marked. has been banned completely. spokeswoman said. bitch about the lists of signatures they need to get on the ballot, but they don' t question the wisdom of this requirement. Paul Tsongas didn't make the Utah primary because of a lack of names, and he didn't make a huge fuss. O thers bitch about the Democratic Machine in Chicago. It ~~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~4~ doesn' t matter that the legendary Machine of the first Mayor Daley is no longer viable. But it's part of our heritage, so we take it for gran ted. But one thing is certain. Illinois voters hate declaring a party for the primary elections. As an election judge this time around, I had to answer many Xi'H£HOMfTTOPICf IN THifOi questions from irate fi rst-time voters: "What do you mean, I have to declare a party?" v v "I want to vote a split ticket- Can you give me two ballots?" A THE DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING "What planet are you from?" A Most states offer Republican, Democratic and Uncom ~ COMMUNICATION AND CAREER 'B/ mitted/Independent ballots for their primaries. You can vote a V' PLANNING AND PLACEMENT V' split ticket on the Independent ballots. Illinois is still in the first Ice Age. We can't seem to thaw. A PRESENT... A ALLIANCE Camvriage X MARKETING X From page 1 'Eau cativn a[ Services V TO THE NEW V all students. :n May the SOC will hold its A MAJORITY A Spring Fest and will collaborate LSAT with the Hokin Center to v!.l ·FIND O UT W HO MAKE S UP T HE NEW v!.l i> romote various acts by Colum I~ MAJORI TY I~ bia students, Daniels said. The SOC considered vying GMAT V · EXAMINE HOW THEY ARE TARGETED V fo r Club MTV's traveling show, · EXP LO RE TH E O PPORTUNITIES /.l but proper facilities could not A . DI SCOV ER WHY THERE'S BIG MONEY IN /~ be fo und. Another spring boat v MARKETING TO THE NEW MAJORITY V ride was also dropped due to GRE soaring costs, Daniels said. Call: (312) 201 -8378 ~ Ferguson Theatre ~ DAMICO'S ITALIAN SUBS v- 600 S. Michigan AND SALADS 1~ Thursday - April 9 A 608 S. WABASH, v 10:30 - 12:00 v ACROSS FROM THEWABASH BUILDING A Luncheon After A COME IN OR CALL AHEAD 431-1122 OPEN 10 AM TO 7 PM PARTY TRAYS AVAILABLE @~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@ APRIL6, 1992 · · · CHRONICLE ·· - PAGE3 Kids excel at prep school
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walls are covered with graffiti. was a run-down old warehouse are not enough places to This isn' t a funhouse at a car until five long-time musicians rehearse. Other recording ni val or a satanic cult hangout. came together in 1990 and studios are trying to rent out It's the reception area at the decided to transform the space space since the economy is so Chicago Music Complex, into a recording studio. bad," he said. Theresa Volpe Chicago's o nly full service "When you're in a band you Weigand knows C.M.C. Feat urts Editor recording,· rehearsal, and have to go so many different studios inside and out and showcase facility: places to record or rehearse began a tour downstairs in the A pair of mannequin legs lay WhatmakesC.M.C. unique is before going on tour. It can be Chicago Rehearsal studios. in front of a white and black, that it is a studio where come very costly," said Don The area has four rehearsal tiger skin couch. Placed m usic ians can concentrate Weigand, C.M.C.'s assistant rooms, two band equipment strategically, three television wi thout having to worry about manager. storage areas and a showcase sets perch a top a column of lugging their equipment from a The idea was to start a place room. A showcase room is used cider blocks, all playing the rehearsal studio to a recording that had everything: recording for record release parties, a movie "Terminator 2." An old studio. studios, rehearsal rooms, and place to record music videos, or carnival merry-go-round And best of all, C.M.C. hires storage areas, that musicians for dance parties or formals. horse, with a baby doll head Columbia students as interns. could afford," he said. Ministry's JUSt-released video glued to its saddle is suspended "I've wor ked with local "The idea worked. There are "Jesus Built My Hot Rod," was from the ceiling. Two red and ba nd s like Naked Raygun," about 300 bands that rehearse shot in C.M.C.'s showcase. The si I ver barber chairs are sur said Daniel Bradshaw, a junior and record here. The number room is dimly lit and has a ro unded by several rubber at Columbia and an intern at keeps getting bigger every day. night club atmosphere about it. indoor plants. A hispanic man CM.C. The bands come from all over A maroon, velvet backdrop wi th a pony tail sits and spins Located in the southside, the country, not just Chicago. hangs behind the 25 foot by 33 one barber chair around. The 24 11 South Prairie Ave, C.M.C. The national acts are starting to foot stage area, lights pointing break in here also," Weigand towards the stage dangle fro m said. the wooden beam, and a sound Some of the national acts that mixer takes up most of the back Nick Oza Staff Photographer have either rehearsed o r of the room. recorded at C.M.C. include: The downstairs area still has Pa ttie LaBelle, Billy Branch, a warehouse feel al>out it, with Nine Inch Nails, Bobby Vinton, cement floors and large open Killing joke. But Chicago areas. C!Jne area is large enough bands, many alternative, have to park four or five semi trucks. made it to the top at C.M.C. as Actually, it's a playroom for the well : Material Issue, Naked bands and their friends to hang Ray gun, Rights of the Accused, out complete with video games Slammin Watu sis, and the and a pool table. Charming Beggars. C.M.C. Recorders, located According to Weigand, above the rehearsal studios, is C.M.C has made an important like walking into a luxurious impact on Chicago. "What's condo on La ke Shore Drive. happening in Chicago now is that a lot of bands arc dying for Microphone showcase room Nick Oza Staff Photographer SeeC.M.C. rehearsal space because there Page6
one of our finest working ac- raphy is by the gifted Michael tors (check out his brilliant Ballhaus ("GoodFellas"), "Mambo Kings," performance in Sidney Stuart Wurtzel's production Lumet's "Q&A"). The worst design is gorgeous, and the part of the actors' mannered music is among the best fe"- Someone you s painfully routine performances is that thel:' tured on screen in quite some Pat Thompson never seem to connect w1 th time. Yet Glimcher never e.tch other; each character in pulls all of these elements Tariq M. Ali [MOVIE REVIEW I musicians losing their in the film seems to be a self-con- together successfully. As a St•f{Writer nocence as they gain success, tamed umt._ . _ result the film only serves as a has been around for as long as In fa ct, t~1 s IS what ult•mate- superficial entertainment that She takes your order and gets your drink, a: , ~ the cinema itself, and "The ly d oo ~s 'The Mambo is good-looking and fun to lis- person who works the cash register at Deli Ex Mambo Kings" adds virtually Kmgs. On many levels the ten to, but ultimateiy empty. But if you've ever dropped over to eat lunr: nothing new. fli m IS superb: the cinema tog- been greeted by Patricia "Pat'' Thompson. It would be easier to forgive Thompson has been working at Deli Expre the film's lack of originality if ups and downs, she said, it's not a bad job. By Jim Hemphill Thompson does not go to school, but at22, sh Stuff Writtr "~ Glimcher displayed even a shred of cinematic technique, I attended a business college for three montlt Arne Gl imcher's "The but none is to be found. The money and part time work wasn't enough. So Mambo Kings" is an excep musical sequences, which about going back to school, but I don't know 1 tiOnally well-crafted film on should be the high point of Now she works an 11-hour day from Mond almost every possible level, the movie, are shot in tight she said, "I wouldn' t work here if I didn't mal with meticulously created cl ose-ups which create an at Thompson was born in Chicago, and now li1 production design, cinematog mosphere of claustrophobia Student Quotes That Became Famous After Being but with some Asian blood from a great granc just when the film should feel Many Columbia students go to Deli Express!, raphy and costuming. Yet the In The Chronicle film is ultimately a disappoint loose and free. them by "face," not by "name." Most of the TE ment, because first-time Also, Glimcher unwisely way. When she gets busy aroun<~ lunch time, I director Glimcher seems to chooses to establish a visual 'When the people in back make mistakes, custc have no idea of how to tie all expression of the music only By Charles Edwards of these elements together. through cutting. Due to his in St•ff Wnt Bla.ck Theatre Workshop on the road By Charlotte Hunt which give students a chance to "We didn't have much BTW plans to tour the Staff Writer meet and socialize. material so the show was about Chicago area this summer. This year's event takes place 45 minutes to an hour long, Don't feel discouraged if you " It was the day before at Florida A & M University, mostly made up of long skits. don' t have theater ex Thanksgiving back in 1989. It bringing together students We did pretty well. However, perience-30 percent of the was a Wednesday. The from Columbia, Northern Il there was a lot of controversy," members only have an interest workshop was two weeks old linois University, and each of Jones said as he described the in theater as a hobby and I or and we were cramming to get the predominantly black col first show. "Basically, we did a have no previous experience. this performance together leges and universities. lot of comedy and a few poems. So, don't be SHY! Come on before the Thanksgiving The categories for the The show's theme was 'Com out, talk to a member and get holiday, because we wanted to NASDA competition are: One ing Out,"' he said. involved! BTW's President is let the school know that 'Hey! Act Play, Oral Interpretation of The controversial skit was Pam Oark; the Vice President is - we're here!'," recalls Ervin Prose, Duo, Original Poetry, one poking fun at relationships Marcel Townsell. The Jones, a member of the Black and Extemporaneous and between men and women. workshop meets on Fridays Theatre Workshop. Poetry Reading. The trip cost "There was a lot of talk over from 5 to 6 p.m. in room 217 of The workshop represented approximately $3,500 and was one particular skit that we did. the Wabash building. Columbia College in the Na funded by the Student Or It was about a woman who tional Association of Speech ganization Council. was a "gold digger," taking all and Dramatic Arts theater com "Back then, they wouldn't let of this guy's money," Jones petition in Tallahassee, Florida, black people into theater," said said. " After it was all over, the on March 17. The group par narrator of the skit told the Sharlemagne Lewis, a member ticipated in four days of and recruiter for BTW. "We do main character to 'get this Don Weigand, Assistant Manager theatrical competition with bitch off your back'- In turn, everything from comedy to schools from predominantly he flipped the girl over his dramatic acting. The purpose of C.M.C., in the reception area. southern states. shoulder!" of BTW is to entertain students The organization was and give them a mass medium Surprisingly, most of the founded in 1968 by six black of different types of theatrical negative comments about the men at Northern Illino is arts," Lewis added. "We do skit had come from males in University who felt that black things solely to entertain the stead of females. "Some of the students were not recognized students... to get up there and guys said, 'all women aren't in theater and decided to do. BAM!-make them laugh, or like that,"' Jones explained. "It something about it. cry, or think, or something! was weird, because the women The Workshop's first com We're not here to say ' I can act' thought it was funny!" petition was last year a t or 'I want to get some juice' To join the BTW, students Grambling State University, in (those of you who saw the should come to a meeting with Lo uisiana. Vince Williams, of movie "Juice" might know a monologue or some form of the TV soap opera "The Guid what that means!) We do it be theatrical work prepared for an ing Light," conducted one of cause we like it," Lewis said. audition. The results are given the ma n y seminars a t the Marcel Townsel, Vice President Columbia's chapter of Black during the next weekly meet of the Black Theatre Workshop, workshop. During the day stu Theatre Workshop was started ing. Thirty-six people made it dents attended seminars and won 2nd place at the Original in 1989 by a student named through this year's auditions, Poetry Competition for "/Am watched others perform well Venita Abrams. The first into the evening. Later, they which began with 40. Twenty The Black Man I Hall You Black presentation was in the Hokin members remain. Woman." went to "mixers" or parties, Center that year. nould know... td you don't even know her name. She's the >ress. h or take a dinner "to go," you've probably happy hour drink and maybe s for four years. Even though her job has its ~ some appetizers," said Joss. In the evenings they feature a !is thinking of going back."After high school ~ variety of different bands rang 'and then I decided, I wanted to work, earn ; ng from blues, jazz, reggae, Iquit school, worked and now I am thinking rock and R & B. vhen and I don't know where." By Heather Labuda jerry johnson is in charge of ay through Saturday. Asked about her pay, Staff Writer booking the bands and they :e a good buck." welcome any band to come in es in Calumet City. She is African American, Renee's, a new hangout at 422 and play there. "Just contact me father who was Chinese. S. Wabash, brings live music anytime and I' ll help to set >eat, said Thompson, but she only recognizes . and food to a starving South something up," Kellick said. gular student patrons know her in the same Loop. "The talent is what d raws here can be a lot of pressure. "WechosetheSouth Loop be people in here. We are no t mers get mad/' she said. "Sometimes I do, too." cause of the revitalization of geared toward any specific ...... , other clubs in the area," said crowd, the bands determine the Omar Castillo I Photo Editor Chris Kellick, the manager of crowd," according to Kellick. Renee's. Renee's is available for The colorful atmosphere sets private parties. Saturdays ,,.,.... ,.., J,,...,, the mood for an afternoon or during the day, Renee's fea evening of entertainment, food tures a series of diff('rent and fun. showcases by major companies "Renee's is a good spot to throughout th(' city. come in the early evening to "We want to get more stu re!Jx after a tough day at school dents in here we just haven't o r work," said Jodi joss, a iound out a way to do tha t. broadcast journali sm major at ~laybc we'll start adwrtising Columbia College. ,Hound e.Kh campus and .1Iso Renee's serves lunch and din pu t ,His in lhe sch Steve's Replacement The wrong message? I've got this great idea for a I was disappointed to see the column! I'll express my views new flyer for the Gay, Lesbian in a weekly opinion piece, sure and Bisexual Alliance-the to stir up controversy. You one with the top 10 reasons kno w the stuff: AIDS is a why to attend the GLBA meet plague from God sent to kill ing. the fags and lesbos; women When I saw the bulletins were created to cook in the fo r other events sponsored by kitchen and in the bedroom; the GLBA, I was pleased to and guess which race is the see that the group served for chosen one? (No, no t the fel lowship purposes and to human race you damn PC'cr). discuss issues. Being new to This column should bring in Columbia, I was under the as lots of letters-though mostly sumption the GLBA here was protest- proving the Ch ronicle a positive group, with a mis is "doing something right." sion to help the community. I figure you can release that The n I saw the yellow second-rate Crescenzo. True, poster, and my image of the he spends most of his columns group was d efinite ly attacking fanatics who try to reduced. The flyer was made confront racism, sexism and with good intentions, but I SCHOOL $75.00 per week, and "enro ll homophobia, but then he hides found it offensive and ment is down, we're suffering, WHAT DO YOU behind icons, paying lip ser destructive. From page 3 but the PTA is stro ng and the THINK? vice to the concepts of human The top 10 list was probab survival of the fittest is what Columbia students voice rights with his john Wayne ly meant to be comical, and it dents now, ages 3 through IJ we're trying to achi eve," blinders in. Well Steve, john would have been humorous however they can have a s Greene said. your opinions. Bring your Wayne was an American, he had it stayed within the com many as 75. "We wish we had G reene has appa rently signed opinion pieces or wasn't no queer lover, and he munity. But, presenting this a larger building so we could worked very hard for the sur letlers to the allen lion of certainly knew how to deal to the school only reinforces expand our services. When we vival of this school. When the editor at the Chronide wi th women! preconceived misjudgments become a tax exempt school, asked wha t keeps her holding office,roont802- VVabash, Sensationalism in the press about gay, lesbian and maybe someone will give us a on, she responded, "We're by 5:00p.m. Tuesdays for is an age-old tradition. Let's bisexual communities-7. ex better building. We're hoping grooming them fo r life. We possible inclusion in the really stir thi ngs up! c ha nge ideas, 6. p ho n e corporations will help us," were destined to help these following week's n u mbe rs, 1. free con Greene said . children, we don't want to sec publication. Clark Kent doms/dental dams, and the Tuition at Burnham Park is these children perish." Music most disgusting, 3. get laid. It makes the Alliance sound C.M.C. than Sitting in the class confusing to a novice. As purl Why graffiti? li ke a big screw service. The C.M.C. rooms," said jeff Evans, a of the expansion, this studio gay community is already junior who in terns at C.M.C. wi ll become a 24-track and From p ag e 4 What's with the new wave of stricken with the impression The in terns keep rehearsal another recording studio will graffiti that's being scribbled that gays sleep around and rooms clean, help with live be built downstairs. There is a kitchen for tou ri ng on the walls o f the back don't commit. This type of sound work, v(dco shoots, set While it took an investment elevator in the Wabash build humor, when presented to the b.1nds to have parties, a shower, ting up equipment and renti ng a maintenance shop, a lounge of $500,000 to build the co:n i t~~ every week? Is th is general public, only reinfor out rehearsa l rooms fo r private plcx an additional $500,00 for gang-related or your repressed ces these bigotries. Jnd two recording studios. parties. recording eq uipm ent, the outcry against an unjus t It is no t a g ood repre "We have rooms where people The 16-track studio is mucl • economic fu ture of C.M.C. ap society? Is this your proof, as a sentatio n of the gay an crash if bands arc !.ere la r ger than the 8-track. The pears ho peful. Since the college student that you have community, and, hopefully, m:ording late," Weigand sa id. vocal tracking room alone can opening in 1990, C. M.C. has learned to write? not a good representation of The 8-track stud io, called the fit four or five of the 8-track the GLBA of Columbia Col midi suite, fca turcsscvcrnl svn made all its money back and is Pk•ase graffiti writer, if you studios in it. Bands, especiall y can read thi lege. I would hope the group t hesizcrs, a few drum now turning a profit, Weigland s, respond with a blues bands, set up their entire letter to the Chronicle so we ca n has a more educational and machines, m ixing boards, said. band in the tracking studio. understand why you graffiti. In m e aningful p u r pose than video monitors, and a room Blues bands like it, said C.M.C. achieved such quiring minds want to know! sexual relations. that looks li ke a closet for tmck Weir;and, because it gives them prosperity without even adver ing vocals. Weigand said that a more live sound. tising or ma rketing. As the studio expands, there are plans Rich Michal Kirk Doffing ma ny of the Colu mbia interns 1 he 16-track studio is where Journalism usc this room to learn the the bigger nati onal acts work. fo r commercia ls and other ad Grad student, jo1mwlism equipment or work on some of The mixing board in this studio vertisements. their own music. has so many switches tha t it Also Co ntributing: Pa tricia " l have learned mo re a t might look intimidating and Hyatt CHRONICLE Deparbnent of journalism being the major forces behi nd 600 South Michigan Avenue RELATIONS Spagnolo covers the art events Chicago, Dlinois 60605 the poetry contest. and edits the college relations 312-663-1600 ext. 343 From page 1 "If the poetry contest is a suc department's newsletter, "re: FAX 312-427.J920 cess, perhaps we' ll do it again. Columbia College Chicago." I would like to sec it expanded Art Golab, Editm wi th 30 or more credit hours, Corinne Johnston, a recent offered a fi rst prize of free tui to othe r types o f contests, gradua te, contributes to the Jerry E. Po tt, ManJJging Edilor maybe in fil m or journalism. Of tion at Columbia for a yea r. newsletter and helped create Nancy A. Thart, News Editor course, that would be up to the the poetry contest. "Community colleges arc a Theresa Volpe, Features Editor/F STANDARDS by assisting students," said Gall said students have an inde From page 7 Graham, who helps coordinate pendent responsibility to take w the program. advantage of the college's tutorial > fo r students who need basic Part-time faculty member services if they need help. w classes." Angelo Papangelopoulos ad "There arc some students l Cummings, who applauds mits that students in his basic who were poorly educated and en Columbia for its open admis math class are having difficul have pulled themselves up to a sion policy, said she also would ties for different reasons. college level through the ser I was standing in an off-track betting parlor the other day, fnvor testing to place students "Students take these classes vices offered at Columbia," courting a fistful of money I had just won on a 9-1 longshot, when in writing classes at their level. because they want to learn. Graham said. my whole world came crumbling down around me. I overheard But tcfevision major Barb Then we have those who take Garnett Kilberg, director of two guys talking about some goofy plan of Mayor Daley's to bring Tomko doesn't think assess the classes and already know the Writing Center, said the casino gambling to Chicago. I couldn't believe my ears. ment or admission testing is the the mate rial," Papan center will improve writing I immediately ran out of the betting facility and bought four Quick ro ute for Columbia. gelopoulos said. "I can't and grades "as long as students Pick Lotto tickets, threedailygames,sevcn instant lottery tickets, 10Little "Open admissions gives advance the class for a few. If use it regularly." Lottos, and a daily paper so I could read about this preposterous everyone a chance to make of it the class is for a lower level, I The writing center is currently notion of bringing legalized casino gambling to Chicago. what they can. if they don't, it's will go with that group of stu staffed by 175 tutors--under After ca lling my bookie to bet my track winnings on the Bulls, their loss," she said. dents." grads, graduates and a few I sat down to read all about it. There it was, right there in black In her class experiences, Papangelopoulos said some instructors. Last semester and white. Some unsavory characters, (who are no doubt merely Tomko said, instructors usual students a re also having about 300 students took ad the front men for guys with first names like "Fingers," "Lucky" ly have students write vantage of the tutorial services and "Slick Willie") want to bring Las Vegas-style gambling to something during the first or fo r credit, and another 100 or Chicago. They want to build a whole, sick gambling empire, right second week to get a sample of more used the facilities on a in the heart of our pure-as-the-driven-snow city! their abilities. regular basis, Kilberg said. The really horrible part is that our awful heathen mayor, Richie "I have heard instructors tell Kilberg, who opposes assess Daley, is supporting this foray into sin! He is even claiming to students to go to the writing ment testing, said teachers have thought of the idea. Well I'll be damned if I'm going to let center for help after writing should get writing samples to that pervert tum my city into a modem day Sodom or Gomorra! their first papers, but I ha ve determine students' abilities. Oh sure, he has his reasons. He says the project (note how he never been in a class that fail ed Columbia currently offers cloaks his sinfulness with legitimate words like project) will to progress because of slower developmental English, com generate thousands of jobs, billions of dollars in tax revenue, and students." bined with a one hour tutoring bring even more billions of dollars into the city via the hotel, Tomko, a write r who session per week, for students convention, and hospitality industries. He says that besides describes herself as one of who need additional help with giving the local economy a shot in the arm (a thinly veiled Columbia's "advanced" stu their writing and reading skills. advertisement for drugs, no doubt, coming from him), the tax dents, said she has taken time The college hopes to have dollars could be used to help out our cash-starved education out to help fellow students in more tutorial services and sup system. I say, what good will it do our school kids to be educated her classes who needed help. port structures to assist if they have to grow up in a den of iniquity! Are billions of dollars Liberal education teacher Glen Graham students in the near future, Gall a fair price tag to put on our souls? I think not. Glen Graham is adamantly op problems because "they don' t said. "But an effective job of Other people who are against the idea say that it will bring a posed to any kind of testing. study enough. counseling at registration criminal element into the city. They are absolutely right!! Gam "Testing alters the mission of would give an advisor a better bling will merely serve as the key to opening up the floodgates, "I try to stress to my students and undesirables will pour into our fair city. Columbia College by setting up that math teaches you how to idea of where the student needs t\vO schools: people wi th skills live-how to go to the bank to go," he added. Of course you know the :nain thing that gambling will bring to Chicago, don't you? ORGANIZED CRIME! Living in and people without skills. how to pay taxes. No one is Admissions testing will not "Testing would destroy the stupid in my class," he added. solve students' complaints, Chicago, you may not know what that is, but rest assured, it's multi-cultural environment Executive Vice President Bert Gall said. " If Columbia were to not very pretty. The very thought of organized crime in Chicago which inspires students who Gall said that open admission adopt academic testing for ad scares the devil out of me. Chicago has never tolerated organized wish to master professions that "puts an enormous burden on mission, this would be a very crime, and it never will, right??? Maybe Las Vegas and New would not be available if they each and every teacher trying different place. York put up with mobsters, but Chicago-never! did not attend Columbia Col to teach becauseofthediversity "Open admission is the comer And you know what follows closely on the heels of organized lege," Graham said. of students. Our faculty have stone of the institution. It's the crime, don't you? Prostitution! (It's legal in Las Vegas, thanks to In 1987, Columbia instituted some of the toughest teaching philosophical fundamental on the Mafia.) And prostitution usually means sex! If we let gam the program Writing Across jobs in America. which the college was started. bling come to ChiO ?), before very long we'll have people the Curriculum to encourage "Part of what you want in an I' m against any form of assess fornicating in the streets, and kids will be going hungry because instructors to motivate stu artistic environment is to build ment testing that will minimize whatever money Dad didn't lose gambling, he blew on a hooker dents to write more, and make on people's strengths and to as the diversity within the in getting something his wife won't give him anymore. the best use of tutorial services. sist them with their stitutional structure." Sure, at first, there will be only high-<:lass call girl rings, set up to "In no way should Columbia weaknesses," he said. "We "By having open admissions cater to the high rollers. But eventually, those girls will get old and College teachers lower their have creative teachers who cre a t Columbia, we are saying, 'we ugly,and then they'll beoutonthestreet, pollutingourfaircitywitl) standards, but they should find ate new structures to help our will not hold your skills against their old, disease-ridden bodies. Before you know it, you won't be a way to better their standarcl tudentsdo that." you,"' Graham said. able to walk down Broadway Avenue without bumping into hookers offering to sell for 15 or 20 bucks that certain thing that wives seem to quit doing after a couple of years of marriage. And once prostitution has its stranglehold on this city, you The Career Planning & Placement Office. along w.u; the know what's next, don' t you-? PORNOGRAPHY! Before you Columbia community invite you to ca n say smut, every corner store will be selling dirty magazines, we'll have peep-show places, dirty movie theaters, strip joints, e and before you know it, some pervert will take a picture of · himself whizzing into his boyfriend's mouth, blow it up, hang it on a wall and call it art! We' ve got to nip this in the bud right now, before it can even get started. Maybe the worst thing about gambling and organized crime is the other thing it will bring: Unorganized crime. DRUGS! That's right, it may seem hard to imagine it now, but we might actually get real live drug dealers in OUR city! And once the drugs come in, it's only a matter of time until the kids get their hands on them. Next thing you know, they'll start forming gangs. And pretty soon, the gangs will be fighting each other over drug turfs, and innocent bystanders will inevitably get hurt. And what would happen, God forbid, if those gangs actually got their hands on GUNS! It's a well-known fact that those organized crime types have no conscience, and would probably sell guns to the street gangs. pril 11th I could go on, but it's obvious that the negatives far outweigh the positives as far as gambling goes. Forget about the crucial jobs, and forget about the even more crucial tax and revenue 9am-2pm dollars. Forget about the fact that the whole thing would be 623 S. Wabash building privately financed, and forget about the fact that a lot of careful planning would go into this, • Hear from s uccessful alumni so that the ci ty could make the most out of this opportunity. (Hopefully we wouldn't turn out to be • Network with company representatives another Atlantic City fiasco). Our city is too clean and fine a place • Learn aoout the professional to contaminate it with a vice like gambling, regardless of how associations fo r your field much good it can do, right????????? And every time you start thinking that it might not be such a bad idea to bring gambling here to Chi cago, (I mean gambling Please RSVP, Placement Office X280 other than the race tracks and the off-track betting parlors and .-trrive early ! the lotto and the riverboat gambling and the thousands of book One . 1n a ser1es of spec1ahzed arts & commumcauon career events deSigned to makers who operate tax-free) you just try and imagi ne what it , serve the ent1re student bOOy. all studenta/ atumnl welcome. would be like to live in the ci ty I've described above, a city where gambling and crime are allowed to run rampant. Guess what? You're already there, and it can't get much worse. PAGE 8 THE _BACK PAGE APRIL 6, 1992 • U1/. • • - 6 It's FAW (That's financial aid week, if you haven't seen the signs - 11 Intimate Theatre posted throug hout the buildings) and it's time (5211 N. Clark St.) is new on the scene, but its you prepared yourself financially. A little work first two s hows, a Strindberg double bill and now could pay off $$$$ later. Financial aid Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, got them plenty of workshops start today and run through April notice. Now they're back with a rarely per 10. Each workshop meets in the Wabash build formed version of Strindberg's Intoxication, or ing, 623 S. Wabash, Rm. 409. Today's workshop Crime and Crime. The Swedish playwright's is at 1 p.m. (For other dates & times: See ad on original script has been relocated from tum-of page3.) the-century Paris to the 1950s. Tix are a reasonable $7.00 for students, call early for <·r reservations: 271-6510. The show will run Thur. • -' u AZ.-O ..d .OA I-' . . o - 7 Fenun!Sm, as we Sun. through May 17. discovered in the ChronicJe's special Womens' Issue a couple of weeks ago, is a hard subject to pin down. A panel of experts, however, will take -12 Center Theater, ~ n other shot at "Defining Feminism," a discus 1346 W. Devon, marks the 25th anniversary of ~ion that takes place at 1 p.m. today at the Hokin. Tennessee Williams' play Kingdom of Earth with performances opening April6 and closing Suburban musical comedy queen Hollis Resnik May 3. Kingdom is described as a brisk, ornery 'UJ~y comes downtown to take on darker material as she comedy about a conflict between two brothers. - 8 Local rock photog plays Edith Pial, the French singer who went from But it is also revealing and often intense explora Brad Miller's stunning snaps will grace the the streets to stardom and back In a career that tion of sensuality, brutality and compassion as walls of Lounge Ax, 2438 N. Lincoln, beginning spanned five decades. Resnik's dead-on Impersona a means to human survival. For ticket informa tion of Pial and her wonderful voice rise above the today. After all the chips and dips are scarfed up tion, (students do get discounts) and show times sci!p o~era plot. at the opening/ reception tonight, there'll be call 508-5422. "Pial," At Interplay, 1935 S. Halsted, 243-6240. music by Phantom Helmsmen. The hand-colored, - 9 In the mood for a - 10 Tonight at the abstract photography of Robert Buchar will be prehistoric epic? Of course you are, so check out Cabaret Metro, 3730 N. Clark, Bash N'Pop, on exhibit at the Quadrant Cafe Gallery, 406 N. Quest for Fire, the tale of a tribe that looses its featuring Tommy Stinson of the Replacements, Clark St., from April10 to May 7., with a recep fire after being attacked by apes. This 1981 film Blind Venetians, a nd the Groove Diggers jam tion Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. stars Rae Dawn Chong, and is better than it the night away, showtirne is 10:30 p.m., doors sounds. At the Hokin today at 4 p.m. open at 9:30p.m. If you are 21 or older get your Compiled by: Alina G. Romanowski $10 tickets in advance or at the door. and Art Golab Face Value: Carline Cajuste for The Chronicle What made you decide to attend Columbia College? Alain Roy Randy Koch Michael Heraty Sound Sound/Audio Sound Production Sophomore Freshman Freshman A friend told me I heard about I discovered abou 1 the school Columbia from my Columbia through while he pondered high school coun my sister, who high about attending. ! was selor after I told him ly recommended sick of my old school, I was interested in their Liberal Arts and looked into the the music business. I program. I sent for sound program and chose Columbia after an application and found it to be a great hearing only good after attending an in program. The oppor things from people troductory lecture, I tunities for in the music industry applied and was ac internships really cepted. I'm glad to Freda Richmond sold me. Ayonna Collins be here. Television Broadcao;tJournalism Ayonna Collins Freshman Freshman BroadcastJoumalism Freshman I heard about I heard about Columbia Coll ege <;olumbia from my I heard about from my High friends who had pre Columbia from my Sc hool co unse lor viously attended this friends who had pre and I decided to school. They said it viously attended this come here aft er I met would give me the school. They said it with some of the rep educa tional training would give me the resentatives. The big necessary to really educational training advantage tha t it in the busi· necessary to really Columbia offered make it in the busi over other co lleges ness. was the experience each teacher had in its field.