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TH E COLUMBIA COLLEGE HRONICLE THE EYES AND EARS OF COLUMBIA APRIL20, 1992 Columbia stays afloat, Loop drowns School shut down Monday, reopens Tuesday By Mark Giardina Staff Writtr The Great Chicago Flood washed out an afternoon of clas­ ses at Columbia last Monday, but the rising waters bypassed the college. Nevertheless, Executive Vice President and Provost Bert Gall decided to close the school around noon, foll owing a request from Mayor Richard M. Daley to evacuate buildings as far south as Taylor Street. Mass transit shut-downs, which would affect students' and teachers' abilities to get to the school, were also a fil ctor in the decision, Gall silid. Staff members walked each fl oor to notify s tudents and See FLOOD faculty of the evacuation. Ed Page 7 A Surprise Spring Break. omareasti llophoto<J~i~or ')ne of the casualties of the we ek's disaster, De Paul remained closed for the entire week. Teachers thrive in tough times By Lisa Song Columbia pay was never a travel column in USA Today. S~af{Rtp<>rltr means of survival. The recession took it's toll on "Nobody pretends to make a his free-lance work, he said. With the recession still taking living teaching part-time at "Advertising went stale and its toll, Columbia College part­ Columbia or anywhere. You do because ad pages relate to the time teachers are faring it because it's rewarding. My amount of editorial, there surprisingly well-with the income comes from my writ­ wasn't as much work for help of their other jobs. ing," Keifer said. writers. In 1991, business There are approximately 621 Keifer has taught at Columbia started to pick up and assign­ part-time instructors at Colum­ for six years. His freelance work ments came in, just not as bia who teach one to three has appeared in Vanity Fair, The many," he said. classes. The salary for each class New York Times, Sports lllustrated, But Keifer said that he was is $1,200 a semester. The New Yorker and Self. He is fortunate during the For many part-timers, like also the former editor o( Outside Michael Keifer(who has taught See RECESSION Stacy Hosch for the Chronicle Magazine, an outdoor sporting worker peers into a sewer hole during the c lean-up efforts. _!vlagazine Article Writing), his monthly, and once wrote a Page3 N a t ive Ameri can Playing th e m oney game s p eaks o ut By Tariq M. Ali fo r aid, but has not received a Staff Writer response. She asks Suzy for her Lisa Song social security number and Stllff Writtr Everyone knows that higher brings up her informati on on education is enormously ex­ the computer. Suzy is eligible In celebration of Human pensive. Students who are on for the Illinois Mo ne tary Rights Week (April 13-17), a their own have to search for Award program, whi ch will Native-American forum was sources of financia l aid. To help pay for part of her tuition. She'll held in the Hokin Center. The them, Columbia held financial have to make up the balance featured speaker, Albert Lone- . aid workshops last weeki n room herself, maybe with a loan. ly Wolf, who is of Yaqui, ' 409 of the Wabash building. this semester as part of state Suzy discloses that she had Mavajo and Zuni origin, dis­ During financial aid week cutbacks. received a Stafford Loan as a cussed problems facing the (April 6-10) four advisors from In one of the skits, a student student at Texas State Univer­ Native-American community. the financial aid office per­ from Texas named Suzy Wes­ sity and wants to explore what He said that big business is formed three typical "skits". ton pays a visit to the financial she can do at Columbia. The infringing on reservations and Albert Lonely Wolf Angela Baskin, a sophomore, aid office to disc uss her case advisor gives Suzy a detailed that Native Americans living said she attended the with an advisor. See NATIVE workshop to find out about Suzy arrives at the office and on reservations are victims of See AID unjustified medical research. Page 6 other aid sources. She said her asks to sec an ad visor. She tells financial aid was recently cut the advisor that she has applied Page 6 Radio history made just around What does this mean? Read page 4. We praise rather than bury• .• Page 6. the block. We vtslt Unshltclcled. Page 5. -PAGE 2 c H R 0 N I c L E APRIL 20, 1992 Jenny Dervzn "I bet this wi ll be called the Great Chicago Aood, like after the Great Chicago Fire," said Chick #1. "Only this time they can't blame Mrs. O'Leary's cow," gig­ gled Chick #2. Oh, how achingly funny. These two females were on their way to work via Metra's Rock Island train. They got on at Oak Forest and did not stop complaining for the rest of the arduous trip. "My boss was screaming at everyone," Chick #1 said. "He couldn't figure out what to do with the computers and files." "So what did he do?" #2 asked. "Nothing," #1 said, a bit contemptuously. "I told him we weren't going to lose anything-We're on the fourth fl oor for Christ's sake." Hmm. I imagined the rest of Chicago telling similar hero stories. Channel Five, for instance, might pull the foreman of Kerrey Construction over and ask him, "How did you manage to plug the leak?" and the guy might say something like, "Eh, ya know, dis is da city dat works, and I threw some mattresses down the river and dat was dat." The modest hero taking credit for silt moving in and doing the job. Farewell Nick Shuman The chicks kept talking about the leak. "By the time I got home, they had taken the soaps off and A quilt, with farewell messages from which was held at Riccardo's, a well-known everyone was covering the river," #1 said. She seemed to be students, faculty, and family, was watering hole for journalists. Among the the most disturbed of the two commuters. "I watched them presented April 15 to Nick Shuman, as­ guests were faculty, graduate journalism talk to this guy and that guy and then the mayor came on sociate director of the journalism students and Shuman's family. and boy, was he an asshole!" graduate program. The quilt com­ The quilt Is divided Into nine squares. Chick #2 was a little more forgiving on this point. "Maybe memorates his retirement. Seven squares contain messages from he was worried about the water destroying more business," Though Shuman retired Feb. 1, he will graduate journalism classes ('86-'92), she mumbled. remain at Columbia as a part-time con­ one from faculty, and one from family "Doubt it," #1 said. "I think he knew about this way sultant to the journalism department and members. before." #1 held her position on the mayor's direct mis­ the Fishettl editorial cartoon competi· Shuman, formerly a national editor of management regarding the old tunnel system and the tlon. the now defunct Chicago Dally News, subsequent leak. The quilt was created by Dee Davls­ and later an editorial writer for the Apparently, #2 didn't give a rip about the potential water Tokars, (pictured with Shuman) of the Chicago Sun-Times, came to Colum­ damage. " I was hoping our office would be closed today. graduate journalism class of '92 . The bia In 1964. I've got a load of laundry to do." side of the quilt with the messages was The rest of the train listened in to the two female's conver­ hung up at a surprise party for Shuman sation and pronounced their own judgement. so the guests could write on 11. -Mark Giardina A middle-aged account executive (what exactly do they More than 60 people attended the party do?) decided the city had already lost over a billion dollars and by the time the Water Reclamation District ("headed by all those women") got around to digging the hole to the Deep Tunnel Project, the cost would be more than the federal deficit. A secretary from joliet knitted away and informed everyone around her that her building, on Wacker Drive, was full of river shit and fish by 9:30 in the morning. Since she seemed a little more credible than the idiots who started this whole thing, other commuters quieted down and tuned in ... "I checked in at 8:45, and my boss told me he had heard from the City," she said, knitting a scarf or sweater or rug, whatever. (She was using the worst colors-puke green and bright pink.) "He says, 'Ya wanna see the water?' so I says, 'Ya sure.