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THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE THE EYES AND EARS OF COLUMBIA MAY26, 1992 We're outta here! We're outta here. Gone. Departed. History. Vacated. Later. See Ya. Ta ta. Adios. Farewell. Bye bye. Chillin'. Splittin' the scene. Blowin' this pop stand. Beatin' it. Cashin' in our chips. Evacuatin'. Cuttin' out. Au revoir. Al­ ligator.. crocodile. Ciao. Toodles. Talk to ya'. Catch you on the flip side. Makin' like a tree. Sayonara. Hasta luego. Peace. Hasta la vista ... baby. Aloha. Outy. Auf Wiedersehen. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Cheerio. Godspeed. So long. Elvis has left the building. Th .. th.. th.. that's all folks. Fired teacher files $30,000 law suit By Caprice Walters as fri voious." S<aff Wrilt r C ialamas' suit comes in the wake of last year's highly publicized controver­ Stefanos Cialamas, a full-time math sy in the science department, which led instructor and former coordinator of to the resignation of several faculty the math program, has filed a $30,000 members. ci vii lawsuit against Columbia College. The dispute pitted Lerman, who at The suit. fil ed in November 1991, the time was chairman of the under­ a lleges tha t the coll ege violated graduate science and math department, Cialamas' employment contract and against several members of her staff. fired him in retaliation for comments he In an attempt to resolve the conflict, made during an inquiry into the science school officials requested that Cialamas department last year. and other teachers in the d epartment Zafra Lerman, in one of her last offi­ testify about the problems at an official cial acts as head of the science inquiry. Th e lawsuit s tates that department, notified Cia lamas last May Cialamas was assured by Academic that his contract would not be Dean Sam Floyd and Executive Vice renewed. The contract expires at the President Bert Call that nothing he end of the spring semester. said during the inquiry would be used , Vets reflect on war Though he would not comment on the specifics of a pending legal action, See GIALAMAS By Andrew Rohan that. The underlying question, Provost and Executive Vice President Page 8 S<affwriltr of course, is-was it worth it?" Bert Call sa id, "I view the entire matter Throughout our history, the For most people Memorial Memorial Day tradition was Day is the traditional hol iday one where being a veteran was that kicks off the beginning of considered to be a honorable summer. To others it is a act. This cha nged substantially melancholy time o f profound with Vietnam. introspection. This is particular­ ly true for veterans. "Whether you advocated war o r no t, the fact that you served Two Columbia instructors your country was enough. Then who happen to be Vietna m came Vietnam." Lyons said. veterans, Mike Lyons, in the "My friend, Stu Feiler, and I journalism department, and wo rk together sometimes at Tom Nawrocki, in the English Columbia. He is a vet who is dl-partment, reflected o n what anti-war and I respect that be­ Memorial Day means to them. ca use he answered the call " Lyons, who was a sergeant in Lyons said. ' the army, said he remembers Lyons enlisted in the Army in "those men who have died so October of 1968 <1 fter being ac­ we can enjoy our freedom; so c<: p ted at Loyola University. we could talk to reporters, so 1 He had worked the summer at could teach at a li beral school like Columbia." Frain Security Systems, the firm that supplied the Democratic Nawrocki, a former sergeant Na tional Con venti on with in the Marine Corps, said, "For Sl'Curity as anti-war riots raged me, I think of the warriors as outside. opposed to the war makers. It's Nawrocki joined the Marine a time to quietly remember my Corps in 1965. Both Lyons and friends that died in Vietnam; Nawroc ki said tha t m y cousin who died in the Tet Offensive.! think of the life I' ve See VETS lived in the time he's been gone, PageS and how he's been deprived of Fer.,,.., chedl out page 2. Columbia goes ~Hollywood' By Melissa Slotw inski cording to Alexandroff. He said the school actual Suf[ W11ttr ly began as a two-year project to help film studio unions make the transition to television. Could someone e lcase tell me what is .lri.th everyone? Co lu mbia Coll ege is we ll known to Union and television industry people I have assumed olea no Mode for the past two weeks be­ Chicagoans. But, outside the city, Columbia has brought the venture to Norrnan Alexandroff, ca use everyone I know is ready to blow. As in sky-high. As in h<•lped to form other colleges; namely, Colum­ Sr., because of the reputation Columbia had Java fl owing from mouths and hair standing on end. I ha ve pinpointed the exact date these extraordinary events bi,, Coll ege-Hollywood , in California, and already established in the field. started happening, which was May I . May I started the last C<• lumbia College Pan-American, in Mexico. Columbia College-Hollywood replicated the month of school, <1nd for many of my friends and classmates, The schools, which now have no connection curriculum and philosophy of the Chicago this marked the beginning of the end of their college careers. to Chicago's Columbia, were founded in the school. Forever. 1\l:.Os with the help of the late No rman Alexandroff also said that for about eight It is obvious that people arc acting out secret, repressed Alcxa ndroff, Sr., a former president of Colum­ desires to be total assholes before the end of school. I tend to years after the pilot project ended, the school think of thi s as pr.tctice, because once you enter the u.al bi.t and the father of outgoing president Mirron was a recognizable step-sister of Columbia. But world, you have to be an ass hole full-time. Everyday. A k•xa nd roff. in 1960, when Alexandroff's father, Norman, So tha t explains why Tova Bode, the editor-in-chief of the " Located in the heart of Hollywood, [the col­ died, the school became an independent in­ & school magazine "Chicago: Arts Communication" has been l q~c l is one of the most unique professional ''jerk to me for awhlie. IT she ever plans on cdttmg a u.al stitution. magazi ne, she's going to have to be a bigger jerk in the future. w llcg0s in the country," said Allan Rossman, Columbia College Pan-American was estab­ And it also explai ns why Steve Crescenzo, my colleague on prc•s ident o f Columbia Coll ege-Hollywood. lished in the late 1950s. this fine, fi ne newspaper and fellow colu mnist has been a jerk Th.: key to its success in each program is the Chicago's help was "central to the develop­ lately. And he's usua fiy such a gentleman. Imagine. commitment to hands-on instruction utilizing a me nt of television in La tin America," And the teachers. Well, that's another story. Pressure is facully of industry professionals." Alcxandroff said. building up on their end, too. They have to give finals, grade fina ls, get their last paycheck, screw hated students out of an Sound familiar? Don Amelio Escarrgo, a graduate of Colum­ A and so on. So when I walk in late, I shouldn' t be surprised The college, located at 925 N. La Brea Ave., ~ia College Pan-American, became a fo under of to get poison-eyes from certain un-named teachers. w.1s established in 1952 and organized its Azteca films. According to Alexandroff, Azteca Whtch brings me to question this whole system. Let me get academic yeM in to quarters. At fi rst it only joined with the Mexican press and established this right: I am paying for this education. I have the rcsp~:m­ offered a program in television production and sibility to show up for class. I have to suffer through m1dterms a monopoly in film exhibition and production. and papers and final s, and i' DLoayjng moner for thjs shjt7 engineering. However, a program in motion The firm eventually grew into one of the And if 1 decide to sleef late and miss a class, don't what to pk lure production began soon after. world's largest film producers. get a memo sayin9, "I you miss one more class you are in Now, Columbia Coll ege-Hollywood offers Now, Escarrgo's son is in control of Azteca danger of failing.' As if I need this shit. an associate of arts degree in television produc­ films and owns around 20 Spanish-speaking I have to keep asking myself, "What am I doing here?" To tiu n, and a bachelo r of arts degree in television stations, some in the United States.