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Columbia Vol. 7 No 9 Column1:-t CrJJieqc June G. 1980 Ceremony for 275 CC grads By Mary Ellen McKenna The 90th Columbia College Graduation Commencement will be held Saturday, J une 7, 2 p.m ., at the Auditorium Theater, 70E. Congress Pkwy. Two hundred-seventy-five students are expected t.. graduate. Preliminary statistics on the graduates by major arP.: Nq major 18; Art 48; Photo 28; Film 31; AEMP 3; Theatre 12; Dance 10; T.V. 36; Radio 13; Writing/English 14; Journalism 16; Advertising 22. Four honorary degrees will be given. Ronald Williams, president of Nor­ theastern Illinois University, who will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree will deliver the com­ mencement address. A former professor of dramatic arts and speech and dean at Ohio University, .Williams was provost of Federal City College before becoming president of NIU. He is presently chairperson of the board of trustees of the Union for Experimenting insurance brokerage flriil, until his time he was president or chairperson of 10 committees and commissions. Colleges and Universities, chairperson of retirement in 1966, Smith has devoted different boards simultaneously. Lois Wille, Pulitzer Prize-winning the Committee on Urban Program nearly 55 years to community and Chicago architect Harry Weese, will associate editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, Universities, and Gov. Thompson ap­ philanthropic organizations. receive an Honorary Doctor of Arts will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of pointed him a member of the illinois He is the former chairperson or degree. Letters degree. Judicial Inquiry Board. president of several groups including the Weese is chairman of the board of Harry continued on p. 14 Philanthropist Herman Dunlap Smith Adlai Stevenson Institute on International Weese & Associates architectural firm will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Affairs, the Chicago COmmunity Trust, headquartered in Chicago which he Humane Letters degree. In addition to a Newberry Library, Chicago Council on founded in 1947. Currently co-chairman of Basketball career as president and chief executive Foreign Relations and the Illinois Mayor Jane Byrne's Architect's Advisory of(icer of Marsh & McLennon, a worldwide Children's Home and Aid Society. At one Committee Weese has served on numerous maybe in T he hand'Writing on the W'all CC future By LaVerne Browne pears-through months, sometimes years of likes of someone that has the social in­ By Dominic Scianna back and forth communicating. telligence and significance of a pea." The "Nothing like a clean start," someone Often walls here are washed and most solemn reply was, "It needs more verbs." The Columbia College Administration is wrote on the wall in one of the rest-rooms graffiti gone with it, but that stops no one. Some messages didn't need replies. A seriously considering the prospects of put­ here. " Isn't fresh start better English?" For when it happened recently, someone female student wrote, "This wall paint is ting a basketball team on the court for next someone wrote back. "That's a got the ball rolling again in the women's as thin as the suckers head who painted year. deodorizer," another insisted. rest-room and wrote, "Alright you lazy it." A statement adding to that was found According to Administrative Dean Bert There is seemingly a conversion from women, let's get these walls marked up in the men's rest-room, it said, "These Gall, the college is expected to make a spray painting outside of buildings, to a again." walls just seem to fade away." decision some time this summer after modem method of communicating inside. In the women's rest-rooms, the The tone of these conversations are less receiving a ful l proposal late this month It's called bathroom graffiti. While the messages conveyed were fairly clear. than new to C.C. students that indulge in from Arvis Averette, a Columbia in­ graffiti syndrome is spreading nationwide, Messages were found like, " Looking for this message maze madness. But who ac­ structor who has spearheaded the idea. the inside of schools are the best place to mature companion," with the reply, tually does the writing? Students or out­ " I think having a team is a desirable effectively get one's point across. "Again I ask, are you gay?" In general, siders? Possibly all students. Ann, not her goal," said Gall. "The potential for The writers of graffiti here are students, the messages written in the women's rest­ real name, said, "Something compels me generating student interest, spirit around some possibly English majors. Quite often, rooms "cut down" men, but graffiti to write in the rest-rooms. It's nice to come the college and focusing attention on the it isn't the same two writers com­ speaking of women in the men's rest­ back and see what someone has to say school could be very valuable. municating back and forth. rooms did nothing more than compliment about what I wrote." J im, not his real " However, like many other things, this For instance, John Doe N1 excuses him­ women. One author went so far as to write, name, said, "Writing on the walls is is a proposal as yet not fully defined that self from class, enters the rest-room, and "Fact: Women are biologically, childish. I couldn't see writing in the the college is considering," he said. for no apparent reason, pulls out his pen emotionally superior to men." "Good, let bathroom, especially when the janitors try "There are numerous legal, medical, in­ and writes: "Conceptualize." Placing his them take care of us," came the reply. so hard to keep them clean." Another surance as well as academic issues to be equipment back in his pocket, he exits. " But one at a time please," was the final student added, "Sometimes I'll wr ite and considered. The college entertains many John Doe 112 arrives with his pen hours response. sometimes I won't. It depends on my proposals for many desirable projects and later after being excused from class and Some similarities found between mood." activities. Each of them is weighed on below he writes: "Radicalize." Finally, a messages in the women's and men's rest­ Someone in not so good a mood wrote, merits and the college's ability to sub­ -~ third enters and writes, "Miila-size and rooms were: someone always write back, "Aren·t men louses?" "Too bad we can't scribe whatever costs are involved. Ob­ doctor my eyes." Another John that women love to write about men as much as do without them," another added. Some viously, this has to be weighed against the probably hadn't made it to class wrote, men love to write about women, and all students just needed to let off steam by many needs of Columbia students." "Sweetheart: leave reefer on top of urinal messages in both rest-rooms were aimed writing, "So I lived with Gacy, so what!" Averette had originally planned to have for me. I'm here every Monday at I :30and at specific audiences. For instance and "Thanks, I needed that." a team slated for the 1981-82 season, as his need to get buzzed for my Writing someone wrote, "Long live the Ramones." Below all the graffiti, below everything major goal for this project. But student in­ Workshop class." Another student wanted to know, "Must he had read, another male student wrote, volvement and interest changed his plans On most walls the image of a maze ap- we mark up our beloved walls with the " It's all a blast." con tinued o n p . 14 INSIDE CATCH THIS S lue jeans are classy Summer c onc ert freebies p.to BULLETIN p.6 LAYERS Do pot a nd booze mix ? Travel far to broaden your education; CENTERFOLD p.l3 p.2 They rallied a round lor E RA SCOPE p.8-9 LINES-0-TYPE Uncle Sam lurea ladiea; Grace S lick t a.lka to CC p.4 FOCUS p.l6 .. Page% Columbia Chronicle BULLETIN Government grants Illinois $4.5 million started on their own," a.Jdman said. By Rita Kolody " Among other things, judges look for ef­ There aren't ma ny classified ads for ar­ forts to publicize or publish the end pro­ tists and writers in the Sunday papers. duct of the project and whether or not the However, there is money for various kinds public will have access to it," she added. of cultural projects available through The Illinois Arts Council also gives governmental and private sources. several fellowships each year of $5,000 to The Federal government gives a good award artistic excellence. In 1980 Victor deal of money to individuals and organiza­ Power , a playwright; a nd poet Michael tions through the National Endowment for Annania were fellowship recipients. the Arts <NEAl. In tht> fiscal year 1979, Applications for 1981 will be available in NEA gave almost four a nd a ha lf million August.