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Last call for happy releases new HAIR TRIGGER 11 hours? Local bar student I S T a I I ~ I I L S R I P I I T H I I. I G I owners speak out anthology By Joe Kristufek and Mahar said. • A few restaurateurs Karen A. Klemens made valid complaints, saying By Matthew Kissane patrons could go to neighboring No more quarter-beer nights? communities and still drink at Hair Trigger 11, the latest A legislation that, if approved, happy-hour prices. I think the law volume in the annual anthology of would eliminate happy hours in will be more effective if there is a Fiction Department sllldent writ­ Illinois, has angered some local­ ing, is published and will be the pub managers and bar attendants. ban in contiguous com­ focus of a reception this Friday "It would affect everybody's munities." night in the Ferguson Theater. business," John Lewis manager of Orland Park, which banned The published students, whose the South Loop Club on 1 E. happy hours last December, fol­ works originally were homework Balbo said. "Just look what has lowed other communities such as for their Fiction Writing I and II happened in Orland Park. Mount Prospect and Hanover and Prose Forms instructors, will Everybody's suffering. [Illinois] Park. read from the anthology preced­ expects us to collect taxes for "Since we began having happy ing a reception. them but they don't want to give hour about six months ago we Although this Hair Trigger will us anything in return," he said. have been a lot busier during not include poetry, a section for Senate Bill 0234 was intro­ those hours (4:30p.m. to 7 p.m.)," students with no.vels-in-progress duced by Senator William Mahar Bruce Jenkins, a full-time bar­ is included. The English Depan­ (R-Orland Park), along with Sen. tender at the Buckingham Pub, men~ release<J..Golumbia· Poetry • Robert Kustra (R-DesPlaincs). 520 S. Michigan Ave. said. "I Review/1 last spring and is in Mahar said he authored the legis­ don't think' it would affect sales charge of poetry studies. lation partly because of' com­ greatly because of where we're "It will look smaller, but it plaints in his district. located, with the school right doesn't have any poetry," faculty .t'OI,UMBIA COLLEGE tiiiCAGO Mahar's bill prohibits all liq­ across the street." Jenkins advisor Shawn Shiflett said. uor-license holders from sponsor­ added that about 80 percent of the The 158-page volume includes ing any drink promotions, includ­ pub's patrons are Columbia sill­ 27 works by 25 students and is ing the customary two-for-one dents. divided into three sections: TIM! Flollon o.partment recently rei•Md ha tateet atudent llt.rary beer and well drinks, unlimited "[Bar owners] can still set their stories, stories and prose forms publloatlon, ,_turing the photogl'8phy of Jerry N. U.hlamann on the oover. drinks for a set price, and selling own prices,• Mahar said. "If they and story instance collections and The phologf8Ph Ia on extenclecl loan to the Uuaeum of Contemporary drinks at a reduced price. want to sell beer for a nickel they Photogl'8phy by the Ruttenberg Aria Foundation. novels in progress. "Eliminating happy hours Continued on page 3 An eight-member editorial "Shiflett and department chair­ prose forms in the department," statewide made more sense," panel of students began the person John Schultz overlooked Shiflett said. "I kept the meetings choosing· process last spring by the project going, making sure there was no listing stories contributed by in­ particular bias. I would ask the structors as "Cut," "probable" and "Ouronlycriteriaisthatwe~ students, 'Why don't we have "very probable.• looking for the best fiction and more fantasy pieces?' or 'There is more of this type of writing than thai.'" Instructor invests "Some good stories did not get in because there is such a strong competition," he added. "People in student internships have gotten jobs from being pub­ Internship programs were not lished in Hair Trigger. • By Douglas Holt prevalent at that time to give sill­ Hair Trigger 8, released in dents access to a firSt "real" job. 1985,andHairTrigger3,released Tom Ward, public relations in­ "In tl!e few years to come, inter­ in 1979, were awarded the best structor, donated $1,000 of his · nships will be required," Ward college literary magazines in the · personal funds to the Market­ said. "They won't be optional. nation by the Coordinating Coun­ ing/Communications Department Probably, in your junior or senior cil of Literary Magazines. The "to pay back students" for the year [internships will be a require­ Dallas Community College sys­ worlc they've done. ment for students]. tem uses the Hair Trigger series as He wants to expand "Internships are growing very texts. Columbia'salm!dynotablem=­ rapidly to the po~nt where The Fiction Department stu­ nship program. employers are probably not going dent enrollmenthas grown by 54 When Ward attended to hire someone who has not had percent this year, according to. Northwestern University during . an intemship. • Shiflett. his senior year in 1949, getting an The department and the Featured in this year's Hair internship in his chosen field. American Marketing Association Trigger are two pieces about journalism, was not a top piority. on campus allocaled the fimds to AIDS bigotries and perspectives Ward already had three or four develop the Tom Ward Scholar­ by Don Bapst, a piece about an years of journalistic experience; ship Competition. The donation English teacher's perspective of Jle was editor of the Daily was originally to be awarded to the wild side of Henry David Northwestern, his school's deserving students within the Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and newspaper, and wrote foe Stars department, but "the depanment Walt Whitman by Allan Zeitlin, a and Stripes, the army newspaper. said that there are so many of parody of Bartleby the Scrivener Nearby Ntabllahmenta auch aa the Bucldngham Pub (top) and EIUe'a He also worked part-time foe the and VUta11Mt8urant, wfllch have ctabned up to 80 percent of their bualneaa to by Heatha Jones, a novel-in­ be from CohMibla, may no long• m•t the atudenta' budgeta If a atate CIUcago Tribune. progress by Lilli S. l..anger. legtatatlon pauM. Page 2 May 15, 1989 / Calendar 1 Hokin prepares afternoon of Monday, May 22 Harry Volkman from WBBM­ The African-American Al­ TV, Channel 2, will attend. acts in tribute to Bob Marley liance will be sponsoring a panel Through the help of his band, "We chose Kelvin to open the discussion on how to become im­ Thursday, May 18 By Matthew Kissane West said the Chicago Jamaican show because Bob was a poet first powered in the '90s, in the Fer­ Material Issue perform at Cub­ and foremost who put music to his by bear Lounge, 1059 W. Ad­ Third World culture, through community will be present at the guson Theater, lp.m.-4 p.m. A poetry," West said. reception will immediately fol­ dison, 10 p.m. $3. the spirit of the late reggae Hokin's "Tribute to Bob Marley." low in the faculty lounge, Wabash poet/composer Bob Marley, will "This is the first time the Members of the West Indian David Lehman, poet and fill the Hokin Student Center this Columbia College community Folk Dance Company will go on building, 5th floor. literary reviewer for Newsweek, Thursday. Shortly before and the outside community has at noon and perform for 20 Wednesday, May 17 will read his poetry at 12:30 p.m. minutes. Four dancers from the in Room 711 of the Wabash build­ Marley's brain cancer death on been brought together en masse The Student Organization May 11, 1981, he received for a student produced event at 25-member troupe will showcase Council will host a student forum, ing. Jamaica's Order of Merit, the Columbia," West claimed. "I West Indian Folk Dancing includ­ 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Ferguson Lehman will speak to the nation's third-highest honor. He ing limbo, led by AI Baker. Theater, Michigan Building, 1st want these students to fmd out English Club at 5:30 p.m. in received a state funeral. African-American storyteller floor. All students encouraged to what reggae is and to cross cul­ Room 707 of the Wabash build­ "Reggae is a political, romantic tural boundaries." Sharon Rose will read West In­ attend. ing. dian and African tales from 12:20 The Television Arts Society and social music," African­ The five acts will perform all will be hosting a "Win, Lose, or Friday, May 26 American Alliance public rehi­ original material not necessarily to 12:45. Draw" show, with students and Award-winning novelist and tions director Garfield West said.