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RECEIVED One-man theft operation on campus got busted By Eva Boyer out the entire building until they found him on the Staff Writer first floor lobby. After apprehending Collins, security detained The Chicago Police arrested Frederick Collins, him for questioning and searched the bag he was 36, in Columbia's Wabash building Monday, Dec. carrying. It contained a cellular phone and a beep­ 8, charging him with theft, criminal trespass and er. According to Gallegos, Collins claimed the disorderly conduct. items belonged to him and he was on campus The arrest came after a mounting number of looking for a job. thefts reported in the recent months at the college. About 15 minutes later, Sabrina Alexander, In mid-November, The School of the Art Institute Columbia's graduate student and work -aid, called provided Columbia's security department with a security to notifY them that her beeper and cellu­ picture of a man suspected to be involved in thefts lar phone had been stolen from her book bag_ in that occurred on thefr campus as well as at DePaul the associate dean's office on the fifth floor. University. Security called her to view the property. As a result, security alert flyers picturing the Alexander immediately identified it as her own. suspect were posted throughout the campus build­ "Then they handcuffed him [Collins]. I could­ ings warning students, faculty and staff to notifY n't believe what I was seeing," said Alexander. security immediately if be was seen in campus "They did a remarkable job. Officer Simms is to buildings. be commended." According to the Director of Campus Security, Collins was escorted to the security office in Jose Gallegos, two separate calls were made to the Wabash building, where the Chicago Police security by unidentified people on the 12th floor placed Collins under arrest and removed him from of the 600 S. Michigan Ave. building in the late the campus, detaining him at the I st District afternoon on Monday. Police Station on lith Street for norrnal process­ They reported seeing a man fitting the descrip­ ing. tion of the person shown in the flyer, roaming the A court date is set for Jan. 22, 1998, at 9 a.m. floor and asking a lot of questions. After the sec­ Gallegos will be in attendance to testifY. He ond call, Gallegos and officers Ron Dorsey and remains confident that justice will be served. "He Loretta Simms were dispatched to the scene [Collins] will be banned from the college, there is A pedestrian on Michigan Avenue struggles with gusting winds where they perforrned a sweep of the 12th floor, no doubt about it, " said Gallegos. "If he shows but turned up nothing. up, he will be arrested." and freezing rain on Thursday, Jan. 8 They continued searching for Collins through- Turning tables: From torment to triumph By Tanisha Allen Nyiaolia enrolled in Staff Writer September 1992 and took a class taught by Zafra Lerrnan, Nyiaolia SaVad, 45, started life Columbia's science institute off in rotten soil. Nyiaolia suffered director, called "Ozone to Oil heinous abuse at the hands of her Spills." For the final project, own stepfather. Baths in Ajax and students were instructed to pro­ Comet failed to cleanse her internal duce a work using creativity feelings of filth, Nyiaolia felt she pertaining to their major. had no other choice but to run away. Nyiaolia decided to express After repeated runaway attempts herself through song. she found herself in a never-ending She wrote a song entitled road of wrongdoing until this down­ "Try to stop the air pollution." ward spiral finally led to a drug traf­ Lerrnan had inspired her so ficking conviction and a sentence of much that she wrote a letter three years in prison with two years about her past and how the probation. class had helped her, and she Vince Johnson/Chronicle On the day Nyiaolia was released sent it to the American Chemical from prison, she decided that she Society in Washington D.C. sing, she said. The abuse just sup­ had hit rock bottom and it was final­ The letter brought her recogni­ pressed it for a while. "Music was ly time for a change. tion. Vice President AI Gore ·called my way of getting away from the "I just knew when I got out there her to congratulate her on her song. pain," said Nyiaolia. was going to be a positive life wait­ And The New York Times called the Nyiaolia graduated from ing for me," said Nyiaolia. "I felt at same day. Columbia in June. "Now I know that very moment, 'Hey, I am worth Since completing Lerrnan's class, where I am and where I am going," something; I will amount to some­ Nyiaolia has perforrned her song for said Nyiaolia. "Prayer is the key, and thing."' the American Chemical Society, the having confidence in yourself no After Nyiaolia was released from Mayor's office for people with dis­ matter what other people think." Kankakee Correctional facility, she abilities, the Illinois Board of Nyiaolia is trying to get into was transferred to the Jesse "MA" Education and Dusable Museum, Columbia's graduate school. She is Houston work release center. It was where she opened the show "The also in the process of signing a there that she decided to enroll at Notations" in January 1996. record deal, a.nd doing a video for Columbia College. Nyiaolia has always loved to her air pollution song. INSIDE Features Photo Essay Sports James Cameron s Wzsconsin high Not all college 'Titanic' rises from school football football bowls the ocean bottom state finals sell-out Page IS Back page 2 NEWS JanuaQ· 12. 199X The Chronicle Taxes r!'J•: · ,..(!, nf Columhia College Chicagu continued from page I College News From Around The Nation 62.\ S. Wa iHL\ h Ave., Suite 205 C hicaJ!u, lllinoi.o;: 60605 Teleflfe fa<i&tl~i l l t tkY~~e to do is p~l\{'j tfiJHIFlf ~q J!iili'J'J{Siiljrec Canadian University Prof Asks For Pennission To Grow Pot nunfllCr. 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