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Columbia Chronicle \ Ol.l \IE 21 "l \IBER 8 DECE'VIRER 5, 1988 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, CHIC A(;() ;, ·Hokin funds fuel programs By Carla Jones The budget covers salaries for members at large who rec ruit the director, part-time staff. stu­ new members and decide on how The Hokin Student Center has dent work aids who are selected much money is to be allocated about $24,000 left from last by Hermann Conaway. dean of toward each proposal they year's budget which will be used student services; payments for receive. for bigger and better program­ outside speakers, bands, cultural Once a monetary proposal has ming this year. activities. maintenance. office been approved a check request is Hokin Center Director Bobbie supplies, printing. !-shirts, and authorized by the director who Stuart said she was very thrifty fi lm rentals. then has to get approval from in the first year of the center's One of the school c lubs that Executive Vice President Bert operation. Last year's monies has benefited from Hokin fund­ Gall. were spent to help provide ade­ ing is the Hispanic All iance. " There have been times when quate equipment in the Hokin " There has been more interest check requests have been vet­ but this year more will be spent in the student _community and I oed," said Ortega. on programming. think the center has had some­ "We would like more input The revenue for the budget th ing to do with that." club from faculty a nd stude nts comes from the $10 fee for full­ director Jorge Ortega said. especially because it (the Hokin) time students and the $5 fee for The Hispanic Alliance has is here for them and we have part-time students charged to submitted proposals to the Hoki~ plenty of money to be utilized ... students each semester. for most of its events and has Stuart said. The total projected income received food donations from For example. the Hokin spon­ from these fees is $98,000 fo r Appetizers Inc., La Mexicana, a sored Alcoh :>l Awareness Week George Buoot, P'"ldent of the Hokln Student Advfoory the 1988-89 school year. Spanish baker y. and La Pre­ board vot" on what He budget funds are spent on. during October in conjunction fe rida, a major Spanis h food with the National Collegiate • • company. Alcohol Awareness Week. It Neighborhood crime ·Increases On ega is also the vice chair­ sponsored two guest speakers, man of the Hokin Student one who was paid $500: the By Cathy Bentevis good and bad we're doing and even after we sat dow-n and my Advisory Board. other spoke at no cost. Fees vary what areas we need to foc us our friends thought it was funny." The board is comprised of one for outside speakers. bands and According to the Chicago all!! nlion on more. ll 's li ke a Because each police officer student representative from each activities. Police Departme nt's an nua l grading card, we can see the pro­ has a beat, he cannot spend all major disipline and several Continued on Page 3 report, " Statistical Summary," gress we' ve made and how far his time at downtown colleges. criminal sexual assault and rob­ we sti ll have to go." " Police drive by the Jackson beries are slowly increasing in Columbia College students Park el station as often as they the -Harrison district. have mixed reactio ns to these can and sometimes an off icer statist ics. M arnie Barron, a In 1985, there were 290 crimi­ stands in front of the station or broadcast journalism major, said nal sexual assault offenses, and across the street,·· Dorrough she was afraid "because of all 2,815 robberies. In 1986, there said. the crazy people out there." were 312 criminal sexual assault Dorrough does not think the Even though Barron rides the el offenses a nd robberies fe ll li th district is targeted by offen­ with friends, she once had a slightly to 2,852. · ders because of colleges and uni­ frightening experience when a Officer Hollis Dorrough, from versities in the area. The lith man was yelling obscene things the lith district said the statistics district's crime rate is very high, to her. Barron said, ·'I was so· are "a yardstick to measure how scared because he kept yelling Continued on Page 3 Amnesty International brings human rights back to the U.N. In t h ~ 40 years that have political, religious and economic Assembly in 1948. and the passed smce the Umted Nations bipartisanship. this is the first of human rights violations that are ratifred Us Declarat w n of a series exploring the aims of AI taking place wi thin their bor­ Human Rrghts, worldwide cit- and its ties with Columbia. ders. The Declaration states, izen mistreatment remains a amo ng other thi ngs, that " no problem. All U.N. members, By Mitch Hurst one shall be subjected to arbi­ including the United States, have trary arrest, detention or exile." disregarded the document's ten­ Dec. 10 is Intern ational (Article 9). ets i(t some •my. Human Rights Day and this year On Dec. 8, Amnesty Interna­ Amnesty International has marks the fortieth anni versary of tional officials will present the resorted to what may be the only the signing of the Universal Dec­ petit ions, containing more than solut ion -world citizen laration of Human Rights. It also three and a half million sig­ awareness. A starving Buddhist marks the culmination o f the natures from people around the monk imprisoned in Sri Lanka largest campaign ever organized world to Javier Perez de Cuellar, for his race and spiritual beliefs by Amnes ty International to Secretary General of the United may not be of direct concern to bring attention to the plight of Nations. A I officials will also residems of Chicago or studellts This award-winning photo taken by Columbia photography student political prisoners around the present pet itions with over and employees at Columbia Col­ Christopher Sander of Mo rton Grove won first place during a recent wo rld. For eight months 520.000 signatures from U.S. lege. But they all will face prob­ contest sponsored by the Palmer Group. Ltd. Eleven Columbia Amnesty staff members, vol un­ c itizens to President-elect lems of the em ire world in time. teers , students, rock and roll George Bush's transition team to students submitted 36 entries hoping to win the $100 cash prize. Columbia has taken a step in stars and anyone else who was show the future administration Other entries received $25 gilt certificates. The winning student has solving this problem by recently wi lling to lend a hand have been that U.S. citizens are concerned a lull-time lob with a construction company while seeking his instituting a campus chapter of AI. busily gathering signatures on a about human rights violation>. photography degree from Columbia. petitio n d esig ned to remind Sanders' pulsating photo reflects off next door neighbor 333 w. In willingness to cooperate countries o f the Declaration Wacker Dr. and shows the 225 W. Wacker Dr. neighbor. with the organization's social, ado pted by the U.N. General Continued on Page 3 PAGE 2 DECEMBER 5,1988 COLUMBIA CHRONICLE NEWS News Briefs Departments merge on festival Scholarship offered for sons and daughters By A. L. Neris the art ln,titute of Chicago and of veterans Edinboro nivcrsity. Edinboro. The dcparmcnb of dance. PA. The \dolph C<x>r' Comp<On) h"' <~nnounced the 'pon'>Or>h<p ol the 1 Eng li'h and interdi,ciplinary Poet Allen Ginsberg. sched­ 19KY C<x>r' Vcter"n' · Memori<OI Scholar,hip Fund <<nd will award am have joined force' to 'pon­ uled for the second night of the ))(KJ ,(J()(J 111 ,cholar,hip' to a minimum of 100 'on' and dau g hter~ of ~or it!> fir!>t ever special a1t~ festival at the Emma and Oscar t\mcru.:an veteran" W(Jrldwitlc. cxtrava2anza that featu res poet!> Gctz Theatre. d ivided h is pre ­ To be ciU.!ihlc for con ... idcrat ion. arplit:anh lllll!\( be 22 year\ of age A llen G insberg and Kenward sentation giving equal time to " r younger: ... of March 15 . I'JX'J. and al ready be enrolled fu ll-time in El msl ic. pcrf<;rmancc a rtis it reading and sing ing fro m his col­ an accredited lour-) car in..,titution of hight:r education 111 the Umtcd P ing C h o n g and art crit ic lected poems. A mong some of "itatc-. or an accredited two-)car program lc<.Jd ing. to a four-ye ar Maureen Sherlock in the "After the readings included PLUTO ­ undergraduate degree.