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The Columbia Chronicle VOLUME 23 NUMBER 16 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS MARCH 19, 1990 Sin gin' those bursar blues Paper targeted Student financial problems Faculty set to pose a complex challenge in trash system, the hunt for college degrees recycle waste By Mary Johnson said her parents tske care of her By Jacqul Podzlus Staff R1port1r tuition, car insurance and repairs, Staff Rtporler feels fortunate. Wilensky works Of all the hurdles that students 24 hours a week, lives at home Recycling paper is about to be­ encounter on their way to fame and can count on her parents to come an everyday activity for and fortune, the greatest seems to cover overdrawn checks. hundreds of faculty members at be fmances. Whether students "I think it would be really hard Columbia College, and efforts to jump or stumble will depend on to go to school and have to worry recycle aluminum and ban the support groups in place, and about finances. I really ap- ~ Styrofoam are not far behind. in some instances, plain old preciate my parents help," she ~ ,__,__ This change is part of a mas­ chutzpah. said. <:.> sive recycling program set to kick According to Peggy 0 'Grady, On the other hand, Lou i!! off on April 9, the fU"St day of a Columbia College bursar, a stu­ Johnson, a sophomore, pays for .2 Columbia's Earth Week. dent may expect to spend $6,000 his expenses and tuition with the. o Organized by Students for a for tuition and $300 in books for help of student loans, summer ~ Better World, and using money the 1990 school year. Add to that jobs and frugal spending, and ~ from the SOC fund, the program the cost of clothing, food, mi~imizes asking his parents for 8 will provide bins to be placed transportation and recreation and assiStance. next to all desks in the college's the amount can soar like a bal­ "I am at the age where I am my Dlllne WIUia Ia one of • numb.-of Columbia atudenta Involved In new offices. loon. own guardian. It would be nice to tutoring program• In which atudenta learn and practice INching akllla. According to Frank Maugeri, If students fail to realistically have them give me their opinion, one of three SFBW coordinators, plan for these costs, they can fmd but I am on my own," he said. FederalgrantpaysoJ.r the faculty and administration are themselves discouraged enough Despite available parental asked to put all used paper in the to leave school or desperate support, some students who don't Student Literacy Corps a bins, except glossy and colored enough to consider unethical al­ qualify for fmancial aid find that material, and then empty the bin ternatives. they have to work extremely hard tutor, pupil, success story into a larger bin for the entire Take the case of Darrell and still can't afford to go to department Waller, a third-year TV Broad­ school full-time. By Tanya Bonner Columbia's English department, Maugeri, fellow SFBW coor­ and overall supervisor of the cast major. Waller said that if it Jennifer Demille, a junior in Staff Rtport~r dinators Leslie Brown and Jamie hadn't been for the death of his the Marketing Department, said project, and Rose Blouin, English Cahillane and other volunteers father, he would have been forced she works 65 hours a week as a This . semester a ·group of instructor and project director of from SFBW will empty the bins · to drop out . waitress just to attend school part­ Columbia students enrolled in the the SLC, co-wrote a grant · every evening into a main bin, "At that point I was faced with time. Experience of Literature course, proposal that was subrnirted to the which will be emptied by Recy­ this decision: do I lie on these "I've been to all the services to become tutors. They will leave U.S. Department of Education. cling Services once a week. [loan] documents and take a offered at Columbia I'm white, as literary mechanics. The department received a Maugeri said the initial recy­ chance of getting found out, or do upper-middle-class and don't Under the tutelage · of $50,000 grant last semester cling efforts are aimed at the I drop out of school," he said. qualify for financial aid," she Columbia's Dr. Philip Klukoff, which enabled them to start the faculty and administration be­ When Waller's father died, he said. the students learned how to tske SLC. cause "they are the biggest was left enough money to stay in Demille keeps a strict record poetry apart, to bette{ understand The success of an existing producers of waste in the col­ college. of her expenses, marking the it course, Tutoring the Three R's, lege." O'Grady, who conducts exit amount she has to put aside each "A poem appears to be a series may have played a significant But, he said, they are not the interviews, said students who day on a calendar. "I have to put of fragmented experiences-you role in the awarding of the grant. only wasteful people. The stu­ drop out of school for financial away $15.00 a day to make it, are the shapers," Klukoff said. There are II students in the dents contribute a tremendous reasons often choose to cite per­ every day, seven days a week," "It's necessary to take a poem Experience of Literature course. amount of waste, also, and during sonal reasons. she said. apart and analyze different pieces Klukoff said the course is a neces­ Earth Week, and throughout the "I don't pry," she said. "How­ When students feel themsel­ within it. Then you can see how sary compliment to the students' rest of the school year, Maugeri is ever, I don't notice as many ves disappearing into a sinkhole the different parts work together. tutoring activities. asking students to boycott coffee problems in the spring as I do in of debt, they can seek help from '"Think of poetry as a way of "The course teaches them how in the college until it is served in the fall. It's probably new stu­ the Academic Advising Depart­ seeing things in new ways," he to present a piece of literature to paper cups instead of Styrofoam. dents who start here and then ment continued. "You have to leave the a student It also teaches them An aluminum recycling pro­ gather all the fmancial informa­ "We offer COur!Seling free of possibilities of discovery open for how language communicates and gram is also being considered, tion and fmd they just couldn't charge for all students, no matter yourselves and for your stu­ how they, as teachers, can use Maugeri said, and it has a unique stretch the money over the four what the academic issue or con­ dents." language to communicate the twist. Instead of Recycling Ser­ months." cern may be," said Counselor Klukofrs course is part of the meaning of a poem. or other fic­ vices picking up the aluminum, "I would love to talk with stu­ Janet Boyter. When appropriate, Student Literacy Corps (SLC) tion effectively," Klukoff said. representatives from the Pacific dents in July and August on figur­ Boyter may refer a student to an ou~h program, which began Students in the SLC had the Garden Mission will be able to ing those things out, what they outside agency for help. this semester. In the program, un­ option of choosing the school pick up .Columbia's aluminum should look forward to," she said. One such agency offering dergraduate students tutor where they would like to tutor. and cash it in. Financial counseling is man­ financial counseling on referral is elementary school children, and They are currently tutoring in "It is money in their pockets," datory for students who are United Charities, through its con­ adults, in literature, history, math more than 17 schools in the inner he said, "and that's what we're receiving first-time educational sumer referral division. and science. city. about-making a better com­ loans, but there are no financial According to Stephanie· Klukoff, . chairman of Contiuued on page 3 munity around the school." workshops for other students. Greeson, a counselor with that People in the college throw According to Judd Wagner, agency, a lot of people seen by away .more than 20,000 cans a Columbia's debt advisor them have gotten in trouble with Inside week, Maugeri said, and by learn­ manager, students who are not credit cards. ing to recycle such a large amount used to handling their own money 'Although students would .;!!:At .school, they can learn to need to be awakened to the fact seem the least likely target for CbarlesBerusteinchatswitlt;, ;;:ifecycle their small amount at that they are responsible for their credit card solicitation, plastic Soundgarden bassist Kim - ' -~.also.