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Campus News
The future home of Buddy Guy’s Legends, the world famous nightclub, is nothing more than a vacant lot at the corner of Balbo and Wabash Avenues. El Taco Loco has been torn down and a parking lot has taken its place. This week CTI Inc., a construction-testing company, is drilling to see what lies beneath the concrete. The City of Chicago requires that all building sites go through a battery of tests to ensure that the basements do not cave from the pressure of the soft clay on which the city of Chicago is built. This is the second round of testing the site has gone through since the ground proved too soft for the original plans. Continued Theater department mourns death of prominent instructor Within months of the death of John Murbach, another respected teacher dies unexpectedly Martin de Maat, 52, an artist-in-residence in the Theater department died on Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Cabrini Medical Center in New York, where he was undergoing treatment for pneumonia. He was best known as the teacher who inspired the careers of “Saturday Night Live” performers Chris Farley, Tina Fey and Tim Meadows, Sean P. Hayes of “Will and Grace” and Kelly Leonard, the producer of Second City. Continued
At the screening of his first feature film “Love Relations,” last Tuesday, Columbia graduate Delvin Molden told the audience to expect, “a delightful story with dramatic twists about a family dealing with relationships.” Continued New staffer to head student government Beginning next fall, Columbia students could have their own student government to represent their interests and needs. If the government is a success, students will have Dana Ingrassia to thank. Ingrassia is Columbia’s new director of student government and Student Organization Council. She was hired this semester by the Office of Student Life and Development to organize a government. Continued
Columbia students at the Plymouth Court residence center were treated to a night of music Saturday, Feb. 17, when folk artist Lori Amey performed. Continued Foundation awards scholarship, college matches funds Financing an education at Columbia became easier last summer for a graduating Near North High School senior—now a freshman at Columbia—who won a $5,000 scholarship from the 11-10-02 Foundation, a Chicago non-profit organization. The funds are set to be matched by Columbia. At the foundation’s first annual gala dinner last June, Michael Centeno, an 18-year-old freshman film and video major, was awarded the scholarship. Then Barry Young of Columbia’s Film Animation department surprised Centeno with the news of Columbia’s intent to match the $5,000 his sophomore year. Continued
Event marks collaboration between Columbia and the American Center for Design The Art and Design department at Columbia hosted the opening reception of ACD 100, the American Center for Design’s annual show, “Not yet the Periphery,” last Friday, Feb. 16 at the 33 E. Wabash Gallery. Continued Also Inside This weeks's News & Notes Back to top | Home Web Team: Sal J. Barry & James Norman The Columbia Chronicle is a student produced publication of Columbia College Chicago and does not necessarily represent, in whole or in part, the views of Columbia College administrators, faculty or students. |
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