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Dwayne M. Thomas/Chronicle Students voice their opinions during a protest held in front of the Boeing building, 100 N. Riverside Plaza, in downtown Chicago on Thursday, Nov. 7. Police enacted a parking ban over the entire Loop as a precaution.

Police outnumber protesters
City prepares for worse, comes up looking a tad paranoid

An estimated 1,000 activists—including at least two dozen Columbia students—protested a meeting of global business leaders Nov. 10, effectively shutting down much of Chicago’s downtown loop and creating what one protestor called “a police state.”

The protesters gathered to denounce the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue, a two-day, closed-door session of executives developing international policy that aims to ease trade regulations in an effort to bolster businesses’ profits.

Demonstrators contend the TABD policies exploit the poor to the advantage of wealthy business interests.
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Online registration on target for spring ’03
OASIS to line up next fall’s classes

Columbia is making efforts to smooth out class registration by adopting a feature many colleges and universities across the nation have been using for years: online registration. Officials plan to have the system in place by April 2003 for fall semester registration.
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Columbia’s ‘minority report’
Recruitment and retention receive college funds

Columbia plans to dedicate 25 percent of the college’s total media advertising budget toward the recruitment of minorities, according to a 17-point outline of the school’s new plan.
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Poster-art legend speaks as part of Art and Design series
Prominent art directors, editors and artists to be featured

Every seat and square inch of floor space in Room 203 of the 623 S. Wabash Ave. building was taken as Art Chantry, a living legend in the history of poster design, spoke to students as part of the Art and Design lecture series.
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Art student forced to halt painting

Chicago police officers shut down an artistic exhibit on Nov. 8 by Columbia student Sonja Ljubinkovic due to “ordinance violations,” according to Sgt. Robert Cargie of the Chicago Police Department.
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Filmmaking and media examined post-Sept. 11
International moviemakers discuss stereotyping in industry

The world of cinema has changed in profound but subtle ways since the events of September 11, 2001 argued members of a discussion held Friday Nov. 1 at the Herman D. Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave.
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Career Center gets makeover, additions
New Fall Review program offers students a chance to get their work critiqued by pros

Columbia reopened the Career Center for the Arts and Media in September with the hope that it will better assist students looking for work after graduation. The remodeled center, which is located in the 623 S. Wabash Ave. building, in Room 318, now has eight computers for students to use on which they can look up job listings or work on and send resumes.
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Alumna wins $25K teaching award
Teacher says she once considered not continuing her education beyond high school

Columbia alumna Rosa Covarrubias just got $25,000 richer—and she didn’t do it by winning the lottery.

On Oct. 15, the Milken Family Foundation awarded Covarrubias, an elementary teacher at Niños Heroes Elementary Academy, its National Educator Award, which named her one of the best teachers in the country.
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Spider snacks for sleeping students
Night crawlers find new venture

(U-WIRE) TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, it wiggled, and jiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, but what’s everyone else’s excuse?
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SIU students among protesters in D.C.
Students take protests to Bush’s front door

(U-WIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill.—A 28-hour car drive, peanut butter sandwiches, warm bottled water and many armed police officers is what 10 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale students endured, all in the name of peace.
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SEVIS creates more difficulties for international studies
Immigration policies cause problems

(U-WIRE) NORMAL, Ill.—A new computer tracking system keeps up-to-date records of all visa holding students, tourists, diplomats, religious workers, international stars, politicians and others entering the United States.
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The Editor's Desk

If you are between the ages of 18 and 34, prepare to be offended.

I have always harbored a suspicion that the Chicago Tribune was condescending—only now do I have the proof in my hot little hands. This evidence comes in the form of the Trib’s new Monday-Friday paper, the RedEye. Read more...