Around Campus

Mike Schmidt/Chronicle The Dr. Curtis Prince Jazz Quartet plays at the Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration, held Monday, Dec. 9, in the Hokin Hall, 623 S. Wabash Ave. at 2 p.m. The celebration also featured Dr. Conrad Worrill of Northeastern Illinois State University.

Video archives hit Columbia
Television Dept. unveils searchable catalog and database of rare independent digital videos

It’s the 15 minutes before Nixon’s resignation. It’s an interview with an angry New York cabbie who’s complaining about the impact of television and media on society. It’s the footage of a CBS news reporter getting interrupted by passersby as he tries to finish his on-camera stand up.

All this and more can be viewed through the Columbia Television Department’s new Digital Independent Video Encyclopedia, which launched Dec. 12 at the Documentary Center in the Film and Video Department.
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Sept. 11 ushers in new rules for foreign students
Failure to meet new requirements can result in the government punishing both students and school

The federal government is in the final stages of overhauling its monitoring service of non-immigrants. Columbia’s administrators and international students are dealing with last-minute updates to the rules and regulations as the higher-education system moves to meet the deadline for compliance.
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‘Trainspotting’ author and Irish writer join Fiction faculty
New instructors to teach classes in Scottish and Irish writers, fiction seminars

Columbia will be welcoming the addition of two nationally known writers, Irvine Welsh and Antonia Logue, to its Fiction Writing Department for the spring 2003 semester, when each writer will begin teaching courses.
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BE-HIV gives free AIDS Tests
Free condoms, tests part of health fair and AIDS awareness

Students filled the Hokin Annex on Dec. 5, to take part in day four of Columbia’s first AIDS Awareness Week. The day’s events, included some students practicing yoga and picking up handouts from health organizations from across Chicago.
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Spertus more than meets eye
‘What’s in that building?’ One staff writer finds out

It’s happened to us all.

You’re late for class, walking north along South Michigan Avenue against a frigid wall of wind that seems to blow in your face from every direction. Turning left, you catch a glimpse of a familiar site just before the 600 S. Michigan Ave. building. You’ve seen it a million times, but chances are you don’t even know what they do in there.
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City Year new opportunity for volunteering
AmeriCorps-affiliated program comes to Columbia this year

Students looking to take a year off from their studies at Columbia, or other colleges in the city, have a unique and exciting opportunity. City Year, a nonprofit organization and a member of the AmeriCorps network, is a national service organization that looks for 17- to 24-year-olds, and provides them with a year of full-time volunteer service.
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Human Rights panel discusses journalism issues
Columbia’s President announces Human Rights conference at Chicago Hilton and Towers, May 5-8

Members of Chicago’s diplomatic and journalistic community, along with Columbia faculty and students, gathered in the Hokin Annex on Dec. 10 for a morning celebration of U.N. Human Rights Day.
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Free speech on campus at risk
Court to decide future of student organization’s freedom of speech

(U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis.—Freedom of speech may be limited at colleges and universities in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana if a court rules against three Illinois student journalists. Hosty v. Carter will be heard by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 7.
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College students recognize global warming threat
Princeton students participate in Ben & Jerry’s environmental hunt

(U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J.—“Eating one pound of steak causes the same greenhouse gas emissions as driving X miles in a car,” read the first clue of a scavenger hunt held Saturday, Dec. 7. The team of students that guessed “15” as the correct answer rushed off to the Dinky to sign their names on a poster and copy a statistic about greenhouse gas emissions.
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Affirmative action debate rages on
UW System may help University of Michigan defend its affirmative action policy

MADISON, Wis. (AP)—Officials from the University of Wisconsin System—which encompasses all 26 University of Wisconsin schools—are looking into how they might support the University of Michigan in its legal battle before the U.S. Supreme Court to defend its affirmative action policy.
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Researchers explore pig organ transplants
Researchers say animal-organ transplants in human beings is likely

(U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa—It may be years away, but the day is coming when a person needing an organ transplant could receive that organ from a pig. Hank Harris, professor of microbiology, is researching how pig organs could be used for human transplants.
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The Editor's Desk

Well, Columbia, I just have to stick my spoon into the pot of political turmoil for a steaming helping of what is now the “Trent Lott Fiasco.”
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