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| Columbia
to require 'dorm life' for some
New rule says all
incoming freshman from outside metro Chicago must
live in residence halls
Marking a major shift in how the college houses
its first year students, freshmen from outside
Chicago must live in the college's Residence Life
system under the terms of a new plan that will
go into effect next fall. The plans come on the
heels of preliminary data that shows a decrease
in the number of students who fit into that category.
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| Snafus
derail UPASS
Wide range of technical
issues causes distribution to spill into this
week
After days of students standing in slow-moving
lines, college officials brought to light the
reasons behind the excessive delay last week in
distributing student CTA cards.
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| SRO
set to build near campus
Building adds thousands
of feet in retail
The construction of a single room occupancy complex
in the parking lot across from the Wabash Campus
Building, 623 S. Wabash Ave., is slated to begin
at the end of November, an official close to the
project said.
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| College
approves pension plans
Even under adopted
plan, school official warns market 'not good right
now'
The long battle looks to be over. After nearly
six months and a $9 million deficit in the pension
fund that effectively froze the financial future
of many of Columbia's full-time faculty. With
the retroactive freeze enacted Jan. 1, 2003 starting
to thaw, many of Columbia's faculty are optimistic.
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| Straight
from Tel-Aviv to Columbia
New exhibit at Book
and Paper Arts Center honors Jewish culture
It might not be a surprise, then, that Gross'
duplex loft apartment in Tel Aviv is chock full
of hundreds of relics representing the history
of Judaic culture, art and customs-a section of
which is being temporarily housed at Columbia's
Book and Paper Arts Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave.,
second floor.
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| Library
unwires Web
Five floors of wireless
Internet access by semester's end
The library has put the college's first wireless
Internet access point for students into place.
During this semester, the staff hopes to establish
what in the past has taken years to build: a new
computer network.
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| Kick
your own butts
How one on-campus
program changes habits
This fall, Columbia's Student Health Center will
be offering a free, six-week smoking cessation
program for all Columbia students who wish to
kick their smoking habit for good.
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| Students
awaiting visa approval reluctant to enter United
States
Some foreign students
say waiting months for visas makes U.S. seem unfriendly
(U-WIRE) DEKALB, Ill. - A year ago, Anies Baswedan
was stuck in his native Indonesia, away from his
family and work at Northern Illinois University,
while waiting for the United States to approve
his visa.
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| Hot
or not: new Web site allows students to rate their
professors
Students now have
outlet to rate professors good, average or poor
(U-WIRE) DEKALB, Ill. - Northern Illinois University
communication professor Matt Swan doesn't think
of himself as a stud muffin. But according to
five students who evaluated him at www.ratemyprofessor.com,
he is definitely H-O-T-hot.
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| Southern
Illinois U. graduation rates near bottom of state
University officials
believe the type of students they serve is the
cause
(U-WIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill.- Only two out of five
freshmen enrolled at Southern Illinois University
this fall will graduate from the university within
six years, one of the lowest graduation rates
among Illinois public universities.
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| Northwestern
works to keep viruses off campus
Blaster infects computers
creating delay in productivity
(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. - Computer viruses like
Blaster wormed their way through Northwestern
University machines this summer, but university
officials say new precautions will impede the
pests' progress.
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| Transsexuals
file five claims against author, instructor
Professor accused
of using female transsexual plaintiffs as unauthorized
test subjects in his research book
(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill.- Transsexuals featured
in Northwestern University psychology Professor
J. Michael Bailey's latest book filed claims against
him with the university this summer, saying he
used their stories without telling them they were
research subjects.
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| Freshmen
stress prompts more help from universities
Freshmen anxiety is
getting more attention from university officials
IRVING, Texas-The young woman in the prom dress
scrubbed her clothes repeatedly in the dorm laundry
room, mumbling to herself about finishing a master's
thesis.
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