Latino Alliance assembly draws college
Administrators promise to address issues raised at meeting

More than 100 students and faculty, and five administrators, participated in a Latino Alliance-sponsored assembly Dec. 12 to bolster administrative support for campuswide multicultural issues.
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Credit cards turn into campus nightmares
Students find themselves with increasing amounts of debt as they move through school

Bills, Bills, Bills. From credit cards to student loans, some students can’t say no to charging and are now buried in debt.
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AIDS awareness needs a boost

HIV/AIDS is a disease that continues to grow within America’s college student community. One in 500 college students is HIV positive, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Bilingual staff needed now

Question: What if Columbia could improve its minority retention, increase student satisfaction and improve relationships with its students and their parents, all for only $60,000 a year? It’s possible, it’s easy, and the Latino Alliance has an idea how it could happen. Hire two bilingual staff members—one for the Office of Student Financial Services and another for the Admissions Office.
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No holds barred in ‘borderless’ art show

To the uninitiated, waiting in the crowd that filled the 1104 S. Wabash Ave. building lobby
for the closing night of the two-day “The Brown Sheep Project” series might have seemed
uneventful for a highly anticipated Columbia art show. But once inside the green-light
district just behind the doors to the Glass Curtain Gallery, it was clear that there was
nothing normal about this show.
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Corporate sponsors dominate sports
Businesses budget tens of millions of dollars for endorsements, advertisements

One of the most common sayings in sports is that “it’s a business.” And when players get traded,
they understand that “it’s a business."
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