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Stacie Freudenberg/Chronicle (Left to Right): Lisa Jevens (Echo adviser), Barry Rice (acting chair of the Journalism Department) and Suzanne Vogel (publications coordinator of the Admissions Office) put some finishing touches on the spring edition of Echo, Columbia College’s student magazine. Echo is scheduled to hit the stands in January.

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Roe v. Wade turns 30

More than 150 pro-choice activists gathered at the Dirksen Federal Plaza Jan. 22 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

With two Supreme Court Justices rumored to be considering retirement, activists on both sides of the issue agree that a replacement would most likely tip the scale in favor of an anti-abortion decision.

Pro-choice activists said it is urgent that people rally around protecting abortion rights of American women, because of a political climate where conservatives dominate the congressional and executive offices.
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Bush to urge high court to stop university's 'quota system'

Calling the policy “fundamentally flawed” and “unconstitutional” at a Jan. 16 news conference, President Bush condemned the University of Michigan’s use of race as a decisive factor in the school’s admissions process. Bush said he plans to file an 11th-hour brief with the Supreme Court, which is determining the Constitutionality of affirmative action.
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Columbia Music Department legend & founder dies

Founder and former chair of Columbia’s Music Department, William Russo, died Saturday, Jan. 11 from complications to pneumonia at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center. Russo was 74.
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Council floats plan to increase student support services
College discusses how to address medical and psychological problems of Columbia students

At an open forum at College Council on Jan. 10, members discussed how best to help students in crisis. Faculty and staff were encouraged to increase concern and provide available support for students suffering from emotional or behavioral problems.
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Columbia plans for black history month
Monthlong series to incorporate multitude of events with ‘The Power of Black Music’ as theme

Columbia will kick off a monthlong slate of more than 35 events on Feb. 10 to celebrate contributions African-Americans have made in shaping 20th-century music and culture.
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Students, scholars debate military draft reinstatement as Iraqi conflict heats up
If war erupts, draft would occur through lottery drawings, according to the Selective Service System

In high school, Barry Romo was president of the Junior Republicans Club, was “actively against communism,” enlisted in the military after graduation and was sent to Vietnam in 1967.
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Rare book, print exhibit comes to Book and Paper Art center
Caxton Club of Chicago offers members’ fine-press books and prints for monthlong showing

As part of the “Inland Printers: The Fine-Press Movement In Chicago, 1920-1945” exhibit, books and prints that capture a subculture of artists who pursued an aesthetic apart from their work in Chicago’s burgeoning printing industry of the time are showcased.
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Oxford eyes Clinton as possible chancelor

LONDON—The “good ol’ boy” from Arkansas is also an “old boy” from Oxford, which is one reason former President Bill Clinton has been mentioned (Sir William?) as an early front-runner for the job of chancellor at Britain’s most famous university.
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Northwestern U. names first black female dean

(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill.—Northwestern University’s first black female dean will soon head up the School of Music with a focus on expanding funding for the arts.
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Exonerated prisoners gather to oppose capital punishmentr

(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill.—When Ray Krone was being sentenced in 1992 in the stabbing death of a Phoenix woman, the victim’s mother stood in the courthouse galley pleading with authorities to sentence Krone to death.
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The Editor's Desk

The day began with cornflower blue skies and a brisk wind. Reporters stood in the lobby of the Dirksen Federal Building, waiting. Camerapeople rested their heavy equipment on their shoulders, on the floor and on benches. Television reporters touched their hair. Everyone talked.
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