Honoring senior seminar
Alexandroff exhibit displays students’ social, personal work

Showcasing the diverse artistic talents of its graduates, the Senior Seminar program held an exhibit titled, “Creativity with a Conscience: The Alexandroff Exhibit,” at 33 E. Congress Parkway from March 13–28. A panel of judges awarded cash prizes to the top three pieces of artwork at a reception held on March 19.
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(Almost) Banned in the U.S.A.

An internal memo from MTV Europe posted on F----edTelevision.com recommended that certain videos should not be played due to the current conflict with Iraq. The memo said that because of public sensitivity to war-related images, videos featuring images such as soldiers, warplanes, bombs, missiles, executions and riots might offend viewers.
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Annual festival features student poetry

Columbia’s English Department will celebrate National Poetry Month with the Fourth Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival, featuring outstanding student poets from 10 of Chicago’s colleges and universities.
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Animé ‘cowboy’ rides into Chicago

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie doesn’t involve cowboys or bebop, at least not in the traditional sense.
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‘1893’ has history, mystery
New text video game takes you inside Chicago’s World’s Fair

NEW YORK—So consumed was Peter Nepstad by the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair that he spent four years of nights and weekends programming its every facet into a computer game.
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Warhol’s Jackie O. series on display in Dallas
First showing in city where her husband was assassinated

DALLAS—As news photos, the 1963 images of Jacqueline Kennedy as a grieving widow captured the nation, reflecting America’s mourning after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. For pop artist Andy Warhol, the photos became the catalyst for his “Jackie” works, a series of paintings and screen prints created between 1963 and 1968 that captured the moments before and after the assassination as she was transformed from glamorous first lady to grieving widow.
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Between Rock and a presidential race

Where Chris Rock once portrayed a crackhead in the 1991 film New Jack City, he can now be compared to a much more dignified rock: Mount Rushmore, where his likeness is carved in stone alongside Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln in Head of State.
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Adcult coming to a newsstand near you

Columbia’s Marketing Communication Department hopes to launch a new student publication dedicated to critiquing advertisements, said Department Chair Margaret Sullivan. With a formal proposal expected to be submitted to the dean at this summer’s budget meeting, Sullivan said she hopes the publication will be available on campus by next spring.
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French fries, Berg and bliss

Eloquent: that is the word that comes to mind when Elizabeth Berg starts to speak. Berg, 65, is both a New York Times bestselling writer and a featured author of Oprah’s Book Club for her novel Open House (2000).
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Film festival highlights diverse Latino culture

The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago held a pre-party for the 19th Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival, March 26, previewing the festival, which runs through April 16 and will feature more than 100 foreign films from every genre and three gala events.
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‘Star Trek’ franchise future unknown

When “Star Trek” premiered in 1966, William Shatner, as Capt. James T. Kirk, stated the Federation starship Enterprise’s “five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
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Emotional peak for Pisces

Weekly Horoscope
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