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Fashion art work by Lisa Maruna
is part of the ‘Muliebral’
exhibit in the Hokin Gallery,
623 S. Wabash Ave. Sponsored by
C-Spaces, the event examines the
cultural construction of femininity.
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College
hikes tuition 8.5 percent for fall
Price tag tops out at
all-time high of $14,880 per year
Columbia students will pay an additional $1,100
to attend the college for the 2003 to 2004 academic
year, according to President Warrick L. Carter.
The 8.5 percent tuition increase comes after
approval from the college’s Board of Trustees.
Overall, students will shell out $14,880 in tuition
for the forthcoming academic year. The sum does
not include mandatory or class fees.
Carter cited the poor economy, in addition to
the price of continuing expansion of the college,
as reasons for the increase.
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| Returning
from Iraq, military students will still have a
spot at Columbia, says official
College plans to waive
fees and return financial aid
As combat rages
thousands of miles away in Iraq, college officials
have taken measures to ensure Columbia students
enlisted in the military can return to classes
without penalty.
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| Online,
grading the grader is easy
Websites give students
chance to sound off about faculty
“Not only
is the book a better teacher, it also has a better
personality.”
“I learned there are 137 tiles on the ceiling.”
“The movies he shows are so bad that even
he has to leave the room.”
“He will destroy you like an academic ninja.”
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| Columbia’s
Summer Institute offers a ‘taste of college environment’
High schoolers get summer
preview of Columbia
Summer might typically
be a time to relax for some, but for the students
attending Columbia’s High School Summer
Institute, it’s a time to evaluate options
and choose a direction for their future education.
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| Newspaper
foreign to students
International students
introduce paper’s new format, name
 In
an effort to give international students a better
vehicle to express their diversity and integrate
smoothly into the school community, the Office
of International Student Affairs renamed its old
publication—The Columbia Spotlight, launched
in 1998—The Foreigner. The new name and
tagline, “Documenting the F-1 Experience
at Columbia College,” are designed to capture
the essence of the publication and evoke curiosity
about international students, according to officials.
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| Panel
takes on culture, American-style
Story Week continues
with a lecture among six authors
Politics and the oppression of free speech took
center stage at the March 26, “In Search
of our American story” roundtable discussion.
Held in the Harold Washington Library as part
of Columbia’s annual Story Week Festival
of Writers, the discussion featured six panelists,
who shared their views on everything from the
need for multiculturalism in modern America, to
life as an immigrant.
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| ‘Hair
Trigger’ wins top awards in NYC
Fiction Writing Department’s
24th issue beats out 200 other colleges
 At
his State of the College address on March 20,
Columbia’s President Warrick L. Carter said
that the Fiction Writing Department “beat[s]
every year Harvard and Yale.” And while
Carter didn’t mention Hair Trigger by name,
it seems the Fiction Writing Department’s
annual magazine has done it again.
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| Work-study
programs receive $200K
Funds may open 75 spots
for students
Columbia students may have more money in their
pockets next year after the federal government
awarded the college an additional $200,000 to
boost two financial aid programs.
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| Graduates
to face greater uncertainty in a bleak job market
Graduating students
facing similar dilemma as those who entered the
job market during the early 1990s recession
KANSAS CITY—Spring break
traditionally is a time for college students to
escape their burdens and loll on sunny beaches.
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| Only
embedded journalist for college newspaper hits
Kuwait
Student reporter reaches
into his wallet to fund trip to cover the war
with Iraq
(KRT) SANTA ANA, Calif.—While
his classmates at California State University,
Fullerton, are scoping out sunny locations for
spring break, Ronald Paul Larson arrived Monday
in a very warm place.
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The
Editor's Desk
When it comes to defending the weak and promoting
freedom, George W. Bush seems to have real tunnel
vision. While he hasn’t been able to get
his mind off of Saddam Hussein’s evil doings,
the evil doings of non-Iraqis have managed to
go entirely unnoticed.
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