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Election 2008
The Election Issue
This week, The Chronicle canvassed the South Loop to bring our readers inside and out of the Obama rally in Grant Park. As one ...
VIDEO: Behind the scenes as college media
Columbia students one of few college media granted access to Obama rally
Student media from Columbia—including The Chronicle and the college's radio station, WCRX—gained media access into the Grant Park rally for then-Sen. Barack Obama on Nov. 4. Check out some behind-the-scenes footage of ...
UPDATED VIDEO: The Chronicle’s footage from the Obama rally
More video coverage from inside Grant Park coming soon! Keep checking back!
The Chronicle caught up with Obama supporters inside and outside of Grant Park on Nov. 4. Check out The Chronicle's footage ...
SLIDESHOW: More photos from Election Day
Photos by Lenny Gilmore THE CHRONICLE
Campus News
Teamwork key in pilot’s structure
A re-imagined approach to Columbia's Film and Video core curriculum is about to become standard practice.
The new Foundations of Film and Video sequence, which is currently in its second pilot year, will ...
Carter addresses college budget, safety concerns
MPC construction to begin this week, students to see scholarships, tuition increase
In light of a memo sent out on Oct. 15 from Columbia President Warrick L. Carter, the College Council invited Carter to speak at its end-of-semester meeting on Dec. 5.
Carter ...
Metro
Critics say CTA policy unfair to homeless
Transit agency enforcing rule to stop continuous riders on trains
At some time or another, most regular el riders have seen a homeless person sleeping on a train car at night. As winter settles in and temperatures drop, CTA cars frequently ...
How ‘green’ is your tree?
Real Christmas trees more eco-friendly than plastic fakes, other eco options becoming available
With more and more Chicagoans taking the environmental impacts of their actions into account, many will try to decide which type of Christmas tree is truly the "greenest" option this holiday season.
The ...
Arts & Culture
Becoming Kris Kringle
Santa learns tricks of the trade before donning red suit for holiday season
For thousands of men across the country, the beginning of December calls for an atypical refashioning of their normal business wardrobes.
Just like clockwork, as Dec. 1 ...
Tappin’ to the beat of the drum
Dance instructor takes a multicultural spin on ‘The Nutcracker’
Ballet and Tchaikovsky's compositions might not be the most exciting things in this world, so a local dance instructor decided to mix the traditional Nutcracker storyline by incorporating tap, gypsy flamenco and ...
Commentary
More than ‘mom-in-chief’
Even before President-elect Barack Obama won the presidential election, his better half, Michelle Obama, garnered nearly as much attention as he did.
Almost immediately after leaving her job as vice president ...
Ignoring Africa’s forgotten war inexcusable
Half a world away, in a country that has known little other than hardship for more than 10 years, there is a gruesome, bloody war being fought. But few people are ...