Entries from 'issue9'
- Portfolio: In Our Own Front Yard
When Barack Obama chose Chicago’s Grant Park as the setting for his November 4, 2008, election-night rally, he inadvertently provided some Columbia College Chicago students with the teaching moment of a lifetime.
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- Dismantling the Admissions Myth
There are about 2,000 colleges in the U.S. that will accept anyone with a high school diploma. Columbia is not one of them.
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- The Second Course
No one has ever earned a degree in culinary arts from Columbia College Chicago. That hasn't stopped these Columbia alumni from finding success in the field.
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- Poetic: The Elma Stuckey Poetry Award
Poems by the 2008 Elma Stuckey Poetry Award winners, Jesse Crouse (first place) and Rachel Finkelstein (second place).
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- Spot On: Nan Warshaw
Nan Warshaw (M.A. ’93) issued the first release on her Bloodshot Records label around the time she was finishing up a master’s at Columbia. If she'd written her thesis on running a record company, she would not be here.
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- Spot On: Teresa Prados-Torreira
Teresa Prados-Torreira analyzes political cartoons as barometers of their eras, digging for telling historical details like a paleontologist sifting through bones.
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- Spot On: Larry Zgoda
Larry Zgoda says, “I never set out to be an artist ... but my parents wouldn’t let me have a car to tinker with.”
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- Spot On: Eric Narciso
Driving down I-90 toward the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, Eric Narciso (B.A. ’05) smiles. He took this route nearly every night after class to pursue his “other” education: poker.
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- Vision: A Question for the President
Vision: A Question for the President, Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D.
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- Dear Alumni,
Letter from Josh Culley-Foster, National Director of Alumni Relations.
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- Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette / Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette
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- Locrian / Rhetoric of Surfaces
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- Soft Targets / Soft Targets Must Be Destroyed!
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- Buddha for Beginners
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- Hard Reds
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- Demons in the Spring
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- GrandpaDanny
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- College-Sponsored Scholarship Funds to Increase by Nearly 50 Percent
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- Studs to Students: “Take the dough and use it well”
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- Seven Faculty Members Win IAC fellowships
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- 2009 Distinguished Faculty Fellows Announced
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- Successful Founders Lectures Series to Conclude with Richard Florida April 30
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- Journalism Department Joins Semester in L.A.
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- New Campus Spaces
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- $2 Million-plus in Grant Support for Columbia Centers and Departments
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