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| Carter
responds to college resignations
Replacements
named for Gall and Johnson
In an effort to address recent personnel changes
and extinguish school budget rumors, Columbia
President Warrick Carter sent out a two-part e-mail
to the college Sept. 10.
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| Second
top administrator announces resignation
Marking the second major administration resignation
in less than a month, Columbia’s Director of Human
Resources Paul Johnson announced he was leaving
the school via a college-wide e-mail Sept. 8.
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Halfway complete, Superdorm gets topped off
A year later, officials
credit 'historic partnership'
College and city officials gathered August 17
to watch as the final 40-foot steel beam of the
University Center of Chicago was secured atop
the 18—story structure's penthouse, marking
more than five years of planning and construction.
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|  Columbia
VP steps down after 34 years
After more than three decades of service, Albert
C. Gall will not return to his role as Columbia's
executive vice president next fall, college officials
announced August 23.
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| Bert
Gall, a life at Columbia
College officials announced Friday that one of
Columbia’s highest paid administrators has
resigned.
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Part-time
journalism teacher, Tribune writer dies at 61
Students, colleagues
mourn the loss of Bob Davis
Robert Davis, a part-time Journalism Department
faculty member since 2002, passed away in his
Chicago home on Aug. 3 at age 61. The Cook County
Medical Examiner's office listed the cause of
death as heart disease.
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| Multicultural
Affairs pioneer leaves Columbia
Art
Burton will teach full-time at South Suburban
College this fall
After six years of working under slight variations
of his minority affairs director title, Art Burton
will leave Columbia this fall to teach history
full-time at South Suburban College in South Holland.
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What
I did on my summer vacation: Pose for Playboy
Columbia Art and Design
major reveals
On page 16 of the September issue, a confused
reader writes to Playboy: "I'm curious why
you have spent so much time and energy trying
to get celebrities to pose in your magazine when
right in your office you have the all-American
girl." The girl he's referring to is Jenny
Haase, a Des Plaines native, Playboy intern and
the magazine's June employee of the month.
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Gravity
staff proves winning isn’t science
A year later, Columbia
publication wins top magazine award
When Norman Alexandroff first began coordinating
people to work on Columbia’s new general interest
magazine, he thought it would take at least four
issues for it to take off.
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| College
faces lawsuit over publication dispute
A lawsuit was filed June 4 against Columbia
College and its journalism department’s
student-run publication ECHO magazine in response
to nude photographs that the publication printed
in its Winter/Spring 2003 issue.
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| Board
approves mansion sale
Carter also earmarked
for another term as president of college
Columbia will sell its multimillion dollar presidential
mansion after owning it for three years.
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| College
bids $1.5 million for storefront
Columbia looks to purchase
the former Universal Bowling building
As Columbia enrollment numbers continue to climb,
administrators are working to broker expansion
deals that would buy more room for an increasingly
crowded campus.
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Pensions, protests round up year at Columbia
A look back at the college’s
12 months
Student-led anti-war protests, the trial-run
of experimental online registration software and
an anonymous bomb threat were just some of the
major news stories and events that impacted Columbia
this academic year.
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| Northwestern
U. reputation may grow, despite negative coverage
School sees higher rise
than expected in number of applicants
(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill.—Administrators
claim it and the evidence seems to support it:
Northwestern University is an institution on the
rise.
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