Category Archives: College Life

Columbia College: 10 Years Ago

Posted on May 17, 2014 by mikaelajorgensen

What was happening at Columbia College ten years ago, on May 17, 2004? Columbia College Archives has issues of the Columbia Chronicle dating back to November 1973. Procter and Gamble, producers of such soap operas as Guiding Light and As the World … Continue reading →

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Who is Mary Blood? What is the Blood Ball anyway?

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Columbia College Archives

In Mary Blood’s honor, Columbia hosts an annual “Blood Ball”. This year, the formal dance will be held on March 7th in the 1104 S Wabash building. Doors open at 7pm. It is easy to confuse Columbia’s first president with … Continue reading →

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Before the South Loop Campus

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Calley Nelson

Below I’ve collected and annotated a few pictures from Columbia College Chicago by R. Conrad Winke and Heidi Marshall. As you can see, Columbia has modest roots, shifting classes, offices and dorms from one building to the next around the … Continue reading →

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Student Perspective: Chicago Winter

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Calley Nelson

I bet you my job that you cannot go one day on campus without talking to at least one person about the weather. Given that this winter has been one of the worst in Chicago in over a century, I … Continue reading →

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Student Perspective: My Crazy Finals Week

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Calley Nelson

Somewhere in the making of modern academia it became common for every assignment, every test and every speech to be due on the same week. This pressure seems to accumulate during the days leading up to finals where you find … Continue reading →

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Columbia College Memory Project

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Columbia College Archives

Memory: 1. the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. 2. something remembered from the past; a recollection. 3. the part of a computer in which data or program instructions can be stored for retrieval. Share your favorite Columbia related moments … Continue reading →

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Elevator Gridlock: A Problem Then and Now

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Columbia College Archives

What was happening ten years ago at Columbia College? I flipped through the November 3, 2003 issue of The Columbia Chronicle to find out and the front-page story is just as relevant today. “Gridlock: Students, faculty idle as elevator woes … Continue reading →

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CC Writer Uncovered

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Columbia College Archives

Before the Columbia Chronicle came to be, students relied on the CC Writer to find out what was going on around campus. The first issue of the CC Writer was published the fall of 1973 and was replaced by the … Continue reading →

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Everyone Loves Opinion Polls

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Columbia College Archives

You are flipping through an issue of Columbia Chronicle before your afternoon class starts on a fairly comfortable chair in the library building. You had picked up the school paper off the coffee table to avoid falling asleep, because let’s … Continue reading →

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Student Perspective: Dr. Kwang-Wu Kim’s First 100 Days

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Columbia College Archives

New College President Dr. Kwang-Wu Kim holds the belief that the concept of knowing a leader’s work ethic completely in the first 100 days of their term is not possible. “Overtime there is a development of priorities,” Kim explained during … Continue reading →

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