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	<title>The Columbia Chronicle</title>
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		<title>BMX tour makes its Chicago debut</title>
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For the first time in their five-year history, the BMX open landed in Chicago.  During the two-day DEW tour, BMX athletes competed against the famous Chicago skyline in four disciplines: park, vert, street, and dirt.  The competitors competed in preliminary qualifying rounds before advancing to the final competition which would be broadcast on prime-time television.
&#8220;Usually we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A taste of the Taste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;re a superhuman who lives in Grant Park, it&#8217;s impossible to cover all the bases of the Taste of Chicago. It&#8217;s a festival that brings together an odd amalgamation of things: Barenaked Ladies, Independence Day and fried dough, for example.
So as Chronicle photographer Lenny Gilmore and I set out on expedition to the Taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tamms Year Ten spreads the dirt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Graves, 21, was working on a project for an art class that required for him to make a stencil. Being the eco-minded young artist that he is, he decided to focus his project on the environment.
However, it seemed counter-intuitive to spray paint toxic material for an environmentally conscious message. That&#8217;s when he came up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different kind of summer school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, Columbia has many opportunities for students to increase their global awareness by traveling to different countries through study abroad programs. This summer, there are three main international programs, sponsored by the Office of Academic Initiatives and International Programs.
The largest program, which takes place June 25 to July 25 in Florence, Italy, offers six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your name here</title>
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	Courtesy MEDIA RELATIONS
Anyone could have his or her name on the new Media Production Center that Columbia is building-all it takes is the donation of a hefty chunk of change toward the $21 million project.
Because Columbia is paying for the building with donations from alumni and donors, the building will be named after one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the newspaper industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The writing has been on the wall for some time now for Chicago&#8217;s newspapers.
But the city&#8217;s newspaper industry seems to be nearing collapse, with its two major daily newspapers bankrupt, and many smaller weekly and community papers struggling, too.
Across the country, newspapers are facing similar fates. In the past few months, several major papers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds of students, pros set for Industry Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of students, friends and family will descend on Columbia&#8217;s campus May 15 to celebrate Manifest, but the night before will be devoted to seniors putting forth one last effort to make career connections.
May 14 will mark Columbia&#8217;s second annual Industry Night, where students mingle and network with industry professionals on campus, and this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students make mental health a priority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In fall 2009, Columbia is set to become the first ever college chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms, a national organization that has dedicated itself to helping people who suffer from mental illnesses such as depression, suicide, addiction and self-injury.
&#8220;The Columbia chapter will be the first college chapter and will focus on destigmatizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens still debating gun rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 6, a 15-year-old Crane High School student became the 36th Chicago Public Schools student to be killed by violence this year. The increasing number of Chicago Public Schools students killed by gun violence, coupled with an increased number of violent gun-related killing sprees nationwide, has rekindled the heated debate about Chicago&#8217;s strict gun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For what it’s worth, it was worth all the while</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I think back to previous graduation moments, three things stand out from each one of them: what I was wearing under that ugly oversized gown, saying goodbye to my friends and my family’s reputation of being late to each ceremony.
While I rocked a big, puffy orange dress with matching socks for kindergarten, I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scoop in the Loop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As everyone knows very well by now, this year has been a rocky one in terms of the economy. I have to say that I&#8217;m actually glad I&#8217;m not graduating this year because I don&#8217;t envy friends of mine who are about to enter one of the worst job markets in history.

Chicago, like any other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: Science course brings out musical side in students</title>
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Every Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning, science and mathematics professor David Dolak turns an ordinary chemistry classroom into a riveting wood shop where students construct their own banjos, cigar box guitars, xylophones, and even kalimbas.
The Physics of Musical Instruments course at Columbia explores the mathematical foundation of musical scales and sound. Dolak, who has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About time college upped the ante on honors degrees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of unique things about Columbia’s graduation ceremonies, but aside from the speakers, spectacles and performances, the other thing that sticks out like a sore thumb is that it seems like everyone is graduating with honors—40 percent of seniors, to be exact.
As reported in the May 4 issue of The Chronicle, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best beats in summer heat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of the school year can only mean one glorious thing: it&#8217;s festival season again in the Midwest. Every year, hordes of music fans swarm from all corners of the country and cram into Chicago&#8217;s parks, all bearing the brutal heat and sweaty crowds to hear their favorite artists.  Once again, summer 2009 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space issues on campus shouldn’t be ignored</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The issue of having an adequate amount of campus space has been a seemingly never-ending struggle at Columbia. With various campus buildings spread throughout the city’s South Loop, it seems as though when we’re not complaining about the lack of space, we’re spending money to build more.
As one of the largest landowners in the South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One bad MF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[happening. Not to sound cliche, but it really seems like yesterday that I was marching around the football field with my flute and secretly stalking my high school band teacher or was packing up all my belongings and hitting the road for my first year of college in Boston. But somehow, I made it, and [...]]]></description>
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