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	<title>The Columbia Chronicle</title>
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		<title>Pros at laughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Chicago is a place where there is ample parking compared to [other] big cities and average looking people are considered boxy, which is why I love being here,” said Lynda Barry, popular cartoonist and illustrator of the Ernie Pook’s Comeek. Barry and the creator of “The Simpsons” phenomenon, Matt Groening,  spoke at a local university’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citywide WiMax debuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicagoans can now access wireless Internet from anywhere in the city for the price of a regular home Internet subscription; the service will expand to surrounding suburbs in the coming months.

	
	interwebs
Clearwire and Sprint launched the new WiMAX wireless Internet service in Chicago last week, a product that promises the speedy Internet access of Wi-Fi with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dawning of the age of Zeph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most graphic artists are usually known for being good at manipulation. This is a statement that does not apply to Zeph Farmby, a 30-year-old Chicagoan who can do anything from painting murals to designing logos.

Farmby said he first gained direction with his artwork when he was 12 or 13 years old during his graffiti tagging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Men Who Stare’ receives mild applause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a saying in cinema that the best screenplays don’t make the best films.  Some directors, like Werner Herzog, are famous for improvising scenes and still others discover their films during editing.

Audiences complain when a film adaptation isn’t faithful to the source material, but often too much fidelity is claustrophobic. Grant Heslov was praised for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance Chicago flourishes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Audience members at one of Dance Chicago’s performances usually assume they’re watching one cohesive dance company’s body of work rather than a number of different companies, which isn’t to say that any of the shows lack different genres of dance. On the contrary, styles range from footworking to traditional Mexican folklore.  It’s that flawless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loyola students lose dedicated art space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loyola University’s Crown Center Gallery allowed students and professional artists the opportunity to share wall space. However, that harmonious union may be broken with the gallery’s closing.
Loyola’s Crown Center Gallery, 1001 W. Loyola Ave., will host its last show at the end of fall 2009.  Seniors in Loyola’s Fine Arts Department are now left in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Superstar’ looks into the past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At age 6, Matthew Santos was already starting his musical career as he pounded away at the piano. By 15, he was strumming away at the guitar.
A native Minnesotan, Santos relocated to Chicago to attend Columbia and study musical composition. However, college isn’t for everyone.
Santos left Columbia at the time his musical career began to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to the White House, Chicago style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On All Hallows Eve, the White House was surrounded by witches, ghosts and pumpkins and outside on the steps stood a leopard-print clad Michelle Obama. Music was heard coming from the North Lawn as skeletons with musical instruments danced around the crowd.

It was Halloween 2009 when Black Bear Combo, a musical group that was formed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summit proposed to create social change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbia students have been working on a proposal to host an arts and media summit in April 2010.
The planned focus of the summit is to have discussions concerning how media is used as an activist tool to get a message out through the next generation of media makers. The summit, led by senior film and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student – ‘maid’ effort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than six years, workers at the Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan Ave., have been on strike seeking higher wages. On Nov. 3 at 5 p.m., students in Raymond Lohne’s History of the American Working Class course showed Columbia’s support by joining protesters on the picket line in front of the hotel.
Students in two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A question of philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question “Is God a mathematician?” piqued the interest of students, faculty and the public who packed the Ferguson Auditorium in the Alexandroff Campus Center, 600 S. Michigan Ave., on Nov. 4 to explore the answer.
Mario Livio was welcomed to Columbia by an audience who sat shoulder-to-shoulder, some seated on the floor, at his presentation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer’s, popular weight-loss plan may be connected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past several years, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets, such as the Atkins and South Beach diets, have become increasingly popular weight-loss strategies. The fad surged between 2003 and 2005 after the release of The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss. However, recent preliminary research conducted on lab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class fights domestic violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students in English professor Michelle Sayset’s Writing and Rhetoric II: Writing Women Safe course banded together to create awareness for the ongoing issue of violence against women. Columbia’s annual Clothesline Project event was held on Nov. 4 in the Hokin Annex, in the Wabash Campus Building, 623 S. Wabash Ave.
The event offered a table of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbia faculty receive $45,000 grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new Web site developed by the faculty of the Columbia Journalism Department has received a $45,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust to showcase news stories and residents from Chicago’s Austin neighborhood.
The site, AustinTalks.org, is expected to launch in spring 2010, and will be a “clearinghouse of news and information, featuring stories, photos, videos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor’s note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to hard work by Columbia’s Vice President of Safety and Security Robert Koverman, I received my H1N1 vaccine on Oct. 21. I am one of a small but lucky group of people who were  able to get the vaccine. But soon, despite the outcry by health care professionals about continued shortage around the country, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://columbiachronicle.com/editors-note-27/</link>
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		<title>Backing the family business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To some, Marcus Jordan is just the son of the greatest basketball player of all time who will never live up to his father’s legacy. To the University of Central Florida, he is a multi-million dollar man.
In recent weeks there has been much controversy over Marcus Jordan’s decision to wear Jordan Brand shoes while on [...]]]></description>
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