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Yearly Archives: 2005

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Dear Fannie!?

Do you have a question for Fannie? Fannie will do her best to answer all of your questions in a timely manner.

Ian Gardiner- Off The Track

Student Video Art Profile

Time is money

This is just a reminder that your classes are costly. Besides offending teachers who find tardy, disrupting students to be pet peeves, it costs you too.

A year in the making, the school’s new logo emerges

In the interest of creating a strong identity for the public and presenting the school’s many events in a single package, the school now has a new logo.

Your English degree may mean nothing here, but you can make it in China

In spite of the over sixty thousand Americans already teaching English in China, English teaching is still the most popular and the most sorely needed position for foreigners. As a result, China has become an excellent place for the wayward liberal arts educated westerner to begin their life.

Where it all goes

How the school spends your money.

D’OH!

Although U.S. foreign policy is hotly contested, the Arab world apparently can’t get enough American pop culture. Our favorite FOX cartoon family, The Simpsons, was dubbed into Arabic by MBC TV Network, Inc., and aired daily during the month of Ramadan.

Flirt Fridays. Meat market at the MCA

If there is nothing to look at and the people attending are clearly there only to ogle one another, why disguise the event as an “opening?”

BOTTOM LINE, PART 2

In other comics news, some North American newspapers will begin carrying manga-style comic strips in the Sunday funnies in hopes of attracting a younger audience.

Quietboy

Elbow

DOUGH!

In early November, several institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art unloaded a number of major artworks at Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction blocks, to the indignation of art historians and critics.

Pool? What pool?

SAIC does have an unused pool in the second basement of the Michigan building—a leftover from the building’s former identity as the Charlie Club and Fitness Center.

The Future of public smoking tba

A Chicago City Council meeting approved a smoking ban for all freestanding structures in the city in late October...