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October 1998
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| Students
leave imprint on Smart Museum exhibit: This November,
an exhibit showcasing the talent of six students will open at
the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art. |
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| Nonprofit
dividends : In its second year, the University
Community Service Center's ten-week Summer Links program had
30 students working in non-profit and community-service organizations
across Chicago. |
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| College
prep : Since 1984, the U of C's Chicago Academic
Achievement Program has offered incoming minority students from
Chicago the opportunity to attend classes before school actually
starts. |
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| Birth
of a Phoenix: Four years ago, The Gargoyle,
the University of Chicago yearbook, turned to stone because
of financial difficulties and lack of student interest, forcing
the classes of ’95, ’96, and ’97 to graduate without a yearbook
to call their own. But this year, The Phoenix rose to
take The Gargoyle’s place. |
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| Seal
of Approval: When a sociology professor surveyed
six classes of College alumni—from 1975 to 1993—he found that
the demographics have shifted, but the intellectual tradition
remains. |
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| Reforming
welfare : A participant in the voter registration
drives and the civil-rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s,
Gwendolyn Mink, X’74, has chosen scholarship as her latest means
of political action. |
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| Travels
for change: Lots of retired people travel, but
where Irving M. Wolfe, PhB’34, goes, he tries to make a difference.
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