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Administrators at Columbia College reverse student newspaper staff cut amid financial turmoil

April 22, 2015September 5, 2018 Katherine Schaeffer

When Chicago bumps its minimum wage to $10 an hour in July, Columbia College will scale back hours for many of its student workers, and until Wednesday, the number of employees on the student newspaper staff would have been reduced by a quarter.

Student journalists not part of ‘working press’ barred from Ill. gubernatorial candidate’s press conference on medical marijuana

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September 16, 2014September 5, 2018 Michael Bragg

A press representative for Bruce Rauner, the Republican candidate for governor, told the Columbia College students and their professor, Curtis Lawrence, that the press conference on medical marijuana was open only to the “working press.” Rauner, who is running against Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, would not talk to the students, either.