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At i By CHRIS DEESE Gamecock Staff Writer Non-smokers who feel O surrounded by a wall of cigarette smoke and smokers who feel alone in an increasingly health-conscious world may be surprised by the results of a campus survey by Gamecock reporters. Using 500 randomly-selected phone numbers provided by computer services, ins Gamecock found the largest percentage of smokers were juniors, with 21 of the 35 juniors who responded saying they smoked. Seven of 21 freshmen smoked, 11 of 31 sophomores, 19 of 43 seniors and 17 of 55 graduate students are smokers. Be crea By JOSE DUVALL ^ Gamecock Staff Writer Jackie Marshall and Joann DePriest, former USC students, are among five South Carolina visually impaired students who have recently received recognition for their artistic work. These artists can only see their work mentally and create their work from childhood memories or interpretations from experiences made with their other senses. Three other blind Students, ? George Scirrone of Easley, Rede Morrow of Cheraw and Margella Miller of Jackson participated in the Visual Arts Program conducted by the USC Department of Art in conjunction with the S.C. r? : ?:r? ^UlUIUlSblUll IUI II1U D11I1U. MARSHALL, a Spartanburg native, uses her childhood A Gar JSC, smok( * '^votP Si smoke, and non-smokers out- si number smokers, according to fi IlinMo.tn.. 11 UIC ant vcjr. I I UI1I 100 1 II only 40 men and 34 women said cj they smoked. si ALL THE WOMEN smokers five and memories to create sculptures. "I pe always had dreams of becoming an th< artist. Being from the Blue Ridge idi Mountains, I was constantly in- "V spired by the abundance of th dramatic scenery," said Marshall, pe "After I lost my eyesight I thought all i wouia nave 10 give up my artistic id* dreams, but at the center for the cr blind I began to do sculptures of the ov scenes from my childhood." At the second annual Exhibit of Art by the Blind this past summer bl in Philadelphia, Pa., only 79 works pa out of 300 were accepted. Eleven of gc the 39 artists represented were cc from South Carolina. The visual arts program was le r> w _ cictticu luur years ugu uy ur. Jim tl( Cromer, an associate art professor at USC and his wife, Dorothy ar Cromer. fr "What we wanted was an ar educational program that would bl teach visual concepts to blind i'iW i B9H i> ^ "^?11 PEjlM Bill Bolnwu THE GAMECOCK necock sui ers areoi ?4pk'r f moked cigarettes. Of the men, ve smoked pipes regularly and iree smoked pipes ocasionally. Three men also moked cigars occasionally. On the average, cigarette eniov i I f Blind st ople who have not perhaps had e opportunity to learn the visual eas or concepts," said Cromer. Ve found that one very special ing about a teaching art to blind iople is that it helps them or lows them to encounter these eas or concepts while they are eating a work of art of their m." THE PROGRAM also teaches ind students to weave, draw, lint, perform print making, make ?ld and silver jewelry and even iloring. The young artists have also arned to overcome the difmlties of determining color. "We teach them primarily that lything that structures the world om a larce number of DeoDle who e sighted is not irrelevant to the ind person," said Cromer. "An individual can learn that " ' Js =? >" IMHhBL * *?Bi MBn ^^81 Jim Cromer's program teach visual concepts to th and intern Bobby Hough *vey uTnumoer Steve McCormack-THE GAMECOCK smokers smoked one pack a day. The most anyone said he smoked was two-and-a-half packs a day, a response given by three students. Several persons said they smoked one or two cigarettes a day. rww,w" udents create art w color spreads over a surface like a coat of paint. The blind person understands the structure of color." said Cromer. "An in dividual can learn about the physics of color. For instance, if a dark and a light color are put in the sun, the blind person can feel when he or she places their hands on it that dark colors absorb more sunlight than light colored objects." "WE HAVE ALSO begun teaching the blind about the cultural concepts that are associated with color," said Cromer. "In this way, they learn about how color is expressive or symbolic in our culture." "We do have people without vision who can identify color in ways which are unknown to me. They may put their hands on it, use facial perception, that is touch it or is designed to Betty Giber e blind. Cromer works with explain color to 1 . _ _ ea The respondents included 22 business majors, 12 English majors, 11 nursing majors and 10 each in accounting, education and psychology. The 91 other respondents represented 36 other majors, ; with nine undecided. WITH 70 PERCENT, psychology students had the most smokers. Sixty percent of the accounting majors smoked and about half of the business and journalism majors smoked. Forty percent of the education maiors and annmvimatol? r. -rr. ....uivi J a third of the nursing and undecided students smoked. English majors had the lowest percentage of smokers, with only two out of 12 saying they smoked. v F! orks in mind's eye (jiras u iu mcir i ciucs, or in oiner manners," said Cromer. "We have had some people who have gone blind who have a high degree of success being able to picture in their mind's eye or mental imagery of flashing color," said Cromer. Cromer says that the purpose of the visual arts program is designed primarily to teach the blind the verbal language that is necessary to understand what is going on in the sighted world. "We try to teach them sighted concepts," said Cromer. "BLIND PEOPLE tend to rniss certain verbal concepts because a lot of verbal language only deals with sighted conceDts." said Cromer. "I find to understand them a person would have had to acquired them through sight." |g^||lg?|g? ' j &* sin Mmw ths gamecock is (above), while Larry Brown ceramics uetl).