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Reader
By Doug Jolley
Gamecock Staff Writer
USC. The place where ideas are
born?
Well, maybe some of them. It all
began on a cold night last
December. "I was looking for a
new direction for the project, and
one mgni wnen i was reading an
enormous buzzer went off in my
head, because I knew I had found
what I was really looking for."
And so was born a unique pilot
program which may have national
implications if successful. The
speaker is Patti Gillespie,
chairman of the Department of
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talking about the department's use
of a reader's theatre to reach drug
and alcohol abusers.
The project will attempt to reach
teenagers and senior citizens as
primary target audiences. It will
not focus on current users because
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impact on this group, Gillespie
said.
INSTEAD, IT will try to reach
people who are currently experimenting
with drugs and
alcohol and those who have not yet
experimented with them. The
project will try to suggest reasons
why experimentation turns into
addiction, and suggest alternative
responses to the stresses which
lead to experimentation and addiction.
"We will not be preaching,"
Gillespie said. "Drug and alcohol
abuse is a very, very complex
problem and there are no simple
solutions. You can't sav. 'Hpv
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that's not good for you,' and expect
them to stop. We want to use the
theatre to explore the complexity
of the problem and suggest there
are no simple solutions."
The theatre will consist of a
writer-director, five paid actors, a
technician receiving half pay, and
two persons who are on in
dependent study or receiving some
kind of academic credit for their
work.
200 freshmei
By Mary Jean Baxle;
Gamecock Staff Writer
Nearly 200 freshmen will enter th<
at USC this fall, according to Marsha
of admissions.
"We want to keep the acader
student in South Carolina. In the past
small prestige colleges in other sta
cases aid not return to our state af
Winn said.
One of the major goals of the Hoi
cording to Winn, is to be able to offe
image with large-college benefits.
Winn said most students in the Ho
their own way without any spc
Although the students in the Honors <
great deal of individual attention, th
tuition as other students.
"PERSONALLY, I get to know ea
program. It's good to watch a strong
stronger,, and this program offei
portunities," Winn said.
Upon completion of Horseshi
students in the Honors College wil
Horseshoe. This fall only 40 honor
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seshoe vacancies will be filled by
students. The other vacancies will b<
come, first-served basis, according
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THE WRITER-direcfcor is
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a permanent member of the USC
faculty, is no stranger to USC. He
came to USC on an NEH (National
Endowment for the Humanities)
grant through a program called
"Writers in Residence." While
here, he wrote four original scripts
for the university, one of which is
being held and produced this
weekend in Hilton Head and
Fripp' Islands.
Cameron will work full time with
the program, writing most of the
scripts, directing it in the beginning,
and leading the troupe when
they first begin touring.
Another possible consultant on
the project is a current inmate at
the Central Correctional Institute
who is a former drug addict
himself. Notwithstanding an eighth
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prison, he has proceeded to
complete his college education,
become an ordained minister and a
published author.
THE PROJECT will be federally
funded, and the university will
provide matching funds through its
community service commitment,
with a combined total budget of
more than $48,000. The federal
funding is received through
Program IMPACT under Title I of
the Higher Education Act of 1965,
and administered by the S.C.
Commission on Higher Education
through the U.S. Commission of
Education. It is designed to
strengthen community service
projects of colleges and universities.
In reader's theatre the cast does
not memorize lines, but use;?
scripts when on stage. Elaborate
stage sets and costumes are also
absent in this theatrical form.
Because of this, reader's theatre
is ideally suited for the grant
project, Gillespie said.
"Using reader's theatre limits
excessive costs of production and
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This curtailing of space limitations
is particularly important bccause
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We have some vei
and I think it w
; Honors College President James
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ites and in most have an opportun
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the grant productions will not be
sutgeu in regular ineatres.
"OFTEN WE can't describe or
discuss a problem as well as we
can display it/' Gillespie said.
"Theatre is a means of displaying
complex ideas and demonstrating
the consequences to various lines
of action, even when we don't
understand the ideas well enough
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The troupe is planning to
rehearse most of the fall semester,
beginning in four eight-hour
sessions just before registration.
Once classes begin, they will
practice approximately 20 hours a
week and will begin to tour from
late fall semester through spring
semester exclusively in South
Carolina and focusing primarily on
the Columbia area.
An interesting problem concerns
work with senior citizens, according
to Gillespie. "The whole
problem with this group, particularly
the abuse of alcohol but
also other substances, is just now
comine to liffht in snmp mninr
ways," she said.
"APPARENTLY, loneliness
among the elderly leads some of
them to begin alcohol abuse when they
never used to before. I believe
that many of the people we will be
dealing with are not addicted right
now, but are currently turning to
alcohol, or at least the abuse of
alcohol as the solution to their
problems," she said.
"This is currently being studied
for the first time as a recognized
major health problem in this
country, and I have no reason to
believe Columbia is an exception."
Ortemallv written into
federal grant was the concept of
entering prisons to reach one of the
prime populations reader's theatre
is concerned about. Two years ago
the theatre department produced a
film on drug abuse in prison that
the inmates had written them
selves as a result of an internal
therapy group.
Gillespie and other faculty
iors College
excited about the Honors College,
y talented students and a fine staff
ill be good for the university,"
B. Holderman said.
e to provide a small-class setting,
brighter students with USC's better
ing this a place where students will
ity to leave this institution as truly
' Winn said.
ime complaints concerning the fact
s College, we tie up a professor's
students, whereas other professors
50. We feel that there has to be a
here in order to give these
ilented students every chance
aid.
' chosen to teach in the Honors
ent in his field and an asset to the
to Holderman.
100 students are enrolled in USC's
/inn said, but the Honors College's
man class will be the first in a long
j this study.
il completion of the curriculum,
he Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor
i with Honors from South Carolina
ch drug9 alcohol
members became interested in this
area and wrote it in as one of the
prime target areas of the project.
However, funds were cut on the
project and the prison project was
eliminated.
"I BELIEVE that it is a fertile
field and one that needs covering
somehow," Gillespie said, "but
unfortunately it's one that we are
not currently funded to do. Interestingly
enough, the prisoners
we talked to two years ago and the
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inmates we are talking to now said
that they did not start taking drugs
and become addicted until after
they entered prison. It's an ap2/
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the inmates have access
to these substances for abuse while
in prison.
"It's an exciting and interesting
project, and as far as I know
unique. If we succeed, it could very
well serve as a pilot project for
many other groups like it across
the nation."
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