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1 'Flash' Types, I Student Papers By BOBBY BRYANT Cl^it Wr4t*f _ JW< TfrnTf 'he small trophy sits, appropriately, near a pack of correction tape. It's a matchbox-size golden typewriter, hanging above an inscription: "Janet C. 'The Flash* Stoner. For DemonI strating Dynamic Digital Dexterity, 1980" "The Flash" works nearby typing up to 125 words a minute on an IBM machine. The finished products are manuscripts ranging from term papers, theses and dissertations to resumes and business papers. Janet Stoner is proprietor and chief employee of Janet's Typing Service in downtown Columbia. But Stoner, who once wanted to teach and who promises all typing work to be "proofed, edited and guaranteed," is also a author of sorts, a critic of writing style for college students with 'atrocious spelling habits" and an admirer of those who put words to paper well. Since opening the business in 1975, much of Stoner's work K has come from USC, only blocks away from her Bull Street m office. "The underclassmen, the freshmen and sophomores, have improved a little over what they were when I first started," she said. "When I started, it was really unbelievable. It was Just beyond me how (some) had finished high school." Stoner has a supply of reference and style books for typing and editing, but no matter how bad the manuscript, she said, ."I would not do a complete rewrite.. . I make tenses agree and that sort of thing." Sometimes, she said, a customer wants his oaoer tvoed verbatim. In such cases, Stoner said, "It's almost irresistible not to change a glaring error." On the other hand, she said, typingtmanuscripts for books, * such as one USC professor's Studies in Scottish Literature, is often educational. "I've learned volumes" from processing theses and dissertations, she said, partly because they need little editing. "You can't really get into the meat of the subject if I Serving 11a.m. to 1a.m. 629 Main St. ji m j 771-4098 Across from Towers ji De-Ifcious ^ j ^ BURGERS HOT DOCS ^ \ { Great Delivery Service to USC students | Try our Homemade ice Cream, \ \ Oreo Cookie is Fantastic! \ i I \ i Applications to live in | ! Columbia Hall for Spring | i Semester are now being | I accepted. Applications are ! available at Columbia Hall ; ! desk. DEADLINE is NOON | OCT. 30. Applicants must | have completed 30 hours. \ Prior applicants must j complete new applications | to be considered. m c I *** I Proofs, Edits ? A* ?#ii Business you have to do heavy editing. It doesn't make it as enjoyable." Stoner, a native of upstate New York has studied elementary education and is critical of school systems that haven't taught writing and term-paper style. The look and style of a paper can make a large difference in grades, she said. Stoner's office in the Great Southern Mortgages Co. building, 1226 Bull St.,resembles that of a professor or writer more than anything else. But it's definitely a business? with fees ($2 a page without footnotes), equipment (typewriters and a duplicating machine) and competition. Making her business debut six years ago, Stoner faced little competition, but later "I had six competitors," she said. "Columbia's a funny town in some ways," she said. "It has a great deal of law (typing) work and legislative work . . . (but) in the summer, everybody goes on vacation." Peak times in the typing business, Stoner said, occur between November and January, and between March and June. "I'll be on overtime" near Christmas, she said, and may employ other typists to handle the expected influx of soon-due term papers and other work. "I can work a 50-page thesis in a week's time," Stoner said, "but usually when I get something like that, I ask for advance notice" and more time. Stoner said she started the business "out on the back porch of an old house on Pickens Street," and her first advertising C11U1 US VYCI C IV111U U1 |M1IIUUVC. "I went out and had a stack of business cards printed up," Stoner said. "Then I went over to USC and put them on kiosks, doors .. Sterner has since advanced to occasional advert? .ments in the campus newspaper and the USC telephone dire jtory. She has learned that a constantly percolating coffeepot and sometimes cookies can aid the atmosphere when a studentj comes to pick up his paper and receives a few pointers on the 1 placement of footnotes as well. I nfi} A ! i JI x kj imm I ij J J Sportswear 6 Specialty Co., Inc. Custom Printing for Clubs & Fraternities Transfers and Lettering Special Carolina Designs 2767 Rosewood Dr. Phone 254-9580 5 Mln. from Campus . ^ pgYCHOLOGY 9 SPRING SI i ijj:': Many Psychology courses have new cc jjjSjij been added for Spring. New cour iiSji Psychology majors and Psychology m ijjii Department office, 224 Barnwell. :j|j: Courses with no prerequisitei :*? PSYC 300 Human Sexual Behavior (forme :*i PSYC 301 Psychology of Marriage (form || MWF ll:15-12:05pm PSYC 330 Psychology of the Black Expe vjjij PSTC 360 Applied Psychology (New Courc |8| Courses with prerequ jijJSi: PSYC 400 Survey of Learning Princip jijgji PSYC 410 Survey of Abnormal Psychol m PSYC 420 Survey of Developmental Ps ^ PSYC 430 Survey of Social Psychology (fo: ggji PSYC 440* Survey of Personality (former ^ PSYC 4SO * Sensation and Perception (for: $3':: PSYC 460* Physiological Psychology (fori I'M * * -hour laboratory courses also arc available for these thr I Call 777-4 137 for any further information about Psychoid Runaway In Friend By GLENN BURKINS Staff Writer Three juveniles who ran away from their homes in Flemmington, N.J., were found in the room of USC freshman Rich Quigley Oct. 25. According to Quigley the two females and one male were students at Hunterton High School in Flem mington. He said the three had asked their parents for permission to come but were refused. Leaving Friday with only five dollars among them, they hitch-hiked for two days before reaching Columbia on Sunday. Quigley said that he had no idea that the three were coming to visit him. AFTER REACHING COLUMBIA, the three Viva Las Vec At 7 D.m Russell hous I Digital Clock tej The Jewelry V p-'-j 2909 Piatt Spring! [ I 9 til 6 Moi i j "ll'f cnore than |u?t and COURSES DMESTER urse numbers, and ne ie numbers and re< inors are available at (for majors and noun r PSYC SOO) - TTH, 2-3:1 er PSYC 347) - MWF, 3 rience (former PSYC 5C b) TTH. 2-3:15nm sites (check catalog): es (former PSYC 301) ogy - MWF 1:25-2:15]] fchology (former PSYC mer PSYC 507) - MWF, : PSYC 009) - MWF, 8-8:5 ner PSYC 305) - MWF Is acr PSYC 520) - TTH, 11 e courses (see schedule) gy courses and requirements. s Found '$ Room vmitho rormrfoHlv caomhoH j WWMW m V|TV? VVW^ W?M VtfVU for three hours before they found Quigley. They had been in his room for three minutes before they were taken away by campus police, who had been notified of their arrival by the Flemmington police. Hie three were turned over to the Columbia police, where they spent the night in jail, according to Quigley. "They were not the greatest kids in the world, but they shouldn't have | oeen put in jail. After going through all of that the least they could have done was let me talk to them," Quigley said. He told the Gamecock that the police who came for the youths said he might be in some sort of trouble for harboring them but so far he has not heard from them. ias tonight i. in the e Balluoom Warehouse li i Rd. W. Cola. I i. Sal. I h*r Kwdry Hon." [ j FOR I I :w courses have |:|| ^uirements for ijK the Psychology M najors): ij|jj 5 pm jig;: LO:lO-l lam; and 11 >1) - MWF 10:10- || 11am :|| l - MWF, 11:15- M 12:05pm im: and TTH. 2- M 3:15pm ||jj ' 302) - TTH, 2- $| 3:15pm ^ 1:25-2:15pm M Oam ;:jj| 25-2:15pm -12:15pm ^ I |