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Test! mmm *9 By JAMES SOKOL Copyeditor Students today can write 1 work at it, said Dr. Geor^ English department chairm; Geckle. downplayed th ^ feeling that writing by stud< * as good as it was 10 years ag that it is much worse. Mayb< "Perhaps students do n< training ? mechanics, pu u: wl 1 1 n 1? 1 uign sciiuui, nesaia. Dr. Carolyn Matalene freshman English, said, "1 emphasis on teaching liter fine, but it may or may not Profes ? By SUSAN G.HAND iUff Writer Millions of feet ma someday be affected by research program designc by USC engineerin professor Dale Rivers. He is working on a bit mechanical shoe progran which will examine stress t the feet. Although th research is aimed mainly e ? runners, other people will b involved in the prograr also. "The bottom of the foot i very force-sensitive. For th first time, engineerin nrillfinloc : - |y> vipivo na?c ucctl dJJJJlIC1 to stress analysis in th feet," Rivers said. He said small sensors called transducers, ar taped to the runner's feet W A \ CATC AT Mutt 16 oz. CANS Mil I CD I'VNBLLLI\ or LITE $2.79 M. Jackson Boulevard Columbia Store: 783 799^ Lrnarmacy: /8/-/UBJ 1 Shows OWSKI instruction." In response basics, South well only if they competency le; je Geckle, USC tested in the 1 an. Matalenesaid. le widespread Another state jnts today is not writing instrut o. "I don't know grammar, a lav ?a bit worse. "One's knowle ot have formal mean writing at nctuation ? in Matalene use where studenl , director of semester, learr 'here is a lot of development. C aiure, which is learned as stu involve writing communicated sor Studies The transducers are connected to a computer which ~~ can measure stress in the y feet 500 times per second as a the person runs. d The computer translates g the stress into numbers and diagrams to give resear> chers the first complete i. picture of what happens to 0 Deoole's feet whf?n tht?v run e Rivers said, "Once we've it generated enough data, I e want to find out if I can make n an abnormal distribution of forces on the bottom of the s foot normal, by putting e something in the bottom of g the shoe. I want to find out if d it's possible for me to e diagnose and evaluate foot problems based on the data we get." e He said the program, which began about one and a JCH THE G WITH STYLE H THESE SP FAMILY M, F r n "Fi * 8 G F /^a CM Pack ^ iWWBro.wMlliWIiW Everything Store for One-Stop Shop Bettei to this straying from the d Carolina passed minimum F gislation. Students will be 6th, 8th, and 11th grades, 1 s law requires that half of all :tion be the teaching of i: v Matalene does not support, s dge of grammar may not t )ility." is this idea in English 100, s Is write throughout the ling sentence structure and l Grammar, Matalene said, is v dents try to find ways to 2 learly. f s Feet V half years ago, has a progressed well. t "Soon we will be going to n the running community of Columbia for test subjects t for our research," he said. Rivers said the army had t been planning an evaluation of footwear at Fort Jackson f because of the large amount c of lower leg and foot ~ problems recruits have. After the army learned about Rivers' project, it began to consider a cooperative research effort between USC and Fort Jackson. This program could result in radically new designs in footwear, according to Terrell Underwood of the USC Division of Information Services. AME I 9 9 ECIALS AKI * "I mr rom Our Deli" PIECES OLDEN KltD ICKEN 53.19 IOI N nth*;ir^t At U.S. HWY I (Augusta Road) West Columbia I Store: 791 4716 Pharmacy: 794 081 i I ping I I M ^ Aa dJt *b rjiUQt Students are placed in English 11 lisplay writing problems in the 'roficiency Test, required of all fre Matalene believes the Writing Pr 'est has improved students' writi ince its inception in 1979. She said each South Carolina hi| C fnlH iVia rvf i*o -4? - - J IV/IU L11V Itoi StUI C3 VS1 IW gl (lUUl cores inspire schools to imprc eaching of writing. "The WPT has had an effect," aid. In 1979, as a result of the 'roficiency Test, 38 percent of the fere placed in English 100. The n 6 percent were in English 100. This igure is 24 percent. Matalene does not feel the United >ecoming a nation of illiterates. There was a slight decline in writing abilities several years ibilities have risen again, said B he 1980 recipient of the English nent's Good Teacher Award. A major deficiency of students hat they do not read enough, Geckl "I asked undergraduate stude hey read; they don't seem to read ixcept what is required. By readin rose models. Essential learning onscious, some unconscious ? coi The GAMfCOCK is the student newspaper ol the University r>4 South Carolina and is published four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during the fall and spring semesters and weekly on Wednesdays during both summer sessions, with the exception of university holidays and examination periods. Opinions expressed in the GAMfCOCK are those o( the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. the University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of the GAMICOCK. The Student Media Department is the parent organization of the GAMICOCK. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to the GAMECOCK, Box 8SI31, University of South Carolina. Columbia, S.C. 2S208. Subscription rates are SI5.00 for one (I) year. $8.00 per fall or spring semester and $3.00 for both summer sessions. ? Third cUss pasUge paid jt Columbia. SC. {256I?S?1 g, * ********* l! Buv a l( Ij and C | Pizza A Expires: 11-13-81 i i | Buy a l< j and Get a ; and I I I I mtWi DO if they reading," he said ii - wining Not only shoul shmen. said, they shoul oficiency writers if they wa ing skills th nselves. First-rate writ< gh school student include ^ ites. Bad negut, Stephen S >ve their John Gardner, recommended the Matalene English departnv USC's James Di Writing Foxe. students Geckle said, exi year, (English) course >year the literature. The b< offer: the writing I States is and ideas behin profound than in s students' ago, but "This universit /latalene, 0f faculty, and the i Depart- a decade ago," C fair to throw ever; today is esaid. nts what "Just because anything recipient of inforr g you get educated," Geckl ? some provides "the m< Ties from and the student ha icir< rrjcaai HAIR ST Quality Scrvicc &> I r'y] 1 Santoe Avenuo/I" i rncc risen ' PIZZA 3" One Item Pirn iet a 9" Cheese nd 4 Cokes FREE! 5" Two Item Pizz; 19" Pepperoni Pii 4 Cokes FREE! riting d students read, Geckle d read works by good nt to become good writers ?rs accessible to today's Joseph Heller, Kurt VonIpender, Tom Wolfe and Geckle said. He also ; writers who lecture in the ent's Writers' Series and ckey and William Price "Professors in most is try to teach the best *st literature has more to is better, and the thoughts d the writing are more econd rate stuff." y has much better quality i resources are better than leckle said, but "it is not ything on 'theuniversity.' a student is the passive nation does not mean he is e said. A professor merely it Ktr iiiViioV* rv 1^-v# ?? -VIiwvio uy v? 111 v.. i I IW 1CC..11, is to take it from there." !KV WkiM YLING Reasonable Prices ve Points/^^Wi-J IJ) ******* 256- $ 0301$ * * ******** ........ ! v v , ! 7 i Isiui- i ?__ J j I iza J I ' ! I ^:>Y^ J I ; ~risA\ W mf I