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Students win contest p. 3 dISteL J&B&. '*m* B w (HOndcXy Journey rocks fans p. 10 n^^BfHlO^h hhB BC May 2,1983 USC tames Tigers p. 13 ^3%gll | Wm vST/W 8S8?Uth Car0"na USC student sees \ changes during 20-year education By David Hill l > i ? . .1 nr- ?1 )l il r Many seniors graduate on uie live-year pian, ui even uic < < _ . _ 1 >? i a. iicr1 ?: 11 un Mx-yeai piau, uui one uov. sciuui win uc icv-civiug, nci diploma this summer after 20 years. Elois Barrett, 50, has squeezed her education in between rearing three children and sending them to college. "1 tell my children, 'Now if you see a little old lady on your campus, you be nice to her,'" she said. WHEN BARRETT started her college education in 1963 at Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) her first course was "Art Related to the Home and Dress. | "A long way from 'Social Stratification,"' the sociology major said. "It was typically a feminine class ? before the (women's movement. I've come a long way." Things havf changed since she started college, Barrett said. "Thprp wprp nn nIHer ctuHpnts r?n ramnns I must have heen the oldest at age 30. And I'm still the oldest on campusat age 50. "Dress has changed. Women were not allowed to wear shorts or slacks on the campus 20 years ago." SHE HAS enjoyed watching fashions fluctuate. "They've gone back and forth several times. The interesting thing is how strict regulations were. Boys could not go to class without socks, although ties were not required." $ Watching women adopt "the punk look has been in teresting," Barrett said. She also said the soap-opera craze is another interesting phenomenon. "As a young mother I even felt guilty if I got hooked on a soap." Barrett, an Alabama native, had been out of high school 13 years when she entered Mississippi Southern*. Since then she has attended the University of South Florida and California State at Heyward. She said USC is the friendliest school. "Students speak to each other just passing. It just didn't happen other places. ? "I CAN LEAVE books on a table in cafeterias or canteens and they're safe, though not if left under seats in a classroom! "As many courses as I've taken, I don't ever remember seeing anyone trying to cheat," she said. Classroom stimulation from other students is also important to her, Barrett said. "They may not have all the facts ? j but (they have) very definite opinions." I Another aspect of USC Barrett enjoys is the basketball |l team. "I go to all basketball games at home. I don't use stuII dent tickets. I have the regular season tickets." She said she 7 plans to keep going to Gamecock home basketball games, A though she will miss seeing players on campus. BARRETT PLANS to be an August graduate, finishing her course work during the first session of summer school. But like many students, her after-graduation plans are somewhat less definite. Gerontology, the study of aging, is her cognate, and she worked with the state agency for aging while in Florida. She "" 'f cVio hi/miM liL'o tr? in that fiplH r*r nprhans niirsne aaiu OIIV, TTUU1M Hivv IV wiliiuuv 1*1 1.11M? x/? r-- r- J handwriting analysis, something she has been interested in. Handwriting analysis is often used by companies in personnel Selection, she said, and she would benefit from her ^ background in sociology. Also, like many other students, she has changed majors durnnllonn nomoi- "U/Vipn I ctartpH upar? aon mv mainr lllg lie I W-MlVgV- VU1 Vkl . TT I1V1I I JIUI IVU UU J wv. .. , J ?J was in political science. That wasn't what I wanted. I wanted to know a little bit more about how the world works." There are some advantages to being an older student, Barrett said. "I'm old enough that a lot of times the things I study, I have lived through." OLDER STUDENTS usually have an outlook different from students in their teens and twenties, she said. "If I am going to spend three to tive hours a weeK 01 rny time in a course in a classroom, I'm going to make it pay. I'll listen, take notes, do homework and study. If I'm not commit^ ted, I won't be there." Professors seldom treat her differently from other students, " - -? ? -? > > ~ she saici "except iney say yes um <mu iu inc. i uai ? uttu giaufying. I guess they respond to me differently because I'm serious. Older students take course work more seriously ? sometimes too seriously." 1 Students, though, do sometimes treat her differently, sh< said. "Younger students maybe credit me with being wisei than I am. I'm always being asked for my notes." nf * fMIAVC U/iinn ofniinH i/rvunrtpr np/xnlp chp caiH 4 '/I Jllll'i 1 O Ukllig BIUHI1U JfWUIIgkl |AU|.IV, MIIV y? ^ is) tun to go into restrooms. Besides the graffiti in the Russel House first-floor restroom, it is fun to watch the younj students. They all comb their hair, turn around and look a See "Student," page I Maydance The USC Dance Company perfor activities. Legislative By Associated Press Passage of some bills in the state Legislature, including those that would affect the drinking habits of many treshmen and sophomores, win apparently be delayed. Debate raged at the beginning of the legislative session over reforming laws on drunken driving, but as lawmakers hit the home stretch for 1983, the clamor dropped to a whimper. If raamo Iortic1oti*/A cnr\t1ir?ht 1C ii ovinia LIIV^ ivgi^iauw 10 focusing on more pressing issues, such as redrawing senatorial districts and parceling out the state budget. Four bills reforming the drunken Students devi Dy wauiuy Tuuny A group of USC engineering studei special crib for a handicapped newsa mother. Students in Donald Keating's Engin trying to use their skills to help the coi to senior engineering major Richard C ' 'Our basic goal in engineering is to of life, improve on old inventions an< Culler said. "Dr. Keating's class is different in perienee in building things that also hi ty," he said. MHe lets us go out and fin our search, the idea came up to ask Si Aude-Fisher, anchorwoman for WIS baby. Because she is confined to a wh< a spcviitt uiu, , "She told us what she would need, turers build cribs, they don't build the* mothers in mind," Culler said. "We m ? changing table and shelves, but we did [ Other students in Keating's class worked with the Easter Seal Society, tl for the Blind, the Veteran's Adininist t the Midlands Center. I Other groups in the class have develc ? a self-threading needle device, a wh t wheelchair transfer device for autor 3 locking system for leg braces, a feedii I a?ill * ' ' f X ! ' *1 Midlife fj g^KKaHHKbfaHHF^ g? < ms in front of the State House Saturd; process sta driving laws have moved through a portion of the legislative process, but appear stalled for the year. Rep. Joyce Hearn, R-Richland, said the outlook is bleak for passage of any of the bills this year, including legislation that would toughen drunken driving penalties, make it a felony to kill or injure someone while driving drunk, raise the beer and wine drinking age to 20 and make it illegal to carry open beer or wine containers in a moving vehicle. "The impetus has gradually waned," Hearn said. "We're about out of time." ?"*SrIr* "f/vr h' ciujj aiuo iui in with cerebral pals> , ... . patients, its have designed a The self-threadinj aster who is a new eldetly to thread thwheelchair rack alio eering 404 class are rack attached to the nmunity, according s<Juee*e it into the t: vtto- The wheelchair tr improve the quality confined to wheelc! I make life easier,** device lifts the whee and is powered by t that it gives us ex- The modified lot mefit the communis developed after disc d what is needed. In Crippled Children* usan Aude-Fishersystem eliminates th rTV, recently had a down to knee level i selchair, she needed automatically locks The feeding devi ... When manufac- self-sufficiency and n with handicapped to use available dev hrmma to hmld A Th** ls??t ctnrf In't have time/' hydrocephalus, a cc this semester have the head. This d ie S.C. Commission pressure, lessening ration Hospital and Keating denies ai "They've done all i >ped projects such as community and the eelchair rack and a But, according t< nobrtes, a modified "He gives us mmivi ng device for people of what is needed.' I I - fete-*t . Jsk ^pl-L * "* Photo by Dave Grimley ay as part of Columbia's Mayfest I lis D UI bill In the Senate, a House-passed bill outlawing open beer containers in a moving vehicle has been sent to Sen. Marion Gressette's self-proclaimed graveyard, and the Calhoun Democrat has declared his opposition to sending it to the Senate. In the House, the bill raising the drinking age to 20 has been tentatively passed, but would still require a final vote there before the Senate can con 91UV/1 It. iVl^ailVYiiiiV) tuv lyvyi-jvivn; bill, the Senate-passed open container bill and the Senate-passed bil1 strengthening DUI penalties are all tied up in committees. .... . u. ..n '.i 11 * i I.I i.I.I I.I 11111 n 11 1 andicapped and a headrest for hydrocephalic I needle device enables the blind and e needle on any sewing machine. The ws wheelchairs to be transported on a bumper of a ear, rather than trying to runk or back seat . smsfer device was designed for persons lairs that are able to drive cars. This lchair in and out of the car's back seat he car's battery, siting system for the leg braces was suasions with physical therapists at the s Hospital in Greenville. The new v iWCU AM* J/OUVIUO W* VI WWnva to lock and unlock their braces. It also the braces when patients stand up. ce allows cerebral palsy patients some can help some patients who are unable Ices. ent invention helps victims of ndition resulting in inability to support JI. 4.^11 _ ? evice proviaes even uismouuun ui irritations caused by some supports, ny credit for the students' inventions, the work. They have gone out into the >ught of these projects." > Culler, Keating deserves more credit. ition. He points us in the right direction t