The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 02, 1983, Image 1
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