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HThe soccer team meets Duke '-^'' up for Navy this weekend! in Columbia on Sunday in - . - ' . . . :VV"'':: V I l/Stf*!Stflff defensive end Tony Guyton round one of the playoffs, ||||ftlC KO Icou,d fl8t th0m started with Pafl? Straight As: everyone wants them, and a few students with I ' patented shotgun boogie, that elusive 4.0 give tips on how to get them, page 4. j Kickoff Magazine. p The Gamecock Founded 1908 Friday Volume 78, No. 43 University of South Carolina November 15, 1985 | State n to help By KATHY LEWIS Staff writer Counties are always lookir for surplus food distribution, ficial of the state Department The department receives si irom tnc U.S. Department distribute to poor families, Watson, DSS food assistance "Each state receives a pei based on the number of ur stamp households in the state South Carolina receives 1.5 tion's surpluses, he said. Each county holds food disl year, Watson said. Richlai distributing surplus cheese, b 16-22. Commodities will be dist Hopkins Center, Eastover Tov and Ballentine Park beginning The program is manage volunteers, Watson said. "It takes a great deal of p move the program," he said, physical storage. Our office d !aI- j - ' * wun products except in this art anv warehouses. USC's Yo - ^ By STEPHEN C. GUIlfOVtE Staff writer Divestment, education and development were discussed b representatives and a state sens a special Young Democrats me day night. 44I think it is a very serious the (USC) board of trustees no sitive to the issue of the (E< Foundation and divestiture," Majority Leader Alex Harvin. Harvin said problems with < foundations have arisen in the their land purchases in anti< university expansions and plcments of university adm salaries. "There is a real movement for bringing the educational f under some kind of control as no control at all/' Harvin sai< Sen.-elect Kay Patterson sail of bills sponsored by Sen. Thi * Clemson lottery: Everyone # yui UbKcl By PAULA WETHINGTON Staff writer Tickets for the USC-Clemi football game are still availat and a second lottery will be h to allocate remaining stud tickets. About 3,000 to 4,000 tickets main to be allocated, accord to Student Government Presid Pro Tern Rodney Brown. 1 sign-up for the second lottery \ be Monday in the Russell Hoi lobby. ^ Except for those who did i w till out their lottery sheets prop ly, everyone who entered the fi lottery will receive a tick Tickets from both lotteries will distributed Tuesday, Nov. 19 a Wednesday, Nov. 20 from 9 a. to 4 p.m. in the Elephant Ro< at the Coliseum. Because tickets will il/uvvu mi iaiiuvFiut ui gaill? insist there will be no advants for students who camp out a get tickets early. But studei who wish to sit together can pi up tickets together. ecruits volur fnnrl rlictrski IUUU UIOll IUI "The state has to ship to the county the next.' ig for volunteer help In addition to physica according to an of- interviewing clients a fe> of Social Services. tion date, Watson said, irplus farm products "The only standard f of Agriculture to come," Watson said, according to Joseph office planner. Households with incc rcentage of products cent more than the pc lemployed and food receive surplus cheese, ," watson said. meal, rice and dry milk, percent of all the na- quirements are set by th Two-thirds of S.C. 1 tribution four times a families or elderly coup rid County will be cent are food stamp clie utter and flour Nov. Richland County ha; 11,000 people applying ributed Saturday at ject developer Jean Fu vn Hall, Spears Creek each distribution." 5 at 9 a.m. ed chiefly through Richland County's ne in February, Watson sai He said most countic ihysical labor just to teach volunteers what t< , "It's a question of from stoop labor to pec loes not deal directly Students interested ir :a, and we don't have the state DSS office. "\ with someone who can i ung Democrats will bring the issue of<*aparth< divestment to the state's auentio t economic next legislative session. y two state Rep. Timothy Rogers mention* itor-elect at pending in the House concerning etingTues- ment of state agencies. The meeting was one of a s mistake of forums in which Democrats >t to be sen- representatives and senators trav ducational) college to college addressing said House Democrats across the state. Citing himself as an example, Pi educational said that through education, a per past, citing break the poverty cycle. :ipation of "You don't have to come from their sup- white house on the hill to be succ inistrators' he said. Patterson sairf th?? FHnratirn In the state provement Act of 1984 is worki oundations well so far. opposed to "We intend to see that our chil< 1. educated properly," he said. "T i a number government is putting a whole to Mitchell money into secondary and highei n >on J/ ; -;; . \ cid ent ^^^^^8IIBlilB?lilSiSliil re- . '^3 ing M; ^ '-'.U cnt vill Z Senate contii By STEPHEN C. QUILFOYLE et Staff writ* he The Student Senate task fnrre assigned in(j the Golden Spur is continuing work, Rul m Chairman Rodney Brown said at Wedne ini day's meeting. Brown reminded the senators that the sing be purpose of the task force is to decide if tl ...211 111 ?i ers onmit win or win noi allocate >ou,uuu to ti ige proposed Student Activities Center. It wi n(j not designed to review other options, such i nts putting in a non-alcoholic student lounge. [ck , He said one of two things could happen they decide not to allocate the funds. "Tl iteers ution * it in one day and give it out ? ' I * '-0 * 1 help, the office needs help v weeks before the distribuor receiving the food is in>mes ranging up to 13 per- ( ;/ >verty level are eligible to iSbutter, flour, honey, corn =FWatson said. Eligibility rele federal government. recipients are single-parent les, he said. About 75 per> anywhere from 7,000 to for the program, said pro- WBIBI nderburk. "It varies with :xt distribution date will be H id. :s hold training sessions to 3 do. "We need everything fliffir pie to do paperwork." WW 1 the program can contact Sophomi Ve can always link them up her own v use them," Watson said. get pep tall eid and tion, and we intend to g< n In the worth." Patterson said that by 19 ;u a out in Mouth Carolina will be r 5 divest- an exit exam four times; if i it, they will receive a certifi eries of a diploma. : state "It will test basic skil el from writing and arithmetic," h< Young do not pass, it means that t four years in a high school atterson ing anything. You either lc son can or get out of the way." Patterson discussed otl i the big designed to increase educat< essful," Students wishing to majoi will have to pass basic ski! lal Im- entering such colleges, ng very "Students fail to pass because they don't read," 1 J - - TTfr^er "1 don't mean what you lie state classes, but something to i lot of get finished with your clasi educa- Rogers talked about ecor PS 1 ff i I M KW E_ Mies rnncirl IHMW wwiamyau money could be sent back to tl Committee and reallocated, or notl to be done with it. If we don't allocj es we would have to wait until n< s- allocate it," he said. Also, tickets for the Clemso le football game were discussed, am le lottery for the remaining student I ie announced. Athletics, Communi as and Off-Campus Student Relations as Mike Oillen said about 7,500 stud< up for the lottery. if Unless a student made a mista le computer sheet in the first lotti <j* i. it \%i. 9 , *1 {' ..J : . J ~ rTI * p ^ ~ c ^ , ... ^ VISKO HATF the brink ire Paige Millhouse takes a break from cempus conce vorld on the wall behind the Thomas Cooper Librar k from legislat (t our money's mem and said the EIA hi industries asa major indue 89, all students in the state. equired to take He said South Carolit they don't pass reduce the trend of export cate instead of students to other states. "It was Democratic 1 Is of reading, brought about EIA," Rog ; said. "If they Rogers said the major is: hey have spent now is economic developm without learn- He said the fastest-growi arn snm<?thinr? z"1 - -?'? ?? ww...v??ni>5 uv/uiu V/Qiuuua 15 IUUI Iblll of job opportunitites ar< ler legislation open up. ars'standards. "We have a clean, en r in education ment in South Carolina," lis tests before He urged the Young Der to vote in their own self-i these exams the Democratic Party is th< Patterson said. vision for the future and read for your act on that vision, ead when you work." Harvin said the state De lomic develop- is more willing to listen to ?- .. Students had to ei ttry to obtain ticke ?Cknoi gome noxt \ J?SEPH GARNETT/ihe eration of Spi le Financc guaranteed a ticket. The next 1< hing would held Monday in the Russell Hou< ate it now, ween 2,000 and 3,000 tickets art :xt fall to Gillen said block seating will for those who signed up in the fii n-Carolina urge people to attend the game I i a second has been a lot of student apathy, tickets was attending the games and the ty Affairs not," he said. Chairman "The number of seats allocate ;nts signed have not been picked up. I am a the scats back, but if the students ke on the the games, I don't have a strong cry, he is said. Illiteracy :m in blacks 1 discussed L il at f?rum j By SANDY LANG ] The number of functionally il"#s~ j literate blacks, and the implicaI tions on the future of the nation's _ _ | blacks, were discussed at a forum - I at USC on Tuesday night. "We should be concerned i about the future of our black l||81i ~ | race. Its fate is on the line if 47 mm percent of us cannot read," said ; Catherine Thomas, director of the state's Assault on Illiteracy Program. Almost half of all black adults . in the United States are functional illiterates, according to the 1980 census. EIDWm Gamecock Thomas was one of four panelists who spoke at the forum on the AOIP, sponsored by rns as she enters Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. 1' Thomas said the first step in J ending illiteracy is to "arouse awareness of the problem and show the need that should be .uia addressed." She compared the illiteracy is been cited by dilemna to .ft person; who w :ement to locate physically hurt and needs someone to nurse him back to la is trying to health. ing its brightest "The illiterate is in pain," Thomas said. "He's bleeding to eadership that death." [ers said. Other panel members were sue for students James Floyd, AOIP's national ent in the state. oversight committee chairman; ng industry in Willie Rogers, adult and continuand a number ing education director for < beginning to Richland School District II; and Sylvia Parks, immediate past ticing environ- president of the local AOIP Rogers said. chapter. nocrats present "The most rewarding exinterest, saying perience I ever had was watching ; party with the a 60-year-old lady take a shot at n/MtPAftA ?iH^Jinu fnr # ?vt J uiw vuuia^t iu "VMMing ?v* uiv in at unit, 5tUU Rogers, who has worked with the AOIP for the past 15 years, mocratic Party Rogers said he is very concernthe young. ec* about the adult illiteracy pro blem. "I understand that we *1 must focus on the improvement of education for young people, but it is also very important to improve the plight of adults. "To improve the apple on a tree, you must treat the tree first." Parks said that meager efforts have been made locally to stop il nieracy, but that much help is needed in the form of volunteer tutoring. The Columbia Literacy Council offers a free training program for people who would like to be Catherine tutors, Parks said. is North you can re you can all tickets teach someone to read, she said. Rosanna "Very often the people we help itson and are people with ability who simtv ly have missed the opportunity or iter a lot- haven't yet had the opportunity ts to the to learn to read." Meek. While Parks said that a few local churches offer tutoring proUemecock grams for the illiterate, Floyd said he would like to see more support from the church. "I think it's ridiculous for U I black churches to be closed Monday through Saturday when 47 5ttery will be Percent of black adults are i! inhhv rm. literate." he said. ricft ' The AO IP i nvolves 84 only be held organizations across the nation, rs! lottery. "1 including the National Pani>ecause there Hellenic Council, the NAACP, The public is church groups and Masonic students are organizations. While the AOIP has thousands d to students members in its member igainst giving organizations, Parks said they ; do not go to aren't all active. case " Gillen To thcsc PeoP'e? Floyd added: "Lil'e Uncle Sam says, we need yoi