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Volume 78, No. 43 University of South Carolina November 15, 1985
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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
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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.
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"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
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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 ?
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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
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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
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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 - -?'?
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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
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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
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