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| 'Little Shop of Horrors'to | j I I Quote of the day be performed Wednesday, 1 ^"1 1 Yfc 1 -fl > 1 l Most of the time, the money for these ? " October 12, 8 p.m. at The I Coach Berson wins his 150th game hie halls in Washington.'? state Rep. I nm Townshtp. I RickQuinn See Features, page 4 ^ I See "Party representative," front page The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Vears of Collegiate Journalism Friday Volume 81, No. 29 University of South Carolina October 7, 1988 use BRIEFS Engineering gets grant The College of Engineering has received grants totalling $375,000 to purchase equipment and other laboratory materials for the John E. Swearingen Engineering Center. The Amoco Foundation has presented a $250,000 challenge grant, which will be paid in $50,000 installments over a fiveyear period and must be matched with private-sector donations. USC already has received $125,000 in matching cash and /^nnr\rc u/hr\ u/ich tn JJICUgtd 11 will UV1IU1J "UV/ ^ remain anonymous. STATE BRIEFS Police confiscate cocaine GREENVILLE (AP) ? Authorities confiscated 708 pounds of cocaine and arrested three Georgia men when they met an airplane as it landed at Anderson County Airport. The wholesale value of the cocaine was estimated at $7 million, with a possible street value of $35 million. It is believed to be the second-largest cocaine seizure in state history. An Anderson man was being sought in the case. All four men were charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, conspiracy to smuggle, possession with intent to distribute and smuggling cocaine. USA BRIEFS Anti-abortionists protest ATLANTA (AP) ? Helmetec police officers stood guard at ar abortion clinic as patients insid< huddled and employees went aboul their business while "Siege oi Atanta" protesters outside shoutec Bible verses. The Feminist Women's Health Center is one of the city's sever clinics targeted by Operatior Rescue, the New York-based antiabortion group that has staged demonstrations here this week. Fourteen demonstrators were arrested Wednesday, said City Solicitor Raines Carter. Three of them were charged with simple assault when a patient the) tried to bar from Feminisl Women's Health Center stumblec and fell. DOE report blasts SRP The Savannah River Plant's isolated management undermines safety and deviates from "practices common to well-run nuclear plants," an internal Department of Energy report concludes. The 50-page draft report is among the most critical to date of the way DOE and its prime contractor, Du Pont, manage the only U.S. facility that produces weapons-grade plutonium and tritium. It recommends a host of changes to improve safety at the aging facility and to counteract "less than precise and out-of-date operating practices." WORLD BRIEFS - i Sandinistas approve law, new state of emergency MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) ? The Sandinista party has pushed through a law that grants President Daniel Ortega sweeping powers to make arrests and silence news media during a state of emergency. Also Wednesday, the government banned Nicaraguans from receiving any type of official U.S. aid. The new emergency law went into effect immediately after it was approved. INDEX Viewpoint 3 Features 4 Datebook 5 Comics 6 Sports 7 Classified 8 GOT A NEWS TIP? CALL 777-7726 ^ ' 1' ' ^ Get off my back. . . BR,/ _ Accounting freshman Richard Elmore and manageme Hannon play "pilot and navigator." The Air Force I Training Corp hosted a field day Thursday. \ i New system ! to eliminate 'paper' papers t By ERIC WARD ' Staff writer USC's new computer equipment and programs will I allow paperless assignments by students and interactive computer editing by professors and fellow students. LiveWriter, a word-processing program developed by the computer science and English departments, will be used initially next spring in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Computing Laboratory in Gambrell Hall. It is undergoing final testing. The program is the brainchild of English professor Carolyn Matalene and computer science programmers Robert Oakman and Robert Cannon. The trio wrote a grant to Apple Computer Inc. requesting support in the development of software for the Apple computer. Apple responded by giving 46 computers and money to support their efforts. The program is designed to be used by a network consisting of an instructor and a varied number of students, depending on the number of terminals connected to the network. Using the teacher's screen, the instructor accesses the list of students who are logged onto the program and enters their document through the use of a special mode. Through the students' screen, the instructor comm municates with the student, giving suggestions and providing comments. The result is interactive editing through the computer between teacher and student or between any two users, thereby eliminating the need for a personal meeting. "The point about LiveWriter is that it's a wonderful teaching tool," Matalene said. Once an instructor is finished communicating with a rf U a />t> f U /> /am /> ?ir* + Vi nM/A*Ua?? rti i siuutiii, lie ui mic can inuvc un IU wuiiv wiin auuiuci siudent. However, students must be logged onto the program for their screens to be accessible by another user, a condition allowing students privacy when desired. "This is the ethics of it," Matalene said. When students complete an assignment, it can be sent ? using the Appleshare Network (not part of LiveWriter) ? to the teacher's folder, in effect handing it in, where it is inaccessible to students until released by their instructor, perhaps with a grade. The result is paperless assignments. Grading by reading a screen and not a paper is currently being done by USC's geography department, as well as in other colleges in the nation, Matalene said. The specifics of the program were written by Matalene. "What I have always wanted as a writing teacher is to use computer technology to really get inside and edit student's papers," she said. Oakman and Cannon then supervised the programming with assistance from graduate students David Pratt, David Adams and Ed Loomis. The program is copyrighted through the university and has been nationally advertised by Apple Computer. Plans call for the program to be sold to a publisher for marketing, with the university probably receiving royalties from sales, Matalene said. See COMPUTER page 2 i Com I to hi By STEPHEN GUILFOY ppfl Editor in chief Two proposals ? one i a university institute to perconductivity and ano tablish a parallel supei center ? were approved T the Faculty/Trustee Lia mittee. The institute of superc would foster "basic ai research" of the fledgling k. superconductivity, especi JlHBBl high temperature ranges. Superconductivity is a i Hi that studies the moveme trons through space witl tance, decreasing or elim mm wer losses. The ultima! supercomputing is to mo\ at the speed of light, US( James Holderman said. The research would sp iiittiij wmvivut aicaa c W*^ . <* * ;. include professors from ments of chemistry, pi geology, as well as the Engineering. Professors who have < pressed an interest in tl might study such areas as effects in superconductor: ItfHHMliiMN tationai effects on su tors. . . electrical power ? theory of magnetic inter transport. . . magnetic v ? ? ' > ties... image enhancer \N SA ULS/The Gamecock niqueS." About 290 graduate sti nt junior Michelle would get chances to w< Reserved Officers institute, the proposal say The institute would use conducting Quantum Ii tilt * fl# Associate Dean of Minority Affairs Ralph . awareness program Wednesday while Stu< James Franklin and Farrand Logan listen. Party represen By DAC CAKVhK Staff writer Representatives of Michael Dukakis and George Bush presented the presidential candidate's views on the enviroment, social security, education and abortion at a forum Wednesday. The forum, sponsored by the Capstone dormitory government, was held in the campus room at Capstone. Representing the Republicans were South Carolina party vice chairmen Oarn Smith and Rick Quinn. Smith is also the managing editor of Southern Partisan and Quinn is the recently elected state representative of District 71, which encompasses Irmo. Sherry Beasley, a teacher at A. C. Flora High School, spoke on behalf of the Democrats. Beasley, who spoke first on the topic of education, cited a 25 percent national dropout rate among high school students and said it was alarming that 25 million adult Americans cannot read. She said Dukakis' plan to improve the mittee gi -tech insl to study su- |^HH ?MHk; ther to es- H 'computing hursday by ': >wtm ; science of ~ ally in the * |; J^jH mtmsy ;e goal of it electrons USC President James Holderman 2 President new megacomputing center, the el< in off into tron microscopy center and t md would Thomas Cooper Library as resoi the depart- ces. There is no intention to ask f fiysics and additional space to house the ins College of tute, but to use the participati colleges and departments, ilready ex- The proposal includes a budj le institute request for $96,000 to start t "quantum institute, but adds that the universi s. . . gravi- intends to seek support from fedei perconduc- agencies including the National Si systems. . . ence Foundation, of which Holdt actions. . . man is a member, and the depai : proper- ments of Defense and Energy, nent tech- The committee also heard a pro osal from Professor Colin Benne adents also chairman of the mathematics depai ork at the ment, about the proposed center f s. parallel supercomputing studies, the Super- The center would support the nc nterference 1,024 node parallel "supercomp II rerrii t| i By JEFF WILS* Staff writer Minority stud I the past and lool I the Second Anr ^ ? day in the Bates ^ The evening a t^eme I Government, w; * J tormation relati Farrand Log ceremonies, said effort to involvi area, particularl core of campus He said he fel into the west ca they are so far. program also g; about available "In 25 years, but we still have a traveled some o The Office ol AmKBm campus climate julie bouchillon/the gamecock gredients needei Johnson speaks at a minority ????? ient Government President tatives push foi quality of American education includes ask- ec ing Congress to establish a National hi Teaching Excellence Fund that would pro- wi vide more college scholarships and loans to fii those students in need of financial aid. Dukakis would also like to create a National fu Teaching Corps to harness new teachers and fr< put them in needed areas across the country. In addition, the Massachusetts governor pe promotes plans to work with states to create re centers for teaching, funding for teacher research and a policy of bringing retired m teachers back into the classroom for special th instruction. sh "Teaching needs a boost," said Beasley, a wl teacher of 15 years. "The morale needs to be of rekindled. "When I was a kid, I used to play school sp all the time," she added. "Now my daughter In and her friends never play school. That de seems scary to me." de Other education policies that Dukakis ? favors are adult literacy programs funded jointly by government and business to yes OK titutes Iter," which the university bought from Perceptics Inc., with research and development of hardware. The university will seek about $10 million in funds to support the institute, but it may, by that time, have earned ahmit t 1 fi Praohn/* o ream wcvui iniuivii, viwauiig a [71U1U for the university that it "would have no trouble spending," one commitII tee member said. "The economic impact of the I center is incredible ? if it comes to I pass," said Professor Rufus Fellers, I chairman of the Faculty Senate. Fellers is an engineering professor. The center could earn potential revenues in software development, faculty research and also through an industrial consortium. The center will be housed in the Computer Services Division building :c- on the second floor, which will be he adequate space for about five years, lr- Specific work stations designed to or do research with the supercomputer ti- will be added soon, Bennett said, but ng it will also be hooked into the university system. Plans include hav;et ing all system campuses gain access he to the compute, so that research can ity be done across the state, al The money that the university has ci- and will put into the computer will be :r- recovered from charges from the rt- outside work, Holderman said. The committee passed the proposp al unanimously, tt, Both proposals will be considered rt- by the full Board of Trustees at its or next meeting Oct. 20. If it is passed by the board, it will then go to the :w Commission on Higher Education u- for its approval. ority forum ambers past ON lents voiced their opinions, remembered ked toward opportunities for the future at mal Minority Awareness Night WednesWest social room. lso marked the celebration of the 25th anfirst black student to enter a class at USC, ment President James Franklin said. >r the program, sponsored by the Bates is "Progress Through Participation." n, associate dean of Minority Student Af:lin were the guest speakers. sC organizations was on hand to give inve to opportunites available to minority >wer audience questions, an, a finance junior and master of the Minority Awareness Night is a major e minority students in the west campus y Bates House and Bates West, into the activity. It that many minority students who move mpus area get lost in the shuffle because away from the heart of the campus. The ave students the opportunity to find out resources and opportunities, he said, minority students have come a long way, a long way to go. I think tonight we have f the distance," Logan said. f Minority Student Affairs evaluated the for minority students and found the ind to enhance quality of life at USC for See MINORITY page 2 r candidates lucate illiterate workers. In the way of gher education, Dukakis plans to work ith states to encourage the use of prepaid lancial planning. Beasley maintains that most, if not all, nds for these added programs will come om a reallocation of taxes, not a tax hike. Quinn, speaking on Bush's behalf, said 75 rcent of the work force will need to be trained in 25 years. ti-? ?i D?u : nc cucu dumi 5 vice pi caiuciiuai i uuuiug ate Dan Quayle as a major contributor in is endeavor because of Quayle's authorip of the Job Training Partnership Act, lich has already begun retraining a portion the current work force. But Quinn said increased government ending on education is not the best answer, stead, more stringent requirements on stunt loans and reduction on the rate of loan faults would help ensure that people who See PARTY page 2