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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
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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"less than precise and out-of-date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
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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
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'paper' papers
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' 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
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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.
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By STEPHEN GUILFOY
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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.
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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.
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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
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new megacomputing center, the el<
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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