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4Consul By CAREN CAMPBELL Features editor They call themselves consumers. Hundreds of them participated in a police-escorted march from the Russell House to the capitol, and those that couldn't march were Shut tlecocked there. "What do we want? OUR RIGHTS. When do we want 'em? NOW," they chanted. The National Health Consumers Association conference was a meeting of 1,100 people, including members of South Carolina SHARE, bonded by the fact that they have all at one time or another been affected by mental illness. Billy Finley, president of S.C. SHARE said that the acronym stood for Self Help Association Regarding Emotions. "It affects so many of us," said Helen Noble, a member of SHARE and a participant in the five-day conference held last week here on campus. "I want to get rid of the term 'mental illness,'" she said, "I wanna make it, you know, mentally different maybe. We're not all leftbrained people." Noble also said many women are affected. "I met a woman in New Hampshire who was put in an institution by the signature of a judge because her husband didn't want her." At this conference, there are more people attending than any other conference before, said Howie Harp, a founding rights advocate for mental & C. 9s histc By JACK STREET Staff writer Editor's note: Staff writer Jack St around the state recently. This is his s found. Apply the word association test Revolution. You'll get responses like C Declaration of Independence, Lexinj stars and stripes and freedom^ How about South Carolina!}The turned in favor of the Americah Pa Although it later came to be better kn of secession" during a more recent unj Carolina was where The War was wo Visits to Charleston, Camden, Cowpens, Ninety Six and Eutaw Sprii and exciting. The National Park syster holdings at some of these battlefield tlements. All of these places make exc< Columbia. Inquisitive travellers can discover sii touched since the davs of Thomas Sun and Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. The Battle of Blackstocks took placi Tyger River near Cross Keys, S.C. (4 present day village of Blackstock). T momentous struggle is a block of gra; long, long dirt road in the beautifi Carolina countryside. One wonders at how history can turi insignificant and remote places. T1 ?Got a news . A 4 V Protec prenal I for a fi Baby i tiers' mc health who now works at a California drop-in center in Oakland. "I think it's fitting that we're standing here in front of the statue of George Washington who fought in the Revolutionary war because we are a revolutionary movement," Harp said. "We're a revolutionary movement for freedom, for dignity, for equality, for opportunity and for nil lii m in 1111 ml ft. Participants in the National Health capitol. mm still sdoi reet went on a trip X) t* C O tory about what he * l. O v/ to the American Jeorge Washington, Cowpens National jton and Concord, history. A bloody Patriot militia ar Revolutionary War another at point-bl triots in this state. Other battles piti ow as the "hellhole neighbor against pleasantness, South stormed Kings M< n. forces. Kings Mountain, The British Gen ngs are educational Camden, Charlest< a has extensive land through 1781 while s and colonial set- reduced British fc ;llent daytrips from Carolina over to tf Once an interest tes left virtually un- restlessly pushing u liter, the Gamecock, For instance, if yoi just about every sti s on a hilltop by the Fort Granby) is na 0 miles west of the From Savannah he only sign of the Revolution in the S nite at the end of a 1981, provides in-di li 1 sandy conifered I'd tell you how Mountain in a thur n on such seemingly of ghosts in a mist c le peacefulness at different story. Call The Garnet i>X6 Ja4 A 6 J A J 6 S <5 4 J i . & :t your unbcjrn baby witt :al care. Cal your local c ree booklet;: "Be Good T Before It Is porn." irched to the pursuit of happiness." "Once we held conferences on campgrounds, now we hold them in universities," he said. Harp emphasized that consumers have changed from being portrayed as hopeless and helpless to being hopeful and helpful because they are success stories and survivors. They have survived abuses in institutions, Consumers Association conference displ; 3400 B.C.: Ffom staff reports By today's standards, it probably di great and it certainly wasn't meant to be 1< But in prehistoric Egypt, beer drinking any better than this. On a routine search for pottery 1 chaelogists have discovered the remains o fired beer-making operation in the anci( tian city of Hierakonpolis. Scientific tests show the ceramic be< date back to 3400-3300 B.C. predt pharaohs and pyramids making it in all p the oldest beer brewery in the world. "We don't know yet how many six-pt vats were capable of producing, that's question we're trying to answer," said Di Allen Hoffman, a USC archaelogist an< of the Hier^Kpnpolis Expedition. The four-vat brewery was discovered the size of several football fields by Jeren an archaeology doctoral student at W University in St. Louis working with Ho "I'm very good at reading the dirt, and ed a whole complex of walls just belov ~ks interest nal travels Military Park, for instance, belies the | hand-to-hand battle raeed here while id British regulars slaughtered one lank range. ted American versus American, indeed neighbor. Backwoods rebel militia Duntain which was held by Loyalist ieral, Lord Cornwallis, spent time in :>n and Winnsboro in the late 1770's : Sumter, Marion and Andrew Pickens irces in the field and turned South le Patriot cause. is sparked, it can burn; you see history p from beneath its veneer of the years, i pay close attention, you'll notice that reet in downtown Columbia (formerly med after a Revolutionary player, i to Yorktown subtitled American outh by Henry Lumpkin (U3C Press), epth analysis in a highly readable style. I came to be alone on top of Kings ider and lightning storm with a bunch in the Fourth of July . . . but that's a wck at 777-7726 ZTI i good :hapter ^ > the cap severe emotional problems and come out of it better people with sensitivity, with tolerance and with the ability to help others who have been through the same, he said. Harp said the "clients" and "consumers" are the the most valuable resource to the mental health system today. "Actually, in fact, we've always been their most valuable resource. Without us, where would ' ^ ' * '' Caren Campbell/The Gamecock ay their feelings on the grass of the : a good y face," Hoffman said. He dn't taste vats were only a small part ;ss filling. and bottling complex, supp didn't get tion of predynastic Egypt. Early Egyptian beer was kilns, ar- half-baked bread, date juic if an open ed over open fires. How di ant Povn. uImQninp HrinL-inrr c/xmoi *AAA AJ^Jp AAAAUgtllV UlllllVllIg JVU1VI at room temperature, may] ;r barrels small bits of vegetation fit iting the said. robability But winning a blue ribb point of Egyptian beer m< icks these served as a social lubricant just one tions. Even more importar Michael the staff of life along with i director nent. Pictures in early ti making process; some have on a site ed on the walls, ny Geller, In fact, part of the E ashington elaborate burial practices ffman. wads of material possessioi we notic- tombs of prominent citizen; / the sur- thousand years" was the n Kliliilli * ' V FOR THE BEST DEFENSE AGAINST CANCER, SEE YOUR DOCTOR ONCE A YEAR AND HIM ONCIAWEEK. ritol for they be today?" he lauged. "We are experts to what mental health consumers need in order to live in communities independently," Harp said. i "The self-help programs that we run ourselves are on the cutting edge and are on the wave of the future for the mental health system today." he said. Harp asked that the people not be satisfied vVith lip service or promises. "We can only be satisfied when we achieve our goals." Though they are diverse, they have commonalities. Out of all the conferences in Egypt and England that Harp has attended, he has heard clients talk about the same problems, needs, concerns and solutions. "One of the problems that we legislators have is that we're undereducated when it comes to knowing about the problems that we should help be solved," said Sen. Warren Giese, R-Richland. Many people at the conference agreed that regardless of whether or not you are physically or mentally ill, if you are sick, than you are sick and you need to be treated. "We need to fund mental health as well as we fund physical health," Giese said. He also said mental health is a "low visibility problem" and that there's a tendency in the legislature to overlook it at budget time. He said this year for perhaps the first time, the General Assembly took a step ear tor tg now suspects the four Excavation of a vast beer brewing on the site of l lying ale to a large por- ing mound. H polis was the probably a mixture of an industrial e, water and malt cook- fired kilns anc d it taste? the burgeonin thing like Guiness Stout be a little sweeter, with Hoffman j jating in it," Hoffman in 1969, shoi tion, under H on for taste wasn't the boasts an ir iking. Then as now, it thropologists, for parties and celebra- geologists, zo it, beer was considered bread, its chief compo- Artifacts fr Dmbs depict the beer- "The First Eg recipes for beer scrawl- prehensive ex The traveling Egyptian death cult of Angeles Coun involved packing away scheduled to < ns including beer in the Washington ir 5. "Beer and bread for a ed by USC's lotto, Geller said. sity's Earth S< ^ ^ j. ' ^ : : _ ruet s insiy purity and c By AMY LOOMIS Staff writer Fish Magic, by Elisabeth Borchers. Translated by Anneliese Wagner. 1989. Black Swans Books Ltd, Redding Ridge, CT. 107. Elisabeth Borchers' Fish Magic is not revolutionary, "fresh" or trendsetting. It will not change the way we perceive, understand or write poetry, nor will Borchers become a household name like Frost, Whitman or Byron. But Borchers' poetry presents insight with grace and eloquence. Her poetry does not attempt to explain, but merely present what she sees. Her language is simple and plain even when examining the complex. Paul Klee illustrated the images that often accompany her poetry. Some images within the book are: fish, bird, rain, sea, city, man, n/Amort <-t It i 1 yl V><-*?-*UIiia yy uniaii, v,imu, iitava, uiuc aiiu ICU. In "songs of water" one stanza subtitled "wind" brings these images together with a numbing pessimism: ''under dark bridges/they flow by/softly wave says to wave/take the poor by the hand/ and crown their foreheads / with little dead fish." Sometimes her eerie moods give way to the little more personal glimpses of life as in her poem "someone." Here she seems the most comfortable and convincing. Ironcically, her simplistic language emphasizes the complex nature of relationships. In the first section of this poem, "someone" comes like an answer (after all, isn't everyone of us waiting for someone?): "someone reads/ saying I can't shake it off/ f i ngnts *9 Caren Campbell/The Gamecock Billy Finley toward meeting the needs of the Department of Mental Health through adequate funding. Many years ago there was a 12-foot wall around the grounds of the S.C. State Hospital to hide the mentally ill from the view of the public, said Tom Bristow, a musician and singer who works at the S.C. State Museum. About 30 or 40 years ago, they tore the wall down and used the bricks to build a beautiful chapel on the hospital grounds he said. There are lots of walls in this world built by prejudice, misunderstanding and discrimination, he said. These walls will disappear if you reach out and help, he added. He sang, "walls that are built to keep people out are built to keep people in" and advised "just take the walls down, let the sun in." /pt's beer is planned over the next three years :he beer-making vats and accompany[offman said it may prove Hierakon"Pittsbureh of nredvnastir Fovnt " W r J complex fueled by scores of openi vats producing pottery and beer for g funeral industry. oined the Hierakonpolis Expedition tly after its formation. The expedioffman's leadership since 1979, now iterdisciplinary team including an, Egyptologists, chemists, botanists, ologists and architects. om Hierakonpolis make up part of ;yptians," the largest and most comhibit of predynastic Egypt to date, exhibit is now showing at the Los ty Museum of Natural History and is 5pen at the Smithsonian Institute in i December. The exhibit was organizMcKissick Museum and the univer:iences and Resources Institute. ween he ' , ..r . . >< . yovers ht blends :omplexity and is strong/ and you think he sleeps/ and you wait/ and sit outside/ in your useful invention:/ a perfectly circular head." In the second part of "someone," someone is the one to follow because if you follow his stride you "don't go crazy". But in this part, someone becomes only what we make him because we are all self deceivers: "someone goes/ and you think he steps softly/ on soft shoes/ and you take the soft/ and let go of the hard/ and the ice crackles/ and you say I don't hear a thing." Finally in the third part, reality gives a crushing blow: "someone sings/ and you mink he's silent/ and you say/ n?w it's my turn to sing/ you sing/ and someone doesn't believe you/ and leaves/ and someone flies off/ and you don't believe him/ and you go crazy." Anneliese Wagner, translator of Fish Magic, wrote in the preface "She surveys the horror of life, the table of ice that separates our two chairs in one room, one city, many countries, the normalcy that shackles us, and with her, we step outside ourselves to observe who we are, what we do, where we are going. The world, once askew, and still tilting at a slant, stands more straight than before." Elisabeth Borchers was born in 1926, the daughter of a French mother and a German father. An interpreter for the French occupation, she married, had two sons and later, after her divorce, lived for a time in Cleveland, Ohio. Today she lives works and writes in Frankfurt.