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particularly want to explain, and I somehow don't particularly want to dissect described and explain Eric Andersen's come aw knowing ; Ghosts Upon the Road. cept that v But there are those things we if even Future journalis Lou Grant, the hard-nosed newspaper editor portrayed on television, probably would have fallen out of his chair if asked to pick up a mouse and draw on a computer, but that's exactly what journalism students at the University of South Carolina are being asked to do. Yes, draw. Pictures, graphs, charts, line art ?images that will instruct or entertain newspaper readers. This art is produced not with pen and ink but with a mouse, a tiny device held in the hand and moved across a hard surface to produce computer images. For some folks, it was bad enough giving up typewriters for bulky machines with blinking cursors, much less being asked to become artists. But that is what students at USC's College of Journalism and Mass Communications are expected to do. 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Yet we indulgent, a little too ay from the record not perhaps overly hap anything new, really. Ex- would seem at a glam ve've been there. lonely life, then we ^thing Andersen sings is when listening to a s ? title track that we w scribe our happiness !RIC ANDERSEN "iffiany lin ,j, fL <7 n ** bum sound like clich fc'fowS Wif?K*\ must know ^at life 1 be a cliche, and then ? yfcl <nT ~ /) away. Sa /rJj )/l/ AnH n/fiilA 11 otonini OXJ 11 0"\ TYIIXIV/ HOlX/1 111 if we wonder what th this music really is, \ ^ to learn to throw lab ^ -dm the trash. A lot of stuff hapi Andersen on Ghosts. cord of a life of exp honesty. So a lot of s to us when we listen ti |L_3BMBLI to?ts required to be computer wizard who runs the college's computer laboratory. "People were scared of the whole process. They said things like, 'I can't draw,' or 'I'm not an artist' And in fact, most of them can't draw a straight line. But they quickly learn they don't really need artistic skills with the software programs we use." Tony Moreno, a 1989 USC graduate, is working as a reporter/graphics designer at the Beaufort Gazette. "Until I took that computer graphics course, I'd never thought about doing art work," Moreno said. "I would probably have just been an ordinary reporter. As it turned out, I enjoy doing graphics more than writing." Other graduates found that they could land jobs producing publications ? an opportunity that would not have been possible without graphics experience. 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Experience is not so much ould all de- water under the bridge as it is the bv throwing beer we drink which keeps us watching a toilet gyrate until 5:00 es on this al- a-mles then we We see Ghosts as a memory, ongs first to bung up on the past. But the music to throw it tells us ^ time (when) and space (where) don't matter so much as 7 tQ Qhosts what and how. And, maybe, with e hell all of wh?mve just have A poetry teacher once told me, sis out with y?u won,t say it in a bar, don't write it" I think she was quoting jens to Eric Ezra Pound. It is the re- If Eric Andersen can't say this >erience and in a bar, he has probably never tuff happens even thought it. o the record, You'll sell yourself short if you miss this album. computer artists are required to take the computer graphics course. USC is one of the few schools in the country with such a requirement, Kornegay said. "We developed the course to meet the newspaper industry's growing demand for graduates who can report stories visually by combining journalistic abilities with computer graphics skills," he said. The journalism college, which began using Macintosh computers in 1987 to teach writing classes, has more than 80 machines for writing and graphics courses. Students learn the basic principles of graphic design, chart making and typography using programs like Macdraw II, Cricket Chart and Adobe Illustrator. They then start designing graphics for The Carolina Reporter, a weekly laboratory newspaper produced by seniors in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. LIVING MUNITY Meyball Courts, na Pools: Clubhouse ng I acy in a Beautiful Wooded 3nt I i by appointment. 9u I S 1 C?rvai* I Hwv 1 I STATE | I CAPITOL CI UNIVERSITY "V* OF S. CAROLINA Dlumbia 794-2948 LLS B " S/>LE r{1 "_'....^i^.. 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