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Learning to teach W H | JHlm. ^JKm The Campus Coalition for Literacy program currently has ab Russell House. READING I Program fighi By JULIE FRAZIEr" Staff Writer Reading and writing ? the ability to communicate through paper and pen, to read books and magazines ? are skills many Columbians do not possess. Through the Campus Coalition for Literacy, a program to train reading and writing tutors, USC students are helping illiterate people in the community learn to read. This month the program has begun new training sessions in the Russell House. Senior Rajan Shah, the founder of the program, began the program this past year as a community service project The program trains students, faculty and staff to become tutors to people 17 years old and older who are illiterate. Tutors teach basic reading and writing skills, as well as basic math skills. Depending on what the student already knows, tutors begin with reading phonetics and writing, and later turn to punctuation and reading comprehension. Tutors for this project are all volunteers, and must go to three training sessions, for a total of 12 hours training. After attending the sessions, students are certified to be tutors. Each tutor is matched with an adult student and begins teaching. Tutors meet with their students twice a week for 60 to 90 minutes. Junior Sarah Cobbs, the president of this program, said she has been pleased with the response the program has received so far. "We've had a tremendous response from the student population. They're giving their own time to help someone else," Cobbs said. .Gout- ? Shakespeare's "The Two | %* Gentlemen of Verona," Koger ^Center at 8 PM. Students $ 10 (or IJ^yp Gentlemen" and "Romeo and WEDNESDAY Shakespeare's "Romeo and v\A C-s Juliet," Koger Center at 8 PM. I Vts T\V" Students $10 L?iiffg*VpBMp| THURSDAY IVililVluKlV "Sarafina!" - a play about young 111 111 lr 111 mlHU people in South Africa, Koger Center at 8 PM, Students $6 The University of South Care I Office of Alcohol & Drug Programs Presents... "The Effects of Substance Abt on Families" T n ^ nh jue wsu&jvie, JLU.LS. Assistant Professor, College of Educational Psyc Rehabilitation Counseling Program use When: January 22,1991 1 Where: Russell House, Room 3CK t TIME: 4:30 pm Co-sponsors: GAMMA Sinaiqfa lath Kapj * w ?* w ?? m " " " fe,4 11 ?** IWBBBBKV out 25 tutors in training. This training session was Saturday in the & WRITING ts illiteracy Cobbs said the objectives of the program are to train tutors to deve lop an empathy for beginning readers and to acquaint the tutors with different teaching methods. Cobbs has been a tutor since March 1990 and finds tutoring to be a very rewarding experience. "It's a very personal experience. It gives you a great feeling to help someone else. Teaching to read can make an impact on society, and we think it's important for everyone to be literate," she said. Presently, twenty-five students are training to be tutors, but usually about 25 percent of the trainees do not finish the program. These people often have problems with the time commitment or transportation, Cobbs said. Campus Coalition for Literacy works with adult reading programs throughout Columbia to match students with tutors. Most tutoring is done at Logan School in Columbia, but there are tutoring sessions at other locations in the city. International studies sophomore Heidi Brooks said the students are all different except for their common desire to learn. "They are all good students. You're not seeing people at their worst because they have a big stake in learning to read," she said. Brooks said the students and the tutors are both learning from the program. "We're all helping each other," she said. The remaining training sessions will be Tuesday, Jan. 22, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. in the Russell House, room 306; and Saturday, Jan. 26, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Russell House, room 302. Those interested in becoming tutors should contact Dorothy Reese of the adult reading program at 733-6204. ?^i^? * * r;* "Late Christo," lecture by Janet J DP J LeBlanc, Sloan College Room * DLi n j*. Spur of the Moment Comedian, * The Golden Spur at 7 PM ? VUIUII IGCI - J FRIDAY * OffiC0 ?f Community J Barry Drake, "70s Rock and Roll: * Services. Campus J ? The Good, Bad, and the Ugly." * Activities Center, J The Golden Spur at 7:30 PM J 777-6688 J OTHER * Qlh^-k Monday thru Wednesday * IIVITI/ * "Star Wars," CPU Movie, 9 PM, J LV! jJ|jl | I J -1 "Arachnophobia," 9 PM, $2 * Zj * "Light Years," 11:30 PM, $2 J " OaAMMJJ J Graphic by Dan Barabas/The Gamecock J 777-5780 __ ? tr - - * M M * )Iina, ] NA1 < s Interviewing fo: ise j Medical ] (January 2 11AM - Is p Contact your Cs ule an interview 3 1 In South Car 1 NAVYO] ? * ? * I Def Leppard due to unkn J^jj^TRICIA TITUS By TRICIA TITUS Staff Writer I'm going to have to stop watching television. Not because of the disconcerting amount of war coverage that seems to be going on. It just seems that every time I casually flip through the channels someone deems it fit to give me the horrendously bad news that yet another musician has died. This past August it was Stevie Ray Vaughan, killed in a postconcert helicopter crash, just short of his 36th birthday. This time it was Steve Clark, Def Leppard guitarist, dead on Jan. 7 at age 30. There are probably a lot of people who haven't heard this yet It didn't get nearly as much coverage as Stevie Ray's death did. Perhaps it was the tragic nature of an accidental death as opposed to death in one's sleep. Perhaps it was the comparatively low profile Clark's personal life held, especially as only one of five in a band. Most likely it was the fact that Vaughan was widely considered to be a genius. a supreme musician's musi cian, a master guitar player, while Clark was merely an exceptional guitarist in a popular rock band. But as much respect as I held for Stevie Ray, Steve Clark's death affected me far more than Stevie Ray's death ever did. Rationally, j I'm not quite sure what the difference is. I think it may be the pure vitality and energy that seemed to emanate from Steve's very image. Where Stevie Ray always appeared very calm and self-contained (the guitar almost seemed to play it- s self), Steve's life seemed too large ^ to be contained by a single human i body. It flowed over into his r guitar. t You could see it even through ? the television screen, as he spun \ slowly in circles in time to the \ song, his feet appearing to move of their own volition, while every bit a of his mind was focused on the l music, controlling the fine nerves ? and muscles all great guitarists i have with the almost supernatural t sense of timing and delicacy that I J only a handful of them are blessed with. \ Other times he would stand c completely still, feet planted as if c movement would break his con- I centration. But he didn't just stand i there. At first his body would just I sway to the music, that beautiful c head of long blond hair swinging t with every note he played. Then s would come a bridge or riff that t BWT 1-800-322-. VY OFFICE Dn Campus r positions in: ireer Development Cei r. For more informatioi olina Toll-Free l-8( mrrD v?u ar tritlljlX Full S{ guitarist dies own causes was just exquisite enough to break your heart, and you could see him become part of the music, as if he were trying to press every bit of his being into each note, body swaying wildly, eyes closed as if he saw the music inside his head. It was at these moments that Steve was his most enchanting, a wonderful mix of strength and fragility. And it was this fragility that, in the end, was probably what killed him. Clark had grown up in working-class England. He switched from classical to rock guitar shortly after his first exposure to hard rock, in the height of the punk era. And finding a bunch of like-minded musicians in the form of the fledgling band Def Leppard, he started on his way to the top of the recording industry. According to several close friends, Clark had never been able to handle the star status the band enjoyed and was sometimes suicidally depressed. He began to drink heavily and was soon a known alcoholic, although the problem was largely ignored. This past year he had finally tried to deal with hi? problem, taking a leave of absence from the band while undergoing treatment The band meanwhile worked on its next album, refusing to use a replacement guitarist, instead waiting for Clark to return and finish the album with them. But he never had that chance. He died in his sleep in his London home Jan. 7. The cause of death has yet to be; officially announced, although his past history and current speculation indicate acute alcohol poisoning as the greatest possibility, with suicide and complications from long-term alcohol abuse being other possible causes. Lead singer Joe Elliot said ihortly after the death that Clark vould be missed, that he had been ike a brother. According to state-' nents issued by a spokesman for he band, they have not yet decided what to do about the next al>um or the long term future of the >and. The fact that several years ago, vhen drummer Rick Allen lost his eft arm in a New Year's Eve car iccident, the band refused to find a eplacement suggests that perhaps his may be the end of Def ^eppard. However, Allen did recover, and vith the aid of a computerized Irum kit he helped design, can and loes play as well as he ever did. ^ /ni i . - . . Jut Steve ^iarK is dead and bured, and he is not going to come >ack with the aid of any technol>gy. A replacement is the only opion Def Leppard has if they are to urvive. We will have to wait for he answer to that question. !DB ma n? AIDS IRS 11 i I!* I ? Ik * titer to sched a, call: >0-922-2135. j: id the Navy. >eed Ahead.