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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.
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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.
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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
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with. \
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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
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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.
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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.
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