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Family quabbles
pervade in play
" * by Anne Harrington, Beth is a
woman who makes Gloria
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"llil'.'i .'Oil- lems having a mother like Elaine.
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brooding with cutting sarcasm
1 1 and a negative comment about
?. everything. Undaunted, Elaine is
By TRESSA HAYNES bubbly and flirtatious, and at
Staff Writer times you might think brainless.
Imagine June Cleaver having Throw in a "raving faggot," a
Madonna for a daughter and fireman with the personality of a
you've got a contrast similar to brick wall and his son, and
the one in Mayo Simon's play, you've got a play that is at times
Elaine's Daughter, which opened very funny and at times very
at Workshop Theatre Wednesday disturbing,
night. Should you see this play?
Mrs. Brady might have had Sure. What will you get out of
her share of problems with it? That depends on who you are.
Marsha, Jan and Cindy, but all Male or female, conservative or
three of her daughters combined radical, whether you agree with
could never have come close to Beth or think she's bananas,
being as hard to deal with as the there is something for everyone
one daughter Elaine had. to gain from this play. Not only a
Barbara Lowrance plays few laughs, but perhaps a bit of
Elaine, who is the kind of wo- understanding might come from
man most men dream about mar- seeing Elaine's Daughter.
rying - charming, attractive and a Lowrance and Harrington
good cook. Also, she's a definite share the cast list with David G.
Mrs. America in the spirit of Holland, Jerry Jewler and Engl'50s
reruns. (You know, the ones ish H. Weston, Jr., under the dithat
made you want to tell the rection of Debra Leopard Long,
women in them to PLEASE get a A superb job is done by everylife.)
Still in the Dark Ages, one involved in the production.
Elaine seems quite content that Bravo to Workshop Theatre
her primary goal in life is to for kicking off their new season
please a man. with spunk. Elaine's Daughter
Night and day. Black and through September 27. Call
white. Elaine and Beth. Played 799-6551 for tickets.
Walk with the
Women Students' Association
as we
on Mon., Sept. 16
6:30pm
Richland County Judicial Center
on Main Street
"Take Back the Night" is an annual walk and
rally addressing the issues of violence against
women and children.
The Women Students' As- You are cordially
sociation wants you to invited to
walk with usl attend a presentation
Meet us in front of the ~ XT7 A
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MONDAY, SEPT. 16,
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By KATHY HEBERGER
Staff Writer
Life in a wheelchair isn't a piece of cake, disabled students agre
but they're not complaining.
A good ice cream cone is more of a challenge any day.
"I always tell people 'Don't worry. I've never run over anybody b
accident,'" business management and insurance senior Bob Brown said.
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person," he said.
Rivers and other Woodrow residents said they find ways to work a
ound the schedules the dorm requires them to keep.
"I fell asleep in front of the library the other day. Somebody woke m
up, thinking my chair's battery was dead. Man, I was mad. I was sleej
ing good," Ricky Brown said.
Second year law student Tim Evatt doesn't have the luxury of fre
time that the undergraduates have. He tries to finish his 80 to 100 paj
reading assignments before 10:30 p.m., when someone from an agenc
puts him to bed.
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realized I had to do something other than paint houses," he said. "It wt
time to put my mind to work."
Brown lives in Woodrow, USC's Transitional Living Center. The cei
ter, located in the Horseshoe area, is a year-round home for its seve
residents. The federally-funded residence hall has 18 days of vacatic
scheduled for the students.
"We like to say there's lots of TLC here," psychology junior Rick
Brown (no blood relation to Bob Brown) said. "We get kind of tigh
Sometimes there's disputes, sometimes we get along great. It's like
family. When somebody moves out, you feel like something's missing."
With their wheels for getting to class, braces on their arms for holdin
fortes or pens and nurses to help them in and out of the shower and be<
disabled students make routines out of extraordinary circumstances.
What could go wrong?
"The weather," personnel management senior Robert Slee said.
When it rains, students in wheelchairs grab trash bags for cover and g
slower around the corners. "I've slid into walls before. Those floors g<
slick," Ricky Brown said.
"Falling out of a wheelchair isn't fun either. . . .until you get back in
he said. He added that he really doesn't laugh too hard at the "I've fa
len, and I can't get up" commercial.
Crowded elevators present another headache for the disabled student
"But the stairs just get in the way," Slee said.
Ricky Brown, 21, was paralyzed in a football accident while at J. I
Mann High School in Greenville. "I always knew education was impo
tant, but I really wanted to come to college to play football," he said.
He said he hopes to watch his cousin Leshun McGreer play as a wall
on with the Gamecocks next year.
Freshman Lloyd Rivers, 21, broke his neck in a basketball court figl
four years and four months ago. Now he's in a wheelchair.
Rivers hasn't decided what to major in yet. He just got through deck
ing to come to college instead of his previous decision to join the mil
tary. "I don't think I would be here if I wasn't in this chair," he said.
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was back at Clemson, working
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newspaper so slow," he said.
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tit own."
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haven't talked to in a long time
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