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Literac1 a aims tc By TRACY MACK Staff Writer Students and members of the USC community will have an opportunity to learn more about illiteracy in America during Literacy Awareness Week Jan. 20-24. Sponsored by Campus Coalition lor Literacy, the week's events include a Read-A-Thon on the Russell House Patio, an open discussion on current literacy topics, a reading program for children and an informational display table on Greene Street. "I feel good about the program,." said Gopi Shah, chairman of the coalition's adult reading program. "I have been involved since the beginning and we have grown each semester. I look forward to this week." CCL is a volunteer student organization established in the spring of 1990 to make a positive impact on the literacy problem in S.C. pri national From The Associated Press South Carolina could get extra attention in the presidential race as the Republican Party holds a primary election on the same day South Carolina Democrats hold their first-ever primary. The state's primaries on March 7 have been significant in at least two previous presidential primaries, and that could be the case again, analysts say. Once the New Hampshire primary passes Feb. 18, the nation's media may look southward. South Carolina could be in the spotlight with two primaries the same day. The state GOP's decision to hold a primary is a rare event for the party with a sitting president running for a second term. The state's primary will mark the first head-to-hcad match-up between President George Bush and two controversial right-wing challengers. J RESEI Kp itiu M [5* Ui gill Mi r n/.i rrp ^ 2 CENTRA v Awar i educa America. Coalition president Sara Cobb said according to U.S. Census figures, Columbia had 144,000 functionally illiterate adults in 1980. "We want to help," Cobb said. "As of a few years ago, students really did not have a good idea about the illiteracy problem because we are at an institution for higher learning. It seems that now more students are aware and more want to help." Figures support Cobb's conclusion. The coalition has grown from 20 to 70 students in four semesters. Coalition members work with four programs: Story Time serves children at Epworth Children's Home and Booker T. Washington Childcare Center. Sharing Time with Seniors serves the elderly. Learning Partners' Program, in imaries , local ii The stakes are high on both sides, said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. "The South was a Tire wall for Bush the last lime, and it looks like it's going to have to perform thai function again." he said. "If there's any evidence of trouble for him in South Carolina, which is probably one of two or three of the strongest states for him in the country, he's in deep trouble." As for the Democrats, the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries are key indicators for Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, Sabato said. Winning both could mean he will do well on Super Tuesday on March 10. "That should give him an enormous leg up for the nomination," Sabato said. The stakes were similarly high in South Carolina's two previous ventures. The early primary, as 1980 IVATIONS AYAII AMERICANO DESERT INN -RAMAD/ A - 5 or 7 ni( ^^"^SHERATON HOTE GULF VIEW CONDO! LANDFALL TOWI gfet> SKI STEAMBOAT OVERLOOK SHADOW RUI^ TOURWA THE RE LAUDERDALE 8 - 7 night ife> HILTON HEA1 RESORT CC - b or / nig # PORT ROYA M?>^ESO,RT7C0 ? -5 or 7 nig DON'T DELA l SPRING BREAK INFORMATION -800-3217AM-7PM M-Th, 7AM-5PM Fri, 9AM-5PM Sat, Mount, Reservations may be made by cred 24 HOUR FAX RESERVATIONS (303): Depending on break dates and length Week rrij ople N for Action in Literacy Education, fears SCALE is a national network of y did college and university students, adia ministrators and faculty serving as a resource for 400 campus literacy . groups, an in- (JSC was onc ()f 15 colleges to learn- receive a grant, now "We arc excited about the aware grant," CCL's adviser Anne Becelp." consall said. "We'will use the i Cobb grant for the development of a \ isident Story Time Library to serve child- ^ illiterate ren anc* 'n'l'ate a sPea^er series Sflf * 4 District lhal w'11 'ncrease literacy con- Mjf ^ sciousness campus-wide." he Vis- Donations of children's books and literature will be accepted at 0 help," each Literacy Week event, or may be droped off in the CCL office in able to Russell House. IffSHI 1 recent "We want everyone to come out Poky the $ $1,000 and be a part of this important after Saturday D ISLAND , < ?oos:: &//J LOCEAN TA 4rrg hm ~/SLmMJ r i AND RESERVATIONS 591W, ain Standard Time (?[ | 225-1514 of stay inae- \ 7 *,,,? uv^.u.^w vyU. ) that ^n f?rces l^at overthrown him; (c) the prime misaid nister of Estonia who declared a state of emergency South because of dwindling food supplies. ~or a 3. In Justice Clarence Thomas' first opinion, the South Supreme Court: (a) barred deportation to Great Britain of Joseph Doherty, Irish Republican Army member is convicted of murder there; (b) ruled that people who sue the federal government over injuries caused by its Seor- negligent employees may collect money for "loss of 1 BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM 4 1 Or 4 j a r 4 I cha 4 S in v II som | REi I Campus Coaliti I Literacy Awarei I January 21 Office of Communit Department o Hiuicinn of k#i v iwi vii vi wi University of ! J I One third of the Natii A rnmmmmmmmmmmmmmMBmimmm 4 eness ite pe< "As of a few \ ago, students reall not have a good ide out the illiteracy pre because we are at i stitution for higher ing. It seems that more students are i and more want to hi Saraf CCL Pre which students tutor 50 i adults from the Richland One Adult Reading Prograr Reading Partners for t ually impaired. "It makes me feel good t Shah said. The coalition will be help in more ways with i grant. The coalition received a grant from the Student C raising uteres t and 1988 showed, can g slate like South Carolina a role in national politics. Clemson University pol scientist Charles Dunn said Carolina played a major rc both 1980 and 1988 for R< and Bush, respectively. In 1980 the state played ; jor role because until that Republican leaders were un< that former Texas Gov. Connally had a low ceilii potential voter support, 1 said. '"The South Carolina pri demonstrated that, wrote it libly in the leaders' minds s( Connally had to get out," he Dunn said that in 1988, J Carolina paved the way I Bush sweep throughout the 5 on Super Tuesday. "Probably, South Carolii going to send a much strc (Republican) signal than C gia," he said. ABLUIOW! VOYAGER- ^ THE REEF "M i ;L & CONDOS S HOLIDAY INN ER CONDOS.* ' */J? COLORADO! : HOTEL- I CONDOSSf/f? ights ' ' frrOM s < EACH HOTEL J/36? oalition week," Shah said. ' H News huffs: J do you thinl lve a By The Associated Press major How much do you remember about the stories that litical havc ^)een 'n ncws recently? If you score fewer South l^an ^ve correct answers, you have been spending too }je much time on the crossword puzzle. If you get eight sagan or more y?u m'ght consider desktop publishing. All correct? You would make Joe Pulitzer proud. i matime ' The European Community acknowledged the iware breakup of Yugoslavia by recognizing the indepenJohn dence of: (a) Serbia and Croatia; (b) Slovenia and lg of Croatia; (c) Bosnia and Albania. r)Unn 2. Valentin Pavlov was in the news ? he is: (aj the former Soviet prime minister among 12 people mary charged with conspiracy in last August's failed coup; i (ihp hikIpH nrpciHpnt nf f^pr\rrriq \i/hr\ HArlorpH u;or i h '',j-z& m ' # I" - * >~i; ^ ^ I *" Virq^nia MarshaH/T^ Gamecock snowman, standing in the Horseshoe,was created I r's snowstorm. How smart i you are? enjoyment of life"; (c) upheld the ruling that awarded to a erime-victims' fund profits from a book by Jean Harris, convicted killer of "Scarsdale diet" Dr. Herman Tarnower. 4. The American Petroleum Institute said that last year: (a) domestic oil production declined sharply; (b) consumption and imports were up; (c) oil's slice of the national energy pie grew. 5. An admission that it had bought German components for a uranium enrichment complex that could have produced nuclear explosive for four or five atomic bombs a year came from: (a) North Korea; (b) Israel; (c) Iraq. 6. A five-member state council was formed by the new leadership which has taken power in Algeria ? that ruling body is: (a) a group of civilian and military officials; (b) the Marxist party which had governed the country since independence in 1962; (c) the Muslim fundamentalist opposition party. 7. A civil rights group said three white police officers should be fired after TV news crews filmed them beating a black student during an arrest in: (a) Los Angeles; (b) Boston; (c) Miami. ANSWERS: l.b 2.a 3.b 4.a 5.c 6.a 7.b iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy >en I tew I pter I rnnr 1 :e; I jch I eone 1 3D. I ion for Literacy I less Week 1992 3-24. 1992 9 y Service Programs f Student Life udent Affairs South Carolina dd can not read this!!