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By TRACY MACK
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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