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Bold and the Beautiful: Stephanie had a heart attack and Eric
round her. Margo tried to seduce Clark, but he said he had to
work. Brooke told Eric about how Stephanie got a private detec-
bye to find their father. Ridge and Caroline are still In bed.
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Gilda’s book moving yet amusing;
Relates her struggles with cancer
By JEFFWOHL
Contributing Writer
It 8 Always Something" by Gilder Radner (Simon and
ochuster) Available in the library. For those who want
the hardcover it costs $18.95.
“It’s Always Something" is a funny, touching book
about how Saturday Night Live alumnus Gilda
Kadner coped with her struggles with cancer.
She writes in a conversational way that makes her
accessible to the reader. Radner seems like a friend
telling you about her life.
She describes her meeting with then-future hus
band Gene Wilder on the set of‘The Woman in Red.”
She speaks candidly about their attempts to have a
child. She explains medical terms about ovarian
cancer and the processes and treatments used.
She says like many illnesses, her cancer is a con
stant battle. Radner tries Eastern medicine, various
specialists and unusual techniques, as she works to
regain her health.
Some of the more interesting parts of the work are
the descriptions of her cancer support group. Most
■ BOOK REVIEW
people would not have knowledge of what happens
when cancer patients interact. It isn’t a popular sub
ject that is talked about very much. Radner makeB the
subject interesting and readable.
She discusses the nausea of chemotherapy, the
struggle to cope with her hair loss and the depression
of knowing she could die.
This isn’t a treatise on cancer. It’s a book by a come
dienne. There are funny passages. It is obvious she
knew her book was becoming depressing in places,
and Bhe included amusing anecdotes that related to
her life.
The book is very good and has been on the New
York Times best-seller list since it came out in the
middle of 1989.
The sad aspect of the story isn’t in the book. The
book ends with her finishing treatments and talking
about her plans for the future. She is full of optimism
and hope.
She died less than six months later.
Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder: Book candidly relates their attempts to have a child.
GSU teachers’ workshop left much to be desired for education majors
By tom McClendon
Contributing Writer
The first thing you noticed as
you came down the steps at the
Urban Life Center was the food, ta
bles and tables of it: oranges and
apples and bananas, giant plates of
cheese and cinnamon danishes,
steaming urns of coffee, hot tea
with real lemon.
The second thing you noticed
was the maze you had to run
through to get to the food. A care
fully constructed maze of tables,
each staffed by eager textbook
salespeople, prevented easy access
to the goodies. English teachers
from around the state of Georgia
eagerly passed through the
gauntlet, picking up posters and
teaching guides on their way to
pick up a blueberry muffin.
Among the experienced teachers
that went this last weekend was a
group of 28 teacher candidates
from the University. The group
came to the “Georgia, Write Now”
conference at Georgia State Uni
versity to pick up some pointers be
fore heading out to teach this
spring.
Some came primarily to hear
speakers such as Walter Dean
Myers, a noted author of young
adult fiction. Twice winner of the
Coretta Scott King Award, his
latest novels include “Fallen An
gels,” a novel about the Vietnam
experiences of a 17-year-old
Harlem boy, and “Scorpions,” a
tale of drug abuse and gang war
fare in modern-day New York.
Myers told an audience of about
150 about his own troubled youth,
and how he overcame a speech im
pediment to become a writer. The
most significant influence, he said,
was having a mother who read to
him and a father and grandfather
who loved to tell wild stories.
Myers’ grandfather, he said, told
him “God will get you” stories.
“All of hi9 stories had a moral,
and he had a story for whatever
you did wrong,” he said. “If you felt
the teacher was picking on you and
you didn’t like it, he would say,
‘you ever heard of Job?’
“But I realized later that from
my father and my grandfather I
learned the gift of story,” Myers
said.
Other students came to the con
ference to pick up pointers.
Workshops over the two-day con
ference covered topics ranging
from teaching ninth-graders to
write short stories to reading pic
ture books to seniors to help them
understand the rhythm of spoken
language. One session focused on
using ‘Twilight Zone” episodes to
teach elements of plot, point-of-
view and foreshadowing.
Sandi Hollomon, a senior En
glish Education m^jor, said she got
a lot of good ideas from the confer
ence, and seemed sold on the ‘Twi
light Zone” method.
“I think it would be of high in
terest to students,” she said. “And
you could have the students make
their own commercials from this. I
feel like I can take what I’ve
learned here and use it.”
Mark Mester is another senior
English Education major about to
head out to student-teach this
spring. He said he felt the confer
ence helped him crystallize his phi
losophy of teaching.
“I’d like to think mv teaching
style and the teaching I believe in
was reinforced by those I agreed
with -- and disagread with,” he
said. ‘There were a lot of ideas I
could adapt to what I want to do.”
Dr. Sally Hudson-Ross, an assis
tant professor in the Language Ed
ucation Department, said she
sponsored the trip to Atlanta for
her students for exactly these rea
sons. Working a booth at next
year’s National Conference of Tea
chers of English convention in At
lanta, she said she felt the
conference would teach more about
the real world in two days than she
could in the classroom.
“I wanted to make them feel a
part of a profession, and not just a
student teacher,” Hudson-Ross
said. “I also want them to be crit-
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ical consumers of what they see out
there. Just because someone says
this iB the right way to teach
doesn’t automatically make it the
right way.”
Bob Paul earned a degree in En
glish at Furman and is at the Uni
versity Beeking certification to
teach. Although he said he didn’t
get many great ideas from the con
ference, he did realize a few things.
“When I’m working with a stu
dent, helping them write, I have to
remember they’re people,” he said.
“Their self-esteem can grow
through writing. As a teacher, I
play a role in helping it develop.”
There were a few complaints.
Some students felt the book pub
lishers snubbed them, not thinking
they were real teachers.
‘The publishers didn’t take us
seriously,” said Ann Beth Strelec,
senior English Education major.
“But if they don’t think we’re going
to choose these books one day,
they’ve got another thing coming.”
Overall, though, most students
felt the conference was a positive
experience, with one complaint
Walter Myers: Award-win
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concerning the food temperature.
“I’ll tell you what. I didn’t like
those blueberry muffins being so
cold,” one student said. “They
should have been warmer.”
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