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The Red and Black « Thursday, August 9. 1990 » 3
Reading program needs volunteers
By GUY ADAMSON
Contributing Writer
“AjL/°P^ e understand that they are needed.
u e never ^ ave Pn °ugh people around here,” said
John Marshall, director of the Athens studio of Re
cording for the Blind, which provides textbooks and
academic resources to people who can’t read because
of a handicap.
The center is looking for volunteers to work as
readers and tape recorder operators and to perform
other jobs. RFB, a national non-profit organizaton, is
dependent on volunteers for most work done at the
studio.
"We need volunteers, specifically those experi
enced in the sciences,” Marshall said.
RFB lends recorded textbooks and other academic
material to persons who are blind, physically hand
icapped or perceptually disabled. Several other
sources — including the Library of Congress —offer
books on tape, but they don’t always have the text
books necessary for academic studies.
‘We try to pick up where they leave off,” Marshall
said. The RFB master tape library in Princeton, N.J.,
holds about 75,000 titles of academic material on
reel-to-reol tape available to qualified borrowers.
About 150 volunteers come each week for at least
one and one-half hours to read and monitor record
ings, duplicate and check tapes and do clerical work,
according to Marshall.
However, he said, the studio could use more than
300 volunteers making tapes each week.
Readers record books in areas in which they have
expertise so they can accurately explain any charts,
graphs or photographs in the textbooks. Accuracy is
very important, especially in math and science, Mar
shall said.
The center is looking for volunteers
to work as readers and tape
recorder operators
John Gaither, mass communications graduate
student and monitor for RFB, said the work isn’t
very difficult but it does take care and attention.
“I think a person has a responsibility to their com
munity beyond just paying taxes and voting,”
Gaither said.
Volunteers go through a training period before
they can audition to be readers, Marshall said. They
are judged by their vocal qualities and their knowl
edge of the subject in which they are auditioning.
Marshall asks for at least one and one-half hours
from each volunteer, he said.
“Some would come in every day if we needed
them,” he said.
The system goes into action when a qualified bor
rower requests a book. If available on tape already,
it’s sent out from the national library to the bor
rower. If it’s not already on tape, the borrower sup
plies two copies to one of RFB’s 32 studios, and the
book is then recorded on tape.
“It is my goal when a book comes in to have it out
in three months,” Marshall said.
The average book takes six to eight cassette tapes
— 24 to 30 hours to record.
RFB is strictly privately-funded, according to Mar
shall. The local fall fund drive collects money from
individuals and corporations. The Lions Club is a
mty'or donor to RFB, providing almost one-third of
the budget.
Teenagers can’t see through the smoke
By CATHY FERRIS
Staff Writer
Do teen-agers heed the warnings
on cigarette packages and tobacco
advertisements?
Medical College of Georgia re
searchers — with help from the
Henry W. Grady College of Journa
lism and Mass Communication —
are trying to determine just how
much influence the U.S. Surgeon
General’s warnings have on teens.
‘The warnings are probably the
most frequently seen public com
munication on the tobacco issue,
and probably the least effective,”
said Paul Fischer, associate pro
fessor in the MCG Department of
Family Medicine.
Journalism professor Dean
Krugman nnd several other jour
nalism professors are helping in
the design and execution of the
study, Krugman said.
Fischer, the principal investi
gator on the two-year study, said
it’s aimed at adolescents age 10 to
20, because they’re likely to be
come smokers.
If the warnings were targeted at
particular “risk” groups and tested
for effectiveness, they could be
useful, Fischer said.
"Currently nobody looks at
them, nnd if they look at them,
they do hot relate to them,” he said.
Researchers will study several
groups of teen-agers from Atlanta
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