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Jenrette editorial criticized To the Editor: I could not help but find your 4 * (~\ r\i n i An ' ' nrli f rv**l o 1 i U v/^iu ivmi vuuv;t idl ill 111C November 18th edition of the "Gamecock" very amusing. It seems that the "Gamecock" has now joined the bandwagon with "The State" in continually criticizing U.S. Rep. John Jenrette. Your suggestion that Congressman Jenrette should be denied the position of Deputy Whip because of "sloppy bookkeeping" reflects the integrity of your editorial staff. i ii. * - 1l jumi tienreiie is me most progressive member of the South Carolina delegation. His influence in Congress was apparent when House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader "Tip" O'Neil, freshman class president Fred Richmond, and other members of 6 } - Congress were in the sixth district stumping for his re-election. Also, let's don't forget that Jimmy Carter has visited the sixth district twice in the last two years to push Jenrette's re-election. Despite the corrupt campaign practices used against him by his opponent and the press, John Jenrette was overwhelmingly reelected by the people of the sixth district. In two short years, his leadership abilities have been recognized by the Congress, the President-elect, and most importantly, the people of his district. I'm confident that if elected, John Jenrette will make an outstanding . Deputy Whip in the United States ' Congress. ROBERT B. BROWN Addixh There is no other country that idolizes fairness and equality and has rid itself of so much inequality as the United States. Yet we continue to deny to some individuals the freedom we have in the past fought to secure. These individuals are deemed dangerous to society, and in some cases, rightly so. Murderers, rapists and other violent criminals must be denied their freedom, for their own protection as well as society's. nun v? vi y All UU14 III Vvdl Ulllld persons who have committed nonviolent crimes such as property crimes are also imprisoned. It's not that such criminals should not be punished, but their punishment i J/*1V JU_ George Ed Mickey Trimarchi News Editor Catherine Thrift Boh Asst News Editor Ad M Alyce Ko/ma Gene ( Copy Desk Chief Photo Marciuerite Rvan ?;nc.ar> Graduate Assistant Productic THE GAMECOCK welcomes letters from its subject and a maximum of 300 words. They Pseudonyms or other aliases will not he us< circumstances warrant. To assist us in ver I your mailing address and a telephone numb I class standing and major, also. We reserve tl 1 to meet our space limitations. Address: C< \ USC, Columbia, S.C. 29708 ?? i' / "r-rr7~"TS-r~" ^ ? v^7 zzZjOI~~ ' L ...There's no place like home.. pi isyii | should be a more productive one, attitude aboi not only for the prisoner, but for up," McCuer the state as well. In seeking S.C. Department of Corrections these proble Commissioner William Leeke said developed a in a Nov. 19 article in The Carolina plan that wil Reporter that about 68 per cent of State Budge the 7,000 inmates in South Carolina this month, prisons committed non-violent Included ir crimes. program ca The department's public in- release, an e: formation officer, Sam McCuem, developed in said South Carolina has the highest operation. In per capita imprisonment rate in prisoners li the nation. Only Georgia and North centers, payi Carolina incarcerate more norsnns ?nri hnarH v in relation to their population. munity. In "We need money to provide prisoners wo more humane treatment of their sentenc prisoners and we need a change in work in the corrections ^ | vision. Parol '1 1 I Th?sta,e w? I re-imprison t cKuiaiiuns i /v\orris " itor More thar Karen Whitaker been involve Editorial Page Editor release prOf King Billy Baker f anager Sports Editor LJ Mitch Sherwood " iiiaiu Sally Wilson Eai'?r Asst. Sports Editors To the KdltO Drayton H; Paquet Chuck Cromer ?jmp mor n Manager Entertainment Editor I k,' 10' early Neil Si its pre-adole readers. Letters should be limited to a single brainless bn must be signed with the writer's true name. an,i id, but the writer's name will be withheld if dliu d&aui icti ifying the identity of writers, please include abject nadir er where you can be reached. Please include a ? lp-ict f hf he right to edit all letters, not for content, but smpus Opinion, The Gamecock, Drawer A, followed UJX) ^ The author i I i^?? yY^^^/y^^TSM .there's no place like home...then ' The Gi plan Od I _ it locking everybody McCuen said. Persons doing w i said. the current program woul( alleviation of some of allowed to participate in the se rn C tho rlonortmnn< nUnnn it 14 1- < u, viav uvpui |juasc 11 11 is> approved. 10-year improvement General Assembly must app 1 be presented to the the extended program this sj t and Control Board because the corrections de ment may not have legal auth i the plan is a to instigate it. lied extended work Problems of the state p xtension of a program system will not be less' 1968 and currently in overnight by one legislature the current program, one program? but changes ii ive in work-release titude toward persons lafc ing $5 a day for room criminal must begin today. 1 >ut work in the com- persons are human. They shou the new program, allowed to work for their uld, in the last year of support. Judging by Let :e, be able to live and support of the new program community under the legislature would be doing 5 department's super- Carolinians a disfavor by faili le would not be given, approve and appropriate m uld retain the right to for the extended program an anyone violating the necessary phases of the >f the program. provement plan, i 6,000 inmates have Erazim Kohak said in the Ai d in the current work issue of Harper's, "The hum; {ram since it began, whose fate concerns m< ^ssionalism lacking ir r: all's "Page One" was more than a waste the homos* ley, and effort. This ghastly parody of lobotomize mon (circa "Star-Spangled Girl"), with of sex was scent and happy-go-lucky buddies, two dullard, oads, one Thoroughly Nauseous Nelly, I suggesl I nonentities, has surely been the most each hollov of the season. bland pill, j play's quality was consistent?bum line entry in th ?n bum line with predictable monotony. rehashed the hackneyed stereotypes of b's no place tike home../J mecockj union . j ell in something more fragile and f i be precious, the moral ideal of cond humanitas, humanity as an ideal The rather than a fact. It is the con>rove viction that mankind has value and >ring dignity, not just needs and uses, part- and that the purpose of human life ority is not simply to be born, to reproduce and to die . . . but to rison bring to fruition the full human ened capacity for freedom, truth and and justice." i at- As long as humanity continues to , ieiea strive lowara tne ideal, and fail, 'hese prisons will be necessary. But this Id be state's prisons mock humanity, own The purpose of our prisons is to ;ke's protect society, not purposelessly , the lock up individuals who could serve Jouth their sentences under supervision ng to in the community with less cost to oney the state. a ail Nov/ it is up to the legislature, im- and South Carolinians, to re- f evaluate the state criminal igust justice system and to recognize anity the need for a change in attitude 8 is toward non-violent otfenders. 1 'Page One' ixual?(how gauche and kinky!)?and the d female with a vengeance. Even a touch * thrown in to attract the most recalcitrant L the use of a mechanical laughtrack after v crack, in the fashion of sugar to coat the "Page One" will be a most embarrassing e American College Theatre Festival. TIM BEALL T