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Jenrette
editorial
criticized
To the Editor:
I could not help but find your
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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more humane treatment of their sentenc
prisoners and we need a change in work in the
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it locking everybody McCuen said. Persons doing w
i said. the current program woul(
alleviation of some of allowed to participate in the se
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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
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mecockj
union
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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.
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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
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