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CCI pi educates By Jamie Collom Gamecock Staff Writer The treatment of prisoners in the United States is a disgrace, and it is the duty of society to help them with plans like the Columbia Correctional Institute's college education program, a USC history professor said. John P. Dolan is one of several USC professors who teach courses at CCI. He said the inmates at the facility are more academically inclined than many USC students. "The inmates are very adult and mature. I have a good rapport with thnm nnri am faunrahlu imnroccoH M?av? Ma?a **>? va ga?S|/k VUUVV* by the students," he said. Dolan, a former counselor at the National Training School for Boys and a military chaplain following World War II, makes two trips to the prison each week to teach "Early Modern European History." DOLAN'S INVOLVEMENT with the prisoners stems from his feelings about the criminal justice system in me unuea siaies. " ine treatment of prisoners in our country is a disgrace, and our laws are in need of revision. Prisoners are the victims of society. We have an obligation to them. They are paying their debt to society, and now it's our turn to help them," he said. USC has developed the education system for prisoners in conjunction with CCI. Requirements for entry into the program are the same as for students applying for USC. The various courses offered are taught by USC professors on a vnluntarv hnsis Graduation from the inmate program is identical to the graduation procedure from the university. One-hundred-twenty hours must be earned for a bachelor's degree, and 60 must be achieved for an associate's degree. A new education building has been constructed for students at CCI. Classes will be taught in the current classrooms until early afternoon, and late afternoon and evening courses will be conducted in the new education section. A new library has also been planned, but facilities for its interior have not arrived yet. AN INDIVIDUALIZED Man power Training Services laboratory room in available for inmates with a grade school to high school education level. The learning lab is used to sharpen obillo ?A ..11 avauciuiv oiviiio cinu id wpun iu an prisoners. Slides, tapes and workbooks can be checked out so inmates may work at their own pace. The new education complex has enhanced CCI's education program, Layne Coleman, chief of education for the facility, said. Small groups of students once met for classes in the CCI hospital rn ?* *. M A VV V/^ Nationally-recognized running ex| will be a keynote speaker at the ar tivities beginning April 14. Sheehan's talk, "Running and Bei House Ballroom as ^art of the v seminars to promote positive health Open Door Health Program. Sheehan, a noted running authori medical editor for Runner's World ir pther health experts scheduled 1 talks during the week include: Dr. nutrition author; Dr. Walt Stroll, structor on stress management; an and lecturer. Local health specialists from t Education and the Columbia area w emotional and spiritual well beinj exercise, losing weight, nutrition, a ogram pi IOWUC1 o John P. Do/an, history professor before adequate classrooms were supplied, he said. All prisoners at CCI are required to participate in a "work area", .program. The work area requirement can be fulfilled by cafeteria, maintenance or construction work, but the education program is also considered part of the program, so prisoners do not have to work and study. Inmates who labor for their work area project gain Earned Work Credits, while students at the prison do not. The credits can shorten prison sentences and help in gaining early parole. The administrators at CCI have not found a method of rewarding students taking courses. Paul Ulmer, principal of school programs at CCI, said if earned work credits were given to the college program participants, every inmate would enroll in courses for the benefits. 4'The students involved in the college program are serious about an education. Thev're not looking for any extra advantages of attending classes other than the selfimprovement of it," he said. LEON THOMAS, a student in the inmate program, said "Our reward is the satisfaction of knowing we're bettering ourselves. Even if I was paid E.W.C. it would be secondary." Students at the USC campus can get involved with the CCI program by joining the Alston Wilkes society, a non-prom organization that works with juvenile offenders and half-way houses. There are also numerous volunteer services. Inmates participating in the education program want to be recognized as human beings, Ihomas said. "We want to be accepted as people, not animals from another planet. Although we've committed a crime, we don't want to be thought of as lesser human beings," he said. CCI's college program has been in existence for nine years. The program is funded through a Workstudy grant, a Basic Education Opportunity Grant and Veteran's Benefits. A minimal amount of money comes from South Carolina taxpayers. ik 9 planned !>ert and physician George Sheehan inual Health Enrichment Week acng," is set for 7 p.m. in the Russell veek's activities of speakers and i habits. It is sponsored by the USC ty, is a cardiologist, columnist and tagazine. to conduct workshops and present Jean Mayer, a food columnist and a medical center director and ind Patricia Sun, a psychic counselor the USC College of Health and ill also lead workshops on physical, Topics to be covered include ssertiveness training, sleep, fears, r'l \ ' 4 ? '? ? jfj Campu! By Leroy Williams Gamecock Staff Wrtt?f SAT. MARCH 22 ? A false fire alarm was activated at the McBryde Quadrangle. A tree limb broke a student's rear window and damaged his left rear fender and trunk lid. The top pane of a window of Thomas Cooper Library was damaged ; by a pellet gun. A false fire alarm was activated at the Roost. The front windshield and rear glass from a car was hrnkpn in Ratoc Uaiico ?&/UVW A IVWOV pai I\lllg 1UI. A city garage employee hit a guard rail on Bull Street while attempting to tow a car from a fire lane. FRI. MARCH 21 ? The display glass in a Maxcy lobby vending machine was broken; all the display merchandise was taken except for three packages of crackers. A Cushman scooter parked near the Computer Center loading ramp was overturned, damaging its windshield and fender. A cold drink vending machine in the Coliseum was broken into; nothing was taken A Wadp Hnmntnn Hotel residence hall director saw some fire extinguisher chemical on a hall floor, and pulled a fire alarm. A compressor was stolen from the shop area on Henderson Street. A student left her purse in a desk in the Science Annex to go to lunch, when she returned, it was missing. A man was arrested for trespassing in the Thomas Cooper Library. T11URS. MARCH 20 ? An AM/FM radio cassette player was stolen from a parked car in the Wade Hampton Hotel parking lot. Four wheel covers were stolen from a parked car on Whaley Street. A student's wallet was taken from a purse on a desk in Coker Life Sciences building. A car in the Bates House parking lot was found with all four wheels missing. A North Carolina license nlofA tuof ? 1 * * * Kic*w. nao lciivcii li um a car parKea in mossom Street garage. Reporter tells Jo Energy crisi The energy crisis is a fraud manufactured by the "millionaire l totalitarian socialists" in tlfc Washington, said Alan Stang, an investigative reporter, in his 4 ojjtcv-ii uciwi c uic gicuici -x Columbia John Birch Society Friday night. Opinion and The Review of the News magazines and has a radio commentary program broadcast fj over 100 stations in the United :| ^ : _ Jl&iit States. | ? j Stang said the energy crisis is | | contrived, based on reports of vast 1 J J :|| ^ energy resources in the United jV J^ffSuV* States and on a Department of jjlfpf^ Energy emergency planning guide which provided the staging of fake energy emergencies from 1978 to 1981 * Alan Stana. USING NEWSPAPER and news News he magazine articles from 1970 to the "contrived" present, Stang quoted reports of vast oil and natural gas supplies in Iran." "This i the United States. conceivable < present in abui Stang quoted from a 1972 issue of States," Stang Fortune magazine that the natural gas supply in the U.S. was STANC. SAI1 estimated to be 6,600 trillion cubic has been ma feet, enough gas to last 300 years at government ar 1972 usage rates. and the Amei "unwitting | Qfantf chnn/nH iKa nn/tiAii/tA ! MAtrAmkika* % oiiunvu un; auuicuvc i h\;vciuia;i vi l headlines from a 1974 Los Angeles New York Tin Herald-Examiner which read, about the pre] "Possible World Oil Surplus Energy Em? Looms" and a 1978 headline, Guide which n "Natural Gas Surplus Looms." fake energy e the country as i In August of 1977, Business Week and local prep ran the headline "We're drowning three years, in oil." with a storv in which a Shell Durimr the Oil spokesman admitted that Shell which hit Calif was deliberately stocking up year, Stang sai tankers in the Gulf of Mexico and was quoted a decreasing imports to help get rid nation needs a of the surplus, Stang said. shortages to fa crisis. Carter Stang read from a Parade energy legislat magazine article from last Sep- said demonstn tember which said California and was tR* onlv i Utah had enough heavy oil and tar *orce corwress sands "to be in the same class as stang said 01 s crime? WED. MARCH 19 ? A dumpster on the north side Of Woodrow dormitory was set afire; two residents put out the fire. A car parked near Woodland Terrace was found with the passenger jj side door unlocked and the glove compartment torn open; nothing was taken. A campus police officer confiscated a .22 caliber pistol from a room in Wade Hampton Hotel. .... ;1|. TUES. MARCH 18 ? Two hundred dollars was stolen from a student sleeping in the Towers lounge. Some luggage was stolen from the Columbia Hall luggage storage room. A student was informed by campus police that his car was involved in an accident on Bull Street. The left front tire of a student's car was stolen while it was parked in the Booker T. Washington lot. A student's car parked in the Russell House was entered and damaged. MON. MARCH 17 ? A CB radio and a bottle of cologne were taken from a car in the Carolina PnllDlltri norbinrt ?' ? ? 1 * ' " V/VIIVUIII (/airvuig iui. owl lie UdlllUUU SlXipS lfl d [1 trash can in the Laborde dormitory lobby were set on fire; the carpet around the can was also burned. A swivel chair was stolen from the South ' Building lounge. A fence on the Faculty House's iif east side was damaged. A motorcycle wa&rn overturned near Columbia Hall, damaging its \ handlebar grip and brake lever. A window of a car parked in Blossom Street garage was broken. A j water fountain on "F" athletic field was damaged. A student's purse was stolen from the Russell House Ballroom ; it contained a wallet, checkbook and pair of glasses. Two students told police that they received threatening phone calls; the cases were unrelated. A painting was stolen from the Caroliniana Library. A wallet was stolen from an unattended purse in the D.e. renter's wom^n'Q locker room. * I ? " 1 ' " 1 .1 HI Lin/ hn Birch Society s'fraudulent' T|.H ' ^W K I / MBBmBfa iil B?th Jerviirtgs - GAMECOCK reporter for American Opinion and The Review of )/ds up one of many articles criticizing America's energy crises. is proof that every there would be someone to blame energy source is for the energy crisis. "Most people idanee in the United think of OPEC as an Arab said. organization, but it was founded in 1960 by an exiled Venezuelan, J THE energy crisis Pablo Perez, in New York City." nufactured by the The Arab oil embargo was a id the oil companies hoax, Stang said. During the rican public is the embargo, U.S. oil exports inguinea pig." In creased by 5 percent, he said. 978, Stang said, the nes carried a story STANDARD OIL, of Indiana was [?aration of a DOE advertising for 'new industrial urgency Planning customers during the embargo, loted plans to stage guaranteeing them a steady supply mergencies around of oil, Stang said. In Europe, two a drill in DflllffiC stato million Jamc a* A J- ' ? __ ... .. ?r>"" via ??-r?w vi oiiici iv.au vi uuc uii iredness in the next glutted the market and were sold below market prices. "During this gasoline shortage time, Americans were being told ornia in May of last they would have to get by with id, President Carter less," he said. s saying that the Stang places blame for the t few demonstrable energy hoax on the oil companies ? convinced of the and the government, but said, "At referred to his least the oil companies are taking ion in Congress and our money and giving us power in ition of the shortage return. The government has taken nethod available to $12 billion for the DOE and we have to act. not received one kilowatt of PEC was founded so power."