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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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emotional and spiritual well beinj
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."