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Law
Congress passes bill requiring
colleges to release crime statistics
It is a basic right. It is the right to know.
For years, Americans have been able to obtain or read about the
kinds of crimes going on in their neighborhoods. However, at
many colleges and universities, students are not able to find out
about crimes occurring in their campus neighborhoods.
Many colleges and universities, including USC, already release
information about crime on their campuses to the state law enforcement
divisions and to students via student newspapers.
The other federally aided colleges and universities might be
forced to release their crime information if President Bush signs
"The Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Bill." The bill
passed the Senate, its final Congressional hurdle, Wednesday.
Requiring crime statistics to be reported each year to students
and employees, the bill was introduced over a year ago by Rep.
Bill Goodling, R-Pa.
Goodling should be commended for his efforts.
USC Vice President of Law Enforcement and Safety Carl
Stokes said last spring that requiring universities to publish crime
statistics would be costly.
"If it's mandated, this is going to be costly, and the cost is going
to be passed to the student paying tuition," he said.
But publishing the information would be cheaper for USC than
messy legal oattie like the one at Southwest Missouri State
University.
Traci Bauer, a student at SMSU, is suing her university because
it put restrictions on university police record availability to their
student newspaper.
Bauer is receiving national attention and support from the Society
of Professional Journalists, which is using its Legal Defense
Fund to assist Bauer.
However, if President Bush signs the bill into law, Southwest
Missouri will be forced to release the crime information.
USC students should feel fortunate that crime information is already
released to them through The Gamecock because one of the
best ways to prevent crime is to make students aware that it does
exist.
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NC-17 rating i
From now on when you look through the movie
section of the paper you're going to see a _
new rating among the well known G, PG,
PG-13 and R. The new NC-17 rating V/as finally
adopted for movies that may contain more
violence, sex and other adult subject matter than
the sort of movie that would get an R rating.
The first movie to be shown in Columbia
under the No-Children-Under-17 rating is
Henry and June, a movie about the love affair
of Henry Miller and two other women. I was th
very excited when I opened the paper this dc
morning to see that this feature would be open- m
ing in Columbia on Friday. I heard about this ra
film over the summer, but I figured that be- pc
cause it was slated for an X rating, it would be as
one of those movies that would make it to our in
fair, Bible-belt town about two years after its to
original release for a two or three day run at the m
Nickelodeon.
I think the NC-17 rating will prove to be very
beneficial for those in the movie-going public ca
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>n't have to shy away from sensitive subject
atter for fear of getting an X rating. The X
ting had been a stigma to films ever since the
>rnographic movie industry began using the X
its signature, but the X rating was originally
tended to be much like the new NC-17 merely
signify films that contained adult subject
atter.
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many theaters did not want to deal with
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team. Well, we ask the band and the studen
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to get our crowd ence.' Since then, I hav
spirit of the game. much criticism about th<
long struggle, our in it, American art anc
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compared to Europea
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football team does was that American lite
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he games. Maybe Europe has more pror
)uld appreciate the litical and economic pr
ou were to attend solve, and its art (like
^rnoon rehearsals. more or less faithful rel
lices from 5 to 7 reality) has to touch u
through Thursday issues. American art ha
Police Station on what different agenda
Iso have rehearsals issues to recreate. Thus,
ly mornings before portant that Americans
. These rehearsals contact with European ai
>r adult films
the controversy that might be caused by running
such a movie. Film makers were often forced to
edit movies in order to receive an R rating.
These film makers often petitioned the Motion
Picture Association of America, an independent
organization that puts ratings on movies, to create
a new rating. But the MPAA balked on the
prospect of a new rating for years and changed
their mind only recently.
I hope the new NC-17 rating means better
movies will begin coming out of Hollywood. I
do realize there will probably be a lot of trash
coming out of Hollywood as directors make use
of their new freedoms with sex and violence.
But most of the Hollywood movies weren't all
that good anyway. One can only hope that those
few movies which are really good will now
have more room to be even better. So with mo
vies like "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" and
"Henry and June" (I don't think the Henrys are
related) now coming to theaters near you,
maybe I'll see you there.
a. and last to see how political and economic
hours. This difficulties condition us. Likewise,
the Round Europeans will benefit from obwill
bring serving how American art portrays
t body to a entanglements that a very dyach
other. namic social and family structure
Freeman maY present.
iophomore Students who take courses in art
or literature (however much we
ayr grumble about being forced to
^ sometimes) soon realize how
|? novels or movies help us all underlie
stand why people behave the way
they do. They are able to discern
more effectively why we accept or
The Game- rebel against given situations, why
ter to the we are satisfied or dissatisfied with
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s fact that, ?ur main g031 in life ?s, to be
I taste did sure, t0 attain lasting happiness
r favorably an(i satisfaction. Art helps us on
n art and that score. It entertains us and
helps us detect and deal with our
>re foreign
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?r worthier Rambo are, for those students
hat I said trained to observe and criticize art,
rature and as g??d as any other movies; it is "
stinctively Just a matter of preference of style.
European, These students, these people, can
arities still recognize the values being dethis
is that fended or criticized by the movie
n realities and are able to contrast them with
their own. Those who lack a minininent
po- mal training in art or literature are
oblems to more aPl 10 toing confused and
all art a manipulated by art; they will not
flection of reaHy know what they like in art
pon those ^e; ma^e rash judgs
a some- ments about both. Consequently,
of social personal satisfaction and happiness
it is im- bec?me harder to come by.
come into Manuel Lirola
t, in order English graduate student