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Crime Chicago mayor's anti-crime proposal to block streets dangerous, isolating Crime. It's an ugly word. One we would rather not have to deal with. But unfortunately, it is everywhere, ranging from muggings in Five Points to brutal rapes and murders in New York City. It has become an epidemic, affecting most of the population either directly or to a friend or family member. There have been plenty of ideas and solutions introduced by various individuals and organizations to combat crime. Everybody from government officials and police departments to civic leaders and church groups have introduced into the public forum possible solutions to the crime problem. But most of these have had some fundamental flaw, whether they be too expensive, constitutionally questionable or unfeasible. The debate continues over highly volatile issues such as capital punishment, illegal search and seizures and prisoner rehabilitation. Another idea to add to the long list of controversial solutions to fight crime is Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's idea to block streets off to limit criminals' movements. The plan would require building concrete barriers at strategic entry points into some of Chicago's more crime-ridden neighborhoods. Because Chicago is a planned city, somewhat similar to Columbia, the street pattern makes up a large grid. Daley says this allows criminals to drive straight through neighborhoods, making it i^aw Duuaing snuuiu aoi take journalism space Can't the folks in the Osborne Administration Building ever get This past Thursday, USC recommended that the new Justice ? Department law center, expected to bring in as many as 15,000 people each year to the Columbia area, be 1 - * built on the Business Administration parking lot. The center, which will increase PATRICK USC's visibility nationally, is VILLEGAS expected to bring in enormous revenues to the university and Columbia. recently reaccredited the USC jourBut, you see, there's one prob- nalism department, said one of the lem. school's weaknesses is its lack of Journalism faculty members and space, students have been under the And if you want to find a journotion that the land recommended nalism student so you can ask them for the law center was originally how bad they need a new building, going to be used for a new journal- just search for people with the ism building. biggest calf muscles. In a 1989 USC College of Journalism students probably Journalism guide to prospective have the best leg strength of all stuhigh school and transfer students, a dents because they are lorced to first-page article staled "the facility run at Mach speeds from the will be located in the East Campus Humanities area to Carolina area near the Business Coliseum and dodge the antics of Administration and the Humanities Columbia's finest drivers on and Social Sciences complexes Assembly Street so they can make where students attend many of their jt on time for class each day. classes. 3ul enough of the whining. Alter 1 hursday s recommenda- What we still have left is a jilted t,on, n seem* M,c university s unjversjty department that has no heavy hand ,s maktng hars of the aiamive bul 10 wait unlil thc mil. journalism department and lools ol , ; jn ? the many tournaltsm students, like n , ... me, who thought they would be ^ Studen S tfCully have taught in a brand new facility. f ready *e" hed ,0< aPP^ntAs it stands now, journalism stu- y' Uie USC administration thinks dents and faculty members have 0yaLl^/s mean*nclessbeen waiting years to get out from USC President John Palms has under the Carolina Coliseum and sa*d ^usdce Uepaitment diinks onto a part of the campus that is" l^e ^esl l?cati?n l?r the center is more logical and respectable. Any on USC s campus, and I totally broadcasting professor can tell you agree. The question, however, is that the basement of the coliseum where is the best campus location is not the best place for a television 10 build the facility, studio, much less a reputable jour- My solution? Build the joumalnalism department. ism building where it was originalIn addition, the Accrediting ly planned, and stick all the federal Council on Education in Journalism trainees in the basement of the and Mass Communication, which Coliseum where they belong. I r FS I Future com Committees are necessary things, bet God love 'em, aren't they? I mean, the reallv. thev are. I personally feel the where we preach to each other and T hope to make some type of impres- D sion. Q Once the immediate problem has C receded and a level of tolerance has B again been reached, we return to the same lifestyle we maintained el NEWSROOM ffj 777-7726 ^ P.O. BOX 85131 I Editor in Chief Associate Editors Viewpoint Editor Copy Desk Chief News Editors Asst. News Editors Carolina! Editor Asst. Carolina! Editor Sports Editors Photo Editor Asst. Photo Editor VjIdpilKS LUIIUI Asst. Graphics Editor Cartoonist Copy Editors Student Media Coordinator Production Manager Asst. Production Manager Advertising Manager Faculty Adviser Graduate Assistant Darkroom Technicians we're better together than apart. Others must believe that, too, when adi they form committees. ing Sitting around with a group is sor great: hashing out ideas, others his thinking of things you didn't and ret you thinking of things others gli haven't. Depending on how well cu the group gets along, things get th< done, questions get answered. the A lot of things get done by com- th< mittee. Maybe that's why there are adj so many of them. dej And USC has a new one. It's called the Future Committee, un Quite a name, isn't it? "ti Anyhow, the function of the Pa committee seems to be to prepare coi the university for the future. gr< Seems like South Carolina's Th budget deficit kind of sneaked up lio on everyone, and now USC is forced to look to the future and tol make some educational plans we So can afford to pay for, literally, eo Some departments have recently als been in the position where they wl couldn't replace retiring professors mc Attendance i When the necessity of culturally pr diverse groups on a university cam- Ai pus is questioned, race is the issue. at When cries of preferential treat- be ment and reverse discrimination ring through the halls of USC, race tal is the issue. st< From today through Wednesday st<at the USC School of Law, race is T1 the issue. mi Addressing the subject of race in la South Carolina and discussing it in to a forum should not be startling, ev After all, South Carolina has had ra racial difficulties for hundreds of ne years. tli Yet, we, as South Carolinians, vi often tolerate, and sometimes approve, the status quo until there th is some major disruption to our ol lifestyle. Then action comes in the "I form of reaction to the disruption. Ja We make and accept enough 7: concessions necessary to smooth h; things over, but nothing more, oj Those concessions often include ei "shouting matches" between the races, or "feel-good" sessions S' ? P T^-nl 1 iggg\i u: JAP c _: i: 'S^ mittee :ause they needed p ; money to pay ir phone bills. At the facultyninistration meet; Jan. 15, a profestold how he and ; colleagues had illy been strus ng with ways to ' t $180,000 from iir budget. And :n they heard about i hiring of the iunct teacher from the partment for $10,000. Make no mistake abo iversity has already bei gilt" times, and, at thai 1ms and Moeser asked nsider what to do if i UTis were cut another 1 ere's a possibility of n shortfall in the next f< It's also possible, fac d, things will actually me predict an upswii onomy. So Palms am ,o asked the faculty tc rat programs they migl mies are increased 6 pe imports ior to the incident, f nd the underlying titudes have not en changed. \\ J t~\ r\ n n Jiirl Atifn YYC, (1$ o lUliWIl lo, ke few substantive 2ps toward underinding each other, lis realization has oiivated a group of w students to put gether a series of ems we hope will L ise the conscious:ss of the campus and e beliefs and values o dual students. As most of you alret is three-day event will f with appearances t 3ay" Buchanan and the ickson today at 6:30 30 p.m., respectively, is spoken, the flooi lened to questions Iron ice. Sheila Tohnson-Cl CETV will moderati uesday at 12:15 p.m. cc r. Laveta Small. Pro I uirk, Christian Adair ahaly, Stephen Benjai lack, Richard Bolen anc In addition to the 011ists, there will be facul 153 JNIVERSITY i Pdtri( Lee Clont/., J.T. V\ Gordc n-: , Ui Id Jack Dunn, Melis Lea Clayton, Rochelle K Jenr Melind ..Nancy Sajomonsky, Ti Stephar Kel urej Chris Chris Davis, Tho Jin Re E Brio Erin Galloway, Rika 1 :?^ R?St PENT PAlMS. SC's NEW 8UPGET ? MlNlSTtfAToft IS HERE. > ml full of same f; And so the administration says it needs a new committee, the Future Committee. And, of ^ ,, course, Palms wants to "shape" the strengths of USC according to his philosophy. ANN Some departments WINCHELL ma,y bt combi"<;<i with others to make one where there highway were two. All over the country, moves like ut it, the this are beins made to meet budget nin. Brum versity with such diverse cultures. 1 myself. Only students can begin to initiate stage pan- the one-on-one contact with othei ty and stu- students that is so crucial to disi iriftcocl OF SOUTH CAROLINA CC O 'enhemi Gamecock 's Studenl >n Mantler South Carolina and is published n Garland Wednesdays and Fridays during isaTennen weekly during both summer, ses .illingbeck versity holidays and examination Opinions expressed in The C a VValdrop \ r m Thorsen or aut"or anc> not those of the Un lie Newlin The Board of Student Publica lv Johnson publisher of The Gamecock. The gory Perez parent organization of The Game* Nn,ld,T Change of address forms, si Paul Jon , .. rnrresnnndenre should he sent ti m narman r 1 McKellar The University of South Carolina, Laura Day Subscription rates are $46 a Jim Green Columbia, SC. The Gamecock is n\e<^ nS?n Universitv of South Carolii .rik Collins in McCuire dent activity fees. Hashimoto sn having needs. Big changes may happen : meeting, dial will affect the quality of edufacully to cation, one way or another, their pro- ''Trimming the fat" can only 2 percent, improve education, but some a $5 mil- departments may have to trim the 2\\ years. "lean" too. ulty were Moeser explained at the meeting get better, that the committee is supposed to ng in die "guide" this process, whether the j Moeser university has diminishing or grow> consider ing funds. hi fund if But the problem is this. The facrcent. ulty already has in place diree comint at race relat ^ dent leaders in the front row of the / * audience to stimulate discussion. The purpose of the panel is I to allow these memI bers of the USC I r?Ammiinit\; trv HpoI IWMr : v,. VW11I111UIUIJ IW UVU1 specifically with cultural difficulties CARL experienced here at SOLOMON usc_____________J The student-faculty forum, like all the challenge scheduled events, is designed to f the indi- foster debate that is challenging, yet organized. The moderator will idy know, move to students throughout the be kicked auditorium to ensure maximum >y Angela participation. Rev. Jesse Although there are some segp.m. and ments of this community that have After each chosen not to be represented, those r will be in attendance will vary greatly in 1 the audi- ideological viewpoints, as well as areas of involvement. However, taney of even this diverse group needs the 2 a panel involvement of the student body to insisting of cover all areas. William Only students can identify the is, Robert everyday problems at a major uni 1 > II I \ ilu VJORK For [ I/ 6M A Hm) WHIUS aces, ideas mittees that "guide" USC management. The Welfare, Advisory and Budget committees in the faculty senate have been "guiding" for years. Things haven't been perfect, but what system is? And no one has been brought in from outside the campus. The in improving racial relations at : USC. For the good of all at USC, please attend. ADVERTISING % 777-4249 V HUMBIA, SC 29208 t newspaper of the University' of three times a week on Mondays, the fall and spring semesters and sions, with the exception of uniperiods. iamecock are those of the editors iversitv of South Carolina, tions and Communications is the Student Media Department is the ~nr k. ubscriptions, requests and other > The Gamecock, P.O. Box 85131, , Columbia, SC 29208. year. First class postage paid at a registered student organization na and is partially funded by stu committee is made up of the same people who have been doing things all along ?just rearranged. Ten good people are being asked to take on additional duties in a year when most faculty are teaching more classes than before, and graduate students are scarcer because there's no money to pay them. What's the advantage to a new committee? Will others in the faculty have any input? If 10 together is better than 10 apart, then surely the number of faculty in the Welfare, Advisory and Budget committees would have been even better. These are trying times. Why create work when it isn't necessary? Hons forum pelling untruths about those different from themselves. In my opinion, the student-faculty panel is the most important event on the agenda. The three-day event will conclude with a forum of high-profile panelists: the Honorable Alex Sanders, president of the College of Charleston, Tom Edsall of The wasnington kosi, cmni uoiick, kon Walters from Howard University and Charles White, NAACP regional youth director. This panel has been charged with the formidable task of identifying possible solutions to intercultural problems. The combined educational backgrounds and experiences of the panelists provide a firm foundation from which to embark on such a task. Again, I want to stress how crucial student-panelist interaction is to the success of this endeavor. As shown by the opportunity for student involvement at each event, the members of the forum committee are convinced that student involvement is the most imnnrtnnt element easy to commit drive-by shootings, rapes and other homicides, and then escape. He says they'll basically "cul-de-sac the city." But many residents feel blocking oft the roads will not keep the criminals out but, in actuality, keep them blocked in, isolated from the rest of the city. This seems to be quite a valid concern. Will sporadic barriers throughout a neighborhood actually keep the criminals out? Barriers will make it more difficult for police and emergency crews to gain entry into the community, but they will probably not be anything more than a minor inconvenience to criminals. A large number of crimes are committed on foot, and in the past, even bicycles have provided an easy way to escape. Besides, drive-by shootings still do not make up a large percentage of the homicides in the U.S., even though they are usually the most publicized. If Chicago follows through with Daley's proposal, we will have the opportunity to see if the barriers work. But the doubts and fears are there. Will it actually limit crime or just isolate the most dangerous neighborhoods that much more? Coming soon... a new political comic by Jack Ohman. Also look for NonSequitur in the comic section. T 1 *11 _i u X