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"(Bail Serving USC Sine Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Susan < Editorial B< Keith Boudreaux, Lupe Eydi Jimmy DeButts, K Cryin' Shame Baseball season's imm greater blow to fans th In the past few weeks, many have bi the deep discussions of "salary ca what has not been as elusive is th< For what all the blustering and b stoppage, at least for this season, of A at this late hour there seems to be no On an economic level, the losses are hot dog vendors to ticket sellers. Unf< this debate has been on money. This doesn't fully encompass the entire issi repercussions are those that can't be ] The Nike "Play ball. Please." camp a game gone Hollywood. The ad with the vast, bare stands rings true with by their favorite game. For those seasoned fans and amate so promising will most likely end in d The pass-the-buck mind-frame tha beginning brought neither side closer lation that never graced the negotiatinj really matter whose fault it is the str that. If both sides had really been serioi strike wouldn't have happened. Evei have snuffed out the rest of the seasoi In the event that neither side wou Illustrated" decided to write its own ei The fictitious account began right afte ed with the Cubs winnine the World ! Though the piece was written as a uation is that it's probably the only re fated season. With no hope in site, fans, old and selves with a whimsical article and the ball don't mix. Abolishing possible sc r* PAT McNEILL a Columnist ^ For those of you who are con- ^ sidering a law enforcement career 8 here in South Carolina, I'd like for r you to answer a potential sample ^ question from the Department of a Corrections entrance exam: f Q: You have an inmate who has 1 been convicted of murder and sex c offenses. He is serving a life sen- e tence and appears to show very lit- ^ tie remorse. While in the trusty pro- 8 gram, he flunked a sobriety test and was apprehended while pur- 8 chasing drugs. What is your best f course of action: 1 a. Put him in solitary. b. Put him in detox. c c. Take him out of the trusty 8 program and keep him under tight ? supervision. ^ d. Give him a state vehicle and e let him run out to Food Lion for some toilet paper...alone. As you've probably guessed by v now, the correct answer is "d." This e is how convicted murderer and sex F offender Joseph Pooler was allowed ** to drive around in a South Caroli- 11 na Department of Corrections ve- c hide. Pooler used this privilege to ^ get drunk, buy drugs and sexually r assault an 11-year-old boy. This is yet another fine example of how F our state tax dollars are put to good ^ use. 8 Many of you might be wonder- * ing, "How could this happen?" Well, 0 according to the explanations of De- F partment of Corrections offirials, 0 Pooler was allowed to drive around F without supervision because they 0 did not believe Pooler would try to 3 escape. Of course, they were cor- 8 rect. Pooler, like any other inmate, had checked on the status of the j* economy and derided that his job security was a lot better in the slam- ? mer than on the outside. Not every jurisdiction handles * repeat offenders by loaning them ? state vehicles. My home state of ? Virginia is about to embark on a J1 new era of criminal rehabilitation. They are debating over the gover- ^ nor's plan to abolish parole in the s ft 1Ql5aiffeDck IS Student Media Russell House-USC* Coluir Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButts W Editor in Chief Sports Editor Susan Goodwin Kim Truett Viewpoints Editor Photo Editor Steven C. Burritt Gabriel Madden A1 Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor Keith Boudreaux Erin Galloway 1 News Editor Asst. News Lupe Eyde Robert Wertz J Features Editor Asst. News The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semes- 1** with the exception of university holidays and exam Leti penods. nan pinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the Letl editors or author and not those of the University of tk, South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications The is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of styV Student Media is its parent organization. be i The XJIK el908 joodwin, Viewpoints Editor >ard i, Steven C. Burritt, jm Truett k / inent cancellation an players, owners een at a loss to fully comprehend ps" and "revenue sharing." But s bottom line: no baseball, lowups really amount to is the jnerica's national pastime. And hope for its revival, s immense and hit everyone from )rtunately, much of the focus of i "dollars and cents" mentality le, for some of the strike's worst measured. aign reflects the social effects of a lone fan doing the wave amid die-hard fans who feel deserted urs alike, the season that looked isappointment. it nas permeated talks from the to an agreement. The one reve? tables is the fact that it doesn't ike happened. It did and that's is about the game, perhaps the i if it did, it certainly wouldn't i. Id reach an agreement, "Sports iding to the tumultuous season, r a labor reconciliation and endSeries. joke, the real tragedy of the sitcord anyone will have of this illnew, will have to content thems knowledge that greed and baseparole riution tate of Virginia. That's right. No Qore parole board. But the idea ippears to be popular with voters vho are fed up with repeat violent iffenders. Naturally, there are people who telieve that requiring prisoners to erve their entire sentences eliminates incentives for good behavior, orces the building of more prisons tnd is ultimately counterproducive. The National Center for Polcy Analysis in Dallas, Texas has lone a statistical analysis on the xpected punishment for violent ofenses. Their figures will probably urprise you. The Center factored in the posibility of a criminal getting arested, convicted, prosecuted and mprisoned. They discovered that he average punishment for mur ler hi /iiiienta is 1.0 yeans 111 piisun md that three out of four convictid criminals are no longer in jail, dany are out on parole or were givn probation. In what may be the most telling tatistic of all, the study also reealed over the past forty years the xpected punishment (time in >rison) for all serious crimes is onehird of what it once was, while the lumber of serious crimes has inreased almost fivefold. (NOTE: i'hese two statistics may be conlected!) John Dilulio Jr., a Princeton irofessor who works for the Brookngs Institute, provides even more immunition for those who support he elimination of parole. He points ut 88% of criminals who are laroled or placed on probation go m to commit other crimes. In fact, larole and probation are used so ften that the average criminal pends only about one-third of the ictual prison sentence in prison. n??ft fU/vin urViA kaliaira fV?of I A11V1C cue I/11VA3C TTI1U WC11CTC UIUW he housing of prisoners is too cosfcy. For the record, the average cost f keeping someone in jail is about >25,000 a year, according to the bookings Review. But how much loes it cost to leave them on the treets? What is the cost of a caracking? Or rape? Or murdsr? yatrick McNeill is a third-year law tudent His column appears every ionday. Chris Carroll /"//zo Director of Student Media ng: 777-4249 Laura Day 7-6482 Qeative Director ,bia,SC 29208 'endy Hudson Gregory Perez As?t. Copy Desk Production Asst. ranja Kropf Elizabeth Thomas Asst. Copy Desk Adv. Graduate Asst. lison Williams Renee Gibson Asst. Features Marketing Director lyan Wilson Chris Wood Asst. Sports Asst. Advertising Manager [ason Jeffers Erik Collins Cartoonist Faculty Advisor Letters Policy Gamecock will try to print all letters received, ers should be 200-250 words and must include full te, professional title or year and major if a student, ers must be personally delivered by the author to Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321. Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for e, possible libel or space Hmitatons Names will not vithbeld under any circumstances. Gamecock VIEWPQI THEVARS "TIjcncf mm JAFS- RI5K I I ft "I think that Carolina's a \ The hopei Clinton m President Clinton a failure? Give me a br< The president has two of the most successful y in the history of American government. The cr bill, NAFTA, Motor Voter, Family Leave Mi< East Peace, Americorps and the list goes on. A from foreign policy blunders in Bosnia and H the president has done well. In particular, the economy has improved ai should be called the Clinton Recovery. His first 1 get produced a cut of $500 billion from the fed budget deficit and created four million private public sector jobs, more jobs than Bush create four years. Interest rates are relatively low ant the first time in 12 years the US is ranked nun one in economic strength by the World Econ Fo: in Geneva. The study included 41 industrial] countries. President Clinton is dealing with tough iss Technology pj Look around you (111 not continue until thi done so do it now) and try to find any object in y surroundings that doesn't have some sort of in mation about it stored in the confines of some o puter system someplace. Virtually every pers place, and thing on the face of the earth has at 1< some bit of information about it on a compute whether it be inventory information, technical di ings, prices, part numbers, dealers, chemical c nnsitinn pt.hnir crrnnrv rlass schedules crradps tures, maps, etc. The problem is: how do you access to this information, and what exactly c? do for you or John and Jane Doe from Cheraw, Let's start by looking a little ways into the fut Last week, I made reference to a small hf held computer (PDA: Personal Digital Assist that will evolve into a device youll use everyday everything; but let us walk through a typical nario of how this might be used. Suppose that aforementioned John and Jane Doe want to ta trip to Canada. Well, first, they get in their car place this little handheld computer on the dash tell it where they want to go. While driving tc say Ontario, the computer automatically tells tl where to turn and what roads to take to fit ti lifestyle (do they take the quickest route or the r scenic?, are some roads closed? If so what an ternatives?, etc.) In the meantime, this same c puter goes ahead and plans possible itinerarie! Who's ti |fi "It's the players. They doi : die-hard baseball fans, it's ball freak, though." "I think the strike~the IT to describe it?is egotist! est-to-goodness reason f mistreated, it would be Y heard was they wer I I HNTS Monday, September 12, 1994 . ,., ... ' -V l I ? I * OPCoU?? CMISwEN THPflfc A ^ Jgp; good place?it has a lot of problems, but It has s and dreams of many people are launched at C USC Director of Student Life Jerry Brewer akes good on eak! i are1 ears FI 1^ ^ morl ime If^^J BYRON JAMES sure idle I Columnist Ame side LI ^<5' ^ latei aiti, l 1 and that call for tough solutions. He has the vision to ciall; id it lead this country to new heights, but the status quo F aud- stands in the way of change. Bob Dole and Phil Gra- der i eral ham and that gang of Republican crooks could care if w< and less about change or improving the lives of all Amer- perit d in icans. Change is uncertain and unpredictable but this i for we must embrace it to make our country better, befoi iber Health care and welfare must come if we are com rum able to fix the ills of the poor and working classes ever ized of America. Some of you might say we don't need health care reform because we have the world's best Byre sues health care system and the best doctors, but why umn l?7Ari T?Tffc?T f/\M . ivca way iui nuiuc i is is I Jugk, via c rour I- mWf" .< : rj for- f*jrf BRAD WESTON toda om. Columnist actu mBL ingf lob. r the vacation based on the things that John and ^ *aw~ Jane have liked to do in the past, and schedules the ?n ?1?1" necessary reservations at hotels, restaurants, etc. over pic~ This leaves John and Jane free to enjoy the trip ^ in it having to worry about anything. thes Upon arriving at the hotel, Jane decides she merl ure. would like to go to one of the nearby super malls to horn find a portable radio. She looks on her PDA for any tem, ant) such malls within, oh, say a five mile radius. Up- V y for on completing its search for malls that would con- to gc see- tarn that stock such a product, John and Jane may the "de off into the sunset to the chosen store. Upon ke a entering, her PDA accesses all inventory and prod- ^ ^ and uct information for everything in the store via a ra- ^ ^ and dio signal. Jane finds a nice Sony but is not sure of i, oh its reliability. She uses here PDA to find all con- ou lem sumer write-ups, return records and service stahair oVvuif 4-Vvia riarfiAiilar mn^al nf fVia ro/4in urVtila 111011 "Vll UOUVO tuyvuu UUO J^CU UWUiCU XllWlV/l V/l UlU I UUiV^ TTiliiU nost at the same time finding out pricing and invento- conv i al- ry information in this store and competing stores. om* She decides to buy and automatically transfers mon- Brae 3 for ey from her home account into the store's account Appl 0 blame for the baseball n't need more money. I guess ~~ "All I know ii 1 bad for them. I'm not a base- ey. So, I thi W % if they thin) A_ . m * should canci Greg Bowden Geology junior i i only adjective I can think of ^ *1 thmk it's cal. If there were a real hon- HjfJ \ gL over as soon or it, like if the players were suffer becau i okay. But the only reason I L . T&I en't getting enough money." J' t Melissa Boehier W j Chemical engineering freshman F JgFili ??- , " , 3 " I T&0ACCO 0?O fliVtf? } NRA, / I00MI ^ i i a lot of good things, too. arolina." I 'i promises i ive 21st in life expectancy and 17th in infant tality? What do we do with the 38 million unind Americans or the 21 millior\underinsured ricans? Change must come now or we will pay r. As we have seen in the '80s under Reagan Bush, paying later hurts economically and soy Resident Clinton is entering this third year uni four-year contract, and we must support him i want continued economic health and prosy. He has given us every reason to believe that country can be better than we have ever been re, but only if we join together and work for the mon goal of improving the quality of life for y American. m James is a political science senior. His col. appears every Monday conveniences I omputer and is on her way. his story, while seemingly impossible to achieve y, is closer to reality than you may think. In ality, there is only one part of this story missit present: widespread radio networking and al communication services. All of the informaI spoke about is readily available for some stores fVio infomof on^ nnlino aonrinoa annVi oa wiiv uiwinvv uixu vxuuiv evi ?iwu uuwi UO X X VAA1 America Online or e*World. Information or} e previously diverse services is rapidly being *ed as the number of internet connections ifr es grows, so what you're able to do on one sysT youH be able to do on any system. Ve look at computers today as things you have t to to get work done? stationary devices that be connected to other devices, but not exactly able to any place on earth in and of themselves; le future, however, you will be able to commute with anything anywhere from anyplace withhe use of cables and without the expense of cel phones and portable computers you find complace today. This should prove to be very enient both to John and Jane Doe and you, I Weston is a computer science senior. He is an 'e student representative. I I I strike? s that they went on strike to get more monnk it's the players fault. And I think that it they're going to get more money, they el it (the season)." Telly Moody Nursing freshman (the strike) senseless and it needs to be as possible. I think the fans are going to se the players are spoiled." Allen Youmans Electrical engineering sophomore