Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC June 1974 6-8-1974 The aiD ly Egyptian, June 08, 1974 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_June1974 Volume 55, Issue 186 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, June 08, 1974." (Jun 1974). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in June 1974 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. r-----=-----=----==-~------------------------------------------7own-{JownC£dition 'Daily13gyptian Saturday, J...-.e &, I 974·VOI . 55. No. 166 Southern lllinois University Color barriers nonexistent In• city sclwols By Carl Flowe ... because the community was kept in­ "Before the change," Todd said, "our The Carbondale Plan hasn't been and formed about it. library was in a closet. " unreservedly accepted by the com- The Carbondale Advisory Committee mWlity . _ John Russell 1\1 r-l; . Swindell , principal of Brush Daily Egyptian Staff Writer and the elementary school board. co­ Some residents moved out of the designers of the plan. made sure the School for 15 years. said the teachers district rather than have their children " There's no color barrier on the community knew of the plans for in ­ benefitted from the move to integration bused to integrated schools outside their playground. " tegration and were involved in the in ­ becaUse they'll!\! working with children neighborhoods. The Carbondale Plan for school in­ tegration decision. Jacober said. from ~l socio-economic backgrounds. Todd said he felt the persons who tegration has been extremely successful The principals stressed tha t the in­ Integration hAs presented a new moved away helped the district to move so far. according to E verett Todd, tegration move did more than break the challe nge to the \teachers . she said . more easil y into integration . He said principal of Springmore Sc hool for the color barriers of the classroom . Th ~)· because they are.Jnow involved with a those who moved were the persons who past eight years. said teachers , as well as s tudents, number of different stud ents who would have caused prtlble ms [or in­ Under the Carbondale Plan, initiated benefitted from integrated classrooms. present a number of different problems. tegration. in 1969, some students in the elementary Class sizes fell after the change in Integration a nd busing in the Team- t eac~ng also was instituted in school district were bused away from 1969. as the number of students in each elementary schools may be the reason their neighborhood schools and into building evened out with the initiation of the district ~ a result of the in tegration Carbondale has not developed a unit schools in different parts of the district. busing. move, Jacober said. He said teachers of school district. Drake said. The plan also di vided the schools jpto Drake. Winkler School principal for the same grade levels now confer with Boundary lines for the di s trict's primary, intermediate and junior fiigh eight years, said the smaller class sizes others in the same building . Before the busing routes have presented a problem school buildings. enabled teachers to give more individual change there was only one teacher for in themselves for the district schools. Mary Swindell, Larry Drake and attention to students. There are also each grade in most buildings. he said. " The administration of busing is a Larry Jacober-principals of Car­ rooms available in the buildings now for It is also easier for the schools to kind of headache," Drake said. But he bondale elementary schools in 1969 who teachers to work with students who have receive government funding because of pointed out that it is a headache for are still principals today-echoed reading and other learning disability the reorganization of the district, Drake every district where students are bused. Todd's feehn(! on the plan. problems, he said. said. He said with black students in Todd said the problem with busing Jacober, prmcipal of Parrish School in The elementary schools. wi th the schools throughout the district, federal comes from r.Arents, not students. Some 1969 and currently the principal of change from kindergarten through funding can be obtained for supplies and parents don t like the idea of having Lincoln Junior High School, said the third, and fourth through sixth grades, materials that was not available for all­ (contir<Jed on Page 3) plan worked well from the beginning also have separate rooms for libraries. whi te schools. Prison without walls Jfi)rks,to build bridges . - B,. ....... change.. T~oaj' _ ?~rlll'l~">1"'ri}tIl!~~- -Dally EgyjotIUp...... _rWrller - - most contact residents. An inmate of the Vienna Correctional " It 's been all right except fo r the tight Center paused to survey the modern confinements," a woman resident said. buildings and college-like campus of the "Once they get used to us, things will Southern lliinois prison. probably get better." "No doubt about it." the inmate said She said she likes Vienna "a lot bet­ somewhat pr ~udIy . " If you got to be in a ter" than the maximum security prison prison, this !. the place to be." from which she was transferred. This seems to be thw opinion of most of " It was like tbe li vi ng dead there," she the residents of. Vienna. a prison without said, her voice trailing off to a whisper. walls. "They seem to care more here. 1 really Inmates, who are called residents, are think I can make it. free to move around the Center. No high Bill Stacey, a resident and editor of the walls or barred windows are to be found . center's newspaper, said some women The only keys are the tesidents' keys to seem to resent the fact that they aren't lock their own rooms. being treated the same as the men. The prison seems to follow the " It's the old story of 'treat us the same philosophy which is expressed on a sign as everyone else' and justifiably so," In a chapel of the center. " People are Stacey said. "At the moment the women _ lonely because they build walls Instead are being gradually phased in ." of bridges," the sign ·reads. He said one rule which is being stricUy Vienna has recenUy added one more enforced is that tbere is no phYSical bridge to its walless prison. Ten women contact between the men and women inmates now reside at the facility. residents. " We 're trying to create a normal '1'his has got to work like-J hate !~ environment at Vienna," Warden use the word - a prison," Stacey said. Vernon Housewright said. "That's one " If it turns into a place where we can reason the women came." . get together with the women, we've 1051 The prevalent attitude toward the everything we've gained. It 's a question ODe 0( the residents 0( the Vienna CorrectlDaal CeDler ......u on a problem ill women seems to be one of caution. While of priorities. " draftlug class, (Staff pbMo by Bread. PenlaDd.) the men are allowed to move freely He said everyone seems glad that the prison going coed because ~f the ministrator at Vienna, said 125 residents around the prison, the women are ac­ women residents have come. The ad­ responsive attitude of the men and are taking Shawnee College classes. companied by a guard when they leave dition of the women has made Vienna women residents. He said be thinks the program bas their bIIlJding. closer to a real society, Stacey said. "They want it to work and I think they been successful, Kerley points to the fact The women's building stands isolated Johnny MelIPD, another resident of the will see that it does work," Housewright that percentage wise the center has from the main part of the prison. The center, saill'1he integration of women said. more persons on the dean's and building and the road in front otit are off into Vienna is going to have to be a He said if everything works out as president's lists than any town in limits to male residents. gradual p-'ocess. planned, the 10 women residents should Illinois. The men and women residents eat He saId he has already noticed a eventually be increased'to a maximum Stacey said he thinks the college separately but this schedule is to change in the men's attitudes wben the of 58. The number of men residents is classes, like the· women, add reallsm to women are around. currently 450. the . setting. "Theianguage has changed," Melton The women, like the men, learn sI<iIIs "~portaat thing is to learn to said. "The men sbow a certain amount at Vienna which can be used when they .grow in a settlnI as rear as possible," be of respect when the ladies are around." get out of prison. Five of the women are said. Stacey saio many men come out of He said he thinks a team effort, on the learning to cut hair in barber school, two prison worse than wben they entered ./ part of both the men and ~ women are in a drafting program, one is in food because of the unreal envirooment they residents, is an important factor in' the service and one is in the horticultural are forced into. success or failure of women residing at program. He said he tbiaks mOllt residents will the center. " We're trying to help them return to leave Vi_ hetter able to meet society "It's not going to be easy," Melton society as better men or women than than when they eatered !be ""!ller.