The BG News June 27, 1984

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 6-27-1984 The BG News June 27, 1984 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News June 27, 1984" (1984). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4270. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4270 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. vol. 66 issue 103 new/ Wednesday, June 27,1984 bowling green state university Prison reform goals proposed by Greg Thomas ditions. No double celling." Bur- editorial editor ger added that the ideal prison would "... have no cells, or Although hailed as the most computer controlled doors conservative court in the past clanking open and clanking three decades, Chief Justice of shut." the United States Warren Bur- ger last week shocked both con- Burger recommends facilities servatives and liberals alike in built along the lines of military his compassioned stance for barracks, or set-ups "not unlike prison reform. in the private sector." Appearing on ABC's Night- The chief justice went on to line, Burger, the first chief jus- say that the way to stop the high tice to appear on live national rate of inmates returning to television, offerred his views on prison after release is to " train needed reforms in this nation's them, put them to work," and to penal policies. educate the functional illiter- Dr. William Reichert, chair of ates. the University's political sci- Burger cites these measures ence department, has studied are necessary because many of the penal system in Ohio, and the prisoners entering the penal has published an extensive arti- system are simply "unemploya- cle on the subject in "Outlook on ble," Ohio." Reichert shares these views, Reichert's views were mir- and in his research has deter- rored last week when the chief mined that Ohio is continuing justice spoke out on this issue. down the same path as the na- Reichert's major premise is tion has for 200 years in planning that the penal institutions in a penal system. Ohio and across the country Ohio's penal system is feeling are not eradicating the problem the affects of the growing debate of reoccurring criminal activity, on how to run the state's prison but rather cultivating an atmo- system. The Columbus Correc- sphere for convicts to repeat tional Facility's (formerly the their crimes. Ohio Penitentiary) conditions The conservative Burger es- were declared unconstitutional poused the same views last treatment of inmates in a suit week. fled by the ACLU in federal "Our prisons are conditioning court. Although construcion of schools of crime," Reichert new prison facilities are under said, adding, "Burger is philo- way, they appear to mirror the sophically correct as to the root penal philosophy inherent in a of the problem. maximum security, fortress- pho,o/ Both Burger and Reichert like structure like Ohio's illegal Detour ' point to the need to offer con- facility in Columbus. The section of East Wooster Street from South College Drive to State Street will be closed for three weeks while workers victs a means of eliminating the from the Imperialist Construction Company replace the existing water line in order to increase water pressure. necessity for criminal behavior Reichert applauded Burger's from their lives. This can be outspokenness on the issue, stat- accomplished in the prisons only ing that educating the public is a through education, training, and prime step in the right direction. Low prices a value at new BG stores work programs. Reichert added that be hopes Reichert said the prevailing the penal policy in this country by Teresa Perrettl ances, food items and hardware 10 to 9 and Sunday 11 to 6. Selling Woman's Apparel sells items attitude of the public on penal is taken care of before first-time news editor at 20 percent lower than similiar women's clothing at up to 80 directly from New York where Slides can best be summed by criminals, hardened in prison, products at other stores, Sanner percent lower than major de- they do most of their buying. ! old adage: "Lock them up come out and "Make me or Students returning to Bowling said. Eailment stores, Apparel Ware- The store does not sell irregu- and throw away the key." An- someone I love a victim." Green in the fall will find two ouse will be opening stores lars. Slawinski said. other common public view is A strong argument offered for new discount stores offering "We sell a little bit of every- across the Midwest. that prisons shouldn't be "coun- a rehabilitative, educational items which are considerably thing. Nothing ever stays the "We put together value and try clubs." and that if prisons prison experience as opposed to lower than other department same. Once it^ gone it's gone," "Marketing research con- price with first-hand merchan- are rough, then prisoners are the present system was offered stores. Sanner said, who plans to ex- ducted in Bowling Green and dise," Slawinski said. receiving the just punisment by a prisoner appearing with the "Everything we sell comes pand business to the Toledo area Toledo indicated a need for a they deserve. chief justice on the ABC broad- from close-outs, liquidations, sometme next month. discount clothing store in this After its summer clearance In answering these views, cast: "You're going to have to and over stocks," Mark Sanner, Store hours are Monday area," LuAnn Slawinski, district Woman's Apparel will have a Burger said, The prisoners deal with us again, sooner or assistant manager of Big & through Saturday 9 to 9 and manager of Bowling Green and back-to-school sale for students need decent, clean humane con- later." Small Lots discount store, 818 Sunday 11 to 6. Toledo Woman's Apparel Ware- moving on campus in August. South Main St., said. May 31 marked the opening of house Inc. Stores, said. "From Recently opened in April, Big Woman's Apparel Warehouse the positive response we re- "We want to reach them and & Small Lots offers a variety of Inc., 816 South Main St., now ceived from the locals, it seems hit the students when they get Bike registration items, including small appli- open Monday through Saturday it was right." back," Slawinski said. helps aid safety by Ann Thoreson Censorship invades education copy editor and to reduce bicycle theft in- creases on campus, incoming by Mary Hltt The organization surveyed 615 works to protect individual Joyce Garver Keller, the Ohio Bicycle traffic violations freshman will be required to editor city and county school superin- rights and freedoms. Its found- irector of people for the Amer- among students plummeted register their bicycles with the tendents throughout Ohio. 237 ers include writer-producer Nor- ican Way, said, "What all these from the 1983 summer session, Division of Traffic and Parking, "Of Mice and Men," "The surveys were returned with 58 man Lear and former books have in common is that although there is a continual July 9 through 16, Starns said. Grapes of Wrath", and "Catcher school districts reporting Congresswoman Barbara Jor- they offer students a chance to firoblem with a "lack of regard Students may also register their in the Rye" are popular books censorship attempts within the dan of Texas. learn about new ideas and dif- Dr stop signs, red lights and bicycles at the University's that are often required reading past three years. The group was founded to ferent viewpoints, and that they one-way signs," Sgt. Charlotte Parking and Traffic Division, in English classes. offer an alternative to such encourage students to think for Stames, coordinator of crime located at the Commons build- But a recent survey shows Some censored works include highly organized groups as the themselves. Apparently, that is Ere vention and community rela- ing, for a fee of $1.00 that these books, along with pictures of nude models in an art Moral Majority and Pro-Family just was the censors do not ons, said last week. dozens of others, are being cen- drawing book, a textbook de- Forum. want." Bicycle thefts rose from 107 "When a bike is stolen and not sored in Ohio and across the scribing different arguments People for the American Way, Keller said that the organiza- during the twelve-month period registered, we don't have a se- country. about why the war in Vietnam based in Washington D.C., has tion's major goal is educating beginning July 1982-83 to 125 rial number to identify it," occurred, an excerpt about nurs- more than 100,000 members the public that this kind of from June 1, 1983 through June Starns said. The study done by The People ing a baby and the film,"Ordi- across the country and five re- censorship is indeed taking 1, 1964, according to a major for the American Way showed nary People." gional offices that use the mass place and is instigated by indi- crimes comparison report is- Due to the number of pedestri- that in the last three years there People for the American Way, media, citizen action and publi- viduals and small groups which sued by Carol Pratt, records ans injured in the past by bicy- were more than 100 documented founded in 1980, is a non-profit ceducation to counter do not represent a majority of department of the public safety clists, the vehicular traffic laws accounts of censorship in Ohio.

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