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Volume 83 Issue 8 Southwestern Oklahoma State University 11-6-1991 Volume 83 Issue 8 Southwestern Oklahoma State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/the_southwestern Recommended Citation Southwestern Oklahoma State University, "Volume 83 Issue 8" (1991). The Southwestern. 634. https://dc.swosu.edu/the_southwestern/634 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Southwestern by an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Southwestern Wednesday, November 6 , 1991 Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma 73096 Vol. 83, No. 8 Duo Royalty— Two Southwestern students received crowns in Friday’s homecoming assembly, as both April Moon, standing left, and Casey Greenroyd, seated, were elected home­ coming queens by the student body. Otherfinalists included, Renyssa Wines, Stacie Holt and Amy S h illin g . Priscilla Johnson College life exciting experience I n s id e ... 2 Students visit state for 81-year-old SWOSU student prison at Granite; In 1986, she started to school s h a r e in s ig h ts . By Priscilla Johnson a t S ayre. She said, “T he O k la­ homa students made an older Sandy Garrett ad­ dresses fall con­ Anne Marie Julian, 81 years person feel younger to be ac­ v e n tio n . young is a transplanted New cepted in their element. Also 4 Yorker (Brooklyn) who’s cur­ she, “Felt privileged to be ac­ Speech team wins rently a student at Southwest­ cepted by the younger people. at Northwest Mis­ ern. Oklahoma students are not so u r i. She moved to Oklahoma from given enough credit for their 1 2 Brooklyn 17 years ago to Elk See ‘ S tu d e n t’ Page 4 City. Her son was stationed at Clinton-Sherman at that time Southwestern Oklahoma State University and urged her to come here to The Southwestern live after she had been mugged 100 Campus Drive W eatherford, OK 73096 while going to work. Anne has been a traveler from New York to California, plus Anne Marie Julian such places as: Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, Europe two times, En­ glish and Business. After gland , Scotland, New Zeland, Czechoslovakia, she came home Wales, West Indies, Virgin Is­ to marry her childhood sweet­ lands and the Bahamas. When heart. She was married for 56 she was 22, she lived in Prague years and has, four children, 14 Czechoslovakia teaching En­ grandchildren and five great grand-children. The S o u t h w e s t e r n 2 VIEWPOINT Wednesday, November 6 , 1991 State prison: The inside story Students tour Visit shatters student’s stereotypes Granite prison However, contrary to popular belief, these men By Paula Taylor realize that, accept that and are willing to pay the consequence. Yes, there are bitter feelings By Jeff Montgomery A s I walked through the front door of Granite and animosity on behalf of the prisoners, but I State Reformatory, and the brown steel door believe that this is a normality, not only on the Several Southwestern stu­ slammed shut behind me, I had to jump. prisoners, but also for the people on the “outside” dents recently toured Granite After signing in to get a visitor’s pass, turning a s w e ll. Reformatory, a medium-maxi­ in my ID and going through three more steel From what I could tell, the men of the Lifer’s m u m s e c u r ity p r is o n lo c a te d in barriers, I was finally able to reach the lobby of Club wanted to express two main things to us G r a n ite . the reformatory. The m usty smell, drab walls above all else; to be able to function in society if Participating students were and blue shirts the prisoners wore added to all and when they are paroled, and to actually work required to wear badges and the stereotypical aspects I had imagined. Those their way out of prison. Believe it or not, they are were prohibited from sharing stereotypes were shattered throughout the next tired of the taxpayers footing the bill for them. personal information with pris­ three-hour tour and speak-out. This doesn’t accomplish anything for anyone. o n e r s fo r The grounds of Granite are very They sit in prison all day not doing anything for safety rea­ “All of a sudden, pretty, with flowers, well manicured them selves, while those of us who work pay for so n s. you’re 34, on yards and fairly enchanting buildings. their food, utilities, rent and everything else T h e s t u ­ The only things that really ruined the they use. Doing this does not allow them to learn d e n t s m e t parole, have no beauty were the bars and steel plates ho w to function on their own, so when they do get with about 20 family and are on the windows. As I toured the refor­ out, they usually end up right back in prison i n m a t e s in matory with 28 other interested stu­ because they don’t know how to live in the real the facility expected to dents and observed the living quar­ world. Think about it. You have been in prison w h o w e r e su rv iv e .” ters, the disciplinary unit and all of since the age of 16, never had a job, never had to m e m b e r s o f th e s t e e l g a t e s , d o o rs, g u a r d s a n d w ir e m ake any kind of paym ents to anyone, never had the Lifers Club, an organiza­ that kept the prisoners from escaping, I couldn’t to b e on y o u r o w n . A ll o f a s u d d e n , y o u a r e 3 4 , on tion founded by and including help but feel like I was a captive. There was no parole, have no fam ily and are expected to sur­ inmates serving sentences of e s c a p e , e v e n i f on e h a d to . T h e m o m e n t I e n te r e d vive. Sounds pretty tough to me. If they were 35 years or more. the doors of Granite, I was theirs. self-supporting, not only would they be able to The Lifers Club is designed to The prisoners that showed us around were fendfor them selves when the time came, chances help long-term prisoners m ain­ m em bers of the Lifer’s Club. After the tour of the are they wouldn’t end up back in prison (conse­ tain a positi ve outlook and work grounds, they took us to the conference room for quently three out of every four prisoners let out toward rehabilitation. a speak-out discussion. Several of the members on parole return to prison), our taxes wouldn’t be Dr. Philip Holley and David spoke about the crimes they committed that put so high and we certainly wouldn’t have the W right, Jr., associate sociology th e m in G r a n ite a n d th e life th e y n o w le a d . I w a s problems of prison over crowdedness. professors at Southwestern, halfway asham ed of the way I thought prison life Once again, I want to emphasize that I am by visit the prison once a week to was. These men were noticeably intelligent, car­ no m eans condoning what these men have done, assist the Lifers Club members. ing human beings who made some serious m is­ and I am not writing this out of pity. I only want Holley encourages any South­ takes in their lives and got caught. They were to help inform people that what they hear is not western student to attend the able to express them selves just as I am able to do, always correct. These prisoners are real people prison tours, offered one time except people don’t listen to them like they with real feelings, values and lives. Everyone each semester. would listen to a non-convict. Now don’t get me has messed up in their lives at one time or The tours are sponsored by w r o n g . I a m b y n o m e a n s c o n d o n in g th e a c ts t h a t another, maybe just not severe enough for a the Sociology and Criminal Jus­ these men engaged in. They were definitely prison sentence. Then again, maybe they just tice C lu b . wrong, illegal and by all means punishable. didn’t get caught. The Southwestern is the student newspaper of Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It is published every Wednesday during the fall and spring semesters, The except during holidays and finals week, and biweekly during the summer semester by the Southwestern Publishing Co., University Campus, Weatherford, Okla., 73096. Students in the editing classes serve as section editors. Southwestern The Southwestern encourages comment from the student body, faculty, and administration in the form of letters to the editor.
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