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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1me Wooster Voice Vol. cxxvmf ISSUE XXIII A SINCE-188- STUDENT PUBLICATION 3 FRIDAY, APRIL I 1, 2008 a vepiuyeu mree presidents, mree saints ana two geniuses and that's probably enough for any man Charlton Heston e to ebrate inauguration Alexandra Movable DeGrandchamp Feast of Undergraduate Lewis M. and Marian Senter Nixon Mark Goodman '90, executive vice Carol Geary Schneider will appear on Vo'ce Research." Staff Students and faculty from Professor of Natural Resources and president and chief operating officer the panel. Secretary of the College, various departments will Save-a-L- host pre- Professor of Geology Mark Wilson of ot stores, will present Secretary of the Board of Trustees Grant H. Corn well will officially sentations, display posters and create will moderate "The Transformative their perspectives on the Independent and Special Assistant to the President. be inaugurated as the 11th President displays while guests sample food Power of Mentored, Independent Study process. Sheila Wilson stated that Cornwell of the College on Saturday, April from local 26, restaurants. Stops on the Research: Student, Faculty, and President Cornwell will moderate a will "drive the conversation towards at 10:30 a.m. .Inaugural events will "A Movable Feast of Undergraduate Alumni Perspectives" in Freedlander second panel discussion on Friday questions raised by College faculty span the weekend. Cornwall's inau- . Research" include Ebert Art Center, Theatre from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. entitled "The Education Our and staff." guration coincides with the 60th the lobby of Freedlander Theatre, Professor of Psychology Susan Students Need Now: A Roundtable Concluding Friday's events is anniversary of the Senior the second floor of Kauke, the first Clayton, Kerri Melenovsky '08, on Liberal Learning in the 21st Martha Nussbaum's inaugural lec- Independent Study . at floor program of Taylor Hall, Morgan Hall Professor of English Peter Havholm, Century" at 4 p.m. in Scheide. ture entitled "Education for Profit, Wooster. Room 102 and Severance Hall's Hannah LeGris "08, Associate Cornwell's colleagues Thomas B. Education for Freedom" at 7:30 p.m. The celebration will begin on University Street lobby. Professor of Chemistry Paul Colburn, Richard Guarasci, Daniel F. Friday, April at 1 25, 1:30 a.m. with.'A Following "A Movable Feast," Edmiston, Warren Swegal '08 and Sullivan, Mwenda Ntarangwi and See "Inauguration," page 2 Criminology course offers students a look at prison life Missie Bender nile inmates ("inside students") are ' A&E Editor scattered throughout the same class- room, eager to learn just as much as The College of Wooster offers a everyone else in class. wide variety of unconventional classes. Merging higher learning with cor- The classes offered here range from rectional systems is a newer form of theatre courses specializing in make-u- p education that is on the rise in to interdepartmental courses focusing America. The idea of this "Inside-O-ut in on one of America's favorite, bever- Prison .Exchange Program" was 3 JET ages: coffee. founded by Temple University in order The Department of Sociology and to help change students' and inmates' mm.-- .- Anthropology is no exception to this lives and educate both groups on the - M.r trend; they could quite judicial system. possibly have p. the most "OuT tax dollars While the course unique course offered c , . ' , catalogue may title here at the College. tund pHSOnS and this class Associate professor yet We don't know' "Criminology and and Chair of Socinlncrv J Deviance," the stu- - i ii nit ai and Anthropology Wfiai1.1fiappenS inside dents have oth er Every Tuesday and Thursday, students drive to Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility with Anne Nurse teaches a of them. I com- names for it. Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology and Anthropology Anne Nurse for the course course titled am Various students "Criminology and Deviance." College of Wooster students, as well as inmates, are enrolled "Criminology and stu- from Nurse's class mitted to let in Deviance." the course and participate together in class (Photo courtesy Anne Nurse). dents know what call the sociology This course is unlike "inside-o- ut course the as well as qualitative and quantitative transportation and books supplied to Temple University is that the students anything else offered at goes Oil HI there." course" or the research methods. Nurse is also a pub- the inside students. here are learning with people their " the school for si-vpr- al " - - - - -- ........ -- ple "prisoncourse." lished attthor. Something else that makes this class own nge.-Tem- has students mingle reasons. For one Anne Nurse thing, "Nurse stressed "Criminology and Deviance" is a unique is the fact that the students with much older people, thus creating a it meets off campus. chair of sociology and that the goals for the course offered by application enroll- have a dress code. Students are also different atmosphere altogether. The class meets every anthropology class were very sim- ment only. All students have the not allowed to make contact with any Everything that Nurse teaches inside Tuesday and Thursday ple and straightfor opportunity to apply. There are a lim- of the inside students except during of the classroom is taught to both the morning to carpool in vans to ward. According to her, the goals of ited number of acceptances (18) for class time, when they are encouraged inside and the outside students. There Massillon, OH, where students are the course are "to teach criminology Wooster students. Nurse noted that to do so. is no separation between the two mixed juvenile-detentio- n first-yea- with inmates from a and deviance." Nurse is unique, as she she accepts many rs (this is a All of the "inside students" have groups. in a ' center classroom. is the only criminologist on campus. W course) and that she likes a diverse either high school diplomas or GEDs '"I don't know what the inside stu- Wooster students "out- (referred to as Along with being an expert on crimi- atmosphere in the classroom. The and their ages range from 17 to 21. dents' crimes are," Nurse said, adding side students") learn in a classroom nology, Nurse has a broad knowledge Lilly Project and the College fund this What makes Wooster's program dif- that is located in the prison. The juve-- of juvenile delinquency and penology, class, which needs financial support for ferent from the original program at See "Criminology," page 2 Structural and personal aspects of immigration discussed Jonah Comstock both belonging to the organizations Duhalde began the talk by having were wrong, is that a lot of our prob- ly designated street corner where News Editor and otherwise, came to hear David the assembled students tell a little , lems are of our own making," said undocumented immigrants looking Duhalde, national director of the about themselves and why they were Duhalde. for work gather every morning. On Thursday, April 3, the Wooster Young Democratic Socialists and interested in immigration issues. The crux of the problem, Duhalde Then potential employers would Democratic Socialists, Peace by Peace Michelle Camou, assistant professor The classroom full of students explained, was that corporations drive up, ask for the number and kind and Pueblo de Esperanza sponsored a of political science, talk about both offered up reasons from political want undocumented workers because of workers they need, and then drive talk real-li- about undocumented immigrant their expertise and personal experi- interest to fe experiences. they are easy to exploit and can't eas- them to the worksite and, at the end workers and their rights. Students, ence with immigration issues. "People talk about Border Security, ily unionize because of the threat of of the day, back to the corner. they talk about jobs, they talk about deportation. Furthermore, the jobs The problem is that these anony- tP1 living wages, but they don't really undocumented workers are doing mous systems have no accountability. talk about why people come here," need to be done. Employers often don't pay the work- said Duhalde, adding that imm- "Until we really address the ers at the end of the day. In some igrants are a very diverse and differ- inequities in capitalism, we're just cases, employers even refuse to drive yas IsOER? RISKS entiated group. going to keep giving these Band-Ai- d the workers home. And of course, .YOUNC DEMOCRATIC JOtfAUSW "Only 40 percent of immigrants solutions," Duhalde said. there is little chance of compensa- really are Latinos ... so it's not just a After concluding his portion of the tion if a worker is injured on the job, Latino economic issue. It's really a talk, Duhalde passed around a peti- and the employer might not even much broader issue than that," said tion from the Coalition of take the worker to a hospital. Duhalde. Immokalee Workers, a group of Camou was part of a group trying In light of the upcoming election immigrant tomato pickers in Florida to do something about this situation r and the political rhetoric surround- who are seeking better compensation by starting a day labor center a ing immigration, Duhalde urged the from Burger King, their employer.