Rehabilitate, don’t imprison, says author
Claire Culhane
Photo by David Coray
Building more prisons is a waste of tax
payers' money, says author Claire Culhane
Culhane, founder of a prisoners' rights
group in Burnaby, British Columbia, says
tax revenues are better spent on alternative
programs to help prisoners avoid crime
“When I'm called a bleeding heart I ac
cept that title as opposed to being called a
heartless bum," she said Friday at Harris
Hall. Culhane's presentation was spon
sored by People for Prison Alternatives, a
group working to defeat Ballot Measure 3
on the May 18 ballot The measure would
provide for bond sales to raise money for
new prisons.
Of those incarcerated, 80 to 90 percent
are not violent criminals, Culhane said,
adding that non-violent prisoners should be
returned to their communities so they can
work to pay for their crimes
Prisons are not synonymous with justice,
Culhane said Prison systems are multi-bil
lion dollar industries which hire thousands
of people
Brutality has made prisons the “new
Holocaust,” Culhane said, adding that
many people know what is going on but look
the other way — to keep their economic
security.
Reform is the responsibility of each com
munity, she said Communities should
develop training and work programs for
unsupervised kids. After school and while
parents are working, kids could work on
building homes in the neighborhood rather
than spending time on the streets, she said
When Culhane returned from south Viet
nam, where she served as a hospital ad
ministrator for the Canadian government,
her gut reaction was not to write more about
what was happening — but how to stop it,
she said Everyone is writing about "The
Long-Term Effects of Incarceration,” Cul
hane said
Instead, she wrote Barred From Prison, a
personal account of prison reform at the
Oakalla and British Columbia penitentiaries
One reviewer wrote, "The B C. Pen comes
out looking like an Auschwitz without
ovens ”
Seaside escape offers Oregon coast study
By Sherri Scully
Ote» EmumU
Imagine waking to the sounds of
crashing waves and sea gulls instead of
the sounds of cars and buses. Imagine
walking down a beach to class
Escaping to Charleston, Oregon for a
term can make these fantasies become
reality through a program sponsored by
the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.
Students will have a chance to get a
taste of the beach and the program on a
two-day field trip beginning April 24,
sponsored by the People and the Oregon
Coast organization Highlights of the trip
will include whale watching, a campout
at Carter Lake and a tour of OIMB facili
ties Field trip information is available at
the Survival Center office in Suite 1,
EMU.
People and the Oregon Coast offers an
interdisciplinary program for upper and
lower division University credit. Course
offerings range from Introduction to
Landscape Architecture to Economics of
Coastal Issues
Students live in Charleston, a small
fishing town near Coos Bay While living
at the Institute, students pay the
equivalent of University tuition and dor
mitory fees Old Coast Guard barracks,
complete with library and dining facili
ties, house the approximately 40
students that participate in the program
each session
The OIMB program is one of few in the
United States that combine varied areas
of academic study and apply them to a
common problem
“People who participate in the pro
gram each session develop a closeness
to each other and the professors," says
Dave Daikh, director of People and the
Oregon Coast. “They are sharing an
opportunity to live and learn together "
After a two-week orientation period,
students select and develop their own
term projects which relate to the com
munity around them Field work, informal
classes, guest speakers and close inter
action with instructors in several disci
plines aid in developing student research
projects
Projects at OIMB range from a lands
cape architecture major drawing up
plans for a series of local bike paths to a
biology major documenting current re
search on the Cape Arago Harbor Seals
Nuclear protest continues
Ground zero is the area directly beneath a nuclear bomb blast,
and to alert people to the dangers of nuclear war, a nation-wide
“Ground Zero Week” is being held through Saturday
The week began Sunday in Eugene with the placing of the
Ground Zero marker at the Federal Building The next scheduled
event is a Thursday convocation on “Options for Preventing
Nuclear War.” The discussion begins at 4:30 p.m in Room 150
Geology
On Friday, a one-hour documentary on the nuclear arms race
will be shown on KOAC-TV Channel 7 at 8 p.m. On Sunday, the
Ground Zero marker will be removed from the Federal Building at 1
p.m., and from 2 p.m to 5 p.m. a slide show and film will be shown at
Harris Hall.
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graduate studies at UO or elsewhere in
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