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. ERIC ENGLUND SCHOLARSHIP $2000 to enable a UO graduate to pursue graduate studies at UO or elsewhere in American literature or history or related subjects. Preference given to students who may not otherwise have the opportunity. Apply to English Department by April 23. Center sponsors Earthweek icycle iron ation re no-com Earth First1 7pm today. Sihttfictor Films, a sophisticated slide show speeches by several authors and will be part of the 12th annua celebration sponsored by the this week Earthweek activities will at workshops, a letter-writin table, a Miilrace cleanup a Faire in 167 EMU with a vi topics ranging from alteri to composting Dave Foreman, found promise environmental g! will speak in the EMU Balln accompanied by a sophistic wilderness slide show by the Company Featured speaker Tuesday is Faby. liaison officer with the Unite Environmental Programme Faby will die legional Seas Program' at 3 30 p m in Lawrence and speak on global ^ issues at 7 p m in the EMU ay^rchitect and educator Vic strok on Design for Human tl» EMU Ballroom rl Grossiman will deliver a speech What lou are not supposed to lear elergy.” at 8 p m Thurs alirofm mgjfF Schumacher s As If nd a public broadcasting PSnerica examining the policies (^^^^■«retary of the Interior James Watt, will b^5