Capital Times Vol. 21, No. 4 THE CAPITAL COLLEGE OCT 29, 1986 Professionalism Sweeping Law Enforcement Jan Travel Crimes and criminals reflect problems associated with our rapidly changing and very ad vanced highly technological society, according to a local col lege professor. Dr. John Ramirez, coor dinator of the new undergraduate criminal justice program at Penn State Universi ty, Harrisburg, said this is why the program was created. “To day’s society needs sophisticated people to deal with the criminal element,” said Ramirez. This is resulting in the wave of profes sionalism sweeping the country’s law enforcement industry. Ramirez hopes to form a part nership with criminal justice per sonnel in the area by providing Women’s Conference By Jean Meitz The first Women’s Conference for the Tri-County Area was held Saturday, October 11 at Har risburg Area Community Col lege. Kate Rand Lloyd, Editor at-Large, Working Woman Magazine, was the keynote speaker who addressed an au dience of over 200 who, by show of hands, were already working outside the home full or part time. Lloyd’s topic stressed the breaking of old patterns for women and a removal of inter nal tyrannies. She pointed out the need to remove the conflict between women in the work force and those who have chosen to remain at home. A few startl ing statistics revealed were that the “American Dream” of wife and mother in the home is realiz ed by only 10 percent, and that 55 percent of women over 16 are in the work force, and that 17 percent of all women are single heads of household. Lloyd noted that these shifts in balance are “salient symptoms of a social revolution.” She assess ed that men and children are be ing affected more slowly-“about 10 years behind in understanding where women are today.” Lloyd sees a major problem with the 80 percent of working women who are in low paying, dead end jobs, their feeling of being alone, not belonging, and of having no voice to solve their problems. Other startling facts were that the mothers of school aged ""^LAv training and seminars as well as research consultation. The pro gram, which is intended for students who have already com pleted two years at a community or junior college or a four year institution, has been designed to fulfill two basic goals. “First, it provides a strong preparation for those wishing to pursue graduate or professional studies in criminal justice and related fields, such as law, behavioral science, and public administra tion. It also provides effective skill development and education for success in the fields of law en forcement, court administration, corrections, security, and juvenile justice,” said Ramirez. Until recently, police officers were trained in the field. Within the past few years standards have been established. Now virtually children represent 65 percent df this work force and have no federal child care policy, and 85 percent of pre-school children have mothers in the work force. Lloyd predicted that within the next 15 years, women will repre sent one half of the toal work force. To add humor, Lloyd inter jected several very clever stories, one being the description of a cartoon of a couple exiting a movie theatre advertising a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film. The caption had the wife speak ing, “Did you notice that she did everything he did, only she did it backwards and in high heels!” Lloyd is an adjunct lecturer at the Graduate School of Jour nalism of Columbia University in New York City and has also taught at the New York Univer sity School of Continuing Educa tion. She has lectured extensive ly on topics related to working women across the United States. The Tri-County Women’s Conference was coordinated by the department of Continuing Education at HACC through the efforts of Linda Matthews, as well as a number of community organizations that represent women in many roles. Following the keynote address the seminar broke into workshops. Each member had the choice of 3 out of 25 in teresting and comprehensive topics directed toward working women and those preparing to enter the work place. every police department requires officer candidates to complete training classes at an accredited academy. The result of this new ap proach to law enforcement has been a new breed of “thinking cops,” said Ramirez. “No longer is the emphasis just on catching the crook, but also on the assess ment of specific situations to determine why the crime occur red.” Solving the crime is not the on ly objective of the trend. “We’ve seen Two students enjoy the morning quiet as they walk across the ci Outdoor Club Folds PSU Insurance Crisis By, Denise Reinas This year, liability insurance for the advisors of student organizations was dropped. Up until this year, advisors were covered under university liabili ty. Because the coverage was dropped, some problems within student clubs have arisen. It is not considered a universi ty duty to be an advisor for an organization. “It is a voluntary effort for staff members to help organizations by providing ad vice and council,” said Jerry South, assistant provost. Now some clubs may not be able to find advisors because of the in surance crisis. One club that could not con tinue to function this semester is the Outdoors Club. Douglas Richwine, leader of the club decided the club would fold. Aside from not having an ad visor due to loss of their liability crime prevention and victim ad- burdened court system can not vocacy programs.” For hun- be solved by just focussing on the dreds of years law enforcement courts because of the mutual was concerned with the offender, dependence between the courts All the money was spent on cat- and law enforcement, ching and rehabilitating the perpetrator. The victim, accor- —from the few records kept na ding to Ramirez, was treated like tionwide on number of insanity his only part in the crime was as pleas, the incidence of the plea is a catalyst. A new sensitivity is be- low and the success rate is ing observed now with the in- variable, stitution of victim orientation programs. —he sees no infringement on On related topics, Ramirez criminal’s rights with the increase said: recognition of victim’s rights. coverage, the club costs a lot of money to be run, and it also needs reorganization. “Dr. South did not feel that it was a wise use of money to be spending so large of an amount of student funds on such a small number of people; therefore, I decided to fold the club,” said Richwine. The Outdoors Club members are hopeful in finding an advisor for next semester. “We are go ing to try to reorganize by becoming a charter member of the National Sierra Club. We are also going to try to form an Out ward Bound Adventure course as an elective for winter and/or spring semesters. We are going to take the money budgeted for the Outdoors Club this semester and try to enlarge that amount through various means and buy equipment such as packs, tents, cooking gear, sleeping bags, etc.,” said Richwine. The Outdoors Club will try to reorganize and the first meeting will probably be next semester, according to Richwine. Joe Ku| Fall Minority Recruitment 0* Monty, November 17, 1986, the Undergraduate Admissions Office will be spon soring a recrvitmeirt day for prospective minority students. The program will ieclede academic presentations, a canpes tear, and special workshops dealing with specific issnes tint at dress minority concerns. One highlight for the prospective students should be featured keynote speaker, Captain Ronald Sharpe, Commanding Of ficer of Troop S, Pennsylvania Stale Police, who is enrolled in a doctoral/edttcation program at Temple University. He is also an adjunct assis tant professor of criminal justice at Ship pensburg University. Captain Sharpe will speak on the role of minority students in higher education. We will begin our special day with a recep tion for our guests in the CUB from 9:00 a.m to 10:00 am. Insh Harv p 2 Asking Around ...P 4 Cynicisfn and Humor.—P 5
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