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University Press • Wednesday, April 22,1998 • Page 4
Prison
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Prisoners from the Mark
Stiles Unit work the land
adjacent to U.S. Highway
69 in Beaumont on Friday.
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Supreme court to evaluate 1992 Chicago gang ordinance
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court will decide how far cities
ca® go in combating street gangs, agree-
ing Monday to study a Chicago anti-loi-
tenng ordinance intended to control the
‘expanding cancer of urban gangs.
•Chicago contends its ordinance, struck
dojvn by a state court, was a lawful effort
to head off drug deals and shootings asso-
ciated with gangs. The 1992 ordinance
required police to order fitly' gtoup of
people loitering in public tofttdte^long if
the officer believed at least one was a
gang member. Those who refused could
be arrested.
Gang-related killings dropped after
police were allowed to remove a visibly
lawless element whose very presence was
often viewed by rival gangs as an invita-
tion to violence, the city’s lawyers said.
But those challenging the law say it was
too vague, and unfairly allowed people to
be arrested for innocent conduct. One
man was arrested after standing on a side-
walk with his brother, eating carryout
sandwiches, lawyers for the Chicago-area
American Civil Liberties Union, said.
The Supreme Court will hear argu-
ments in the case this fall and issue a deci-
sion by mid-1999.
In other action Monday, the court:
— Let the relatives of three murder vic-
tims sue the publisher of a “how-to” book
for killers because its advice was followed
by the man who committed the triple-
murder.
— Rejected challenges to anti-stalking
laws in Virginia and the District of
Columbia. The court turned down appeals
by two men convicted of repeatedly using
phone calls to threaten women from jail.
In ruling the law unconstitutional last
October, the Illinois Supreme Court
acknowledged, “Criminal street gangs are
an expanding cancer in our society.”
But the state court said, “The city can-
not empower the police to sweep undesir-
able persons from the public streets
through vague and arbitrary criminal
ordinances” and cannot make it “a crime
to be a gang member in a public place.”
Under the ordinance, people who
refused to move a long after a police
order could be arrested and sent to prison
for up to six months, fined $500 and
ordered to perform 120 hours of commu-
nity service.
The city’s Supreme Court appeal is
supported by the U. S. Conference of
Mayors, the National League of Cities
and other groups. The lawyer for these
organizations, Michele L. Odorizzi, said if
Chicago’s ordinance is reinstated, other
cities might adopt similar ordinances as
“as a way to take the streets back.”
Hank Hill
Dallas area man is the real ‘King’
J DALLAS (AP) — It’s the same
Hank Hill who drinks beer and
ihows his lawn, but he’s not a car-
boon character on TV. He’s living in
a Dallas suburb.
Meet Charlie Smith. The 52-year-
old doesn’t sell propane like his tele-
vision counterpart, but does love
barbecuing on his propane grill and
chatting with his buddies over a few
oold beers in Carrollton.
| He also loves his 1966 Ford pick-
up truck.
; Creators of the Fox animated TV
series “King of the Hill” think Smith
ip so much like the title character
they created that they named him
the “real Hank Hill.”
The Dallas Morning News, which
sponsored a contest to find a man
who most closely resembled the car-
toon figure, received 130 entries.
While several candidates came
close, executive producei? Mike
Judge and Greg Daniels ware cer-
tain Smith was the real deal.
The show is about a conservative,
middle-aged man living in suburban
Dallas with his devoted wife, quirky
teen-aged son and airhead niece.
Hank Hill believes in hard work,
home and family. He hates heavy
metal- music, government red tape
and know-nothing hardware store
clerks.
Smith is a nearly identical match.
He wooed his wife over a slice of
watermelon, fixes and sells old cars
for a living and spent free time
shooting at rocks and trees on his
ranch before selling it to buy a
motorcycle.
Among the other Charlie Smith-
isms in Sunday’s newspaper edi-
tions:
— On movies: “When I want to
watch a movie, I want to be enter-
tained. I don’t care about plot or
character.”
— On the best kind of beer:
“Cheep beer. All it ever needs to be
is cold, and sometimes not even that.
I’m not one of those guys who’ll lie
to you and say you can’t put beer
over ice, because you can.”
— On yardwork: “It’s good thera-
py, because you gotta talk to your-
self, and nobody can hear you with
the mower.”
— On Leonardo DiCaprio: “What
a weenie.”
For being so Han,k-esque, Smith
wins a “King of the Hill” script auto-
graphed by the show’s producers
and a year’s subscription to Field
and Stream magazine.
LU social work program retains accreditation
Lamar University’s social work pro-
gram received word from the Council of
Social Work Education that it will be
accredited through February 2004.
The council is responsible for the
accreditation of all undergraduate and
graduate social work educational pro-
grams in the United States.
The passing rate for Lamar graduates
taking the national social work practice-
licensing exam has been consistently
above the state average since the pro-
gram was accredited in 1980. In 1986,100
percent of Lamar graduates taking the
test passed on first try with an average
score of 80.22. The state average pass
rate for the exam that year was 86 per-
cent and the average score was 78.3.
In 1996, 93 percent of Lamar’s gradu-
ates passed the exam on first taking, a
significantly higher pass rate than the
state average of 82 percent.
Lamar’s social work program is one
of only 27 accredited programs in Texas.
This program began in 1976 under the
direction of Vemice Monroe, associate
professor of social work and director of
Lamar’s social work program. The uni-
versity’s program received initial
accreditation from the Council of Social
Work Education in 1980.
Graduates receive a bachelor’s
degree in social work. Accredited status
is required for graduates to take the
social work practice-licensing exam,
and, for graduates with a grade-point
average of 3.0 or better, to apply for
advanced standing in a graduate pro-*
gram in social work.
Students interested in the social
work program must be graduates from
high school or transfer students with a
minimum GPA of 2.0. Students take
the core curriculum classes, and an
additional 42 hours is made up of social
work studies. Students also participate
in internships where they gain hands-on
experience.
Jackson may seek Democratic bid in 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jesse
Jackson, who twice sought the
Democratic presidential nomination, is
considering another run for the White
House, his organization said Monday.
Jackson is considering whether to put
together an exploratory committee, and is
expected to make a final decision on his
candidacy in November, Ken Jakubow-
ski, spokesman for Jackson’s Rainbow-
PUSH Coalition, said.
“Reverend Jackson would not float an
idea unless he were deadly serious about
it,” Jakubowski said. “The time has come
to take what has been private discussions
for the past year public. This is not a friv-
olous exercise.”
Jackson will test his potential appeal
among voters next weekend in a visit to
Athens, Ohio, that will focus on “the class
gap” between rich and poor Americans.
“During this process, we make a very
careful analysis and a decision over the
next few months on whether it will make
sense to run for president,” the
spokesman said.
If he does decide to run, Jackson
would be joining a field of contenders
that includes two of his 1988 Democratic
opponents: House Minority Leader Dick
Gephardt and Vice President A1 Gore.
Jackson, 56, currently serves as
President Clinton’s envoy for democracy
in Africa He has never held elective
office but served as a “shadow senator”
earlier this decade for the District of
Columbia, which has no voting represen-
tation in Congress.
Jakubowski would not say whether
Jackson discussed his possible candida-
cy with Clinton, who is expected to sup-
port Gore. He said Jackson is interested
in running again because he wants to
force issues affecting the poor onto the
national agenda.
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