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Kain says first-year students and sophomores have been frequenting OCS, whose function is to assist students in planning careers and finding summer employment...
...MINORITY COUNTERS THAT PRISons serve a valuable function beyond safeguarding citizens from criminals. "How can you say ((prisons)) have no impact on crime rates?" challenges Charlie Parsons, who heads the FBI's Los Angeles Regional Office. He points to an FBI effort to curb bank robberies that slashed such incidents in Southern California by 37% in a year. "The bottom line is that if you catch somebody after their first bank robbery or after their tenth, you are going to have an impact," he says. Director Peters of Illinois also sees benefit in stiff time. "For many of the inmates...
Corrections officials know there are no quick fixes. But they -- like many inmates -- argue that the prison system would function more effectively if justice were served more swiftly, sentences imposed more reliably and space allocated more rationally. The lag of months, sometimes years, between the crime and the punishment is counterproductive. Says Marcus Felson, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California: "((An electric)) plug that shocks you a year later or once in a thousand times isn't going to deter...
...mascot could seriously improve this unfortunate situation. Granted, the mascot might be stupid--most mascots are--but it would serve a valuable function for the athletic program and the College as a whole. A Mascot would add at lest one more fan to athletic events and in some cases that would be a significant percentage increase...
...been kind enough to allow me to moonlight as a practice goaltender, giving me invaluable knowledge about the art of ice hockey that a lifelong Southerner might be hard-pressed to come by. I'll take a few pucks on the schnozz, I suppose, if it helps me function more effectively as a men's hockey writer. (I certainly watch Aaron Israel and Tripp Tracy with a more analytical eye these days...