Southwest Tennessee Community College - Stim Winder Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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Registration Day ,,,. , , 1 AAA t brings parking problems . . . Despite regulations, registering students parked along a on 1500 other students during the January '71 registration. . Paper Work . Office secretaries set up a system to make assembling several hundred class schedules easier.

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t The End Cf Fall Quarter 1970, Class Elections Were Held . . . and nationwide newspaper coverage- is given to Hugh Burns, 1-lm-vii-rl freshman pri-side-nl, who is t'lli'I'tllllll' serv- ing cl prison sentence while- alt:-mling STllVl. When Hugh Barnes president o his college freshman class, packs n his books after his last class of the day he heads straight home -- tc prison The sandy haired student is an in mate at the Shelby County Pena Farm in Memphis, Tenn., servin 3 to 5 years for cashing bad checks An experimental prison workl study program allows Barnes, 25, and a fellow inmate, Steve Paulini 22, to take classes at State Techni' gal Institute, a halivxnrle from th l?i'iS0n farm t l ' Barnes' unusual double world prison and campus drew the attentio. of the schools newspaper when he en- rolled last September. His classmates, aware of his un- usual status, elected him class Kesl- dent. In the election, held Novem r 5, he beat out tvyo other candidates for College Cla: ly ALAN MARKFIELD , y i ' K - V- , Q o 1 ' 2 E ol 1' office, David, Cotter and effrey D. s 'fHo's very pogotszjwlth the students gots everyone, said at school offi ' , C. Nabors, Bktlwl, be has gotten top in his computer programming PWJ 7 u'lf6'u'7'h'a'r STUDENT-CON: Hugh Barnes ot- tends college under work-study penal program. J since he enrolled Julyp y he is free tegmovo around thewoalnpus without a and walks back and forth between the prison and the school with Paulin,-Barnes is careful to follow the rules laid down by prison officiall. s Heixnotallowedtodrlnk, either at ls school or during his travels along a path carefully laid out by prison off ficials between the penal institution and the campus. ' He csnlti skip classes, nor gan he fuiapggsfllllllyfwm We Camlw? alfa? 3 nezglr V, ,stroll or a quisk ger. Hisgigoyements are closeiyfsiawha ed durihiftho day by school officials and prison authorities make periodic attendance checks by phone. And he is not allowed to date coeds or sit around after school in bull ses' sions with other students. Bambi told The ENQUIRER that he is happy with the experimental ref least . l dovfglwant to make an he said, s lt's a test and I vzam to hurt ally other prisoners chances who may follow me. On weekends Barnes works alongside the other convicts in the prison doing field chores. A state grant tor the pro- gram pays tor books and tuition for both prisonorvstudents. - t . SSL Cliiwhrlflsnk. an at the ww The b t lllmstluiaent ha lo hu p,i.,,, l dllgsefherdayiy mst if me ll Y, I Q I e student and lt's good lor Hamm' days of freedom will last until be violates the rules! 1 ,