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Thursday • March 2, 1995 fOONS The Battalion • Page 5 Stick By Alvaro The Inkwell By Brad Adventures in Augieland By Greg TODA.Y WE’RE &ON& TO COW DUCT K uttle Ex percent w cew&orshiP. I’VE M-WRYS WONDERED MOW MUCH X COW-0 &6T AWRY WITH IN MY COMIC BEFORE I GET "EDITED - ' well I'D kinoR’Moreo they’d CRTCM THOSE LAST SEVEN,SO AS NOT TO DESTROY THE EAr-IICY’* ATMOSPHERE OE MY COMIC. /BUT TUST To MAKE SURE 'EDITORS ARE ON THEIR TOES.... I WANT To SEE WHAT THEY’D DO IF i WAS TO DRAW SOMETHING] l_U<E.-ny/5 IN MY COMIC - l f • ^ ^ YA SEE, I ’M STIU. KIND OF IRKED -1 ABOUT A FEW OF THE TIMES X WAS "EDITED* LAST semester . I’M NOT even allowed TO MENTION OR MAKE FUN OF THE - - v THE OR EVEN THE NOW T CAVT EVEN DO AMY SEQUELS INVOLVING THAT Hot, RED-HEADED LADY THAT ID MENTION^) IN‘ MY COMIC LAST SEMESTER. O.K. LET 3 XUAT THROW bUT A WHOLE SLEW OF "OUESTIOWARLE MATERIAL AND SEE what gets Vuyed- OUT” DAMN, :—, ' J~ Sk@tl(£h By Quatro Weather Today Cloudy with scattered rain. High near 56. East to northeast wind 8- 10 mph. Friday Cloudy with scattered rain showers. High near 62. Northeast wind 10-15 mph. » Saturday Mostly cloudy. High near 70. Tonight Cloudy with numerous rain showers. L<ow near 45. Northeast wind 8-10 mph. ? / / > # Friday Night Cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Low near 50. Source - Chapter of the American Meteorological Society Senate committee endorses voluntary inmate castration AUSTIN (AP) — Prisoners re peatedly convicted of molesting children could undergo volun tary surgical castration under a bill unanimously approved Wednesday by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. State Sen. Teel Bivins, whose bill now heads to the full Senate for consideration, said he wants to help in the treat ment of inmates who have “un controllable urges” to sexually abuse children. “Some of these people have said, T want to stop. I know that I’m not going to be able to con trol my urges when I get out of prison,”’ said Bivins, R-Amarillo. The measure was supported by Dr. Walter Meyer, a psychia trist, pediatrician and endocri nologist who serves on the Coun cil on Sex Offender Treatment; and William Winslade, a lawyer and psychoanalyst who has also researched the subject. But the idea was condemned as “barbaric” by Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and author of a new book about ethical issues in medicine, “Moral Matters.” “I think that you’re in a dan gerous area when you let the government punish you by tak ing away your right and ability to reproduce,” Caplan said in a telephone interview. No state surgically castrates inmates, he said. If an offender wishes to be cas trated, Caplan said it should be done through reversible, chemical means — “taking a pill that basi cally turns your hormones down.” He said of surgical castration, “Not only is it barbaric, but its very irreversibility makes it something that I think doctors could not ethically do. “It’s the same thing as saying to thieves, ‘You can be in jail, or we can chop your arms off, therefore you will not have the urge to shoplift,”’ said Caplan, who added that there’s no guar antee a castrated person would n’t hurt children. Bivins emphasized that his bill is aimed at treatment, not punishment. It would specifical ly prohibit the use of castration as part of a plea bargain or sen tencing condition, he said. Side effects of chemical cas tration are worse and an offend er would have to continue re ceiving injections to control sex ual urges, said James Hoard, Bivins’ press secretary. Bivins also noted that his bill includes many restrictions, such as required psychiatric evalua tion and counseling for an in mate who requests testicle re moval. He said he knows the concerns sparked by the idea of castrating incarcerated people. “The topic is kind of like nu clear waste. Nobody wants to hear about it or talk about it ... and frankly, people tend to have an emotional reaction when you propose this idea,” Bivins told the committee. However, he said, the proce dure has been used in other countries, and studies indicate that those who undergo it are far less likely to repeat their crimes. Caplan said such studies aren’t conclusive. Meyer, the psychiatrist, said surgical castration “is extreme ly effective in reducing sexual activity.” 'SURF THE NET THE SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE EDGE OF CYBERSPACE INTERNET INSIDER t.. ALIENS USE INTERNET TO SPEAK TO CHOSEN FEW BOY'S SOUL SUCKED INTO FAX-MODEM THE KING” IS ALIVE AND WELL ONLINE: SOURCES SAY HE PREFERS MACS! 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