Dennis Ceiorie
Photo by Peter Grant
Senate committee
removes amendments
SALEM (Special) — Members of the Senate Education Committee
voted Friday to “bring back” the bill which ,ould place students on
(he State Board of Higher Education and then removed the weakening
amendments to the measure they had approved during a Monday
meeting.
The bill (HB 2147), which the committee sent to the Senate floor
with a “do pass” recommendation Friday, is almost the exact HB 2147
which passed the House several weeks ago.
It requires the governor to appoint two Board members “who
shall be students at different four-year public state institutions (of
higher education) in Oregon at the time of their appointment.”
The bill also provides that student governments at each of the
seven institutions in the Oregon State System of Higher Education
shall submit a list of three potential appointees which the governor
must consider in making the student appointments.
The bill states that the two student members shall serve two-year
terms—half the term of other Board members.
The measure, if passed by the Senate and signed by Gov. Tom
McCall, will go into effect July 1.
The Senate committee had amended the bill last Monday so that
the governor could appoint two students to the Board, but would not be
required to do so. University lobbyist Jeff Johnson indicated Friday
that he had persuaded committee members to “bring the bill back” to
“put the teeth back in the measure.”
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Limited mobility doesn 't hinder
advisory committee’s discussions
Seated around the long con
ference table in the McNutt room
last Wednesday at City Hall were
the usual assortment of people
who serve on advisory com
mittees; a local attorney, an
instructor from Lane Community
College (LCC) a few retired
citizens, a businessman, and two
students.
However, this advisory com
mittee is a unique one — they
know more about their subject
than any other committee
because they live with it. Every
member of the Mayor’s Advisory
Committee for Persons with
Limited Mobility is either con
fined to a wheelchair or has some
other type of mobility problem.
Chairman Dennis Celorie, LCC
instructor, speaks with a gentle
voice, calmly reasoning,
suggesting, and mediating. He is
confined to a wheelchair and well
knows the frustrations facing the
handicapped.
These frustrations are a
hundred little things that never
occur to the general public. A
person in a wheel chair faces an
insurmountable obstacle in a
flight of stairs. He cannot quench
his thirst in a drinking fountain
placed just out of reach. The
width of his wheelchair denies
him the use of a standard
restroom.
“The most important thing is to
make people aware of the
problems,” said Celorie. “The
fact that the council has enough
concern to form a committee is a
big start.”
The committee was formed two
months ago when Jim Martin,
now a member, approached the
city council with the idea. They
authorized the mayor to appoint a
committee on the needs of the
handicapped, with a con
centration on mobility as the
dividing factor between the
handicapped and the rest of the
public.
The committee is now drawing
up proposals so that the han
dicapped can be insured easy
access into publicly used
buildings such as restaurants,
stores and offices. Member Merle
Johnson has already traveled to
every major supermarket in the
area to survey their accessibility.
“All we can do is to get people
to think,” said Celorie. “Our
concern is at the building and
planning level — at that level it
doesn’t cost more to make the
few alterations the handicapped
need. Often it’s merely a case of
making doorways wider,
providing ramps, and lowering
drinking fountains and pay
phones.”
The committee does not want
special privileges accorded the
handicapped. Martin, a vigorous
man with broad shoulders and
muscular arms, asserted if that
were the goal of the committee,
he would want no part of it.
“We’re all mature adults. We
know we cannot rebuild the
streets of Eugene,” said Celorie
smiling, “but there are some
people who won’t even leave their
own homes. We want to make it
so those who want to get out into
the community can.”
“You find yourself not doing
certain things,” explained
Celorie, “The architectural
barriers become too much, at
times it’s just not worth the
struggle.”
“I’m impressed with the Mayor
and his attitude,” said Celorie,
“He said, ‘We’re here to help —
but don’t just present problems,
present solutions too’.”
The committee is working on
practical solutions. They are
currently attempting to amend
the city building code so that all
public buildings will be ac
cessible to the handicapped.
Presently only government
funded buildings fall under the
State Fire Marshall’s code which
does cover accessibility.
School’s priority reorganization
recommended during workshop
At a recent School of Community Service
and Public Affairs (CSPA) workshop, almost
100 students worked on three specific areas
for re-organization of priorities within the
school. These topic areas included:
Curriculum, involving ‘core’ learning for
mats and student outcomes; Decision
making, with funding priorities, feedback; in
addition to organizational structures and the
Mission of the school, sharing information in
small groups.
“We began the workshop,” said Christine
Axelrod, a senior in CSPA, “because people
couldn’t talk to each other and there was
almost no communication within the school.
Students wanted a common event where they
could talk, put things into perspective and
make important decisions.”
Among some of the many innovative
proposals, and directives, which were
developed at the event, included: Im
plimentation of Field Instruction, Gover
nance Structures, the Student’s Role in the
CSPA, the Common Core of the CSPA,
Allocated Resources, Available Funds, Ad
justed Curriculum, a Money Priority System
and Integrated Field Learning.
Through this event, Axelrod pointed out,
the students now are much more aware of the
constraints and helps which are available
towards achieving the proposals they want,
getting targets accomplished.
“A lot of bright ideas came out of this
workshop,” says Axelrod, “it helped us to
decide not only who does the work, but how it
will be implemented and through what.
Nothing, before, ever seemed to change and
allocation of time was constantly a problem.”
Through this workshop, Axelrod points
out, the CSPA has and will achieve a
reorganization and revitalization of its
department.
A second CSPA reorganizational, priorial
workshop is set to be held during the fourth
week of September, next fall.
Those interested in helping or wishing to
learn more about the program should contact
Dick Fehnel, of the CSPA faculty, or Steve
Bucknam, a CSPA student. They can be
reached at the CSPA office.
“People were very pleased with the
results of our first workshop. Clear mandates
emerged and definite priorities have
developed,” said Axelrod. “It was a success,
but next time it could be even more of a
success.”
“It was good,” she says, “a damn fine job
for a first try. To say the least it was highly
benificial for both the students, faculty and
the CSPA.”
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