Handicapped students
ALERT works to make the University more open
If students at the University were to honestly represent the dif
ferent University aged people, according to Donald Johnson, a
graduate student working on his doctrate here, 500 University students
would be handicapped.
The reason 17 per cent of the student body isn’t imbued with these
special human conditions, as he calls them, is because the University
isn’t “as open as it could be,” he said.
Johnson is part of a group working to make the University more
available. The group, ALERT, has members involved in getting
ramps installed around the University, having signs made for
restroom doors and getting braille food service menues.
“We’re also involved in recruiting students with these special
human conditions from high schools around the state to come to the
University,” he added.
Also in the workings are plans for a resource center. Offices of
ALERT are now shared with Housing in the EMU “but we have
number one priority for ground floor space in the new section of the
EMU,” he said.
The letters in ALERT don’t actually stand for anything although
“lots of different interpretations have been suggested,” Johnson said.
The group is composed of handicapped students and those who are
interested in the problems of those with special human conditions,
according to Johnson, who is blind.
While the group feels the University needs much work before it
can be really open to them, Johnson says the University is one of the
few campuses even working on the problem.
Johnson termed the beginnings of the group “nebulous” but said
the group got official standing at the start of summer quarter.
ALERT now has “roughly 25 to 30 members” but Johnson says the
membership will go up when fall quarter starts and new students
arrive. “I’ve talked to some of them already and have some fairly
firm committments” he said. He is expecting the group’s membership
to increase to around 40 members.
Some funding for the group was provided by the Incidental Fee
Committee but, according to Johnson, the “major portion of our
funding comes from private solicitations and groups like the Lions
Club.”
Some of the money the group received from the IFC was ear
marked for salaries. In order to make that money go farther, Johnson
says the group split that money up and matched it with work-study
money.
The group’s goal of opening up the campus would allow people to
use the University who have been unable to in the past, according to
Johnson. He says it really is a problem, the extensiveness of which
Foreign students
Organizations offer
next best thing to home
Are you a University student from outside the United States who
finds your fellow countrymen and women fewer and farther between
than you’d like?
If you are and you’re looking for a place where you can meet other
students from your homeland or where someone can help you through
the University red tape maze, one of the foregin student organizations
probably has what you’re looking for.
These groups offer social events for foreign students, provide
guides across the cultural boundaires and often initiate dinners or
movies to provide a similar guide service for the American student to
get an insight into other cultures.
Some of these groups at the University are the African Students
Association, Arab Students, Armenian Youth, Asian American
Student Association, Australian Students Association, the Committee
of Concerned Asian Scholars (a study and action group on campus),
Dutch Student Association, East Asian Society, Fnends of Pavia
(Italian Club), Hui-o-Kamaaina (a club for social and work help for
Hawaiin students), Israeli Student Organization, Japanese Students
Association, Latin American Students Association and Pakistan
Student Association.
There are also groups not affiliated with a country or cultural area
whose main purpose is to break down cultural barriers and establish
“international brotherhood,” for example the Mazdayasni Zarthushti
Fellowship or the Cosmopolitan Club.
Students interested in these organizations can watch for an
nouncements of their upcoming meetings in the Emerald or contact
the Student Administrative Board, 312 EMU, ex. 4366. This Board
approves all organizations and has on file contact people from these
organizations.
Peggy McMullen
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most people don’t realize because they have never been made aware
of the physical limitations to people with special human conditions.
People interested in getting involved in the group can contact
Johnson at ex. 3511 or the office of Judith Bogen, assistant dean of
students, ex. 3211, whom Johnson says is “very involved” in the
program.
Peggy McMullea
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