Fixing cars or building bars?
Check out the tools from the. . .
Action Now library
By KAREN KANGAS
Of the Emerald
Last year one of the residents of the
University's Philadelphia House could
not get inside without help. He was con
fined to a wheelchair and the house had
no wheelchair ramp.
That’s no longer the case, because
co-op members are building a ramp with
tods from the University s Action Now
Tod Library
Bill Haris. Action Now. director says
carpentry tods are the most abundant
and popular tools in the library, but he
points out that gardening and auto
tune-up tods are also available.
The tod library is at 1557 Agate Si but
that this address can be misleading.
Secreted in a bungalow across from the
Henderson-Bean dormitory complex,
the library can be found more easily from
15th Avenue
“The Action Now program is oriented
toward helping people in the University
and the community become more self
sufficient’ by either lending them tods or
by showing them ways to use the tods.
Harris says.
In the past Action Now has sponsored
classes ranging in subjects from sdar
energy to house building.
Our theme is constructive education
within peoples environment.” Harris
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says. We want to give students an op
portunity to learn by doing rather than by
sitting in a classroom."
The number of projects and classes
sponsored by Action Now has declined
since University architecture student
Carlo Batista, started the program in
1972. The program originally offered
classes that helped build and repair the
homes for people who didn't have the
knowledge or finances to do it them
selves
Currently. Action Now's only project is
the maintenance of the tool library but
Hams plans to change this.
He wants to organize classes to car
pentry, gardening and bicycle
mechanics, but needs to locate people
wiBtng to teach the classes
Action Now is funded by the Incidental
Fee Committee and Work-study tends
are available to those who teach the
program s classes and work to the tool
library.
This term the library hours are 7:30
am. to 10:30 a.m.. aid 3:30 p.m. to 5:30
p.m. Monday. Wednesday and Friday;
11 30 am. to 1 30 p.m. ctrd 330 to 5:30
p.m . Tuesday and Thursday , and 9 a.m.
to noon Saturday.
Students are welcome to check out
tools but they must present identifica
tion. Non-students are required to pay a
depost fee of $10 a year or $2.50 a term.
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