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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1981)
Fa Her files discrimination complaint By STEPHEN KNIGHT Ol the Emerald The University is illegally dis criminating against disabled students, says a handicapped student who has filed an affirmative action complaint. In his complaint, Chester Faller — director of the Phy sically Limited Union of Student — maintains that too many campus buildings are inaccessible to wheelchair bound students. “Inaccessibility is a type of barrier discrimination which de prives me of my basic right to an education," he says. According to Faller’s com plaint, the University has vio lated the 1973 Vocational Rehabilitation Act. The federal act required all education programs to be made accessi ble to disabled students by June of 1980, Faller says. A 1937 University accessibili ty report lists 54 buildings that need modification, ranging from stair ramps and door pressure adjustments to elevators. Villard Hall, Deady Hall, Allen Hall and Friendly Hall are the most serious accessibility prob lems because each contains special equipment necessary for certain areas of study. When handicapped students find they need classes offered in inaccessible buildings, the University usually tries to move the classes to accessible loca tions. But Faller says student and teacher resentment dis courages disabled students from pursuing the subject. “A B.A (degree) is particularly hard to get here because the language re quirements are offered only in an inaccessible building." The University requires six quarters of language instruction for a Bachelor of Arts degree. The classes are offered in Friendly Hall. In 1979, the Legislature allocated approximately $1.4 million to accessibility projects. However, the Legislature with drew the funds during last sum mer’s emergency session. Faller says the cut was illegal and could have been prevented by the University administration. "The administration has the power to choose the programs they want saved,” he says. "But they’re more concerned with increasing professors’ salaries than the rights of disabled students.” The University has 30 days from the time a complaint is filed to investigate and respond. Ray Hawk, vice president for administration and finance, "categorically” denies that the University is deliberately dis criminating against handicapped students. "If we can show we have blueprints to put facilities into buildings on campus, that isn’t my idea of deliberately dis criminating,” Hawk says. "We've gone every step of the way we could up to the point where our money was taken away from us.” Hawk says the University had to discontinue its accessibility projects when the Legislature discontinued funding. The administration couldn’t have prevented the cut, he says. “We didn’t have any choice in the matter,” Hawk says. “It’s a case where our legislative body told us we can’t fund this program now.” If the Legislature would release the money for acces sibility projects, construction bids could begin tomorrow, Hawk adds. In the meantime, Hawk says disabled students should con sider transferring to another in stitution if the subjects they want are offered only in inac cessible buildings. “You may have been a ‘Duck’ from the time you were a junior high school kid, but if you wanted engineering you had to go to Oregon State. “I don’t think that choice is any different than if a handicapped youngster wants mass communication. He'd bet ter pick the school where he’s able to be accommodated, not necessarily the school where he’d prefer to go.” But Faller disagrees. 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