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.
"The idea the disabled should
go somewhere else is like telling
a black student to go to Tus
kegee,” he says, referring to an
all-black college in Alabama.
The Vocational Rehabilitation
Act is disabled students' "key to
freedom," Faller says.
‘Til take my case to the Su
preme Court if I have to.”
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