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State U.t but Professor Floyd
Olson has suds s tins Imui ride
mandatory for his students. As
part of tits curriculum, students
must survey s building on campus
while riding in s wheelchair in
order to become aware of tits nssds
must first take a walking tour of
the building they will later survey
in the chair. ‘They canto bade and
they say; *Yup, there are no prob
lems," Olson amid. "AH of a sadden
they get into the wheelchair and
they say, "That water fountain
docent work at all, and that bath
room is terrible.’ ” Tbdd King, s stu
dent who has completed the hour,
said that it gave him a new per
spective on the accessibility of
things to the handicapped. King
critiqued the library. "Anybody
that will be designing structures
for all people should havetodotthe
wheelchair hour),* King said. "The
students come back and they’ve
learned a lot," Olson said. ■Jason
Abraham, The Reporter, Mankato
State U.
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seats when the bell rings, you will not be
permitted to leave.' Even worse, when I
walked into the faculty room, no one
asked me for a pass; no one even told me
to spit out my chewing gum. Teachers
introduced themselves to me by their
first names. I was given the power to give
detention (a method of shaping the
behavior of our youth that I find abso
lutely repulsive).
As the day progressed I began to get a
grip, although I did make my share of
mistakes. I let it slip that I refused to
give detention, much to the joy of the
young monsters, and I said “shit’ once
and was jeered by a disapproving chorus
of “ooooh!"
When the bell rang at the end of the
day, I sighed in relief, thinking that I was
the biggest moron and all the kids hated
me. I was startled out of my self-pity by
one of the little girls tapping me on the
shoulder. “Would you be our sub every
day?* she asked.
I left the school beaming. On the way
to my car, I spied the slide that I had slid
down so many times as a kid. I climbed
to the top and slid down. It was even
more fun than I remembered.
Contests
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dig and mashed potato slide.
In the mashed potato dig, contestants
stepped into a vat of mashed potatoes
and dug for poker chips worth points in
the overall competition.
The mashed potato slide involved 44
feet of mashed potatoes spread out on
wrestling mats, melted down with but
ter. Contestants each tried to slide the
farthest down the slide.
Contestants received Potato Olympics
T-shirts and competed for nearly $3,000
worth of prizes.
■ Brenda Mobile, The Daily Iowan, U.
of Iowa and Annie Foote, The Bulletin,
Emporia State U. contributed to this
story.
Adoption service finds campus homes for strays
By Kelly MacDonell
■ The State News
Michigan Stats U.
Lori Hough is a pet broker of sorts.
With the help of a friend who houses
hard-to-place and stray animals in her
Middleville, Mich., home, the Michigan
State U. zoology junior “adopts out"
dogs and cats to MSU faculty, staff and
students.
Since starting the service at MSU last
November, Hough has adopted out 12
dogs and one cat
“Marge (Miller, partner in the adoption
service) keeps the animals at her house
while I try to find people here that will
take the pets,' Hough said.
Miller and Hough met last summer
while Hough was working at an animal
shelter.
“She takes in the problem animals that
I cant find homes for right away,* Hough
said.
In an attempt to save cats and dogs
from research — or death — Hough
spent the summer working to find own
ers for the animals brought into the
shelter. Her efforts resulted in finding
homes for more than 100 dogs and cats,
she said.
“People always say, Td love to keep
strays,' but doing it is something else,’
Hough said. “Marge’s patience is phe
nomenal. She's taught me a lot.*
Miller, who lives with about 26 dogs
and 32 cats, said having so many animals
to contend with can be trying at times.
“Sometimes the only place to get away
from them is in the bathroom," Miller
said. ‘I had about 30 cats in the house
until they trashed the furniture, then I
converted the garage into a 'cattery.'
*1 have great friends and a really good
support group," Miller said. “And,
although I do have a large vet bill, there
is a vet that comes out to help me for
free.’
Miller also purchases her dog food for
a special price — $ 10 for a 50-pound bag.
But Miller said she still needs more
financial help since she only takes dona
tions and does not charge people to adopt
the pets.
“There are a lot of good people out
there who maybe cannot afford a fee,*
Miller said.
Tb combat the rising costs. Miller and
Hough are trying to become registered
as a nonprofit organization.
“If I could become a nonprofit organi
zation, the businesses I go to could write
off the stuff they give to me,* she said.
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