University works to accommodate disabled students By Jen Ellison L\»Qan Duty l m&ak1 Tin* American Disabilities Ac t requires the Uni versity to provide services that permanently and tem porarily disabled students need in order to function on campus Hilary Gerdes. Office of Academic. Advising and Stu dent Services counselor for students with disabilities, is the one faculty member who makes sure the Universi ty's 200 or so disabled students receive these services. Gerdes coordinates faculty and staff to help disabled students. Her department. Services for Students with Disabilities, provides such services as note-takers to accompany students to c lass, readers who record stu dents' textbooks onto tape and mobility help if students can't transport themselves to class. Other services provided by the department include a quiet place to take tests with someone who will rend the questions and record the answers, class relocation to rooms with easier access and meeting with faculty on the specific needs of the students. Disabilities that qualify students for these services are blindness or visual impairment, deafness or hearing impairment, mobility difficulty, such as using a wheel chair or braces, learning disabilities and severe psycho logical problems. Services for Students with Disabilities also provides serve es for students with temporary disabilities su< It as broken arms or legs, severe illnesses, temporarv sight or hearing problems and head injuries. In addition to working directly with disabled students, Gerdes also meets with prospective new students with disabilities and the students' parents ''We're having incsuasing numbers of prosper tive slu dents coming to learn what services we have available and to see if this is an appropriate place for them. 'she said "We also need to know what serve es we will need to have available for these new students " New students' needs are determined before the stu dent starts school Although Gardes advises about 200 disabled students, more than that come in every week "We get a lot of people coming in who think that they might have a disability, like a learning disability." Gerdes said "They have been having difficulty learn ing over the years but were never tested for a disability in the past " lierdes also gets visits from students who have lieen on campus for a i ouple of years who have refused to admit that they had a disability They .ire starting to see that they (ire eligible for services that will make life easier for them. Along with her counseling duties. (.ordes is involved with a number of committees As a member of the Cam pus Planning Committee, she watches ov er the planning of new buildings and renovations to assure equal ai i ess for the disabled "I'm kind of their wait h dog.' she said As i oordmator of the Disability #rojei I whii h began in I'iHH. she works to secure additional serv u e-. vv hu li iLp'ii't required hv law. for disabled students *We need more education for the faculty... teaching the faculty about disabilities and how to accommodate students with disabilities can make a difference * — Hilary Gerdes, counselor tor students with disabilities One of these extra vers it es is a new c omputer xv stem for the visually impaired. Located in Knight Library. it t an tails to its users, print in braille and i an opto alls scan a page and read it out loud Working full time w ith one part time graduate teat li tng fellow denies (eels sir.lined "I w ish I had more help." she said II a t ouple ol stu dents are having a rough term, it takes a lol of nn time 1 don’t have time tor evervbodv else In addition to additional staff in the offit e (lerdes said she sees a need for edui at ion "We need more edut ation for the tat lilts she said People don’t understand the mint at tes ol a head injurs and tilings like llt.it I eat lung the fat tills about disabil ities anti bow to at t ommodale students w tilt disabilities i an make a different e Students to discuss fee proposal By Chester Allen Oregon Ckv*y t ntctaid Student government lenders, divided over University Presi dent Myles Brand’s plan to change the present system of distributing student fees, announced Wednesday they will meet twice next week to hammer out a compromise response to the plan Brand’s plan would take away the Incidental Fee Committee s authority to allocate about Sl .H million in student fees to KMl' programs The plan would give the KMU board direct control of a portion of ear h year’s student fees. Kverv full-time student pays $100 in student fees each term. The ASUO, I Ft and the I Ml hoard will conduct a puldn meeting April r> in tin* I Ml Ben hinder Room from IJ to p.m. to t p in to hear student opinions on Brand's proposal Student government groups will again meet in I Alt' Cedar Room I) April 7 from t p in. to (> p.m. to itraft n response to Brand's plan Vern llo. a professional fat di lator. will .n t as a neutral medi ator during the second meeting to help student government groups reni h a united compro mise to Brand's plan, said ASUO I’resident Bobby Fee Although student government leaders have disagreed w hether Brand's plan, released in Febru ary. is worthwhile. Fee said In hopes the meetings will help iron out different es and prixhu e a better plan than Brand's Fee said he believed there are "better wavs" to distribute stu dent inmii-v to the FMl . but he de< lined to reveal details until next week’s meetings "In the end we all mnv agree to disagree. Fee said We all mav ( mm' up with our own pro pnsals, lint I Iwlieve we «11 .ill make u good-foilh effort and real h .1 compromise However. I MU board ( hair man Joe Grube said ho believes Brand's plan is good hei ause il removes a lover of tmreaiu r.n y in the I'Ml1 budgeting system The TMU hoard trier! to nego tiate tile issue with the 1FG tlur ing fall term, but 1 ommiltee members never showed up at st hetluled meetings, (.ruin' said I will try to work toward 0 consensus to a point, hut if it doesn't happen by April 7. it won't happen at all." 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