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A lifelong battle
It’s about time something is done to
expose the difficulties of a handicapped
person. Handicap Awareness Week was a
step in that direction.
Probably the biggest problem faced
by most handicapped individuals is that
people generally have a tendency to
underestimate them. It can be a never-
ending problem, even after the handicap
ped person has proven himself. It’s like
“great, you’ve made an accomplishment,
but that’s only one thing you can do.” So it
becomes a lifelong battle. No matter
what’s been accomplished, there always
needs to be more.
President Franklin Roosevelt had
polio, and to keep this from disrupting his
presidential duties, he only allowed
himself to be photographed from the waist
up out of his wheelchair.
FDR was a president who served for
12 years, being elected for the fourth term
just before he died in 1945. He was, of
course, the only president in the history of
the U.S. presidency to accomplish such a
feat. It was also during one of the hardest
times in our government’s history to be a
president, during a world war. Roosevelt
may not have been so successful in his
original bld for the oval office had he let
his disability be publicized. And perhaps
no other president could have accomplish
ed so much while in office. It’s not that
handicapped people make better
presidents, but generally speaking, they
try harder because they’re always having
to prove themselves.
The abilities of the handicapped were
typically exemplified in the past week at
the College. They were shown in things
from wheelchair basketball to art displays.
It shows that with most handicapped peo
ple there is no handicap. It’s just a matter
of finding their own way of doing things.
It’s something I generally just ignore,
and do the things I need to, but in order to
get some things out in the open about han
dicapped people I will bring it out for the
sake of example.
I have cerebral palsy and (do, did
have) epilepsy (four months ago, I was
taken off the medication that kept my
seizures under control after 16 years', j
since it’s no longer necessary).
The biggest thing I don’t like about!
the disorder is that it’s called CEREBRAL?
palsy. The Cerebral part tends to signify
that it’s a mental disorder^ which it is, to a
certain extent. It’s a brain disorder, but on
ly as much as telling various body parts
what to do.
Epilepsy can also be misunderstood.
In looking for a job you never put It on an
application if the seizures are under con-
trol. It you were to do this your chances of
getting a job would fade away. Once many
employers see epilepsy on an application,
they Immediately think, “Can’t hire this
guy, he’ll have seizures all the time.”
These are only the two cases I’m
familiar with, but most likely this type of
misconception goes with all ailments
termed “handicap.” So before you go jum
ping to a conclusion about someone who
is handicapped, find out what their
capabilities are; you might be surprised.
Readers write
Headline
Misconstrued
To the Editor:
In the November 25 edi
tion of The Print, your staff
committed a grave injustice to
the foreign language depart
ment, and Mrs. Ladd. Your
headline implies that Mrs. Ladd
considers the establishing of a
sister school with the Republic
of China as a mistake. Your ti
tle is mis-leading. In the open
ing statement, Mrs. Ladd
asserts that she believes
establishing ties as a positive
gesture, yet...your staff in
sinuates exactly the opposite
and misled the total aim of her
draft.
Mrs. Ladd believes there
exists in the United States a
serious ■ gap in understanding
staff
THE PRINT, a member of the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association, aims to be a fair and impar
tial journalistic medium covering the campus com
munity as thoroughly as possible. Opinions express
ed in THE PRINT do not necessarily reflect those of
the College administration, faculty, Associated Stu
dent Government or other staff members of THE
PRINT.
office: Trailer B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 dr 310
editor: Rick Obritschkewitsch
news editor: J. Dana Haynes; arts editor: Tina Riggs
feature editor: Amy DeVour
sports editor: Wanda Percival *■
photo editor: Duane Hlersche; copy editor: Mike Rose
staff writers: Kristi Blackman, Alison Hull
Thomas A. Rhodes, Tracy Telgland, Darla Weinberger
staff photographers: Duffy Coffman, Jay Graham
cartoonist: J. Dana Haynes
business manager: Joan Seely
typesetter: Pennle Keefer; graphics: Lynn Griffith
advisor: Dana Spielmann
Clackamas Community College
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and interpreting « basic
geography and history. To sup-?
port her claims, Mrs. Ladd pro
ceeded to introduce a series of
distrubing ..evidence which
tends to reveal the shallowness
of American education. Instead
of exploiting a golden oppor
tunity to expand upon this
growing problem, you staff
convicts itself of the supposed
felony be revealing your inabili
ty to comprehend and grasp
the impact of her letter. There
is a serious problem infecting
American education, and
unless innoculated this threat of
reaching the highest level of in
competence may contaminate
the American society.
It is ironic that the second
letter dealt with the use of pro
fanity by The Print. The use of
obscenity was quite vogue dur
ing the chaotic 60s but today
appears more juvenile. Suc
cinctly. the need to describe a
bull’s excretment or a
human’s anal discharging
device is the only outlet open
than Mrs. Ladd’s description of
our American malady has
found a home.
This is no intent to curb
the right to freedom of speech,
but for all rights7 there exists a
responsibility. It appears The
Print extends theirrights even
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He has first billing in the
beyond the limits of the
Oregonian and the Journal. staff box under “cartoonist”
The legacy of the printed and I’ve never seen any of his
word extends from the beginn work. I suggest you delete his
ing of our Republic and that name and give Mr. Haynes the
standard has always been high. full credit he deserves, or j will
The English language is a rich, cancel my subscription.
colorful, and descriptive ver
nacular and we, as Americans, Very truly yours>
have had the advantage of ab Mrs. J. Dana Haynes
sorbing and incorporating
many foreign tongues into our
native dialect. The Print
should, set a level of excellence
and exhort the students to To the Editor:
match or better that standard. If
I am a full-time, first-year
unattainable, I suggest you student at Clackamas Com
should divorce yourself^from munity College; howeverH this
the College paper ana return to is my last term here, for I am
writing for those/hapless in moving to Ohio and Will con
dividuals that ' inhabit the tinue my education there.
ground between the earth and
Before I leave/ I’d like to
a rock.
give special thanks to the
English Department. I have a
E. Matthew Coyne
literature class and a writing
class here, and they have both
had a great impact on me.
Before this term, I had relative
ly very little interest in English,
To the Editor:
but yet, in less than three mon
ths I’ve come to love and ap
I am an -avid and loyal
preciate it. This change
reader of The Print. I find the
wouldn’t have been made
articles very informative.and in
without the guidance of my
teresting. I especially enjoy the
teachers. I thank the English
cartoons by. J. Dana Haynes.
Department for such a fine job
Which is why I must ask, who is at introducing me to a wonder
Jim Adams?
ful subject.
Mark Domann
‘Thank you’
to teachers
Just who is
Jim Adams? •.
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