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News Disabled students find College ‘user-friendly’ By Loretta Carter measure the student’s aptitude or achievement level, not his or her disability. Students with impaired sen sory, manual, or speaking skills must be provided aux iliary aids, which can sometimes be acquired through a government agency. Handicapped students are not to be isolated from nori handicapped students at any time. They will be treated the same in all areas of the college’s rules and regulations. The college must notify Staff Writer A blind student makes his way through a crowded hallway or the busy campus yard to get to his class. His on ly way of seeing is through sounds and the white cane he pushes before him. This doesn’t discourage him a bit; he is there to learn and earn a degree in the academic area of his choice. He doesn’t feel that he is hindered by his handicap. The college has taken steps in providing facilities and special services and instruc tional aids for the h andicap- ped. For these reasons, the college is attracting more and more disabled people who want to attend classes. Modifications and ad justments may be necessary in order to equalize the com petitive disadvantage caused by a disability and to make adaptations to teach and to test a student’s true abilities rather than his or her disabilities Dave Campbell When accommodations are necessary, objectives /6f the adapted assignment/ or test should be consistent with the origional assignment. Some of these accommodations are ex tending time boundaries on test, modifying the 'method of testing, and providing longer amounts of time to complete assignments. These modifica tions «re to accommodate the student’s specific disability. Tests that the College uses must not discriminate against any handicapped persons. The tests are selected and ad ministered so that the results are not distorted. These tests students, applicants, and employees, including those with impaired vision and or hearing, that the college does not discriminate in it’s policies of admissions, access to facilities', treatment, or employment in it’s programs and activities. With advance notice, the Handicap Resource Center will provide a reader or writer to assist with the class exams. Other alternatives include hav ing the test questions recorded on tape and request typewrit ten or taped answers to test competency orally. Extra time may be necessary due to the alternate means in volved. The Handicap Resource Center is committed to providing equal oppor tunities for the disabled through out the community. The Center is run by Dave Campbell and Pat Fontaine. Campbell is the counselor for the handicapped and other students as well. Campbell works very closely with the handicapped and said, “Han dicapped students are just like any other student. Everyone has a handicap of some kind whether it be imparative or just pressure of everyday life.” Pat Fontaine helps with paper work and anything else students may* need at the center. Fontaine is also the liason for the veteran’s center. Chinese student loves American freedom Freedom is not just a word to Peter Zhou Bang-Jiu, a 59-year. old Chinese monk joined a Benedictine Monastery in China when he was 12. This was to prepare him for the priesthood. Soon his destiny took an opposite turn, as he was thrown into prison where he spent 26-years of his life. This small Chinese man was imprisoned because he refused to renounce his allegiance to the pope and join the Chinese Communist-operated church. Three times during his im prisonment, brother Peter (as he is called) was placed in Page 4 solitary confinement, thè first time was for two-years. During this time he lost the use of his right arm which became permanently crippled because it was cuffed behind his back for long periods of time. Brother Peter said, “I was beaten many times.” This may have destroyed one of the true loves of life, writing, but it did not break his Spirit. During his imprison ment, Brother Peter commit ted to memory 2,600 poems. These poems which he recited continually helped him to survive his long imprison ment and it preserved his sani ty. After 26-years he was finally released from prison. He then began a three-year struggle for a visitor’s visa to the United States to visit his order’s new monastery in Valyermo, Calif. Through all the publicity Brother Peter received he caught the attention of an English instructor here at the College, Loretta Matulich, who invited him to Oregon Ci ty to live with her and study English at the College. He will be returning to the monastery in Southern California when the fall term ends Dec. 20. When Brother Peter was asked what Freedom meant to him he replied, “It is a gift from God, a reward for my loyalty to him.” Molly Williams, coor dinator of the English as a Se cond Language program at Clackamas, says Bang-Jiu is one of the best students she has ever worked with in her teaching career. She said, “Brother Peter writes the English language perfectly while he is still learning to speak it. I’ll never forget him.” z2<\ z^?<\ Z^X Z3<\ Z?<\ Z3< •) Tues., Dec. 10 SweeCn'Sour Pork w/rice Weds., Dec. 11 Norm ’s Specials at your cafeteria à Beeftips w/noodles Thurs., Dec. 12 Turkey Pot Pie Fri., Dec. 13 Lasagna w/garlic toast * Mon., Dec. 16 £ Turkey Chow Mein w/rice '\jfcZ Mb** Mb" Mb** Mb*’ M'cZ Mb** Clackamas Community College
