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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
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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.”
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