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Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1977 PIPES — CUSTOM BLENDED TOBACCO CIGARS — DOMESTIC & IMPORTED 4 In-building accessibility still problem YJe also carry imported A cigarettes: | DUNHILL, BALKAN SOBRANIE & SHERMAN Wheelchair obstacles decrease I fe: in< By ROBIN LINN 3709 E. 29th St. Town & Country Center We accept your personal check and also honor: RENT-A-CAR FORD RENT-A-CAR SYSTEM FORD MERCURY LINCOLN beal Pord 1309 Texas Ave., Bryan, Texas • 823-0044 COLLEGE Sj^ ^ Lutheran Mission O Meeting: ^0 A&M Consolidated H.S. Cafeteria (F.M. 2818) o z 9:30 a.m. Study (Students, Adults, Children) 10:30 a.m. Worship (Youth-Led Folk Service) Coffee & Fellowship A small personal fellowship for students, families and in dividuals who seek personal involvement in the ministry and life of the church. Join us. Stan Sultemeier, mission pastor. 846-6016, 693-1047. It is difficult for most students to think of a four inch street curb as a barrier preventing them from get ting to class, but it is for Janie Du- cote. So are door handles and lab tables. Ducote is confined to a wheel chair and is one of approximately 200 handicapped students attendinq Texas A&M University. She is a graduate student in wildlife and fisheries science and was the first Aggie to graduate in a wheelchair. When Ducote applied for admis sion to A&M in 1974, there were many of these types of physical bar riers on campus. Few of the existing curbs were graded with “curb cuts’ to make sidewalks accessible to wheelchairs. Special bathroom facilities were almost nonexistent. A&M had been studying and re moving physical barriers gradually since 1970 before section 504 of the rehabilitation act was passed in the summer of 1977. Section 504 forbids discrimination against the hand icapped, and requires that physical Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set — Sizing — Reoxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair Aggie Charge Accounts 9-5:30 846-5816 ({ obc) INTERSTATE 72^ LTmUl'E UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-67 EE^ ,, zachariah"(pg) $1.2 'The first Elect 16-67)4 & 846-1151 aJ . 2 S Sat alsol ric Western'I ■' 1 i OPEN 7:00 FRI . 7:40 9:30 SAT- SUN. 2:40 4:20 6:00 7:40 9:30 A different kind of... ..loue story. HELD OVER barriers be removed and that “pro grams’ be made accessible. “Pro gram” translates into “class” and section 504 gives examples of what “program accessibility is. “It is meaningless to ‘admit a handicapped person in a wheelchair to a program if the program is of fered only on the third floor of a walk up building,” states 504. Ducote had to face this type of problem every time she registered for classes. “It was really difficult because my advisor had to call the registration officer and find out where my classes were,” she said. “If they were in an inaccessible building, I had to take the class next semester or try to get the class loca tion changed. Cindy Irby, A&M’s affirmative action officer deals with all types of discrimination. Presently commit tees are meeting on different sec tions of 504 to determine what A&M needs to do to comply with the bill. Irby said that interpretation is a problem and that because areas of the bill are vague, schools often ask for clarification. She added that there is vagueness as to what offer ing all classes in an accessible area means. Don Gardner, campus represen tative for the Texas Rehabilitation Commission said there are pres ently 40 buildings on campus that are accessible to handicapped stu dents. But he added that the defini tion of accessibility can vary from building to building. For example, “Accessibility for Ducote to the MSC bookstore meant entering through the back of the building’s freight entrance, into a service elevator, through the bookstore storeroom to reach the front of the store to buy her hooks. In 1974 an elevator was con structed to connect the main floor with the basement, but turnstiles at ftipTnamba Eddie Dominguez '66 Joe Arciniega 74 s'". MARTlj FELDMAN ANN-MARQRET MICHAEL PETER USTINOU JAMES EARL JONES "THE LAST REMAKE OF BEAU QESTE" the AGGIE PLAYERS PRESENT RUDDER Tiflml CENTER FORUM 8 P.M. diL NOVEMBER 1C Fwah 10-11-12-16-17-18-19 WATTING FOR The International Tragicomedy Hit b r SAMUEL BECKETT TICKETS AT MSC BOX OFFICE TAMU STUDENTS $1.75 GENERAL PUBLIC $2.75 IMMIH If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned . . . We call It "Mexican Food Supreme." 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DOLBY 4-CHANNEL STEREOPHONIC SOUND 7:30-9:55 7:40-9:40 WEST SCREEN Skyway Twin EAST SCREEN CARRIE PLUS BURNT OFFERINGS CHICKEN CHRONICLE PLUS SCARAMOUCHE Trust no one. No one. I r: AVC0 F MBASSY Release From J FNTFRTAINMf MI FRI.-SAT. MIDNIGHT ALL SEAT $1.00 BUTCH &THE KID ARE BACK! BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID” Panavision* • Color by DeLuxe* the entrance of the bookstore still blocked Ducote’s way. One of the turnstiles was removed for wheel chair access. But buying the necessary equip ment may be costly. For example, a wheelchair lift like the one in the chemistry building cost around $5,000. “The University has always found the money, there are no problems with obtaining funds for a worthwhile program,” Gardner said. Curb cuts are the easiest and cheapest type of improvement to in stall. Curb cuts were included in the sidewalk plans for the plant sciences building, Gardner said. Gardner added that there are presently some problems getting to existing build- ig-s. T had classes in Zachry and had to wheel down the street for the first two years because there were no curb cuts,” Ducote said. Gardner noted that the curb cuts to Zachry haven t been completed yet but should be done within the next two weeks. Another problem Ducote con fronted was getting to the Oceanog raphy building. Again there were no curb cuts. “They had this nice ac cessible building and you couldn’t get to it because there were no curb cuts,” she said. Gardner said that most of these types of problems had been solved, and the biggest problem is now internal accessibility. Many lab ta bles which are at normal heights are too high for students in wheelchairs. “One of the fallacies of the law is that you can get into the building but you can t use the classroom, Gardner said. Gardner said he felt people should stop thinking of hand icapped students as half-people. “Around 80 percent of our hand icapped graduates interview with the placement office and get jobs,” By LA gryan-Co ir ceof31 ted tha isified b ernmenl The Texi ,jssion (IF ed to 1 Juals find , 0 require jrst, an i foysical or atidicap to ,t must hi Jonal re [lie individ Leslie Di razos Con tirrently 3 1 erviees, w service hysical r ia ndicaps ierapy) an Dolescln ere plac rough th- handica] erviees. Any eni] ral grants iy law to h irogram. ams help jscrimina 1 lation agai Janie Ducote Gardner said. When Ducote finishes her requirements for her master’s degree she will go to work as a museum specialist in charge of the natural history collection at the Corpus Christi museum. What would Ducote have she wanted to go to school at Ai in 1969? “I don t know, I gm wouldn t have been able In school here, she said. Will it rain, snow or hail? weather radio will answer ‘The h milding o nore refii nd econ inssen al Inter Dredging MtM Uni Linssen Internatio Com lecision- servants ind “whe: ics are pi ire often 1 ives and establishe As a ri BY GARY WELCH Complete 24-hour weather in formation will he available to Bryan-College Station area resi dents for the first time next spring. A broadcast station, recently ap proved by the National Weather Service (NWS), will broadcast at 162 MHZ with a 40 to 50 mile range, said Doyle Casey, official in charge of the NWS office in Waco. It will be located in College Station and will provide weather warnings, and routine marine, agricultural and weather forecasts. “The station has been approved by the NWS and efforts are under way to build it, said Jake Canglose, Brazos County Civil Defense direc tor and chairman. He said an exact construction site and completion date have not been determined, but the antenna should start going up sometime after January. “Routine broadcasts will be put on tape by' the Waco weather serv ice and transmitted by phone to the broadcast station, Canglose said. “The tapes will he updated every hour, but at any' time they can break into the tape and issue warnings. Sun Theatres 333 University 846-9808 The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week Open 10 am - 2 am Mon-Sat 12 Noon - 12 Midnight Sun No one under 18 Escorted Ladies Free BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS “We will pre-empt regular hroi casts in times of severe weather, Casey said. Hail, heavy rains high winds are examples of sevei weather. The NWS has transferred the sponsibility for disseminatin weather warnings in Brazos, Lett Madison and Robertson connt| from the Houston office to the Wa office, be said. The switch hecam effective last Tuesday. “We took a survey of the area® found out that more of the peopl were listening to and watchiu Waco stations than Houston Casey said. “Fewer people wen pay ing attention to Houston station because H oust on is so far away Since we rely on radio and televi sion to get the information to public, we felt that we could more to the public if we put it on stations they were listening to J watching. Casey said the transferred sponsibility had a slight effect College Station s broadcast station. The Waco NWS weather rain has a 280-mile range. “The radar covers College Station well, Casey said. “It will evenpicl up light weather in that area, many pn third airp an islanc irojeet v Jl ‘mostly itrong Linssen A& to g The Sorrow and the Pity A Film by Macel Ophuls This film presents France during World War II facing one of the most intricately balanced moral dilemmas imaginable: of all the countries occupied by the Nazis, the French were the only people to cave in a support a regime that actively collaborated with Hitler. The film in its intenseness makes demands on the audience. It goes beyond the simple ideas of assessing guilt; and allows the mysteries of human behavior to remain mysteries. 2 p.m. Nov. 5 $1 Rudder Theater /tep into the m/c DS HEMS Army ] Universi ROIC R, at 1977 s Texas competit in the : trophy j later. Maj. commam detach m June anc Kan. An tabs in l Benning Comp headqua itary p r Peer rat marksm; 5* * I * I I * * i I * * *★ Aggie Cinema Sunday, November 6 Rudder Theater 2:00 P.M. $1.00 & I.D. M.S.C.