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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
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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
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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,”
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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.
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school here, she said.
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Complete 24-hour weather in
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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.
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