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Handicapped
(Continued from page 1)
must have a friend with her or get
a librarian to assist her because
the racks are so close together on
the top two floors that a wheel
chair will not fit between them.
And she doesn’t like sitting on
the floor of G. Rollie White Col
iseum during basketball games.
It’s not only that you can’t see as
well, she says, but that she would
rather sit with all her friends and
be part of the crowd. She hopes
the new special-events center be
ing planned for A&M will have
enough room for wheelchairs in
the bleachers.
Working with computers
doesn’t sit well with Marshall ei
ther, because typing without full
mobility of the hands is a chal
lenge. The perfect solution for
not only her, but all handicapped
students on campus, Marshall
says, is a voice-controlled com
puter.
Marshall is thinking about be
coming a journalism major, and
although the computer systems
used are new and expensive, she
says she can’t understand why a
large university like A&M doesn’t
have the capability to obtain
equipment suitable for hand-
ATLANTA (AP) — Some Atlanta
officials were wondering if the first
shot has been fired in a trade war
following the Houston City Council’s
refusal to award a $2.1 million con
tract to an Atlanta company a few
hours after Atlanta won the 1988
Democratic National Convention.
Fulton County Commission
Chairman Michael Lomax says he
has no interest in getting into a trade
war with Houston, but he said At
lanta would win such a war.
Indeed, several Houston firms
asked the city’s council to reconsider
icapped students.
But Marshall says the challenge
of typing won’t stop her from
changing majors — it just won’t
be easy. She can learn to finger-
peck at a keyboard if she has to,
she says.
“I think society is just starting
to realize and accept hand
icapped people,” Marshall says. “I
think it is just going to take time
like anything else.”
Marshall is just one example of
about 20 wheelchair-bound stu
dents on campus, and compared
to many others, her handicaps
are minor. She has partial mobil
ity of her legs and arms, while
some students are totally par
alyzed.
Besides being in a wheelchair,
all these students — along with
learning-disabled students, blind
students and deaf students —
have one thing in common: the
Handicapped and Veterans Serv
ices office in Hart Hall.
The handicapped services staff
provides assistance to students
with learning or physical disabili
ties.
Dr. Charles Powell, coordina
tor for handicapped services, says
the staff works with the Univer
sity community to resolve any
its 14-0 vote not to award the con
tract to an Atlanta firm, the Atlanta
Constitution said in today’s editions.
The vote took place about four
hours after the Democratic Site Se
lection Committee announced it pre
ferred Atlanta.
The paper said the timing of the
contract vote seems to suggest that
there were indeed multiple factors.
Houston council member Jim
Greenwood said, “We are giving the
business to Atlanta, which appar
ently is going to get lots of business
over the next two years anyway.”
problems encountered by hand
icapped students so the students
can better meet their educational
and personal goals.
The original goal of the office
was to make sure the A&M cam
pus was accessible by law to hand
icapped students, Powell says.
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
stated that no handicapped indi
vidual can be excluded from any
federally-funded program within
reason.
After the law passed, the Uni
versity formed a committee to
make recommendations to the
president as to what handicapped
facilities should be improved and
designed. Basically, the commit
tee decided where to put curb
cuts, parking spots and ramps, he
says.
“That was a good start, but
overall it was an inadequate pro
gram for what had to come,”
Powell says.
Since then, Powell says, a bud
get has been used to add addi
tional curb cuts and parking, and
new building and renovation
plans are evaluated to ensure that
everything from elevator buttons
to bathrooms is accessible to
handicapped students.
Powell, the only professional
staff member in handicapped
services, is assisted by one full
time secretary. The office also
staffs two student workers, four
student drivers for van service for
handicapped students and four
veterans paid by the federal gov
ernment.
The office also provides special
services like mobility assistance,
minor wheelchair repairs, hand
icapped parking and an atten
dant locator service. It also coor
dinates many academic services:
advising, special registration, tape
recordings of lectures, selected
tutoring, special arrangements
for taking tests and any other
need the office can handle.
“This office is a focal point that
they (handicapped students)
come to and let us know what we
need to get done,” Powell says.
Atlanta leaders suspect
Houston seeking ‘trade war’
Warped
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controlled by a private corporation.
industry is very common, said Dr.
Gary Halter, former College Station
mayor. The government doesn’t
have to come up with money for the
building beforehand, but they own it
from the beginning.
“Another strategy would have the
company build and own the prison,”
Crouch said. “The state could lease it
under a lease-purchase agreement,
and down the road, the state would
eventually own it.
“The state would staff it, the state
would man it, the state would run it,
but the fiscal — and physical — as
pects would have been initiated and
Qy a private corpora
mat I can gather, there
are advantages in terms of giving the
state more flexibility; the state
doesn’t have to come up with this
huge chunk of money to pay for the
construction.”
you medicate them, you proif
them, you rehibilitate them. An
forth. That is the extreme end
is what is least frequently being;
ne.”
Crouch said the other extreme, a
totally private prison, would be al
most completely run by the private
industry.
“The next step would be you (the
E rivate firm) build it and you run it,”
e said. “We’ll (the state) provide the
convicts and the money.
“You maintain security, you make
decisons, you keep them locked up,
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