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A lot are between 18 and 28, and we decided if any sincere person wanted help, that we would help them no matter what their age.” The ex-prostitutes, referred to as “peer coun selors,” are volunteers who have held legitimate jobs for several months. They meet Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Middle Earth, an East Austin runaway shelter, and are on call 24 hours. They can be reached through the Austin Po lice Vice Detail, the Victim Assistance Program, Middle Earth, or through patrol officers carrying cards with phone numbers to call. The program was formed by a juvenile prosti tution task force, which included police, prosecu tors, social workers and juvenile court officials. The group began meeting last month, and has had successful, if sporadic, results, said Beth Black, a social worker who acts as co-facilit for the group. “It’s like the philosophy at AA (Alcohol Anonymous): a recovering person is thebesipt son to talk to someone who is still sufferingv the disease,” Black said. “We’re not heretoti) convince them. They don’t even have to warn quit.” But most prostitutes want out, said one pt; counselor during a recent group session. “When I was working in the massage park: saw lots of people trying to get out,” she said never saw one girl successfully get outofi business. Ever. It’s so hard to get out. We’reti ing a lot of money here. We’re talking usual; drug habit, sometimes children, sometime! man’s drug habit.” T H A H A I R P L A C E D E S I G N S MARCH 10 12:00 MSC LOUNGE 4r MSC HOSPITALITY AU nr Handicapped (Continued from page 1) ing,” he says. “I need to just dou ble everything I’ve got.” Douglas, who uses the hand icapped services office for every thing from studying to shooting the breeze with his friends, says he’s in favor of expanding the of fice. would be more of an asset to handicapped students, Powell says as he turns to apologize to a student who had to stop taking a test in a quiet room so a volunteer reader could record a reading as signment for a blind student. got all kinds of needs like that that need to be met. The com puter is going to be one of our an swers if we i equipment. can get the right “Right now I think it’s nee ded,” Douglas says. “If you ever go in there during finals week or mid-term time, you’ll see it’s really hard on the people taking tests and the people working in there. “The congestion and the peo ple going in and out is kind of a problem. I think expanding it would really be to the advantage of the students.” After getting what funding he can from the University, Powell says the office will try to supple ment the rest. The office is supplying the handicapped students with all the services they need, Powell says, but it just can’t adequately get to everything that needs to be fin ished. While Powell’s immediate goals may be to get assistance from the University, the handicapped serv ices office is receiving much of its help from volunteers in the Uni versity community. A computer in the office, used for minor office tasks and trans ferring taped lectures to paper, ~ raised by not sure what he would dowitt out them. And several engineering dt partments provide mechanKi and design services. John Vittrup, an associate pit fessor of engineering technolop says, “We’ve (engineering tetk nology) come up with a couplet things from time to time when people have a need for a litik special tool or something liketk to hook onto a zipper or tobutio: something. If they show us wk they want, we can construct itfe them.” The office gives about 100 tests a week during midterms and fi nals, but because only two rooms are adapted for test-taking and making recordings, Lane says problems result when a test-taker and a volunteer reader need a room at the same time. The first step in Powell’s plans is to see what the University can do for the office. Powell hopes they will take care of the mainte nance because he says his office can’t afford it. If the University won’t take care of the mainte nance, he hopes he can relocate somewhere that has adequate space for his expansion. Pointing to a stack of about five tapes on his desk, Powell says, “We need a computer that we can dictate to. Those are supposed to be put on the word processor. There’s just no way I can do it. It’s just terribly time-consuming. Unfortunately, I’ve got a deaf student that needs that service and we just can’t keep up with it. We have got to do something about that so this student can get his lectures put on paper so he can read them.” igli Alpha Phi Omega, an A&M serv ice fraternity. Patti Le Boutillier, chairman of APO’s handicapped student serv ices committee, says a fundraiser was held in Fall 1984 in which APO members pushed 10 empty wheelchairs from College Station to Houston. The service frater nity raised $1,800, all of which was donated to Handicapped and Veteran Services. The office can do an adequate job with what it has, but if his plans are approved, the office Powell says he is in the process of gathering material about dif ferent computers and visual en largers that can be used to assist the handicapped students on campus. He says additions like these will improve and expand the services the office now has. “I need specialized equipment, which is out there now, but it is going to take money to buy it and put it together,” he says. “We’ve The APO committee provides volunteers who perform a variety of services for the handicapped students. Working with hand icapped services, the APO volun teers give tests to handicapped students when tests have to be taken outside the classroom set ting and record book readings for blind students. Le Boutillier says APO also paints curbs, curb cuts and hand icap decals so wheelchair students can identify them easily. Powell says APO provides the office with vital services and he’s Vittrup says engineering (ecli nology, although called on byik of fice only a f ew times a semeslei has been working with hand icapped services for several vean and helps out whenever tlif have the time and equipment John Grillo, a research asso ciate for aerospace engineerint says he has done every thing froc tightening a loose screw on i wheelchair to working on the hi draulic lift in a handicapped sen ices’ van. Grillo, who has worked as staff engineer with United Cert bral Palsy, is familiar with makir., comfortable and functional ad justments for handicapped equip ment. He says he sometimes doe- more involved repairs after worl and on weekends. Powell says, “None of thishap) pened overnight. 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