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MasterCurts family haircutters MasterCurts family haircutters POST OAK MALL 693-9998 Handicapped students at A&M find pj obstacles in facing everyday tasksif c By Danny LaBry Staff Writer While such tasks as pushing eleva tor buttons and opening doors often are thought of as trivial, they can be come major obstacles for a hand icapped individual. To bicycle riders on their way to class, sloped curve cuts are a conve nience, but for the wheelchair- bound person, the curb cuts are nec essary to get across the street. A handful of Texas A&M stu dents confront these problems every time they go to class. A&M student Laurie Marshall has been confined to a wheelchair since she was in the eighth grade. She says the main reason she came to A&M was the friendly atmosphere, but that the geography of the campus ran a close second. After visiting sev eral Texas colleges, she found A&M to be one of the flattest and most ac cessible for a handicapped person in a wheelchair. Although Marshall says she has never let accessibility problems hin der her, when it comes to visiting friends in dorms, she usually resorts to a piggyback ride in order to get to the proper floor, which, she says, is more of an inconvenience for her friends than for her, but that they are usually happy to oblige. A&M dormitories aren’t equipped with elevators, although the first floors of some of the dorms have rooms equipped for handicapped students. Modifications in Marshall’s dorm include wider doors, a bigger 1^ bathroom, a modified shower and lower light switches. Simple tasks can often turn into quite an amusing experience, Mar shall says, and she can’t help but laugh as she explains how she once tried to balance books on her lap while jumping for the elevator but tons in the Harrington Classroom Building. Some isolated buildings on cam pus are problems for handicapped students, but professors usually will relocate a class if a handicapped per son is having trouble getting to the class. The Handicapped and Veterans Services office in Hart Hall reviews Marshall’s class schedule, along with the schedules of other handicapped students, and sends letters to die ap propriate instructors informing them that the student will be attend ing their classes. Any forseeable problem is then worked out between the student, the instructor and the handicapped services office. Taking tests is another common problem facing handicapped stu dents, especially for those like Mar shall who have lost full mobility in their hands. She says it usually takes her twice as long as other students to take an all-essay test, so many of the handicapped students are allowed to take their tests in special rooms in the handicapped services office. Overall, A&M’s handicapped services seem to be up-to-date, al though Marshall says a few things on campus still bother her, such as get ting books on the fifth or sixth floors of the library where the racks are too close together, or sitting on the floor of G. Rollie White Coliseum during basketball games because her wheel chair won’t fit in the bleachers. “I think society is just starting to realize and accept handicapped peo ple,” Marshall says. “I think it is just going to take time, like anything el se.” About 20 A&M students are bound to wheelchairs, and all of them, along with learning-disabled students, blind students and deaf students, are assisted by the hand icapped services staff. Although Dr. Charles Powell, coordinator for handicapped serv ices, is the only professional staff member in the office, he is assisted by one full-time secretary, two stu dent drivers for the handicapped student van service and four veter ans paid by the federal government. The office also provides special services like mobility assistance, mi nor wheelchair repairs, hand icapped parking and an attendant locator service. It also coordinates academic services such as special registration, lecture cordings and tutoring. Powell hopes to double ties the office soon, as now it sists of two cramped office! few small rooms. The map lem, he says, is getting the expand and add new staff, “There’s no limit to ex; he says. “I need todoubleev I’ve got.” Pointing to a stack of al» tapes on his desk, PowellsaJ need a computer that we can J to. Those are supposed tobe; to help the word processor, but then both th no way I can do it. It’steniWi men, a consuming. Unfortunately,Ii from h a deaf student that needsthu Angela and we just can’t keep up.fdirectoi We’ve got to do somethingtSKimf so this student can gethisloHS? di put on paper so he can read? also are The Handicapped service!sS receiving much of its helpfic; unteers in the University i nity, such as Alpha Phil A&M service fraternity,; gineering technology andae engineering departments. Powell says A&M's acce and its handicapped serraj has contributed to handicapt*! dent enrollment. Because ii: | tivelv fiat, he says, A&Mhasi vantage over other campusenj the University of Texas; west Texas State University j hilly geography makes itdi5j get around. Stacked boxes r library hold arch! ves By Carolyn Kelbly Reporter A relatively unknown cache of musty docu ments, including numerous boxes full of Texas A&M history, is located on campus just behind the library. Established in 1950 in connection with the 75th anniversary of Texas A&M, the University Archives, also known as the Cushing Library, is a division of Sterling C. Evans Library responsible for collecting and preserving official records. Organized on three floors, there are boxes stacked to the ceiling with documents dating back to 1871. These assist University administrators, faculty members, students and the general public in research and information gathering, Univer sity Archivist Charles Schultz says. The material is stored in its original form and on microfilm, Schultz says. The files of original material, if placed in a single row, would stretch for 1.7 miles. Original records stored on micro film would streych out 300 to 400 feet, he says. Schultz says 65 percent of the material used is from clippings files. Clips from The Battalion, the Eagle and the Houston Post are filed by sub ject for students to use in their research. When the files get too full they are stored in boxes, Schultz says. “There are 50 boxes of clippings in the back,” Schultz says. “Anything you can come up with in the past 50 years, we have clippings for.” The history of A&M is the largest catagory of information stored in the Archives. Minutes from meetings of the Texas A&M Board of Re gents from 1887 to the present and papers from presidents and chancellors are the most impor tant kinds of information, Schultz says. Another category of information is the histori cal manuscripts collection. This section contains papers of individuals and records of organiza tions that include the late Texas Congressman Olan “Tiger" Teague and formei spefe Texas House of Representatives BillyClii; The Oral Historical collection consistiskf ments and interviews from a variety of j|| including A&M graduates who are onafti reserve U.S. military duty who have rirB rank of general, modern oceanography*; ture historians associated with A&Main laneous papers and articles from foraffl dents and faculty, Schultz says. The fourth category of information ii* gional Historical Resource Depository^ This small collection of deeds, marriaytJK and courthouse material, Schultz says,a terest genealogists. “Like the University as a whole," tkM says, “the archives teaches, encourages* and provides service.” Trained professio:.» on duty to help surface material fror:|| and present needed for academic and :p sional development, the report says. SCONA prepares for talks on Soviet Union, foreign relatio: By Greg Sellers Reporter Although it doesn’t take place un til the spring semester, those in volved with the Texas A&M Student Conference on National Affairs are busy preparing for their yearly pre sentation that will focus on the So viet Union and its foreign relations. SCONA is an entirely student-run organization that hosts a conference each spring on various topics dealing with world relations. Scott Wonderly, SCONA plan ning chairman, says five speeches are tentatively scheduled for this year’s conference, which will take place Feb. 10-13. They will be: “G- lasnost,” which refers to internal changes within the Soviet Union; “New Soviet Foreign Policy,” which will be a panel discussion of several SCONA Student Conference on National Affairs NATO members; “Life in the U.S.S.R.;” “Ever-changing Soviet Relations;” and “Soviet Union — the Dynamic Static Future.” Speakers for the spring program have yet to be chosen. Aside from having no financial support from the University, Won derly says bringing in prominent persons can be a problem. “We have to practically ask the people to donate their time, because we just don’t have the budget to pay them,” Wonderly says. Two SCONA representatives travel to Washington D.C. and New York City each year to talk to people helpful in the area of guest speakers. Recommendations are taken, lists are compiled and invitations are sent out. Local congressmen and senators friendly to SCONA help out by writ ing letters of endorsement to poten tial speakers. Past conference speakers have in cluded Lyndon B. Johnson, Lou Cioffi of ABC, U.N. Undersecretary Sjaimi DePinies and Bill Stewart of Time magazine. Most speakers volunteer their time, although some are paid. For funding, SCONA members solicit individuals, corporations and foundations through grant propo sals, Kurt Moore, SCONA chairman says. They also receive endowments from organizations in Washington, D.C., where SCONA has gained the Sts reputation of being a topr.:| ganization. And this summer, a Dalis w relations firm, Ogilvy andli^l accepted SCONA onaspetaB jects account, Moore says. A Fe Each year, SCONAsend* .°f Nagl rations signed by A&M after m Frank E. Vandiver to partL-fBttal g stitutions worldwide, askingAgaves at delegates from eachbechos She 1 tend the conference. J^hat is Although they must pavr: lobbies ration costs plus $100 ink Any j some 200 delegates attendStflbes no with 25 of those from A&M |round SCONA consists of 100c c on>fort members and 27 executive* Since all of whom are students, ^Is wet tions for committee posi ^ulate ; open to all students and te rjust; fund raising, speakers, pu oppress search or student developn:; Perspirz In otl SCOTT & WHITE CLINIC, COLLEGE STATION 1600 University Drive East kune un Durii w ash ini an inch and cen that the A lev "filitarv the p Audiology Richard L. 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