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Deaf student serves as panelist at
convention for hearing-impaired
ROBERT J. REED/The Battalion
By ROBIN GOODPASTER
Reporter of THE BATTALION
Texas A&M student
helped offer insight to
the educational needs of
deaf students at an in
ternational convention concerning
the hearing-impaired and higher
education this summer.
Julie Grisham, a sophomore
general studies major at Texas
A&M, was a guest panelist at the
International Convention of the
Alexander Graham Bell Associa
tion for the Deaf.
"After the panel, parents came
up to me and said that they felt
like they would try and get their
kids more involved instead of
putting them in special classes,"
Grisham said. "I definitely think
that it is better for kids to be in
mainstream classes."
Grisham attended regular
classes in school even though doc
tors recommended that she attend
special classes. Grisham only at
tended one special class for hear
ing-impaired children.
When Grisham began having
hearing problems at age three, she
had already been talking for quite
awhile. As a result, she is able to
communicate with others through
speech and reading lips.
"When my mom came into the
special class early to pick me up,
she noticed that I was the only
one talking, and everyone else
was signing. From then on, I was
in regular classes," Grisham said.
Grisham went to speech thera
py once a week for 13 years, and
she is not hard to understand
when she speaks.
"A lot of people don't even
know I am hearing-impaired
when they meet me until they see
the captioner on my television in
my room or the teletypewriter on
my phone," she said.
Grisham said that when she
was growing up, she was the only
hearing impaired person in any of
her classes.
She attended public schools
until high school. At that point,
she applied for a scholarship at a
private school through the
Alexander Graham Bell Associa
tion for the Deaf.
It has been harder for her at
A&M than in high school, she
said.
"Until I came to A&M, I never
had to have note takers. I can
take most of the notes, but some
of the professors are hard to un
derstand.
"The professors that are espe-
"A lot of people don't
even know I am hearing-
impaired when they meet
me until they see the
captioner on my
television in my room or
the teletypewriter on my
plione."
-Julie Grisham
dally hard to understand are the
ones with moustaches or beards,
but they have been very nice
when I told them I was hearing
impaired. One professor did not
shave off his beard, but he shaved
around his mouth so that it would
be easier for me to read his lips,"
Grisham said.
Besides the captioner and the
teletypewriter, Grisham has a
strobe alarm for the fire alarm. An
FM system allows her to hear only
the professor in classes by block
ing outside noises. The professor
wears a microphone connected to
the system so that they are easier
for Grisham to understand.
Students give views,
concerns on possible
presidential item veto
By JULIE CHELKOWSKI
Reporter of THE BAT7AUON
Editor's note: “Student Political
Issues Forum" is a non-scientific
poll of A&M students and does
not reflect the editorial opinion of
The Battalion Editorial Board, Bat
talion staff members, or the faculty
and staff of Texas A&M Universi
ty. It is intended solely for the pur
poses of disseminating differing
views held by students of Texas
A&M Uniiresity.
The students in this weeks
"Student Political Issues Forum"
were asked to respond to the possi
bility of a line-item veto for the
president of the United States.
Texas A&M students have a
variety of opinions on whether
the united States president
should be given a line-item
veto on bills proposed by Con
gress. Most students who
agreed with the veto said the
president should be given the
power to strike certain lines of a
bill to allow the proposals to
pass easier and to avoid prob
lems with riders, unrelated
clauses sometimes added to
bills.
Reagon Grimes, a freshman
Agriculture economics major,
agreed with a line-item veto,
but with some restrictions.
"I think we should have it,
but there should be some re
strictions - the bill can't be
completely rewritten. Things
can be struck, but things can't
be changed to have a complete
ly different meaning than it
started out as," he said.
bills that we need arefailingbe-
cause of riders that are attached
and can't be striked out."
Jimmy Jones, a junior politi
cal science major from Marlin,
said he believed the president
sh ould have more power anda
line-item veto would provide
that.
"I think it would be very
positive. If that would facilitate
bills to become a law, then I'm
all for it," he said. "1 don't thini
it would give the president too
much power because presently
I don't think the president has
enough power."
Steven Goff, a computer en
gineering major form San An
gelo, agreed.
"I think he should have
more control - he is the head of
our country," Goff said.
But not everyone thought a
line-item veto would be appro
priate. Kathryn Knowles, an
education major from College
Station, said it would be a mis
take to give a president, democ
rat or republican, the ability to
pick and choose certain areas of
a bill to delete.
"That basically says that if
he doesn't like something he
can get rid of it - it doesn't mat
ter if it's a rider or not," she
said. "It may make bills pass
easier, but that's not always a
good thing . It would give him
too much power."
Line-item vetoes would add
more headaches to an already
bad situation, said Trade Mar
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