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This summer, student senators will be researching
ways to improve access for students with disabilities on
Texas A&M's campus.
Kendra Williams, student senator and an educa
tional psychology graduate student, is one of the sena
tors who initiated a resolution creating a committee to
research A&M's compliance with the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA).
Williams said the resolution was passed during the
1998-1999 session of the Student Senate and is current
ly in the implementation stages.
"We're just trying to see if there are ways in which
students with disabilities feel they are not getting equal
services, if there are instances of noncompliance with
ADA at A&M," she said.
Williams said A&M buildings are ADA compliant,
and the University has taken measures to ensure that
disabled students have equal access to on-campus
buildings. Williams said the Student Senate committee
will determine whether there are other ways in which
students feel their needs are not being met.
Although A&M is legally ADA compliant, physical
access still poses a problem for some disabled students.
Anne Reber, coordinator for the office of Services for
Students with Disabilities (SSD), said to qualify as dis
abled under the ADA, a person must have a physical or
mental impairment that substantially limits his or her
ability to do important life activities.
Reber said the SSD makes sure students with dis
abilities have the same access to opportunities that non'-
disabled students have.
"The physical access is still an issue. A building may
appear to be accessible, but is not. The Military Science
building is not accessible - that is because it was built
before the ADA," Reber said. "If a student can't get into
a building, we work with the University on moving that
class to a more accommodating place."
Williams said although physical access is still an issue,
the Student Senate has not expressed much interest in it.
"My impression from student government is if no
one is complaining, they don't want to make a deal of
it. There hasn't been a big interest in the Senate to do
much research on it. Legally, A&M is ADA compliant.
We're just doing research on instances in which dis
abled'students don't feel they are getting equal ser
vices," Williams said.
Rob Ferguson, student body executive vice president
and a senior political science major, said the intent of this
resolution is to shed a positive light on the services of
fered by the SSD, as well as to make the University more
accommodating to the needs of disabled students.
"We want to minimize problems for students with
disabilities," Ferguson said. "Student Body President
Forrest Lane and 1 will help Kendra Williams as much as
we can. We will make sure that this happens efficiently."
Ferguson said the research is being done over the
summer so that it can be presented to the full Senate
and administration in the fall of 2000, when a plan of
action will be created.
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ways have been added.
Restrooms on the third and fourth floors were renovat
ed because their old pipes would burst with the power of
the new pipes on the first and second floors.
The library has been under construction for different
purposes since the mid-1990s, but there are not any future
plans for construction.
"As for now, we are not planning any major construc
tion," Gilreath said. "We are ready for a break. We hope the
students enjoy the library because that is our goal."
The idea to improve the library was brought on by stu
dent observation.
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said. "We were trying to match our observations of student
needs to the services we want to offer."
The need for more study space and individual study
rooms was apparent to library staff.
"We knew we needed to increase student reading space
and independent study space."
Brad Whi ttlesey, a senior geography major, feels the ren
ovation of the library will provide students with a better
study environment.
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place over the last year," said Whittlesey. "It's like having
a whole new building on campus."
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more excited about to visiting the coffee shop.
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McKay Howard, a junior marketing major. "It will be a
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Texas children are second poorest in United States
AUSTIN (AP) — Despite a boom
ing economy and record low unem
ployment, the number of poor chil
dren in Texas children is the
second-worst in the country, accord
ing to a study released Tuesday.
More than one in four children, or
1.5 million of the 5.6 million Texas
children, are living at or below the fed
eral poverty level, the Texas Kids
Count Project study states.
The rate remains unchanged from
last year.
"We still have a lot of children in
need," said Pam Hormuth, director of
the state project.
"It's very hard for people who
see prosperity all around them to see
that the increase in our standard of
living is not affecting all Texans,"
Hormuth said.
The Texas county-by-county study
was released in conjunction with the
national Kids Count study, financed
by the nonprofit Baltimore-based An
nie E. Casey Foundation.
The foundation's mission is to en
courage policy changes that more ef
fectively help needy families and
children.
Texas ranks 37th overall among all
50 states for the 10 areas measured in
the study. The reports were based on
data from 1990 to 1997.
According to the study, Texas im
proved in five areas since 1990: infant
mortality rate, child death rate, teen ,
death rate, teen birth rate, and the
percentage of children living with
parents who do not have full-time,
year-round employment.
The state remained stagnant in the
percent of high school dropouts, teens
not attending school and not working,
and the percent of children in poverty.
Texas fell in two areas — the per
centage of low-weight babies and of
families with children headed by a
single parent.
"I think we're on the right track,
but we still have a long way to go,"
Hormuth said.
Gov. George W. Bush has done and
will continue to do his part to tackle the
problem, said spokesman Mike Jones.
"Texas has made significant
progress in helping those Texans who
have been able to fully enjoys
state's prosperity," Jones said. !
Jones pointed to the Child®
Health Insurance Program,
creased funding for child carei ! j
programs that discourage teenp-
nancy as examples.
"And most importantly, is M
tinned improvement in the state's^
ucation system, which in thet’]'
term is the best way to help dnW
escape poverty," Jones said.
But Samantha Smoot, execl!
director of the Texas Freedom^'
work, said Bush favored a verst
of the CHIP bill passed last legit
tive session that would not
covered as many poor children
the current program.
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