1982_04 The Daily Collegian April 1982

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Disabled students work for easy success
Ten years ago, getting from one side of
the campus to another was an 'absolute
nightmare' for disabled students—then
the Disabled Students on Campus club
was formed at CSUF and things changed.
Today this "nightmare* is 'much more'dif-
ficult* because it originates not from
CSUF, but from Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
"Issues today are just as important as
issues in the past," said Weldon Percy,
coordinator of Disabled Student Services.
"It's just that disabled student issues are
less visible than they used to be because
Sacramento and Washington D.C. are
where the problems are originating from."
Like every other department or area,
money—or lack of it—seems to be the
number one contributor to issues disabled
people are concerned about.
One such issue, Percy said, is the cut in
funding for support services. Included in
that is a 40 percent loss of Social Security
to beneficiaries as compared to this year.
According to Percy, some disabled people
depend on social security monies to buy
needed medication. Such medication is
taken to curb muscle convulsions, as well
as for other reasons, Percy said.
Issues CSUF disabled students were
concerned about 10 years ago dealt with
making this campus more accessible to
disabled students.
"Going from one side of the campus to
the other," Percy said, "was an absolute
Percy said that at that time people had
to "actually carry me around campus.
And one time, in 1956, 1 was dropped
down some steps and luckily, landed on
the person carrying me.
"I, or the other people, didn't get hurt,
but I took some innocent bystanders with
me," Percy said.
The club, once formed, asked that: curb
cuts be made; telephones be lowered; elevators be installed; and ramps be built.
The cost of making this campus more
accessible to disabled students was about
$494,000 and was funded by federal, state
and Associated Student monies.
The campus survival of disabled students depended on the organization of the
disabled students club, Percy said. The
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students, he said, had a "strong re
"Most students." Percy said, "and rightfully so. take these things (such as curb
cuts) for granted. An immediate and more
strong reason to be unified is rather hard
now. Then they were confronted with survival issues, which is not as seen now."
Students. Percy said, are not as unified
as they were when the club started. But,
according to Percy, this will change as the
money situation gets worse. Percy predicts that students will again be unified as
a result of the situation they are in.
Therapeutic recreation major Jim
Brooks, president of the disabled students
on campus club, also agrees with Percy.
One of Brook's goals for the club is to
work toward more active membership
and to confront "serious issues" that "need
to be addressed."
Brooks said he is trying to work with
the AS senate to urge students to write
letters or postcards to congresspeople to
relate to them how budget cuts will directly
affect their ability to achieve in college.
will affect you will have a great impact on
anyone reading that letter." Brooks said.
Though it may not be as unified as it
was when it started, the club will sponsor
the auction of unclaimed lost and found
articles on May 5. And Brooks is also
looking into organizing a team to compete
in Vintage Days activities.
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costs and these arc essentially replacement
items. They include eight clothes washers,
six television sets and several maintenance-
oriented items.
In response to a question from student
Mickey Sharp, a member of the audience,
Wetzel said utilities — particularly electricity — is the area where students can do
"The biggest single thing students can
do individually is work on the utilities,"
Wetzel answered. 'We're looking at
S70.000 (for electricity) — that's S65 a
itudent. Aaron Harp, questi-
hy are dorm costs increasing 9.6 per-
 when the national average is only 5.5
percent?" Harp asked.
Wetzel replied by saying dorm costs
cover only specific items.
"We're looking at specific items, not the
national average," Wetzel said. He said
the national average takes into account
; the dorms do not."
etzel said he would also take several
suggestions inro consideration, including
a dollar bill change machine and installation of video games in Commons Lounge
as a money-making project.
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Greek Picnic
The All-Greek Picnic will be held today
from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Theta Chi parking
A Greek Man and Woman of the yearl
will be picked in addition tcuhe outstanding fraternity ahd sorority.
A two-dollar admission will be charged.
The picnic will be followed by Gi
:rew races at Lambda Chi.
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April M, im-the Daily ColletUn-Paje 5
Professor speaks on lost scientific independence
Scientists as a group have lost their
independence and are being used to legitimatize vested interests including the
nuclear industry, said Dr. Laura Nader, in
speeches given yesterday at the CU
Lounge.
Currently a Professor of Anthropology
at UC Berekley, author and educator
Nader is a member of the Social Science
Research Council.
Nader warned the CSUF noon crowd
that vested interests in the energy field
want the public to believe that technological issues are best left to experts, while at
the same time stifling new and creative
thinking in energy scientists.
Laboratory scientists are not free in
choosing what to study or even to give
opinions that run counter to the laboratory they working for, said Nader.
"...a nuclear scientist wrote (me) Those
of us that would scientifically question the
goals of our peer face an ultimate blacklist
of our profession by the entrenched establishment'," said Nader.
Unbeknownst to the general public,
says another nuclear scientist, the leading
physical scientists are not Einstein-like
characters, but more likely intelligent
bureaucrats largely intent on building or
maintaining their empires," said Nader.
There is also a missing link between
technology and the general public, said
"If you ask youself, how come we're
probably the most technologized civilii
they directly affect them, said Nader.
The energy problem is a social and
political problem and not a problem just
for science and technology,* Nader said.
Education is crucial to public awareness and understanding, but presently,
students are rewarded for only certain
types of intelligence, said Nader.
A change should be made in existing
school curricula to offer a broader educational base, thus expanding the general
It of o
citizens are technological illi
Nader, "...we have not been educated in
terms of our technology and as (Aldous)
Huxley in Brave New World tells us, 'illi-
teratcrs can be most easily controlled."
The public. said Nader, is not informed
by a decision not to inform.
The public has a right to criticize and
comment on technological issues because
Coalition
to march
Friday
The California Disability Rights
Coalition will have a march and rally protesting the Reagan Administration's
attack on Civil Rights of disabled citizens
Friday at 11:30 a.m.
The march will begin at the Fulton Mall
Clock Tower and proceed to the Federal
Building for a rally.
Speakers from the California Disability
Rights Coalition will present information
about the Administration's plans to
destroy disabled Americans' assurance of
rights to equal opportunity and equal
In the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
Congress passed the basic civil rights act
for disabled people, otherwise known as
"Section 504." The old Department of
Health, Education &. Welfare issued the
implementing "504" regulations in 1977.
These provided for rights of equal
opportunity and equally effective services
to guarantee access to employment,
education, and social services for all
disabled people.
The Reagan Administration, via the
Department of Justice and the Office of
Management and Budget, is in the process
of rewriting the guidelines. The draft ver-
• sions of the new guidelines virtually dismantle the civil rights protections disabled people have only recently won.
according to the California Disability
Rights Coalition.
According to the Coalition, there is no
longer an overall stated goal of the rights
to equal opportunity. Any reference to
"equal opportunity" has been changed to
-substantially equal opportunity," the
Coalition said.
public's-understanding of technology and
its vast social and economic implications,
said Nader.
"...WeVe got to devlop our heads and
begin to think about how people think
about the world around them, " said
Nader, whose brother is well-known consumer activist Ralph Nader.
Nader said our energy policy is treated
ai. entirely different form power and
politics.
"Energy involved technology and profit-
making, and these are lubjecdt to fierce
bidding," said Nader. "Until the last few
years the energy producers have been the
only players. Now we find ouselves with
an energy system operating under stress
with very serious issues to confront...as
the issues become accelerated, in gravity,
it will become increasingly evident that
other interests have entered the game,
namely the consumers of energy.*
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