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*Just like everyboi Attitude USChai By Danny Powell OtmKock Staff Writer Attitudes play an important part in the lives of handicapped ctuHpntd u/hpfhpr it's thf? wnv thpv think of themselves or the attitudes of other students. "Handicapped students are just like everybody else," Steve Brown, a USC quadraplegic, said. "Just because I can't use the lower part of my body, it doesn't mean that my uram is 111 my uig iuc. "A LOT of people don't see beyond the wheelchair," Linda Rogers, a sophomore who uses a wheelchair, said. "I hate for people to feel sorry for me because I don't feel sorry for myself." "Just because they're in a wheelchair, you shouldn't, first of all, look at that person as a wheelchair, and secondly as as cvci junc #11 a vyiicciciiau ? they are all individuals," Steve Michaluk, a graduate student in rehabilitation counseling, said. "The possibilities for what they can do are infinite," Bud Thurber, director of Special Services Developmental Center, said. "People tend to focus on the things thpv Pfinnot. do " MODELS W FREE HAI Jeanette Johnson of "1 Rpsint.v Salnn will be conducting a he up to date precision cu 10-15 male & female m hair styled absolutely hplri Sun Oct.. IB. 197S 10 AM - 4 PM. Look on page 4 i in Carolina direct Call for arr P Fr( 1 JPS With .40^ **%&&& Dine iy else9 is are par ndicappe "PEOPLE THINK that when you're blind, you're also deaf," Sam Leonard, a blind sophomore, said. "Some people think we are subhuman." "One of the main goals is to make people aware that the Knn^inQnnnH orn hnra " T ormr imuuivuppvu ai v iiv-i v., uaii j May field, president of University Handicapped in Action, said. The purpose of the organization, he said, is to deal with the attitudes toward handicapped students. Mavfield said the ctrouD was getting started after an unsuccessful start this past spring. He said the organization is growing steadily with 14 active members. SOME HANDICAPPED students did not want to be a part of an organization for the handicapped because of the negative attitude other people might have toward them, he said. The President's Council on the Handicapped has four areas of "main thrust," according to AI Corbett, chairman of the council. The main thrust includes: "1) To make sure we meet the legal requirements of Section 504 (of the ANTED for RSTYLES \ TOUCH OF CLASS" ntee Ave., Five Points 1 .1 ur clinic on the newer its & styles. We need odels who want their free! The clinic will be between the hours of nfvpllow raws J r' ory for our Ad and angements. ie Delivery I O Ar>4 Ulnnt, DC9iri2iMUI >outh Carolina... Serving Colombia for more than 25 years 2772 Rosewood Drive 771-9447 or 254-5414 FREE \d ? your first beverage with a in order ? Beer or Soft Prinks amount, I d believe I Rehabilitation Act of 1973). 2) To |j identify the specific needs of the f| Qhiripnt?: Tn CPt thp hfln- M dicapped students more involved | with campus activities. And 4) To f| try to make policy to attract handicapped students to USC," 9 Corbett said. ; 5 "HANDICAPPED STUDENTS have been unwanted at several |ji universities," Corbett said, adding g that USC was striving to change e that image. j| Corbett said having the handicapped at the university was a new frontier and the beginning of a ( new era. He said the handicapped were a new minority to the university system in the sense of ki awareness, much like the blacks hi were in the '60s. hi "The handicapped (students) s< must be reasonable in their ex- a pectations," Victoria Fox, director P of Affirmative Action, said. si ir (J "AWARENESS IS a two-way p street; if the student doesn't contact us, we won't know of his ti problems," Arthur West, director v of freshman admissions, said. h "The students have to bring this e to our attention, so we can act," Fox said. s T HIDam Atnliar Vnnf Ctn/ IIWHII VIII V V I V % TIGER PA W , WHITEWALL FIBERGLASS SILTED $*A92 IA78-13 Whitewall plus $1.78 F.E.T. per fire and tire off your car. TIGER PA VI STFFL/GLAS BEL! 1 RADIAL WHITEWf J j '' -"v Ny\\ . H j / * ^ I ' ROY? I & RADii I 1401 Oarvnis St p^ isflHi mm USC maintenance men Joe Hill, left for persons confined to wheelchairs "A problem is the public's lack of [lowledge on how to approach the andicapped," West said. PEOPLE WHO work with the andicapped should not try to be xnal missionaries. Susan Heape, counseling intern for the USC rogram for the Handicapped, aid. The philosophy of self-help is 1 effect for the students and they at Special Services) would like to romote that conceDt. she said. Thurber said a "servant's attude is required for people who rork with the handicapped. You ave to be dedicated; it's not an asy area to work in," he said. "If society rehabilitates a peion, that is one less person on the lent Discount-? 5% o\ | size i B78-13 $ P78-14 $ F78-14 $ 600x15 $ 685x15 $ I I All prices plus F.E.T. SIZE and tire off your car. DR78 14 GR78 14 W GR78 15 HR78 15 ED HR78 15 LR78 15 ALLS All prices plu S BR78 13 whitew, \tub?less, plus $: F.E.T. and tire * your car. \ $4 1 TIRE CO IIOR SERVICE .(Next to S&SCafe 7 y ,/ / / Bill Bollln ? OAMECOCK t, and D.H. 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