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Disability Service! overcome campus ^ By ANGELA STUTTS Staff Writer A warm, breezy afternoon at the beach marked the day he would lose all feeling and usage of his legs when a final, careless dive into the warm ocean water would cause him to be disabled for the rest of his life. USC student Chad Sloan was left diabled after an accident following his senior year in high school. Sloan rni/l Ka il/ln't imnmn/i Kn <i rrvuLI mran I aaiu in* vuuiuu i imagine ut wuuiu tvtii gci uit limine to go to college because of his problem. With the help of USC Disability Services, disabled students can learn and live in a close-to-normal environment and overcome some of the obstacles that they . must face everyday, according to Debra Haynes, direcw tor of the academic skills program. Students who come into the Disability Services office are searching for some relief from every day hassles that they must deal with, and USC can provide that ^ relief in many ways, Haynes said. Although applications for housing are accepted by 1 the USC Housing Office, Disability Services works o along with housing in order to make the necessary a arrangements for certain individual needs. "We decide together what is the most appropriate w and least restrictive environment," Haynes said. "One that they can function in best." fc There are eight spaces available for males and eight for females. While this seems like a small amount, the ir ) demand does not exceed this, said Haynes. tf "A good number of our mobility impaired students o] live at The Pavilion Towers," she said. "They offer many conveniences for disabled people. They are is acceptable." tf Financial aid and vocational rehabilitation and some- h; times Medicare and Medicaid can add Jo the financial burden that sometimes exist when it comes to housing, o Haynes said disabilities are taken into consideration tf when grants and loans are given out. jc Transportation for disabled students is comparable to the shuttle system offered to USC students. This ser- n vice, however, is only for on-campus academic services. They do not pick students up that live off-cam- p pus. n ) There is a Columbia area system, "Dial-A-RideTransit," that will pick up disabled people and take e them where they need to go for $1.50 each way. a* After getting on-campus, the majority of the buildings are "handicapped accessible." If, however, a class p is scheduled where disabled people can't go, the class n f#... w Roister your team o>f four at 1:30pm at the Mfc^prypwrtds#& fonectube* will be provided Call 7-7130 for info. /? -COLLEGE J WEDME COLUMBIA'S ULTIMATE DANCE E ULTIMATE COLLI BACK TO SCE STARTING AUG D; LADIES FREE * m ALL NIGHT! *of 920 Lady Street in the Conge Tj'!?" i?uwi'Wi'*1^ ?# s helps students life problems iiiniiniiinn . " 111 " 1 " 1 iM,aNMVMinmwii r I I I |4jSj DECAL J BL I II IrS|^^S5S5i^^r I - _..^WBWWBklJLJWW mi ? Brooke Pippen/The Gamecock 'here are many obstacles for disabled students in campus. Disability Services can offer help for ny problem. ill be moved to where they can go. USC Computer Services also offers many services >r disabled students. "Tom Morton in Computer Services has helped, even i our office," Haynes said. "He really stays on top of le technology and new things that are being develped." If problems do occur, the staff in Disability Services right there to help. "We find out what's going on in leir lives," Haynes said. "If it's something we can't andle, we know who to refer them to." Usually, Disability Services get to know the students n a personal basis, but if it's someone it can't handle, lese students are sent to the Counseling Center. If it's )b related, the students are sent to the Career Center. Chad Sloan, a paraplegic, makes use of the new tech-' ology for the disabled. He has a chair phone. "I kid him," Haynes said, "'cause he has a mobile hone on his wheelchair. It's one thing to have a lobile car phone, but a chair phone is something else." USC Disability Services can make a world of differnce for someone who is limited to few options, ccording to Sloan. "They've kept my disability from being a significant roblem," Sloan said, "and I'm able to do things I ever thought I'd be able to do after my accident." 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"For me and the women I have talked to, we wouh rather die," Flynn said. Flynn said one way to possibly curb rape am assault is to enact stricter laws and enforce the one already in place. "We have to go after the judges who do not punisl rapists" and get them off the bench, Flynn said. "It is rape, and they don't understand unless the] have been raped," Flynn said. "Men understand vio lence, punishment." Flynn said education and networking amonj women are the keys to protecting women from rapists Women must lead the fight to see that this is done Flynn said, because it is "not just your body" that i: damaged when a rape is committed. "Some women never recover," Flynn said. RAPE continued from page on campus this year. "Victims a "I'm not aware of any that have Jordan said. " occurred," said Steve Wright, their fault. The spokesman for USCPD, adding will blame then that "if a rape occurred on Greene Rape Crisis Street, that's city property, so it's tips for sumn not in our statistics." chances that a { The City of Columbia does not are increased, J keep statistics on whether an vacationers a assault victim is a USC student or time with fri faculty member. which offers m Eileen Korpita, coordinator of acquaintance ra USC's newly created sexual The tips in assault program and a Rape Crisis route, checkii volunteer, said many students sim- vehicle to be u ply do not contact campus police. eling alone. "There are more people who The network contact Rape Crisis than contact elers keep a "1 the university P.D.," Korpita said. banner in the c Jordan agrees, particularly when security at an> the attacker is known to the victim, are planning to FACULTY AFF! Country Club :o Coldstream Country Gu lampionship golf with iHov Onli/ Cr\ldctfaam ' LWttJ V/1I1J. 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