Editorial opinion Everybody needs an emotional outlet, something to take out the frustrations and • ' pressures of the day. Watching sporting events provides that outlet . for many people especially college students. But if moderation is the key to a healthy ex istence, then fans of all kinds must learn to keep their enthusiasm in check. For example, if the Phillies win the World . Series, their fans have the right to go out and .celebrate but they must prevent their ex uberance from hurting others. '• When Garry Maddox caught the last fly ball .. .Sunday and the Phillies won the National League championship, State College and University Park erupted with cheering and horn blowing. That was fine. In about 15 minutes, cheering crowds wandered through State College and that, also, was fine. However, there is a fine line between a con :trolled, jubilant crowd and an uncontrollable, 2 - violent mob. This axiom was almost proved true when Sunday's crowd of happy fans . became a threat to an innocent bystander. • As State College resident Bernadette Lewis 'drove through the happy throng of Phillies fans on Beaver Avenue, her car was damaged. Some members of the crowd started to rock L e tt ers t o the Editor Students first I noted with interest the debate over changing to the semester system ili the Oct. 14 Daily Collegian. 'Although rumors abound that the decision to convert has been made, thus perhaps making such discussion futile, we all should be mindful that the new system will result in faculty either teaching more courses or larger sections per term. ,It seems to me that serving students should be the faculty's primary goal. Being responsible for and responsive to roughly 50 percent or more students per term probably will result in less time spent for student needs. All other issues should be secondary Jpmes E. Swartz, assistant pl•ofessoi Advertising and Public Relations . 9 . 4. 1 5 Faterno pleads'4,,..6 As we prepare for our homecoming football game against Syracuse, I want to share with you a Concern about behavior at Beaver Stadium. :Any fan who enters the stadium should be able to en joy the game without being subjected to abusive behavior, and most fans do. Unfortunately, the abusive use of alcoholic beverages by a minority of fans at home games is creating some problems for people whO are insulted, and in some cafes, injured by bad behavior. To reduce such incidents, I urge all fans student, ficulty, administrators, alumni and others alike to .join the athletic department in a cooperative program ta:encourage responsible action at all*sports events. 7Thislear, in addition to the regular legal enforce- Our best defense is no military :There is a growing militarism in the country, and it worries me. :• All three major presidential can didates want a stronger military. About 4 million men have been registered for the draft and another 2 those born in 1962, will be registered in January. :AP For the first time in 20 years, a solid plurality of the public supports greater military spending, a New York firnes/CBS News poll this year showed. -Instead of working for peace, the Li - kilted States is preparing for war. :I saw support for the military first hand during draft registration last sum mer as I protested outside a post office, hcinding out literature on conscientious objection. A lot of the people who stop pkd to argue with me asked the same qliestion, "What are you going to do when the Russians come?" . :Nothing. If I had it my way, we would do away with the Defense Department tomorrow. Il':the Soviets invade, so be it. Jesus Christ didn't claim that following his teachings would be easy. The tone of the New Testament is clear: blessed are the peacemakers, love your enemy, turn the other cheek. "But would you want a communist takeover?" people will ask. Well, no. But other things are more important. God said, "Thou shalt not kill." He did not say, "Thou shalt have a democracy.". Strike three Rationality should be part of a fan's mentality ment at the stadium, we have enlisted the support of PSU-TAAP (Total Alcohol Awareness Program) in an educational effort to discourage abuse of alcohol. Our objective is to prevent injuries and to assure that all fans can enjoy the game. You can help us by: 1) supporting the University regulation that prohibits carrying containers of alcoholic beverages' into Beaver Stadium; 2) urging others to support this regulation; and 3) discouraging instances of abusive alcohol use and intoxication. Your support 'of this program, which will benefit all fans, will be greatly appreciated. Joseph V. Paterno director of intercollegiate athletics and head football coach Oct. 12 Acadgmip„bonesty Lam a ,studept in Management 110. and I am Viriting4frrdgaidelN3 The exam IThlicy. This course is taught by four members of the faculty every term. Since the same basic material is presented in this introductory management course, the teachers feel they can pull almost all their test questions from previous exams. • Even though an attempt has been 'made to keep a strict policy of exam security, members of a particular fraternity have managed to get hold of very recent management exams. This is extremely unfair to the normal student who must spend hours and hours studying only to end up competing with these fraternity members and their friends who already know the answers to the majority of the exam questions. I feel teachers owe it to all students to develop new Many people will not be convinced by these arguments. They think we need a military force to keep the Soviets from taking over the United States and to preserve our oil supply. For them I have more practical reasons why we should get rid of our military forces. This fear of the Soviets is unreasonable. It's a lot like "1984." We think we are good and they are evil. They think they are good and we are evil. The evidence points to the fact that we are really no better than they are when it comes to foreign affairs. Both of us in tervene in the affairs of neighboring countries. Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama have all seen U.S. troops in this century. We are afraid the Soviets will attack us, but we have no desire to attack them. They probably don't want to attack us, but are afraid we will attack them. Why would they want to attack us, Lewis's car, and when she blew her horn and raced her engine to scare the fans, the crowd started to kick and pound on her car, she said. When the crowd started to rock the car, with her inside, it ceased to be a happy throng; it became an unruly mob. "I was prepared and scared enough to keep on driving right over people," Lewis said. "That is a pretty terrible feeling." Lewis estimated the damage to her car bet ween $3OO and $5OO. Other estimates of how much damage the mob caused are not known. Phillie fans may be given another opportuni ty to express their extreme joy if their team wins the World Series. They must remember, however, that over-exuberance spoils a victory and turns it into a tragedy. A celebration under control provides the needed outlet for fans who have spent the even ing chewing fingernails. All sports spectators should be aware of that fine line between hap piness and hysteria. Once a crowd has turned into a mob, even independent-minded people adopt the mob mentality. Anonymity induces many fans to hurt people and damage property things they would never consider doing when thinking rationally. Be rational in your joy. anyway? Causing destruction in the United States would do them no good. If anything, they might want, to plunder natural resources. And I say, "Let them. It's not worth fighting a world war over." Some people fear the Soviets might take over the Middle East oil fields. But it would be nearly impossible for them to carry on oil production against the will of the Arab people. The pipeline system is so susceptible to sabotage. Do we need world dominance in order to get OPEC to sell us oil? No. They want our technology as much as we want their oil, so they will be glad to sell it in foreign trade. These conjectures assume that we would give up our weapons while the Soviets keep theirS. A more likely scenario is that by the time Washington could be persuaded to disarm, the pacifists at work in the Soviet Union would have persuaded that government to do the same. In the meantime, conscientious objec tors are opposing all preparations for war. Their action makes the rest of the world think twice about the morality of military conflict. As Albert Einstein said, "The pioneers of a warless world are the young men who refuse military service." Allen Reeder is a 10th-term journalism and political science major and a staff writer for The Daily Collegian. exams every term. After all, aren't exams supposed to measure students' studying efforts rather than their ability to secure exams? Name withheld upon request Oct. 12 The Iran-Iraq War is raging on the Persian Gulf. But we sit wondering what is really happening thousands of miles away. The United States still has 50 people being held hostage but the war continues, placing their situation in the back of the mind and on the back page. What are the causes of this war, as you understand them to be? Is the U.S.involved? Should the U.S. become involved in the conflict in any way? • How will involvement affect the economical and the political scene at home? On Tuesday, Oct.' 21, The Daily Collegianwill focus its weekly op-ed page on the Iran-Iraq War and its im plications here. If you have any thoughts or comments on the subject, - please submit then► to the Editorial Editor, 126 Carnegie. All letters must he typed, double spaced and no longer than 30 lines. Deadline is Friday, Oct. 17 by 5 p.m. dlt,i7Collegian Friday Oct. 17, 1980—Page 2 Betsy Long Editor Illustration Mickey Jenkins ...:7 :3 7 , nTi : i 3, M0Z: : : : PM:q. , 1•41. , .•' , .:*- .. ..„ •..,,,,,,,,,k...A.Vik,k,,,..:•,5., .m.,...:MWA,•;,.0,,,x..;:510.4.1e,..; ......:,.::;:WQ:iiiiNNWSiiVa•W'iNU*:i4: !iXS'..a.S.' '''''''' . ..' . <MA: 44 ''~4 < ...•..,,,M,';.x.,,,,,,,4.:,::::..:...i....2,*•.'n".P:r.:4,,,,:4"..,:::`,Z,,,Mck*::MT;.:M •:.Mitnniii:W::o:`,'..ki.i.v:4o..st, •,,,--,,.':,'P',....",",,,,,,.,%.":,,,nx,:n..,:..:4:.,,,1,.,::"W.:'.:::: * ;:::::,: : , ..*: ,,, k.f.:v.::%.•:"an'n , £:.:::V;;;,...1::..,,,,,,,A,,,,,.....,.. , ,,, x,. 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We saw how Ronald Reagan's assumption that Americans are the New Chosen People foretells a future of never-ending entanglements in securing access to the raw materials of the Third World. ";-~, ~ -~:; .~.. A_,,.._ ~,.::,t.,7, A, Today, we shall see how Reagan's attitude about our rela tionship with natural processes (ie, that Nature is a Hostile Adversary, needing to be Tamed and Developed) can only ac celerate our barreling down the path to ecological catastrophe. In the closing statement of his debate with John Anderson, Reagan tells us how our ancestors came "to what in the begin ning was the most undeveloped wilderness possible." They "landed on this eastern shore and then went out over the (rest of the continent) building cities and towns. . ." Here the emphasis on Economic Development shows through. In his enthusiasm over Development, Reagan fails to mention •the natives who were here before the Europeans came. Is it because they stood in the way of Development that' they were fair game for genocide? "DevelopMent" is an economic concept. There is no room for other concerns. The bottom line is what counts, and if a few people, or a few species, or a few ecosystems, get caught under the wheels of our economic machine, well, that's just tough. This is not to say that Reagan would practice active genocide, but only that the bottom line mentality produces a world where human and ecological needs are placed beneath the need for "development." This not only wastes much human potential right now, but it sets the stage for future genocide should the life support systems of the planet become damaged beyond repair. Reagan's attitude towards nature comes through clearly in the following quote: "If wind, water, fire destroyed (the set tlements of the Europeans)..." Here we see nature as Hostile Adversary, as a dangerous blind force seperate from humans, 1980 WokLD SERIOUS c - ] 1980 Collegian Inc Ali's last hurrah shows human side By STEVE DAVIS 11th-journalism The . fight was dibbed "the last hur rah." But on a hot night in Las Vegas Oct. 2, all Muhammed Ali did for his legendary boxing career was make himself human. Painfully human. There may never be a more con troversial figure in the history of sports than Muhammed Ali. In fact, with his travel to other countries and his Islamic background, Ali stretches beyond the world of sport and into the realm of politics and religion. He comes closer than just about anybody to that larger-than-life mystique that seems to elude the rest of us so easily. And perhapS it is for tliat, reason tNiit he totflit. again ~ Ali Wag out able liffielight for 'too long. He could no longer capture the . boxing world's attention as an overweight old man. The only way he could reassert himself was to fight again and 'add to past moments of glory. After months of hard training, Ali once again answered the bell for the first round of a championship fight—for the first time in two years. Both men were in shape, but Ali's roadwork, exercising, sparring and dieting seemed to have robbed him of his stamina. Larry Holmes used him something that lays in wait to destroy the hard-built homes o'';;,' the New Chosen People. This adversary relationship to the natural processes of the earth has had many bad effects. Because of it, and the accom 7 ; panying push for Development, we tend to see the earth as a combination mine and garbage dump. Well, we're reaching the mine that is just about played out.,_ as oil reserves show. Yes, there's some left, but no matter hag much, it is a decidely finite amount. Reagan, seeing the world as a mine, wants us to step up production, and search out the last drops that wily old Nature has hidden from us. The results of our garbage dump mentality is shown in both the vast accumulation of industrial wastes, and the develob ment of nuclear power. We didn't know at the time what exact ly to do with nuclear waste, but what the hell, the earth is big enough, we'll just find a secluded corner and be done with the stuff. Well, surprise, surprise, the earth is not that big. One per son's secluded-corner turns out to be another person's back yard, or water source, or corn field. Reagn is not alone in his attitude toward natural processe§ r The assumption that Nature is a Hostile Adversary Needing to be Tamed and Developed is very much a part of the American world-view. So much so that when a politician comes along with a serious proposal to start treating the earth as it is,; a small, fragile space ship, with life support systems that must be safeguarded even at the cost of a little less Developmen t a little less profit for huge corporation's, he is either laughed at, like Jerry Brown, or ignored, like Barry Commoner. If Reagan would open his eyes to today's world he would see the merits of the "spaceship earth" approach. To survive, let alone prosper, we must start to regard ourselves as fitting into the framework of life on earth, as one species among othei t , totally dependent on a fragile system of inter-relationships. But since this perspective is at odds with Reagan's pfeconceived notions of Taming and Developing, it is Olin short shrift. Reagan still talks in primarily economic terms - witness his complaint that Alaska will be taken out 9f "circulation." If you think we'll have bad relations with the rest of the world on the basis of Reagan's New Chosen People assump tion, just imagine our "relations" with natural processes, ones that can't be intimidated with saber-rattling. ti Let me pose this one question. If it is true that we have hun dreds of potential Love Canals scattered around the country, and this is in the face of "harassing goVernment regulations," what will this land look like if Reagan has his way and "unleashes" the energy industry from regulation? Not a pleip ing prospect, is it? John Protevi is a 12th-term philosophy major and a columnist for the Daily Collegian. Oi VIIAI O O I "\/- VAR., , ceit,lllo4r4 like a punching bag for most of the fight. Ali's doctor said that thyroid medication Ali was taking, may have been partly responsible for his slug gishness. This may be so, but what appears more likely is that Ali's 38-year-old body could not handle the rapid'weight-losing process he put it through. It's sad to see a great champion go down in defeat. Age has caught up with Ali just like it has caught up with so many other great athletes. It is rare to see them performing at the end the same as at the beginning of their careers. In defeat, Ali has once again gained the attention •he'Vanteci. Only this time, he las,:olled himself down from thatlegendary pedestal and become another aging boxer who tried one time too many. Ali wanted more when he had less. He wanted to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee when all he could do was lay against the ropes. He wanted to work one last miracle, but all he can do now is hope that his followers will forget this fight and remember the great moments of his career. The Ali mystique will live on. We can only hope that he does not spoil that mystique and that he has stepped into the ring, finally, for the last time. 1~'.~% Barriers to living 11' 0 ' MINDY McADAMS Atr The Daily. Collegian iidSCOTT H. McCLEARY Daily, Collegian Staff Writer 4They cannot use restrooms on cam e pps. They cannot get into the Creamery Without help. They use the back entrance to Pattee, where they must ring a bell and wait until someone comes to let them in. They are segregated at Beaver Stadium and Eisenhower Auditorium They are Penn State students in wheelchairs. About 10 of them attend this campus and every day they confront barriers to their independence. Restrooms, parking and curb cuts pre sent the greatest problems to these peo ple. Getting into buildings also challenges their ingenuity. • "Bathrooms are horrendous," Carol Maddox (gi•aduate-microbiology) said. "I haven't found any stalls (that were designed for handicapped use) where I could close the door with the wheelchair inside." The dimensions of the stalls comply with federal guidelines, Maddox said, • but they should be at least 6 inches I i longer. Maddox is a petite woman and Fl her chair is smaller than most, she !I explained. "If this chair doesn't fit inside, cer tainly the larger ones don't," she said. In the two buildings where she has most of her classes, Maddox requested that the door of one stall be rehinged so it swings - in instead of out. She uses a pole that she keeps inside the , stall to push the wheelchair out so the door can close. Then she opens the door and pulls the 4air in with the pole. dk= l !"You feel you shouldn't go out because you never know when you're going to need to use a restroom," said Joan Lee, 4 , :member of the Pattee staff who also is handicapped. She said she has found one us; • able restroom, on the second floor of E l ast Pattee. 'Said Donald Smitley, a local architec ttiral draftsmen who is handicapped, you need is space to get into the iloom, a sink you can put your knees tinder, a mirror 6 inches lower than usual and a toilet you can get to." iSmitley, who is chairman of Citizens tor Barrier-Free Living, a local group 4 (liat lobbies for increased access for the handicapped, is confined to a wheelchair ley muscular dystrophy. 01SmitleY said the lack of usable restrooms is a greater problem for Women than for men, since men need not always use a stall. 119n!t4..; ft I 1) Tuesday, October 21, Organization Management, Dr. M. Lee Uperaft, Director Resident Programs 2) Thursday, October 23, How The University Runs: Who Makes The Decisions? Dr. Richard Senior Vice President for Administration 3) October 28, Leadership Skills in Programming, Mr. Andy Mozeriter, Coordinator, South 4) October 30, Student Organization Promotion and Publicity, Mr. John McCauley, Assista Director of Student Activities • 5) November 4, Membership ReCruitment, Motivation and Retention for Student Organizati John McCauley, Assistant Director of Student Activities 6) November 6, Organizational Creativity, Dr. Phil Stebbins, Associate Professor of History People with paralyzation of the lower body usually rely on catheters tubes that drain urine from the bladder to a bag. Sometimes women in wheelchairs who are not paralyzed must use catheters because of the lack of usable restrooms. Finding a place to park can be even harder than finding a usable restroom for people in wheelchairs. "There are very fe'w reserved spaces (for wheelchair drivers) on campus," Dave Henderson (10th-nuclear engineer ing) said. "Basically it's just inconve nient to find a place to park." On a rainy day when Henderson had an class in Willard Building, the closest parking space he could find was behind Hammond Building. "That's something you get used to," he said. The University now has parking stickers for handicapped drivers that allow them to park in any parking area on campus. "That has helped a lot," Maddox said. "Nothing is more impor tant than to be aware of wheelchair drivers," Maddox said. She said other drivers should be alert for the wheelchair symbol on license plates and window stickers so• they do not park too close to the wheelchair driver's car. Being parked in is a com mon problem. Paul Short, whose van is equipped with a wheelchair lift that comes out on the side, said he sometimes returns to his van to find a motorcycle squeezed up against the door, even though he said he parks at the edge of the lot. "They reserved two spaces for me at the dorm," Short said. "Sometimes I'd pull up and two cars would be parked there. I always called University police to report it, but had to find somewhere else to park anyway so I could call." The University issues tickets or cita tions to cars taking, reserved spaces. Fines are $5 for a ticket and at least $25 for a citation. In State College, the max imum fine for taking a reserved spot is $l5. "I leave notes on cars parked in reserved spots," said Karol Davenport (10th-animal production), who drives a Datsun truck. "Sometimes I'd almost like to have a sledgehammer." Maddox said, "They- should increase fines for taking reserved spots. A couple of dollars doesn't deter people. What they should really do is tow them." Maddox and her husband own two cars, both adapted for hand operation. ALL WORKSHOPS BEGIN AT 8 P.M. IN ROOM 305 HUB "check your communications file" For those in wheelchairs who do not the 'officelif to dei t acts ties• "" announces FALL STUDENT LEADERSHIP. SKILL . WORKSHOP SERIE Students in wheelchairs blocked and segregated drive such as Lee transportation is an even bigger problem. The expense of taking cabs, the only public transporta tion in the area that is usable for these non-drivers, forced Lee to move from a suburban apartment to one in.town. Handicapped people pay full fare, and her daily five-block trip to work costs an average of $1.50 'one way, she said. Once he gets out of the car, a person in a wheelchair may have a hard time get ting where he wants to go because of a lack of curb cuts, or ramps. There are very few curb cuts along College Avenue except at South Allen Street, Short said, so he must always go there to cross. Getting around is easier for Henderson than for some people because he can hop curbs a stunt like popping a wheelie on a bicycle. Many people cannot hop curbs because of muscle weakness or Handicapped disabled by society attitudes By SCOTT H. McCLEARY and KAREN PERILLO Daily Collegian Staff Writers and MINDY McADAMS For The Daily Collegian - They are an often unseen minority, discriminated against as much in attitude as in physical barriers. They are the physically disabled, specifically the mobility-impaired people in wheelchairs. "It's not the disability that handicaps, it's the socie ty," said Irene Toth, vice chairman of Citizens for Barrier-Free Living. The CBL is an advocacy group that speaks out for the mobility-impaired. The thing to remember about the handicapped is that they do not want to be treated with kid gloves, Toth said. The handicapped resent a condescending at tititude, she said. The condescension is aimed at the - elderly too, Toth said. "One thing that really gets me is the lumping together of the physically handicapped, the elderly and the mentally handicapped. For a while I was the only person,under 30 years old living in the building," she said. Jeff Watson, assistant area coordinator of East Halls and adviser for the Association for Barrier-Free Living and Environmental Design, also said choosing a place to live can be frustrating for a handicapped person. "I would be angry if they forced me to live in a home of handicapped people . . . I'd be angry if they made me live anywhere," he said. . . The process for moving the mobility-impaired citizen into a more competitve environment is called "nor malization," Watson said. "Normalization is a state of mind more than anything," Watsonsaid, adding that normalization is not a universally accepted term. "I don't like the term 'normalization' because it im plies an abnormality to begin with,".Toth said. paralysis of the lower body that creates a lack of balance. Hopping even low curbs can tip the chair or cause the per son to fall forward. The borough has installed some tem porary macadam ramps downtown, but some people in wheelchairs say those ramps are too steep and too narrow. They will be replaced in about a year when the borough puts in new street lights, which will make new sidewalks necessary, a borough official said. "The ramp construction on campus is the ideal way, scooped into the sidewalk so the wheels don't slide off, and wide enough," Maddox said. "They've done an excellent job on campus. There are very few places I can't get across." One problem with curb cuts is that when the road surface expands and con tracts with weather changes, an uneven "Can we really say what is 'normal'? Can you write it down and say 'this is normal' or 'this is abnormal'?" ABLED Secretary Kim Smith said. The idea of "mainstreaming" has become more ac cepted than normalization, said Brenda Hameister, coordinator of Handicapped Services, 135 Boucke. Mainstreaming is designed to put the individual in as normal a situation as possible, she said. The effort to put an individual into society may pot always work, Hameister said. Often the portrayal of the "brave little handicapped person facing up to and over coming all obstacles" just isn't true, she said. "Often an employer will get a handicapped worker who works out really well, and then he'll call the agency and request another thinking that they're all that good," Toth said. "The chances of his getting another good worker are just the same as with anyone else." Hameister said socieity needs "to stop stereotyping the handicapped - to accept ,different personalities. People with disabilities are .just people. They're not perfect." Watson said he distinguishes between a handicap and a disability: "A person in a wheelchair has a disability, but it isn't until he comes to that stairway he can't get up that he has a handicap." The terminology is analogous to women's movement terms, Toth said. "At first we didn't like being called broad or chick, but then later on we got concerned with Miss, Mrs. and Ms.," she said. "We are opposed to terms like gimp and crippled," Toth said. "I've even heard that the word 'handicapped' comes from beggars holding out their caps in their "Lately disabled individuals have gained a lot of popularity," she said. "It's not as severe as handicapped " The attitudes of the handicapped themselves differ according to each individual, Toth said. spot is left at the bottom of the cut, Mad dox said. "Any kind of hole in the pavement will stop the front wheels," Short said. "Then you go flying forward." And, Davenport said, "sometimes they stick curb cuts in front of something, like a dumpster. Then you can't use them." Various buildings on campus are in some way inaccessible. If a student's class is in an inaccessible building, he can have it moved by calling the Office of Handicapped Students' Services in 135 Boucke. Universities are not required to make all buildings accessible, but federal law requires that architectural barriers be removed if they prevent a student from taking a class that cannot be relocated. The Daily Collegian Friday Oct. 17, 1980-3 "We need accessibility," Smitley said. "We need it so we can participate fully in this society. "There is something wrong with socie ty when they keep putting ramps in the backs of buildings, sort of like a ser vants' entrance," Smitley said. Davenport chose not to assert her right to take a non-required butchering course in the Meats Lab. "We tried to come up with a way to put in a lift ( to take her up the stairs and into the building), but it was just too expen sive," she said. If she had insisted, however, the University would have had to put in a lift. Henderson said the University "totally altered the front entrance" of the nuclear reactor building to make it ac cessible. He said the lower floor of the Continued on Page 13. For instance, Karol Davenport (11th-animal produc tion) said she's "very sarcastic." "Sometimes people think I'm bitter," she said. "There was a lady who came up to me at the Nittany Mall and asked how long I would he in a wheelchair. I said, 'Oh probably permanently.' " Davenport said the woman asked her age, and "I told her 21. Then she said, 'Oh, what a shame and you're so pretty, too.' I nodded and said, 'Yes, isn't it terrible?' " Toth mentioned another problem with being handicapped "People don't want to get involved sexually with a: handicapped person," Toth said, "maybe because it physically turns them off, or maybe they feel that they would end up doing everything in the relationship." In a recent survey, the handicap that most peoplf. considered the most socially presentable was an Toth said. One of the least acceptable was hunchbackr'. "This is called the Igor Syndrome," Toth said. The Igor Syndrome refers to the traditional picture of ugliness of the handicapped individual. It touches some of the handicapped community, but the feeling usually passes "The self-pity doesn't last long you can't let, it last," Carol Maddox (graduate-microbiology) said. Advocacy groups such as CBL are helping to break down not only the physical barriers, but the attitudinal; ones as well. "It is important for handicapped people to realize there is a place togo for support," Hameister said. - If anyone has any questions, I or Jeff could answer them." Hameister can be contacted in 335 Boucke, and Wat,- son can be reached in the East Halls office. They both.: are associated with ABLED, which meets every second Tuesday.
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