thursday, march 16, 1978
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- Council for
Children,
International
dinner, Room
Noon - CBA economics
department luncheon,
Room 203.
4:30 p.m.
Exceptional
Room 232.
6 p.m.
Studies -
203.
6 pjn. - Christian Sci
ence Organization, North
Conference Room.
6 p.m. - NUPIRG Semi
nar, Room 216.
6:30 p.m. - Council on
Student Life, Room 243.
7 p.m. - Women's Re
source Center-CR Group,
Room 343.
7 p.m. - Fees Allocation
Board, Room 242.
7 p.m. - Beta Alpha
Psi, Auditorium.
7 p.m. - Residence Hall
Association, South Confer
ence Room.
7 & 9 p.m. - UPC film,
Centennial Room.
8 p.m. - International
Studies-Jnternational Con
nect Project, Room 202
202 A.
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short
stuff
AWe-bodied students discover
difficulties in wheelchair rides
Applications for the In
nocents Society scholarships
are available in residence
halls, IFC-Panhellenic of
fice, ASUN office, Ag Hall
101 and the Nebraska Un
ions. Application deadline is.
March 17.
.
NUPIRG is sponsoring a
seminar "Use of the Media
and Public Policy Forma
tion" tonight at 6 in the
Nebraska Union.
Women's Resource Cen
ter is sponsoring a women's
consciousness raising group
tonight at 7 in the Women's
Resource Center.
Fees Allocation Board
will meet tonight at 7 in
the union. Room number
will be posted.
The Union Program
Council Take One -American
Film Classics Series will
present On The Town at 7
and 9 tonight in the Union
Centennial Room.
Beta Alpha Psi will meet
tonight at 7 in the union.
Room number will be pos
ted. The UNL French Club
will meet Friday at 3:30
at Brannigan's.
The UNL School of Mu
sic and the Interfraternity
Council are sponsoring an
informal discussion about
public radio featuring Lin
coln Senator Steve Fowler,
tonight at 5 in Westbrook
Music Building Room 1 19.
A dozen architecture design students
Wednesday spent the afternoon in wheel
chairs in an effort to make themselves and
the public more aware of the problems ol
the handicapped.
Three groups of students traveled from
city campus to downtown and tried to en
ter vbuildings and maneuver through vari
ous businesses. ,
Complaining of sore arms, cramped
hands and tired shoulders, Kevin Muche
more said that by being "handicapped for
the day he "gained knowledge that cannot
be gotten from a book."
He said he had read the architecture de
partment literature on the problems of the
handicapped relating to building design and
added "I though I knew a lot about it. But
it is a totally different world."
The students encountered a variety of
problems. The ramp for wheelchairs on the
County-City Building was judged too steep
for easy accessibility.
One bar was inaccesible because there
was no ran. A ramp on Centennial Mall
was blocked by snow and the group got
through only by pushing each other from
behind.
Because there were no curb cuts near
the Nebraska Union, the group used a drive
for vehicles and were told by a policeman
that they could be ticketed for that.
Earlier, when Dave Medinger, one of the
students, attempted to raise up on a curb
without a cut, he tipped himself too far
back and flipped over.
The most common complaint was that
sidewalks are sloped towards the street
making the wheelchairs lean and head for
the street. As a consequence, according to
TerTy McRell, the person has to work the
arm on the street side nearly twice as hard
as the other.
Traditionally, architects have been more
concerned with pleasing the purchaser of
the building rather than considering the
users of the building, said Jay Garret, archi
tecture design instructor.
He said that by having students exper
ience being handicapped they will become
"totally responsive to the ultimate user as
well as the client."
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