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Southpaws say'lef ties' should keep their uniqueness
Left-handed people should not feel the
need to change their writing skills or sport
ing habits to the right side, although 93
percent of the world's population is right
handed, according to an assistant professor
of Health, Physical Education, and Recrea
tion. James Crabbe said being left-handed
may be an advantage in the sports world.
"Depending on the sport, I believe that
left-handers have an advantage because
there are so few and the right-handed
athlete must adapt a new strategy to face
the lefty.
"There are many left-handers at the pro
fessional level of sports. Many baseball
coaches feel that their team must have a
certain amount of left-handed pitchers to
confuse the hitter who is able to hit off
a right-handed pitcher. There are also suc
cessful left-handed tennis players, such as
Jimmy Connors.
"Because
vantage to
the left-hander has an ad
playing sports left-handed,
he should not change hands while learn
ing a new sport," Crabbe said.
Writing woes
Crabbe, a lefty, said the only thing that
irritated him about being left-handed is
that his teachers never taught him proper
penmanship. Crabbe said he now writes
with his hand in a hook position in order
to get a right-handed slant.
"In grade school my teachers always
gave me a bad time about the way I wrote
because my slant was wrong. Being left
handed got me bad handwriting grades,"
said Kim Harling, a UNL freshman.
Noting that left-handers usually have a
tendency to place their hand in a hook
position, Gordon Greene, professor of
elementary education, said the hook has
several causes including the position of the
paper and also the need to slant letters to
the right while writing longhand.
Writing is not the only problem facing
left-handers. Harling said that using scissors
can also cause problems.
"I once bought a pair of left-handed
scissors but because I was so used to using
right-handed scissors I could not get the
left-handed scissors to cut," Harling said.
"There are only two things that I do
right-handed," Crabbe said. I shoot
weapons right-handed because that's the
way my father taught me and I fly a plane
right-handed because it's impossible to fly
most planes left-handed."
Crabbe explained that the "joy stick,"
(the stick used to steer the plane) is loca
ted on the right and the power controls
are located on the left of most airplanes,
so the pilot must fly the plane right
handed. Big deal
Harling said "people always notice right
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away if you're left-handed, especially
right-handed people. The right-handers
usually make a big deal out of it because
it seems backwards to them.
"When I was little I was ambidextrous.
My mom would hold out my spoon in
front of me to give me a choice of using
my right or left hand. I usually grabbed
the spoon with my left hand," she said.
"By the time a child reaches kinder
garten age it's easy to determine if he will
be left-or right -handed. If, the child is
more comfortable using his left hand,
teachers today usually let him con
tinue to write left-handed. If a child is
ambidextrous, the teacher may encourage
use of the right hand," according to
Greene.
Greene said today's younger children
rarely pay any attention if one of their
classmates is left-handed.
Wrong desks
Greg Graff, a left-handed UNL freshman
from Wahoo, said he is used to writing on
desks for right-handers in classrooms.
"The only problem I have is I have to
juggle my books so that there's room to
write at an angle," he said. Graff also said
he sometimes uses a left-handed desk in
his chemistry class. Using the left-handed
desk makes it easier to take notes," he said.
"In some of my classes there are left
handed desks that are not hard to miss
because they're usually in front. But,
there are usually right-handers sitting in the
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Graff said.
"You never really think about it if it's
easier to sit in a left-handed desk or a right
handed desk because most left-handers
are used to sitting in right-handed desks,"
Harling said. She said she has yet to sit in
a left-handed desk at UNL because she
can't find one.
Although Harling has not seen a left
handed desk, Ray Coffey, business mana
ger of Business and Finance, said it is a
general rule that 10 percent of the desks
the university purchases be made for left
handers. "There are two types of chairs we buy,"
he said. "One type is a table chair with a
desk top that can be used either way. The
other desk has an arm on the left or right
side," Coffey said.
"It's hard to keep the left-handed chairs
in r specific rooms because desks are
shuffled around so much. It's especially
hard to keep left-handed desks in class
rooms found in buildings like Hamilton.
Burnett and Andrews Halls because the
rooms have so many desks and desks are
shuffled around more," Coffey said.
He added that left-handed desks are
kept by the university. So, if you are a
lefty and are tired of using desks for
right-handers, tell your instructor.
He may be able to get you a 'lefty
desk."
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