Clerisse Will Rebuild UCSD Disabled Student Services
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The Daily-: Guardian Volume 41, Number 14 University of California, San Diego Wednesday, October 8, 1980 Metzger is Fedsdump assailed waste on by church us coasts Stung by criticism of his candidacy by a third church group, Tom Metzger denies 'Nuke ring' he is running a racist campaign for Congress. "I now formed attempt not to try to insult people of any other race, but I SAN FRANCISCO do speak up for mine," the Ku The federal government's Klux Klan leader said decision to dump thousands yesterday. of barrels of radioactive The Democratic nominee waste into the sea off both in the 43rd District said, coasts has formed a however, he is the object of a "radioactive dumping ring" statement issued Monday by around the United States, the San Diego Evangelical Rer' John Burton, D-Calif., Associat ion condemning to d a Congressiona I those "who seek to advance Today's Weather subcommittee yesterday. themselves by exploiting Night and morning low clouds with dense fog and some hazy sunshine in the Burton, first of a list of racial tension, that exist in afternoon. The lows will be in the low 60s and the highs in the low 70s. The water witnesses, criticized the our societ y : ' is 65 with breakers of five to seven feet 15 seconds. government's failure to keep Earlier, the San Diego adequate records on the Ecumenical Council issued a dumping, which began in statement deploring racism. 1946 and continued until the Those religious groups Chinese doctors visit UCSD early 1970s. "are just going along with "Various scientific groups what has become a very are disputing the seriousness popular thing to do," Metzger Will study School of Medicine of the problem, and the said Monday. federal agencies have added to t he problem by not keepng Medical dignitaries from School of Medicine and population of 2,500. complete records on the the People's Republic of Medical Center, and the Although UCSD does not location and ingredients of EDNA needs China will visit the UCSD Veteran's Administration have a faculty exchange the dumping," he said. School of Medicine on Oct. Hospital. They will also agreement with the Beijing The largest dump is new info 13-16, to learn more about deliver a faculty lecture on Medical College, the located about 150 miles off medical education in this medical education in China, university does have the Delaware coast, but the EDNA, the cam{>us country and to discuss the af\9 meet _wUh UCSD exchange agreements with ,site that has caused the most studettt ·informatlOl1 'develb~t of an exchange Chancellor ,R' hard Atkin other Chinese universities. furor is near the Farallon service, is in need of program for medical faculty son. There are currently 30 Islands, several inhospitable revjsed student telephone from the two countries. visiting Chinese scholars on chunks of rock about 25 miles numbers and other vital While in San Diego, Drs. Beijing Medical College is the La Jolla campus. west of San Francisco. Some information. Ma Xu, the president of one of the five key medical The Chinese physicians 45,000 barrels were dumped Information can be Beijing Medical College, and colleges funded directly by will also visit the University there until the government updated by filling out a Qian Zahoe. deputy director the Chinese government. of California's other medical outlawed the practice in change of address form at of the Office of Foreign The school's faculty includes campuses and the Univer 1972. the Registrar's office. Relations of Beijing Medical 1,600 teachers and physi sity of Washington School of About 100,000 barrels were College, will tour the UCSD cians, with a student Medicine, in Seattle. pleaRe tum to page 10 Clerisse will rebuild UCSD Disabled Student Services BY JENIFER WARREN A.. oculte New. Editor Rob Clerisse spent the past four years obstructs the path and poses a problem for remaking the UC Santa Cruz campus. Now some blind students, will soon be relocated, he wants to do the same thing at UCSD. according to Clerisse. Clerisse, UCSD's new coordinator of The Disabled Students Services Office Disabled Students Services, is the first already offers a wide range of services to person ever hired by the university to students of various disabilities at UCSD. exclusively concentrate on the needs of the Readers, interyreters and notetakers are 108 disabled students on campus. hired to assist dIsabled students with their • Extensive awareness programs, expanded classes. Special equipment, including physical education facilities, the creation of a wheelchairs, cassette recorders and a Disabled Students Services Advisory teletype telephone system for the deaf, are Committee and campus transportation for also available through the office. In addition, disabled students are among the goals special parking is provided near campus, and Clerisse hopes to reach this year. assistance with enrollment, housing, test "I've spent most of my time so far just taking and personal problems is also getting organized and planning awareness available. programs to orient the campus to the needs of One innovative addition Clerisse has made disabled stud~nts," says Clerisse, who to the equipment available to disabled arrived here in early July. students is a special "mainstream" Clerisse has found university wheelchair that elevates students, allowing administrators and staff very "receptive" to them access to book shelves up to seven feet proposals for development of his program. high. Both Central and the Humanities "People at UCSD are concerned about Library are equipped with these special disabled students. They just need to be chairs, which may be checked out by disabled educated," says Clerisse. "When I pointed out students at the Iibrarie's front desk. to (campus architects) Chuck Powers and Bob This service will be enhanced next month Thorburn that the Chancellor's house was by a "mini-awareness program" for library not accessible to disabled students, making it staff, says Clerisse, explaining that library impossible for them to attend the recent personnel need to be made better aware of Chancellor's reception, they said they would special needs disabled students may have. act immediately to correct the deficiencies." One high priority topic on Clerisse's agenda Also, the dnnking fountain between the is on-campus transPOrtation for disabled' Student Center and Revelle Plaza, which pi ase tum to pale 4 The Daily Guardian Wednesday, October 8,1980 Wednesday, October 8 , 1980 The Daily Gual'dian 3 French Revolution offers valuable lessons on Iran DOONESBURY by Garry Trudeau BY FRANZ SCHURMANN ·JJ~HI. most Mideastern regimes are ASSOCIATED PRESS 11'515 In 1792 the monarchIeS of ruled by dictatorships or MI/(/'. " Europe decided to put an end oligarchies and are marked \ to a revolution that had by wide inequalities of p1u~ France into chaos, wealth and little fraternity NEWS BRIEFS forced its finest nobility to between rich and poor - or flee into exile, and threatened between poor and poor, for to spread popular revolt a that matter.Thus the cross Europe_ The grand ar Mideastern elite hardly hide mies of Prussia, Austria, En their fears that Khomeini's gland and lesser states, all Islamic Revolution will ruled by monarchies, invaded spread to, and undermine, Judge challenged on France, confident of a quick their own nations. That those fears are not victory. offending homosexuals Wes tern correspondents and other organizations not vote switching be restricted. groundless is su~ested by The analogy to the present reported Iraq's capture of the to hold conventions in states Some committee members, crisis in Iran may appear what occurred m France for immediate comment where the ERA has not been when its revolution triumph LOS ANGELES - Two port area of Khorramshahr. however, expressed skepti facile at first reading. But yesterday but in a letter to Iran's chief PQrt a few miles ratified . The s tate of ed. It spawned a process of state judges have asked US cism that the complex peyond the superficial District Judge A. Andrew Schrader and Lachs on Sept. north of Abadan. Both are on Missouri sued to stop the business of the Assembly similarities - and despite revolution that spread over 2 he called their criticism the disputed Shatt ai -Arab boycott, saying it violated all Europe and into remote Hauk, who will become chief could go on without the two aome important differences - judge later this month, to "presumptous and arro border waterway. federal anti·trust laws. Two practices. the French Revolution parts of the world. Wherever resign or at least retract a gant." The Iraqis claimed 29 lower courts had upheld the it spread, it undermined and Assemblv members vote on offered elemental lessons recent reference he reported "The judge's appropriate Iranians killed and six boycott, and on Monday the bills on a voting machil'le. about human nature which usually destroyed the ly made to "these faggots obligation is to apply and wounded in fighting Monday Supreme Court refused to entrenched ruling elites. Members have buttons on have been ignored to the peril from Cuba." enforce the law as it is, not along the 300-mile invasion hear the state's appeal. their desks and push them to fX thole who seek to cap the The countries of the Los Angeles Superior altered or amended by the front. The Iraqis put their "The courts have upheld vote yes or no. Ghost voting, a just as in Iran. AIU ormes among their peoples. mosque embedded in the Middle East have experienc fountainhead of revolution citoyms . citizens to arms . Court Judge Stephen M. attempts of activists to own casualties at seven dead the merits of our boycott and common practice, occurs ary movements.