The Aquinas 1979-02-27

              an attitudinal barrier."
The greatest need for a disabled
person or any human being is
the right to the fullest possible
life he or she can have. The
disabled do not wish total charity,
but desire that society accept
their disabilities and provides
means for them to lead a life as
full as anyone's, she told the audience.
Lack of facilities and foresight
in planning these facilities for the
disabled has resulted in the handicapping
of these individuals by
forcing them to be dependent on
others for help in activities which
they would normally prefer to do
themselves. King cited numerous
examples of these deficiencies in
society.
One example cited was a store
in downtown Scranton which provides
a telephone low enough for
a person in a wheel chair to
utilize, but the phone is situated
on the third floor of the building.
GIRLS
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'Handicappism' -New ,Word
Defines Prejudice
BYKEVIN DWYER
We are all familiar with the
terms sexism and racism. There
is a new word that defines a prejUdice
of the majority toward a
minority. That word is handicappismo
This term was introduced
by Sr. Eleace King, a special
education instructor at
Marywood College, during a lecture
presented last Wednesday
evening in the University Student
Center.
The topic was on the "Rights of
the Handicapped," and the talk
was sponsored by The Students
For Life, The Circle K and the
Social Science Clubs.
The lecture explained that handicappism
is the reduction of the
disabled into the image of the
beggar or non-beggar person by
our actions and attitudes. "We
make people handicapped by our
attitudes", stated King. "We
have the legislation, (providing
the disabled with the ,ability to
lead a full life), the only barrier is
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ten by SAC member Helen Marie
Hricko. .
The SAC invites interested
students to come into the Student
Government office or to attend
SAC meetings and to read the
Constitution in its .present form
and to submit revisions or proposals
they feel would benefit effective
operation of the Student
Government. Such proposals
should be submitted as soon as
possible before Friday.
Meetings slated for the remainder
of the semester will be
as follows: tomorrow, March 7,
March 21, April 4, April 25, and
May 9. 'lbe last session will be a
joint meeting of all newly-elected
members. SAC meetings are
open to any interested individuals.
students were not eligible for the
program if they were claimed as
dependents by parents who were
ineligible. The new regulations
state that students are ineligible
if they are, or if they could be,
claimed by any parent or other
taxpayer who is ineligible.
Determination of "could be
claimed" will be based on information
from a student's income
and standard tax deductions.
Hunter explains that the
basic determination in his state
will be if the ineligible benefactor
is supplying at least one half of
the student's income. •
The big change expected to increase
food stamp participation
involves the actual distribution of
thestaJnps.
Users are no longer reqUired to
pay for their stamps. Formally, a
person who was eligible for $50 in
food stamps~ for example, may
have been required to pay $30 in
cash for $50 in stamps and that
extra $20 in buying power. The
new regulations will just give the
same persons the extra .t2O in
stamps for which he or she is
eligible without any payment.
Other changes in the program
include: .
-Instead of receiving food
'stamp receipts from merchants
as change when purchasing pr~
dUCts, l00d stamp users now
receive change in cash up to 99
cents.
-For a family of four, the max~
imum net allowable yearly income
will decrease to $6,504 (the
poverty level) from $6,960. The
maximum net incomes of $?:17
per month for a one-person
household and $363 per month for
a tw~person household will remain
the same.
-Households will no longer
need access to cooking facilities
to qUalify for food stamps.
States will have four months
beginning March 1 to convert
case loads to the new rules, says
Wnder.
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Renovations Modernize Jefferson
conference room. Using the nearby
kitchen facilities, it also functions
as a small dining and party
room.
In addition to the new lounges
and snack bar, the lobby of the
building no\\', boasts a security office
and conference room, both
overhauled in the general renovation
last summer.
Langan stated that, "for the
most part, no further work will be
undertaken on the building until
this summer when construction
"" "'JI'.y.-.,' of new basement locker rooms ,>-', and showers will begin. However,
no other stUdy balls are plann-ed."
. New study lounge decor. (PHOTOBYBARBERAI Although lounges were com-
BY ANNE MOHAN pletely refurbished, according to pleted some time ago, student use
Aquinas News Staff Martin Langan, director of cen- is not yet up to its full potential.
Four new study lounges have tral services. New floors, plumb- Many of the students who take
been added to Jefferson Hall as ing, Wiring, ceiling, windows and advantage of these lounges are
part of a total renovation project doors were installed. All the residents of Jefferson Hall. In
begun last summer. The lounges lounges have been comfortably time, as other students become
are located on the first and se- furnished with someplush rugs. familiar with the presence and
cond floors of the building in The second floor, left hand location of these facilities, adrooms
201, '207, 301 and 3M. In ad~ lounge, adjacent to the snack bar, ministrators feel that students
dition to these rooms, roo~ 208 was given special attention by will make more use of them. The
has also been developed as a ven- 'John Gavigan, Vice President of snack bar in particular, is exding
machine-snack bar area. Student Personnel, who designed peeted to draw large numbers of
As part of the renovation pro- its modem interior. The room students, Langan said.
tCri:;=~:auPd~t~m- can function as a meeting and Blue Cross Plan Studied
F d 8t Ch (From Page 2) blood or blood plasma, rental of care plerformed for a student 00 amp anges penses incurred due to sickness an iron lung and other durable when not an in-patient; services
would be paid up to $l00f). The medical equipment, and local for treatment of corns, bunions,
student would pay 20 per cen"f"' ambulance services. and other ailments of the feet.
This section also covered fifty Since the program was so inex- Neither Blue Cross or Blue
per cent of all mental care (up to pensive there were restrictions Shield cover expenses incurred
$25 per visin, with a total max- aimed at the college student. As while practicing for, playing or
imum life-time payment of $500. John Gaivigan, vice-president for traveling as a member of a team
Additional covered expenses of student personnel stated, "It's a in connection with intercollegiate
the program included payment of hollow program, at a hollow sports. Care in a nursing or conphysician
and surgeon's fees, a price." Some of the benefits not valescent home, custodial or
re~tered ,nurse, charges for covered under Blue Cross were sanatorium care or rest cures;
covered under Blue Shield and personal convenience items; convice-
versa," he said diUons resulting from any ocRestrictions
listed under Blue cupational cause or as the
Cross included: in-patient admis- responsibility of any third party
sions which could have been per- other than an insurer of the
formed on an out-basis; shock SUbscriber, pregnancy or
therapy; convalescence or rest childbirth, . miscaniage,
cure; venereal diseases; Caesarean section, prenatal or
alcoholism and drug addiction. postnatal' care or routine care of
Blue Shield excluded plastic a newborn child were services
operations for cosmetic or beauti- not covered 'under the l\!ajor
lying purposes except those Medical Coverage.
resU!ting from an ac~ident oc- For the 1978 school year there
cumng after the effective datt: of are only 300 students taking adcoverage,
pre- and post-operabve vantaee of the DIan.
(CCRS) Few of the estimated
one million persons expected to
be dropped from state food stamp
rolls when 'changes in eligibility
requirements go into effect
March 1 will be college students,
food stamp officials say.
Although no one knows exactly
bow many students use food
stamps, Leslie Wilder, information
officer for the Department of
Agriculture'S FOOd and Nutrition
Service in Washington, D.C., says
she feels that less than one-half of
one percent of the 15.6 million
food stamp participants are
students, and that' few of those
.studentswill lose their benefits.
Oregon state's assistant
regional manager of adult and
family services, Douglas Hunter,
further explains that the effect of
the changes in students "relates
to the job markeUn the area. If
there's no employment in the
area, then it (the changes) won't
affect students. Nationally, there
might be some impact on
students depending upon the
community the Unive~ity is in. "
The masSive rewriting of the
1964FoodStamp Act was ordered
by Congress in 1977 to keep pe0ple
who may not need food
stamps from receiving them and
to provide benefits to those who
do need (hem.
When all changes take effect,
the Department of Agriculture
expects two million new people
will actually be added to the
already $5 billion program,
Wndersays.
The two major changes in
eligibility affecting stUdents surround
employment and tax
dependency standards.
Before the changes, only
unemployed· part-time students
bad to register with state employment
offices when applying for
food stamps. .
Beginning next spring, fulltime
students who are not working
at least 20 hours a week will
also have to register. .
Also, . before, the changes,
n