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March 26/1998
Volume 155 Number 9
A part of the Texas A&M University System.
Tarleton Texan Weekly News
Special announcement
The parking lot beside the
Sav-On Building will close on
Monday, in order to facilitate
the destruction of the Sav-On
Building and the reconstruction
of a concrete parking lot.
Demolition on the building
will start on April 6.
The new parking lot is
scheduled to be finished by the
beginning of the fall semester.
Tarleton surpasses ADA compliance laws
By Brian Botch
Staff Writer
Tarleton jazz
festival slated
for Saturday
Special to the J-TAC
Renown musicians Kim Park
and Rick Stitzel will perform with
the Tarleton State University Jazz
EJnsemble during a concert sched-
uled for Saturday as part of the
Annual Tarleton Jazz Festival,
The concert is the last event in
the jazz festival, which is hosted
each spring by the Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia Music Fraternity. The
performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in
.the auditorium of the Clyde H.
.Wells Fine Arts Center and tickets
are $5 per person, available one
hour-prior to toe-performance. -
Park, a woodwind player who
currently lives in Kansas City,
Mo., has played with Louis
Bellson, Clark Terry, Bobby Shew,
Marv Stamm and the great Stan
Getz. Park joined the Stan Kenton
Orchestra just out of high school.
. An adjunct faculty member at
the University of Missouri in
Kansas City, Park has given clinics
and master classes at Stanford
University and for the National
Flute Association and the North
American Saxophone Alliance.
Sitzel is a talented trumpet player
and outstanding composer and
arranger from Fort Worth. The
Tarleton Jazz Camp Ensemble has
played a number of his charts in
the past and will feature his works
again during the Saturday concert.
The program for this special
concert includes some outstanding
jazz. Among the tunes that will be
played will be Chick Corea's "La
Fiesta," Stitzel's arrangement of
the "Days of Wine and Roses" and
"Nancy, with a Smiling Face."
There will also be some of Kim
Park's originals.
The Tarleton Jazz Festival tra-
ditionally brings a number of high
school bands to campus for com-
petitions and a clinic. Park will be
serving as judge for the festival
and will conduct a clinic on
Saturday afternoon. All events
during the day are open to the
public, and admission is free.
Tarleton has pushed beyond the legal limits of the
Americans with Disabilities Act to make the campus accessi-
ble to all students.
The American with Disabilities Act, in addition to being the
most recent civil rights legislation passed to stop discrimina-
tion, is also the blanket term used to cover all of the federal
regulations and laws pertaining to disabled persons.
The ADA exempts buildings built before the 1990 law
was passed through a grandfather clause, not requiring them
to come in line with the standards set in the law until they
are renovated. That meant that most if not all of the TSU
campus did not have to change a thing. However, Dennis
McCabe, university president, and the ADA compliance
office has pushed for Tarleton to become handicapped acces-
sible.
"We do these things for three reasons. First it's the law.
Secpnd it is the morally correct thing to do. And the third
reason is to model the behavior for our students, all students.
We have a responsibility that our students not only learn aca-
demic things at Tarleton but these other things as well," sslid
Dwayne Snider, director of disability services.
According to the ADA, to qualify as being disabled a stu-
dent must first self-identify. That simply means that they
must inform the University of their situation. That is handled
through the ADA compliance office on the second floor of
the Administration Building. Second, they must present doc-
umentation proving their disability. The ADA office works
with several state and local agencies in helping students
obtain the necessary paperwork. "
The documentation has to be from a professional who has
the training to diagnose whatever the disability is," said
Snider.
Tarleton currently has 75 students who are disabled; how-
ever, that number is only the students who are willing to
self-identify, and who want to receive services from TSU.
In addition, that number includes learning disabilities,
paraplegics, quadriplegics, visually impaired, hearing
impaired and people with medical problems.
Snider said he knows many students on campus have not
identified themselves.
"They have not come to me, they have not asked for any
special accommodations. They don't need it because of their
particular situation, and so they are not counted as being dis-
abled," said Snider.
The ADA compliance office is responsible for coordinat-
ing efforts among all of the departments on campus to insure
each department understands what changes need to be made
to allow people with disabilities to attend TSU classes.
Snider credits many of the advances TSU has made to
Rusty Jergins, dean of students and Linda Jones, associate
vice president of academic affairs, the two people he suc-
ceeded in the office, "Dean Jergins was the head of this
department two years ago. When he was doing this job, one
of the main things he did was get the campus community,
faculty and staff aware of the responsibilities we have, and
that we are covered under those federal laws."
Linda Jones held the position last year and was responsi-
• ble for obtaining accessibility software that is available on
campus.
Working in conjunction with the president's office, Jones
managed to get some computer labs and classrooms updated.
But her. major accomplishment was to purchase a van with a
wheelchair lift.
There have been noticeable changes on the TSU campus
over the past 18 months. Electric door openers have been
installed in building; the lights are in the process of becom-
ing brighter and more frequent. The curbs at intersections
have been cut off and sloped down, and some dorm rooms
have even been gutted and replaced.
"One thing that I never thought of before taking this job
is ground maintenance. With spring coming, leaves on the
trees and shrubs are coming back, and we are trimming
every thing that hangs over a sidewalk. Because we do have
some students that are blind, not just visually impaired but
actually blind, arid this is a hazard for them.
Typically you walk along and see a tree limb you move
over to the other side of the sidewalk and get out of the way,
'well, they do not have that option," said Snider.
All of the people on campus, even the student groups who
place their message boards on the side walks, have a part in
how accessible the campus is.
If you are disabled and need accommodations, contact the
Office of Disability Services at 968-9373 or stop by any
afternoon in the Administration Building Room 239.
Feeling the music, catching the beat..
By Robert Vauchan
Staff Writer
The music started out slow and
somber like twilight waves rolling
onto an abandoned beach, It then 1
moved into the feeling one might
get strolling through a park alone
on a rainy day,
I would like to tell a happy -
story, not some negative propagan-
da about traffic tickets or the inef-
ficiency of student government,
No, instead i would like to tell you
about a hidden musical talent here
on the Tarleton campus. He's not a
student or a music major, but,
instead he's just a guy who works
at the food court, 21-year-old
Garry Grady. Some of you have
heard his exceptional playing abili-
ty as you passed through the foyer
in tbe SDC. He plays religious and
classical pieces, three of which he
wrote himself.
Grady, who moved here from
Midland, Texas; over a year ago,
attended Midland College but had
to drop out for financial reasons.
He would like to go back to school
but cannot afford it. He wants to
learn more about music, to achieve
his goals.-one being to compose
more musical pieces. Although he hasn't decided exactly what he wants
to do with a degree, he would like the degree to have some religious
life
At 15 he taught himself to play the guitar and has written two guitar
pieces. Two years ago he taught himself to play the piano; he had to
develop his own mechanics in order to read and play the music.
In addition, within the last four months he has been learning to play
the drums.
He loves to play aftac work; it allows him to relax. He would like to
get a scholarship to go to .school here.
Continued as "Piano" on page 3.
MR. GRADY'S OPUS...
Gary Grady, ARAMARK
employee, shares his musical
talent with'students during his
lunch break and after work
hours througout the week.
(Photo by Joe Ptado)
COMET WATCH: Shoemaker-Levy 9 co-discoverer to speak
By Angela Brewer
Staff Writer
In 1994 Comet Shoemaker-
Levy 9 collided with Jupiter creat-
ing the most violent explosion ever
seen on a distant world. This was
the same kind of collision that
many scientists believe brought the
building blocks of life to Earth.
The co-discoverer of this comet,
David Levy, astronomer, author
and science educator will be the
guest at this year's Tarleton
Speaker Symposium, The lecture
will be held in the Clyde H. Wells
Fine Arts Center Auditorium
Tuesday at 2 p.m. The presenta-
tion is free and open to the public.
A short reception will follow
around 4 p.m.
Levy discovered his first comet
in 1984 and has since discovered
20 more. According to a press
release, Levy's 21 comet discover-
ies have tied him for third place in
history for the largest number of
comet finds.
Levy, who is a nationally
sought-after expert of cosmic
events, has appeared on television
programs including the "Discovery
Channel's Three Minutes to
Impact" and a National Geographic
Special on NBC called Asteroids:
Deadly Impact.
He is the author of 18 books
including "The Sky: A User's
Guide (1993)," "Skywatching
(1994)," 'The Quest for Comets
(1994)," "Impact Jupiter (1995),"
"More Things in Heaven and
-Earth: Exploring the Sky in
English Poetry (1997)" and
"Sharing the Sky: A Parent's and
Teacher's Guide to Astronomy
(1997)." •
Levy, who has given over 300
public lectures, incorporates cur-
rent video footage, color slides,
music and poetry to add excite-,
ment to his presentations.
According to the press release,
Tommy Barker, chair of the
Tarleton Speaker Symposium
Committee said, "We are delighted
to have him here, especially with
the heightened interest recently in
celestial activity. We had a mete-
orite hit near Monahans just last
week, and then of course there was
the big scare about the big meteor
that was supposedly going to hit
the Earth in 2028. Mr. Levy's pro-
gram is really timely, and all in all,
we're excited to have him here and
look forward to a fascinating pro-
gram."
Barker said that Levy will be
paid a $7,500 speaker's fee, which
was budgeted through the presi-
dent's office. Last year's speaker
was Jean Michel Cousteau, the son
of Jaques Cousteau. Other speak-
ers that have visited Tarleton are
Jane Goodall, Linda Ellerbee,
Henry Cisneros and James Burke.
"The purpose of annual sympo-
siums is to bring renowned speak-
ers onto campus to stimulate dis-
cussion on timely issues," said
Barker, "I think Mr. Levy will be
very interesting."
Student programs will be vali-
dated after the presentation, and
everyone is encouraged to attend.
For additional information
about Levy's upcoming lecture
call Tonjmy Barker at 968-9010 or
Joan Richmond at 968-9319.
Additional information on Mr.
Levy is also available at the fol-
lowing website: http://www.
tarleton.edu/ academics/depts/
english/jrichmnd/levypage.htm
David Levy
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