‘Handicapped Awareness Day — features tours, blind baseball Handicap blind campus baseball, tours, wheelchair basketball and a question and answer panel all were part of 3 Handicapped the Nov. Awareness Day at.Weber State | College. The events, sponsored by the Associated Students of the College, State Weber the and Club Social Work , Sigma Delta a Lamb sorority of and e colleg with rway got unde officials student government taking a “handicap tour” of the campus. Some were blindfoldin sat others and ed the took wheelchairs. The tour participants to some of the most used buildings on campus, including the library and the student union building. Students and administrators learned of the frustruations of the physically handicapped as they tried to maneuver around trees. buildings and people in order to gain access to the ramps. Wheelchair riders often jammed or cut their thumbs and fingers as they struggled : with the chairs. At one point Lori Memmott, Photo by Robert Fields Hardy and Lori capped tour of the Memmott, (I. to r.), take part in the handi Day Tuesday, Nov. 3. campus on Handicapped Awareness ASWSC. officers Tammy Hamer, Faye ASWSC president, lost control of her wheelchair. She rolled off the sidewalk and stopped suddenly on the grassy hillside, causing her books and personal effects to fall from her lap. her later explained She ed dropp I n “Whe frustruation, on soluti no was there by books up them pick n’t could I it. to myself because | was on a hill teetering on the edge of falling off Tammy Hamer, ASWSC acwas tivities vice president, way. the of blindfolded most She said the experience made her feel totally isolated from the world. them away from the handicapped. “Those with handicaps feel it when we turn away or when we walk around them so that we do not pass by them. They feel it when we pity them but do not reach out to comfort them or to love them.” Ms. Smith said society needs to learn to understand the problems of the handicapped. She explained that “just because a body is handicapped does not mean that the human life is of Ms. Hamer said, “I don't felt any less value.” It even know where I went. “The attitude of the one little like I was in my own bearing the handicap is another world. | could hear people talkimportant factor,” Ms. Smith ing, but couldn't tell who it was, said. “Those with handicaps and I noticed that people never have a particular barrier to really talked to me. | really felt overcome and can best do so all alone.” when they have a positive atBarbara Smith, relief society titude reinforced by those h, president of the LDS churc r— st fo ine indiviauar— ne inge nh tu that spoke ai-a—pariel d of the han“We need to sacrifice our explored the worl time and. talents to help other dieapped student. people climb over the hard The panel was composed of spots,” she said. blind, deaf and wheelchair included Other’ events students. Rodney Dr. by ches spee Ms. Smith said, “It’s imporKristie dent, presi WSC , an Brady tant that we all develop Mortenson, Miss Deaf Utah, awareness within ourselves and District Judge Kenneth Rigtrup within society for the tremenDeGraw, Stephanie and dous potential that is in those ces vice servi nt ASWSC stude who are living with handicaps.” t. presiden She said people need to turn that ngs feeli the ve remo Hee acest sea