The Michigan Daily-Friday, October 28, 1977-page 5
ON HER WAY TO A PhD:
Handic
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ork than most people, but adds that obs n
e is aided by tape recordings, Braille, people s
ople who read to her and the Optocon than th
achine. A new reading device, the Op- study 1
ocon relays a static feeling of each let- may car
r by transmitting electrical impulses person's
rm.a print-sensitive light meter to her "Ever
ingers peoplev
Marti says most of her students are reasonr
urprised when a blind teacher appears you're b
e first day of class.
"I don't know what they do when I
ome in," she says. "I've never seen
heir faces." But once Martin tells them
hey're going to be writing several
papers during the term, students
4ealize it's going to be just like any
sother class.
."At first I thought she was just
mother student," recalls Jim Gilbert, a
reshman in Martin's class. "Then she
went up and sat down in front of the
class.r
Martin credits her years in a high
school for the blind with helping her
develop -the learning techniques she
now employs in her discussion class.
Her' high school teachers adopted a
"taking care" attitude and knew the
students individually, Martin says.
"The idea of teaching without
knowing the students is preposterous,"
she exclaims. "I guess this all rubbed
of. I can't conceive of anything: like
that."
"I used to write little notes to studen-
ts on their papers," she recalls. "You
either write 'awk' for awkward or fix it
for them. Either way they don't learn
-and I became dissatisfied with that."
EVEN IF SHE wasn't blind, Martin
says she wouldn't change her class's
discussion format and emphasis on in-
dividual counselling.
Martin's blindness occured when, as
a premature baby, she was given too
much oxygen. Many other infants were
affected by the same mishap and, as a
result, Martin says, a need arose for
better quality education for the blind.
"People were saying 'what are we
going to do with all these perfectly
normal, blind people?' " Dotty recalls.
"So they decided on better education."
But education for the blind hasn't
broken down all-the barriers.
"That's the saddest thing about my
people,"' Martin reflects. "We get
either the unskilled or the professional
Deceptive
leases
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* provisions allowing landlords to
collect an "excessive fee not related
to their costs" from tenants paying
rent late (Thirty-nine apartments in
Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti were cited
for this clause);
" clauses allowing the landlord to
enter a tenant's home at will were
found in 32 Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti
cases.
The PIRGIM study also cited three
clauses in Ann Arbor apartments
which were among the "more startl-
ing" cases:
" Under a Sullivan Smith, Inc.
lease, the tenant must agree to pay
any tax increases as additional rent.
" The Broadview Apartments'
lease contains a clause waiving the
tenant's right to property tax credits.
* A clause found in a McKinley
Associates, Inc. lease says the land-
lord's failure to maintain apartments
is no reason for a tenant to withhold
rent payments.
PIRGIM said it supports a bill
sponsored by Rep. Mark Clodfelter
(D-Flint) which would forbid leases
containing any of the offensive
clauses. The bill is now pending in the
House Civil Rights Committee, which
has held two hearings on it.
ip
o in-between.
A CHANCE at
tart working ha
e non-handicap
oad non-hand
ry in college b
sburden at 14, s
rything must be
who judge yo
not to hire y
lind," Martin a
doesn't stop
t a career, blind But no matter what the blind do,
arder and earlier some people only remember the blin- t
pped. The heavy dness and not the accomplishment, I
icapped people Martin laments. s
ecomes the blind SHE RECALLS writing a lengthy
she says. paper once and feeling "quite proud"
up to par so that when she turned it in. The professor's v
iu won't have a first comment was "you typed this?" v
ou just because Martin competed for a teaching a
idds. position "just on her record," says
Ma
Dott
Karen Gruschow, aIministrative secre-.
ary for the Program in Comparative
Literature. "I think they had forgotten
she was blind until she came here."
Gruschow recalls how during last
winter's fierce cold weather, Martin
would cover her entire face from the
wind. A friend, seeing her bundled up,
asked at once without hesitation, 'But
Dotty, how can you see?"
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