2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, December 2, 1993 OBSTACLES Continued from page 1 to someone for a long time and I'll tune them out all of a sudden. But I try to maintain as normal an appearance as possible." Dana says dealing with others' ig- norance of learning disabilities is frus- trating. "The biggest obstacle I face here at the University is that people are not aware of what a learning disability is - you're not stupid, you're not lazy, you're not immature, but you just pro- cess information slower than what would be considered the norm. When you interact with people who don't know that you have a (learning disabil- ity) they get very short and impatient." She says she-also gets stymied by her own attitude at times. "I tend to get very frustrated with myself, which is probably an obstacle that I deal with within myself," she said. "If I'm in the middle of writing something and I'm concentrating solely on itandIhearaloudnoise-likeacar backfiring or a loud radio suddenly blaring - I'll lose concentration com- pletely and I won't be able to recon- struct the sentence I was working on without going back and rereading the entire paragraph." Dana didn't admit to herself or any- one else that she had a learning disabil- ity untilafter her first year of college at University of California-Davis. "I tend to be very stubborn and I knew that something was wrong - that I needed to learn differently - but I didn't want to admit it to myself, to get the documentation done." It wasn't until she took a statistics class during the summer after her first year in college that she was finally pushed to get her disability officially documented. "It took me a long time to deal with the anger of having this three-page document telling me what exactly was wrong with me and how I needed to deal with it." Dana's undergraduate years were full of double-duty learning as she be- gan to understand the things she would need to do to combat her disability. "I got my bachelors degree and I also sort of got a degree in how to deal with a learning disability. Before I got my documentation I was getting Bs. With it, and with the extra time, I got As." Along with the extra studying and test-taking time allowed because of documentation, she also began to use various strategies to get her work done most effectively -including using the different colored notes. "I study Arabic, but in order to learn the words I get index cards, write the words in Crayola markers, and post them on my wall - that's the only way I can remember something like that," she said. Some of her study habits are very specific. 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It's a little weird, but it works." Studying for an exam is an espe- cially intense process. "IfI'm preparing for an exam I'll sit down with all of my notes and write out practice questions. Then I'll spend two or three hours answering one of those questions. Even when I was an undergrad it would take me three hours per question," she said. "If I write down an answer in red ink and then go to sleep, I'll wake up and be able to remember everything that I wrote down. I need that time to absorb the information," she contin- ued, adding that it takes her extra long to study for an exam. More than anything, Dana is filled with determination to succeed. "I was told that maybe college wasn't for me. But I wanted to go to college and I want to get my Ph.D. and I'm going to do it. And I don't care what anyone says or what anyone thinks." Sarah Ginsburg is a first-year Law school student who also knows the struggle of being a student with a learn- ing disability. Sarah has a visual- and auditory- based learning disability, and she also has Attention Deficit Disorder, which makes it more difficult for her to focus on one task. "I'm very easily distracted, espe- cially by noise. I'm an auditory learner and outside sounds bother me a lot. I'll read something and I'll have to read it Have news to share? oCall us at 76-DAILY L The BIRD OF PARADISE is the place for your Christmas party. Afternoons and early evenings preferred Call Jake at 662-8310 several times before it cements. Or I'll read the second part of the sentence before the first part." Indeed, reading causes the most struggle for Sarah. "Imagine that it's late at night, you have aheadache and you're really tired. In this state, you have to sit down and read a large volume of material. Imag- ine how you would feel. That is how I feel after 10 minutes of reading," she explained. "It takes me double time to get through reading," she said. "Because I'm an auditory learner, I find it easier to take the exams auditorily. I took the LSAT auditorily." Sarah had the LSAT questions read to her aloud and scored in the 98th percentile. Sarah said people are sometimes surprised when they learn that she is a Law student and also has a learning disability. "People equate slowness with dumbness," she said. "Onedoesn't necessarily equal the other." Sarah creatively deals with her dis- ability by utilizing a notetaker from the University's Services for Students with Disabilities' office. She tape records some lectures and is taking a reduced course load. 'It took me a long time to deal with the anger of having this three-page document telling me what exactly was wrong with me and how I needed to deal with it.' - Dana Greene Third-year doctoral student "Writing the (learning disability) manual was wonderful. It helped me to learn about my disability, others' dis- abilities. It was really good for me to do it." it." I GIec 4{ictligan (f aif Display Account Executive of the week. Congratulations S "I study in a room in my apartment. It is impossible for me to study in the library because it's too distracting. I study with earplugs in." She said that, without earplugs, studying can be a stretch. "Any noise will distract me. A buzz from a light will drive me absolutely nuts - even background noise, slam- ming doors, cars driving by. What most people can tune out, I tune into." And while she is able to get things done studying alone, a price is paid. "I feel like I have to make it a point to be social because I can't combine studying and socializing." Last year Sarah wrote a handbook for students with learning disabilities and has published it herself to reach the University of California community. She is in the process of trying to get a. major publisher to pick it up. The handbook provides a compre- hensive look at what students with learn- ing disabilities can do to make their educational experience the best it can be. DNA Continued from page After the DNA enters the cancer- ous cells, it stimulates the immune system to combat the cancer itself. In the experiment, only about 5 percent of the cells in the tumor ab- sorbed the fat-laden DNA. Doctors are now trying to determine how to increase that ratio. The purpose of this study was not to cure the condition in the patients. Rather, the research is being used to determine the safety of injecting DNA directly into humans. Doctors hope the breakthrough can be used in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases. If they can safely inject.DNA into patients, they can likely initiate the body's immune sys- tem to fight off the disease itself. No complications were noted in any of the patients, and one person's condition actually improved on two occasions. Each patient who participated in the study came to the project with a ISRAEL Continued from page 1 and police officers to refuse orders involving troop withdrawal and the creation of the Palestinian police force. Leiter said the shooting gave a push to plans to erect 130 makeshift settlements in a symbolic gesture of expansion called "This Is My Land." The campaign apparently is in- tended to provoke the government into confronting settlers and dragging them off the land, a situation they believe will win sympathy from the Israeli public. The army sealed Gaza yesterday, although some reporters were allowed to enter and the army escorted others. 'Gene therapy ... will give doctors many more options for treating diseases than they ever had before.' -Cindy Fox Aisen University Medical Center spokesperson diagnosis of less than one year to live. None would have benefited from fur- ther traditional treatment such as sur- gery or chemotherapy. This experiment began with the first patient in June 1992. In fact, the field of gene therapy itself has just developed over the past few years. However, despite the youth of the field, many doctors see revolutionary potential for the process. "Gene therapy may replace a lot of what we do in therapeutic medi- cine over the course of the next 50 years," said Francis Collins, profes- sor of internal medicine. Officials claimed press coverage in- flamed rioters. In the Rafah refugee camp, hun- dreds of Palestinians marched to de- mand the release of Taisir Bardini, commander of the Fatah Hawks, the PLO's military wing, who was cap- tured Monday. The army did not confront the demonstrators, who demanded the PLO suspend talks with Israel on implementing the peace agreement until Bardini is released. 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