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Partition and its aftermath: violence, migration and the role of refugees in the socio-economic development of Gujranwala and Sialkot cities, 1947-196
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A REVIEW OF INTRODUCTION OF COMMON CARP Cyprinus carpio IN PAKISTAN: ORIGIN, PURPOSE, IMPACT AND MANAGEMENT
No full textŠaran je unesen u Pakistan iz Tajlanda 1964. godine u svrhu akvakulture. Zbog njegove prilagodljivosti na temperaturne promjene i mutnoću vode, te zbog lakoće mriješćenja u ribnjacima, brzo se udomaćio u većini prirodnih kopnenih voda uključujući rijeke, jezera, potoke, kanale, močvare, kao i seoske ribnjake. Iako je šaran postao jedna od najbrojnijih ciprinidnih vrsta u kopnenim vodama i važna hrana u Pakistanu, njegov utjecaj nije posebno dokumentiran. Komercijalni uzgoj u Pakistanu je započeo 1970. godine. U samim počecima rast proizvodnje bio je spor, ali danas igra važnu ulogu u ekonomiji zemlje zapošljavajući više od 400.000 stanovnika. Danas se uzgoj šarana prakticira u cijeloj zemlji, a posebno u pokrajinama Punjab i Sindh. Postoji ogroman potencijal ciprinidnog uzgoja što bi moglo pomoći povećanju boljitka stanovništva, kao i BDP-a zemlje. Ipak, postoji potreba da se osuvremeni tehnologija uzgoja prema standardima razvijenog svijeta koji bi bili uspješni samo u slučaju posebnog interesa kreatora politike i boljeg upravljanja dionika.Common carp Cyprinus carpio was introduced from Thailand to Pakistan in 1964 for the purpose of aquaculture. Due to its high tolerance to temperature and turbidity, and prolific pond breeding habit, it was established promptly in most of natural inland waters, including rivers, lakes, streams, canals, wetlands and even village ponds of the country. Although common carp became one of the most abundant cyprinid species in inland waters and important food fish in Pakistan, its impact is not well documented. Fish farming of common carp has been carried out in Pakistan since 1970; initially it grew slowly but now it is playing an important role in the economy of the country by employing more than 400,000 people. Nowadays, farming of freshwater carps is present throughout Pakistan, especially in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh. There is a huge potential in common carp farming and it could help increase the livelihood of people and gross domestic product (GDP) of the country as well. Still, there is a need to improve the fish farming practice to meet the world-class demands that could only be possible by the keen interest of policy makers and stake holders with better management
A review of introduction of common carp Cyprinus carpio in Pakistan: origin, purpose, impact and management
No full textCommon carp Cyprinus carpio was introduced from Thailand to Pakistan in 1964 for the purpose of aquaculture. Due to its high tolerance to temperature and turbidity, and prolific pond breeding habit, it was established promptly in most of natural inland waters, including rivers, lakes, streams, canals, wetlands and even village ponds of the country. Although common carp became one of the most abundant cyprinid species in inland waters and important food fish in Pakistan, its impact is not well documented. Fish farming of common carp has been carried out in Pakistan since 1970; initially it grew slowly but now it is playing an important role in the economy of the country by employing more than 400,000 people. Nowadays, farming of freshwater carps is present throughout Pakistan, especially in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh. There is a huge potential in common carp farming and it could help increase the livelihood of people and gross domestic product (GDP) of the country as well. Still, there is a need to improve the fish farming practice to meet the world-class demands that could only be possible by the keen interest of policy makers and stake holders with better management
From chattas to churidars: Syrian Christian religious minorities in a secular Indian state
No full textThis dissertation is a critical analysis of the feminist concept of intersectionality and a necessary contribution into the study of caste, class, race, religion and gender in South Asia. Rather than viewing identities as merely overlapping, I argue that there exist countless “acts” that implicate the co-constitutive, relational, and fluid nature of identities. Particularly focusing on the upper-caste Syrian Christian community in postcolonial Kerala, India, I examine “acts” in the form of embodied clothing practices, women’s mobility in public spaces and political protests. My dissertation especially intervenes into dominant discourses within South Asian and Women’s and Gender Studies. I reassess of the concept of race in South Asia, provide a sustained ethnographic and historical analysis of the state of Kerala, India, and I place the fields of South Asian and Women’s and Gender Studies into critical dialogue with each other. To make these interventions, I use a variety of sources collected through interdisciplinary research methods. These methods include ethnography, archival methods, feminist and postcolonial theoretical analysis, and visual culture analysis. In the first and second chapters of the dissertation, I provide an overview of the dissertation, my field site and a history of the Syrian Christian community. In the third and fourth chapters I explore the relations between class, caste, race, religion and gender through an examination of the women’s (in)ability to move freely in a changing public sphere. Following this, in chapters five and six I analyze how Syrian Christians have used their social privileges to politically mobilize, define a nation-wide minority identity, and protect their dominance in Kerala’s private education sector. In the last chapter, I bridge Women’s and Gender Studies with South Asian Studies and examine each of the disciplines’ approach to studying differences between peoples in India. From the chatta, a clothing worn in colonial Kerala by Syrian Christian women alone, to the churidar worn today by women of all classes, castes, races and religions, I examine how “acts” of class, caste, race, religion and gender may continue previous divisions between groups, justifying forms of oppression and ultimately upholding systems of domination in India today.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Sonja Thoma
University News - Volume 093, Issue 005 (September 26, 2013)
No full text12 pages.Student Government As-sociation
meeting was host
to special guest Bill Kauff-man
as he addressed his
role as Interim President for
Saint Louis University and
responded to the group’s
questions. With a light at-mosphere
and open dia-logue,
the meeting hinted at
a hopeful future and healthy
relationship between the
students and
president.
K a u f f -
man began
by assuring
SGA that he
was there
for them
and was
dedicated to
the univer-sity.
“I really
care about
the institution we share,”
stated Kauffman. “I want you
to know that the senior exec-utive
staff of this university is
dedicated to your success.”
The president also ex-pressed
his desire for a clean
slate from the students and
his goal to eliminate “some
of the noise that [SLU] has
had over the course of the
past year.”
“We can remember our
history, but let’s not live in
it,” Kauffman said. “I have
great confidence in what this
year can be.”
In discussing the search
for the university’s new pres-ident,
Kauffman stressed the
importance of the students’
involvement with the pro-cess
and their engagement
in the opportunity to move
forward. Included in this in-volvement
is a hopeful visit
from the Presidential Search
Committee, who would lis-ten
to SGA’s ideas on what
the student
body is look-ing
for in
their next
president.
K a u f f -
man also
touched on
the universi-ty’s
most re-cent
events,
which in-cluded
SLU’s
new harass-ment
policy as well as the
new sexual assault and re-lationship
violence policy.
He added celebratory com-ments
towards the dedica-tions
of the new Center for
Global Citizenship, Scott
Law Center and the Student
Leader Hall of Fame and
encouraged the group to
SLU students collabo-rated
with Rainforest Ac-tion
Network at a recruit-ment
presentation and job
fair, both held this week.
Protesting against Citibank,
students pushed the bank to
stop funding fossil fuels and
redirect investments toward
cleaner energy sources.
Students chanted “we
won’t work for climate cha-os!”
in the meeting room on
the third floor of the Busch
Student Center after stu-dents
delivered a letter to
the bank’s recruiters and ex-plained
to the room exactly
what they were protesting.
“ N o w
more than
ever we
need to find
alternative,
green ener-gy
so that we
can stop cli-mate
change
and stop the
destruction
of millions
of acres of
land. Banks
can easily help solve this
problem by divesting in the
coal industry,” said Summer
Worthington, SLU student
and organizer of the action.
Along with Bank of
America and
J.P. Morgan,
C i t i b a n k
ranks in the
top three
investors to
the coal in-dustry.
Last
year, these
banks in-vested
a total
of 8 billion
to coal com-panies
that
practice mountaintop re-moval
(MTR) mining. This
method, widely used in the
Appalachian Mountains,
renders the land unusable
and dumps toxic byproducts
in nearby valleys.
These banks are also re-cruiting
SLU students for
future employees.
Citibank was originally
scheduled to attend Wednes-day’s
career fair in the BSC.
However their table was va-cant
on the day of the event.
A placard on their table
read, “Due to unforeseen cir-cumstances,
Citi will not be
able to attend the Career Fair
today.” Protesters showed up
regardless, holding signs and
taking pictures.
“We scored a win against
Citibank when they decided
not to come to the Career
Fair,” Worthington said. “We
are at a crucial point in his-tory.”
According to the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency, 20% of greenhouse
gas emissions come from the
industry sector burning fos-sil
fuels for energy.
This also generates pol-lutants
that have been shown
to damage cardiovascular
and respiratory health. The
goal of the Rainforest Action
Network is to draw attention
to this crucial environmental
and public health issue and
to put an end to large banks
like Citibank giving loans to
the coal industry.
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New club provides helpful service
DSC works to help those with disabilities
The Disability Services
Club (DSC) started to take
form in the spring of 2011,
when Morgan Elliott, the
club’s founder and president,
realized that SLU lacked a
safety net for students with
temporary physical injuries.
“It kind of happened due
to my own injuries and the
injuries... of others,” Elliott
said.
She came to SLU with
a broken ankle and found
herself in need of help navi-gating
campus. Her friends
were kind enough to help
her get to most of her class-es,
but without that help she
would have a more challeng-ing
first semseter. When her
friend Kate Sulkowski expe-rienced
similar troubles after
dislocating her knee, Elliott
decided that a change was in
order.
Elliott, Sulkowski, the
club treasurer, Vice-pres-ident
Lizzie Puzniak and
Sonam Vyas, the group sec-retary
founded the group in
the spring of 2012. It started
out as a volunteer organiza-tion
primarily concerned
with temporary injuries.
People who suffered an
injury that required them
to use crutches or a wheel
chair could ask the DSC for
help. Members of the club
would then be assigned to
help a student across cam-pus
by carrying their books
or pushing a wheel chair
– anything to help ease the
process of travelling across
campus in a comfortable and
timely fashion.
Margaret Hennessey, a ju-nior
at SLU said. Hennessey
was coming back to school
in January on crutches and
she was looking for help
getting around campus dur-ing
the winter. Her mother
called the school looking for
assistance and they were di-rected
to Elliott.
“My experience with DSC
was better than I could have
ever imagined,” Hennessey
said. “At first, I thought it
would just be an awkward
walk to class with someone
I didn’t know. Everyone was
so friendly, though, and it
was never awkward.”
The members of DSC did
as much for Hennessey’s
By WOLF HOWARD
News Editor
Kauffman fields
questions at SGA
See “DSC” on Page 3
By WOLF HOWARD
News Editor
See “SGA” on Page 3
Author addresses
self-perception
Bank’s recruiting sparks protest
By KENDRA CRUSE
Associate Arts Editor
Citi: Students protest Citi Bank during a recruitment meeting on Tuesday night.
Kendra Cruse/Associate Arts Editor
The Saint Louis Univer-sity
Philosophy Club hosted
Douglas Hofstadter, the Pu-litzer-
prize winning author
and renowned academic on
Sept. 20. He started his talk
on being a ‘strange loop’ by
commenting on how bacte-ria
perceives.
“[Bacteria] sorts the world
in to two things, directions I
want to go and directions I
dont,” Hofstadter said.
Building up from the
most basic level of percep-tion,
a binary form, he con-sidered
the perception of a
mosquito, stating that they
have certain likes in that
there are places they land to
get nourishment, and they
are more likely to bite some
people than others.
He moved on to the per-ception
of his dog.
“I don’t think my dog... is
thinking about solutions to
equations of general relativ-ity,”
Hofstadter said, jokingly.
However, he said dogs can
form a vocabulary, which is
an important part of higher
intelligence. From there he
embarked on the core of his
discussion by considering
how what one perceives the
most affects what has the
deepest vocabulary, using as
an analogy the false but com-mon
saying about Eskimos
having 50 words for snow.
“We have more catego-ries
for what we experience
most,” he said. He then con-tended
that what we as hu-mans
perceive the most is
ourselves.
As an example he talked
about how people with
Wolf Howard/News Editor
Hofstadter: The professor speaking in Adorjan Hall on
Sept. 20 in support of his book ‘I Am A Strange Loop.’
By WOLF HOWARD
News Editor
We can remem-ber
our history,
but let’s not live
in it. “ “ -Bill Kauffman,
Interim President
Banks can eas-ily
help solve this
problem by divest-ing
in the coal
industry. “ “ -Summer Worthington,
student and protester
With
Disability
Without
Disability
Bachelor’s
Degree
Some College High School Only
12.5%
31.2%
30.6%
32.4%
34.5%
25.9%
Population Education Levels
Percent of Population with a Disability
5 to 15 years old
16 to 20 years old
21 to 64 years old
65 to 74 years old
75 and older
TOTAL
5.1%
5.6%
10.5%
25.6%
50.7%
12.1%
See “Citi” on Page 2 See “Hofstadter” on Page 2
2011 Disability Status Report/
Employment and Disability Institute at
the Cornell University ILR School
2 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 NEWS
Morgan Elliott came up
with the idea for Disabil-ity
Services Club (DSC)
because of an unfortunate
series of injuries during her
first year at SLU.
“Freshman year I came to
campus with a broken ankle
and was on crutches and had
a really hard time getting
around from class to class,”
Elliott said. “I lived in Fusz
and all of my classes were
in the lecture halls or Ritter,
the opposite side of campus.
I was extremely lucky be-cause
I have a great group of
friends.”
After breaking her ankle
again and hearing from oth-er
students with similar is-sues,
Elliott thought of a way
that she could help people
suffering injuries like hers
that made it hard to get to
class on time.
“I was thinking if I didn’t
have that system I might
have been stuck, and in a lot
worse straits, especially with
how much time it takes to
get across campus,” Elliott
said. “I decided something
needed to be done.”
Th t a something was
the DSC. After getting her
friends Kate Sulkowski and
Lizzie Puzniak on board, she
went to the Student Govern-ment
Association to get the
new club approved. A year
later she was the president
of the newly-chartered Dis-ability
Services Club.
Elliott hopes to expand
her work of helping those in
need by working in the in-dustry
as a biomedical engi-neer
(BME).
“I want to… design either
surgical tools or prostheses,”
she said. “I really like engi-neering;
I like math, but I
also like how that applies to
the bod.”
Her decision to go into
biomedical engineering fol-lowed
a moment of clarity
when she was on vacation
with her parents.
“My parents are… civil en-gineers.
And after 18 years…
of following my parents on
all of my family vacations
and looking at all of these
old houses and… buildings,
I decided I hate buildings,”
she said, laughing. “I will not
design a building.”
So she decided to look
for a line of work that would
combine her appreciation for
the discipline of engineering
and her interest in becom-ing
a doctor. An interest in
biomedical engineering fol-lowed
naturally for her.
Part of her choice to at-tend
SLU was the city feel
of St. Louis. Elliott was born
in Chayenne, Wyoming and
eventually moved to Chatta-nooga,
Tennesse.
“It’s a beautiful city,” she
said of Chattanooga. “Very
scenic, a lot of outdoors
things, but also a lot of city
things… Chattanooga’s not
tiny, but it’s not St. Louis.”
Elliott counts lacrosse as
one of her favorite activities,
which has been the cause of
multiple injuries for her.
“I actually got my thumb
shattered senior year [of high
school] during our rivalry
game senior night. Played
half a game with a shattered
thumb,” she said. “Not my
smartest move.”
Elliott also watches a lot
of Disney movies with her
friends, Mulan being her fa-vorite.
“We all have our own Dis-ney
movie that we like, so we
just end up watching them
all,” she said.
Let Us Introduce You: Morgan Elliott
By WOLF HOWARD
News Editor
DSC founder talks community, engineering, lacrosse
Wolf Howard/News Editor
Hofstadter: On being a ‘strange loop’
All information provided by Department of Public Safety
and Emergency Preparedness
Friday, September 20
1:19 p.m. - FIRE ALARM
A fire alarm was activated due to a dirty smoke detector. Main-tenance
cleaned the smoke detector. The alarm was reset and
the occupants were allowed reentry into the building.
3:54 p.m. - ACCIDENTAL INJURY
A SLU employee cut his left thumb while cutting wood. The
employee was conveyed to SLUH ER by DPS. The employee’s
supervisor was notified.
Saturday, September 21
9:06 p.m. - ACCIDENTAL INJURY
A SLU student reported that he was accidentally struck in the
forehead by another student’s elbow while playing basketball.
The student refused medical attention.
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Golden Billikens back
for Homecoming
Rooted in a tight-knit
community, homecoming at
Saint Louis University is a
time for families, alumni and
students to come together.
It is here where members of
SLU’s community celebrate
its traditions and mission.
One such tradition is the
Golf Cart Parade, which will
take place on Saturday, Sept
28.
“The parade features
about 50 carts that are dec-orated
by various student
groups and departments
on campus. It’s definitely a
unique experience where
students and staff members
are able to show pride in
their own organization or
office,” said Anastacia Son-tag,
Student Activities Board
(SAB) Advisor.
This year has a special
event marking Oriflamme’s
50th anniversary. The group,
which helps first-year stu-dents
adjust during their
first few weeks at SLU, will
be hosting an alumni recep-tion
on the homecoming
weekend to celebrate their
milestone.
Homecoming organiz-ers
generally spend the ma-jority
of a month getting
things together. Cindy Ai-azzi,
who works on alumni
relations, says that planning
starts 11 months in advance.
“From coordinating alumni
reunions, to setting ath-letic
schedules, to inviting
parents and families, large
parts of the University are
involved in all of the events.”
Aiazzi also has a special
role in planning the 50th
reunion for the Golden Bil-likens
group. She remarked
that, when these alumni
come back, “it is so incred-ible
for them to see how
much SLU has grown.”
Not every event takes
place on Saturday however.
SAB is co-sponsoring an
outdoor movie with Parent
& Family Programs on Fri-day
evening at 9 p.m. that
will show Monsters Univer-sity.
In addition to the other
events on Saturday, Greek
Life is sponsoring a wiffleball
tournament.
Families and students are
also invited to attend the
soccer game, with a firework
show at halftime.
Whatever the event,
many can agree that being
with the SLU community is
the best part.
“Though all of the events
are special, my favorite part
is seeing all of the groups
come together to celebrate,”
said Aiazzi. “Seeing our
Golden Billikens meet our
current students, seeing
parents meet our outstand-ing
Jesuits, seeing our recent
grads gather again at the
soccer game - and seeing our
alumni bring their young
children back to their cam-pus
- it really shows that we
are all Billikens.”
Sontag held the same sen-timent.
“It’s really sweet to see
families reunited after be-ing
away for the last month
since the start of the aca-demic
year,” Sontag said.
“While I have really en-joyed
my first month here, I
miss my family back home
very much,” Freshman Tracy
Gutzke said. “Seeing them
and showing off how great
SLU is will definitely be a
highlight of my freshman
year.”
By JACKIE STACHIW
Contributor
The campaign has al-ready
had some success.
In 2009 the country’s eight
leading banks limited their
funding for
companies
that practice
MTR min-ing
due to
gra ssroots
pressure to
discontinue
the practice.
S i n c e
2011, total
investment
in the U.S.
coal indus-try
has been cut in half. As
the movement has grown,
actions have been show-ing
up on college campuses
across the country, including
a “die-in” staged at Wash-ington
University last week,
where 35 students fell to the
floor at a recruitment event
in order to draw attention
to the public health implica-tions
of MTR mining.
To d a y ’s
s t u d e n t s
are mak-ing
impor-tant
choices
about their
future ca-reers,
some-times
facing
a dilemma
between es-teemed
work
and their
own moral
beliefs.
Many students, locally
and nationally, are making
it clear that they are eager to
work for a healthy climate.
Citi: Students join
national movement
Vacant: The plaque that was placed on Citi Bank’s Ca-reer
Fair table on Wednesday, Sept. 25.
Kendra Cruse/Associate Arts Editor
Continued from Page 1
severe mental disorders like
her sister are often instantly
recognizable in a photo-graph.
“[Abnormal people] seem
to have no awareness of
what they look like nor any
interest,” he said. “They have
no interest in internalizing
styles.” He posited that hu-man’s
are naturally inclined
to notice other people’s
mannerisms, and that this
was in many ways unique to
the species and important
for our sense of ‘I’.
He gave the example of
a moment he remembered
from first grade.
At show and tell he
showed his ability to mimic
his friends signature smile.
For Hofstadter, the ability to
compare oneself to another
and to alter ones image or
thoughts accordingly is a
necessary part of the con-cept
of self-perception.
“Percep-tion
is de-ciding
what
box some-thing
goes
in by using
analogy to
prior expe-rience
or
what is pro-g
r a m m e d
into us by
evolution,” Hofstadter said.
In this respect humans sort
their experience of them-selves
into certain bins, he
argued. As we continue to
gather information about
ourselves through our expe-riences,
our self-perception
develops weight and depth,
which he called an “emer-gent
effect.”
“The per-ception
we
build up of
o u r s e l v e s
has to do
with certain
properties,”
Hofstadter
said. “[Our]
perception
of who we
are becomes
a very real
thing.”
However, he posited that
who we are wasn’t entirely
within our control.
“[I’ve] never been com-fortable
with the term ‘free
will,’” he said. “ I’m comfort-able
with will… To call it free
is a massive delusion.”
He stated that while we
like to attribute causality
to our will, it is a series of
physical and chemical inter-actions
that drives what hap-pens
in the physical world.
“Real causality happens
at the microscopic level,” he
said.
Here he reached the crux
of his term “strange loop.”
For Hofstadter, while we
perceive the world around us
in addition to our own sense
of hunger and emotion, we
don’t have knowledge of how
the neurons in our brain are
firing or what functions are
occurring in our kidneys.
“The nominal ignorance
[the self] has about itself…
that’s the strange part,” he
said.
Continued from Page 1
The nominal
ignorance [the
self] has about
itself… that’s the
strange part “ “ - Douglas Hofstadter,
Philosopher
We scored a win
against Citibank
when they decid-ed
not to come to
the Career Fair “ “ -Summer Worthington,
student protester
Events Calendar
Intercultural Studies Forum
Friday, Sept. 27, 3:00 p.m.
(CGC)The forum is titled “Is Inter-cultural
Dialogue Possible?” It will
discuss successful dialogue amongst
cultures and the challenges involved.
Student Leader Hall of Fame
Saturday, Sept. 28, 4:30 p.m.
(Grand Market) SLU is holding a rib-bon
cutting ceremony for the Student
Leader Hall of Fame, as a demonstra-tion
of appreciation for student lead-ers’
contributions to campus.
to visit and appreciate these
new developments.
The president then dis-cussed
the new office of
chairman structure for gov-erning
the university and
mentioned the collaboration
of efforts involved from se-lect
administrators.
When answering SGA’s
questions, Kauffman re-minded
the group that he
was new to the position and
would do his best to address
their concerns through col-laboration.
“I have pledged to the
university to try to be acces-sible,”
stated Kauffman. “I
want to be available to you.
If there is a need, members
of this body, let me know
about it. Regarding the
search committee and their
communication with faculty,
SGA learned that the com-mittee
fully intends to com-municate
with both faculty
and students alike so as to
reach the university’s needs
with the new president.
Kauffman also assured the
students that a limiting of
power and management of
budget are not being over-looked
and will be keys to a
successful future.
Following the question
and answer session with
Kauffman, SGA progressed
their meeting onto the issue
of spot funding directives.
There is an SGA open
forum for senate reform on
Monday, Sept. 30, concern-ing
possible alterations to
the structure of SGA
The meeting then ad-dressed
the first passing of a
senate bill, which amended
the name of the Information
Technology Services (ITS)
Committee.
Following the bill to re-name
the committee was the
first funding bill, in which
the ITS committe was grant-ed
250 in Special Projects
Funding.
physical difficulties as they
did for her peace of mind.
“No one who walked with
me ever rushed me or was
annoyed that I was moving
slower than them,” she said.
Inspired by the compas-sion
the members of DSC
showed her, Hennessey
joined the club this year to
give back to those that might
share her experience.
In the spring of 2012 DSC
became a fully chartered or-ganization,
and since then
have been able to acquire
funding for to hold a host of
events on campus designed
to educate the SLU commu-nity
about people with dis-abilities
and to help those in
need.
This year the group joined
the Student Success Center
in hosting “Allies for Inclu-sion:
The Ability Exhibit,” an
interactive display designed
to increase awareness about
people with disabilities and
provide historical informa-tion
about the disabilities
movement.
The Exhibit includes an
‘Ability IQ’ quiz that evalu-ates
one’s knowledge about
disabilities in law, commu-nication
and pop culture as
well as a ‘Space Rope’ which
is meant to emulate the
communication distances of
those who are blind or have
low vision.
The Ability Exhibit was
born from an idea put forth
by then-graduate student
Anne Marie Carroll as a
project in Director of the
Higher Education Adminis-tration
program Karen My-ers’
class. Carroll and Myers
have since developed the ex-hibit
into a travelling display,
and high demand has gener-ated
the possibility of creat-ing
a second exhibit.
DSC will also hold the Fri-day
Fast to Feed on Oct. 11,
an ev
