President Obama, Da Vinci, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Manroe and Kermit the Frog all face a common challenge with an approximate ten percent of California State Long Beach students, left-handedness!!!!
Being left-handed is a challenge? Definitely yes!!! Especially when technically our world primarily caters to people who are right-handed.
Being left-handed is a challenge? Definitely yes!!! Especially when technically our world primarily caters to people who are right-handed.
For about 3,341 students at CSULB being a lefty means often having to deal with a shortage of left-handed seats in the classroom. Left-handed students at CSULB complain about feeling irritated, uncomfrotable in desks, to students being unwilling to "give up the table for left-handed people,” says Alene Spindel.
Studies show that 10-15 percent of the population is left-handed. If you ask me that is a whole bunch of people that definately deserve to be catered to.
At CSULB you dont have to be left-handed to knotice that the placement of chairs is definatley being neglected. Marine biology major, Kristiana Marczeski (who is not a lefty) said, “The left handed chairs are always at the back in the dungiest area of the room like being at the back of the bus.”
So if you are still skeptical that left-handed seating is not an isuue, then you should stop an question why so many student are aware of such a "minimal thing like as chairs, and chair placement."
At CSULB you dont have to be left-handed to knotice that the placement of chairs is definatley being neglected. Marine biology major, Kristiana Marczeski (who is not a lefty) said, “The left handed chairs are always at the back in the dungiest area of the room like being at the back of the bus.”
So if you are still skeptical that left-handed seating is not an isuue, then you should stop an question why so many student are aware of such a "minimal thing like as chairs, and chair placement."
CSULB Coordinator of Support Services and Advising Disabled Student Services Peter Perbix stated,
“The only thing a school has to really worry about is public safety not whether a lefty has a desk that works for them.” According to Peter, professors are not obligated to request left-handed tables for students.
A reasonable statement from Perbix, but most students in fact have no clue about how to make proper chair request.
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Sue Brown, Director of Physical and Construction Management is in charge of providing reasonable accommodation in classrooms at California State Long Beach. Students who wish to request a left-handed table are asked to contact the Physical Planning and Facilities Management to explore options for accommodation.
The department has recently ordered 754 new tablet armchairs to replace broken chairs in Liberal Arts 1 and Liberal Arts 5. Of these, 60 chairs (8%) were left-handed.
For the rest of the story visit http://www.daily49er.com/news/campus-faces-shortage-of-left-handed-desks-1.2649251
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