-
Come Into My House Come Into My House featuring Willi Ninja and vogue dancers
-
Love Is The Message Love Is The Message
-
Ballroom Legends pose for group photograph Ballroom legends pose for group photograph. Backrow: Angie Xtravaganza, Kim Pendavis, Pepper Labeija, Junior Labeija. Middle row: David Ultima Xtravaganza, Octavia St. Laurent, Dorian Corey, Willi Ninja. Front row: Freddie Pendavis.
-
Memo on Bill Goodman's PLATO PPTK control system for orthopedically handicapped students (1982) Archived memo from the University of Illinois News Bureau about Bill Goodman's PLATO Programmable Terminal Keyboard (PPTK) control system for orthopedically disabled PLATO users, which allowed users to control a light which scans terminal keyboard characters and alter graphics on the screen through a series of eight mounted switches. Goodman, a physically disabled programmer with cerebral palsy, served at the time as director of the handicapped technology program at the University of Illinois Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory (CERL), vice president of the Illinois Professional Association of Individuals with Disabilities, member of the Illinois Governor's Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities and member of the executive board of directors for United Cerebral Palsy of East Central Illinois. In the memo, Goodman is quoted, "I am not content with yesterday's accomplishments of making this campus physically accessible for people in wheelchairs. Instead, I've created a new technology to make this campus intellectually accessible and scholastically functional for a wide range of orthopedically handicapped students" (p.7).
-
Demonstration of the PLATO IV Computer-Based Education System. Final Report. January 1, 1972-June 30, 1976 (1977) A report edited by H.G. Slottow for the Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory on the implementation and evaluation of the PLATO system and software for universities, community colleges, elementary schools, training facilities and various development programs across the nation from years 1972 to 1976.
-
New Directions for the Teaching Computer: Citizen Participation in Community Planning (1972) Report by Valarie Lamont on an experiment conducted using the PLATO computer system for community oriented environmental activism. Lamont created an interactive PLATO program which presented information about the Boneyard Creek local environmental issue through text, photo slides, maps and graphs on the PLATO terminal and promoted community engagement through user feedback by computer program participants using 'comment mode' to offer suggestions, ask questions, or critique the program information or complete a digital questionnaire.
-
Using a Computer to Teach Nursing (1969) A report on using a PLATO maternity nursing lessons program to teach nursing students at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Urbana, Illinois from 1963 to 1969.
-
Advocacy for Thayer Purchase A typed document listing reasons for the ICC to purchase Thayer House. Reasons revolve around the need for increased capacity, finances, and expanding the ICC in line with the acquisitions made by past members to provide for future generations of residents with more affordable housing in Ann Arbor.
-
Opposition to Thayer Purchase A list of reasons by anonymous cooperative residents to not purchase Thayer/Ruths' House. The typed text is written over in marker ink by an individual only described as "Beth" asking another person (Julia) if they were the creator of this document.
-
Ruths' House Meeting Minutes of January 2007 Notes from Ruths' January 2007 house meeting. Contents include officer reports and discussion of amenities purchases.
-
Ruths' House January 1994 Meeting Minutes Notes from the January 1994 house meeting. Contents include reports from house officers, amendments to the house constitution, and plans for the house's work holiday, a required day for all house members to deep clean and make repairs to house infrastructure. This is the first meeting minutes document to refer to the house at Ruths', but no mention was made as to how the name was determined (information on the name change also not found in meeting minutes of the months before in the Inter-Cooperative Council Archives)
-
Thayer House First Meeting Minutes Notes from the first house meeting of Thayer's residents. At this time the name Ruths' was not yet decided, and is acknowledged in the document header. Agenda items include election of house officers, situating bedroom assignments, and house amenities.
-
Ruths' House Purchase Pros and Cons A drafted list of the pros and cons to acquiring Thayer House, the name given to Ruths' before it's acquisition for its location on North Thayer Street. The list reviews the financial, infrastructural, and housing limitation factors of this house and the ICC.
-
Photo of Ruths' House (Pre-purchase) A photograph of Ruths' house pre-purchase, referred to in meetings then simply as "Thayer House".
-
Letter to Eugene Albers Letter from Jim Jones, then Executive Director of the Inter-Cooperative Council, to Eugene Albers, the owner of the house at the time of this record's creation.
-
Sales Agreement to Ruths' House The first page to the sales agreement between Eugene and Marjorie Alber Trust (sellers) and the Inter-Cooperative Council (purchaser).
-
Mj Rodriguez as Blanca Rodgriguez in FX's Pose (2018) Season 1 Episode 2
-
Control Data Corporation's 'Homework' and Selective Placement Programs, from Managing and Employing the Handicapped: The Untapped Potential (1981) A report from 1981 on industry programs for employing handicapped persons. The section on Control Data Corporation reads:
"HOMEWORK"
Another Midwestern giant corporation (3M is headquartered in St. Paul; Control Data's home is in Minneapolis) has put its own technology to good use for itself and its disabled employees. Control Data has a developed a program called "Homework" for severely disabled homebound employees.
Homework is designed to provide, first, training and, then, employment through the technology at the PLATO system. PLATO is a computer-based educational system that utilizes a computer screen and keyboard. A PLATO terminal can be installed in anyone's home and linked to terminals at the office, or nearly any other location.
The project began in 1978 with 12 trainees who were disabled employees of the corporation. Each had a terminal installed in his or her home. For a year they were trained to become PLATO courseware writers. The trainees proved the success of the venture by writing a course that teaches programmers how to write in Pascal, a computer language.
Control Data was sufficiently pleased with the initial project to begin two more: one will train 14 disabled employees to be business application programmers; the second will teach other disabled workers to become tutors in the rather extensive Control Data Institute (CDI) educational program, which also uses the PLATO system. Thus, CDI tutors (like Carol Anderson, an original course-writer trainee) can still remain at home and provide instant feedback to students via their terminals in an instruction center.
William Norris, chairman and chief executive officer of Control Data, believes the Homework concept has a significant future. He points out that "there are more than two million Americans classified as being homebound because of a severe mental and/or physical disability." Further, Norris envisions that the Homework
and programs like it "will become an employment alternative, not only for the disabled population, but also the able-bodied."
Control Data's involvement in social issues—including seeking employment outlets for the disabled—stems from a point of view that might also be of general interest. Again, we quote William Norris:
The time is long overdue when business should take the initiative, in conjunction with government and other sectors of society, in addressing these problems as profitable business opportunities, with an appropriate sharing of costs between the private sector and government.
SELECTIVE PLACEMENT
Since 1975 Control Data has employed a rehabilitation counselor, much in the mold of Paul Ashton of 3M. Again, the purpose is to rehabilitate and selectively place disabled employees in suitable
jobs. The objectives are to not waste human resources, to maintain productivity, and to save on disability payments. (To that last objective, Control Data estimates that its rehabilitation program has saved several hundred thousand dollars.)
Stephen Wastvedt, of the personnel office of Control Data, has provided us with two examples of their selective placement pro- gram. The first is an epileptic applicant, whose medication slowed his mental faculties somewhat. Recognizing that his slowness did not negate his basic reliability and competence, the corporation found him a job he could handle—cleaning computer tapes. Since then he has been promoted to process control aid and is doing well. The second case involves an applicant who was close to a degree in computer science and who had cerebral palsy. Mr. Wastvedt was able to find the applicant an internship, so that he could finish his degree. He became a permanent employee (computer program- mer) when Wastvedt was able to locate a position that did not put excessive demands upon the employee's limited communication abilities. The placement is considered a success by both employee and corporation.
-
Indya Moore as Angel Evangelista in FX's Pose (2018) Season 1 Episode 3
-
Participants at a Ball in FX's Pose (2018) Season 1 Episode 7
-
PLATO: An Automatic Teaching Device (1961) Preliminary report on the first nine months of research on the PLATO computer system conducted at the University of Illinois Coordinated Science Laboratory.
-
Indya Moore as Angel Evangelista in FX's Pose (2018) Season 1 Episode 1
-
Teaching Library Use to Undergraduates: Comparison of Computer-Based Instruction and the Conventional Lecture Method (1967) Dissertation by Dr. Marina Axeen on a comparative study between teaching a Library Science course to undergraduate students with the PLATO system and a traditional lecture method. Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems Laboratory
Joint Services Electronics Program / DA 28 043 AMC 00073(E)
Advanced Research Projects Agency through the Office of Naval Research / Nonr 3985-(08)
United States Office of Education / OEC-3-7-700050-3131
-
The Uses of PLATO: A Computer-Controlled Teaching System (1965) Report on the computing capabilities of the PLATO system to be used for teaching multiple students simultaneously. Diagrams showing the PLATO Teaching System, PLATO III Inquiry Logic and Simulated Laboratory Experiments are included. Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems Laboratory
Joint Services Electronics Programs / DA 28 043 AMC 00073(E)
Advanced Research Projects Agency through the Office of Naval Research / Nonr-3985(08)
-
Dominique Jackson as Elektra Abundance in FX's Pose (2018) Season 1 Episode 5