| A quest continues
On Friday I had my four-hour group RA interview session. I've never been judged for four consecutive hours before, so this was a first. There are sixty(ish) applicants and only 20(ish) spots to be filled so about one in every three people in the room will be selected as an RA. The Office of Residence Life will also hire some alternate RAs in case one of their front-runners drops out of the race or something like that. The process itself was fun. I got to meat some other people, one of whom went to high school not too far away from me. We all started out in a large lecture hall and played some icebreaker games and then we were split up into about 6 groups of five or so and we were taken around in our groups to various activities throughout the building. In our first activity we were broken into two groups and each group had to design a residence hall.
Filmmaker: Sullivan 'more complicated' than hero/victim stereotype
The private Sam Sullivan is determined, insecure, pugnacious and funny -- kind of like a lot of politicians. The documentary Citizen Sam followed Sullivan on his 2005 run for the mayor's chair in Vancouver, from the podium to the backroooms and even to Sullivan's bedroom. "I set up a camera in the corner of his apartment, just had it set up so he could hit one switch and it would turn on the lights and the camera," says former CBC reporter Joe Moulins of the astonishingly intimate portrait. The set-up allowed Sullivan to speak his mind anytime he wanted. The National Film Board documentary screens today at the Victoria International Film and Video Festival (2:45 p.m., Capitol Six) after screening last December at the Whistler film festival. Two free Vancouver screenings are set for 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Running for a Mission!
IRVINE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 19, 2007 -- Free Wheelchair Mission and the Pacific Shoreline Marathon are teaming up for the second year in a row to share the transforming gift of mobility around the world. Scheduled for Super Bowl Sunday, February 4, 2007, the marathon will attract thousands to the shores of Huntington Beach, to run for those who can't. To date, over 105 marathon fundraisers have gathered in excess of $140,000 to purchase wheelchairs for the impoverished disabled living in developing nations, and organizers are expecting this figure to double by race day. A celebratory dinner is planned for the evening of Saturday, February 3, at the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort. Evening highlights include guest speakers Mr. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah of the Oprah-narrated documentary "Emmanuel's Gift," and Don Schoendorfer, president and founder of the Free Wheelchair Mission.
Couple's house is home for good
The sixtysomething couple own Tapestry Custom Homes in McKinney and have constructed for themselves a "universally designed" house that can accommodate every stage of life and every physical ability. As the nation's older population doubles over the next 25 years, experts predict, the demand for homes such as the Sleases' will grow substantially. .
Stereotyping based on disabilities still common
According to The National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation Research website, under the American Disabilities Act a person with a disability is a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such an impairment, or is regarded as having such an impairment.
The ADA defines major life activities as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, breathing, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, learning and working. Research shows that society views anyone who cannot do those things normally by themselves as different and often stereotypes them.
However, students at Wright State had a variety of responses when the issue of disability stereotyping came up.
Daniel Hickey, a Junior majoring in English said, "No, I've never seen anyone discriminated against.
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