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Show PAGE 2 THURSDAY, UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS FEBRUARY 28, 2002 FOCUS 'Club supports disabled BY PETE SORENSON FOCUS EDITOR The Elite Achievers Club provides an opportunity for all students to grow and schools in Iron County and conduct panels about disabilities. Members will tell students about the resources available at the university for students with disabilities. Elite Achievers also has a guest speaker every Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Student learn from each other and also helps students succeed in academics and in life. Carmen Alldredge, coordinator of Support Services office. The speaker is a professor or someone who speaks about a little bit negative, and we didn’t want that to happen,” Alldredge said. “So we wanted to say ‘we will be a support group in a different types of disabilities. Larry Hall, a freshman engineering technology major from Yucca Valley, Calif., and the current club president, said that the purpose of Elite Achievers is to provide something that they can learn from to knowledge that they are not alone and that there is support available for them on campus. services for students with disabilities, is the club’s adviser. She said she started the club to provide a type of support group for students with disabilities. “Sometimes support groups... can get a positive way to lift people’s morals.” We also thought we would have some solutions to struggles that they have, improve their academic success.” The club is for all students, not just those with disabilities. Alldredge said the success of the group comes from a variety of students who come and share their ideas and enrich the group so that students can learn from one another. “We want this club to be not just for students with disabilities, but open to everybody,” she said. “This club is for everybody who would topic or an aspect of dealing with a disability. The club also provides service to the community and informs students about students with disabilities with the “There’s probably a lot of people on campus who don’t tell anybody about their disabilities because I think they’re embarrassed,” Hall said. “But there is support if they would just make it known. Hall said going to high schools and letting students know about student support services available at SUU will make the transition from high school to college easier. like to achieve academically. Students can bring their ideas [and] maybe find solutions and Don Martel, a senior accounting share them with the group.” In addition to providing a support group for students on major from Burlington, Vt., was a guest campus, Elite TO APPLY TO BEA RESIDENT ASSISTANT! Find out more about the R.A. position and pick up your application at the Juniper Hall Housing Office. due Frid Marchay, 15 at 5 pm. speaker Thursday Achievers will soon visit high at the Elite Achievers meeting. Life on wheels (continued from page 1) difficult assist him when he asks for help. Kim said he feels that he is “treated equally” on differently than she expected. “As I was going around campus a lot of campus. Aside from the steep slopes around comfortable.” bound. “I wouldn’t want to do this every day of people stared, and it made me feel like I was different,” Larkin said. “I wasn’t Kim said people help “sometimes and sometimes not.” He said students usually campus, Kim said he manages to get around. Larkin said she has gained greater appreciation for people who are wheelchairmy life,” she said. Thursday, March 14 7:30 p.m. - SUU Centrum Arena |