‘It doesn’t mean that life is over:’ Professor talks living with blindness
Logan Raschke, News Editor
January 9, 2019
Professor of history Martin Hardeman has been teaching at Eastern since 1992, and he is completely blind. Hardeman is a friendly face in Eastern’s history department, and he is not afraid to discuss his disability or poke fun at it. He said he was born with glaucoma, which is an eye disease that ...
Guest Column: Testing Services Center should be restored
Dr. Michael Kuo, Guest Columnist
February 24, 2017
We are treating our learning-disabled students poorly, and we need to get our act together. We have shut down the Testing Services Center that provided these students and their teachers with testing accommodations, supervised by people with training in learning disabilities. Now learning-disabled...
Column: Access, support for disabled people is a right
Gretchen Neal, Staff Reporter
October 17, 2016
Able-bodied people often take for granted the ease of access we have to buildings, jobs and healthcare. The other day, I spoke to a former employee of Eastern who had to cart around computers and therefore knew all of the wheelchair entrances on campus. It had not even occurred to me at that point t...
Amputees in the media discussed at fall lecture
Mackenzie Freund, City Editor
September 16, 2015
Digital amputations was a topic presented at the annual fall lecture put on by Phi Beta Kappa Wednesday in the Doudna Fine Arts Center lecture hall. Angela Smith, an associate professor of English and gender studies at the University of Utah, shared her research of how amputees are portrayed in t...
‘Lost Limbs’ to educate about disabilities
Luis Martinez, Entertainment Editor
September 10, 2015
The Doudna Fine Arts Center will host a film lecture called “Lost Limbs: Digital Amputation and Disable Moves at the Movies” and will be the 25th annual Phi Beta Kappa fall lecture. This year’s speaker is Angela Smith, an associate professor of English and gender studies at the University of...
