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258 Kirby Student Center
Mon - Fri 8 am - 4:30 pm
Phone: 218-726-6130
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AFA - Access For All
Access for All is a student organization dedicated to promoting disability awareness on campus and around the community. Anyone can join! You don't need a disability in order to join AFA. As long as you are interested in learning about disabilities and working on disability issues you're more than welcome to attend!
As a member of AFA you will gain leadership experience, activism skills, and a deeper understanding of disabilities and issues surrounding them. Our hope is that you will also meet like-minded individuals and have lots of fun as well.
Purpose:
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To promote campus awareness of disabilities, disability issues, and worked to dispel the many misconceptions associated with disabilities
To increase and support diversity at UMD
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To create a strong social network for students with disabilities
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To create leadership opportunities for students with disabilities
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To develop a coalition of students with and without disabilities to promote disabilities issues
Calendar of Events (Spring 2008)
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| Day | Date | Time | Location | Event |
| Wednesday | February 13 | 3:30 - 5:30 | KSC 273B | Train Your Brain: "The Notebook" |
| Sunday | February 17 | 2:00 - 5:00 | MPAC Mainstage | Interpreted Performance: "A Flea in Her Ear" |
| Wednesday | February 20 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA Meeting |
| Tues. & Wed. | Feb. 26 & 27 | 11:30 - 2:00 | Kirby Commons | Egg Roll Sale |
| Wednesday | February 27 | 3:30 - 5:00 | K 268 | AFA Meeting |
| Wednesday | March 5 | 3:30 - 5:30 | K 273B | Train Your Brain: "Rainman" |
| Wednesday | March 12 | 10:00 - 2:00 | Kirby Ballroom | Disability Crash Course |
| Tues. & Wed. | March 25 & 26 | 11:30 - 2:00 | Kirby Commons | Egg Roll Sale |
| Wednesday | March 26 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 264 | AFA Meeting |
| Sunday | March 30 | 2:00 - 5:00 | MPAC Dudley Theatre | Interpreted Performance: "Bus Stop" |
| Wednesday | April 2 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA meeting |
| Tuesday | April 8 | 7:00 - 9:00 | Kirby Ballroom | Matthew Sanford |
| Wednesday | April 9 | AM -TBD | Kirby Ballroom | Matthew Sanford |
| Wednesday | April 9 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 264 | AFA Meeting |
| Wednesday | April 16 | 3:30 - 5:30 | K273B | Train Your Brain: "Murderball" |
| Wednesday | April 23 | 3:30 - 5:30 | KSC 264 | AFA Meeting |
| Sunday | April 27 | 2:00 - 5:00 | MPAC Mainstage | Interpreted Performance: "Dear Finder" |
| Tues. & Wed. | April 29 & 30 | 11:30 - 2:00 | Kirby Commons | Egg Roll Sale |
| Wednesday | April 30 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA Meeting |
| Wednesday | April 30 | 4:00 - 6:00 | Ballroom | End of Year Recognition |
| Wednesday | May 7 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA End of the Year Party |
Peer Advisors:
| Marilyn Simerson-Wallfred Peer Advisor simer011@umn.edu |
Allison DuFresne |
Maddie Besta Peer Advisor jbesta001@umn.edu |
Nancy Diener Faculty Advisor ndiener@umn.edu |
March is Disability Awareness Month
A snow sculpture replica of FDR located in front of Vermillion Hall set the groundwork making March the month for Disability Awareness on the UMD campus. Disability Awareness has become a regular event in March for Access For All (AFA). Although the group had been doing many different activities to promote disability awareness throughout the years, designating March as Disability Awareness month gave the group a focus point.
In 2002, Disability Services & Resources and Access For All worked together using the theme, "ADA makes life easier for all of us." AFA recruited the assistance of Duluth Snow Scupltor, Harry Welty, to assist them with the project. The snow sculpture which replicated the newly dedicated statue of FDR helped illustrate the 6 year battle disability advocates had to promote awareness. The new addition to the FDR memorial shows the wartime president in a wheelchair. After contracting polio, Franklin Delano Roosevelt designed his own wheelchair and used it for more than two decades. But he was almost never photographed in it because he feared Americans would see his disability as a sign of weakness. Although the original FDR memorial includes a statue of Roosevelt covered with a cloak as he sits in a chair, the two tiny wheels in the back of the chair are barely visible. The new statute vividly illustrates that a disability doesn't prevent you from doing what you want to do.
In 2003, the Disability Crash Course was started. Students have the opportunity to experience disabilities. Although it is only for a short period of time, it affords the opportunity to see what some of the obstacles are and how accommodations can be made.
Other activities have included displays in the Red Concourse promoting Awareness and Universal Design, student tables, a wheelchair billiards tournament, plays with a disability theme or performances by people with disabilities, speakers, student panels, and library displays.
Photos from UMD's Ice Sculpture Tribute to the FDR (Frankleen D. Roosevelt) Memorial Statue
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