DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, June 24, 2015 morning
-- a big academic pressure for a deaf man in past
There are hearing stories about a girl claiming that
Harvard and Stanford both offered her big academic
scholarships. This story proved to be false. Another
story about a boy being accepted in all 8 Ivy League
schools. What about the deaf? During the fifties
a deaf man - Lowell Myers attending two colleges
in the Chicago area at the same time; one was for his
bachelor's degree and the other one for his
masters' degree. When he applied for his masters,
he lied about getting his bachelors! Both
colleges found out about it and were not too
happy about it. Myers became an accountant and
an attorney, yes, at the same time! He passed
away few years ago.
-- waiting five weeks for a welfare check
Christopher Shay, a deaf man, ran out of money
while unsuccessfully seeking employment. Worried
about getting evicted from his apartment for
non-payment of his rent, he applied for
income assistance with the Ministry of Social
Development in British Columbia. In what
would have been a one-day wait, dragged out
to five weeks. He has since then filed a lawsuit
with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, accusing
the ministry of discriminating against the deaf.
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