“The Plight of the Mentally Disabled” is a unique exhibit that shows the lives of people with disabilities in foreign countries. Many people with disabilities are often abandoned and ignored by society. Photojournalism captures the reality of how they are perceived in their country. Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery features walls of photographs by Eugene Richards of people with mental and physical disabilities from several countries.
Ed Impala is flesh and blood proof there is always hope, no matter what the medical challenge. For his entire lifetime, Ed struggled with a disease that gradually grew worse – until his twin brother made an astounding discovery.
On paper, Matt Getze looks like any other budget traveler. In the past six years or so, he’s gone to Madrid and Prague, to Bangkok and Shanghai. He’s stayed in $10 hostels, eaten street food and haggled over trinkets in Thailand, ridden buses in Malaysia, gone scuba diving in the Philippines and marveled at Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
Michele Shebroe began avoiding the stairs on campus her sophomore year. After her father, who suffers from a long-term back injury, complained of Virginia Tech’s hilly campus while moving her in freshman year, Shebroe wanted to survey the campus’s accommodations for those with a physical disability
Kevin Hall stood on the 18th tee feeling confident. It was an 18-hole round with Tiger Woods two years ago. For 17 holes, Hall kept up with the world’s No. 1 player.
