Nowadays we can easily find the facilities for the handicapped students around CNU. We are sometimes fascinated to use them. Are you using them or not? In either case, we can discuss if we can use them or not because students have different ideas. My opinion is as follows.
People around me including friends and professors sometimes mention that they are disappointed because of those people using the special equipment. Actually, there are many people thinking like this. However, I want to ask whether it is functional that only disabled students can use facilities except most health students. It sounds strange, isn’t it? Originally, an elevator is created to help every people move more easily and also anyone who goes up upstairs such a 20-story building can use the elevator. I think we can use the facilities as much as we don’t interrupt the handicapped. What I would like to say is that every student regardless of whether you are handicapped can use the facilities in harmony. That one uses a thing does not mean that the other cannot use it. Namely, we can share within the scope that we meet each other halfway. Moreover from this kind of mutual concessions, we, non-disabled and disabled students can have a chance to understand and exist together. It can also be a lesson from a university for education.
While I have used the special facilities in above viewpoint, I get to wonder whether the handicapped students can really use the facilities such as a reading room on the third floor in Red Library. In this case, we should remember there are 12 disabled students who can move their body quite freely of all 28 disabled students so they can use these facilities anytime they want. And now CNU has continued to increase the number of facilities such as a rest room and elevator firstly in each college’s lecture hall. Additionally, the university provides them with equipment like a laptop computer, an electronic dictionary and MP3 player for free and also there are many programs such as “Do Dream project”, “Camp for improving ability” and so on. Although there are things which are added and revised in facilities for disabled students until now, we can expect CNU will soon be well-prepared for handicapped students.
By Kim Hee-jin, Guest Reporter
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