Oh UPEI we stand on guard for thee, the adventures of Chucky the Beaver
Oh yeah Canada. Would Chucky the beaver be allowed to attend UPEI? Not with crutches.
The other day I was eavesdropping outside the Registrar’s office, hiding behind a plant. It was a big plant and I’m a small beaver when squatting down. I was trying to learn what motivates the Board of Governors. I was also contemplating chewing the stem of the palm tree in front of me.
Inside the Governors were having a meeting.
I couldn’t hear much until they started singing. Was that O Canada? The tune sounded like it.
I rose patriotically to my feet, er flipper tail, from behind the palm tree, thus revealing my secret service position. The secretary stared nervously.
The double doors to the boredroom opened and I could hear it. Yes I could hear the singing loud and clear.
The tune was unmistakable, O’Canada. But the words were different.
“Oh UPEI we stand on guard for thee. Disabled parking shall nevahhhhhh be!”
The resounding ending sent a chill down my spine and made my tale tingle.
Wow, they are so patriotic in an wrong headed way. I beat it the heck out of there before they all came out and thrashed me with canes, chairs or whatever they could find.
Coda -
This week two UPEI Governors told me with irritation not to tell them anymore facts about people who can’t walk or can’t see. They don’t want to hear, see, or learn about them anymore.
In a polite way, I was told to go fly a kite. As long as they abuse students and staff with disabilities they will hear about it.
As Leonard Cohen says, I’m your man.
Can’t blame them telling you not to tell em anymore “facts”. Most of your facts are actually bogus, but a lot of people find your blog entertaining.
It seems you understand this and is why your come out and say you limit what people say on your site but I can’t blame you. If I was trying to feed people a bunch of lies and acting like North Korea, I wouldn’t want them to find out the truth.
I encourage you to survey how many people actually believe the stuff you write to be truthful. You’ll be pleasantly shocked.
And no, I don’t expect this comment to make it on your site as I am sure you’ll censor it because I disagree with you, which is sad because it doesn’t give you a chance to respond.
Regards,
A disabled UPEI Student.
Amused
October 22, 2008 at 3:25 am
Thank you for your comment. Glad to see you find this site entertaining.
We check all our facts and as they say “We stand by the facts.”
As far as I know, no one in power at UPEI has a tape measure. They didn’t measure to see how far students and staff with walking disabilities or the blind have to walk.
We asked for the information in July and were put off by management and the committee. So we did it ourselves. Those numbers are facts and published in Only 15% of UPEI is Accessible.
No one has shown where the facts are incorrect. If they did, we’d revise them.
There is no other agenda but to get students and faculty the disabled parking they deserve by law, by ethics and by human decency.
As far as political styles, we believe in the radical concepts of freedom of speech, human dignity, human and civil rights, self-detemination, and freedom of assembly.
UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan believes in the oligarcy.
In the 1800’s Island farmers and the Escheat movement were trying to get the oligarchs off their backs as well, apparently with only limited success.
disabilityalert
October 22, 2008 at 9:18 am
What a f***ing moronic blog.
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