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Printer-Friendly ModeABLERS Club sponsors Disability Jeopardy game
April 4, 2005 —
The SVSU ABLERS Club hosted 83 students Wednesday, March 23 for a free Disability Jeopardy game. The game had questions about, among other things, celebrities with disabilities and SVSU trivia.
ABLERS Club is a student organization for those who have disabilities at SVSU. There were prizes and food for the audience. "I was extremely happy with the number of people in attendance and seeing people going away learning something while having fun doing it," said ABLERS Club President Charles Moser.
The event was organized with two rounds with three different students in each round. The top three scorers out of the six contestants were rewarded with prizes. Students who were randomly drawn to participate were Kirk Haminger, Jenn Davis, Audra Gulick, Desiree Slaterline-Bassi, Sara Peeples and DJ Lyttle.
Coming in first at the end of the night was Davis with 3,200 points, followed by Lyttle in second and a close finish with Peeples taking home the honors of third place.
The event featured a question asking, "What is the term for a person who is hit by a wheelchair?" The answer was simply "a wheelchair victim," and was the comic question of the night that received laughter from the crowd. Members in the crowd thought many of the event's questions were harder than some of those on the show itself.
"ABLERS Club was able to put together a successful program that was both educational and lots of fun," said Cynthia Woiderski, director of Disability Services and ABLERS Club advisor.
Judges who helped determine whether close answers were valid were SVSU President Eric Gilbertson, Student Association President Armen Hratchian and Student Association Member Krista St. Aubin.
Student Association Speaker of the House Jason White was the emcee for the event, asking the questions and providing entertainment for those on hand.
ABLERS Club plans to buy tee-shirts for its members that will feature a quote from Mahatma Gandhi, "Civilization is the Encouragement of Differences." They also hosted a bingo night earlier in the year.
"Our goal was to educate in the fundamentals of disabilities and show people the diversity on campus," Moser said. "I believe that we did that."