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1983
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
It doesn't mean you get paid twice as much, only twice as often . The issue of bimonthly pay periods for students and staff is examined ......... .. ..... .. . . Page 3
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By KRISTI GLISSMEYER staff writer Tom Sullivan enjoyed his ride to Logan. He said Utah had turned out one of its most beautiful days. But how can the man know? He's blind . Well, Sullivan sees things differently. "You might think a lot of that ride I'd miss ... the scenic view," he said, "but I hope to make you aware that there is very little I've had to miss." Sullivan, 35, well-known entertainer and inspiration for the movie, If You Could See What I Hear, told a large USU Convocations crowd that every disadvantage can be turned into an advantage, if one chooses to. Blind at birth, Sullivan didn't consider his blindless a disadvantage. "I
didn't even know I was blind until I was about eight," he said. At that age, he desperately wanted to play baseball, so he picked up a stick and a rock and was playing alone when a boy walked by, looked over the fence, and said, "Hey, how ya <loin' blindy?" "That was his sense of who I was," said Sullivan. He said the boy had bought a system of labels that we all live in. "Think of the words we use: old, young, black, white, republican, democrat, male, female. And then the tough ones: blind, deaf, retarded words that categorize people, put them in little pigeon holes and make it easy for us to handle. " We use labels, he said, because we are not willing to understand that to be different is OK.
Sullivan did pitch little league, at least one game, and he also went on to golf, marathon running and olympic wrestling. "I've given you the impression that you can do anything you want, accomplish everything," he said. "That's not the truth, you can't. But you can do most of it.'' He said people shouldn't overestimate their capabilities . "Particularly disabled folks tend to do that, 'No I don't need help across the street,' so we get killed. "If life is a celebration of your own uniqueness, you have to take chances, but you also have to recognize there are limitations,'' he said. "Everybody has a disability. It may not be as obvious as my blindness; it (continued
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