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Disabled OSU student won’t give up pursuit of degree despite struggles in getting to campus

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wheelchair user struggles to commute to campus Williams’ live-in caregiver.

“If it’s required for everyone else in her class, then she should be able to go. That’s

BY C hristie Tap p i n vest igative reporter what she wants.

“Everyone else in her class llie Williams is has feet and can jump in the used to facing car. … But there’s nothing challenges, but for any students who need this semester is rides on the weekend, or the proving more difficult than elderly and people who are she expected. disabled.

It just leaves a huge Williams, 35, is the first gap of service.” student with spinal muscular Stillwater and OSU Comatrophy to be admitted to the munity Transit System is the music program at Oklahoma only public transportation State University. company in Payne County.

SMA is a genetic neuroThe paratransit vehicles muscular disease that affects extend services within threethe nervous system and fourths of a mile of a fixed controls voluntary muscle movements. It can rob people route. The daytime route of the ability to walk, talk and covers about 26 square miles and is reduced to about 13 breathe without help. square miles after 7 p.m. and Williams has hit roadon holidays and during the blocks participating in summer. extracurriculars and achievWilliams lives about 3 ing a vocal music education miles outside the daytime degree. The restrictions of fixed route. The paratransit wheelchair-accessible transvans won’t drive the extra portation in Stillwater have miles to pick her up. So, Willeft her scrambling to find a liams schedules rides from way to campus.

Williams said she is getting First Capital Trolley in Guthexcused absences but doesn’t rie, which runs from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Payne County. want special treatment.

“She wants to earn her de- Williams has to leave class gree,” said Donna Waldrop, early on Tuesday or Thursday

> Music student lives about 3 miles outside of city’s fixed transit route

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budget was cut by 16 percent, from $184 million to $154 million. In 2014, the budget was $208 million.

Williams receives payment for transportation from the Department of Rehabilitation. The department works with a wide range of people who have disabilities to gain employment to be financially independent from state financing.

The Department of Rehabilitation communications director, Jody Harlan, said the goal is to break down barriers for employment, and it’s different with every case. fox 25 Sometimes it’s transportation OSU student Allie Williams has spinal muscular atrophy. or access to education, but there are restrictions to what nies can’t extend services or else she will be stranded. the department can provide. past fixed routes because of First Capital Trolley “But it’s not our responthe extra costs of gas and has one van operating on sibility to find everyone a Saturdays, for which there is overtime for employees. ride unless that has a direct a waiting list and is reserved Capital First Trolley direcimpact on finding employfor people who need medical tor Melissa Fesler said most ment,” Harlan said. of the vans have more than treatment, such as dialysis Waldrop said the Depatients. Williams said she is 250,000 miles and need to be partment of Rehabilitation replaced. also having trouble securing suggested Williams put an ad “If our budget was more, rides to get to her weekend in the newspaper or online to functions, some of which are we could probably serve find a person with a van who off campus at churches. more,” Fesler said. “But is willing to give rides after A lack of money has we’re all competing for the hours and on the weekends. put limitations on public same pool of money.” transportation services across In 2016, the Oklahoma De- No one has responded to WilOklahoma. Some compapartment of Transportation’s liams’ request on Craigslist.

The Department of Rehabilitation, the Department of Transportation, and OSU Parking and Transit also told Williams to better research where she lives, Waldrop said.

“DRS gave me two options, to either move or drop out,” Williams said. “And I said, ‘I refuse.’ I will not drop out, and I will not quit. It’s their job to make sure I get to school and get a good education so I can get a job and be a member of society like I want to be.”

Since being diagnosed with SMA at 2, Williams has exceeded expectations.

Doctors told her that she wouldn’t live past her 20s.

She never walked. Her spine is curved with an arc, and she has limited mobility of her hands and arms. And, with 50 percent lung capacity, she fights every breath to sing.

Williams turned to music as a form of expression and therapy at a young age. In middle school, she played the clarinet but had to quit in high school when she lost the grip in her hands during her junior year. She then decided STORY CONTINUES ON PAGE 3

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to join the choir, where she found solidarity with her ability and disease.

Williams and Waldrop lived in Enid during Williams’ first semester and rode public transportation for an hour and a half to Stillwater.

They decided they wanted to live closer to OSU, but accommodating Williams proved difficult.

Living on campus wasn’t acceptable because Williams can’t get around campus during inclement weather, and there is about a two-year wait for affordable housing in Stillwater that is handicap accessible.

By chance, they found a housing development outside city limits that is specially designed for people who have a disability. The doors

are more than 32 inches wide. There are no steps, and the rooms are big enough to fit a bed lift.

“It was not going to be feasible to continue living in Enid and be in this program,” Williams said. “So, we moved to Stillwater, and now it’s becoming more difficult because I live 2.9 miles away from (the OSU bus route.)”

Howard Potter, head of the music department, said he is working with Williams to find a solution. The school is going to rent a van and hire a student to pick up Williams and Waldrop from their home on weeknights and weekends to go to musicrelated functions.

“Every time we hit roadblocks, and we have hit many, every time we put our heads together, those who

have expertise in these situations and I, and it’s been a slow process,” Potter said. “She is actually helping us break down barriers, and once we have a system in place it will be better setup for students who need help getting to and from school. She’s helping the music department being a better place.”

The department is working with OSU administrators to make sure everything is in place, he said. The music department, though, is fronting most of the costs and will be able to rent a van for only a year.

Williams said next year

(The Department of Rehabilitation Services) gave me two options, to either move or drop out. And I said, ‘I refuse.’”

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she will either have to move or buy her own van. She started a crowdfunding site to help buy a van. So far, she has raised $370 out of $35,000.

Williams knows she isn’t

invincible but lives life on her own terms. She continues to sing even though the lung function is vital to maintaining a healthy life.

After years of putting off her dream to go to OSU, she was accepted into the music department in spring 2016 when she was living in Enid with Waldrop, her best friend who became her full-time caregiver.

Waldrop said she dropped the challenges, such as work, to become a caregiver for Williams.

“I never met anyone like Allie,” Waldrop said. “She’s brilliant and with it, but it’s hard work being a full-time caregiver. But I just think about what she goes through every day, and I would absolutely help her.”

Williams’ vocal coach

and OSU professor, April Golliver-Mohiuddin, is working with Williams to pick out music that is best suited for her abilities. “(Singing) is not just important because it makes me happy,” Williams said.

“Music does make me happy and it’s theraputic that way, but most people with my condition don’t have good lungs. And most people my age are on ventilators. So, the fact that I can take in a deep breath and sing loud, is what keeps me healthy.”

Christie Tapp is a multimedia journalism senior from Yukon. She can be reached at cltapp@ okstate.edu.

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Preview: ‘The Magnificent Seven’ could impress a classic Western with modern sensibilities.

“The Magnificent Seven” With “Sully’s” solid might not have that level of critical and commercial reaesthetic flare going for it, ception a couple of weeks but its cast certainly has the behind us, we’re heading potential to be a similarly into the thick of the fall charismatic bunch. movie season.

Given his turn as not After audiences’ lessonly a veritable space than-stellar response to cowboy in “Guardians of this past weekend’s “Blair the Galaxy,” but also a Witch,” newcomer “The raptor wrangler in “JurasMagnificent Seven” looks sic World,” Chris Pratt is a to regain some of that lost Mgm studios logical addition to the crew. momentum.

Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt bring life to the Western “The Magnificent Seven.”

Washington’s history The film reunites director with Fuqua makes him an Antoine Fuqua (“Training is about as Western as it today, we’re lucky to see dream alive with his past Day,” “The Equalizer”) gets: Seven gunmen slowly Hollywood produce more few movies, with last year’s obvious choice as the ragwith Denzel Washington. but surely come together to than a couple of them each “The Hateful Eight” stand- tag group’s leader, while colorful personalities such A remake of the 1960 film defend a small village from year. That said, the relative ing as one of my favorite of the same name ­— which a group of thieves. scarcity of the genre gives movies of the past decade. as Vincent D’Onofrio will hopefully provide some offwas itself a remake of AkiAlthough Westerns were it an inherent novelty.

Thanks in part to the film beat character moments. ra Kurosawa’s 1954 classic as common in the ’50s and Quentin Tarantino has being shot in old-school “Seven Samurai” — this ’60s as superhero epics are done his best to keep the 70MM, that flick feels like Speaking toward the BY br a nd on S ch m i tz Ent erta in m ent critic

film’s box office chances, the days of star power alone carrying a movie are long gone. However, “The Magnificent Seven’s” robust ensemble at least adds some legitimacy to the proceedings.

Although novelty on its own can take a movie only so far, I’m excited to — if nothing else — hop back into that sense of time and place that only a Western can provide.

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OSU department of theatre answers ‘The Call’ with first show as planned. Their beliefs are challenged, and secrets are exposed, according to Worldwide conflict is the Department of Theatre coming to the heartland in the first OSU Department of description. “The Call” is politically charged and shows Theatre performance of the a cultural divide as global year. issues manifest in an AmeriThe play is about first-time can home. parents Annie and Peter, who Kelton Neals, a sophodecide to adopt a child from more theatre major, will star Africa. When their baby is in the play as Alemu, Annie announced, things don’t go and Peter’s neighbor from Africa. Alemu always has ‘the call’ a smile on his face but tries Where: Seretean Concert Hall to keep his past hidden, Neals said.

When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday to “Students should be Saturday and 2:30 p.m Sunday Where: Tickets are $7 for looking forward to a play courtesy of the Oklahoma State Theatre Department students, general admission is that is real,” he said. “We out real emotion.” came from New York to $12 and $8 for senior citizens. talk about real issues. We G.D. Kimble, an indeguest direct OSU students in have overlapping dialogue pendent actor, director, “The Call.”

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department communications specialist, said the university’s Division of Institutional Diversity provided the money to bring Kimble to OSU. He has been in Stillwater for the past six weeks working on casting and rehearsals for the play, she said.

“His background and experience have pushed the play to a whole new level,” Simerson said. “G.D.’s directing has really transformed the play from paper and brought the characters to life. (‘The Call’) is a challenging play for both actors and the director, and he’s helped make these difficult decisions that make the characters seem real and honest and believable.”

Neals said he has enjoyed receiving advice from Kimble about working in professional theater and discussing ideas for his character, Alemu.

“I am really excited for the audience to see all of our hard work,” Neals said.

“Not just the cast but also the technicians, stage managers and director. Everyone has been working so hard, and I am really excited for the audience to see that.”

Kelli Teel is a strategic communications sophomore from Oswego, Kansas. She can be reached at kelli.teel@okstate.edu.

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