While most students relish the opportunity to miss class punishment-free, Brandon Friede isn’t one of them.
Friede, a junior, missed a lecture class in the Social Sciences building on March 11 because the elevator wasn’t working. Though a convenience for many students, elevators are a necessity for Friede, who has a neuromuscular disorder that makes climbing stairs an extremely fatiguing endeavor.
“If the elevator isn’t working, I just can’t go to class,” Friede said.
Story by Lauren Russell Montana Kaimin
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