For disabled students at BC getting around is quite an issue in which there are particular stipulations on campus transportation and whether or not students are allowed to use the services provided.

Michele LuJan, 24, is a student at BC majoring in Human Services who took issue with the rules and guidelines that BC had for transportation on campus.

LuJan therefore took further steps to get a petition passed at BC to help others with getting around campus.

“I was struggling to get around campus, and more or less I didn’t do it for me,” LuJan said.

“I saw I could get around but for somebody who can’t get around that was going to be an issue.”

In order to use the campus carts for transportation disabled students must have a card, must be blind, or in a wheelchair.

“They were asking for medical information and medical records,” LuJan said.  “I was like, that’s not correct and that’s a violation of privacy.”

This pushed LuJan towards starting a petition because she thought that other students with different disabilities would need assistance as well.

“I knew enough about politics and I did research on petitions just to see how to put them together,” LuJan explained.

“So I put one together and I just went around asking people to sign.”

LuJan needed only 400 signatures to get the petition to pass but she persevered to make sure people knew that this petition was about helping students on campus first and foremost.

“I had a lot of people discouraging me to do it because they told me it’s not going to pass and everything is political, why try?” LuJan said.

“But as a Christian and somebody who believes in helping those less fortunate, I believe it was something I was called to do.”

LuJan ended up getting 800 signatures for her petition and when she felt she was finished and had accomplished her goal, she took the petition straight to the BC president.

“I went in with the petition and the president said everyone had been talking about it and he was going to pass it,” Lujan explained.

“I said ‘You haven’t even looked at it’ and he replied ‘I don’t have to, enough people are complaining so I’m going to go ahead and pass it.’”

LuJan was extremely excited to get the petition passed and very happy that she made a difference here at BC and as well as helping others.

“People thank me for it,” LuJan explained.

“But I thank Jesus Christ for it, because I wasn’t doing it for me, I was doing it for the less fortunate.”