Tim Nugent on Negative Attitudes at the U of I

 

Tim Nugent speaking:
The university itself had a very negative attitude. They said originally that these people would be demoralizing, distracting, an extra cost, an extra liability, what would they do with a college education? Well, I would like to do as well as many of my wheelchair graduates have done, ‘cause three or four of them have given us a million dollars each for the program.

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