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UVic ends ex-student's 18-year stay in residence

He's lived in residence for 18 years, and now the University of Victoria says it's time for him to leave.

But Alkis Gerd'son says he's determined to stay put until all his legal options have been exhausted, saying he's drawing attention to the school's unfair treatment of disabled people.

“This isn't just a tenancy dispute. It's about students with disabilities on campus and how they get treated by certain parties,” Mr. Gerd'son said in an interview outside his first-floor dormitory room yesterday. “I'm doing this to highlight the inadequacies of UVic's disability accommodation policies.”

Except for two year-long absences in the mid-1990s, Mr. Gerd'son, who suffers from “severe obsessive compulsive disorder” and bouts of depression, has lived in residence at UVic continuously since 1991.

However, he has not completed a credit course at the university since 1997, an academic record that has prompted repeated attempts by school officials to have him removed from his suite."

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