Disabled people who attend NIU will have their chance once again to voice their grievances with the university tonight.

NIU’s Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities will hold these hearings from 8:30 to 10 p.m.in the Regency Ballroom in order to give students, staff and faculty a chance to share their concerns with the commission.

The group was established in fall 1989 when NIU President John La Tourette appointed a commission to evaluate NIU’s existing programs and facilities that were available to handicapped people.

The commission’s purpose, La Tourette said, is to provide advice on how to respond to the needs of persons with disabilities and to help increase the university community’s awareness of issues of concern.

“It is very difficult for people who are not disabled to realize what it is like for people who are to have an education or be employed at this university,” said George Shur, University Legal Counsel and liaison between La Tourette and the commission.

“The commission’s goal is to listen to the people’s problems that they have experienced and try to find out a way to make it easier for them,” Shur said.