Just because you see someone in a wheelchair, don’t assume they need help. Ask the person first, Mark Zupan advised a Madison audience Monday night.
“That’s the worst thing. I hate when people just come up and say, ‘Here, let me push you,’ ” Zupan said. The quadriplegic rugby player and “Murderball” film star is more comfortable pushing other people around — on the field.
He’s also at ease on stage speaking and joking before 400 people, which he did at the Union Theater as the last UW Distinguished Lecture Series speaker of the school year.