Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scholar!" Carl M. Asakawa exclaimed a few weeks ago as he poured himself a drink. Asakawa was explaining that although he had been aided by Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Ross Terrill, associate professor of Government, in his efforts to gain access to the stacks, he has spent his time there doing research for his future novel about the experience of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Unlike Garner, what bothers Asakawa about Widener is not the atmosphere but the price paid by a visiting scholar to rent a stall. "There were good books on what happened during General...
Elsewhere in the capital, similar ramps and facilities are being opened at the Jefferson Memorial and curbs are being cut and ramped along the mall, site of many of next month's Bicentennial festivities. A 131-page booklet called "Access Washington" is available to all paraplegic visitors; it lists all of the hotels, Government buildings, stores and other institutions that have facilities for the handicapped. In San Francisco, the Bay Area's new rapid transit system, BART, has equipped all stations with elevators to carry wheelchair users to both the ticket-buying and train levels; train doors...
...vigil at the Lincoln Memorial in 1973, Congress has enacted legislation to eliminate barriers that impede the mobility, employment, education and recreation of the handicapped. On the basis of these laws and the 14th Amendment (equal protection), dozens of suits have been filed in state and federal courts seeking access for the handicapped to buildings, trains, buses and airplanes. In Los Angeles, for example, a paraplegic woman, Jacqueline Selph, sued the city council because she was unable to enter a polling place without assistance and was offered only an absentee ballot as an alternative. A veteran is suing...
...Adopted in 1969 as the International Symbol of Access by the Eleventh World Congress on the Rehabilitation of the Disabled...
...conversations with UHall administrators, was really the only choice. L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, had more seniority but from the time of Whitlock's reassignment in late April made it clear he wanted to remain in Byerly Hall to polish his policy of equal access admissions. Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, also had served in Harvard administration far longer than Fox's ten years, but he too declined to be considered for the post. That left Epps, and few took his candidacy seriously for a lot of reasons, not the least of which...