Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They point to the emergence of such groups asStop Witholding Access Today (SWAT), which formedto help Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 in her sexdiscrimination grievance against the all-malefinal clubs. Other new groups this year includeDefeat Homophobia, a new branch of the Gay andLesbian Students Association (GLSA), an AIDSinformation organization, and several new PhillipsBrooks House community programs...
...years between the two cases, a powerless group of parents evolved into a well-organized interest group with access to political resources. Tarver's thesis investigated "how people got involved in this sort of social movement and how it changed them," he says...
...sight of in a year when so much happened that was treated like it meant so little. But for one brief period, people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...
Higher education, they say, is the gateway to future opportunity in employment, and thus the federal government must increase expenditures on all forms of student aid to ensure equal access for all. "Education is a metaphor for a lot of the challenges facing the country," Shattuck says...
...Wallace, no alternative ever existed to taking up the issues of disabled access and rights that personally confronted him at Harvard every...