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Improvements in medical care, facilities such as motorized wheechairs for quadriplegics (people at least partially paralyzed in all four limbs) enabled the handicapped to attend college only within the past decade. For this reason, colleges have just started to face problems of making their environments accessible. Fewer changes were needed for the veterans who increased the numbers of paraplegic college students after World War II; although paraplegics rely on wheelchairs, they can deal much more easily with barriers such as heavy doors and steep inclines than quadriplegics...
...both a lack of sympathy with the legitimate interests of Radcliffe women, and an overly rigid interpretation of a general University policy. The prohibition was occasioned by RUS's request that one of its monthly women's dinners be held at Mather, partly to encourage River House women to attend a usually Quad-based activity. In previous months the dinner has been held at South House's Moors Hall facility...
...they be allowed to use the dining hall from 5:15 to 6 p.m. on March 15. The Mather House Council voted to recommend that the dinner be allowed, and Mather's master, David Herlihy, agreed to permit the dinner, with the stipulation that Mather men who wished to attend not be barred, in an effort to avoid sexual discrimination. One day before the dinner was scheduled to be held, Epps announced that Mather could not be used, citing University policy that House residents not be denied use of their dining facilities because of any outside group...
McCarthy will give a 45-minute press conference on Tuesday, 15 minutes of which will be limited to student media. He will also attend an invitation-only reception of student political groups Tuesday morning...
...also surrounded himself with economic advisers noted for international expertise (Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Under Secretary of State Richard Cooper, Assistant Treasury Secretary Fred Bergsten). As further evidence of his commitment to international economic cooperation, Carter last week announced that his first presidential trip abroad will be to attend a seven-nation* economic summit scheduled for May 7-8 in London...