Word: blind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing to respond to a misleading article about me which appeared in The Crimson on Thursday, April 13. ("Blind Student Rejects Offer by Ad Board for Retest.") First, at the time that the article appeared, I had not yet responded to the Ad Board's offer. Thus The Crimson's headline was both premature and inaccurate. Since April 13, I may note, I have written to the Ad Board accepting their offer to let me retake my Math 1b make-up final examination...
...totally blind, and thus unable to read an examination myself. The registrar's office therefore arranged for a proctor to read my Math 1b make-up final to me aloud, in a separate room. A week prior to the examination, I spoke with the scheduling office about the necessity of finding a proctor who knew calculus, for I feared that someone unfamiliar with mathematical symbols would be unable to read the exam to me accurately and efficiently. The scheduling office assured me that the proctor assigned to administer my exam would be fully familiar with the material. At no point...
...article in yesterday's Crimson contained several inaccuracies regarding a blind student who charges he failed a mathematics examination because of an incompetent reader...
...headline, "Blind Student Rejects Offer By Ad Board for Retest," was inaccurate. The student said yesterday he has not yet reached a decision and added that he appreciated the board's prompt response...
...brush pants and jacket, pulls on a pair of snake boots and goes ambling off on a sedate horse with friends and dogs in pursuit of quail in a pine forest in southern Georgia. Or spends cold predawn hours in a punt on Long Island Sound, or a damp blind on a California marsh, waiting for the gray light to spread and the ducks to come arrowing...