Word: blinds
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...first blind student to go through Harvard, although he does predate the reading rooms in the basement of Emerson. They were finished in 1966, partially due to a study Hal did for the now defunct Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs. Hal was an English major, and lived in Adams House. He prefers using readers to Braille books or tapes; for himself, he finds readers faster and more flexible, and it is also a way of meeting new people -- a perennial problem for the blind. Harvard makes no special dispensation as to the science requirement. Hal took...
Charlie was an undergraduate at Amherst College, and is an enthusiastic alumnus of that school. A poly sci major and a fraternity member, he was the only blind student at Amherst. Unlike Harvard, Amherst appears to have an unwritten policy limiting the number of blind students they will accept. "They feel that they can't provide enough facilities to get more than one blind student through at any one time," Charlie said. "I worked closely with the freshmen dean, and talked with the Admissions Office. This is not a set policy--not in writing--but it is closely adhered...
CHARLIE has found life at Harvard Law rather different from life at Amherst. He was accepted by three law schools--Harvard, Columbia, and B.U.--and feels that there are very few law schools that would reject a prospective student because he was blind. At Harvard he finds he has to use readers, because the law texts are so immense; and unfortunately there were problems in obtaining readers at the beginning of this year because of an oversight by PBH. Charlie likes law because he is a rational, logical individual, and because it is a real challenge--everyone has warned...
Last year Hal became the first blind student at Harvard Law in recent years. Now there are three new blind students. "I proved," Hal explained, "that a blind student is draft exempt." According to Hal, it is not so easy for a blind person to get into law school. Many of the schools where he was interviewed were quite discouraging about the prospects of his getting in and getting along there. He had a particularly bad interview at Duke: "You mean to tell me you're really that blind?" the Duke interviewer asked. When Hal inquired as to the ease...
However, Harvard Law has been extremely cooperative, Hal says. Joseph E. Leininger, vice dean of the Law School, kept a protective eye on Hal his first year. Blind students were first allowed equal time for their exams; now they have time and a half (on the undergraduate level Harvard allows double time for exams). When there was a reader shortage this year, Leininger recruited extra readers from the Law School to help...