Word: blinds
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Disabled students face a score of additional challenges. The special shuttle van service has been highly erratic, creating difficulties for mobility-impaired students. Deaf students often have great difficulty communicating with friends, advisors, or even doctors, although the University does provide sign language interpreters for classes. Blind students often cannot find enough volunteer readers to enable them to complete reading assignments--only recently has Harvard made work-study funding available to readers. In addition, disabled students must suffer the loss of some shopping period privileges. The Registrar's office requires mobility-impaired students to submit a list of courses they...
Jewett explained that Harvard's traditional aid-blind admissions policy--which states that the College will accept students regard-less of their ability to afford tuition and other costs--is assured "for the foreseeable future" because of slowing inflation and increased financial allotments from several University sources...
...these criteria-the only ones by which House drama societies, the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC), and select faculty assess each proposal-point glaringly to a frequent blind spot of the Harvard theater community...
...which eager minds, thirsting for general knowledge, should be turned away. Clearly, the need for a consistent policy will become more urgent as the Core grows. Upperclassmen are quick to recognize that exiling freshmen is the only sensible solution, but roughly one fourth of Harvard undergraduates are curiously blind to this crystal logic. True gamblers, these freshmen prefer to go for broke with a random lottery. Both systems have some merit, and we advocate the oft-sought happy medium--a random lottery weighted for seniority for all oversubscribed courses...
...unsettled its subject that he issued a rebuttal to Caro's many allegations. Despite objections, the book won a Pulitzer Prize. In The Path to Power, the 882-page first of three volumes on L.B.J., Caro argues, not always convincingly, that the 36th President illegally ran a blind trust fund from the Oval Office and that his avarice and cunning were rooted in childhood. If, as Emerson wrote, "geniuses have the shortest biographies," Caro has envisioned an L.B.J. who was hardly a candidate for Mensa. With a probable 1,600 pages left to go, Caro has already concluded that...