Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council's ineffectiveness. The council, for example, has never passed any of the substantive proposals of the council's own Advocacy Committee. One such proposal would give an entry the right to recall a Freshman Council member by a two-thirds vote. Needless to say, the proposal fell on deaf ears...
...line. Our industries, our jobs, our American way of life could be in jeopardy." After listening to Carter's Monday "sky is falling" speech, North Carolina's Democratic Governor James B. Hunt Jr. observed: "If anyone has any doubts of a crisis, they must be blind and deaf. That was the most carefully reasoned statement of an immense problem that I've ever heard...
...prophesizing didn't stop there. In the fall of 1960 he filed an exclusive dispatch from Havana to his newspaper, Baltimore's Afro American. Worthy revealed that the Cuban government had knowledge of an impending invasion of their country that was being formulated in Florida and the Carribean. A deaf America ignored this report which foretold, months in advance, the inevitable failure of what has since become known as the "Bay of Pigs" fiasco...
...Department of Buildings and Grounds installed a temporary ramp onto Memorial Hall. Yet the situation typifies those problems which physically disabled Harvard students face. Many academic, housing, recreational and athletic facilities are inaccessible to those in wheelchairs; blind students have trouble obtaining reading material for courses; and deaf students must use interpreters at lectures. Marc Fiedler '78 was disabled after an accident in his sophomore year. Referring to the difficulties facing the disabled, he says most Harvard students "just don't think about it. I never did when I was here before...
Fortunately for Fiedler and Charles Drafts '77, both psychology concentrators, William James Hall numbers among Harvard's newer, more accessible buildings "as long as somebody opens the doors." Drafts, a deaf quadriplegic who transferred from a community college, says he applied to Harvard because friends pressured him to do so. "I never for a minute thought I'd come here because it was inaccessible...The thing that made me change my mind was when I saw how easy it was to get into William James, because I already knew I'd be a psychology major...