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...Joel Downer '89, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair, has had difficulty just being a philosophy concentrator. The department's offices and library are located on the upper floors of Emerson, which does not have an elevator or special lift...
...been a big hassle not being able to get up there," Downer says...
Advocates believe that Downer is merely a victim of Harvard's insensitivity to the problems of the disabled. A large empty shaft exists in Emerson, remnants of renovations from approximately 25 years ago. R. Thomas Quinn, assistant dean of the College for facilities, says that the University ran out of money and could not finish the project. He added that he did not realize that a handicapped student needed access to the upper floors of the building...
...think we can boil it down to a child in the White House throwing rocks," said Joel W. Downer...
...movies gets prettier and prettier, Celie's life gets worse and worse. Her new husband beats her and separates her from her best friend and sister, Nettie (Akosua Busia). "Mister" (Danny Glover), as she affectionately refers to her betrothed, proves to be a real downer: he steals Celie's mail, sleeps around with other women, and makes his wife do ninety-percent of the work on their farm. At the film's halfway point, Celie is still cleaning vividly-hued ketchup and mustard stains while the tyrant goes off to try to rekindle an old romance with a famous blues...