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...guidelines mandate strict adaptations to make all academic "programs" accessible to disabled students. "Harvard," says Nancy Randolph, President Bok's special assistant for Affirmative Action, "has made every attempt to comply" to effect this transition...
Currently, Randolph's committee is working on a self-evaluation mandated by the law. Did Harvard do things for disabled students before the law went into effect? Yes, says Randolph, but only on an individual basis. What is Harvard doing now in Washington to facilitate this transition? Lobbying hard to secure federal aid to fund architectural changes that are required in order for the University to comply with the regulations...
...What Radcliffe hopes to achieve with the help of the Mellon foundation grant is a multiplier effect, increasing the contribution that the college's unique research resources will make to scholarship, faculty and curriculum development, and policy-making," Horner added...
Many critics of the proposals, such as Pamela Lippe, legislative assistant for the environmentalist lobby, Friends of the Earth, say the NIH move is purely political, an attempt to soften the standards before any legislation goes into effect. Dr. Bernard Talbot, a spokesman for NIH, denies this charge, saysing the proposals originated a year ago, before the present legislation was drafted...
King is openly skeptical about NIH's motives. He says the director of NIH said in a guidelines meeting he wanted to get the revisions approved before the legislation went into effect. Many observers also question the data upon which the recent proposals are based. NIH cites a lessening of scientists' fears about the danger of recombinant DNA research; many scientists have testified at public hearings they believe they initially exaggerated the potential danger of recombinant DNA research. However, other scientists, including King, maintain that NIH is "weakening the guidelines without any scientific criteria whatsoever." He noted that...