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...says the expanded legislation has created results. “We’ve just really had little over a generation and a half of students who went through public schools, had the right to access public schools and increasingly those people are coming to universities and seeking equal access,” Hehir says. Disabled students like Ford are no longer willing to completely adapt themselves to college systems. They believe that the college system should work harder to adapt to them...
...largest obstacles Ford faces is academic. Because it is difficult for him to read printed material, Ford needs books to be converted into digitally synthesized speech in order to study. Though Harvard is required to provide him with equal access in this area, his experience has been anything but easy. The only computer equipped to convert his books into speech sits in the Science Center, far from Ford’s home in Currier. Ford says he’d like to see stations installed in all libraries. But at Yale, his ideal system wouldn’t suffice: they...
...whatever changes come to the curriculum, we lack anything approaching this power. Our opinion has been consulted—indeed, I was one of eight students who sat on the curricular review committees this year—but it has become clear that if students want to be equal partners with faculty and administrators in shaping the future of Harvard, we must take organized action...
...championship and qualifying for nationals,” said Potts. “I felt as though we worked fairly well together as a team and performed well in the end when there was more pressure and the championship was to be determined.There seemed to be a fairly equal level at the top with no one team clearly dominant. This was important because it impressed upon us the need to continue to improve and strive towards perfection to attempt to win the national championship again...
...matter how great the curriculum is, if the students aren’t invested in it, it’s going to fail,” he said. “The student body shouldn’t be a contributing voice but an equal partner...