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More disturbing than the factual error was The Crimson reporter's intimation that in contesting my failing grade on a Math 1b make-up final examination, I am taking advantage of my disability to shirk my academic responsibilities. A correction printed in The Crimson on April 15 acknowledged that "the article also contained misleading inferences that the student failed to cooperate with the registrar's office in arranging for the exam." A mere correction buried on page four of The Crimson is, however, insufficient. In impugning my motives, the article prejudices the entire University community against any sensitivity...
These were, needless to say, extremely adverse conditions under which to take an examination. My failing grade on the exam did not come as a surprise. Yet the problems I encountered could have been easily avoided had the University only taken care to find a proctor who was comfortable reading mathematical notations out loud...
...Crimson article ignores an important reason for my decision to contest my examination grade: a sense of responsibility to the disabled community at Harvard. Had I remained silent, the University might never have recognized the importance of hiring skilled proctors to administer exams to the visually impaired. As disabled students we are not asking that academic rules be bent to our advantage, as The Crimson has implied. We ask only that the University provide reasonable accommodation for our impairments so that we may share the University's resources equally with all members of the Harvard community. Soonkyu Shin...
...married to U.S. Navy Captain Will Rogers III, commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the guided-missile cruiser that mistakenly shot down an Iranian passenger jet last July, killing all 290 passengers and crew members. Eight months later, his wife was driving to her job as a fourth- grade teacher at the elite La Jolla Country Day School. As she paused for a red light, Rogers heard a bang in her Toyota van; she leaped out, unharmed, just before the vehicle burst into flames. Investigators believe a terrorist pipe bomb was placed in the van in retaliation for the downing...
Although the arboretum sponsors professional symposiums each year and runs mini-courses for adults, which have attracted more than 5,000 people annually during the past three years, programs for grade school students have remained its main educational focus...