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...April 30, seven disabled students staged a "crawl-in" at North Station. To prove that greater accessibility is necessary for disabled users of mass transportation, the seven proceeded to "crawl" onto an inaccessible bus. Rani Kronick '84, president of A Better Learning Environment (ABLE), who participated in the crawl-in, says that her group faces a large job just educating the Harvard community of the problems of being disabled in a largely able-bodied society. "Harvard has been white, male, upper class and able bodied for the last 350 years," she adds...
...while many groups have become somewhat less political this past year, Kronick says a "real attack on legislation for the disabled, and particularly disabled students" has forced ABLE to use political tactics for the first time ever. In addition to the North Station demonstration and crawl-in--which most ABLE students missed because of exam period--ABLE sent a large contingent to a local appearance of Vice President George Bush, who has been prominent in Reagan Administration efforts to dismantle the regulations that have insured many rights of the disabled. ABLE has also led a postcard drive to urge...
...many disabled students say they feel some compulsion involved, and fear that this amounts to de facto pre-registration for disabled students. "I think in the fall they will say 'we gave you the opportunity to name classes in the spring and this wasn't one of them,'" Rani Kronick '84, president of A Better Learning Environment (ABLE), said last week...
What may well be at fault in this confusion is the great reverence the Harvard administration holds the case-by-case method of adjudication. All that disabled students now have that they can bank on is a promise that administrators will do their best. As Kronick says, "It's not going to help us to have them say they've done their best. If they don't move a class, you can't take...
...Kronick said that this semester the registrar refused to move a History class she is taking, which meets on the second floor of Harvard Hall, adding that she "went to very few lectures because it was so difficult to get up the stairs...