Word: lawsuits
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Harvard has not been forced to meet these standards since ADA is not a building code--it is a standard enforceable only through the courts, and Harvard has never been the subject of an ADA lawsuit...
Buildings such as the soon-to-be renovated University Hall, which is currently inaccessible to mobility-impaired students, or buildings which require disabled individuals to use separate entrances--are places where Harvard could be vulnerable to a lawsuit...
...They could come in and say, 'There's a disabled student that can't get into see the dean of the College or the dean of the Faculty; you're a defendant in a lawsuit," Zewinski says...
Since MAAB code is not a duplicate of the ADA, Harvard could even be the subject of a lawsuit where it has complied with MAAB regulations according to Zewinski, though he doubts such a lawsuit would be likely...
...lawsuit alleges that the school knew about but failed to prevent a pattern of "insults, indignities, physical assault and humiliating treatment which went far beyond any need to toughen, strengthen or acclimate plaintiff to the rigors of military discipline." The academy maintains that the women were hazed no harder than average students, and points to the success of the two female graduates and the 15 percent dropout rate of the entering class in 1996. But Mentavlos?s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, contends that the treatment she received was gender-specific, such as having her shirt set on fire so cadets could...