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...commitment to living a full, normal life led Mattlin to select Mather as his housing choice this spring, despite the fact that the House is not equipped for the handicapped. Mattlin, who currently shares a double in Canaday Hall with a paid, full-time attendant, chose Mather primarily because it has only large suites, where he would have roommates--potential "buddies" who could relieve some of the "great strain" of living only with an attendant on whom he relies heavily...
...College officials last month requested that Mattlin select either Currier House or Quincy House because they have double rooms equipped for disabled students. The University--although it sympathizes with Mattlin's desire for a rooming situation that provides companionship and although it recognizes a need for more housing alternatives for disabled students--is not prepared to undertake the revamping of entrances and bathrooms at Mather necessary for Mattlin. Thomas E. Crooks '49, Faculty liaison to Harvard's Working Committee for the Handicapped, told Mattlin last month...
Instead of immediately renovating Mather, Crooks told Mattlin, the College would begin to survey all the River Houses to determine where the most feasible accomodations could be made and would begin work on proposed changes. Crooks asked Mattlin to select Currier or Quincy in the meantime and to live alone with his attendant again. And Mattlin--although he believes he legally does not have to accept what's available--recently consented to live in Quincy...
...Although Mattlin will reluctantly take his belongings to a House with limited wheelchair accessibility and no suites for the disabled, he will undoubtedly arrive at Quincy in September with the same outgoing attitude and distinct sense of humor that helped him through high school and his freshman year at Harvard. "It'll be a really tight squeeze." Mattlin says of the wheelchair route to the Quincy House dining hall. "There's the smell of garbage, and you have to go through the kitchen," he adds, accurately but humorously...
...While Mattlin does not know what he will do back home in New York between now and then--"I applied for a few jobs, but I hope I don't get them, so I can relax"--officials here will work this summer on the promised survey and development of a work schedule for accomodating more Houses for the handicapped under the direction of Brenda Szabo, planning officer. Although no changes are likely to have been instituted by fall. "I think we'll certainly have something planned by then," Crooks anticipates...