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Benjamin M. Mattlin '84 vividly remembers a classroom scene from ninth grade, when he was new to the small, private Rudolf Steiner School in New York and "very self-conscious" of his wheelchair and quadriplegic condition. A boy with a hearing aid was visiting the school, which has an almost entirely ablebodied student population. Mattlin remembers. "I looked at him and thought. "He looks pitiful. It's just a minor disability, but he identifies as a handicapped person. You can't really relate to him as a whole human being because he seems so dominated by that disability.'" Mattlin recalls...
...said he hoped that accommodations for Mattlin in a suite could be made by fall, but added that in the meantime Marttlin should choose between Quincy and Currier...
...Mattlin said only minor revisions are needed in Mather...
...Mattlin said he believed he could have "a good argument legally" if he decides against the officials' request because disabled students are entitled to a "choice equivalent to any other student's choice...
Diame Fraser, general counsel to Harvard's Working Committee for the Handicapped, said yesterday, however, that the College's responsibility is to provide "a reasonable choice" for housing, and that she thinks Mattlin has "no legal claim...