Word: protonopia
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...like many other American citizens, am suffering from protonopia, a condition which makes it impossible for me to distinguish the color red. The more common, if inaccurate, term for this is color-blindness. I have had my condition since birth and have never found it a handicap (I am a licensed automobile operator) but when I faced the new exam schedule I found it composed entirely of indistinguishable blobs of lighter and darker gray...
What makes the University's high-handed adoption of a multi-colored schedule especially irritating is that it will not only affect me but four percent of the College--that is if Harvard men reflect the national average of protonopia. This means, simply, that instead of a handful of men sleeping through exams now four percent will. Furthermore, the University obviously ignored the fact that protonopia is a sex-linked disease, ten times more common in men than in women. There might be some justification for the move in a co-ed school. There's no possible justification...
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