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According to Nancy Randolph, special assistant to the president and University coordinator for disabled students, once Harvard receives the letters, "we go to work matching our facilities to their needs." Arrangements include setting aside accessible housing and coordinating special diets or physical therapy. Once classes begin, administrators work with the registrar to relocate classes if a course a disabled student wishes to take meets in a nonaccessible building. "The University's policy is to provide what's needed," Randolph says, adding that Harvard's policy is to keep disabled students in the mainstream and make sure they are not isolated...
ABLE President Lisa Chetkov '85 says that some faculty members still resist moving their classic or allotting the extra time to accomodate the needs of disabled students, adding. "A lot of the problems are attitudinal, not physical, barriers." And Randolph agrees that the University should play a more active role to sensitize the community to the needs of disabled students...
...Hugh Sidey's delightful column on political invective [June 20]. Unfortunately, a half-page summary cannot do justice to America's considerable contribution to the art of insult. One of the best flamethrowers in our early House of Representatives was the brilliant Virginia Congressman John Randolph. He once described a political foe as "a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks...
...nature vs. nurture. Mortimer (Don Ameche) holds that genetics is destiny, that the natural nobility of a chap like Winthorpe will assert itself no matter what his circumstances, and that a fellow like Billy Ray Valentine will resort to criminality no matter how well the world treats him. Brother Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) holds the opposite, that people are shaped by the manner in which the world treats them. Forthwith, a bet is made. The Dukes arrange for Billy Ray to be mysteriously lifted up into Winthorpe's well-buttled town house, and to apply his street smarts to making...
...United States branch of the IDAF is housed in the basement of the Harvard Epworth Church in Cambridge. Though the group has no official ties to the University, its president is the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and Nancy Randolph, special assistant to President Bok, is a member of the board of trustees...