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...contesting my failing grade on a Math 1b make-up final examination, I am taking advantage of my disability to shirk my academic responsibilities. A correction printed in The Crimson on April 15 acknowledged that "the article also contained misleading inferences that the student failed to cooperate with the registrar's office in arranging for the exam." A mere correction buried on page four of The Crimson is, however, insufficient. In impugning my motives, the article prejudices the entire University community against any sensitivity to the needs of disabled students at Harvard...
...totally blind, and thus unable to read an examination myself. The registrar's office therefore arranged for a proctor to read my Math 1b make-up final to me aloud, in a separate room. A week prior to the examination, I spoke with the scheduling office about the necessity of finding a proctor who knew calculus, for I feared that someone unfamiliar with mathematical symbols would be unable to read the exam to me accurately and efficiently. The scheduling office assured me that the proctor assigned to administer my exam would be fully familiar with the material. At no point...
...Says a Citibank spokesman: "This is not an insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before the registrar's office agreed to accept her hyphen...
...article also contained misleading inferences that the student failed to cooperate with the registrar's office in arranging for the examination...
...certainly will be a hard act to follow," Smith said. "She's an extraordinary registrar and I'm sure she'll be extraordinary at whatever she does...