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WHETHER THIS request by the college is purely an informational move, designed to help accomodate disabled students while Sever Hall--Harvard's largest classroom building--is closed for renovations next year, or an attempt to force disabled students to commit themselves now to all of their fall courses depends on who you talk...
...With Sever closed, the College will be a little short on classroom space. Administration officials say that this space shortage will leave them little flexibility if a disabled student requests that a class be moved to an accessible room. By trying to initially schedule classes that disabled students will take in accessible rooms, they will avoid some of this difficulty...
...couched in these vague terms, it becomes easy for Harvard to say that its best just was not good enough. A professor refused to budge. The Fogg Museum is just a factor to be reekoned with. Once the College can say this, it can certainly say that with Sever closed next year it will move even fewer...
...list of no more than eight courses from which they plan to choose their schedules. Though the college is required by federal law to provide equal access to education for the disabled, it anticipates "very little flexibility" in moving classes to more accessible locations because of renovations in Sever Hall scheduled for next fall...
Disabled students at Harvard have been asked to submit a list of no more than eight course from which they intend to choose their schedules next fall, and have been warned that due to pleased renovation of Sever Hall-Harvard's largest classroom building-the College will have "very little flexibility" is moving classes to more accessible location...