Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these are values which are central to education. Recent years have seen an increased awareness of the need for a deeper understanding of the subtle institutional barriers to success that exist for minorities in a university setting. Be it a ramp for someone in a wheelchair or the introduction of courses which emphasize the experiences of women and minorities, Harvard has made halting steps towards opening itself up. But by providing more than $60,000 for ROTC. Harvard will be taking part in a program that is closed to a significant part of the community. It will cast into doubt...
Citing the inaccessibility of the Fogg-Norton Lecture Hall. where the introductory course Fine Arts 13 is taught, Stevens said. "Right now no one in a wheelchair can concentrate in Fine Arts...
...Will There Be Another Christmas? (7 hr.). TV movie. A terminally ill female wheelchair basketball team beats the Philadelphia 76ers. Linda Blair and Edward Asner. Convincing, raging...
Crookes, who coordinates services for undergraduates with disabilities, said he wrote the police suggesting stringent measures after the tire of a student's wheelchair was punctured by the pedal of a parked bike...
...stalwarts of the civil rights movement were there. Coretta Scott King, evoking her husband's memory; Atlanta Patriarch Benjamin Mays, delivering a soul-stirring speech from a wheelchair; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, still undecided about when, or if, he will announce his candidacy for President. Comedian Dick Gregory exhorted the huge audience: "You're the strongest, biggest, blackest organization there...