Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just ask Tony Wilson, a staff member for the Technical Aid Assistance for the Disabled in Chicago. Wilson, who has been using a wheelchair since an injury seven years ago, will attend Chicago's Malcolm X. College this fall and says he hopes to work in data processing in the future...
This past fall, before she was appointed to her current post, Thornburgh and Kennedy School student Mark Sakaley '88, who uses a wheelchair, created "Project Inclusion," an advocacy group which Dean Graham T. Allison '62 has officially included it as one of the School's Public Service Initiatives...
Wallace's experience as a student confined to a wheelchair was a four-year struggle against frustration. As a freshman he had access to two suites in the entire Yard, both located in one entryway in one dormitory. As an upperclassman in Leverett House, one of the three houses at the College even partially wheelchair accessible, he had no access to the library, common rooms or most students' rooms. And, when the University said living on the 10th floor would be a fire hazard for him, Wallace enlisted the aid of a Boston lawyer to convince Harvard...
...Wallace adds that a new generation of wheelchair bound students--educated in public school systems that have been handicapped accessible since 1975--will arrive at Harvard and other universities with even "higher expectations." And more intensity...
Yesterday's Crimson incorrectly reported that Currier House was not accessible to the handicapped. Currier is the only undergraduate House that is entirely wheelchair-accessible...