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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...

Author: By Lesbian STUDENTS Association, Jake Stevens, and Chairperson OF The gay, S | Title: ANTI-ROTC | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Mary K. Warren, | Title: Faculty Will Review Ways To Help the Handicapped | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Monsters Are Back at the Door | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Will Lock Up Bicycles Blocking Ramps for Disabled | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moving into the Mainstream | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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