Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Although the Quad Houses have recently undergone $33 million in renovations, for example, only 20 percent of those three houses were made handicapped-accessible, Wallace says. Likewise, original verbal agreements to make one Yard dorm totally accessible were scaled back to plans of two suites in one entry, he says...
...efforts to persuade administrators to develop a "coherent plan that they would implement over a certain time that would gradually make the University accessible in certain areas, like the residence halls or the Yard" resulted largely in disappointment after long discussions and verbal promises, he says...
...Cambridge people work at Harvard, and for that we appreciate it," says Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who has suggested using Harvard Yard as the site for a parking lot, a city carnival and emergency homeless shelters...
Abandoning the shanties and the foreign affairs activism of the past few years, Harvard students this year turned their attention inward. Instead of rallying against the unfairness of the world, they found injustice enough in the Yard...