These special arrangements can range anywhere from moving classes to more accessible locations to installing new lifts and ramps.
The College provides services for students with disabilities through the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC), where Booker says he turns whenever a problem arises.
During shopping period this fall, for example, Booker says he discovered that the sole elevator in Sever Hall was temporarily out of order for inspection--a problem that would have prevented him from shopping a class. So Booker called the SDRC.
"Within two minutes, the guy on top of the elevator received a radio call and climbed down and said 'You need a lift?'" Booker says.
This philosophy also applies to visitors--for whom Harvard must also be accessible.
Dorothy Weiss '01 says while Kirkland House is largely inaccessible on a day-to-day basis, she is always assigned a first floor room so that her father--who uses a wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis--can visit more easily.
The House also erects a temporary ramp when her father comes to visit, according to Weiss, who heads a disability advocacy group on campus called EMPOWER (Encouraging Mankind to Perceive Others with Equal Respect)
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