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The Americans with Disabilities Act turns 20 today! Thanks to the ADA, Americans with disabilities enjoy better access to buildings, transportation, telecommunication, employment, and education. It paved the way for IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which enabled me to graduate from college. There’s still a long way to go before we as a society [...] Princeton freshman Diane Metcalf-Leggette is suing the University for their refusal to accommodate her learning disabilities by granting her extra time to take exams. The student suffers from several learning disabilities that effect her visual and language processing ability, requiring her to check and re-check her work several times while she’s writing. Metcalf-Leggette was [...] That’s a much more polite headline than the original one, believe you me. For those of you who haven’t heard, Roman Polanksi was arrested in Zurich over the weekend on 30 year old charges of drugging and raping a thirteen year old while in California. He pled guilty to statutory rape, [...] |
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