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Competition is stiff: as of March 26, the deadline for cities to submit information, Google said it had received more than 1,100 applications. It will analyze each city's demographics and infrastructure before deciding on one or more locations by the end of the year. "One of the top things we're looking for is to develop the network as quickly and efficiently as possible," spokesman Dan Martin says. "We're not looking for special treatment, but we do want to find a community that wants to work with...
Being mentally ill makes it very difficult to excel in the United States, and Harvard is no exception. When a student enters Harvard with a mental disability, he or she is required to submit documentation to prove their illness. While some colleges will accept several forms of documentation, Harvard requires the student to present evidence of a neuropsychological examination from a neuropsychologist with a Ph.D. Nothing else is acceptable, not even documentation from a treating psychiatrist (M.D.) that states the illness and lays out the issues that require that a student receive various educational supports...
While Harvard may offer the financial aid for students to step foot in their dorms, Harvard does not offer that same support to students with mental disabilities. That is to say, Harvard does not support its students in the financial sense because Harvard requires its students to submit expensive and unreasonable evidence to “prove” their mental illness so the student can receive reasonable accommodations...
...students like myself are going to make it here, Harvard needs to put in place a more supportive and flexible system. By requiring students to submit a neuropsychological examination from—what Harvard deems as the only appropriate source—a Ph.D. neuropsychologist, they force an undue financial hardship upon a majority of students. An institution like Harvard should be part of the solution, not part of the problem. It should be working overtime to support students with mental illness. Harvard’s “complete” package is not just incomplete but rather bland...
...panel also kicked off a Web initiative in which users will be invited to vote on the importance of the proposed problems and submit additional issues for consideration...