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...better or for worse, there is no Good Samaritan law in Harvard’s rulebooks. In sending an emergency evacuation directive last week, the Harvard Accessible Education Office (AEO) unwittingly thrust this subject into the campus spotlight. The e-mail explicitly instructed students NOT (in capital letters) to attempt to assist their disabled peers in the event of an emergency. Immediately after the directive was disseminated, House e-mail lists lit up with students alternately deeming the policy immoral and necessary. On its face, the policy may seem heartless. But it is the best way for Harvard...
...Scott S. Farmer ’09, a fourth-floor resident of Thayer, said he understands why the AEO discourages certain assistance...
...reason behind [the AEO] saying that, because...in some disability cases, if you do not know how to care for the person, it could actually hurt the person more by helping them than not,” Farmer said...
Farmer, who also received the e-mail from AEO, was born with Klippel Trenaunay Weber Syndrome and wears a prosthesis on his left leg. But he said he would be capable of evacuating in the case of an emergency...
...AEO is providing each disabled student with stickers bearing the Operations Center number to place onto their phones...