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...even as the national political climate has forced ABLE to become more political, Kronick says the organization cannot afford to stray far from its function of solving the problems of particular disabled students in their existence in the Harvard community. ABLE continues to work on the bread-and-butter issues of disabled student life--transportation to classes, getting classes moved to accessible rooms when necessary and the like. In doing this, quiet lobbying is usually a sufficient technique, Kronick says. Although the group has counseled people on filing complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she says...
...reasons, primarily financial, an Indian community at Harvard of about 20 will be further reduced this year. Only three American Indians of six applicants--both new lows--were admitted last spring, and AIH must hope that all of these young students become active for the group to continue to function effectively, Avery says...
...most prominent Harvard agencies for students seeking therapy are the UHS mental health services and the Bureau of Study Counsel, a Linden Street frame house which offers counseling for academic problems. Often, Wacker points out, such problems actually have their roots in more complicated emotional difficulties, and one function of the Bureau is to refer such cases...
...body. Shut your eyes and use it." Miles protests. He may not know who he is, but he is certainly not the kind of man who would submit to such shameless immorality, and in a hospital to boot. Naked now, the doctor and nurse intensify their ministrations. "Our sole function," explains his physician, "is to provide you with a source of erotic arousal...
They bicker over the details of their previous meetings. She says that he has learned nothing from her inspirations: "The world's full of highly pertinent male-female situations whose fictional exploration does subtend a viable sociological function-and yet this is the best you can come up with. Muses . . . I mean, Christ...