You make it sound as if the university deliberately discriminated against
people with disabilities. I doubt that is the case, although such
discrimination does occur, it is usually the result of people not thinking
about including PWDs because people don't want to think about them. This at
least has been my experience during my time as a graduate student. I could
name several ways in which the university I'm attending (and the MLS
program, as well) has discriminated against PWDs. In every case that I've
pursued the discrimination has been unconscious rather than deliberate.

Getting back to the original post. The original post made it sound like the
university was trying to recruit ethnic minorities, rather than focusing on
other types of minorities (i.e. sexual preference, people with disabilities,
religious minorities, etc), so the complaint about excluding PWDs is really
not valid.


>From: "Yared, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "Library Access -- http://www.rit.edu/~easi"
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: People with disabilities included?
>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:15:12 -0500
>
>         Well, still the university discriminated against people with
>disabilities, which has a long histories of oppression, even by members
>of racial and ethnic groups. For example, PWDs who are also minorities
>are double-discriminated for cultural differences.
>         Mike
>
><<From:    Julia <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: People with disabilities included?
>
>My read on this is that it isn't rejecting any specific group, including
>people with disabilities, it is recruiting people from specific groups.  I
>believe the challenge is to expand our understanding of who has been
>historically discriminiated against while supporting efforts of
>organizations to recruit people of quality who may be different.
>Julia Allegrini>>
>

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