Scrutiny
Marc Fiedler
Marc I. Fiedler ’78 (first row, far right) with his classmates at Quincy House. He paved the way for many disabled students after him. Fiedler and the group he founded, ABLE, worked with University administration to get the basic needs of disabled students met in the late '70s, during a national surge in disability advoacy.
Bianca McEvoy
Bianca C. McEvoy ’25 believes that accommodations should not seek to replicate the experience of an able-bodied student but rather be tailored toward the individual student’s needs.
Maureen Clare
Maureen Clare '24 (first row, far left) with the rest of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
Katie Sevier
Katie L. Sevier ’25 advocated for the placement of various ASPs around Harvard's campus to the Cambridge Department of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation.
Sonya and Emma
Sonya R. Ganeshram ’24 (left), and Emma Vrabel ’25 (right) with their dogs Athena and Holly.
Sarika Chawla
Sarika Chawla ’23 was a co-president and founding member HUDJ while she was at the College.
Brooke Ellison
Brooke M. Ellison ’00 was the first quadriplegic person to attend Harvard. During her commencement speech, she reflected on her time at the College, saying: “There were times when I thought for sure that the statue of John Harvard was looking right at us and saying, ‘What in Heaven’s name are you doing here?’”
Chanel Washington
Chanel E. Washington ’15 during Housing Day, representing Quincy. She was president of the House Committee and also founded the Harvard College Disability Alliance.
View of Eastern Side of Walpole Prison
A view of Walpole Prison from the eastern side of the facility in the early 1980s.
Prisoner Watches TV
A man incarcerated at Walpole watches The Beverly Hillbillies on a TV set in his cell.
Man Stands in Cell at Walpole
A man incarcerated at Walpole stands in his cell, with a map of Africa on the wall behind him.
PBHA Prisons Talk Poster
A poster advertises a conversation about Massachusetts prisons at the Phillips Brooks House in the fall of 1973, five months after the end of the Walpole guard strike. Arnie Coles, the then-president of the National Prisoners Reform Association, was one of the guest speakers. (HUD 3688.272. Harvard University Archives.)
Trooper Searches for Escaped Prisoners
A State Trooper searches for escaped prisoners from Walpole on October 18, 1971.
Radical PLAPpers Sign
A whiteboard in the PLAP office at the Harvard Law School reads: PLAPpers are: RADICAL! OFFENSIVE! DANGEROUS!