{"id":90,"date":"2011-10-26T23:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T06:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-11-08T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T17:34:27","slug":"mobilility-impaired-lack-housing-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/2011\/10\/26\/mobilility-impaired-lack-housing-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobilility impaired lack housing options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybarometer.com\/mobilility-impaired-lack-housing-options-1.2668925?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=The_Daily_Barometer_2&amp;utm_campaign=The_Daily_Barometer_2_20111027149#.Tqj5QLJm2uM\">Daily Barometer<\/a>,  Oct. 27, 2011] &#8212; To some, Oregon State University is recognized as a  school that is  up-to-date in many important ways, particularly in terms  of science and  technology. It may come as a surprise, then, to find  when it comes to  accommodating students with disabilities, OSU may be,  in some critical  ways, behind the times.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jeffrey  Evans, head of the OSU Able Student Alliance, lack  of accessible  student housing options is one of the primary concerns  for students  with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We [the ASA] have  yet to be told how many  rooms in the residence halls are accessible,&#8221;  Evans said. He continued  by stating the three components ASA  considers most important when  determining if a residence hall may be  deemed &#8220;accessible&#8221;: the dorm  rooms themselves, the shared spaces in the  building and the paths of  travel from the residence hall to classes and  other buildings on  campus.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how many of the residence halls on campus are  accessible,  Associate Director of University Housing and Dining  Services Dan Larson  replied that the question could not be answered  based on the provided  criteria. &#8230; <em>Read more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybarometer.com\/mobilility-impaired-lack-housing-options-1.2668925?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=The_Daily_Barometer_2&amp;utm_campaign=The_Daily_Barometer_2_20111027149#.Tqj5QLJm2uM\">&#8220;Mobility impaired lack housing options&#8221;<\/a> by Kristin Pugmire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Daily Barometer, Oct. 27, 2011] &#8212; To some, Oregon State University is recognized as a school that is up-to-date in many important ways, particularly in terms of science and technology. It may come as a surprise, then, to find when it comes to accommodating students with disabilities, OSU may be, in some critical ways, behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186258],"tags":[861,81581,81580,81582,81579,37],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing","tag-asa","tag-dan-larson","tag-jeffrey-evans","tag-kristin-pugmire","tag-lawsuit","tag-osu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/uhdsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}