The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 5, 2011, 11:17 am
[Updated: 11/7, 5:36 a.m.] A former football coach at Penn State was arrested on Saturday on charges of sexually abusing eight boys during a period that overlapped with his time at the university, the Associated Press reported, and two top Penn State administrators charged in connection with the case will step down, the university announced this morning.
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Blind advocates allege Penn State services not blind friendly
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted on Sat, Nov. 13, 2010
By Robert Moran
Inquirer Staff Writer
A national advocacy group for the blind has called for an investigation of alleged "pervasive and ongoing discrimination" at Pennsylvania State University in the availability of technology-based services for blind students and faculty.
The National Federation of the Blind sent a seven-page complaint letter dated Friday to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, alleging that Penn State is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
"Penn State's persistent failure to abide by the law has resulted in gratuitously denying its blind students and faculty equal access to information and thereby to an equal-education opportunity," the complaint states.
Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20101113_Blind_advocates_allege_Penn_State_services_not_blind_friendly.html#ixzz15MIP20xK Watch sports videos you won't find anywhere else
Posted on Sat, Nov. 13, 2010
By Robert Moran
Inquirer Staff Writer
A national advocacy group for the blind has called for an investigation of alleged "pervasive and ongoing discrimination" at Pennsylvania State University in the availability of technology-based services for blind students and faculty.
The National Federation of the Blind sent a seven-page complaint letter dated Friday to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, alleging that Penn State is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
"Penn State's persistent failure to abide by the law has resulted in gratuitously denying its blind students and faculty equal access to information and thereby to an equal-education opportunity," the complaint states.
Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20101113_Blind_advocates_allege_Penn_State_services_not_blind_friendly.html#ixzz15MIP20xK Watch sports videos you won't find anywhere else
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