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Serves me right but it's the right thing to do.

The class I intend to take which comes highly recommended is Race in American History.  But it WAS in Anderson 223.  It's a lovely lecture hall in a nice location.

But it's inaccessible.  There is no elevator.

Readers will remember my story of taking a Holocaust class in this room.  Maybe 4 years ago?  I was in a little worse shape then.  The room is on the  2nd floor and there is no elevator.  I was using my old lady roller bag.  I could get up the stairs but I couldn't carry my roller bag up it.  Disabilitlies office (I love the disabilities office) encouraged me to change the room.  Even though I am 'just' an access student, they would change the room for me.  But it's a big class and I didn't want to mess everybody up.  So being an older woman, I figured I could get around it.  I talked to the Young Professor about it and he didn't understand it at all.  I solved the problem by standing by the stairway and asking people to carry up my bag. It worked fine.

But that was NOT the wisest choice.  Because he had scheduled a holocaust survivor to speak to us at the end of the quarter.  He encouraged everybody to come because soon, students would  not be able to hear from survivors.  She has since passed away.  But, when the day came, the room was still inaccessible and, though I had told him, he didn't get it.  The lady could not get up the stairs.  Her adult son and the Young Professor managed to carry her up but she was very embarrassed.  He was very upset about it.  Bet he will never make that mistake again.

But I felt culpable.  If I had moved the class when I had the chance per Disabilities to an accessible room, that situation would never have happened.  I enabled it.  I could have done something.

So this quarter, my class is again in that room.  I think of some of the disabled student in my access student group who use walkers or scooters.  No way could they get up those stairs.  I wrote the professor who didn't like the idea of the room not being accessible but didn't know what to do about it.

But I knew what to do.  Yesterday, I pulled the trigger.  I asked to move the class.  And today it is moved.  The faculty don't have a thing to say where their class is located.  But the Disabilties Office is powerful.

It's moved to Condon 109.  Ugh, I thought I was done with Condon, it's the old law school.  Kind of brutalist architecture.  All the way at the end of Campus Parkway.  Which has no charm.

But, Condon it is!  We like Condon, right?  Because it's accessible and all student can how get to the class!