Designer Ralph Lauren
Visits Campus on Monday, May 12

Faculty, please tell your students: Ralph Lauren will be speaking before an
invitation-only group of students in marketing on Monday in the Vertical Campus. But
the entire Baruch commuynity is invited out to greet Mr. Lauren during a brief tour of
the Newman Library and on his arrival at the Vertical Campus: just be on hand
between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m. on Monday, May 12, either in the VC lobby, or
overlooking the lobby, or on the first or second floors of the Library -- and show Mr.
Lauren that we welcome him back to the school he attended in the days before he
made his fame!

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Friday, May 9: Disabilities Issues Workshop
10:00 am - noon (refreshments available starting at 9:30)
Faculty/Staff Lounge VC 14-290

Please join John Dugan, Dean of Faculty Staff Relations, Carl Kirschner, Associate
Dean of Student Development, and Barbara Sirois, Director of Disability Services, for
a workshop on the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (ADA) & Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. They will encourage questions and discussion and
expect to cover the following areas:
The letter and spirit of the law
What does it mean to be "otherwise qualified"?
What are reasonable and appropriate accommodations and how they are
determined
What factors determine whether an accommodation (e.g., substitutions/waivers or
alternative means of evaluation) fundamentally alters a program of instruction?
What is the relationship between accommodations and academic freedom?

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PSC Open Forum on New Contract
May 12, 2003
Baruch College - 6:00 PM
Vertical Campus
14-220
55 Lexington Avenue
212-354-1252
An open forum to discuss the demands for a new labor-management contract with
leaders of the Professional Staff Congress. All are welcomed. Light refreshments will
be served. Visit http://www.psc-cuny.org for more details.