Eward describes the office as simply where records are kept. With 12 years experience, she says she knows a lot about needs and concerns and thinks she and the students would get farther working together. But Hameister is clearly no longer a viable outlet to these students who say she is not, and cannot be an advocate for them. To the students who have spent years wondering when their concerns and complaints would be taken seriously, that would seem to be the problem. It goes beyond the lack of parking spaces and buildings with no elevators.
Handicapped people are usually the silent minority .
Most architects don't know much about accessibility, and many architecture classes don't teach much, says Robert Dale Lynch, an ADA-savvy architect based in Pittsburgh.