Students with Disabilities and Greek life acceptance and access

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Originally Posted by bejazd

Should we make all our chapter houses peanut-free? Would we have to accomodate scholarship requirements for PNMs with ADHD or dyslexia?

This makes me think of something I read the other day about a law school that had to go "peanut-free." (here is a link to a discussion on another site: http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/11/d...ating_witc.php)

Apparently, since many things are cooked in peanut oil, it isn't just about not eating peanuts. There are a lot of things off-limits, and even being in the same room as some of that stuff can send some people with severe allergies into a reaction.

I would never encourage discrimination, but I get the impression from many posters here that they are assuming most chapters could reasonably accommodate nearly every disability. The fact of the matter is that many chapters are simply not financially/practically able to accommodate for every specific disability that PNMs might potentially have. If chapters can accommodate, that is great. But any kind of blanket "we should accommodate any disability" statement is simply naive.