[blindlaw] Copy of Sabotaged Email and the Need for the Database

[Michal Nowicki]

Anita,

Does this mean that you wish to limit the contents of the database to law
schools?  I see where you are going with this, but don't forget that
students with disabilities experience discrimination in all fields of study.

Best,

Michal

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Anita
Keith-Foust via blindlaw
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 12:33 PM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindlaw] Copy of Sabotaged Email and the Need for the Database

Happy New Year Everyone!

 

I thank Michal for all that he does and all of you for hanging tough. It has
been a fast paced new year for me. I am trying to catch up on my emails.

 

Please find attached the email that I was talking about during the Christmas
holiday where a student was sabotaged. That student was me. I had to check
before I shared this email and it is fine for me to share.

 

I was shocked by what was written in the email from those North Carolina
Central University School of Law (NCCU) faculty members. Since they teach
law, I took for granted that they knew better than to not comply with the
Americans with Disability Act (ADA). Furthermore, I have high expectations
for NCCU because they are a historically Black university. To me, as an
African American, they should be against discrimination due to the well
documented hardships and civil rights struggles to have access to public
accommodations and etc.

 

Furthermore, I have three degrees from NCCU and am a honor student. I am
very active in the community. The only thing that was missing was a high
LSAT score. I visited various deans beforehand, but not Donald Corbett, so
they knew I was visually impaired. They encouraged me to apply and said that
they admired my tenacity. They also told me they don't give the LSAT score
higher weight than the other factors. So, when they admitted me to the
Performance Based Program (PBAP), I knew, with accommodations, I was in
without a problem. Little did I know that brewing in the background, there
was a conspiracy to prevent me from having accommodations. I really am hurt.
I won't go into a lot of details right now because the email would be very
long. I will just say that if I knew that I was going to be sabotaged, I
would not have wasted my time applying to the law school.

 

I don't know about what to expect from other law schools and that is why it
is a good idea to have a database with evidence and experiences from other
students. This will be the ultimate networking tool. I have been working on
the case against NCCU, LSAT prep course accommodations issues, and the
database. Any and all information that you are willing to submit is greatly
appreciated. 

 

I am including information accessed from the OCR via the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) so that we can have concrete documentation to refer
to in the database. Imagine this, you will click on a link and have
immediate access to the complaints and findings of the OCR. Additionally,
any experiences from students will be available. I am really motivated to
have this done as fast as I can pull it together. I will give you an update
on the database in a couple of weeks.

 

I also would like to get any feedback from you regarding the attached email.

 

Thank you.

 

Anita Keith-Foust

919-430-1978