Emory Links: Emory Homepage Emory Search Emory Directory Emory Jobs Emory Events Calendar Emory Web Site Index	September 2000 Demystifying Learning Disabilities Equity and accommodation in the classroom By Allison O. Adams I worry that there's an entire industry out there of gurus who are basically getting paid nicely to create these diagnoses, which may be built on sand. --Darryl Neill Professor and Chair of Psychology We need to find the common ground between teaching style and the characteristics of the learner. --Wendy Newby Director of Faculty Resources for Disabilities Determining accommodations Easing Tensions Office Conversations on Campus Life TAKING STUDENT CONCERNS SERIOUSLY By Kristen Brustad, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Finding Solutions A response from the Student Counseling Center and Student Health Service BY MARK MCLEOD, DIRECTOR, EMORY STUDENT COUNSELING CENTER, AND JANICE LATOZA, ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR, STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE The fortunes of FAME A response from Freshman Advising and Mentoring at Emory BY JOANNE BRZINSKI, ASSISTANT DEAN OF STUDENT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, EMORY COLLEGE A New Spirit of Inquiry The changing discourse around science and religion By Amy Benson Brown Interdisciplinarity as an End in Itself Cautionary reflections on the Luce Seminars By James Gustafson Former Luce Professor of Humanities and Comparative Studies Endnotes A selection of remarks by recent speakers on campus

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