College students with disabilities deserve accessible campuses

University of Maryland student Shreya Vuttaluru could have picked any topic to spend months investigating. She chose one that saw her pushing automatic door buttons across campus and considering what also comes to a halt when elevators stop working. Last week, Vuttaluru and a group of students who work for the Diamondback, U-Md.’s independent student newspaper, published a project under the headline, “Disability on Campus.” For it, they scrutinized multiple aspects of accessibility on the College Park campus and interviewed students, workers and faculty members with a wide range of disabilities.