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Hopkins Director of ADA Compliance and Disability Services Peggy Hayeslip said that her office was aware of limitations of disability access in Levering and Shriver. "There's a budget for accessibility at the Homewood campus and we look at that budget each year in terms of priorities of projects, and so certainly some of their recommendations will be considered," she said.

Hayeslip acknowledged that disabled people may have trouble evacuating both Levering and Shriver Halls when the elevators are not working.

"At this point, to ramp those buildings is very costly, but that is definitely something that has been discussed. [The Office of Facilities Management] has done accessibility studies for us and made contacts with companies that have specialists in ADA access; they coordinate those studies for us."

According to Villenas, the campus has made improvements in disability access in the past four years he's been on campus. He has since observed ramps, the elevator in the library and the Office of Disability Services addition to campus.

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