THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Vol.86 No.101
Friday, March 5. 1976
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Slack times
Clarence Adamson, who has maintained his campus barber shop ar 14th and Ohio for 28 years, has more free time now because new trends in hair styles hurt business.
New hairstyles hurt old-fashioned barber
Staff Writer
By DAVE HAUBEI
Clarence Adamson sits in his chair, legs dangling from his porch. Beneath his feet are the steps to a staircase.
"They don't need me. That's the way the barber feels." he says.
He leans back against a shelf filled with tonic bottles, puts his hands behind his head and looks outside at the cold, drizzling weather.
For Adamson, the times of the barbering business when hair was trimmed to the hair line above the ears, when men used to come on carpet once or twice during the week, are over.
New Adamson is more or less retired from the barbering business.
"THE PEOPLE have put the barber out of business," he said yesterday. "This was pretty much an important shop for a long time. I'm going to sell it one of these days or give it away. This was an awful good shop at one time."
"I're retired and I do as I damn well please," he said.
But he still goes to work nearly every day, arriving at his KU Barber Shop at 14th and Ohio around 8 a.m. and leaving around 4 p.m. If you happen to catch him between 1 and 3 p.m., however, he might be playing bingo by the radio.
The times have changed and Adamson knows it.
"You kids done it," he said.
BECAUSE OF new hair styling techniques, brought about by college students, he said, the "old barber" has had to adapt to the trend of hair styling. He said it was the only way for barbers to make a living these days.
People can't afford to pay a barber a living salary now, he said, so they grow their hair longer or trim it themselves. They know what it costs business as he knows it, is fading, he said.
ADAMSON charges $2.50 for a haircut while most other shops in town charge at least $3. He doesn't do hair drying or blow-drying and need to do it for his business, he said.
"And I know I can do it."
The styling business and the carpeted shops, fancier settings and whirling blow dryers they require are things that have surpassed the plain front window barber shop. Most places still have the striped, hypnotizing barber pole, but they cater to customers who want more than one style. But Adamson thinks styling shoes are a
result of the economic predicament barbers have had to face to survive.
"YOU KIDS ARE so damn particular, that's the way you made it," he said. "I think it's (the styling salon) perfectly O.K. because the general public has grown into them." (the barbers) had to go to styling because costs so much to stay in business."
Adamson, who has been in business at his present location for 28 years, says, "We're going to have to get away from this long hair. It bothers me to turn somebody out and it don't meet with what I like. Anyway, that's the way they want it."
BUSINESS at the KU Barber Shop, however, has fallen off in recent years. Adamson said he used to have three full-time barbers working for him, but for the last four years he was worked alone. The three barber chairs in his shop are empty.
Joe Leesh, owner of the Mall's Barber Shop, 711 W. 23rd, said he enjoyed the change in hair styles and the variety it allowed him in his work.
"Today we have to take brush-up courses to keep up with the changing styles," he said. "To be successful and stay in business you have to adapt, I like that way; it's a challenge. Today you don't do the same things all day long."
HE SAID HE USED to cut flattop hair cuts back in the '50s which were hard to do because the top had to be just right in order to keep his arms out of the barber had to raise his arms up to cut.
For those barbers who are willing to adapt to the new trend in hair styling, he says.
More women are entering the barbering business, he said, noting that half the women work on the barbers' women. He said that almost most of his customers were men, more women were beginning to come into barber shops and be interested in having half his customers are students, he said.
A HAIR CUT coats $3.25 and a hair styling
blowout of a coatshirt, hair cut and
blowout of a jacket.
Hair has gone from the long styles of the protest period of the '60s and the '70s, to the shorter and more layered look of today, Lesch said.
Now, he said. "You work relaxed and with your arms down."
Barbers and their business didn't always have it as good as Leach says it is now.
"There was a time when barbers would get drunk during the week," he said.
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Surgeon hired for heart team
Malcolm Arnold, now a cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Luke's hospital in Kansas City, Mo. will become the KU Medical cardiothoracic surgery team on March 15.
By BILL SNIFFEN
Staff Writer
Arnold said yesterday he expected to begin admitring heart-aururgery patients to the hospital.
"We'll be starting about March 15 to check over everything and make sure everything is ship-shape," Arnold, an Australian native, said.
Checking the equipment and supplies plus the hiring of cardiothoracic surgery support personnel will take about two weeks, he said.
ARNOLD WILL be the first heart surgeon the Med Center has had since Feb. 11, when she performed her first surgery at Med Center's only cardiothoracic surgeons, resigned. Reis and Hannah resigned after the release of a report that contradicted her medical surgery at the Med Center wasn't safe.
This past Monday, 13 cardiothoracic surgery support personnel at the Med Center resigned, many because they also operated-room conditions weren't safe.
Arnold, who said he had been contacted by Med Center administrators 10 days after Reis' and Hannah's resignations, said he had inspected the Med Center's facilities.
"I've been over them with some throughness," he said. "They seem very aware."
The Med Center will soon hire annota cardiothoracic surgeon, Arnold who will become chief of the cardiothoracic surgery section, said.
ARNOLD SAID the Med Center was looking for "a senior man with 10 or 15 years experience in the field--who would bring prestige to the University."
Arnold's appointment was announced in a statement released yesterday by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes. In the statement, Dykes criticized the support personnel for resigning without "the usual and expected advance notice."
The recommendations made by the panelists who investigated heart-surgery conditions in December would be implemented before March 15. Dwks said
Arnold was educated in Australia, and has worked for Children's Mercy Hospital. He is a board-certified Medical Center in Boston. He has had nine years experience in cardiothoracic surgery.
"IM DEFINITELY a team member."
A nold said: "It (cardiologist surcev) is"
Arnold said he was familiar with the bad publicity the Med Center had received recently, but said he didn't think it would hinder heat surgery at the Med center.
not a speciality that is designed for an individual."
"There been so much fortunate press one's just keen to get things going on in as quiet and as dignified a manner as is possible," he said.
BOTH DYKES and Gov. Robert F. Bennett expressed confidence in Arnold and in the possibility that the heart surgery section would open in the coming month.
"In accepting the position, Dr. Arnold assured us that the facilities and equipment of the University of Kansas Medical Center are available; cardiothoracic surgery." Dykes said.
"Dr. Arnold's assurances, coupled with the distingished panel of cardiothoracic surgeons from other universities, convince us that the University is one of the best centers of the nation's outstanding center for cardiothoracic surgery," he said.
Dykes' reference to other surgeons was to the special panel of three doctors that recently investigated the heart surgery department and issued their report in early February, sparking the resignations from Reis and Hannah. The report said surgery conditions weren't ideal but were such that surgery should be resumed.
DVKES CALLED Arnold "highly qualified" because of his nine years of experience in cardiothoracic surgery.
Dance anyone?
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Laurie McLane and Howard Klink, teachers at the Hilltop Day Care Center, help remove signs from some of their young dance' backs after they trooped through the Kansas Union yesterday advertising a dance Hilltop is sponsoring to help raise money for the center.
Enrollment sets record
By LYNDA SMITH
Staff Writer
For the third straight year, the University of Kansas has a record spring enrollment. A total of 22,796 students are enrolled, and the increase over last spring's enrollment is $13.3 million.
GII Dyck, dean of admissions and records, yesterday released the figures, which were gathered the 20th day of classes. That day has been designated by the Board of Education as the official counting day to account for late enrollment and dropped classes.
Lawrence campus enrollment is 21,019, a
per cent increase compared to the 19,738
enrolled last spring. Enrollment at the KU
Medical Center is 1,777, a 1.8 per cent increase compared to last spring's enrollment of 1.745.
This spring's enrollment is a 3.3 per cent decrease from last fall's enrollment of 23.54
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
said that there was a decrease in fall-to-spring enrollment every year because some students were not enrolling this year's decrease was relatively small.
The full time equivalent (FTE) student count is 19,425. up 1,067 from last spring.
The FTE count is determined by eliminating religion and ROTC courses from the total number of enrollment hours. An FTE is then counted for every other 15 undergraduate or nine graduate enrollment hours.
The breakdown by classes is: freshmen.
3,658; sophomores, 3,729; juniors, 2,984
seniors, 3,856; fifth-year students, 102;
special students, 1,483; law, 436; and
graduate students, 4,776.
In 1975, class sizes were: freshmen, 3,571; sophomores, 3,224; juniors, 3,055; seniors, 3,620; fifth-year students, 1,469; special education students, 480; and graduate students 4,278.
Dyck said the breakdown of schools probably would be released tomorrow.
Snalner said "the increased enrolment was 'a good sign things are going well.'" The enrollment is part of a five-year trend of enrolment increases at the University.
Enrollment on the Lawrence campus in spring 1972 was 17,630; in spring 1975 was 17,655 and in spring 1980 was 17,849.
Blind encounter mobility problems
He also said he had almost tripped over
**Edition:** note! This is the second of two articles dealing with blind students at the University.
Staff Writer
By BILL UYEKI
Most blind students at KU recently said that mobility around campus was as big a problem as learning course material, but that they do have some problems.
Walking to class. After enough trips up hills and around the University of Kansas campus, it's nearly a routine—unless you're blind or visually handicapped.
"I seem to deal with the mobility problem," Jose Gutierrez, Kansas City, Kan., said. "Even though there are two cars, "even though there. I have to rely on hearing all the time."
"If there's a strong wind or rain, I'll get turned around sometimes," he said, because the weather can drown out sounds he relies on to guide him.
KATYH HAGEN, Fargo, N.D., graduate
customer, said, "This campus has a lot of
PACS."
She said she lived on Mississippi and came to campus through the west entrance of the Kansas Union. The sidewalk on the back side of the Union often is covered with brush and bushes, she said, and sometimes protruding bricks.
Roger Williams, chairman of the University Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped (CAH), said a 1968 federal law requires that room number labels be shoulder-high with raised numbers so they can be left, or "read," by the blind.
But traveling to and from classes isn't the students' entire problem. Once they arrive at the right building, it isn't always easy to find the right classroom.
Gutierrez said restroom labels in Wescos were too small to be "read," as were floor directories near the elevators. The numbers on the buttons on the elevator control panel aren't large enough to be read, either, he said.
WESCO HALL, constructed after the law was passed, don't comply with the law's guideline. he said. The room labels at the door are the door and not at shoulder height.
the beaches that were about three feet from the sides of Wescoe's hallways.
“It’s pretty far from serving the needs of the visually handicapped.” Gutterson said. “I want to be as comfortable as possible.”
JANE ROTH, Osaklaoza graduate student, said she was used to narrow halls because she attended Washburn University and required a GRE. She said, required some getting used to.
"I usually have a friend walk with me on the fourth floor because there's so many pet beds."
Charlie Vassallo, Lawrence junior, said he was partially blind and couldn't see what is going skiing soon, said he checked him before at Wescoe before the semester started.
ALLEN WIECHERT, associate director of the Office of Facilities and Planning and a CAH member, said the signs at Wesco weren't as accessible as he had hoped. There were problems with the constructions plans in the signs' placement, he said.
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, said more work needed to be done to improve signs for the visually handicapped.
Williams said the CAH, which operates under the Office of Student Affairs, helps the University identify hazardous areas for building codes that building codes are followed, he said.
HE SAID Walkins Memorial Hospital and the additions to Learned Hall comply with federal guidelines to make signs legible for blind students. The committee now is inspecting plans for all new buildings at KU, he said.
KU was awarded a $300,000 grant last July by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to remove architectural barriers for the handicapped. A total of 174 elevators of elevators in Bailey, Flint and Snow halles will be accepted later this year. Bids will be accepted later this year.
Besides blind students, the CAH also considers problems of the temporarily
WECHECHT said the CAH decided the elevators should be improved first for handcapped students. The controls on the elevators will be made legible to the blind.
handicapped, those with heart problems and the deaf, Wiechert said.
He said there were some problems that often were unavoidable. Snow makes it difficult for blind students to find street signs, said, and sprinklers also could be a hazard.
GUTTERREZ said he had trouble with other areas on campus besides Wescoe. The exterior steps on the east side of Strong Hall are bad, he said, because they are too long and don't have guardrails. The long flight of stairs isn't safe, and doesn't have enough guardrails, he said.
Vassallo said he didn't have too many problems walking through campus. Most drivers are courteous to everyone, he said, which makes it easier for blind students.
Charles Hallenbeck, professor of psychology who is blind, said KU's campus was difficult for blind people but not impossible.
THE COURTESY of drivers and the attitude of the people walking through campus make walking a pleasure, unlike walking in big cities, he said.
Because his schedule doesn't change as much as students' each semester, Hallenck said, he doesn't have to learn a new route each semester.
Training for study and mobility skills for blind college students is available from the state. The Kansas Rehabilitation Center for the Blind, under the Department of Social Rehabilitation Services, provides a special training for visually handicapped college students.
Most students enrolled in the summer program have dealt with problems of learning English.
SOME OF THE educational skills taught are how to use various recording equipment available for blind students and how to take tests and write in class themes. Also, Washburn University offers a college English course at the center.
LOWELL HOLLAND, supervisor of the center, said there was no charge for students using the center. The summer college prep session lasted 10 weeks, he said.
Many college students in Kansas have used the services offered by the center,
Precarious
Blind student Joe Gutierrez, Kansas City, Ks., senior, has nearly mastered his way around campus obstacles, such as these items.