University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 25. 1976
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Senate power transfer completed
By MARTI SCHILLER
Staff Writer
Student government power at the University of Kansas was transferred last night when last term's senators met with the senators elected last week.
The last act of the old Student Senate was to elect three past postmen to holdover seats, and the first act of the new Senate was to elect senators for the Committee on Committees.
The Senators also were addressed by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Ed Rolfs, outgoing student body president, and Tedde Tassheff, the new student body president.
David Shapiro, Lawrence junior, was elected to one of the holdover seats. Shapiro lost to Tasheff in a bid for student body president.
ADRIENNE HYLE, Manhattan graduate student, and Bruce Woner, Hutchinson senior, also were elected to holdover seats. Hyle is the co-chairman of ExSex and was a
member of StudEu. Woner was chairman of StudEu and chairman of the Elections Committee.
Five senators were elected to the Committee on Committees, which also includes the Chair of the Senate president. The committee is responsible for interviewing students interested in serving on one of the seven standing Senate committees. The committee may apply for a committee position.
Juli Anderson, Kirkwood, Mo., junior; Steve McMurray, Norton senior; Marryluce Reece, Scandia junior; Jim Williams, Salina and Woner were elected to the committee.
The committee is now accepting applications.
DYKES SAID STUDENT government during the past year had shown real progress and thanked the old Senate for the work they had done.
Dykes said there had been some
discussion in the Kansas Legislature about giving faculty less than a $ per cent salary increase, but that he was continuing to push for the full 10 per cent KU has requested. Legislators taking a bloomly look at Kansas' future, because of the continued dry weather and the depressed economy, are part of the problem. he said.
ROLFS TALKED ABOUT the successes and failures of the old Senate. The Senate's Commission on the Quality of Classroom Education has set priorities at the University, he said.
He also said the satellite student union would be a good place to put the jump circle, which was taken from the center court of Allen Field House.
"A year and a half ago, non-trained assistant professors would tell you that to excel and get promoted, you needed to publish a book or write an article—not be an excellent teacher. Now those same instructors just aren't sure what to expect,
ROLFS SAID THE athletic department was a source of frustration to last year's results.
and that's a step in the right direction," he said.
Tasheff said she would be assigning the standing committees their goals next week and announced an orientation meeting for new senators Sunday at the Kansas Union.
"The total lack of sensitivity to students by the athletic director and his staff over the past three years resulted in understandings, commitments and working relationships being lost or ignored," he said.
Rolfs also said too many state funds were being channeled into improving athletic facilities rather than into improving classroom facilities.
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By JERRY SEIB
Staff Writer
Construction projects to benefit the handicapped and are supported by the University of Kansas in construction.
Bids will be accepted later this year for construction of elevators designed to make Bailey, Flint and Snow halls more accessible to the physically handicapped, member of the Committee for the Architectural Handicapped, said yesterday.
Williams said funds for the elevators and other campus improvements to help the handcapped would come from a Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) grant the University of Kansas received this summer.
The grant and matching state funds total $300,000. Williams said.
KEITH LAWTON, director of facilities planning, said the elevators and associated projects would be funded on a priority basis after receipt of the bids.
He said the elevators in Bailey and Flint, which would be entirely new, would receive first priority, followed by the various other campus changes.
These will include the renovation of restrooms in Bailey and Snow and the addition of more curb cuts on campus to allow students to cross streets more easily, he said.
The Snow elevator project, in which an existing elevator in the hall will be thoroughly renovated, has third priority, Lawton said. If bids for the other projects must be submitted and deplete the grant funds, he said, that project may be put off to a later date.
Williams said the new elevators would cost approximately $100,000 each at rates, and he in the Show, where an elevator shaft could be used, would cost slightly less.
TOPEKA ARCHITECT Bill Hale is designing the elevators, Williams said, and the plans should be complete sometime near the middle of the year.
Bids will then be accepted for the project, and construction should start this summer.
Williams said the elevator additions were part of a four-year plan to make the campus accessible to handicapped persons. The architect, Donna Brown, for the Architectural Handicapped in 1974.
Many of the projects the committee recommended were completed in 1975, he
said, including remodeling restrooms in seven University halls, installing ground level entrances in Hoch and Murphy Hills, adding curb cuts and publishing a campus map showing the location of building entrances for the handicapped.
THE COLOR-CODED campus map, which is now the official one, was one of the most important projects of the committee, Williams said.
The 1975 work was done for $8,000, he said. The elevators, which couldn't be added because of limited funds, are important to continuing the committee's efforts, Williams said, because other projects are useless without them.
There is no point in renovating the interior of more buildings to benefit the handicapped, he said, if those buildings are inaccessible.
"I VEH LETTERS within the last year from two people who wanted to study education," he said. "Good grief, you had to learn that you can't be because, because you can't get in the building."
Williams said the new elevators would eliminate "significant obstacles" now keeping handicapped people from unimaginating a complete educational program at KU.
Emproria Kansas State College has more applications for admission from handicapped people than it can handle, simply because the university allows the campus accessible. Williams said.
"The lack of access, which has been a tradition in the past, has kept people from engaging with the environment."
KU also provides employment opportunities, Williams said, and the improvements benefit prospective employees as well as students.
The University of Alabama recently called him at part of that school's efforts to
place handicapped graduates in places where they could get around. Williams said.
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For example, be said, Hoch Auditorium once had a step at its exit, which was dangerous to everyone as well as an obstacle for the handicapped. The step has been replaced with a sidewalk, which Williams made the building easier to reach for everyone.
FOLLOWING THE addition of the elevators, Williams said, the committee hoped to improve access to the printing service in West Campus, renovate the buildings still inaccessible and make curb cuts near mid-campus parking lots.
WILLIAMS SAID the efforts to make the KU campus accessible had proven to be unobtrusive and even beneficial for the general campus population.
Persons confined to wheelchairs can't use the bus system at present, he said, because of the lack of public transport.
He said the University of Illinois had been using buses equipped with chair lifts since 1952. The University of Illinois now has 17 such buses in use.
"They're no different from our buses," Watts said. "They're no newer, they're not."
IN SPITE OF THE CHANGE the committee is supporting, Williams said he was pleased with the progress which had been made since the committee's organization in
"In general, we've had extremely good cooperation," he said. "It's been a pretty good year."
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