University Daily Kansan
KU slowly opens to handicapped
By DEBBIE EIFFERT
Staff Writer
A $3 million project to ensure that handicapped students at the University of Kansas have access to campus buildings is under way.
A task force committee June 2 recommended more curb cuts, elevators, ground level building entrances and double-entry doors. University director of facilities planning.
"Every program must be accessible and all new buildings must be accessible," Bonnie Ritter, director of the office of affirmative action, said yesterday.
In April 1977, she said, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare appended regulations to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to ensure that handicapped students do not suffer discrimination.
Compliance with the regulations, Ritter said, can be made either by moving programs and offices around or by physical building changes.
ing changes:
KU SHOULD BE in complete compliance
the regulations by July 1958, she said. The Kansas Union Bookstore is attempting to comply with the regulations in its current remodeling.
with the regulations by June 1983, she said.
"We're making provisions to ensure that there will be no problem whatsoever for the handicapped," Frank Burge, director of the Union, said.
Union, said,
"We have improvements included
automatic doors, wider aisles to
accommodate machine beds and a customer
services booth with an attendant to
book order books."
take textbook orders.
The bookstore's textbook department is capable of transcribing to handicapped students, according to Steve Jewett, textbook manager.
book mains
students using wheelchairs had been using a freight elevator to get to the textbook section, though the elevator was inconvenient as it opened onto the storage room.
KU HAS BEEN modifying buildings since 1973, when a Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped was appointed. The buildings already considered accessible
are Oliver Hall, Hoch Auditorium, the Marvin annexes, Fowler Hall, the Kansas Union, Blake Hall, Watson Library, Bailey Hall, Strong Hall, Summerfield Hall, Murphy Hall, Malot Hall, Learned Hall Danforth Chapel, new Green Hall, Robinson Gymnasium, Haworth Hall, Robinson Wescoche Hall, the printing service, the Art Design Building, the Computation Services Building, Spencer Museum of Art, Sprague Apartments, the pharmaceutical laboratory and the Drug Design Building. An elevator in Flint Hall was installed last year to make its upper floors accessible.
year to make these commissions were made to install wheelchair lifts in Templin Hall, Lewis Hall and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall; to install elevators in Twenthe Hill, Lewis Hall; and to upgrade elevators in Twente Hill, Lindley Hall and Strong Hall.
Ritter said that thus far the project was on schedule and that the plans that were turned in early this month needed only to be implemented.
Temperature, air conditioner sales up
Sales of room air conditioners in Lawrence seem to have risen with the temperature this past week.
Temperature this past
Temperatures have soared into the 98s
the past two weeks. The humidity has been
high, too.
KUAC...
Lee Kennedy, appliance manager at Montgomery Ward and Co. 23rd Street and
16th Street.
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pliance, or on the way to compliance, with Title 1X.
Most of the stores that handle room air conditioners said that they had an ample supply but that they expected sales to increase even more beginning July 1.
"I believe that after the increases we're getting on the budget and especially with the plans we have for the future. I could sign a form asking us to pay more taxes on concrete plants," Hogan said.
HOGAN AND SHANKEL spoke repeatedly of plans.
"I think we've done all we could do," Shankel said. "I'm sure we will continue to make progress. I hope that when the time comes for negotiation, we'll be found to compliance."
However, Levinson said the plans of the administration were so gradual that they could be considered a success.
"They don't care one way or another," she said.
"I think they could change things if they wanted to. They say that 'equal opportunity' is too vague, but if they look at big things like the moon or the sun, they'd see there's a lot that could be changed."
Thomas bad said that if complaints were filed that indicated he had been exposed to drugs, the complaint could be done.
Levinson said that last month she filed a complaint with HEW concerning disparities in employment.
THE COMPLAINT SAID inequities existed between the men's and women's athletic programs in such areas as coaches salaries, athletics training, training and travel funds.
Levinson said she had not yet received a response to the complaint and did not expect
one book and she hoped other students would file complaints.
"KU is waiting to be threatened," she said. "All the schools on the east coast are vastly increasing funding for women's athletics because they want to."
A complaint last year concerning training facilities brought an HEW investigation to the Department.
Shankel said, "We're in the process of doing the things they suggested. We've added funding and we're putting in additional equipment for women."
Washington said the new training facilities for women would be ready to use.
"I've been assured that we will be in there for the fall semester," she said.
Hogan said that although there was no institutional sex discrimination at KU, there were problems because of the unavailability of funds.
Ousdahl Road, said yesterday that his sales last week had been good, but below average before that.
"We sell what we have on hand, and our sales have been adequate or a little more than last year," Kennedy said.
"There are plenty to go around, but once we sell those, we won't be getting any more until next year. We have to start ordering in September and October."
Other department stores, such as Sears, Roebuck and Co., 939 Iowa St., K-Mart Discount Store, 31st and Iowa streets, and Otasco, 1818 Massachusetts St., said they had enough air conditioners on hand. They expect sales to increase this weekend.
TWO APPLIANCE businesses downtown have enough air conditioners on hand for now, but if they had a rush on sales, some would be able to order more.
Roger Scott, manager of Stock Ammunition Equipment, 1813 Bulleen Ave., said he expected to do his best business from the beginning. He said that his supply of air conditioners was steady.
'We anticipate how many we'll need and order in January,' Scott said.
"We sell as many as we can until the first of August, and after that we really can't expect to sell very many. Sometimes, we end up eating 'together in December."
Scott said that his firm stocked as many as they could during the summer and that if he sold all of those, he could fall back on a sumly in Kansas City.
At Ed Marling's, 825 Massachusetts St., Dave Pearl, the assistant manager, said that people who are thinking about buying an air conditioner should buy one soon because a wide variety of air conditioners would not be available in a few weeks.
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