The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 157 Thursday, July 24, 1980
Members of the Kansas Against the Draft and the Kansas Anti-Draft Organization march past strong Hall Monday to protest the revival of draft
registration. Members of the groups continue to protest this week in front of the Lawrence post office as registration of 20-year-old men continues.
Registrants sign; protesters persist
By DAN TORCHIA Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Two 28-year-old walks through the doors of office with a hand in his pocket Tuesday. An anti-draft protocol followed the day before.
"Are you going to register?" the protester asked.
"Yeah," said the 20-year-old, who was wearing a cowboy hat. "Where do we go?"
Someone directed them to a corner of the room, away from the swelling line of regular peptic ulcers.
"Why? Are you afraid of the government?" he asked.
"Why the hell should I be afraid of the government?"
THE PROTESTER tried one more time. The two registrants were not listening...
"I just wanted to give you some different ideas," the protester said.
"Screw your ideas," the registrant said.
They finished their forms. The protester returned to the aroun.
"We don't want to be loud" Sean Santoro, a leader of the Kansas Anti-Draft Organization, said.
That was Tuesday. Yesterday, instead of talking to potential registrants, members of the anti-draft group were content to stay outside “to be a presence around here” one professor said.
"When you do it for three days, you get bored."
another member said. "We're talking to ourselves now."
JACK HARRIS, Lawrence postmaster, said there had been no problems with registration. Most of the registrants have been coming to the offices where the branches in Strong Hall and on 23rd Street.
"There usually is a rush in the afternoon," people are having any effect.
Brian Shultz, of the anti-draft people are having any effect."
Brian Shultz, of the anti-draft group, thought otherwise.
"I don't think they'll have that much success," he said. "Most aren't registering."
Shultz's statement appeared to be true. Two-hundred and sixty-four men registered Monday and Tuesday. Postal officials would not divulge Wednesday's totals. Each day, 250 would have to register during the two week period to reach Harris' stated goal of 3,000.
The handicapped cope with unusual problems
Harris emphasized his figure was an estimate. "We are doing this for the Selective Service," he said.
It takes less time to register for the Selective
Service than to mail a letter. There have not
been bottlenecks in this process.
**THIS WEEK**, 20-year-olds will filter in and fill out an "a-8-inch card. Next week is the 19-year-old card."
See DRAFT back page
By LAURA LUCKERT
Staff Reporter
Handicapped people face some obvious and some not-so-obvious hardships.
"Have you ever tried to clean a dog that has lain in colla throughout the entire second showing of 'The Empire Strikes back'?" Mike Byington, housing director for Independence Incorporated, an independent Independence Incorporated is an independent living resources center for the handicapped.
That was one of the not so obvious problems he and his wife, Anne, had in going to movies. His
"I am partially blind and my wife is totally blind but, except for the cola, we thoroughly understand what he sees."
SOME OF THE more obvious hardships handicapped people face, he said, involve access to buildings, including some at the University of Kansas.
John Siler. 1107. w 27 W St., whose wife attends classes at KU in a wheelchair, said Murphy Hall.
KU has had a difficult time trying to meet federal guidelines for accommodating handicapped people. Byington said. The buildings are not about any way for the handicapped to get into them.
WATSON LIBRARY also has poor access for the handicapped. Siler said.
"My wife wanted to get her picture taken for her ID, and the administration said Watson library, where the photo services were, was there," he said. "People, people," he said. "We found out that wasn't true."
Siler said he be complained and eventually got the location of photo services for the handcamera.
"But then you had to make an appointment if you wanted your ID picture taken and that was paid for."
Problems concerning the handicapped who live in Lawrence will soon be dealt with because of the creation this week of a city advisory board on handicapped needs.
"We want to form an advisory board to work out solutions for the handicapped," Ed Carter.
mayor, said at the city commission meeting Tuesday evening. "The Commission is eager to find what we can do to make things easier for the handcapped in Lawrence."
THE CITY COMMISSION Tuesday unanimously approved Carter's motion to find individuals to serve on the advisory board and to request input from Independence Incorporated.
Jerry Vogel, vice-president of the consumer advisory committee, told the Commission he had been confined to a wheelchair for 28 years and had seen Lawrence come a long way in accommodating handicapped individuals, but there were still problems.
"There are so many small things that abble-bodied people just don't realize that handicapped people have it."
BUT BYINGTON, who spent a great deal of time trying to have buildings changed to meet federal guidelines for the handicapped, admitted that he made mistakes in choosing their own residences.
"My wife is blind and yet the place where we live has seven steps up to the front door," Byington said. "At least I am only renting the place, and I didn't bwi it."
Siler said that since his wife uses crutches at home he did not realize the problems in his own home until an individual confined to a wheelchair spent the night.
"I was so embarrassed. I couldn't get the 'i' into the bathroom," he said. "The door-way is like a hole."
BYINGTON SAID HE attended a convention for the handicapped and was surprised at how many people are handicapped because of automobile and skiing accidents.
"Many of these people have accidents after they own their home," he said, "and then all of a sudden their home is completely inaccessible to them. You can drive a wheelchair and can't go up and down stairs."
Byington said people do not realize that if a house or a building provides accessibility to the handcapped, it improves accessibility to people without handicaps.
*ST. JOHN'S CHURCH* added a ramp recently which extends along the side of the church, and if you watch the people who use that ramp, you'll see that they are not all handicapped," he said. "Elderly people, mothers with children in their arms or in strollers and toddlers use it."
Weather
The weather forecast calls for temperatures to remain in the 90s through the weekend with a chance of thundershowers this weekend. The temperature today will reach 95 with sunny and clear skies and winds from the south at 5-15 mph. Tonight, skies will be mostly clear with a slight chance of thundershowers. The low temperature will be拍下 tomorrow. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a slight chance of scattered thundershowers. The highs will be in the mid to upper 90s. Tomorrow, night skies will remain partly cloudy with a slight chance of scattered thundershowers and a low temperature in the mid 70s. Temperatures will be cooler Saturday with the high expected to reach 90. Skies will be partly cloudy on Monday and a chance of thundershowers. The low temperature on Saturday night will be about 70 and the high temperature Sunday will again be near 90. There will be a chance of thundershowers Sunday night.
Fireman warns fraternity
By CHICK HOWLAND
Staff Reporter
Lawrence fire chief Jim McSwain said Tuesday that he has given the Delta Chi fraternity its last chance to comply with city fire codes and will file a complaint with the city prosecutor if the fraternity is still in violation in the fall.
The fraternity was told almost four years ago by state fire officials that additions must be made to its existing fire Campus Rd. so they will reach the ground.
Members of Delta Chi, the only KU fraternity still in violation of the code, said they had not understood what the fire department wanted, but will have the work done by fall.
TOM DAY, Delta Chi chapter adviser,
the fire escapes and should be finished by
"It's supposed to be 10 days" until the fire escapes are finished, he said. "But the time is over."
Paul Markley, state fire safety consultant, said the recommendation was made because the distance from the bottom of the fire escape to the ground would slow the evacuation of house members during a fire.
"You'd have to swing down, and that takes time," he said.
MARKLEY SAID PEOPLE could bunch up at the top of the escape and might hit someone.
Scott McDonald, former Delta Chi president, blamed the fraternity's delay on the Lawrence Fire Department. He said he never really knew what repairs were needed.
"Every time we contacted them it was something different," McDonald said.
"That is an excuse that has been used." McSnow said.
But other fraternities and sororites with similar problems have made repairs promptly and never used that excuse, he said.
mMcDONALD SAID THAT when the violations were first discovered the fraternity was told they would need a notably new fire escape, costing $24,000.
McSain said the fraternity had several fire code violations in 1976, and because most of them had been repaired, it was under extension on the fire escape deadline.
But McBwain said, "Their interpretation of it having to be all new is strictly theirs. That is a little bit misleading and an excuse for delay over a four year period."
"By all means," he said. "We're talking about four years."
But McSwain said this was the last extension that would be given.
ON THE WEST side of the Delta Chi house, fire escape stairs extend only from the left to the right.
Nearly four years after the fraternity house was first found to be in violation of city fire codes, the Delta Chi house, 1245 West Campus Rd., still lacks code-approved fire escapes. Fire escapes the fraternity has purchased to correct violations still lie on the side lawn of the house, where they have for several months, awaiting installation.
side, a fire escape ladder is the only means of escape from the third floor dormitory.
Investigations of Kansas fraternities were conducted in 1976 following a fire at Baker University that killed five members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, Markley said.
Four of those who died in the blaze had lived on the fraternity's third floor, where the police were stationed.
"Before the fire there was a resentment of going into private houses," Markley said. "But after the fire they said we better look at it."
Bus service to include east Lawrence
By TOM GRESS
Staff Reporter
This fall, for the first time, "KU on Wheels" bus service will include east Lawrence.
Steve McMurry, representative of the KU Student Senate transporte board, said yesterday that the Senate had been trying for three years to find a way to finance, but a lack of funds had thwarted its efforts.
The alterations, McMurry said, included
"Jayhawk West established their own bus system to the campus and it seems to be doing good, so we decided to back back instead of duplicating service," he said.
eliminating the service to the Wood Creek Apartments, 255 N. Mich. St., because not enough people were riding the buses. Buses will also no longer service the Jayhawk West Apartments, formerly the Frontier Ridge Apartments, in northwest Lawrence.
The route that served Jayhawk West will now only go to the Trailridge Apartments, 2500 W. Sixth St., McMurray said. But the run will now make a trip to the Sundance Apartments.
The east Lawrence route will leave the campus and travel south on Naismith Drive to 19th Street, McMurray said. It will then travel east to Haskell Avenue, north to 13th Street, and west to New Jersey Street. It will then go north to Ninth Street, west to Indiana Street and to campus.