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University Daily Kansan, June 16, 1980
Handicapped read from radio
By SHAWN McKAY
Art Hadley, a volunteer with Audio-Reader, a service designed to reach those who cannot see to read, prepares to read a selection of material during the "Mature Subject Hour" on a special dial selection on KANI. radium
Staff Reporter
Five years ago Donna Laushman spent countless hours reading to her bed, now lay paralyzed in a hospital bed. Not long after, she read newspapers and books over the airwaves of the Audio-Reader to her son, her son, her son, are unable to read for themselves.
Laushman did not know about the Audio-Reader until a year after her son's death.
"Four years ago I heard Rosie Hurwitz speaking on the need for volunteers to read to the blind and I've been giving my services ever since," he said then, and I know now, that there are many people out there who need me.
HURWTZ, DIRECTOR of the KU Audio-Reader, said that there was always a need for volunteers to read books, newspapers and magazines to thousands of handicapped recipients of service throughout the state of Kansas.
The Audio-Reader, established in 1971, was the second in the nation to offer specialized radio programs to those unable to read. The station broadcasts 163 hours a week of pre-recorded and live broadcasts through cable televisions and information dealing with blindness and physical impairments.
The Audio-Reader uses the KANU radio signal to broadcast its programs but it is not available to regular listeners. Recipients of the service use a special receiver to separate KANU from Audio-Reader programs.
POPULAR BOOKS with copyright dates less than two years old are offered in programs ranging from "The Mystery Hour" to the late night "Toronto Night," and "Hour" which offers adult novels and excerpts from Playboy magazine.
"The Mature Subject Hour is broadcast from 11 p.m. to midnight so listeners will not be offended," Harwit said. "Though some listeners want a quiet environment, do not air pornography. We find books that have some redeeming quality."
Art Hadley, who reads Playboy for "The Mature Subject Hour," said he
thought that listeners enjoyed the adult novels.
"Most of the listeners are receiving more enjoyment from the party jokes in Playboy than are the viewers of television," Hadley said.
"And because of the deliberate action involved in listening to the adult hour, I can't help but feel that someone to someone who is really listening.
Resident and student volunteers were responsible for more than 95 percent of broadcast time, but Hadley is paid for his work, Hurwitz said.
"Our volunteer readers derive a tremendous sense of satisfaction
when they realize that they are allowing people who could not read to read through them," Hurwitz said. "There comes a time in everyone's life when they like to feel that they really have something of great significance that they can offer to others."
WALTER SANDEALAS, former professor of political science who has been blind for 10 years, said the volunteers would never realize the amount of enjoyment they brought to the blind.
"Thanks to the Audio-Reader, I've been more well read than I've ever been in my life," Sandalela said.
"The readers allow me to keep abreast of the outside world that I can no longer see."
"Not to be able to read is an in- comprehensible thought for most of us," Hurwitz said.
"Physically handicapped people thanks to our program, can read through us."
BUT MORE FUNDS are needed for the project. Hurwitz said.
"Kansas has the fourth largest aged population in the United States with as many as 100,000 who would qualify for this type of service and there is no way that we can ever begin to serve that many," she said.
By PAUL CARMAN
Staff Reporter
"Up the Academy," originally filmed in Salina as a "family fun film" under the name "The Brave Young Men of Salina" which disappointed several Salina residents.
Col. Keith Duckers, president of the St. John's Military Academy, where most of the filming was done, said it would be to objective about the movie.
"The finished product was hardly a work of art, but I wasn't really shocked." Duckers said, "I spent most of my time watching the movie looking for people and places that I could recognize."
DUCKERS ALSO SAID he was not aware during the filming that the movie was rated R.
"The plot summary they gave me did not include any of the things that made him sick," she said. "Now that he had shown the script to some schools, but had always been turned down. By the time they came here they were gone and I never saw the script." "he said.
Duckers said that the cadets of his school were not in any of the derogatory or objected scenes.
The closest scene, he said, is the one where the cadets are "oiling" and "aathing" at Barbara Back play lt. Col. Fern Bliss.
The lines of the major characters in at least one such scene indicate the cadets are masturbating.
DANIEL BRATTON, president of Kansas Wesleyan, which was used for the filming of the Butch Academy TV series, wrote the core of the rating at the time of the filming.
"I was told that it would be a family fun movie," he said. "The plot summary was quite a bit different from what we had seen there." There was nothing enticing in all at all.
"I was not offended by it but I enjoyed it only from the point of view of seeing familiar scenes and people. It was by no means an artistic work."
Bratton said his son and daughter were in the movie.
Bratton said that had he known about the R rating he would not have allowed the film makers to use Weslevan.
But Bratton requested that all publicity for the movie not include Kansas Wesleyan and that its name be dropped from the credits.
ONE WOMAN SAID she was aware of the rating all through the production.
"I don't think it's going to be around very long. I mean, it's not going to win any Academy Awards or anything, but I enjoyed being in it. I had wanted to see the backstage part of the movie production."
The woman, Clarobel Geis, the mayor's mother, was one of the extras for the movie and said, "I think they didn't like me. They one for the theater and another for TV."
John Woody, Salina police chief, is disappointed about the way his dog was used in the film.
"They told me they were using Sgt. Patty mostly for promotional purposes," Woody said, "They said they were her almost entirely out of the film."
In one scene, actor Tom Leibman is Major Vaughan Liceman, prepares for what he hopes to be a night when he can "score." He puts several packages of money on his wallet, then offers one to Sgt. Patty, who plays Liceman's dog in the movie.
The film cuts to Sgt. Patty, who is chewing something.
"That's the kind of sexual exploitation I don't care for." Woods said.
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The movie's producers about the plot of the movie, but had told him it was going to be rated PG, he said.
"Nothing these days would really shock me," he said, "But I had no idea that it would be rated R.
"Mad magazine bought out the movie, didn't they? That probably explains it."
Duckers, reflecting on the production, the publicity and the resulting film, said. "The finished product is a bit of a disappointment that happened during the production."
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