University Daily Kansan
Monday, July 15, 1974
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Audio Reader Helps Handicapped
By LARRY GREWACH
Kansan Staff Reporter
Audio Reader provides a tremendous opportunity for expanded programming to the physically handicapped, according to its new director. Rose Hurwitz.
Audio Reader is a radio service for the blind at the University of Kansas.
"It's available to anyone who is unable to read because of a physical disability." Hurwitz said recently. "The service is free. The receiver is longed for no charge."
HURWTZ BECAME DIRECTOR of Audio Reader July 1. Before that she was community affairs director for KLWN radio.
"I'm very excited about it. It's a real challenge for me," she said. "I hope to do some innovative programming here and I will see how that helps us respond from the community to help us."
Hurwitz said that Audio Reader was on the air seven days a week. The Topeka, Kansas City and Lawrence newspapers are read in the morning and in the evening. Hurwitz also discussed his day. In addition, Hurwitz said, Audio Reader has several other features: the Kitchen Sink, which presents "the lighter Side of the News" at noon, and the National Public Radio series "All Things Concerning." Hurwitz also collected a radio program from the 1980s.
Audio Reader was the idea of an anonymous KU contributor, according to Hurwitz. She said the contributor presented the equipment, including the KanU, and bought the equipment and transmitter. Hurwitz said that when Audio Reader went on the air on Oct. 11, 1971, it
Tom Fish, assistant director of Audio Reader, said that from its inception, the service relied primarily on private contributions. But on July 1, Audio Reader came under the University's funding, a move that Fish said was "a major step forward." Now private contributions are a secondary source of income for Audio Reader.
Fish and Hurwitz are the only full time
affiliates. Consequently, they operate mainly
by boat.
"Volunteer Clearinghouse has been very helpful," she said, "and occasionally when things have been really tough, I just got on with it." But the same thought I would make good readers for us.
Hurwitz said that a student could receive
up to two hours of credit for work at Audio Reader.
One of the readers, Sally M. Ewing, 703
361 St., said she had with Audio
Teaching, and that she would be
very grateful.
"They had been on the air just a week when I started in October 1971," Ewing said. "I had lost my husband in February and felt that if I could do something to help someone else it would be beneficial to both of us."
Ewing said Audio Reader subscribers liked light reading, short stories and popular novels. She said that although she knew of many small retailers, she has gotten calls from subscribers.
"The person who is handcapped will get someone to call me," she said. "And some of the compliments, well, they make your day. It's very good to hear them."
AUDIO READER'S YOUNGEST reader is 16-year-old Nancy Friayi, 810 Highland Drive, a senior at Lawrence High School. Friayi, who has worked at Audio Reader a week, said she heard about it through the Volunteer Clearing House.
Hurwitz said Audio Reader was a growing program. She said they got requests for it.
"We have about 40 local receivers in the Lawrence area," she said. "The rest of our listeners are spread all points beyond. We have a lot of people in Kansas City, and we have people in Topeka and many other small towns in Missouri and Kansas."
Josephine Bridges, Wakarusa Manor,
said she listened to all the Audio Reader
programs and liked them all. She said she
had had her receiver for about two months.
A FORMER LISTENER, George Hofer,
Cherry Manor, said he had had a receiver
for the night.
"I used to enjoy the way they put the news out." Hofer said. "The news was about all I really enjoyed because they had so much high class stuff."
Hurwitz said she would like to see expanded programming for Audio Reader.
"I'm thinking in terms of information that's valuable to everyone, such as County Home Extension Information, cooking and gardening," said the author. "people have seeing eye dogs and consequently, visits with the veterinarian on the care and handling of animals would be helpful."
"It's a marvelous opportunity to have this service and it's good to know you can contribute in some small way to make handicapped people's lives a little easier."
Kansas Staff Photo by DERBIE GUMP
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RICHARD L. BRANHAM, former president of Design Planning Group, Inc., will replace James K. Rowland as chairman of the KU department of design. He will receive a degree from KU and was a teaching assistant in the department from 1962 to 1964.
Play "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs,' Student Recital Featured Entertainment
FELLY MOOS, professor of anthropology and East Asian studies, participated in an international symposium "Social Structures and Economic Dynamics in Japan Up to 1880." June 10 and 11 at Bocconi University. Reflections on paper entitled "Acculturation and Culture Change: Reflections on the Japanese Family and Marriage."
MARY ELLEN SUTTON, Lawrence graduate student, has been appointed instructor in organ at Kansas State University. Sutton received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and is completing her Ph.D. this summer at KU.
ANNAMMA JOHN, graduate student in aerospace engineering, received a second Amelia Earlhard Fellowship Award for advanced study and research from Zonta International, a service organization of executive women in business and professions.
GRANT K. GOODMAN, professor of history and chairman of the East Asian studies program, participated in a panel on "Manuel L. Quizon in International Affairs," at California State University, June 14-16 at San Diego State University. Goodman's paper was "Quizon in Tokyo."
Entertainment highlights for this week will include a musical recital by students and adults.
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts will present a student recital at p.m. tomorrow in the Swartwout Recital Hall. It will feature violinist Barbara Hoopes, pianist Winfred Gallup and guitarist Jeff Dearinger.
The play, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," a part of the summer theatre festival's "The World of William Inge," will be shown at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the University Theatre, Murphy Hall.
the festival will also feature a lecture by John G. Clark, professor of history, entitled The Economics of Inge's World: Industry in the Urban Uprift, "at 7 tonight in 34 Murray."
SUA movies this week will be “F-Men,” directed by Anthony Mann and starring Demis Koefe and Wallace Ford, tonight; “Honor of the King,” William Holden and Kim Novak, tomorrow; “Beat the Devil,” directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Jem Jones, Wednesday and at Battler Butter, Saturday and at Battler, starring Sally O'Neill or Edw. Edwards,
Friday, The films begin at 7:30 p.m. in
Draftuum Auditorium. tickets cost 75 cents.
Exhibits on campus will be "Kansas in Transition," photographs by James E. Kearns, 1950-2018; the Museum of Art; exhibits of live bees, wooly mammoth hair and prints of state birds in the Natural History Museum; and "The Gap: A Century of Clifford Griffin in Watson Library."
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp will have a band, orchestra and chair concert at 2 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre. The band or orchestra concerts will be at 7 p.m. Sunday.
By SHARON WALSH
Local Police Need Money, Men
Kansan Staff Reporter
Both University of Kansas and Lawrence police forces could use more men, force spokesmen said last week but the money for the additions just isn't available.
The KU security force handled a total of 1,553 criminal reports in 1973, according to the police department's security. Of these reports, $25 were Part I under the state criminal code, which includes criminal homicide, forcible rape, burglary, assault, burglary, larceny and vehicle theft.
for five and parking services for six.
The department also handled 844 non-criminal reports and 219 incident reports.
Ellison said the KU security force, like many university forces, was not adequately staffed. The state provides funds for 20 security personnel. Housing funds provide
The 1972 Uniform Crime Service Report listed 2 law enforcement officials for one thousand population as the national officer and 6 officers with 1.6 officers for each thousand students.
Ellison said many universities were experiencing increases in crime rate. The crime rate at KU was up 8.1 per cent for the first four months of 1974.
"As universities expand their programs to become more relevant, they open up to a wider variety of people, and, therefore, to a wider variety of crimes and crime victims," he said. "The university is not a closed community as it once was."
This increase began in April 1970, when Lawrence voters raised the sales tax one-half cent in order to strengthen the fire and police departments.
The Lawrence police force is also under the national average, with 1.67 officers for each thousand people. However, Lawrence has had a 22.2 per cent increase in its police
force over the past four years, which brings its total number of officers to 74.
Richard Stanivix, Lawrence police chief,
said. "We are still somewhat understaffed.
We could always use more men
somewhere."
The crime rate for Lawrence during the first five months of 1974 was 11.8 per cent higher than the 1973 rate. L. Vernon Harrell of the Lawrence police department said the crime rates for cities the size of Kansas were an average of 17 per cent across the nation.
Weaving Gets Increased Local Interest
Suburban areas such as Lawrence have surpassed the big city areas as leaders in the national crime rate, Harrell said. Where crimes in many suburban areas are much higher than in cities of more than one million population have shown an increase of only 2 per cent.
she increased interest in all crafts, including woodworking, Christmas and restoring. She said the fact that women were everywhere 'showed increased interest in all crafts, including woodworking, Christmas and restoring.'
There is a resurging interest in weaving in Lawrence,
Martin Lynch, a professional weaver.
The owner of a downtown crafts shop, Gary Fallon, agreed that more people have become involved in weaving. It was hard to judge the number of people who were involved in weaving because many people had built their looms.
Fallon said weaving wasn't economical, but getting a product made to the individual's own tastes, or to make it for someone else was much more efficient.
Evelyn Degraw, professor of design, said that the KU weaving studio had about a hundred looms used by the weaving, occupational therapy and art education departments.
There seems to be a trend toward three dimensional weaving, or weaving that has depth, width, and length, respectively.
Degraw said the studio had been moved from Broadcasting Hall to Lindley Annex during the summer.
Degraw said she started teaching weaving at KU in 1948. When she began teaching, Degraw said, she had 12 students in the textile department. She has 200 students in the department now, she said.
"It's purely decorative. They're hung in stairwells and various parts of the house," she said.
Ella Deem, who teaches weaving at the Community
Deen said that the weaving room was open almost year round. There is a loom fee, she said, and people can call for an appointment or come in any time on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
She said that there were no scheduled classes and that students could come and go at their convenience on Tuesday.
She said most of her work had been inspired by craft-smanship in the Southwest, particularly the work of the Hopi Indians. She said she was trying to publish a book on the work of the Hopi. In the book, she said, she tried to show how the Hopi crafts related with the Hopi religion and philosophy of life.
She had quite a number of people weaving, Deen said, and during the winter as many as 30 to 35 persons a month. They were all in the same village.
Building, 115 W. 11th Street, said, "it doesn't take long to learn weaving."
The Kaw Valley Weavers Guild, a group of amateur and professional weavers from the Lawrence area, was formed several years ago.
"We're really quite new," Brown, a member and former president of the group, said.
Brown, who has worked as an interior decorator, said she both attracted to weaving because she was able to work with the materials. "It's a lot of fun," she said.
About 150 students are learning to weave at the Musou Western Music and Art Camp, Rudy Kovacka, who teaches
"Maybe in a year or two we will see a crime decrease in Lawrence," Harrell said. "Especially if we can keep the number of police units we now have on the street."
The weaving classes are one of the six classes each art camper may choose.
Both Harrell and Ellison mentioned the importance of a daily functional relationship among the University, Lawrence and Douglas County police forces.
"We cooperate with the Lawrence force on daily investigations and patrol," Ellison said. "Cases that occur geographically on campus are handled by our university corps in schools or effect."
Neither police force expects funding for additional staff members in the near future. Although KU requested an increase from 1971 to 1974, the staff has remained the same.
City Commissioner Nancy Hambleton recently raised the issue of cutting the budget of the Lawrence force. She said later, however, that she would want the cut only if Lawrence "could get service as good as at present with fewer people."
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