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Tuesday, April 23, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIE
Obstacle Course
Students walking up the sidewalk south of Wescahoe Hall yesterday found a spindle harping their way. One student decided to go over and start playing with it.
The University of Kansas could make 42 primary campus buildings accessible to physically disabled people for about $75,000 according to a report by the University Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped.
Bob Harris, assistant instructor in psychology and chairman of the committee, said recently he defined barriers according to the needs of the disabled people. Building entrances and restrooms that were inaccessible by wheelchairs had been addressed, Bob Harris wrote the committee's report.
Bailour said chances for a 1976 budget allotment of $7,000 were less than good.
$75,000 Requested to Aid Disabled
Harris' committee is operating under a decree of William M. Bafour, vice chairman of the committee.
"It would be nice to get enough money to it all at once," he said, "I hope we can ask for separate funds but I'm pessimistic that we're going to be going at it piecemeal again."
"People like to think it's just the problem of handicapped people," Harris said. " we're trying to think in a broader perspective on this whole issue. Barriers are not just the problems of people in wheelchairs—they're people problems."
Balfour said the vice chancellors and the chancellor would decide in two or three weeks whether to include the $75,000 in their budget request for fiscal year 1978.
Food Co-Op Serves Area Commune
By NANCY SMITH
Kansas Staff Reporter
Arch Naramore lives north of town in an old farm house with a small group of Guru Maharaj. JI's devotees. They are the members of the Divine Light Food Co-Op in Kansas City.
A CLERK at Foods for Health, a local health foods store, said that it was possible they had lost some business because of food cooperatives but that members of food cooperatives weren't necessarily looking for health foods to purchase in bulk.
Many area food cooperative participants are young people, often KU students or former students. Many are vegetarians, all are trying to beat the rising cost of food
Managers and assistant managers at four Lawrence grocery stores said they were unaware of the existence of any food cooperatives in Lawrence. The owner of a specialty food store, the Mercantile, said he also was unaware of any food cooperatives.
The Divine Light is one of at least four fairly large food cooperative operating in the city. Several food cooperative members said they thought numerous informal food purchasing arrangements existed among smaller groups of friends.
Naramee is one of about 20 of Maharaji Ji's devotees living in the Lawrence area
who buy from the Divine Food Co-Op.
Of the group living with him, Narameo said that each of seven adults living in the farm house contributes $40-a-month for food. That amount feeds them and three
Butter from the Divine Food Co-Op sells for 77 cents a pound, carrots for seven cents a pound, and homogenized milk for $1.32 a gallon.
ROBYN SCHEURICH, a member of the group, said they usually bought margarine, oil toilet paper and cleaning agents from Sainsbury's. The business is easier than keeping track of supplies.
Religion and economics are the reasons why from Divine Food Co-Op, Schertler can sell it.
Five acres of rich river-bottom land around the farm house will be worked to produce fresh vegetables for the cooperative, Scheurich said.
The group also keeps a supply of fresh goat's milk. A dozen gouts graze in the yard.
A young man living near the University of Kansas campus, who asked to be identified only as Jim, decided to form a food cooperative with 20 friends about four months ago. Membership has grown to more than 73 and includes two child care groups.
fruits and vegetables for two-week periods,
milk and milk products weekly, and grain
Early every other Saturday, Jim and a few friends drive to the Farmers Market in Kansas City, Mo., to buy fruit and vegetables.
The day before, one co-op member canvasses two local supermarkets, as the other canvases three.
"Sometimes, if the price is the same but the producer is better quality, we'll go ahead and buy at the Farmers Market. If the price is higher, we don't buy," one member said.
MILK, EGGS AND BUTTER are purchased from Hairy's Dairy Farm in Topica. Cooperative members make the trip one hour and spend about $100 each month, (in tip).
Jim said he thought the group saved about 35 per cent on fruits and vegetables, based on a comparison of local prices and prices paid at Farmers Market.
Organic grains, dried beans and rice are bought from Great Plains Natural Foods in Bloomington.
He said the cooperative took a great deal of his time in the beginning, but now that it was organized, no one individual had to spend a lot of time on the operation.
Savings on the grains could be as high as 50 per cent. according to Jim.
A child care center and a child care
A spokesman for the child care cooperative said, "It's very pleasant to get together on Saturdays and divide up all that beautiful looking food."
One member said the group was trying to accumulate enough pressure cookers and mason jars to can and preserve what they grew.
THERE ARE about 80 persons in this group, many of whom are KU students.
Chris Rose, a member of the defunct Douglas County Food Cooperative, said that group existed through last summer. At one time it had about 70 members.
"If your time is worth anything, food cooperatives don't save you a nickel," Rose said. "Otherwise, you can save from 25 to 50 per cent, especially on things like onions."
Jews for Jesus Sponsor Singers
She said that produce from the Farmers Market was very high quality but that the group still found it hard to compete with the success of North Lawrence's summer producer.
cooperative also participate in the food cooperative.
Members of another local food cooperative are considering going into cooperative organic gardening to completely eliminate buying produce.
The Liberated Wailing Wall, a singing group sponsored by the Campus Christians and representing the Jews for Jesus, will be in Lawrence today to spread their message.
"We want to let both Jews and Gentiles know that Jesus, the Jewish messiah, can change and fulfill lives and bring people together with God," said Steff Geiser, a member of the singing group. "This message is important enough for us to travel the world in order to help Christians will heal it. Unfortunately, most Jewish people don't know that Jesus is an option for them and they can accept Jesus and remain Jewish," Geiser said.
The name, "Liberated Wailing Wall," has a double meaning to the Jews for Jesus. It represents the liberation of the east wall of the Temple of Herod, which was retaken by the Israeli army in 1967, and also represents the liberation of the Jews from sin by ac-
capturing Christianity, according to D. J.
Kimberly, a senior education helping to
protect the group.
The three women and three men in the group play instruments such as the recorder, acoustic guitar, piano and the dunebek (a Middle-Eastern drum).
The members of the group come from a variety of backgrounds. Sam Nadler, who plays the dunbuck, is a former deo dealer from New York, Miriam Nadler, his wife, is the group's leader and the only Gentleman of the band, as well as composer, has a master's degree in music education from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, Naomi Green, who
"We play Israeli-sounding music with most of the lyrics coming from the Bible, but we play some traditional Israeli music for ourselves," she said. "The guitar and does art work for the group."
The group made one album called "Himeni," a Hebrew word meaning "here I am." The word was used by people in the Middle East. But God that they were willing to serve Him.
plays the recorder, has studied at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Barry Ellegant, a teacher from Chicago, still wears a leather jacket. Jewish girls and sings traditional Jewish prayers.
The group also does skirts during its concerts. One skirt, called "Tradition", shows the common family objections and understandings to Jews believing in Jesus.
Linda Lown is manager of a 500-member food cooperative at Penn House, an East Lawrence self-help organization at 1035 Pennsylvania St.
“Prices aren't that much lower here, but we're convenient,” she said. “Shopping here gives neighbors a good chance to get together.”
LOWN BUYS from Kansas City wholesaler twice monthly. She spends between $500 and $600 each trip for canned or frozen fruits, vegetables or milk products are sold.
Members of cooperatives that handle fresh foods said they didn't store them. Pick-ups by members are made each week. Cooperatives return from Kansas City and Topeka.
The weekly get-together seems to come off more as parties than as grocery pick-
Everybody helps in and sacks his own order. Jim sets of his group. It saves time the next day.
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Balfour said he was impressed by the report. It was organized, he said, so that he could check off improvements as they were made.
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"You can't just run off and present this thing to the reges," he said. "I think they're going to think this is really something. I hope they'll find it helpful in alleviating some of the barrier problems here."
Harris is hoping for a successful appeal to administrators.
Harris said his wife, Christine, a graduate student in psychology, and Don Whipple, director of architectural services, had worked 60 hours of work that went into the report.
52 categories. Each category isolated one aspect of accessibility to disabled people. One category, for example, requires that names and directions in buildings were undertaken so that blind people could read them. Telephones and pay telephone must be installed to allow people in wheelchairs to use them. All the information was tabulated by computer.
PURPOSE-To discuss the organization and structure of our new journalism society. (Its benefits before and after you graduate.) Students from all sequences are welcome.
The report surveyed 104 campus buildings. Each building was evaluated in
The University presently is correcting physical barriers during the planning stages of new buildings. Watkins hospital, its said, is almost completely barrier free.
PLAN TO ATTEND!
The elimination of physical barriers could make KU more attractive to disabled veterans. Harris said there were 25,000 paraplegics who had full GI benefits.
Let's decide what we are going to do.
Roberd Redder & Mia Marron
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