University Daily Kansan, May 4, 1981
Page 9
KU upgrades access for handicapped
By FRED MARKHAM Staff Writer
Staff Writer
There seems to be some hope for handicapped students facing accessibility problems at the University of Kansas.
The University was cleared this month of any handicapped accessibility violations of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, according to Vickie Thomas, KU general counsel. The act forbids discrimination on the basis of handicap in any program or activity receiving federal assistance.
"The University is constantly working on improvements on campus for the disabled." Thomas said, "and we have met OCR (Office of Civil Rights) and our office."
The OCR has been investigating KU since June 1980 for possible violations, following a student complaint in May of that year.
In a Dec. 18 letter to Del Shankel, acting chancellor, the OCR confirmed the violations in the complaint, which centered on failure to remove structural barriers by the June 3, 1980 federal deadline, failure to provide importation for handicapped students in the scholarship that for regular students and failure to provide comparative housing to handicapped students.
Honor Harvey, associate director of the Student Assistance Center, said the improvements cited in the complaint had been delayed because of a lack of state funding.
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"The legislators did not fund all the building projects at the University," Turvey said, "and Mr. (J.J.) Wilson (KU housing director) did not fund all the building projects that he outlined in the original plan."
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But since Dec. 18, Thomas said, the OCR has closed its case as a result of the University's attempts to make its services available to disabled people.
A member of the task force committee working on the alleged violations, Roger Williams, said KU had made much progress since 1972, when an Architectural Barriers Committee was formed.
"The committee was already concentrating on better accessibility for the handicapped before Section 504 (of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act) existed." Williams said. "KU is way ahead of other schools because it isn't one of the older institutions. But the 504 act has really put a gun on the universities."
TO ANSWER THE first of the violations, Turvey said, the University has modified bathroom stalls and in-stalls to make some of the older buildings on campus.
An investigation of the second area of complaint, concerning transportation, showed that the van used to transport disabled students did not provide evening service to classes. KU On Wheels operates until 10 m.p.
Turvey said that since the original
OCR report, KU had received another lift van and now provided evening service for handicapped students to and from classes.
OCR ALSO discovered that the lift van did not provide transportation to and from the downtown areas of the city.
"In contrast," the Dec. 18 letter said, "three of six routes operated by KU On Wheels provide service between the commercial downtown area during the daytime."
Turvey said KU did not provide the service because its special vans were state-owned and law prohibited their use that way. KU On Wheels rents its buses.
The OCR investigation also found that the variety of housing available to handicapped students was not com- mitted, and it was available to unhandsicapped students.
The only housing facilities currently accessible to the handicapped are JRP, Oliver and Ellsworth residence halls.
THE ORC INVESTIGATION found that KU did not offer impressed students an all-female residence hall, a hallship hall or apartment complexes.
But in a Feb. 12 letter to ORC officials, Wilson committed his office to modifying both Miller and Pearson Scholarship Halls with things such as widened entrances, altered restroom stalls and ramp entrances.
Sunny skies and warm temperatures provide a good atmosphere for Clarence Hatch of Lawrence as he spent an afternoon fishing on the Kansas River. More warm weather is expected that will probably bring more fishermen to the river bank area next to city hall.
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