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Wednesday, August 24, 1977
University Daily Kansa
Buildings pose barriers
Several hundred University of Kansas students were temporarily disabled last school year, they rented almost 800 room beds at the hospital and needed a therapist.
from Wattles if they buck their injuries occurred during the last half of the overseason and their classes were in Flint Hall.
specific successes that they will need to enter the building on the ground level and ride a new elevator to the second floor. If they were to lie down, they had to go up stairs in Marvin Hall.
to hip snap after step 1. Flint's new elevation is one sign of the efforts being made at KU to be accessible to students with disabilities.
make 'the cellphone'
MARVIN STANDS AS A *reminder* that much work is left to be done.
did William Balfour, former vice-chancellor for student affairs, said. It is ironic that Marvin, which houses the School of Architecture, is
Noger Williams, assistant editor for the KU Paleontological Institute, calls its commitment to "incessability."
KEITH LAWTON,
DIRECTOR of facilities
planning, said that KU is far
ahead of many other schools
in providing training
laboriously because of the committee's work.
Williams said that KU's costs would be less than some other universities because new buildings here were built to be accessible and won't require renovation.
ALLEN WIECHERT, UNIVERSITY architect, said that constructing new buildings to be accessible didn't cost much more.
"This has now become a national problem involving millions of dollars."
Williams said the committee has been involved in the planning of all new buildings since 1973.
Runt's new elevator is one project of the University Committee on the Architectureally Handcapped, begun in 1973 by Bailour and who uses a wheelchair.
Balfour said, "I was concerned about students who couldn't understand cultural barriers. Williams was instrumental in raising my consciousness about the abuse that was able to carry the ball."
But modifications and renovations cost thousands of dollars.
According to Lawton elevators in Flint and Bailey cost about
Balfour said that the committee's biggest challenge had been obtaining funding for this kind of project. $200,000 federal mot
The elevators were paid for with part of a $300,000 federal matching grant given to KU in June, 1975.
buildings since 1934. Plans are inspected by the
Handicapped aided
It's the nature of the people he deals with that makes his work with the Committee on the Architecturally Handicapped so rewarding, Roger Williams said.
rewarding, Roger Williams shot.
Two of those people are Harlan Harber and Martha Pearse,
members of the committee, who provide services to students with
disabilities through the Office of the dean of men.
Harber said he and Pearse help schedule classes in accessible buildings, discuss exam arrangements with professors of students who have visual difficulties, help with pre-enrolment and make students aware of the resources available.
hassens. the seas.
are also available to students with visual disabilities through the Library of Congress and the state library division in
Washington.
Topical
Library of Congress has a toll free number, 804-234-8567,
which may be used to find out what materials are available
Talking books can be used on a machine in room 368 of the Watson Library, Linda Parker, reference librarian, said.
which Larsen has. We also assisted blind students with term papers by getting materials together for them and orienting them and their
"IF THERE'S ONE thing I can do, it's help ease some of the hassles," he said.
reorders to the library with visual disabilities are provided by Supportive Educational Services, located in 202 Carr O'Leary
Hall. Parker said that the language lab in Wescoe Hall and Audio-Reader in Sudler Hall will provide free recording and duplicating for readers for the blind.
drum rooms, to ensure that the buildings have ground level entrances, elevators, wide enough seats for wheelchairs, suitable bathrooms, and accessible staircases.
and reachable drinking containers and upper floors. The committee also supervises the remodeling of older buildings, recommending elevators, ramps, modified restrooms, and wider doors where needed, Williams said.
AS A RESULT, KU is not faced with some of the large, costly remorse some other schools must make due to new federal
Williams said, The new regulations are part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which requires effective June 1. The Act prohibits discrimination against the handicapped by any institution that receives Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) funding.
Williams said, "Our house is in order."
According to the regulations, universities will have to make buildings accessible to the handicapped within three years or risk losing HEW funding. Ground level entrances or ramps and elevators are repaired.
WHEN STRUCTURAL CHANGES aren't possible, classes will have to be rescheduled or moved to an accessible building.
In addition, programs will have to be made available to the blind and the deaf.
and thedeal.
Lawton said that parts of the regulations are open to interpretation or new specific.
Lawton said, "If the money's there, we can make things happen."
Besides a major renovation of Marvin Hall, other needed improvements include bathroom facilities in Twente Hall and a main ground level entrance and adequate elevator at Snow Hall, Lawton said.
or are unspecific.
"What happens in the next few years is anybody's guess," he said. "It will be quite interesting."
smaller projects have been financed with allocations from the Kansas Board of Regents, he said.
According to Wiechert, a grade level entrance to Twente Hall, a ramp at Watson Library and bathroom facilities at Flint and Carrinholt O'Leary, the number of students $14,250 allocation for fiscal year, 1978, which began July 1.
WILLIAMS SAID THAT as long as regents insure the committee's efforts by con- ditioned fellow members, improvements will be made.
Lawton said that Snow is the next project on the list of priorities.
Williams said that a person in a wheelchair had to wheel against traffic on Memorial Drive to reach the only accessible entrance to Snow in the back of the building.
Chalk said the university has done a lot for accessibility but added that more needs to be done with entrances and bathroom facilities. HE SAID THE NEW federal legislation put a lever behind the work that's already going on.
"I imagine that due to the new legislation a lot of the things in the planning stages might be stepped up," he said.
planning stages might be suspended.
Students in wheelchairs get from the sidewalk to the street and back to the sidewalk using curb cuts put in by buildings and grounds crews.
CREWS.
Your ear, "There was a fair amount of publicity about the curb cuts when they were put in, but now bicyclists and others who use them aren't conscious that they were originally there for the handicapped."
Martha Hodge Smith, Lawrence law student, said, "Once something is done for persons with disabilities, it makes it easier for everyone else."
SMITH SAID THAT SHE has some difficulty walking up and down stairs but that inaccessibility is uncomfortable but not impossible for her.
165. She said the major barrier for persons with disabilities was transportation.
Smith said, "It doesn't do much good to be able to get into a building if you can't get to it."
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