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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 4, 1989
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Group petitions for local hungry 2,000 sign request for action
By Chris Evans
Kansan staff writer
The president of KU Students Against Hunger Inc. last night encouraged the Lawrence City Commission to take an active part in helping Lawrence's hungry and homeless.
Presenting a petition with about 2,000 signatures of concerned students, residents and merchants, Karin Denes asked the commission to start a mayor's task force to
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investigate problems and propose solutions to hunger issues in Lawrence.
"Up to this point we haven't had such a mechanism in Lawrence," Denes said. "We're hoping that if the task force is sponsored by the City Commission, their findings will be seen as valid."
Denes said that she wanted to see University and community involvement in the task force but that a commissioner should chair the group.
"If a city commissioner is in charge of this issue then it could be credible because he would be unbiased," she said. "He wouldn't be
looking at hungry faces every day like someone from the Salvation Army would."
Commissioners expressed interest in the proposal, but some were concerned that such a task force might be redundant.
"What we don't want to do in this commission is duplicate an action being taken by a certain agency." Mayor Bob Schumm said. "A task force is usually a very dramatic step."
Commissioner; Shirley Martin-Smith said that the United Way currently was working on these issues.
Commissioner Mike Rundle said he saw room for improvement in local social programs.
"Traditionally, cities have not been as active in social services," he said. "That's changed dramatically in the past few years, but I'm sure there are still people falling through the cracks."
Denes said that she felt good about commissioners' reactions and that she would stay with the issue until something was done.
"They seemed very concerned," she said. "But this is something that has to be approached slowly. I'll be getting back to them very soon."
KU makes mobility easier for disabled Science library to provide better access
By Cory S. Anderson Kansan staff writer
The trek from Haworth Hall, behind Malott Hall at the bottom of the hill, to Jayhawk Boulevard might be tiring for the average student, but for someone who is disabled it could be impossible.
Chris Hamilton, Kansas City, Kan,
junior, is a disabled student. But, he
said, he is one of the lucky ones.
"I haven't had too many problems going from Haworth to the Boulevard," he said. "But I'm sure there are so many Individuals that find it very hard."
The completion of the new Anschutz Science Library will make it possible for students in wheelchairs and those with other mobility problems to go from Haworth to the Boulevard with much fewer problems than before.
"When the science library went in, it was decided there needed to be access from Jayhawk Boulevard to the building," he said.
Bob Turvey, associate director of the Student Assistance Center, said the construction of an elevator on the back corner of Hoch Auditorium would create an accessibility link from the top of campus to the bottom.
To establish this, a staircase was added connecting Hoch to the library. To supplement the staircase, a hand-capped student's card and hand-capped students' Survey said.
"You can now, without ever having to physically go up a hill, go from the bottom to the top of campus," he said.
Once inside Malott, students can use the elevators to get to the bridge to Haworth, and then the Haworth elevators to get to the ground floor, Turvey said.
Handicapped students will be able to use the elevator to get to the Science Library. From there, there is a ramp which leads to Malcolm Hall.
"That is a major improvement for accessibility on this campus," he said. "The intent and plans say that this will be a very accessible building, inside the building itself, all the basic accessibility are there."
Turvey said the building met, and exceeded in some places, all the accessibility standards of the American National Standards Institute, which set national standards for handicapped accessibility. Things such as restrooms, fountains, elevator buttons and book drops have been designed to be easily used by those with disabilities.
"We have even lowered the desk areas a person in a wheelchair will be able to communicate comfortably with the people behind the desks," he said. "Things have been very carefully reviewed and I'm not anticipating any problems."
Turvey said that overall the campus was in good shape in terms of handicap accessibility. All buildings have accessible bathrooms and entries and almost all have elevators, he said.
"I think that it will be a really big help for disabled students," he said. "For people in wheelchairs who can't get up stairs, it's a big improvement."
There are about 15 students who use wheelchairs on campus, Turvey said, but that is an unofficial number.
"It's hard to say how many there are because so many students don't have to come to the office for help anymore," he said.
Hamilton was excited about the new route.
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Bill Christman watches Bob Eates, Wyatt Waterproofing bricklayer, cut a control joint into the Kansas Union roof.
Union gets brickwork, roof repair Two-phase job planned to be done by July
By a Kansan reporter
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The Kansas Union is receiving new brickwork, mortar and roof sections in a two-phase masonry project, a director of facilities planned.
Dave Schaecher, assistant director of facilities planning, said the project's first phase would be done in early December. Phase two then would begin in March and would be completed by July, he said.
The project was
he project was originally a roofing project, but there were aging sections of the exterior walls, and age was showing in the tuck pointing.
Pat Beard
manager of Union building services
Half of the building will receive work in phase one and the other half in phase two.
Schaefer said Wyatt Water-proofing of Lawrence was contracted for the $450,600 job. Pat Beard, manager of building services for the Union, said the project began in September.
"The project was originally a roofing project, but there were aging sections of the exterior walls, and age was showing in the tuck pointing." he said.
Beard said tuck pointing was the mortar between the bricks and stones.
He said that there were some leaks and some noticed deterioration to the roofing system and the exterior walls, but that the project was mainly for preventive maintenance.
Police rule Missouri man's death a homicide
Allen Wiechert, University director for facilities planning, said the deteriorated mortar would be taken out and replaced.
Kansan staff writer
By Jim Petterson
Authorities have identified the body that was discovered Monday in northern Douglas County as Timothy K. Ridnell, 18, Independence, Mo.
Anderson declined to comment about how many times Ridpath was shot or the location of the wounds.
Loren Anderson, Douglas County sheriff, said an autopsy completed Monday by Carol Moddrel, Douglas County coroner, revealed that Ridpath had died of gunshot wounds late Sunday night.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence Police Department spokesman, said Monday that there were signs of trauma on the man's body and that investigators discovered blood on the head and neck.
Ridpath's body was found early Monday morning lying next to his car on Douglas County Road 1250E, about 1/4 mile south of U.S. Highway
24-59 and $\frac{1}{2}$ mile north of Lawrence's northern city limit.
Anderson said he didn't yet know why kidpath was there. "He wasn't published that he wasn't
a student here in Lawrence," he said. Anderson sales to the community coincided, indicating that a struggle took place was found at the crime scene.
"There's nothing to give us any strong idea that robbery would have been the motive," he said. "At this
point, suicide has also been ruled out."
Anderson said officers completed an extensive canvass Monday of the neighborhood near the crime scene but found no one who had heard any gunshots.
Anderson said 18 officers from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, Lawrence Police Department, Kansas Bureau of Investigation and KU police are currently working on the investigation.
KU Assembly approves biology major in genetics
By a Kansan reporter
Students majoring in biology may now find a genetics option open, the College Assembly said yesterday.
approved, among other changes, the new biology major.
About 100 College Assembly members met at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union for their first meeting of the semester. They
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James Muyskens, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that a committee for undergraduate and graduate studies soon would investigate a number of issues.
The assembly also approved class deletions and additions in biological sciences, communication studies, French and Italian, geology, history, philosophy, physics and astronomy, political science, religious studies, Spanish and Portuguese and theatre
Muyksens said the committee for undergraduate studies, along with proposing curricular changes, was
investigating over-enrolled studies. Over-enrolled schools are those that have an increasing number of students and many areas to major in.
Muyksens said that the School of Journalism and the School of Education were two areas with overcrowding.
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