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Wednesday, October 18, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Bus service for handicapped students wins support
Rv DEB RIECHMANN
Staff Reporter
Kate O'Hara, Lawrence junior, was snowbowl
last winter for five days and could not attend her
O'Hara, who had polio as a child and uses crutches to walk, said yesterday that handicapped students would appreciate a means of safe campus transportation during the winter.
"The walks were covered with ice and snow and were impossible to walk across," she said. "KU on Wheels does not stop at every building and as a result there is a long walk across ice to get to class."
However, students at KU who have permanent or temporary disabilities might not be snowed in this winter.
"On extreme days I just didn't go. I didn't want to fall—I had fallen several times."
With proper funds, a door-to-door services could be offered by the end of November to students who have been admitted to the program.
A FORD van, owned by the University, already is equipped with a wheelchair lift. Bob Turvey, assistant director of the student assistance center, said he was working out details of the service with the
Mike Harker, student body president, said he would submit a proposal to the Senate at its Nov. 1 meeting, asking for $0,000 or $7,000 to cover the cost of his salary, gasoline and maintenance of the van.
bus service. He said he hoped the van's operational costs would be absorbed by the Student Senate.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said he would recommend that the proposal be approved by the administration if operational costs were covered by the Senate.
"We haven't seen an actual proposal, but I would
personally be in favor of using the van if operational costs are provided," Shankel said.
The van was purchased by the University last summer and is being used for student field trips. It can transport seven or eight persons in addition to a student in a wheelchair.
TURVEY ESTIMATED that 25 handicapped students on campus needed a better way to get to classes. He also said more students with disabilities could be attracted to KU if such a service existed.
done without a transportation system, but we really don't have a clear cut way of transportation."
Tom Bissingham, Shawnee junior who uses a wheelchair, said. "There are lot of students who have
Last winter, before Bissing purchased his electric wheelchair, he attended classes after clearing his car of snow and driving to a handicapped parking space on campus.
However, he still had the problem of moving from his car to the building, he said.
"When the snow got so deep, there was no way you could get around in a wheelchair," he said. "During one snow, I was snowbowl and couldn't even get to my car. I only made of my 12 classes that week."
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Today is the day to sign up for this
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with us having to pay a $15 fee.
Gene Wee, Student Union Activities adviser and coordinator of the event, said recently that late registration would be accepted during Friday in the SUA office.
Persons also can register from 9:30 to 11:30 Saturday morning and 8 to 10 Sunday morning at the meet site. Wee said the quickest way to get to the site was to take U.S. 24 west to Perry, where signs would point out the location.
Wee said orientеring involved finding markers in an unknown area in the shortest route.
Categories for all ages and levels of experience in the sport are offered at the two-day meet. Depending on which category a person enters, the fee is $2£43 or day or $4£43.
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The orienteering meet is sponsored by SUA's Orienteer Kansas group and the Possum Trot Orienteer Club of Kansas City, Kan.
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