Homeless pup
This part-collup pup is one of many animals up for adoption at the Lawrence Animal Shelter on East 19th Street. Most of the animals
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
at the shelter are strays, or pets that have been turned over by owners who no longer want them.
Stray dogs face grim fate
A man walked into the Lawrence animal shelter followed by his 6-year-old son, who was tugging a 1-year-old black Labrador in the door.
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The man's son was asked if he was sad he was losing his do.
"My landlord won't let me keep this dog," he said. "I just move into a trailer court next door."
"No. It makes an awful lot of noise and always follows me everywhere," the boy roars.
The man and the boy left after telling Helen Molton, the shelter's manager, that the man would come by the shelter the next day to help cover the cost of carpw for the unwanted boy.
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"I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts I never see them again." Melton said.
The scene is a common one at the shelter, and Melton is used to it
ONE THING she can' get used to is the fact that between August 1977 and August 1978, a total of 1,498 cats and 821 cats were destroyed at the shelter.
It is clearly not the fault of the shelter or its staff, which consists of Melton, who has managed the shelter for 20 years, and two retired persons who work half days. The building is immaculate, the animals are well fed and the staff is concerned.
animals are destroyed," Melton said. "It's the people. There wouldn't by any humane societies or animal shelters if people would kill them. And there are their animals. It's the people who are sad."
Each year in the United States, 15 million to 20 million cats and dogs are turned in to city pounds and private animal shelters. A third of these animals are in by owners who want to get rid of them.
THE REST are picked up by dog catchers or are strays taken to the shelter by dogs.
The shelter, on East 19th Street, is being expanded this year to accommodate in-
"Iresponsible people are the problem," Melton said. "If they would have their cat or dog spayed or neutered there wouldn't be any animals in my yard, and my animals has ever brought a litter into this world, and I never intend to let them after what I've seen." Melton has three dogs
What Melton has seen is dead animals—thousands of them.
"THERE are some mangle, scroungy animals that are brought in and the minute they trot in the door I know that they'll never be adopted," she said.
The method of destroying animals is a method approved by the American Humane Society, Melton said. The animal is placed in a chamber called an Euthan air. The machine is a vacuum that slowly and gently dissolves the oxygen from the animal's body.
After the first minute the animal blocks out and after the second minute it suffocates.
Milton said she usually destroyed the animals early in the morning before she was gone.
"I wander if people will be scared away from bringing their unwanted pets here after they read how many man are to sleep in," she says. "And my dog to the animal shelter, they'll kill it."
"WHAT HAPPENS is that people don't have the heart to kill their dogs themselves or bring it to the shelter so they take it to the country and dump it on a farm. It either starves to death, is shot or gets killed on the highway. That's not very humane."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Melton said college students evidently contributed to the number of abandoned animals. At the end of each semester, she said, most homeless animals are brought to shelter.
"The college kids can't be faulted too much," she said. "A lot of them are good to their animals but some of them move away and abandon their dogs by just leaving them
KANSAN
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Vol.89,No.28
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KU seeks funds to make buildings more accessible
By DEB RIECHMANN
Wednesday, October 4, 1978
Staff Reporter
Structural modification projects aimed at making the University of Kansas accessible to handicapped students and faculty are at a
Alen Wiechecht, director of facilities planning, said yesterday that all money to fund projects to make KU accessible was gone and until more funds were allocated by the state, additional projects could not be started.
According to Section 404 of a 1972 Rehabilitation Act, all higher education institutions must assure accessibility of programs and resources for students.
Renovation projects at Watson Library, Twente Hall and Twente Hall Annex, which will be completed by spring, are the last projects.
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WECHECH SAID KU would meet the deadline or, at least, would be close to finishing projects that would make the campus more accessible to KU students and faculty with physical disabilities.
If the funds are approved by the Legislature, Wiechert said, KU will not receive any money until July 1979—six months before KU leaves.
During the next session of the Kansas Legislature, $42,827 will be requested by six Kansas Board of Regents institutions to help finance the program.
Warren Corman, Regents facilities officer, said, however, he did not think any of the Regents institutions would be in compliance by them.
"I would guess that we won't make it," Corman said. "We've
done a little groundwork, but it isn't easy to get $5 million from the Legislature."
KU'S REQUEST of $1,918,170 will finance projects that provide minimum accessibility to campus buildings.
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For both campuses, KU's request is the highest of all the Regents school's attempting to comply with the rehabilitation act.
KU's request is about $1,385,000 higher than Kansas State University's request of $843,415.
Despite KU's large request, Wiechert said KU needed the sum to be in compliance.
Wiechert who K-State's request was lower because many of its buildings were older and already were scheduled for major renovations.
Roger Williams, chairman of the committee for the architecturally handcrafted at KU, was not concerned that KU's building would be built in a way similar to
"The QUESTION isn't why is KU's so high, the question is why are two teachers so low." Williams said.
Wichita State University's request is $637,500. Pittsburgh State University is asking for $231,000 and Emporia State University and Oklahoma State University are asking for $198,500.
Williams, who is disabled by muscular dystrophy, said he had not seen any reluctance on the part of the KU administration to contemplate a rehabilitation program.
But Williams said he saw no way for KU to be in compliance by 1980.
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Budget committee hears requests
R& MARV ERNST
AND TAMMY TIERNEY
After hearing supplemental budget requests from 10 campus organizations, members of the Student Senate Budget Committee deliberated for an hour and a half and made tentative recommendations on three groups' requests.
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The committee will continue to hear budget requests tonight in the Council Room and tomorrow night in the International Room of the Kansas Union. Ten groups will present their proposals each night and final proposals will be made after proposals tomorrow.
Members recommended reducing the budget requests of Alpha Phi Omega from $1,100 to $465, and an additional committee also recommended approval of a $115 request from the Chancery Club. The recommendations are subject to a vote tomorrow.
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More than $23,000 is available from unallocated funds of the Senate and another $6,535 is available from a controlled reserve fund. The committee's executive committee agrees to release the funds.
The Intercollegiate Association of Women Students Convention Committee requested $1.450 to cover about one-third of the cost of sponsoring a national convention on the RU
Omega, a service fraternity, said the money allocated to that organization would go toward advertising in the Kansan and orintine of stationery.
Chancery Club representatives said they needed the extra money to cover expenses for activities they had not planned on. They received $103 last spring.
Asian Studies Students requested extra funds to pay for film rental and office supplies. The group already had been allocated $100.
THE COMMISSION on the Status of Women, which is the local chapter of the IAWs, requested $800 to go with the $1,8400 already had been allocated. A total of $5000 of
The Hilpit Child Development Center requested $754 to cover audio-visual expenses. It has incurred additional expenses because it is no longer related to the University so it no longer can use University resources. The center had been allocated $465.
HELP checks arrive in Strong
Judy Kroger, administrative director of consumer affairs, said she did not request money for the handbook last spring because she had not been sure during budget hearings last spring when the handbook was published. The Affair's previously was allocated $9,335.
Loan totals $74,691 from the Higher Education Loan Program that were repaid in 2015 and are available in 26 Strong Hill, Jeff Weinberg, assistant director for financial
The Consumer Affairs Association requested $2,087 to pay for a salary increase for the director and $1,150 to prong 3,000 copies of a rental housing handbook.
that would go toward film rental, and $250 would be used for advertising in the Kansan.
The amount is the largest single payment in loans from HELP to KU students since the program began a year ago.
THE KU FOLK DANCE Club made a request of $400 to pay for dance instructors from outside the Midwest to come to KU. Some committee members thought this would be too expensive. The Senate Rules and Regulations, which states that "no funds shall be allocated for speakers, guest performers, consultants or staff personnel of any nature," except if the Finance and Audit Committee decides that the group tried all other possible sources for classes.
"Any student expecting a check from HELP on Oct. 1 should stop by the office to see whether his loan is in," Weinberg said.
Since Aug. 21, more than $00,000 in loans from HELP have been awarded to KU students.
HELP is guaranteed by the Higher Education Loan Foundation of Minnesota. A 7 percent interest rate is required for six or nine months after the student graduates.
The program is open to all students regardless of family financial circumstances. A student can apply for a Bachelors degree in Finance or an annotated application form at Storm Hall.
"We're just getting started," Weinberg said.
HELP was established a year ago and allows students who are unable to obtain a guaranteed loan from a commercial bank but not more than $7,500 in four years.
The Organization of Black and Minority Architectural Students in America, formerly Black tects, requested $17 to supplement the $112 that had received earlier.
One committee member said the group had received similar funds before, which were the most expensive.
The money would be used to purchase a typewriter that all students in the School of Architecture could use, photographic materials with financial need and office supplies.
One group, the Engineering School Council, did not come to the meeting. The committee, however, looked at its request for $800.
Wrapped Walkways
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
The sidewalks of Loose Park will be transformed by yellow nylon fabric heme measures by workers. The fabric is stretched
and will cover all the walkways of the park. "Wrapped Walkways" is the creation of a contemporary artist, Christo, inset.
KC stares at Christo's sidewalks
By EVIE LAZZARINO
Staff Reporter
KANAS CITY, Mo. "The traffic along Wormaln Road slows down as drivers stop to look. The sidewalks of Loose Park are covered with nylon and the plane blinds manservess."
"Wrapped Walkways" is the creation of Christo, a Bulgarian artist, known for his
wrapped art. Christo's last project was "Running Fence"—2 million square feet of white nylon fabric that zigzagged 18 feet along counties in the California coastline.
Tokyo officials when Christo wanted to instate it in a park there, according an official.
"Running Fence," as with many of Christo's projects, required years of waiting for building permits. The "Wrapped Walkways" project was turned down by
"Wrapped Walkways" is being installed in Kansas City after the collapse from the Coca-Cola plant in Kansas City.
IT IS NOON. The workers, 80 in all,
clustered, holding sack lunches from a local
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