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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, DEC. 2, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 68 (USPS 650-640)
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Kevin Henderson, 1210 E. 19th St., is left behind in a cloud as he tries to catch up with his friends on a tractor inner tube. Phil Lister, 941 Kentucky
St., center, Gary Foster, left, and Scott Eldon, both of 1210 E. 19th St., rode down the hill behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall yesterday afternoon.
Christmas weather slows tree buyers
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
The weekend's freezing weather put area Christmas tree buyers on ice.
The first weekend after Thanksgiving normally is one of the best or Christmas tree vendors. Single-digit temperatures on Saturday and Sunday, however, chilled many would be tree buys.
Hank Cotton, American Legion tree vender, said yesterday that the cold had slowed what normally
Monday Morning
would have been a good selling day.
"It has really not been very good today," he said. "It's just too cold to go outside."
If the weather warms up, Cotton said, next weekend could be a big weekend for sales.
Cotton said the Legion's tree lot,
in front of Gibson's Discount
Center, 2525 Iowa St., opened
 yesterday.
Cotton said people who had come
out in the cold to buy a tree spent less time browsing than usual.
Cotton said one person ever shipped from his truck.
"Those who have come just pick one out and go," he said.
"He stayed in his truck and had me hold up a couple of trees." Cotton said. "When he saw one he liked he pointed it out."
Some Christmas tree shoppers,
however, wouldn't let a little frost
pin their holiday cheer.
Bob McCaffrey, Tonganoxie senior, said the secret to cold
weather tree shopping was to be prepared.
"I had to take a couple of shots of vodka before I came out here to buy a tree," he said as he shopped at the Legion's lot.
McCaffrey said he and his friends always bought their trees early in the season. He said that in keeping with the holiday spirit, they always bought their tree from a charity.
Those who ventured into the cold found that most trees in Lawrence
See TREES. D. 5. col. 3
Profs lured away by offers of bigger bucks
By Bengt Ljung
Of the Kansan staff
As the budget outlook for the University of Kansas seems grim, many schools and departments fear faculty raiders from other universities.
Department heads predict that the competitiveness of the University's salaries will go from bad to worse in the next few years. Most vulnerable to losing faculty members are expanding disciplines such as business, computer science and electrical engineering.
"We'll have to fight for our life to retain our faculty." William Bulgen, acting chairman of computer science, said last week.
It's scary. we feel vulnerable.
John Tolleson, dean of business, said having
other universities trying to lure away professors was the negative side of having a successful and well-respected school.
Last year, John Robinson, assistant professor in accounting, and Young Kwon, associate professor in accounting, left for the well-financed, highly ranked universities of Illinois and Texas.
The School of Business has had about three faculty members a year since 1980-81 recruited by other universities. Bulgren said the loss of two professors last year was the first from the department of computer science.
Tollefson said, "Our faculty compares very favorably. But our competitiveness in salary has deteriorated in the past few years. I fear KU is getting greater attention now."
Bulgren said that although the computer science
faculty was paid higher than other KU departments, the average salary was $5,000 less than it should be to compete nationally.
"Nationwide, 14 percent of the tenure track teaching positions in business are unfilled," he said.
Tollison said the lack of doctorates in the expanding disciplines created mobility.
Students suffer when the programs have to cut back. Tollefon said.
The School of Business and the department of computer science have not received budget increases proportional to the increase in enrollment. Tollefson said the business faculty had been cut from about 60 members four years ago to 54. The
See PROFESSORS, p. 5, col. 3
Cold to linger while drivers tackle streets
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
Most people use blankets for warmth, but the 4½-inch blanket of snow that covered Lawrence this weekend chilled bodies and stilled traffic.
Some KU students, stranded by the snowstorm, didn't make it back from Thanksgiving vacation for the resumption of classes today.
Storm paralyzes Midwest p.2.
No more snow is expected this week, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka, but Lawrence will cuddle up in the snow blanket for a few more days as the cold spell continues.
The weather tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday is expected to be cold and dry with slowly rising temperatures and a partly cloudy sky.
Today, the high should reach the upper teens. Winds should be from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph, the weather service said yesterday. The wind-chill index should make today's high temperature feel like a blustery 5 degrees.
The high tomorrow should be in the upper teens, and the low should be 5
degrees, the weather service said.
The storm that covered the area with snow and ice tested the mettle of many students who tried to return from Thanksgiving vacation.
Winnie Fink, Coffeieville freshman,
said she couldn't drive faster than 35 mph on her way from Coffeyville to Lawrence. Despite the slow speed,
she said she spun around once on the ice in the middle of the highway.
Jill Mullen, Rockford, Ill., freshman, said she had no problems with her flight from Chicago to Kansas City. Mo., but said she had to wait 1½ hours at Kansas City International Airport for a friend who was flying in from Minneapolis.
Mullen said that although she saw many cars pulled over and in ditches on her way from Kansas City to Lawrence, she had no problem getting here, as long as she drove 45 mph.
Some students were not as lucky
triving to come back to school.
Jo Ellen Washburn, Moline, Ill., junior, said she didn't try to drive back to school yesterday because Interstate 80 through Iowa was icy, and the wind was strong.
Icy roads in Kansas caused five of
See COLD, p. 5, col.
KU swimmer killed in crash on icy road
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan staff
Swimmer Karen Dionne, also a passenger in the car, was listed in critical condition last night.
All-America KU swimmer Tammy Pease was killed in a two-car accident Saturday on U.S. Highway 75, five miles southwest of Independence, Kan.
Trooper Lowell Scott of the Kansas Highway Patrol said yesterday that the car, driven by Dionne, hit a slick spot on the icy highway, slid across the lane and broadsided another car.
Pease, Bartlesville, Okla., senior; Dionne, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore; and Dan Mendenhall. Pleasant Hill, Calif., sophomore, were returning to Lawrence from Bartlesville when the accident occurred.
Donne, who suffered severe head and chest injuries, was in critical condition last night in the intensive care unit at Hilcrest Hospital in Tulsa. Okla.
Mendenhall also was injured in the wreck. He was released from Mercy Hospital in Independence last night.
Scott said the driver of the other car, Arnold Sierwalt, Tula, Okla., swerved to avoid Dionne but struck her car.
Tammy Pease
Efforts to revive Pease, who was thrown from the car, were continued
until she was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital in Independence. She had suffered extreme head and chest injuries.
None of the six passengers in the other car were injured.
Please was an 11-time collegiate All-American with nine Big Eight Conference titles. Last season, Please earned All-America honors in the 50-
See PEASE. p. 5, col. 1
KU slow to improve campus accessibility
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
"It's sufficient to meet the law, but not sufficient enough to meet a statement of concern." Robert Turvey, chairman of the KU Architectural Barriers Committee, said recently. "Whenever you can't use something, you feel unwanted or undesirable."
The University follows federal and state guidelines about accessibility for the disabled. But KU's efforts to achieve "universal accessibility" lag behind at least two other Kansas schools.
David Wilson, a graduate teaching assistant in slavic languages, has been in a wheelchair for 30 years. He attended the University of Missouri for his undergraduate work, then came to KU five years ago for graduate work.
The committee addresses problems disabled KU students encounter on campus.
federal and state laws mandated them.
Wilson said that unlike Missouri, which did pioneering work in campus accessibility, KU waited to carry out the accessibility changes until
Emporia State University and Johnson County Community College have been state leaders in making their campuses attractive and accessible for the disabled, said Mona McCoy, executive director of Independence Inc., 1910 Haskell Ave.
The two schools have promoted universal accessibility, not just accessibility for the disabled, she said. Children, the elderly and able-bodied students benefit by increased accessibility. That way, large amounts of money are not spent on only disabled students, who compose a relatively small percentage of the student body.
Independence Inc., a local non-profit organization, works as a lobby group for legislation concerning the disabled and provides information to and acts as a referral service for disabled Lawrence citizens.
McCoy said the idea of universal accessibility should be the basis for changes that needed to be made in accessibility for the disabled at KU
improved mobility on campus,
— changes such as better accommodations in University housing and
"If I had a disability I'd think twice before going to KU if I knew what the services were like," she said. "The University isn't being callous, it's in an awkward period of transition."
Lorraine Michel, assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, said the University did not know how many disabled students attended the University because information on disabilities was confidential.
She said 60 to 70 students used services offered by the Student Assistance Center.
University housing poses a problem for the disabled.
"Far too little accessible housing exists on campus," McCoy said. "There's no excuse for not having all University housing wheeir-accessible. The University concentrates on the academic buildings, and very little attention is paid to living accommodations."
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he handled the accessibility issue on a case-by-case basis.
"I can't say all our facilities are accessible." Stoner said. "Essentially
all are or can be made accessible."
An example of a building that could be made to accommodate disabled students is Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall.
Tammy Jones, resident director,
said that GSP-Corbin provided a ramp for wheelchair access but that because no students in wheelchairs lived there the finer points of accessibility — such as mirror tilts,
shelf heights and showers designed to accommodate disabled students — were not available yet.
wet for a rain. And "As we have students, we will adapt rooms to fit their needs." Stoner said. "Individual personal handicaps may not conform to using the same facilities. I'd rather talk to the student and find out what he specifically needs."
The office of housing provides three residence halls equipped with roll-in showers, accessible entries and mirror and sink adjustments, Turvey said.
He said Joseph R. Pearson, Oliver and Ellsworth halls could handle disabled students immediately, but
See ACCESS, p. 6, col.1