Tuesday, February 12. 1975
University Daily Kansan
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California Jan. 5 and second place out of 120
teams at the University of Kentucky Oct. 17.
Prentice and Snow placed fourth at the Southwest Missouri State tournament Jan. 11. They also finished second out of 60 teams at the University of Northern Colorado Oct. 8 and third out of 80 teams at the University of Woving Oct. 4.
Charles Fairchild, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Lynn Hursh, Mission senior, finished third at Kansas State College at Pittsburgh Jan. 25. Hursh received the "speaker" award, given to the top speaker at a tournament.
Since 1970 the University has had at least one team in the top five in the nation every year. Parson said, in 1970 the University won a championship team and the third place team.
KU teams have traditionally been among the best in the nation, Parson said. KU has sent 26 teams, more than any other school in Iowa to compete in final debate tournaments in the last 28 years.
"The purpose of debate is to present, argue and defend positions on current public policy," Parson said. "Debates are judged on the quality of arguments, the evidence presented and the ability to adapt to changing arguments" in an organized way."
Fairchild said, "Debate develops the ability to think on your feet and be persuasive. It also helps you to gain confidence in your ideas." Fairchild skills that are useful in many professions."
Hursh said, "Our primary sources of information are congressional hearings and law journals. This helps to increase your knowledge about what that you ordinarily wouldn't, know about."
Techniques used in debate tournaments
were Prence said, but
are quite similar in other
cases.
"All judges expect you to be analytical and use logic," he said. "But, in terms of pure rhetoric, unless you can make your point clear then the argument is worthless.
"The best debaters are those who can crystallize their arguments and make them
Snow said, "Some debaters are very abrasive and it comes off well for them, while others are low key and that works well for them.
"Rapid speaking and the ability to establish an ordered pattern among the arguments you've assimilated are things that all debaters should do."
"It's getting to the point now where we are developing some quite distinguished features."
This year's debate topic is: "Resolved,
the power of the presidency should be
substitute."
He said the University would host a
Tournament March 6 in which many of the to-
wards will participate.
The tournament, called the Heart of America Tournament, is in its 19th year.
The tournament will be open to spectators, as are all delegate tournaments, and are held in the spring.
Crisis phones in fund stage
The installation of an emergency telephone system for the University of Kansas campus is in the funding stage, and the department is in a Parking Department, said Monday.
A system of telephones placed strategically around campus was recommended last semester in a security consultant's report on the needs of the Security and Parking Department. Thomas said he had been able to convince his vice chancellor, about implementing the recommendations in the security consultant's report.
Thomas said the phone system was one item he and Shankel had agreed was needed. Thomas said he was studying the law and being a federal grant to buy the equipment.
Architectural handicap trouble for disabled
By RICK GRABILL Kansan Staff Reporter
When Roger Williams gets rolling nothing can stop him, except possibly a curb, a curb, and a curb.
Williams, who goes to work for the geology department in Lindley Hall, is in a wheelchair. He is one of more than 100 hardcapped people on campus who are trained to assist visitors easily step over curbs, use restroom facilities, see their way to class or hear a lecture.
But both the University and Williams are trying to do something to make life a little easier for handicapped students and personnel.
Williams, chairman of the University Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped, oversees problems of handicapped people. The committee includes representatives from the studentity, the office of facilities planning and operation and the School of Architecture
Operating under the office of vice chancellor for student affairs, the committee was formed about three years ago to serve in an advisory capacity and to study architectural barriers to the handicapped in campus buildings.
"There has been a tremendous amount of progress made," he said, "especially in the community's awareness of problems in access for persons with disabilities."
Although Williams says he would like to see changes brought about at a faster pace, he says he is pleased with inroads made by the committee thus far.
Williams said the committee's main function was to survey campus buildings, sidewalks and facilities, make suggestions to the office of facilities planning and make recommendations to the principal compliance with laws that require that they be accessible to people with disabilities.
A building's accessibility, Williams said, depends on whether it has a ground level or ramped entrance, whether all the building's floors can be reached by a person in a wheelchair and whether the rest rooms can be used by a handicapped person.
Williams said that, prior to present laws, there were very few rest rooms that were available to handicapped people because the stairs were too high enough to accommodate a wheelchair.
Williams said that much of the committee's work lately has dealt with trying to make the older buildings on campus accessible to the handicapped by remodeling rest rooms, getting elevators installed and changing or ramping building entrances.
"This presents very serious problems," Williams said, "because a person cann't very well arrange his schedule so that he is in a room with an accessible rest room when nature calls."
The committee's influence in getting changes made can be seen in many compilations of course. Some are curb cuts on campus streets (widely mistaken for bicycle ramps), a ground level entrance at the east end of Lindley Hall, and remodeled rest rooms in the Union and remodeled rest rooms in the Room.
A law passed in 1970 requires that new rest room stalls in public buildings be built wide enough for a wheelchair and with grab rails on the side.
"Watkins hospital is very nearly perfect," Williams said, "and Learned is making the transition from being very unable to be almost totally accessible."
Watson Library has incorporated a number of changes to aid people with disabilities, according to Georgann Eglinski, an assistant reference librarian.
Egilnik said people in wheelchairs can now enter the library through a ground level door.
ahead of time the reference desk will also
getting materials or books from the stack.
The visually handicapped are able to "read" books through the use of the talking book machines on the third floor of the library, Eglinski said. With the machines, blind people can listen to the text of books and read them. Eglinski said that the library would try to obtain required talking books for students who request them.
Many other projects will be undertaken in the near future to aid the handicapped, according to Williams. On schedule for the next fiscal year is a program to make Hoch Auditorium accessible to the handicapped, changes to three entrances and rest room improvements in Murphy Hall, rest room improvements in Foster's House and Fraser hall, additional curb kits and the installation of handrails to building entrances throughout the campus.
Williams said that a program was underway to make Joseph R. Pearson and Oliver halls totally accessible to handicapped students.
Williams said he was currently working on a campus map for handicapped persons. The map will look like the regular campus map, but the buildings will be color-coded according to the following criteria: whether all floors can be reached by wheelchair, whether it has accessible rest rooms, whether the facility is accessible without handicapping equipment or ramped entrance. Also marked on the map will be curb cuts, principal wheelchair routes and steep hills where assistance may be required.
Williams said the committee was also looking into ideas for a feasible Bailleau map
He said a proposed pedestrian underpass, that would run beneath Naismith Drive in the city, could be built.
Africa's history slanted,prof says
For years Western historians have fostered myths and have misled the western world about Africa's past, according to John F. Kernan, a historian of history at the University of Wisconsin.
Curtin, speaking Tuesday to about 100 people in the Kansas Union, said Western culture had approached Africa from a Western point of view and had developed misconceptions that are just beginning to be dispelled.
Words like "tribe" and "Bantu," while containing specific meanings, have been generalized beyond recognition, Curtin said.
Disputes in Nigeria recently were called tribal wars by some of the press, he said, when the outbreaks actually had nothing to do with tribes but were conflicts between
class groups. The constant fighting in
the war easily be labeled tribal wars
in well, he said.
These and other erroneous conceptions of Africa are slowly being exposed, Curtin said, but a recent survey shows that the old myths of savage and barbaric Africa still exist in elementary and high schools, and aren't necessarily being corrected.
The word "Bantu", which identifies a social group in Africa, has been widely but incorrectly used to refer to a broad range of Africans, he said.
Curtin, who has written more than 10 books on African history, said that the Africa historians of the 18th and 19th centuries recorded more about European or Western exploration in Africa than they did about actual African events.
Western historians weren't studying the African man and his changes, but were perpetuating their particular nationalism, he said.
Through the 1960's the term "modernization" was popular in the Western world, Curtin said, to describe an evolution of the continent's carbon continent more western than Europe.
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Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning and operations, said he hoped construction of the underpass could begin in August while school was out since the drive would have to be closed for a period of time during the construction. The underpass is being planned, so Lawton wasn't able to state any figures on the cost of the project.
greatly aid a handicapped person's access to campus.
staff and faculty members on campus wasnt known. He estimated the number to be 150.
Lawton said that 10 additional curb cuts, to be in the southwest area of the campus near Murphy Hall, would also probably be made during the summer.
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"The blind and the people in wheelchairs are the ones you see," Williams said, "But there are many others with cardiac conditions, asthma, arthritis and other illnesses that walk very far or climb a flight of stairs. Even old age could be considered a handicap."
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