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Tuesday, August 26,1975
University Daily Kansan
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Paraplegics make crosscountry run
By JOHN HENDEL
Staff Writer
Had he known he could ride his wheelchair from Topeka to Lawrence in "only" seven hours Sunday, Dedcker of Kansas said. He have tried to make it to Kansas City.
Decker said he made the trip to collect money for a special sports wheelchair he would use during the wheelchair basketball season. He is a three-year veteran of the Chairmen of the Boards, a Topeka wheelchair basketball team.
Greve said there was little traffic on their route, U.S. 40, until about 14 a.m. and even later. "I can't see much traffic," he said.
Greve's wife, who followed the two men in a van, said she counted $3 hills between Topeka and Lawrence. But, according to her report, those surveys were more dangerous than the hills.
The curves also presented the danger of going down the slant and into the oncoming waterfall.
Decker started at 6 a.m. Sunday with Joe Greve, another member of the team, and collected $44 at the end of the trip from sponsors who pledged for each mile traveled. Greve, who quit after 21 miles, wilted, wounded him, raised $400 to pay team debt.
"Because of the slant I was pushing with only one hand, this made one arm very weak."
Decker was clocked at about 15 miles an hour down certain hills, but he said that he only went about one mile an hour uphill. His motorized wheelchair and one half mile an hour for the trip.
Decker, who lost his left leg in a 1970 car accident, is a minsutain on the basketball court.
"He's played for three years and is a potential all-American." Greve said.
Greve and Decker trained for the Topela to Lawrence trip by riding three to four miles a day for the last month. Decker said that he got the idea from a movie which depicted a man riding his wheelchair from San Diego to San Francisco.
Decker was wearing a brand new pair of gloves at the start of the ride, but by the time he reached Lawrence, he had to use tape to hold the gloves together.
That's how tough the trip was, Greve said. The Chairmen basketball team has 17 members, all of whom are at least partially involved. The players range in age from 15 to 39.
Earlier this year, in an effort to help out on the team's $11,000 a year operating expenses, the Shawnee County Commission allotted money from federal revenue sharing funds so the team could purchase a van with a wheelchair lift in it.
Greve said that proceeds from the games go to charity. He estimated that the team would sell $10,000 in donations.
The Chairmen finished 16th in the nation each of the last two seasons. There are 133 wheelchair basketball teams in the United States.
The Topeka team opens its 35 game schedule September 20 in Dallas. The home games are played at Washburn University in Topeka.
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and the quality of life of our people require it."
The final problem the University faces is the decline in public esteem and the status of colleges and universities, according to Dykes.
routine confidence in college and university leadership has dropped more than 20 per cent in six years, he said, partly because of the increased aftermath of the campus unrest of the '60s.
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