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Wednesday June 10,1987
Vol. 97, No. 146 (USPS 650-640)
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Old smokey will be a missed KU landmark
Staff writer
By PAUL BELDEN
For more than a half-century the tall, slim sexagenarian has worked for the University of Kansas department of facilities and operations.
His job was to remove waste from the number 7 and 8 boilers at the KU power plant. He also helped many out-of-towns for the University. He did these chores unfailingly, seven days a week.
He had one vice, however: he smoked quite a bit. . like a chimney, in fact.
But University officials didn't need him anymore, so they hired a team of hit men to rub him out.
The work of this gang of tanned assassins can be seen or heard from almost anywhere on campus. Chunk by chunk, the KU smokestack is dying a slow death.
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Judith A. Ramaley, acting executive vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Albany, was selected for the job from 55 candidates, said Del Shankel, chairman of the executive vice chancellor search committee.
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Workers are proceeding by digging out 4-feet-square sections of the smokestack, cutting renforcing steel bars imbedded in the concrete, then letting the sections fall into the smokestack, Perkins said. The rubble is being dumped at the KU landfill west of Iowa Street.
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John Creighton, a 1987 Hilltopter, said the award was the ultimate thank-you from the University.
Creighton, Awood senior, has been a KU Relays tri-chairman, president of Alpa Kappa Lambda fraternity and a personal aid to Gov. Mike Hayden while Hayden was running for governor.
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"Can you imagine," she said. "At a hospital?"
Semon said that unless a person spent a week in a wheelchair, he couldn't realize what areas on campus were accessible. Buildings that have been modified make disabled students think someone has taken their special needs into account.
"The mirrors in most of the restrooms are too high," she said. "So are many of the telephones and drinking fountains. And I have a hard time reaching the seventh floor button in the Fraser Hall elevator."
"It makes you feel a part of things when you know someone is making a special effort for you," she said.
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She said students with disabilities also had difficulties in the way objects were positioned.
She said that too often students with disabilities were invisible to other students, which made them feel isolated, hidden and unimportant. But students with disabilities also have a right to attend the University.
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"I'll be able to sleep late," he said. "I can take it easy for a while. I'm just happy to be alive."
He said it used to be difficult getting up for class.
He agreed that the entrance to Strong Hall was difficult and often blocked.
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He also said a lot of blind students on campus had problems navigating the hills, steps and walkways. "It would be nice if someone could produce a map in braille."
"But on the bright side," he said. "they've just installed a new elevator that is very helpful."
"I'm exhausted every time I try to wheel myself up that steep ramp in front of the library." White said.
the person I am, I haven't changed. But people don't interact with me the same way. They're afraid they will say something wrong. They don't understand I'm the same Dawn who used to ride in ten-speed bicycle races." she said.
In the meantime, Swartz is back home in Salina, driving a new red Pontiac Firebird his parents bought, and getting into shape so he can return to KU in the fall. He plans to live off camp when he returns, but he reminisces about his days at the Delta Union fraternity house.
Although there are areas of the campus that are inaccessible, some people are working to improve the situation.
Glen White, a member of the committee, is a research assistant at the national center for independent living at KU. An automobile accident at age 15 left White a paraplegic.
An accessibility survey committee is examining 40 buildings on campus to see whether they meet the American National Standards. Next year it will complete the survey by examining the remaining buildings on campus.
When the survey is completed, the committee will make recommendations to upgrade the buildings.
White has noticed specific problems in a few of the buildings on campus. He said that Fraser Hall had only one restroom accessible to students using wheelchairs and that was on the first floor.
"The most difficult barriers are attitude barriers. Those are harder to break down and surmount," he said. "We need to get to the point where society looks at us as people first and disabled second."
He said most people were disabled in some way.
Blake Hall is the same, he said, but those are architectural barriers and can be modified or changed.
"Wearing glasses or contacts is a form of being disabled," he said. "My disability is just more obvious because I use a wheelchair."
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