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Wednesday June 10,1987
Vol. 97, No. 146
(USPS650-640)
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SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Staff writer
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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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-towners find the University. He did these chores unfailingly, seven days a week.
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Perkins said that the two boilers receiving new smokestacks should be operable by Oct.15,depending on the weather.
Until then, the two boilers now on line should have no problems handling the work load this summer and fall, he said.
"One of the boilers can handle most of the summer heat. In winter, however, we'll have both of them up to full operational capabilities, and sometimes a third," he said.
Workers are proceeding by digging out 4-feet-square sections of the smokestack, cutting reinforcing 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.
As of yesterday, about 40 feet of the smokestack had been torn down, Perkins said, but as the stack gets
New vice chancellor selected
Staff writer
By CARLA PATINO
For the first time, a woman will be the executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
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.
Inaccessibility hinders disabled
When Ramaley begins her duties Aug. 1, she will be the second-highest ranking administrator on campus
By Roger Corey
She will replace Shankel, who has been the acting executive vice chancellor for the KU campus since January, when the resignation of
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of English.
On a cold sunny afternoon in late December, Rex Swartz, Salina junior, was standing on top of a grain elevator in Nebraks City, Neb., with two other workers. Swartz had gotten a job over Christmas break with a grain company and was given the assignment that afternoon of taking samples of corn stored in a 30-foot-high steel bin.
"We were probing," Swartz said. "Taking samples of the corn. I ran a pole down to 20 feet and something got stuck. I thought it was probably a corn cob, so I pulled the rods up to check."
Swartz took a firm grasp on the aluminum rods with his bare hands and began to pull. The rods rose higher and higher into the air. Just over his head, unknown to Swartz, was a high power voltage wire.
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When the rods and wire connected, a burst of 12,400 volts shot down the aluminum shaft and into Swartz. The current ran up the young man's arms, down his back, and tore out the back of his legs and hips.
"I thought I was dead," Swartz said. "I looked at my right arm. It looked so motionless and distant, I thought it was off my body. Then I realized I couldn't move and I was scared."
An ambulance took Swartz to Nebraska City Memorial Hospital, but it didn't have a burn unit, so he was transferred to Lincoln Nebraska Hospital.
"I was lucky." Swartz said. "They have one of the best burn units in the area."
Lorna Zimmer, director of the
"It's incredible," Swartz said. "They do everything for you but get a date for Friday night."
As he recovered, Swartz made plans to return to the University in the fall. But he had no idea what services were available for disabled students.
Swartz was in the hospital at Lincoln for two months. During that time his right hand was amputated and he lost the use of the left. On March 6 he was transferred to the Rehabilitation Institute in Kansas City, Mo., where he was fitted with a prosthesis for his right arm.
His parents telephoned the KU Student Assistance Center and learned that services available to disabled students included note takers, note reviewers, the use of tape recorders, telecommunicators for deaf students, equipment to illuminate hands of signers in dark classrooms and a lift van service.
"We only help those students who identify themselves as needing help," she said. "Some disabled students choose not to ask for help. It's their business and privacy."
Students with disabilities include those who are partially sighted or blind, have health-related problems, learning disabilities, orthopedic problems, hearing loss and speech difficulties.
student assistance center, said it was fortunate that Swartz's parents had telephoned.
Zimmer said the center's program began in 1978 wifft three disabled students and now had between 120 and 140 students.
Zimmer said the KU campus was 80 percent accessible to students using wheelchairs. Some campus buildings that look inaccessible are not.
"I lippincott doesn't look accessible, but at the back there is a ground level entrance," she said.
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Museum is accessible from the side of Dyche Hall."
She said the worst problem was the entrance to Strong Hall. The entrance for disabled students is in the rear of the building on the northwest corner. It is the only entrance to the administration building accessible to students using wheelchairs. The entrance has a stone threshold that students using wheelchairs find difficult to maneuver, and the entrance often is blocked by delivery trucks.
Dawn Semon, a Madison, Wis., graduate student who uses a wheelchair, said that overall the University was good for accessibility, but that she wished the administration would make a few additional changes.
"Strong Hall is so important." Semon said. "You'd think they would have a better entrance for disabled students."
Semon said cars parked illeg-
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Glen White has to drive from Haworth to Bailey to get to class.
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