University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 20, 1988
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Evacuation of handicapped not specific
By Stacy Foster
Kansan staff writer
The hall fills with smoke The alarms sound. Students hurry from their rooms, except for one. He can't hear the alarm because he's deaf. A specially designed strobe light flashes, alerting him to the danger, and he makes it safely outside.
The University of Kansas has specific procedures for evacuating students from residence halls in emergency situations; and the University of Missouri has a plan for evacuating handcapped students.
"There are a number of procedures in evacuating a building, and one of those is to make sure the handicapped are assisted," said Fred McElhenei, director of residential
programs.
Of the 4,500 students in residence halls, McElhene estimated, five were handicapped.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing,
said he thought the University had an adequate evacuation system. He said in cases where a student has needed special assistance, adaptations have been made in the warning system.
Students can fill out requests for special warning signals, such as a special light or a vibration, that would alert the student in emergency situations, he said.
Jim McSwain, Lawrence fire chief, said the fire department had no special procedures for evacuating handicapped students.
The fire department uses the same procedure for evacuating handicapped students as they do for rest homes and hospitals.
"The people in the most dargar have our top priority," he said. "When we move people, we try to use the least amount of resources. We move them to a safe place where others can assist them while we attend to the fire."
Even though KU officials don't think an evacuation plan tailored to handicapped students is necessary, one Regents school has developed a handicapped evacuation plan that is being used as a model across the country.
Emporia State University introduced an evacuation plan for handicapped students in
their campus buildings last spring.
Pat Wade, associate dean of students at Emporia State, said the school has had a long history of assisting handicapped students. He said the school made its building wheelchair-accessible even before a federal law went into effect in 1973 requiring schools that received federal funds to make their buildings accessible to the handicapped.
The evacuation program at Emporia State includes two plans. One is evacuating non-residential buildings on campus. The other plan, now in its final draft stage, is a blueprint for evacuating handicapped students from residence halls. One part of this plan, an individual notification-evacuation form, has been put into effect.
Handicapped students at Emporia State can list on a form the nature of their handicap and potential risks involved in evacuating them. Other students are then trained by the handicapped student on the proper way to help during an emergency.
Denny Orr, coordinator of residential life at Emporia State, said the plan had been very effective. The local fire and police departments have received copies of the handicap forms so they know where handicapped students live.
Lori Michel, assistant director of student assistance center at KU, said that Emporia State's program was successful because it had a smaller campus and fewer buildings.
Group lists Cubans' complaints
By Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
LEAVENWORTH — When Cuban prisoners rioted in federal prisons in Atlanta and Oakdale, La. eight weeks ago, they said one of the reasons they rioted was that prison conditions were poor.
Now at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, some of the 400 to 500 Cuban prisoners are complaining again, said a member of an organization set up to represent the detainees. And conditions are as bad as the conditions in Atlanta and Oakdale, if not worse, he said.
With the penitentiary looming in the background, three members of
the Atlanta-based Coalition to Support Cuban Detainees conducted a press conference at the entrance to the prison Friday morning and called on prison officials to improve conditions for the Cuban prisoners.
Prison officials deny that the prisoners are being treated unfairly.
Gary Leshaw, an attorney from Atlanta and a member of the coalition, said he met for more than six hours Thursday with 10 candidates from both two who were involved in negotiations to end the riots in Atlanta.
"The detainees are still in (24-
hour) lockdown," Leshaw said. "They receive their meals in their cells.
"There are complaints about medical care, the lack of medical care. There are complaints about the fact there's no access to telephones, visiting rooms. Families can't visit here. There are complaints about lack of information, lack of literature. Lack of even the priest coming around."
Leshaw said that the prisoners also complained about the recreation facilities. The Cubans said a room the size of a prison cell is being used for recreation.
"One of them said it's what you
But Jeff Duncan, executive assistant to the warden at Leavenworth, said the recreation facility had helped Leshaw led many to believe
put a little bird in," said Steve Donziger, a member of the coalition. "I guess he was referring to a parrot's cage."
Gary Leshaw, an attorney and a member of the Coalition to Support Cuban Detainees, speaks in front of the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth about living conditions for the Cuban prisoners.
The coalfaction members said living conditions in the prison needed to be improved for the Cubans.
"You heard a lot of the same complaints you heard in Atlanta over the years," Donziger said about the living conditions, "That kind of treatment upsets them. I don't think it matters and a question of what the proper prison management is. And I think these issues need to be raised."
"I find serious problems about how things are going here," Leshaw said. "I think at this point, it's going beyond what is necessary."
The coalition members also were in the area to recruit students, particularly law students, to represent the Cubans, free of discrimination and Naturalization Service release hearings next month.
On Thursday and Friday, coalition members went to the law schools of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Kansas and Washburn University to help train students for the proceedings.
The coaltion members said they would hold another training session tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the morning. They recruited 125 area students so far.
"If we could get 200 people, then each person could take two or three cases," said Carla Dudeck, another member of the coalition. "Especially if the (prison) population goes down."
Ex-wife testifies about abuse
Trial continues of Lawrence man charged with murder in wife's death
Kansan staff writer
By Ric Brack
An ex-wife of a Lawrence man accused of murdering his wife testified yesterday that the man had both physically and mentally abused her during their marriage and once threatened he was "gonna put her in a coffin."
The man, Carl Kemp, is on trial in Douglas County District Court on first-degree murder charges for the death of his wife, Judy. Judy Kemp's body was found in a wooden box in a trailer behind the Kemp's trailer Sept. 9.
Pat Hanks. Kemp's ex-wife, testified that "he was real drunk one night and in the other room was
saying stuff where I could hear it to scare me. 'I'm gonna put her in a coffin.' He was talking to someone else."
Hanks, who was visibly shaken as she testified, said she was married to Kemp for $1\frac{1}{2}$ years. She said that at the time of their divorce in 1979, he hadn't allowed her to see her mother for five years or her sister for seven years.
Hanks said that she had received many severe beatings from Kemp, especially in the latter part of their marriage, and that she had a scar on her face from being hit with a beer can.
Kemp's attorney, Carl Fleming,
objected to allowing Hanks' testimony on the grounds that no evidence had been introduced that Kemp ever struck his wife Judy.
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory argued that Hanks' testimony was relevant in light of testimony from Lawrence police detectives and Wichita pathologist William Eckert that Judy Kemp died of trauma she suffered from a head injury.
Ed Brunt and David Davis, the two Lawrence detectives, testified yesterday morning that during interrogations on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10, Kemp offered several versions of the events of Sept. 3.
Davis said that at one point, Kemp blurred up. "To hell with it, I can't
gonna lie no more."
Brunt and Davis said Kemp told them that as he and his wife were driving up to their mobile home, they began to argue. She jumped out of the car, which Kemp said was traveling about 20 miles per hour. At that point, Davis said, the story starts to diverge.
In one version, Kemp said that as house,
she laid her bed, on a roof made
by bit, her bed, on a roof made
In another version, she ran into that post, spun around and hit another post; and in yet another version, she hit no posts at all but fell face down onto the steps leading to
See KEMP, p. 11, col. 1
Students denied desired classes statistics show
By Elaine Woodford
Kansan staff writer
As students lobbied politicians yesterday for financing of the Margin of Excellence proposal, statistics compiled by the office of student records supported one of their complaints
Many students aren't getting the classes they want.
Course demand statistics, compiled Jan. 14, showed that students were denied enrollment into class sessions on 3.988 occasions this spring.
However, Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the statistics may have been leaking because they were inflated.
The numbers represent each attempt of a student to enroll in a closed class. One student may try to enroll in a closed section of an open class and still be counted. A student may also try to enrol in a class several times.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has had the greatest demand for courses in its departments. The political science, psychology, English and communication studies departments have all had trouble accommodating student demand for courses, particularly classes for juniors and seniors.
In the college, four departments were widely strained, the survey indicated.
- The department of political science denied 287 requests by students for entrance into 300- and 600-level courses. All but seven of those attempts were made by students who were uniors.
- The department of psychology rejected 470 attempts by students to enroll in 100- to 700-level courses. Two hundred and sixty-five of those were made by juniors and 199 by seniors.
The department of English turned down 121 requests, including 100 from juniors. No seniors were denied spaces in classes. Since the statistics were compiled, the English department has opened four additional sections of English 209, introduction to the novel, which eased the crunch of students trying to complete their English requirements.
■ In communication studies, 818 attempts were denied. All but 12 of those came from students who were junior and seniors. The communication studies department closed four sections of communications 150, personal communication, to open four upper-level communications
The professional schools haven't
W
We have tried to add sections where it's possible, but it's difficult to find qualified instructors.'
— David Shulenberger
associate dean of academic affairs for
the School of Business
escaped closed classes, the survey indicates. Although the schools are able to control class sizes more easily through admissions policies, they are also trying to provide enough courses for their majors, school officials said.
The School of Business had the highest incidence of closed courses among the professional schools. A staff roll in business courses were denied.
"We have tried to add sections where it's possible, but it's difficult to find qualified instructors," said Rachel Tucker. "I had no academic affairs for the school."
Shulenberger said that the school used waiting lists of students trying to get into classes to determine which students really needed to be enrolled in courses.
Courses in organizational behavior analysis were especially hard to enroll in this spring. According to course demand statistics, 89 students were unable to enrol in either business 479, organizational behavior, or business 655, personnel management, a two-course sequence that is popular with personnel administration majors.
Shulenberger said the school would try to accommodate business majors first. He also said he had not heard of any seniors who had been forced to delay graduation because they were unable to enroll in a course, although personnel administration majors may have more difficulty completing course requirements in the business school.
Burchill said that the college and
in professional schools had other
opportunities.
"Departments can require students enrolling in classes to obtain a special permission card that would have to be presented at enrollment in order to enroll in a class," he said.
Burchill suggested that departments use waiting lists to track students trying to enroll in courses required for their majors.
Although it would require additional resources from the departments and quite a bit of paperwork, Burchill said he thought these options might help departments to more effectively control class size.
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