Therapists help handicapped day-to-day
Staff Writer
Bv VENNIE WHITE
A 88-cent zipper from Woolworth's, a $5.50 pair of quick-clip scissors from Weavers, and a $2.17 box of disposable diapers from Target.
They can make coping with day-to-day life easier for someone with physical disabilities.
The sipper pin is used to pull up back zippers that can't be reached by someone with limited arm movement, the scissors make cutting easier for someone with limited hand function, and the straws that hang on babies easier for someone unable to open and close safety pins.
The students are making card files of 300 of these devices, including 50 they have designed themselves.
The assistive device card file is a valuable part of the O.T. program, according to Judy Alstrom, Horsham, Pa., junior.
Occupational therapy O.T. students at the University of Kansas are searching local stores and mail order catalogs for items like these as part of their class work in a new O.T. course called Assistive Devices.
Linda Lindholm, an instructor in O.T.S. said occupational therapists worked with persons with physical disability or mental disabilities.
Diones Bray, Lawrence junior, said that a patient might be a baby with coordination problems or a housewife who had lost the
A therapist might help the housewife select assistive devices such as jar openers, Bray said, and guide her in using them.
She said a therapist also might tell the housewife that peeling potatoes and carrots for health reasons, work that requires two months of training.
Lindholm said, "Our goal is to return people to their normal lifestyles with the use of exercises, activities and assistive devices."
THE KU O.1. program requires nine monats or on-the-job training, called affiliation, in hospitals, clinics or rehabilitation centers, in addition to academic work that includes courses in neurology, psychology and kinesiology.
During affiliation, students work with patients with physical disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, or with patients with mental problems. Lindholm said. They are under the direction of registered occupational therapists.
Lindholm said the starting salary for registered occupational theranists was about $12,000, a year.
Students must then pass a national exam before becoming registered occupational therapists
In addition to keeping the assistive device file, O.T. students learn copper tooling and enameling, leatherwork, macrame and other crafts that help develop coordination and strengthen wrists and fingers. Lindholm said.
Becky Monard, assistant professor of O.T. said once they were registered, the job market was great for O.T. graduates.
LAST WEEK THEY taught residents of the Eudora Nursing Home how to make beads from salt dough.
Theresa Dresher, Chepta junior, said, "This actual teaching experience is valuable because it gives us insight on what our work entails."
Monnard, said that enrollment in the KU program was "busting at the seams."
Almost 300 students are currently enrolled, she said, and there's a waiting list.
Lindholm described the students who chose O.T. as "caring persons."
Laann Belkrup, Belori少儿, said she chose O.T. because she liked to help people and work with crafts.
Duane Grieve, Lawrence junior, is one of only ten men in the O.T. program. He said he was in O.T. because he enjoyed helping people and he wanted to work with the physically disabled or the elderly when he finished school.
*THINK ITS A fantastic field and feel extremely fortunate to be in it," he said. "The students and faculty in O.T. are exceptional guests."
Grieve said that more men should be in the field, but they weren't aware of the possibilities and didn't know what O. T. was.
Monarda said she thought there were more women in O.T. because helping professions had traditionally been considered
"But there certainly is a place or men in the held," she said. A special feature of the KU program is called laddering. Monard said that the KU program was the first and possibly only program to offer this.
Laddering allows students to enter a 27-month technical program, work for a period of time, and re-enter the degree program.
Involved enamalists
Participating in KU's occupational therapy program, Becca Coitation, learn copper tooling and enameling to help develop Paden, senior, Lawrence (left), and Luann Bkmap, junior, coordination and strengthen their wrists and fingers.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Thursday, July 28, 1977
Vol. 87, No.168
New association will battle 'half-truths' about IHP
Rv KIT GUNN
Managing Editor
An organization has been formed that plans to run advertisements in Kansas newspapers defending the controversial Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas from what the group's members call "half-fruits" "being spread about the IHP."
The group, the Friends of the Humanities Association, plans to begin its campaign.
And members plan to expand its activities to include a wider range of support for traditional humanities programs in Kansas' universities.
The association was formed this summer
by three KU graduates: Edward C. Rolfs, Junction City; Bruce Won, Hutchinson, and Charles Gentry, Fort Scott. It was incorporated as a public charity under Kansas
The group has raised about $1,000 so far this summer through collection of membership fees. Wonen said membership were $20 a person or $30 a family. About 70 persons have responded to the association's initial membership invitation letter, he said.
For now, the principal objective of the organization will be to place pro-IIHP advertisements in Kansas newspapers before the beginning of the fall semester.
"THE ADS WILL be in the form of a letter to KU students and their
parents". Woner said. He said he became interested in starting the association because he believed the IHP was being carried out in its recruitment of undergraduates.
Under a policy of the Office of Academic Affairs, brochures explaining individual undergraduate programs at KU may not be mailed to incoming students.
Woner believes the association's publicity will accurately describe the IHP, which members feel has been inaccurately told by the public by persons opposed to the program.
"THEE HAVE BEEN some groups of people in Kansas who have done nothing but throw out half-truths about the program." Woner said.
Committee, said yesterday that his organization was aware of the existence of the Friends of the Humanities Association, but he would not comment on it.
The HHP has become controversial for several reasons, but charges of religious proselytization he at the heart of much of the criticism have been responding to several other press investigations.
The program of concentration in the traditional humanities was developed and still is run by KU professors Dennis Quinn, Franklin Nellick and John Senior.
Here's a rough summary of the controversy:
SUPPORTERS OF the program believe it offers to students personal instruction from senior faculty members—an element often missing from freshman-sophomore programs—and provides them with a foundation in the foundations of Western culture.
Some have also said the HIP serves as a counterbalance to a prevailing contemporary worldview which is seen as faddish, shallow and lacking in basic values.
The Committee for Academic and Religious Liberties, a Kansas City-based organization opposed to the IHP, has been meeting throughout the summer to inform potential KU students of what its members feel to be the true nature of the program.
An earlier statement, the prepared by Barnet, alleges that the three central faculty members try to convert students to Roman Catholicism through class lectures. Barnet's committee they found this same theme in the context of a public university.
Quinn, Nelick and Senior are all Roman Catholics, the former two by conversion.
WHAT HAS GENERATED particular offense among some IHP opponents in the Kansas City area is the conversion to Catholicism of Jewish students and the decision of another former IHP student to attend a Roman Catholic monastery in France.
Quinn* had said earlier that a few people were upset by the HIP, but he explained that the program was voluntary. He added that it was a mistake to think could be brainwashed in a KU classroom.
Opponents feel that teaching which results in religious conversion oversteps the limits of academic freedom, and the opposition committee's earlier statement
questioned whether the program in some cases contributed to severe personality differences.
Thursday
Woner said that because of the nature of the attacks on the HP, the Friends of the Humanities Association was formed this week. The group moved to help a waxy move to help the program.
"ULTIMATELY, HOWEVER, we hope to go beyond the KU program," he said. In addition to providing universities in humanities programs at other state universities in Kansas is another goal, he
From our wire services
According to Woner, the association is not tied to a KU student group—Friends of the Integrated Humanities Program, nor to Quinn, Nelick or Senior.
Pipeline closed for repairs
VALDEZ, Alaska—The oil flow through the $9 billion Trans-Alaas pipeline will have to be shut down for the sixth time, this time to repair faulty wells, officials said yesterday. The problems since the oil flow began may end.
"We're aiming at a group of people who are no longer at KU," he said. "We obtained our mailing list on the basis of interest and found a continuous interest in the program."
The oil flow was slowed down so the welds could be repaired, but that has
turned out to be insufficient. The oil delivery will be delayed until some time tomorrow.
Woner said the association was planning an official membership meeting within two weeks.
"The status right at this moment is that oil still is flowering." Inkohl, Kohi of the Department of the Interior in Anchorage said. "There is a possibility that it may have to be stopped, but we're just going minute by minute."
Vern Barnet, Shawnee Mission, a
Uttarian minister who is chairman of the
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States has started discussions with Egypt about a sale of military equipment, including its Air Transport aircraft, the latest in the U.S.
Arabian Africa getting arms
The department, that announced Tuesday that the United States was willing to sell arms to Somalia, also said it had taken steps to legitimize defensive needs of the Sudan and that an American survey team would be going there to help decide how to respond.
President Carter, in his policy statement May 19 on conventional arms transfers, said he would take steps to restrain its arms transfers. He has called for the Soviet Union to join in mutual restraint in arms sales, especially to troubled areas such as the East.
FAIRBANKS - A 28-year-old man was charged yesterday with try to blow up the Trans-Alaska pipeline in a sabotage spokesman said was bundled arguably responsible.
In answer to questions about the flurry of arms deals involving Arabian Africa, the State Department spokesman said, "If you see a contradiction, it must be measured against the overall impact on our national security."
Larry Wertz was being held in lieu of $100,000 bond.
An Alyeska spokesman said the five charges of dynamite that exploded 18 miles north of Fairbanks were amateurly placed.
Man charged in bungled blast
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Alysese officials had at first denied there was any explosion. They then suggested that the damage might have been caused by lightning before they acknowledged there had been a bombing attempt.
Westerns to do a good job," the snokesman said.
The charges tore off 20 to 30 yards of insulation and bent support posts for the pipeline, but did not dent the pipe itself or stop the oil flow.
Warmer weather is returning to the Lawrence area today. The National Weather Service in Topeka forecasts highs in the mid 80s this afternoon. Temperatures should range in the upper 80s by tomorrow. Lows both nights will be in the 60s. Chances for thunderstorms appear likely on Saturday and Sunday.
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Transit studv to outline options
Bv ROBERT GODFREY
Staff Writer
By the end of the next month, a study of public transportation options available to the Lawrence community should be completed.
The study, which is being done by an Omaha company, was funded by the city of Lawrence, the University and Unified School District 497.
Public transportation was consistently listed as a high priority for Lawrence residents in a citywide survey that was published years ago by the Citizens Advisory Council.
The survey was conducted in each neighborhood to find out what Lawrence residents thought about general living conditions.
According to Barkley Clark, city commissioner and professor of law, a public transportation system for Lawrence would be able to operate with little there would be a combination of transportation methods designed to make the downtown area the hub of the transportation system, which he said, would be very helpful in reinforcing the strength of the city.
Trains, streetcars, bike paths, the expansion of existing bus routes and taxi cab subsidies would all be part of a company that would not be able to work could imit his transportation ideas.
Clark said he hoped the city would uncover the old streetcar tracks on Mississippi and Eighth streets and have an old electric streetcar run the route from behind Bailey Hall to Eighth Street, and then east to Massachusetts Street.
The streetcar could serve two purposes, Clark said.
"It would be a kind of aesthetic remembrance of things past to have a streetcar running along the same place it was built," and "it would also have functional utility."
"It's kind of a dream," he said, "but it seems that we might see a re-emergence of that kind of thing on a small, manageable scale." We know that this track, would be a logical place to do that."
Clark, who is a train buff, said he also hoped to see a major passenger-train corridor re-opened within the next 10 to 20 years.
"It's ridiculous there's so little train service into Kansas City," Clark said, "when you could get a fast-moving train to run in to Crown Center in a very short time."
But Clark is interested in tying Lawrence to cities other than Kansas City, such as
According to an Antikrat spokesman, the only training to Kansas City leaves Lawrence at 1:30 a.m., and the only connection with the team that stops at Emporia before heading west.
Clark said that some sort of emphasis on passenger train traffic should be considered as part of the overall public transportation plan. The lack of publicly available could be possible without subsidization.
Another transportation option, and probably the most economical, Clark said.
He said he would like to see a bike path along Kentucky or Tennessee streets that would run the length of the city from Sixth Street to 23rd Street. That would mean
"With more people emphasizing the need for exercise and health," Clark said, "I think we're going to see more interest in an increased number of bicycle paths."
So far, Clark said, all the city has done for bicyclists is to place signs along designated bicycle routes. But signs don't solve the problem of separating bicyclists from motorists; he says.
having to give up either parking space along the streets, or donating a traffic land to
Clark said two bicycle paths would open in the near future. One would run across the
Kansas River Bridge and the other would follow Clinton Parkway.
He said the first path would connect North Lawrence and the rest of town and tie into
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Comprehensive guide gets planners assent
Staff Writer
By DONNA KIRK
Plans for land development near Clinton Lake and a request that a new private school be allowed to use the facilities of the Jewish Community Center were discussed at length at last night's meeting of the Douglas County Planning Commission.
John Immel, an attorney with the firm of
Commissioners voted unanimously to deny a request to rezone about 120 acres of agricultural land for suburban home development at the northeast corner of the intersection of two Kanwaka Township Roads.
Commissioner Johanna Kolmorgen said that the area to be rezoned wasn't close to Clinton Lake but that septic tanks used by the city would need to designize the cleanliness of the lake's water.
The commission also approved Plan 95, a comprehensive long-range planning guide for the City of Lawrence from 1975 through 2015. The Commission's City Commission next Tuesday for approval.
Commissioners denied the request because they said that the rezoning and proposed plans for development didn't comply with the existing comprehensive plan for development of land near north of the Clinton Lake.
Petelish, Curran and Immel, presented petitioned signs by farmers whose land was adjacent to the property proposed for development of the development of land for residential use.
"All of the farmers say that people and animals don't mix," Immel said. "People will complain of the noise of the animals. Animals say that will deny them of their livelihood."
A Topeka company, Creative Investment Group, had filed requests to rezone and plat the land for development, which the commissioners also denied.
However, a request by local developer Jarvis Brink to rezone 21 acres of the western edge of the east end was approved by commissioners, with an amendment that the land be rezoned as a "less intensive" business area. The original rezoning request was for "general
The commission also unanimously approved a request by a private elementary school to use the facilities of the Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive.
The commission said that it approved the request with stipulations that the school personnel furnish maintenance and upkeep of the Center, that the commission review the activities and progress at its May, 1978 meeting, and that a maximum of 48 students be allowed.