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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
842-8845
BLAZING
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87 No.73
Future of Loop to get fresh look
By JOHN MUELLER
The future of Lawrence's proposed Haskell Loop may rest in part with the Citizen's Advisory Council (CAC) as a plan taken last night by city commissioners.
Commissioners decided to have the CAC study the loop, a $2.5 million roadway proposal that has generated bitter debate in recent months. The roadway would carry traffic from 11th Street and Haskell Avenue to Seventh and Connecticut streets.
The CAC will investigate whether Lawrence should have the loop, and why. The group's decisions aren't binding on the commissioners, but its findings are extensive. It is likely that the impact to the city's recently released environmental impact statement on the loop
The statement, written by Öbinger Smith Corp. of Wichita, says Lawrence needs the Haskell loop to help move traffic efficiently through East Lawrence, prevent automobile congestion, ease traffic congestion and improve access to the Kaw River Industrial District.
But Commissioner Carl Mibek told CAC member Jack Harris "to look at that en
vironmental impact statement and see if that is an objective statement. I was sure to look for it.
Two citizen's groups have opposed construction of the loop. One group, the East Lawrence Improvement Association, has called the impact statement "a whitewash" that doesn't give consideration to the loop's effects on effects on East Lawrence neighborhoods.
Commissioners also told the CAC to examine several other problems, including development of the 600 block of Massachusetts Street. Commissioner Barkley Clark, however, said that "the loop is of the most immediate concern."
The Federal Highway Administration and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will decide early next year whether Lawrence receives funds for the loop. The decision will be based partly on public reaction to the impact statement, which was presented fairly at a public hearing set for Jan. 19 at the Lawrence public library.
Commissioners also authorized giving $2.5 million in industrial revenue bonds to the company.
Police crack down on drunken drivers
See LOOP page 12
By MARTIN ZIMMERMAN
In 1975 153 persons were killed on Kansas roads by drivers who had been drinking, according to state Department of Transportation statistics. During the first six months of 1976, 67 persons died in alcohol-related traffic accidents.
In an attempt to reduce these statistics, the Lawrence Police Department and the Douglas County Citizens' Committee on Alcoholism last week launched a program that they hope will get the drunken driver off the road.
The program, called the Alcohol Safety Action Project (ASAP), was officially started last Wednesday, according to Sgt. Ron Dalquest of the police department, who is heading the project. The program, Dalquest said yesterday, should result in a substantial increase in the number of drunken drivers in the Lawrence area.
"It will take three or four months for us to see the effects of the program," Dalquest said. "But I foresee a drastic increase in the number of students who are in alcohol or related accidents."
The federal money was used to train and pay the 21 Lawrence police officers involved in the shooting. They included a new car and a police radio. The officers each spend several hours of their off-duty time a week patrolling the city for which they are paid their regular salary.
THE PROGRAM is being funded by a $88,000 grant from the Highway Safety Division of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The one-year grant can be applied to a second year but after that time, the city must stick to cost costs if it wishes to continue the project.
Daquest said that the program's original starting date was Nov. 24, but it was March 2015. The program did not run.
CANDY NORWOOD of the Citizens'
Committee said the program was designed to give drunken driving a higher priority among Lawrence policemen. In the past, she said, only about 10 per cent of drunken drivers were arrested because the police had other duties.
ment. The officers were trained in late October, and Daalquet said of 20 drunken driving arrested made since then were made by officers trained by ASAP.
Norwood stresses that ASAP wasn't meant to be a "harassment" program. She said the officers wouldn't post themselves in the car at all and would departing customers to get into their cars. She said that this practice could constitute entrapment, legal grounds to have an arrest for such behavior.
Dalquest agreed with her assessment of the intentions of the program.
meeting. Mibeck later raised questions about the Environmental Impact Study of the proposed Haskell Loop,
"The whole program is based upon drinking and driving," he said. "We don't care if people drink, and we don't care if they drink, but just don't want them to drink and drive."
The federal funds for the Topeka ASAP run out at the end of the year, and Stanley said the chances were good that the city would be able to week to take over funding of the program.
THE LAWRENCE ASAP is modeled after a similar program that has been in effect for almost three years in Topeka, Lt. Le Stanley of the Topeka Police Department and head of Topeka's ASAP, said the Topeka program had been the first of its kind in the state and was used as a test program.
Stanley said the rate of drunken driving accidents had risen about 200 per cent since the project was started in 1974. He also said that Topera's traffic fatalities during the project were up by more than 25 per cent and the number of alcohol-related accidents had dropped about 26 per cent.
Changing the books
Changing the books
Knitting art workshops proved to all business for city commissioner Carl Tuck. As a night's city commissioner
Budget furor dies; work goes on
Bv BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Although the recent bubbub that accompanied budget cuts and the governor's budget hearings has died down, the KU budget for fiscal 1978 is still an active issue.
The pace of budget work has slowed from its initial peak when James Bibb, state budget director, recommended cutting KU's budget from $194.8 million to $127.4 million. The week after the cuts, KU officials worked late into the night to prepare a defense for Gov. Robert Bennett's budget hearings.
The pace will quicken in January when Bennett makes his recommendations to the Kansas Legislature. KU's budget then will be reviewed by the legislative Ways and Means Committees and again will be appointed by KU administrators, probably in February.
MEANWHILE, KU and state officials are reassessing requests, gathering additional information and trying to generate support for higher education funding.
Last year, the legislature didn't make appropriations until April.
"It's a continuous process of building the
best defense we can," Del Shankel
executive vice chairman, said yesterday.
The Regents' proposal included a 7 per cent increase in faculty salaries, a 10 per cent increase in other operating expenses, construction funds for Robinson Gymnasium and Malot Hall additions, and investment in other capital improvement projects.
Bibb cut those proposals to a 3.5 per cent increase in faculty salaries and a 5 per cent increase in other operating expenses. Requests for all capital improvements on buildings already under construction such as the KU computer center, were deleted.
BENNETT CAN retain or extend those cusl or recommend that some of the funding
Questions that the governor raised at the budget hearings have been answered, Shanked said, KU officials didn't have data to support their claim, the governor's questions at the hearings.
For example, the governor was provided with information on how salaries at KU compare with salaries at other institutions. The Association of Universities. The peer group is composed of
midwestern institutions of comparable size and academic opportunities.
Vice chancellors and directors of departments have been involved in a series of internal budget conferences, Shanklet and colleagues will be able to use any available resources next year.
Officials also are reviewing requests for new positions and funds as a result of the reorganization.
HUAS requested use of $1.1 million in unanticipated student fees to add faculty members to handle the extra students, move the movements and repair replace equipment.
Only fees from the originally estimated number of students is available for use. Last year, total enrollment was underestimated by 815 students.
The possibility of using educational building funds to finance bonds for capital markets is being explored.
Administrators have suggested that students make their parents aware of KU budget needs. They will have an opportunity to show their interest in higher education funding at forums scheduled with Bennett in Kansas towns.
See BUDGET page nine
Senate decision on KU-MU bout backed by poll
By SANDY DECHANT
A Student Senate resolution that opposed the move of the annual University of Kansas-University of Missouri football game to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., was representative of student opinion, a recent Senate noll has indicated.
Of the 119 persons polished, 63 per cent said they opposed the move, 31 per cent said they supported it.
The poll was conducted the week before Thanksgiving break and last week.
Despite the resolution, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) is still considering moving the annual football season to a different agreement by the University of Missouri.
"THE POLL lets KUAC know that the Senate's actions were representative of student opinion, then chairman of the commission on communications which conducted the poll, said yesterday. Leben said that considerably more students with顽劣 than non-Kansas City residents友居了."
According to the poll, 43 per cent of the Kansas City residents questioned favored the move; only 25 per cent of non-Kansas City residents favored it.
THE POLL asked students about the quality of the advice they got in choosing courses and instructors from assigned faculty and assigned faculty advisers and students.
The poll indicated that, in choosing a course, 25 per cent of those polled said that advice from assigned faculty members was good, 37 per cent said it was fair and 37 per cent said it was poor. Thirty-four per cent said that advice from unassigned faculty members was good, 42 per cent said it was fair. Sixty-six per cent said that advice from students was good, 28 per cent said it was fair and 7 per cent said it was poor.
In choosing an instructor, the results were similar. Twenty-four per cent said that advice from assigned faculty members was good, 35 per cent said it was fair and 40 per cent said it was poor. Twenty-seven per cent said that advice from unassigned faculty members was good, 41 per cent said it was fair and 32 per cent said it was poor. Twelve percent said that advice from other students was good, 16 per cent said it was fair and 0 per cent said it was poor.
JOHN OLSON, chairman of the Senate Academic Affairs Committee, which is working on the Feedback replacement, said, "If the most reliable resource used in selection courses and instructors is other sources, another source like Feedback is in order."
Olson said that Feedback had been
on SUNY Empire24.
See SENATE page 12
Kansan breaks for Christmas
This is the last Kansan until Jan. 24.
1977. Enjoy your holidays.
Problems of disabled seen as civil rights issue
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third and final article about problems facing the handicapped. This story examines some special problems of people with physical disabilities.)
By JIM COBB Staff Writer
the concerns of the handicapped are increasingly being described in terms of civil rights issues.
Roger Williams, chairman of the Committee for the Architectural Handicapped, tells about a college-age, wheelchair-bound man in Tonganoxie apartment for years because of a sense of shame.
The attitudes usually are the result of a lack of understanding, according to those involved in the movement. Such attitudes also can keep people off social activities—both on off camp.
And as with other civil rights movements of recent years, criticisms have been made of the attitudes and stereotypes directed toward handicapped people.
Martha Pesse and Harlan Harber, assistants to the dean of men who work with the handcapped, said recently that they were concerned that many students in their program didn't take an active interest in campus activities.
The problem is interwoven with the lack of accessibility in public buildings and transportation, be used by the handcapped. But Williams, who holds a wheelchair, says another factor also is present.
"People are uncomfortably around people with usabilities," he said. "There is a reluctance to be touched."
"People are uncomfortable around people with disabilities. There's a reluctance to be around them at first, but then it wears off."
Employers sometimes won't hire the handicapped, she said, out of fear that they couldn't do the work, or because they thought their company's insurance rates would go up. Landlords often balk
Beatrice Wright, professor of psychology, said this attitude resulted in discrimination.
at renting homes to the disabled out of fear that the property won't be maintained, she said.
“It’s not through ill will,” she said of her former client. “We are the same opportunity to lead a productive life.”
Williams talks about the "Oh," Johnny, you can't do that" syndrome; the handicapped are made to feel as if they have limited alternatives in their futures. Harber says the goal of all programs to help the disabled is to allow them to become independent.
Williams said attitudes of the past were formed
from a lack of awareness about the feelings and
animations of the disabled.
IF YOU don't see a problem, you don't relate to it and you don't recognize it." he said.
The attitudinal problems often mentioned by those concerned about the handicapped are present among the disabled and the general public, they say.
Wright calls those without disabilities the "nondisabled majority." She said they most often stood in the way of progress for the handicapped because of their opposition to change and to take on the government. Among the disabled, attitudes toward one's disability can result in a poor self-concent.
After accessibility, transportation problems are the most frequently mentioned hindrance that prevents the handicapped from leading normal lives.
At KU, there is no transportation system that can accommodate students in wheelchairs. Although a possible solution to the problem might be using small vans to bring students to campus, Williams opposes special accommodations for the disabled.
"PERSONS WITH disabilities don't want to be treated differently," he said. "If we can land two machines on Mars, we have the technology to get everybody into a bus."
Wheelchair lifts could be installed on KU's buses for about $4,000 each, he said, and bus space allowed for the chairs handicapped has begun to spread across the country.
"You tend to get upset when you build a new $65 million facility for the public that you can afford."
He told about an elaborate student lounge that had been built at San Francisco State University. The lounge wasn't accessible to the handicapped, and he insisted that students filed a lawsuit against the University.
The lounge was closed, he said, and now serves as a storage area.
"I have ridden in freight elevators with garbage all over the floors to get to an airplane. It's time to get persons with disabilities out of the back of the bus."
into," he said. "Then they invite you to come up to the fifth floor to discuss your problem."
Harber said that problems eventually would end up in court, as the problems of other minority groups had. Williams said he approved of conference presentations and processes to improve the status of the disabled.
WRIGHT AND Williams each tell of instances in which such groups as Disabled in Action, a group of young activists, have staged demonstrations to challenge shopping centers and subways made accessible.
Wright said, "Among those who have been taught to believe in the sense that they must take no for an answer,"
Because programs for the handicapped are administered by a number of federal, state and local agencies, it is possible to get lost in bureaucracy, some say.
ONE KU administrator, who asked that his name not be used, said that the state Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and other agencies were possessive about people under their auspices and often failed to cooperate with other programs. The KU system also encouraged students with disabilities to Emporia Kansas State College, which began to make its campus accessible in the 1960s.
Pearse said that sometimes a college education was discouraged by state rehabilitation officials in favor of technical training, which is less expensive and time consuming.
Williams said that only recently were Vocational Rehabilitation officials adopting progressive attitudes about the potential of the handcapped.
Once architectural barriers are broken down, he said, attitudes toward the handicapped and his own self image can be improved, and they can be regarded as full citizens with full rights.
"I have ridden in freight elevators with garbage all over the floors to get to an airplane," he said. "It's time to get persons with disabilities out of the back of the bus."