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Tuesday, December 7, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Collectors covet Coors cansand all others
By PAUL ADDISON
Staff Writer
On the wall of Jeff Krusen's Lawrence apartment 200 beer can vies for the attention of the curious onlooker. The canars are over the world, each with a tale of its own.
Cloud Nine and Bohemian Pilner; Winchester Malt and Chapwale Pearl; Fyfe Brewery; The Beer Lab; thousands of other beer can collectors these are the names that stir the imagination and conjure up memories of beer can convene up swaps sessions and widespread matches.
"It's kind of an addicting thing." Krusen, Leawood sophomore, said recently. "My brother started collecting and I got roped in. It's a different kind of hobby that takes in people from all walks of life from 8 years old to 100."
As a national bobby, beer can collecting took off in the early 1970s when a Beer Can Collectors of America (BCCA) club was formed in St. Louis. Today, some 11,000 members belong to 69 different BCCA chapters in almost every state in the nation.
"Each person has a different specialty," Krusen said. "Some just collect cans with cone tops, which are among the oldest. Others just collect 'flat-tops' which you can find at grocery or cans from a particular state. My brother and I, however, collect the whole range."
Krusen said that he had collected cans for about four years and with his brother had a collection of more than 1,000 cans, many of which form the centerpiece of a display in his apartment. The rest are on display in cases in their parents' Leawood home.
Photo by RICK PADDEN
"Each can has a certain trade value depending on where it's from and how old it is. My Winchester Malt Liquor can, which was made in Pueblo, Colo., is three years obsolete and is probably worth five or six regular cans," he said.
“Collecting cans is continually interesting for me because the 50 or so breweries in the United States are always changing their labels or bringing out new brands in different types of cans. Recently, for instance, Coors brought out the two-hole punch top variety and I believe that Budweiser makes a similar type of can on the West Coast.”
Collection brewing
a wine variety of brand names are on the shelves of beer can collector Jeff Krusen, Kansas City, Kan., junior. Krusen has an
uncle on the East Coast who sends him beer cans, and he said he hoped to receive cans from foreign students.
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From page one
Emperor State has about 200 handcapped
outs of a total enrollment of about 6,
8,500.
Williams said that sending all the hall passes to one school was clearly discriminatory.
"In the '50s, the state put the effort into Emporia and it gained prominence for its accessibility. Just compare this with a southern state that had one college that admitted blacks with all the other state colleges still segregated."
To get across his contention that separate may not be equal where the bandcapped are concerned, Williams uses a banking analogy. He likens the smaller schools to banks and loans establishments, but Offering many more programs, than the others.
"If you want to be a pharmacist, why should you go there and be told to become a teacher? How do you go to graduate school?"
"THE PROBLEM is that Emporia is not a full-service institution," he said. "They have only a fraction of the programs that we have.
Xmas concert given tomorrow
The University of Kansas Collegium Musicum will perform Christmas music from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow.
The free program, which is open to the public, will be in Swarthout Recital Hall of Murphy Hall, not in the Museum of Art as originally planned.
The Collegium Musicum is a 35-member group of singers and instrumentalists directed by Daniel Politoks, associate professor of music history, and Glenn Cockerham, assistant instructor of music history.
In tomorrow's concert, Antonio Perez, assistant professor of performance, will be a guest solist. The group will perform several students from several European countries.
--accessible to students in wheelchairs.
However, major over-all improvements haven't been made. Wilson said, because of the limited funding upon the nature of a student's disability.
Another reason KU should be accessible, proponents of change say, is to open up employment opportunities for the handicapped. Williams said that KU, as the largest employer in Lawrence, had an obligation to hire people with disabilities.
Federal anti-discrimination laws have been broadened in recent years to include the handicapped. The handicapped are included in RU's affirmative action guidelines.
WILLIAMS AND Allen Wiechert,
University architect, point out that changes made at KU to benefit the handicapped often help the public as well. To give Hoch Auditorium an accessible entrance, for example, a single-6-inch step was removed and a slightly sloping sidewalk was put in its place.
The step had been a hazard for many people, Williams said, but the current entailment of this was less clear.
New elevators in buildings will be a great aid to the elderly and people with such problems as heart conditions, Williams said.
"They're subtle changes, designed so that all benefit and not just the handicapped," he said. "We don't want to design something that's just for 'crips' only."
Joseph R. Pearson and Oliver halls have been altered somewhat to meet the needs of the handicapped. J. J. Wilson, housing director, said the two residence halls were chosen because they lacked steps at entrances and into dining halls.
WILLIAMS STRESSED that as part of a growing consciousness of the civil rights of the handicapped, designs to accommodate the handicapped should be integrated with what is used by other people. If this is done, Williams said, the handicapped wouldn't be forced to use back entrances to buildings or to ride on freight elevators.
Building improvements at KU haven't been limited to classrooms. Housing is another concern that has received some attention.
WORK AT THE halls has included changes in restrooms so that some are
"I don't want to say that we've done wonders because I don't think we have," Wilson said. "But we have made an initial overture toward progress."
Wilson has a special insight into the problems of the handicapped, he said, because he has a daughter who uses a wheelchair and wants to live with these problems all the time."
Housing officials will make almost any modifications in residence hall facilities on 30 days' notice. Wilson said, to adapt rooms to the student body, there are no charges for such modifications.
THERE ARE A few handicapped students living in residence hills, Wilson said. One of the greatest problems they face is their inability to campus, particularly from Oliver Hall.
The many factors involved in improving the areas of accessibility and transportation are the causes of the headaches that now face University planners and educators who undertake improvements cutting away at classroom and office space already in short supply.
There are no special transportation services at KU for the handicapped. KU's transportation department is not available.
Lucas said such improvements "obviously should have been a concern in the place."
BUT THE inconveniences shouldn't deter KU from trying to improve its campus, Williams said. He said that improvements in buildings, such as those in residence balls, would become known to more people and more would start using them.
"I'd really like to see people realize that KU is trying to eliminate barriers and is establishing some programs. The state is taking these steps, so what are becoming accessible," he said.
Harber said he expected the number of handicapped students attending KU to increase slowly during the next 10 to 15 years.
And Wiechcik said he was glad he could work to improve campus accessibility.
"It's an exciting, fun project. It will be a nice idea to think that we're doing something."
Tomorrow: Special concerns. )
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