THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.71
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Residence hall policies disputed
See story page six
Child abuse charge to spur demonstration
By MARY RINTOUL
Staff Writer
A national demonstration planned for Dec. 13 in Lawrence has been prompted by a local Indian couple who have denied charges of abusing their three-month-old daughter.
Russell Means, leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), and Carter Camp, a coordinator of AIM in Oklahoma, spoke at an assembly Friday in the Haskell Indian Junior College auditorium, in support of Tony and Tweedy Hyde, the child's parents. They also helped to organize the demonstration.
Birthday girl still young at 101
By RICK THAEMERT
Bess Jones was a birthday girl yesterday. She turned 101 years old.
Bess is bimid, hard of hearing and slow in moving round. But her active, ageless mind and vivid memory
She is one of a handful of people in Lawrence more than 100 years old. Bess recently sat in a garden brownrock chair in Wakaraus Manor Nursing Home, 1800 W. 27th ST., and reminisced about more than a century
"I don't think my life has been too exciting. I've had a quiet life," she said with a rough, kind, tone in her voice. "I'm thinking I haven't any future. It all in the past. Everything was the way it was before things—though there haven't been many of those."
BESS WAS born Dec. 5, 1875, to Adelia Cooper and William Henry Murmur. She was one of five children.
"I was born in Ufta, Ohio. I don't suppose it still on the map, though," she said with a spry laugh, which revealed her old, but original, set of teeth, a sign of her good health.
"My father was a saddler. I don't suppose you know
that?" I asked.
My father got up and began to run. My father
could get up 12% for good leather saddles.
Bess wiped her watering eyes and mouth with a small, wrinkled Kleenex and recalled her school days.
"They didn't think so much of schooling then as they do now. Children could quit school whenever they want."
AND QUIT school she did. At 13, Bess gave up books to work as a cashier in a dry goods store, where she stayed
"I was considered a very bright child," she said, tilting her smile, palate face upward in a proud fashion. "I went to work and saved my money. I didn't make it. I didn't get paid $50 a week. That was a pretty good salary back then."
"I wasn't spotted as a child. I was always on my own." She displayed her independent will by refusing help in drinking a glass of water offered by her guardian, Mrs. Mabel Duel, 2439 Alabama St. She drank slowly, clutching the cup with both frail, bony hands, then surrendered the cup and wined her mouth again.
BESS EXPLAINED that she spent most of her childhood days "tagging along with the adults," playing baseball with her two brothers and two sisters, or visiting her several bowfriends.
However, in 1888, she abandoned the boyfriend to marry Clayton M. Jones, another saddier. Bess said she was so sad that she was forced to leave.
See BIRTHDAY page 10
The demonstrators will gather on the Haskell campus. From there they will go to the county courthouse, Means said. He said he expected 3,000 people at the demonstration of which might be William Kunstler, a left-wing lawyer.
THE HYDES, Haskell students, have been charged with dependent neglect of their daughter, Roberta, who
The chain of events began in September when the Hydes took Rolena to G. Charles Loveland, a Lawrence pediatrician. Tony Hyde said at the assembly Friday that Tony fell off a bed and caught her leg in the bedframe.
Hyde said that when Loveland X-rayed Rolena's left leg, he discovered a spinal fracture and facial bruises. Loveland advised the Hydes to keep Rolena in the hospital to recover. Hyde said.
Loveland then advised Social and Rehabilitation services (SRS) of Rolena's condition, hydride, without tinted glasses.
THE NEXT DAY, he said, Loveland told him that he
(Loveland) was concerned about Rolena's injuries.
Although Loveland said Saturday that he made a practice to not discuss details of a case with the news agency, he says the case was "still being processed."
"It's my moral and legal obligation as a doctor to report any unusual injuries of a child to the social services." Loveland said, adding that he made it a practice to tell the parents of his actions.
Mike Elwell, Juvenile Court judge, said he might not rule on the case for six months or until the state says, Rolena can be returned to her parents. Elwell ruled that the Hydes would have to undergo counseling.
"THE REVIEW hearing Oct. 4 and the adjudicatory
bearing Nov. 17, behemoth们 the Hydes are still trying to
get over."
These events initiated the assembly Friday and Means' visit to Lawrence.
Mary West, a member of the Haskell Student Senate, to the crowd of about 400 that the Senate had called the session.
PERSONS WHO spoke during the assembly all supported the Hydes. Loveland and Stephen Rhudy, the Hydes' former lawyer, said Saturday that they had not beard about the assembly.
Means told the crowd that because of Rhudy and the court system, they had to delay the due process of jury selection, which rights had been abridged.
Means said the Hydes fired their Lawrence lawyer, thuddy, and hired Charles Tuchin, an Athelian lawyer and lawyer.
He said he thought a civil suit would later be filed against Rhudy.
HUDYD said Saturday he couldn't comment on the case and that anything told to him by the Hyde's was
Means called the Douglas County Juvenile Court a kangaroo court*,<sup>13</sup> and said Elwell was prejudiced in his ruling.
"Ewell looked at Tony, his long, braided hair and dark skin and knew he was an Indian, a primitive savage," he said. "Primitive savings would, of course, abuse their children. All the judge based his decision on was Tony and Tweedy being Indians and the charges of neglect that were read."
He said that one out of four Indian children had been fostered or adopted by white families and that 42 per cent of the Indian women had been sterilized, according to a U.S. government report.
MEANS ALSO accused the U.S. government with genocide—destruction of a race.
See HASKELL page three
Taking the hill
David Conrad, Lawrence sophomore, ran into some tough national competition this past week in the Iowa State game.
fourth in the two-day event, sponsored by the Mount Orcadic Bicycle club, but he was undaunted by the finish, because the three cyclists ahead of him were nationally ranked. See page five.
Tie drops fifth team from Revue
By JANET FERREE
Staff Writer
A tie for fourth place in Rock Chalk competition has excluded the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity -177 Alpha Delta Pi sorority team from the 1977 Rock Chalk Reveal.
The scripts accepted for production were submitted by Alpha Tau Omega-Ala Chi Omega (the other fourth place team), Gamma Phi Beta-Ala Kappa Lambda, P1 Beta Phi-Phi Gamma Delta and Kappa Alpha Theta-Delta Ussienia.
The team was eliminated yesterday by the use of priority numbers, which were drawn last spring by all the groups wishing to enter into the competition for the comedy revue.
Priority numbers are used to prevent duplications in songs, storylines and, according to Kathy Hannah, Rock Chalk, "something that could easily be copied."
In case of a duplication, the groups with the lowest priority numbers were allowed to keep the item that was duplicated, and the group with the highest priority numbers must change their ideas.
HANK STFF, Wichita junior and script chairman for Tau Kappa Epiphany-Alpha Delta Pt., said last night that he had drawn up the script for the selection process to break the tie.
"We are going to the head of the KUY tomorrow to discuss the brief," he said.
Sitt and his house members objected to the use of priority numbers to break the tie, he said, because the numbers were part of a published system and not a method of choice.
Stitt said the possibility of a bias in the selection existed because the Rock Chalk production staff knew which groups held what priority numbers.
"WHAT WE'RE asking for in some other means of arbitration," he said. "We're not concerned with getting in, but just with being convinced that the decision was fair."
Beauford Woods, Rock Chalk assistant producer, said he thought that using priority numbers had been a fair way to break the tie.
"I've spent the whole day trying to think of another fair way to break the tie, but I didn't come up with anything," he said. "I don't think a whole semester's work should be determined by a flip of the coin unless all four groups agree to it."
Stitt said that his house was in favor of
flipping a coin instead of using priority
mapping.
SCOTT STANLEY, director for the Alpha Tau Omega-Alpha Chi Omega script, said that he thought the fairest way to deal with the situation would have been to re-evaluate both scripts, but that there wasn't enough time for that.
"Now that the decision's been made, they'll have to stick to it," he said. "I know that I don't accept it if they told us now that we were in it after being told that we had made it."
STTTT SAID that because of the tie, five
SEE ROCK CHALK page five.
Accessibility for handicapped goal of KU planners
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of three articles about problems faced by handcapped people.)
By JIM COBB Staff Writer
About 250 steps separate most students from a Wesco Hall classroom to a classroom in Snow Hall. Even on a cold day, the walk isn't long—less than two minutes—or unpleasant.
But it could take another student much longer to travel from one building to the other. If he is in a wheelchair travel between classes becomes complicated. He would have to go more than three times as far to get from the same room in Wescoe to the room in Snow.
Wesco presents no problems—a series of ramps and two elevators make the goarther fairly easy. Thanks to curb cuts in the sidewalk, which allow you to cross curbs easily, the trip down and ascend are much easier.
BUT WHEN the student arrives at Snow, he can't get inside. A barrier of steps at both the building's front and side entrance are as much a barrier to a wheelchair as a Moof wall would be.
For the wheelchair-bound student to reach this entrance, he must go past the main entrances, continue up the boulevard toward the wet traffic control booth and Chi Omega fountain, follow the path up to Carruth-O'Leary Hall and then wheel down Memorial Drive to Snow's back entrance.
There is one entrance into Snow that is accessible to people in wheelchairs—it is behind a wall.
BUT AT least a person in a wheelchair can get into Snow, Marvin Hill, across the boulevard, is one of the few who can walk.
handicapped, including visitors to campus, are representative of what University of Kansas facilities planners and the handicapped call a blight of design oversights in KU's buildings. The May 1797 issue of American School and University magazine, a publication for facility advertisements, characterized KU's architectural barriers as "monumental design errors of the past."
The obstacles these buildings present to the
THE NATIONAL magazine examined KU's accessibility problems, however, to focus on what can be done to improve campus accessibility. Many of the improvements hardly have been noticed by students who don't use them. They include curb cuts, entrance ramps, wheelchair lifts, wider stairs and doors in campus entrances.
Roger Williams, chairman of the Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped and an assistant editor in the Paleyontological Institute, has been awarded a proposal for making the campus accessible.
"You can't knock down KU and rebuild it."
Williams said recently. "We're not asking, that. We just want the problems recognized and understood."
THE PROBLEM is multifaceted. Designs for new buildings must be carefully scrutinized to ensure that the handicapped can use the buildings and that wheelchairs sometimes are made. The recently constructed Spencer Research Library has no restrooms accessible to wheelchairs. And the light switches in Moore Hall on West Campus are 5 feet high for typographical error on building specifications.
One of the greatest challenges faced by planners is to make older campus buildings accessible. Many of these buildings, built in the early years of this century, reflect that period's preoccupation with monumental design, with high flights of steps and entrances midway between floors.
Another complication is KU's uneven topography, which makes travel difficult from central campus buildings at the top of Mount Oread to and from lower buildings on the campus!
CURB CUTS and restroom improvements are paid for by KU's special remodeling and maintenance fund, but Wiechner said this posed a challenge. The facility is against regular, badly needed repair projects.
THE COMMITTEE for the Architecturally Handicapped looks four or five years into the future to a time when the campus will be totally accessible. Allen Wiechert, University architect, said that 80 per cent of the curb cars were commissioned and the proposed restroom modifications had been made.
KU's policy is to make one restroom for each aax in each building accessible to the handicapped. In KU, restrooms are not available on the campus.
south side and residence halls and buildings on the west edge.
Despite what planners call considerable progress on campus to meet the goal, the program of improvements faces problems. The greatest is a lack of funds for major projects.
Federal grants also are sought. A grant from HEW administered through the State Department
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Interest in accessibility grows at KU
The Committee for the Architecturally Handicapped also was formed that year to survey problems and make recommendations for improvements in new and existing buildings. Because nearly all KU buildings present some problems to the handicapped, the committee also sets priorities each year for improvements.
A growing movement during the last four years has been to provide facilities at KU that better meet the needs of students. The university spurned by increased criticism from students, faculty and staff who have disabilities and by the inevitability of tough federal legislation that would require that campus buildings be accessible to the elderly.
In 1973, a practicum of occupational therapy students went to every campus building to survey architectural barriers in S2 categories. Information they gathered was run through a computer to produce a document that criticized every campus building for faults.
After projects are approved by the administration, funding from federal grants, state revenue or KU building improvement accounts must be sought.
discapped people study or work and areas that attach people such as Hoc Auditorium for the conference.
The committee concentrates its efforts on buildings that aren't slated for major improvements with state funds. Top priorities are buildings where the greatest numbers of han-
Three buildings described as the least
disabilities are Twente, Marvin and Liddley hall.
About 35 structures, including most residence halls, campus buildings and Allen Field House, are either totally or partially inaccessible to the boardroom.
Only about 10 KU buildings are totally or almost totally accessible to the handicapped. They are Fraser, Strong, Joseph R. Pearson, Learned, Merrill, and Halls, balls, Walking Hospital and the Kansas Union.
of Rebhaltive Services (SRS) provided $240,000 for improvements with an additional $80,000 provided by KU. This money is being used to build elevators in Bailley and Flint halls.
BECAUSE FUNDS used in the past for improvements were scattered throughout the University's budget, it is difficult to estimate those costs. Handicap modifications in new buildings are included in the building's over-all costs and are impossible to estimate.
But a brief glance at University records indicates that improvements aren't cheap. The first investment estimate is estimated to cost about $200,000, will be built under contracts totaling almost $275,000. Restroom improvements in four buildings—Malot, Snow, Strong and Bailey halls, will cost more than
IN FISCAL 1797 improvement projects, not including many special projects in compartments.
Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning for the Lawrence campus, estimated that the cost of complete accessibility to most campus buildings would be from $1.3 million to $2 million. Lawton declined to release a memo prepared by his office because individual costs of campus improvements.
Lawton's estimate was substantially less than the $3 million to $5 million that Vincent Cool, Kansas State University vice president for planning, said would be needed to make K-State's campus totally accessible. Cool said he couldn't afford the large discrepancy between the two estimates.
WHERE THE campus can reach its goal in five years is doubtful because of cuts to proposed changes by state budget officials. Inflation control measures have been made to prevent provements. Federal grants aren't easy to obtain and the state has balked at funding recommendations made by KU administrators and the Board of Regents.
See HANDICAPPED page three