University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 11, 1991
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Joseph J. Lies/KANSAN
Second-year architecture students, in conjunction with Independence Inc., 1910 Haskell Ave., receive hands-on experience with environmental barriers faced by disabled individuals who use wheelchairs.
Architecture students find new perspective at Watson
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
Architecture students got a different perspective on design when some spent part of yesterday in wheelchairs to experience how some constructions can be barriers to people with disabilities.
Students in wheelchairs left Marvin Hall and went to Wenatchee Library, where they toured the building and used the elevators, bathrooms and stacks.
About 120 second-year students participated in the activity, which was sponsored by Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity. Wheelchairs were borrowed from local pharmacies.
John Monshausen, Leawood junior,
spent about half an hour in a wheel
chair.
"Going up the ramps was pretty hard because you had to keep going or you'd come to a complete stop," he said. "But it was fun gone down."
Monshausen said the activity made students think about how to design buildings for people with disabilities.
"We're going to design a library in class next, and this was a learning experience for that," he said.
Jim Skinner, Overland Park senior, uses a wheelchair every day. Skimmer, a fine arts major, pointed out that he must contend every day.
"I was always too afraid of cracking my head open to do that," he said as he watched two architecture students balance on their two back wheels.
Skinner said that campus had some barriers for people in wheelchairs
but that overall, KU officials were conscientious of the needs of disabled people.
Clay Phillips, St. Charles, Mo., junior, rolled up a ramp at the library.
"Man, I'm worn out," he said. "The ramps are a little steep."
Phillips said that he found some places in the library where he could not turn the corner because the rows of books were too close together.
He also said it would be frustrating to use the stacks because the books on the top shelves were inaccessible to students in wheelchairs.
"I'm pretty tall and my arm span is long, and I still couldn't reach the books on the top shelf," Phillips said. "Someone who needed those books would be out of luck."
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