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Support-dog incident draws policy review
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
Bv Karen Park
A KU graduate student has complained to the KU Student Assistance Center that he should be allowed to support dog into University buildings.
Simba Ruben, a Lawrence graduate student who has multiple disabilities, said he needed his support dog to accompany him on campus.
Ruben said he had perceptual, motor and communication impairments that required him to need the assistance of a support dog.
"Even though I have 20/20 vision when reading an eye chart, I still have been known to walk into walls." Ruben said. "I can see and hear things, but I can't make sense of them."
He said his dog, Evok, was part guide dog and part hearing dog.
Long said members of his staff were working with the Student Assistance Center to determine what certification and training were necessary for a dog to be classified as a support dog.
Throughout the semester, Ruben said he had been told by KU officials that he was not allowed to go into campus buildings with his dog.
Ruben said that on Nov. 30 when he was in the Kansas Union, he was told by a Union employee that he could not bring the dog into the Union and that if he did not leave the Union, KU police would be called.
Ruben said that after the Union employee stopped him, he called KU police to complain about being harassed.
The police were not called and Ruben went to the bookstore, he said. But on his way out, he was stopped again.
Jim Long, director of the Union,
said yesterday that he did not know
the specifics of the Nov. 30 incident.
According to state law, every person with a physical disability has the right to be accompanied by a support dog into public buildings.
The dog must be trained and certified to help the individual, but the individual is not required to pay any money to have the dog accompany the person into a building, according to the law.
Ruben said the KU policy should be rewritten to conform with the state law.
Zimmer said that the University might consider allowing Ruben to bring his support dog into campus buildings.
Ruben needs to present certification that his dog is trained and certified as a support dog, Zimmer said.
"The law is clear that he has the right to have a dog," she said. "But I don't know that the dog is certified."
Ruben said that he trained Ewok for six months and that the dog was certified Nov. 23 by SSIG Dog, a support dog training agency in Michigan. The dog wears a tag stating that it is certified, but the tag does not show the name of any agent. SSIG Dog could not be reached for comment.
For a dog to be certified as a support犬, Ruben said that a dog had to pass a test, the individual had to provide medical records to prove the individual could care for a support犬 and the individual must be examined by a doctor to prove the individual needed a support犬.
She said she was treating Ruben only to help him adjust to changes in
Joyce Everhard, Ruben's psychologist, said she gave Ruben a letter of recommendation that stated that腾腾 would benefit from a support *doe*
KU police question Simha Ruben about having a dog in the Union.
his life caused by his disabilities.
Everhart said that she was not a dog trainer but that she reviewed the dog agency literature and was able to provide suggestions based on what the literature said and based on the nature of Ruben's disabilities.
"Given the nature and kinds of functions support dogs can provide, I believe a support dog is helpful to Sim," she said.
he said he had been asked by the Student Assistance Center to submit certification that he needed a support dog.
the Student Assistance Center requesting a change in KU's policy.
"That is confidential information," Ruben said.
Ruben said he had sent letters to
Ruben said he would meet with University officials today to discuss his situation.
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