UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday; January 24.1996
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Most scholarship halls lack handicapped access
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
KU students in wheelchairs often struggle with limited housing options. But handicapped women who wish to live in a scholarship hall are completely out of luck.
"We don't have any handicapped-accessible rooms in the women's hall," said Jeff Stowell, Augusta junior and president of the All Scholarship Hall Council. "There
are plans to remodel Sellards Hall this summer, and the renovations will make it accessible."
Stowell said the plans for the women's scholarship hall included making two rooms on the first floor handicapped-accessible. Construction plans also include installing an elevator to the basement, where the dining room is, and making the first-floor and basement doors wider.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing,
said the Sellards renovation would take care of the lack of access in KU's nine scholarship halls for handicapped women.
"As I understand it, they plan to eventually convert all the halls." Stowell said.
Stowell said that only Amini Scholarship Hall and Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall, both men's scholarship halls, were wheelchair accessible.
"Right now, if you are talking full-code compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, we're not there," Stoner said. "If you are talking accommodation, we
Fred Souder, Bartlesville, Okla., graduate student and director of Amini, said his hall had one handicapped-accessible room.
have that."
Souder said that this was his first year in the hall and that he did not know of any students using wheelchairs who had applied to the scholarship hall.
Both Souder and Stowell said that if there were students who used wheelchairs in the scholarship halls, they were unsure how those students would get up the hill to campus.
Ron Vanderslice, Tulsa, Okla., senior and coordinator for KU on Wheels, said that KU on Wheels provided lift van service for students.
"For mobility-impaired students, like those with broken legs or permanent impairments, they can get a ride during the same hours the buses run," Vanderslice said. "For rides during the whole semester, they just need to buy a bus pass, and they can get regularly scheduled service."
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