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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 7, 1989
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Changes to improve access for handicapped
by Michele Logan Kansan staff writer
Renovations to make Gentlerude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall more accessible to handicapped residents will be planned by the director of student housing said yesterday.
Phase one of the renovation will include the installation of ramps and a two-stop elevator for the handicapped, creation of office spaces for the housing department and the addition of 10 spaces to a parking lot behind GSP-Corbin Hall. Housing Director Ken Stoner said.
Phase two, which will begin this summer and should be completed in 1990, will include renovations to equip a wing for the handicapped on the first floor of south Corbin and to improve to the plumbing, air conditioning and electrical system.
The cost of the entire project is estimated at $2 million and will come from the student housing reserves, Stoner said.
A ramp will be installed in the tunnel from Corbin to GSP for easier access to the ground floor and the upper floor, and also will have electric sliding doors.
The tunnel does not accommodate handicapped people now because it has five steps that someone in a wheelchair would not be able to maneuver.
Two additional ramps will be installed on the east and west side of the main lobby in GSP. The ramps will allow the handicapped to get from the lobby to the first floor. Once on the first floor, they will use the elevator at the end of the ramp to gain access to the rest of the building.
What we're trying to do here is to
give handcapped people the same traffic path as other students so they don't feel alienated from everyone else." Stoner said.
A two-stop elevator will be installed in the main lobby on the fourth floor of Corbin that hand-capped people will be able to get down to the third floor, where the tunnel is located.
Lori Reesi, resident director of Corbin, said that during the two years that she had worked there, no handicapped students had lived there and that she thought one reason might be because the two residence halls were not easily accessible to handicapped people.
Tracy Miller, Manhattan graduate student, said that she had visited Corbin a few years ago when she was working at the University of three different elevators just to get
The entire first floor of south Corbin will be renovated for the hand-trapped. There will be 14 single beds, the bedrooms desks, pressers, sinks and beds, Stoner said.
around the building.
"Handicapped are not the only ones who will be able to live on the first floor, any resident can, but she'd need a little help to the new facilities." Stoner said.
Restrooms will be equipped with wider toilet stalls, lower sinks and towel dispensers, and sit-in showers with seat belts and wrist handles.
Four additional handicapped parking spaces will be added in front of Corbin, and more will be added in the parking area is a demand for them. Stoneer said.
"Residents won't have to worry about losing their parking spaces because of the expanded lot in back."
he said. "It's a trade-off."
Stoner said that the department planned on renovating a residence hall each year and that they would begin on McCollum Hall in 1991 if everything at Corbin went according to plan.
Genie Shaughnessy, city building inspector, said that when GSP-Corbin was built in 1929, the handicap requirements weren't very strict and the buildings were upgraded recently, they didn't comply with the 1988 building code.
The 1988 code requires at least one entry level ramp or elevator, 100 percent accessibility to restrooms, 100 percent accessibility to tiled walltails and other accessories.
Fred McElhene, associate director of housing, said that Stoner had been working on the plans for several years.
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Weaving through class
NY artist tells story of free-lance career
The first portfolio Steven Guarnacci took to New York when he went job hunting was a loose-leaf notebook full of descrip tions from class notes and telephone pads. It was not a professional portfolio, but he was hoping someone in New York could make sense out of it.
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
Someone did, and those little scribbles began his career as a free-lance illustrator.
Guarnaccia spoke last night at the Hallmark Symposium lecture at the Spencer Museum of Art.
He began free-lancing 12 years ago, after attending Brown University. His illustrations have appeared in such magazines as Rolling Stone, on book jackets and on Swatch T-shirts.
"I illustrate for myself," "guarracina" said. "My assumption is that readers are a little like me. I just enjoy them and are enough like me to enjoy my work."
"When I started, I didn't know how to draw. It took me a good two years to get a feeling of confidence, to have a phone would ring at least once more."
There was plenty of free-lance work as long as people worked hard, Guarnacnia said. Free-lancing would also set up a goal to could set own goals and standards.
"I want to be funny," Guarncia said. "I usually want people looking at the illustration to do a little work. Maybe they won't even get it till they read the article. I try to appeal to the mind and the sense of humor."
During her studio weaving class, Sara Hughes, Tulsa, Okla., junior, works on a pattern.
Steve Galvin, Overland Park senior, said that he liked Guarnaccia's outlook on life.
"He showed that you could enjoy what you do without the everyday hassles," Galvin said. "I liked how they people and what they were doing."
Guarnaccia said that he wanted people to interact with his illustrations.
Lecture series gives students career insight
The Hallmark Symposium lecture series doesn't give visual communications students just a chance to learn about what their careers could be like.
by a Kansan reporter
"We wanted people to be aware of what was going on nationally and internationally," said Tom Allen, Hallmark marking professor in design. "In the East, adjunct professors were required to be available. They're all there. Out here, it's hard to draw on people's experiences in that way."
The Hallmark Symposium lecture series is financed by Hallmark Cards Inc., and has been at KU for five and a half years. He said it evolved from a talk with an advisor vice president at Hallmark
Fine arts students are required to take the class four out of their six semesters, but Allen said that most take it all six semesters. A fourth takes attend five or seven lectures a semester to get one-half credit.
"The lecture inspires the student and makes them feel more involved with what they do," said Steve Galvin, Overland Park senior. "If shows them what they can do, what to put in their portfolios, what to expect and people to know."
"Iillustrations are like stars," he said. "They've died years ago, but the messages keep coming. People have long relationships with them, like seeing them on a favorite record or book. Maybe they don't realize that the relationship is there, but it's sending out its pulse."
Kansas Union parking lots improve after snow removal
Students who had to deal with haphazard parking in the Kansas Union parking lot due to snow clearance probably will not have that problem today.
No more snow is forecast for the next few days, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Temperatures will be in the 20s.
This means that there will be straight rows once again in the Union parking lot. Because the snowplows did not clear straight lines, some of the rows were crooked yesterday, and parking may have been confusing.
Mike Richardson, associate director of garage and landscape facilities operation, said that plowing the snow in a straight line was difficult.
New aid may hurt students
by Candy Niemann
Kansan staff writer
High school seniors who work to earn money for tuition, and college students who have children and are now have something in common.
They have both been adversely affected by governmental changes in financial aid policy.
Changes mandated by the 1986-87 Higher Education Amendments Acts have altered how students' financial needs for 1988-89 will be determined.
In the past, need analysis was based on income the student projected for the next school year. Under the new system,need is based on the amount of money the student earned the previous year, with that amount being projected for the next year.
For high school students who work for part-time jobs, this means that they are expected to earn the same amount of money during their freshman year in college that they made while working their senior year in high school.
"Some high school seniors don't need very many credits to graduate, so they work a lot to earn money for college," said Jerry Rogers, director of the office of financial aid. "But with the new system, they are expected to make just as much while they are in college taking classes. You just can't do that and go to college."
With the money high school students have earned their senior year counting as projected income, he said that it will be for less financial aid than in the past.
For students with children, however, Rogers said that the change was deliberate.
Rogers said that Congress had switched to this system to make financial applications more verifiable, without realizing the consequences it would have for some high school seniors.
In the past, students with dependents could count the money required for the family as part of their financial need. he said. Today, need is assessed according to the amount of money the student needs to go to college, excluding family maintenance.
According to a report from American College Testing, this change "may have a particularly severe impact on low-income single parents." American College Testing is a financial need analysis service that processes all KU financial aid requests.
An allowance now will be deducted from the previous year's income to cover the cost of dependents, and the remaining money, along with financial aid, will be applied to a "single student budget that includes maintenance costs only for the student and not for his or her dependents."
This change means that students with dependents are expected to support their family completely on their own, which may result in trying to juggle a family, classes and a job all at the same time.
"What Congress is trying to do is put the burden of the family on the individual student instead of on the taxpayers." Rogers said.
He said that money needed for child-care services while parents were in class could be included in need assessment if parents requested
Pell Grants and State Student Incentive Grants are excluded from the new system.
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