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Show Handicapped get help connection with Campus Planning and they tie in with an overall increase in handicap facilities in many areas of the campus. William lohnson of Campus Planning asserts that all new buildings have an inner and outer access somewhere to all unconnected areas if not by elevator then by ramp. All have high-low type drinking fountains, low pull boxes for fire alarms, hand rails and pull bars, and adequate restroom facilities. But there is room for improvement in many areas. The only recent construction outside the Union, Johnson, is a concre-' Orson Spencer Hall I; temporary wooden it-priority it-priority list for V.' needed facilities" is. of being developed:' Planning and i 1 facilities makes the!,-' request funds from ! Appropriations Co-be Co-be acted on by -.; Legislature next ant; Both Mr. Bebb and'," seem to agree t, construction in th; handicap facilities is -the funds are made- The handicap student is a growing concern on the University campus and building facilities are the focus. Emphasis is turning toward adequate accomodation however and change, although not progressing rapidly, is coming. By now University students are familiar with the bright yellow posts denoting those parking spaces given over specifically to handicap students and faculty requiring easy access to buildings According to Ernest Bebb, Union director, the Union has found it difficult to accomodate the handicap. This is one campus facility that is receiving a mild face lift however. In the last few weeks, using "renewal and replacement" funds "left over" from last summer, construction has centered on a concrete ramp allowing wheel chair access to the west entrance of the Union, a new high-low type drinking fountain, and renovation oi the ramp collecting the North and South wings. When completed fhe ramp, previously i onstructeel to meet food transportation needs, will climb at .1 longer, lower incline a much improved angle of ascent lor those confined to a wheel chair Elevators connect the upper and lower floors. As Mr. Bebb says "Handicapped students do not need access to entrance but they do need access to every area. And what we are concerned with here is with not preventing them from using the Union and all Union facilities." According to Mr. Bebb renovations were the result of Union administration working in |