Page 2 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1955
Is Parking The Traffic Problem?
There is a parking problem on the campus. There is an even greater problem which concerns even more students—the problem of how to cross the street between classes without getting run over by the cars which form a line of continuous traffic each time the whistle blows.
Is it necessary for all these cars to travel on the campus between classes?
It is virtually impossible to cross the street from Snow to Robinson Hall without first going a block and a half to the corner where the policeman stands directing traffic. Likewise it is difficult to cross from the east side to the west side of Jayhawk Boulevard in front of Danforth Chapel without a great deal of courage or luck.
Granted there is a shortage of parking space, but is the shortage relieved by the drivers who jump in their cars at the end of each class period and dash madly around the campus?
There is enough pedestrian traffic between classes to cause considerable crowding on the sidewalks. It takes enough time to get from class to class without the added burden of lines of speeding cars.
The drivers do speed on the campus. Maybe they don't drive down the Boulevard at 70 miles an hour, but they do drive too fast. Seldom does a 10-minute break go by without the squealing of tires and the sound of hastily applied brakes. We have been lucky so far. No one has been killed or even seriously injured. But luck will go just so far.
The University is growing and expanding. Buildings are being built even farther away on the slopes of the Hill. This means that in years to come there will be an even greater necessity for more walking and more street crossing. Does it also mean there will be more traffic to contend with between classes?
Beside the general problem of too much traffic there is also the problem of the special kinds of drivers. These drivers are the ones who are not content to zoom past intersections but who also delight in seeing how close they can come to the people crossing the street without hitting them.
Brakes are merely one part of a machine. They are not infallible.
Maybe when, and if, the parking problem is solved and most of the cars have a place to sit, the problem of driving between classes will be solved, but we doubt it. Much of the between-class traffic seems to be created by students who have nothing better to do than drive around waving at their friends and creating a traffic hazard. A place to park will not help them.
It's wonderful to have a car and it's great fun to drive. Unfortunately most of our professors expect us to get to class on time, and this is becoming increasingly difficult because of between-class traffic.
—Darlene Montgomery
Having the University located on a hill is ideal for beauty but not practical for many cars.
The real automobile problem on the campus is not the only parking situation but the fact that the location of the campus does not make it possible for everyone to drive to school.
Let's All Walk
At noon time the streets are congested with traffic. Instead of fighting this traffic it is much more practical to park your car on a side street away from the University and walk several blocks.
With too many cars on the campus streets the chance of a serious accident is highly possible.
However, it is not sensible to eliminate all cars from the Hill, because in some cases people must drive on the Hill because of health reasons.
"AND THE SECOND THING YOU SHOULD LEARN TO DO IS TO TAKE CRITICISM"
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
The best solution, unless driving is vitally important is not to drive your car on the Hill and enjoy this fine autumn weather by walking to classes.
David Webb
It looks as if Oklahoma A&M has run into the situation like the one on the KU campus. An editorial in the Oct. 22 issue of the school paper bemoans the fact that the parking problem doesn't end at 5 p.m. now but becomes worse at night. Try to find a parking place on the Hill at night and you'll see what they mean.
BENNINGTON CENTER, N. Y.
—(U.P.)— Sister M. Claudianne at Sacred Heart School has four sets of twins in her kindergarten-first grade classroom. There is one boy-girl duo; two sets of boys and one set of girls.
Such near certainty is seldom pleasing to professional politicians. It narrows the area for bargaining—and for possible rewards—too much. It is questionable too as failing to take adequate account of how issues and situations can change between October and July. Aside from any special interests or personal ambitions this might be enough to warrant efforts to keep the field open.
Democrat Pot Begins To Boil
You may read in the headlines that the "Democratic political pot has begun to boil." New interest has appeared in the presidential nomination for 1956.
The newest factor in the situation is a movement to prevent Adlai Stevenson sewing up the nomination a year in advance. After so many of the Democratic governors voiced support for him at the Governors' Conference it began to look as if there would be such widespread unofficial agreement that the other candidates would have difficulty getting started. Mr. Stevenson's expected announcement of his willingness to run then might almost be taken as sealing a compact.
The explosion of a hydrogen bomb is as mild as the falling of a feather compared to the energy released by an exploding star. One exploding star provided 10 septillion (one followed by 25 zeros) times more energy than an H-bomb.
Two moves to brake the Stevenson band wagon came last week. One was Harry Truman's visit about Gov. Averell Harriman's qualifications. The other was Mr. Harriman's own declaration that he was not obligated to support Mr. Stevenson in the convention. This matched Mr. Truman's, "I'm making no choice until the convention." It was a noticeable change from the I-m-for-Stevenson tune and could become a chorus.
For any move to prevent the Democratic pot coming to a boil—and cooking up a candidate months before the convention—will have much support. For one thing Estes (Crockett) Kefauver hasn't even dusted off his coonskin campaign cap yet. For another nobody ought to destroy political uncertainty that way—and take the bread out of the mouths of political prognosticators.
Christian Science Monitor
4 Sets of Twins
.. Letters ..
Editor:
As the University community is aware, the library has been granted a sum of money by the Watumull Foundation to purchase books about India to bring the library's material in this area more up to date.
I would like to take advantage of this page of the Kansan to ask for suggestions from the Indian students on campus and from any interested students and faculty members as to the titles to be purchased with this generous grant. Any suggestions received will be considered promptly and carefully.
This is a real opportunity for all interested persons to contribute to the development of this important area in the library's collections.
Sincerely yours,
Alec Ross
Head, Acquisitions Dept
University Library
Pampered British Ravens
WASHINGTON—the ravens that inhabit the grounds of the Tower of London are fed and watered daily no matter how strict the food rationing, says the National Geographic Society. In the reign of Charles II the superstition arose that if the ravens were to disappear, the British Empire would collapse. Ever since, the birds, each with one wing clipped to prevent escape, have been pampered. Old birds are replaced from time to time by younger ones from the forests.
SPRINGHIELD, Mass. —(U.P).
William Lacoste was granted a divorce on grounds of desertion—41 years after his wife left him.
She's Really Gone
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More Scientists An Acute Need
Reason why is simple. There aren't enough engineers and chemists to satisfy industry's demand for them. Our nation's business executives are quite concerned about this, since a lack of young scientists is hurting them individually and collectively.
Students enrolled in engineering surely are lucky. When they graduate from college, they will need both hands to count up the job offers they have to choose from. They probably have more job offers apiece than graduates in any other course of study.
They are doing everything in their power to produce more scientists from our colleges and universities. We are all familiar with the scholarships and other awards made to our fellow students by many companies.
More than once a cash award or scholarship from industry has made the difference between a bright student's staying in school or dropping out. By these methods, the businessmen are increasing the college's output of scientists.
Studies show a rapid decline in the number of college graduates entering the field of science teaching.
Because of this acute science teacher shortage, more than half the high schools in the country have no classes in physics or chemistry.
Today, only 4 per cent study physics—as against 19 per cent some 55 years ago.
Experts say there is no lack of young people with the intelligence to master college courses in science and mathematics, but not enough seem willing to make the effort.
An oil company is therefore offering a free summer seminar to 60 high school science teachers yearly. They'll go to school at Stanford or Cornell.
The 60 teachers chosen will get travel allowances, all tuition and fees, living expenses on the university campus and $500 in cash to make up for the loss of potential summer earnings.
The teacher shortage is probably the heart of the scientist shortage. If our country had the right amount of teachers to steer their pupils into engineering and chemistry, we would probably have enough scientists to go around.
But it is this crushing demand for scientists in the commercial world which is choking off our supply of science teachers.
It's easy to see how this works. An engineer gets his diploma. He has literally scores of job offers, almost all of which offer him twice as much as he could get teaching chemistry or physics in some high school, especially in Oklahoma.
It probably wouldn't be too far off base if we said the best way to increase our output of scientists would be to bring a teacher's salary up even with a commercial scientist's salary.
Daily O'Collegian
There isn't a whole heck of a lot that industry could do about this. If they could, we think they'd do it.
..Short Ones..
The University of Minnesota's new university laundry has $180,000 worth of automatic equipment and can handle 90,000 pounds of washing a week. Only one trouble—students' individual laundry isn't handled. Eligible material includes all washing from dormitories, athletic department and hospitals. Nothing like a little politicking by the local washhouses.
The Concordia Panther—a high school paper—offered a free candy bar for any misspelled word a subscriber could find in the paper. Three subscribers took them up on it and are—as far as we know—munching happily. A certain journalism faculty member at KU—known for his cheerfulness—remarked sourly that the UDK will not begin this policy.
Police at Boulder, Colo., are still trying to find the dastardly students at Colorado University who painted a U beside the C already on a great stone slab of Flatiron mountain. But even if the cops catch them, our bet is that the students who did the deed are tougher than any measly cops. That's quite a hill out there.
Football coaching staffs are becoming so sizeable that the old "You can't tell a player without a program." will be converted soon into, "You can't tell a COACH without one."