Tuesday. March 2,1954 University Daily Kansan Page
Students Present Ideas For Traffic Problems
What is your solution to the traffic and parking problem at the University? That was the question Kansan reporters asked students today.
Fred Thornton, engineering freshman: "Centralized parking lots are needed. Perhaps underground or ramped parking lots could be constructed."
Richard Bond, college freshman:
"The reason that we have a parking problem is that KU has too many students who are too lazy to walk to classes. You'll never get around that. You'll have to build a place to park cars, and the most likely place would be to enlarge the parking spaces behind Green and Bailey, but in so doing, you'll have to destroy some beautiful scenery around the drive and campus."
George McCune, college junior:
"Student pedestrians need more respect for campus policemen,
particularly at Bailey corner on Jayhawk drive. When the policeman whistles for students to stop and wait, they certainly should obey him."
William Jackson graduate student: "If they would allow parking in the one-way drive behind Strong that would make room for maybe 150 cars. The biggest problem is that a larger percentage of students have cars now than before the war."
Marty Wallace, college sophomore: "More parking lots are needed, and a policeman could be used in front of the law building, particularly around noon. We could go back to the primitive way—and walk."
Donald Lehnus, college sophomore: "Make it harder to get parking permits thus allowing only those who need to drive on the campus to obtain permits."
Shirley Jones, college sophomore:
"All cars could be banned on the hill. I don't have any idea how to bring this about, but its either that or traffic lights."
Doris Haun, college sophomore:
"The only solution is to cut down on student cars allowed on the hill."
John Oakes, college freshman:
"The worst traffic problem occurs at 1 p.m. when so many people are taking cars to one o'clock classes. A one hour parking limit would cut down the number of cars on the hill, because students could leave their cars on the campus during a class, instead of asking others to drive them up and return. This lengthened limit would cut in half the traffic at busy hours. Better bus service to all parts of the hill would also help."
Shirley Woodhull, college sophomore: "The biggest problem is cars which stop in the lane of traffic to pick up students, thus congesting the lane. These cars should pull over to the curb."
James Oliver, engineering sophomore: "More parking space is definitely needed. Some of the space around the campanile might be converted into a parking area."
John Christie, engineering junior; "People with parking permits should not use the limited free spaces. These spaces should be checked more closely."
James Wiley, college junior: "Level the Law school and put a parking lot in the space."
Richard Whittmore, first year law:
"The problem should be turned over to a specialist, but it would make
me more satisfied that the hall has
outlined its usefulness."
Paul Garren, pharmacy sophomore: "It would definitely relieve the problem if bicycles were made compulsory."
Edward Smith, college senior: "I don't believe the traffic situation is as bad here at KU as it is being made out to be. There is a great deal of congestion for a few minutes at 12 noon and 5 p.m., but both cars and students do get through. One solution to this problem, in my opinion, would be a depression. Then there would be fewer cars and maybe fewer students. On the other hand, the streets could be widened to allow traffic to flow faster."
John Mitchell, college junior: "Elimination of parking on Jayhawk drive would help a lot."
Russell Wigglesworth, college sophomore: "The only solution is to ban cars from Jayhawk drive. Most
large universities have already banned students' cars from their campuses."
Spanish Clubs Hold Dance
Members of El Ateneo and La Tertulia Spanish clubs and their guests danced from 8 p.m. until midnight Saturday in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union. Costumed Spanish teachers demonstrated the rumba, mambo, the tango, and other Latin American dances. Cokes were served for refreshment.
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Shooting to Darken Meeting
Washington—Latin American diplomats speculated today that the shooting in the House of Representatives by Puerto Rican nationalists would give a grim aspect to discussion of Western hemisphere colonial problems at the tenth Inter-American conference now meeting in Caracas, Venezuela.
Puerto Rico's status was one among many complicated territorial questions awaiting the conference's attention: "Colonies and occupied territories in America and report on the American Committee on Dependent Territories."
The fusillade in the House brought
Socioloav Club Sees Movie
A Sociology club meeting was held at 7:30 p.m. in Strong Annex E. Rupert Murrill, sociology and anthropology instructor, showed two films on the life of the Australian aborigines.
an immediate surmise from diplomats that the violent episode was carefully timed to coincide with the opening of the conference in Caracas to dramatize the Puerto Rican issue..
"We chose doing it during the conference in Caracas," said Miss Lolita Lebron, leader of the Puerto Ricans who sprayed the House with bullets.
The ninth Inter-American conference at Bogota, Colombia, adopted a resolution creating an American Committee on Dependent Territories, accompanied by a declaration: "That it is a just aspiration of the American republics that colonialism and the occupation of American territories by extra-continental countries should be brought to an end."
Although this related to European colonies and occupied territories in this hemisphere, the Puerto Rican nationalists sought to advance their
cause by association with the objective.
Pursuant to the Bogota resolution, 13 American republics met at Havana, Cuba, in 1949 as an "American Committee on Dependent Territorise." The Committee took cognizance of the Puerto Rican case, but the Puerto Rican senate on April 15, 1949, adopted a unanimous resolution censoring the committee and declaring that Puerto Rico would make its own decision on future relations with the United States.
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