Traffic jam
The following article is reprinted from the Lawrence Outlook:
To have 12,000 or more automobiles crowd into the traffic of Lawrence over the space of two or three weeks creates serious and seemingly insolvable traffic problems. Why KU students are allowed to bring an automobile (one and sometimes two or even three) to the campus is somewhat of a mystery. A big increase in traffic accidents during the past two weeks adds emphasis to the need for some type of regulation.Cars should be impounded and checked out to students who need to drive out of town. This would create other problems but not as serious as allowing the indiscriminate driving, especially on Friday afternoons and Saturdays, when the streets are crowded. Accident hazards are numerous during those times. In addition to the traffic problems the citizens of Lawrence pay higher insurance on their cars because of this influx of thousands of youthful drivers.
Yes, "efa," there is a problem, and no one is more aware of it than the 12,392 car-owners registered at the University.
This motley crew spends nearly $34 million (a conservative estimate) each year in this city. Of that sum a considerable amount is spent on gasoline (you can't bring that back from home), to get to and from places where they spend more money.
And think of the millions, yes, millions of dollars that would be lost if students had no transportation to the Lawrence "Food Broadway" on 23rd Street.
Yes, let's elaborate on your suggestion a little more. How do you suggest the thousands of students living in the exorbitantly-priced apartment complexes located south of the campus get to class—via bicycle? Lawrence elementary schools can't handle all the two-wheeled daredevils now. You think traffic accidents have risen—envision 12,000 bicycles zooming down the highway.
But I know your next suggestion will be that students walk to school. KU students are no doubt aware of the countless millions of Americans over 40 who walked three miles in three feet of snow to get to school. However, few members of the younger generation have inherited these Spartan characteristics (that's probably why we have so many young Commie pinkos these days).
We might also note many of the accidents involving students have occurred near local shopping centers—where students are indiscriminately driving around spending their money on goods sold by Lawrence merchants.
Perhaps there is some merit in your "noble experiment." May I suggest you be in charge of impounding the cars and checking them out on weekends, sir. It's going to be a job, considering the countless two-car and three-car owners abounding on campus. But let's give it a try.
After all, what are KU students trying to do but drive around indiscriminately, and put $34 million in Lawrence cash registers.
Judith K. Diebolt
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Readers' write
Dear Editor:
In response to Sen. Shultz's article in yesterday's Kansan, a few ideas seem as if they need to be brought to light and expounded upon.
His first statement which caught my attention was, "As I understand it, there are professors at KU who preach anything but the gospel. In other words, they drift away from the subject they should be teaching."
As far as Mr. Shultz can understand, which I question because this information seems to be second-hand, who is he to say that KU professors drift away from the gospel truth. Perhaps (evidently Mr. Shultz knows the gospel truth) he should be instructing, but certainly not about unimportant matters such as "Vietnam, civil rights and other things having nothing to do with what is being taught in the department." Education seems important only when it relates to a person's life, and if Vietnam enters into a discussion in English class, why should it be stifled? It seems a vital part of our education.
A paradox seems to occur in Sen. Shultz's statements. He talks about frustrations of college students, how they are lonely and need friends, and then possibly find this friend in a radical group. But then he goes on to say, "I'd be flattered with a comparison to Joe McCarthy. I agree with much that he did." Although these two groups are on different sides of the political spectrum, one is as extreme as the other, and it is doubtful that everyone would agree that McCarthyism was a better force than the radical movement is now. It doesn't seem quite fair that Sen. Shultz should condemn student extremist political views when he himself admits to being a McCarthy supporter.
Finally, Shultz said, "If the University had stepped in, if they had had the guts to stand up and be counted, this regrettable mess and our action would not have come about."
Ex-Chancellor Wescoe took the only course of action possible under the circumstances, as he deterred possible violence. Sen. Shultz doesn't seem to realize that the University did step in and stand up by taking the action it did, and his following course of action seems in no way justified.
The ROTC demonstrators have received their punishment, as they knew they would, and the case could have been closed. But it isn't closed. Shultz is out on a limb, and it could become an interesting issue. The Senator is supposed to address the Student Senate at the next meeting. I hope he will come, although some student senators feel this is another opportunity for him to get publicity.
Possibly so, but a speech by Sen. Shultz would enable the student body to hear him out and find out what he is trying to do, right or wrong. Mr. Shultz needs to make himself clear, as he alone has condemned the University faculty and administration. I hope we will be fortunate enough to hear him out. I do hope, however, that he stays on the subject.
Chuck Oldham Hutchinson sophomore
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