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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Anril 30, 1958
The Problem Still Exists
Since we were almost run down while peacefully walking across the campus last week, we feel it is time to once again discuss the campus traffic dilemma.
It has been some time since an attempt has been made to find a solution for this knotty problem. Someone must surely be hard at work attempting to discover an answer, but the effects are not too apparent.
The only attempt at a solution that we have been able to discover is that clever bit of subterfuge at the Union parking lot, the money-eating monster. This seems like a negative means of solving the problem. Its installation has been greeted with jeers, not cheers, and many students are more than a little bit unhappy about its presence.
In a way this move has added insult to injury. At the first of this school year, parking violation fines were made much stiffer. Now the students are charged $ .50 cents to park in their own lot. If the plan is to discourage students from parking on the Hill at all, this latest move should go a long way in that direction.
But it seems that a more positive way of eliminating traffic on the Hill could be worked out. Although the students wouldn't be too happy with the idea, a step in the right direction could be taken by banning any parking at all along Jayhawk Blvd. Of course there would be exceptions to the rule, such as delivery trucks and the campus police.
The advantages of such a move would be the freer flow of students walking to and from classes, less congestion in the movement of automobile traffic, and a better view for visitors driving across the campus.
There would also be disadvantages to this plan, such as even more crowding of the parking zones off the Hill. more student legwork, and less parking fine revenue.
To go a drastic step further, the administration could ban traffic on Jayhawk Blvd. altogether between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. This would give a completely free flow of students going to and from classes. But such a solution might have the effect of creating problems nearly as great as the one to be solved. And to most students the discomforts of such a plan are readily apparent.
With the coming of a greater number of students to the campus, the parking-traffic problem is bound to increase in intensity. To solve this problem, something that we now have will have to be sacrificed. If the students are willing to exchange the ease and comfort of riding for the possibly slight discomfort of walking, a solution should be easier to find.
'Fail Safe' Foolproof
—Del Haley
Since Russia has become so concerned over the flight of U. S. bombers carrying nuclear loads, the chief of the Strategic Air Command has issued an explanation of the plan involved. This was to insure the Russians that such flights cannot possibly be the cause of a new world conflict.
SAC commander Gen. Thomas S. Power told reporters that SAC bombers investigating Dew Line radar alerts would always be turned back by the "fail safe" system.
"Fail safe" is a term used by engineers which means to proceed toward a target for a fixed number of miles and then turn back if orders to continue are not received.
There have been reports that American bombers have been within two hours' flying time of the borders of the USSR. When asked to comment on these reports, Gen. Power said, "This command has never stated, for obvious reasons, the point at which 'fail safe' aircraft would return to their bases. However, we have stated
that our aircraft would always turn back sufficiently far from the radar warning net of other countries to absolutely preclude such nets being triggered."
Russia has charged in the United Nations that U. S. bomber flights toward the Soviet Union were a threat to world peace. Last week, the Russians withdrew their charges after the failure of their resolution became apparent.
Since then, the United States has suggested a plan to establish a military inspection system to prevent surprise attack over the Arctic. President Eisenhower Monday challenged Russia to join the West in such an inspection system.
In all probability, Russia wasn't really too worried about the U. S. being so foolishly careless as to start another world conflict. She just dislikes the idea of the U. S. being so apparently ready to cope with any aggressive action. Her charges, designed to hinder such preparedness, failed to impress anyone.
—Del Haley
Quotes From The News
LONDON—A source close to Sir Winston Churchill denying the 83-year-old statesman has had a recurrence of pneumonia:
"The old man's in fine shape. But you can't wonder at people getting the snuffles here with the weather so changeable."
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"WHY NOT SPREAD OUT BOYS? NO NEED FOR ALL OF YOU TO FLUNK."
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary James C. Hagerty, on a newly received message from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to President Eisenhower:
LOS ANGELES—Mrs. James Roberts, who is trying to save an 18-year-old former show horse, "Tom Boy," from the death prescribed in his late owner's will:
"A first reading of it does not disclose anything new."
"He's like one of the family. He's not old and has tremendous vitality."
Why the annual spring obstacle course of sprinklers, sponsored by the department of buildings and grounds, has not been put into operation yet? It could be because of the rainy spring we have been having. But if memory serves well, the sprinklers have, at times, competed with nature.
We Wonder
Why the campus cops leave the intersection of Jayhawk Blvd, and Mississippi St. right on the hour? The car and pedestrian traffic flow does not stop when the campanile strikes the hour.
Why the coming of Spring has not produced the usual rash of cute little pranks, such as putting soap in the Chi Omega fountain? Either the season lacks its usual punch, or the students have at last decided that a round of golf or a set of tennis is better recreation than nany raids.
Why no effigies are being hung or no young men are being bound to the Strong Hall flagpole? So much peace and harmony on the campus is rather dull.
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