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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Feb. 13, 1958
Stouffer Parking Problem
The residents of Stouffer Place have a problem. It is a problem which touches all students, a parking problem. But their problem has a slightly different twist; they aren't so much worried about being able to park near their classrooms. Their problem is being able to park near their homes at night.
Stouffer Place consists of ten apartment houses, each containing 12 apartments. There are two parking lots for the residents. The upper lot, for the residents of the five buildings on the west and the lower lot for the five buildings on the east. The upper lot has adequate parking for the residents it serves, but the lower lot does not.
When a resident served by the lower parking lot comes home late in the evening, he is often forced to park either two or three hundred yards from his home, or to park illegally in the lower lot. If they park illegally their chances of getting a ticket is rather high, since the campus police seem to make it a habit to check the lot every night.
Granted, two hundred yards isn't too great a distance for the average student to walk. But the residents of Stouffer Place are in some ways different from other students. First they are all married, and several have children. This means that these people have to carry their children, groceries and anything else they may wish to transport, a distance of two or three hundred yards. This may prove difficult, especially in bad weather.
Of course this isn't the everyday case for every one of the residents using the lower lot, but all are faced with the possibility. Nowhere else on the campus are car-owning students faced with the possibility of having to walk two hundred yards to get to the place they call home.
Theoretically, there are enough parking places to take care of all the residents of Stouffer Place. But a look at the lower parking lot about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday showed it filled to capacity, with one car parked in the middle of the lot, and another trying unsuccessfully to find an empty space. The upper lot was not full, having about 10 empty spaces.
In this lower lot, there are two islands, each taking up the space needed for about two cars. These were placed there for safety purposes, but since this lot is dead end, it is doubtful that they are really necessary, since no one will be driving over five or ten miles per hour in the lot. Of course, safety is a vital factor where children are present, but these islands being only the length of a car, offer a very slight safety factor. One suggested solution to the problem is to remove these islands to create four more parking spaces.
Another suggested solution is for the campus police to stop paying nightly ticket-giving visits, so that the residents may park next to the islands, or parallel park along the curb. This kind of parking is of course illegal, because these places are painted yellow. No parking next to the islands for safety; no parking along the curb so that fire trucks will be able to get in if needed. From the looks of the road where parallel parking has been suggested, there would be plenty of room to allow fire trucks to enter if this parking was to be allowed on one side only. It may be bad to suggest illegal parking, but equally bad are half mile hikes and parking tickets which can rapidly mount into astronomical figures.
Another possible solution to the problem would be the elimination of uninvited visitors parking in the lot. On the night of basketball games, these uninvited visitors flock into the lot, crowding out the people that really belong there.
Elimination of visitors would prevent another problem. The people living in Stouffer Place often have invited guests, people who come to study or visit. Elimination of visitors would include these people, which would also be displeasing to the residents.
There must be a problem here, since the residents have expressed much dissatisfaction with the present situation. Surely, after spending over $1 million constructing these apartments, the University can remedy the parking situation so that it will be satisfactory to the people paying rent to live in them.
Del Haley
But We Can Launch Satellites
We live in a marvelous automated age. Modern man needs only the proper number of coins and access to a vending machine to get most of the essentials of life. There are machines for coffee, cigarettes, oxygen, milk, candy bars, soft drinks and nylon hose.
Why, just the other day we were wandering around the basement of Flint Hall when we were confronted by an array of glittering devices. The old buying impulse swept over us. Fingering the worn coins in our pockets, we moved toward the machines. One of them looked new, so we asked the little man sitting there, "Does this coffee machine work?" "Well, no, it isn't hooked up yet. It's only been here two months."
We moved over to the milk vendor (your choice of skim, chocolate or homogenized) and
the little man said, "That one isn't workin' this morning either. Some fella put a quarter in and got his fifteen cents back, but no milk."
Well, it was still early in the morning, so we tried the adjacent Coke machine. "Oh, that don't work either." chuckled the little man. "Won't take nickels, dimes or quarters. You can get candy bars, though."
But just as soon as they get the bugs worked out, we'll be living in a marvelous automated age. Any nation that can get a satellite into orbit can take the next logical step: vending machines that work. Come the revolution!
Our nerve broke at this point. We had had enough, and fled screaming up the stairs to the comparative sanity of the classroom.
—Alan Jones
Letters To The Editor
Editor:
Don't Complain!
I never had it so good!
There I was, completely through enrolling after only two hours of talking to my adviser, making out a schedule, and getting my class cards. Compared with the three days it took me to enroll at the University of Oklahoma for five semesters, I felt I had accomplished something short of a miracle.
At OU, the first day is spent in picking up what is called a packet, which is the same that is picked up in just a few minutes in Strong Hall. Instead of getting all the cards at one time, I went through a maze of tables signing my cards and going from checker to checker and trying very hard to get lost on the way.
. . .
The second day at OU I spent trying to get in and see my adviser and trying to fix out a schedule, with no idea whatsoever of what sections would be open when I finally got around to enrolling. This time spent in making out a schedule usually proved to be a total loss because
many sections closed when it came time for me to enroll. This time, however I wanted to give KU a pat on the back for having a system whereby I could find out what was closed before I began asking for class cards.
I was prepared to pay KU my tuition and I could find no table to take my ready money. At OU the last line I stood in was to pay for everything and then I could file out with my class cards in hand and drag home to mean over my troubles at enrollment.
I went through a mad scramble at OU the third day to be first in line and wait for my turn when my name came up. True, I waited in line at KU, but it was worth it because this was the first line I had stood in since picking my packet. At OU I usually stood in line for what turned out to be no reason at all since at least one section or more was closed and I began fixing out my schedule for the second and third times. It was quite a relief not to have to battle checkers at the tables trying to get them to put just one more name on that class roll.
I balked at handing out my cards to the girl at the table downstairs in the Union until she explained to me that they would be taken care of. At OU I had to keep track of all my cards until the first meeting of class and this sometimes proved no easy task. I gladly handed them over this time.
It was all so simple . . . comparatively speaking, that is.
Martha Frederick Powea, Okla. junior
The Imperial Dam, stretching 3.475 feet across the Colorado River, makes deserts bloom in two states. The dam raises the river level 23 feet, and gives birth to California's All American Canal and Arizona's Gila Main Canal.
Deposits of red ocher, natural paints formed by deterioration of iron ores in beds of ancient lakes, are found near Monticello, Ark.
In the last 50 years, Arkansas has produced about 25 million long tons of bauxite. Only French mines have yielded more.
Quotes From The News
WASHINGTON—Dr. James Van Allen, the physicist who equipped the Explorer satellite with cosmic ray counters, on the information they are supplying:
E. Jenner (R-Ind.), on why we lagged behind Russia in the satellite rage:
"We're wading around in data up to our ankles."
CORYDON. IND—Sen. William
"Someone, somewhere in the bureaucratic maze told the scientists they could not use military missile components for their satellite work. That meant they had to start from scratch."
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