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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Friday, Sept. 20, 1957
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Hurray!
Here Come The Girls
The coeds are flooding the nation's campuses, Newsweek magazine reports in its Sept. 23 issue. The result is that some of the barriers of the all-girl and all-boy schools are breaking down.
Newsweek cites "efficiency, economy and academic reward," as the primary reasons for the switch to more coeducational or coordinated men's and women's colleges.
Now if it's efficient or economical to have the wide-skirted little dollies around, we are all for it. Whether the rewards will be "academic" is another question.
Five women's colleges — Radcliffe, Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Bryn Mawr—will share coordinated programs of teaching and extracurricular activities this year with nearby men's and coeducational colleges.
It means that some of the girls will have to move over when the buckle-backed trousers and faded GI khaki pants come slouching into Radcliffe or Smith classrooms.
A young lady from Bryn Mawr may get the shock of her young life the first time she glances up from her studies at another school's library and is confronted with a close-up, head-on view of a thinning crewcut bent over a book.
The biggest protests over coededucation may come from college girls. The hairpulling will start the first time a Barnard beauty, released from her cloistered life, flaps an eyelash at some coed's football hero.
Seriously, however, coeducation may be the solution to a lot of college problems. For instance, there seems little reason for Radcliffe College to maintain such things as a complete library staff and business education department when nearby Harvard has excellent facilities to take care of these needs.
As a result, Radcliffe has been saving money in recent years by paying Harvard to admit women to classes which were too expensive for Radcliffe to sponsor.
Katherine E. McBride, president of Bryn Mawr said, "I think the easy, regular association of men and women in college is excellent; distracting to some, stabilizing to others—but far superior to isolation."
The American woman has as much right to a good education as any man. If she can get that education cheaper and easier in a coeducational institution, that's the place for her.
It's Dangerous Up Here
-Larry Boston
The pedestrian hasn't got a chance. This is especially true on Mount Oread. Trying to cross Jayhawk Boulevard at any crosswalk other than the one controlled by the campus cops is risky, if not downright dangerous.
Tuesday there were 5,770 cars registered at the traffic office. There are probably 6,000 or more registered by now. At times, especially during the 10 minutes before and after 12 noon, it seems that all 6,000 of them are coming down the main drag.
A cartoon carried by the Kansan last year showed a poor student in track shoes getting set to make the dash across the street. It wasn't wrong. Either you risk your neck so that you will make it to class on time, or wait till the traffic thins out and be late for class.
There is a chance that some courteous driver will
stop and allow you to cross, especially if you happen to be a cute girl. But the general run of drivers are in just as big a hurry as the pedestrian. They aren't slowing down for nothin'.
Since the KU campus is a place for the students, and a large share of these students walk to and from their classes, it would seem that the pedestrians should have a priority.
A simple way to give the pedestrians a right to the streets would be to install a sign at each crosswalk. These signs should say, "STOP FOR PEDESTRIANS."
There is a possibility that this measure might create a few minor traffic jams. If so, it might also discourage some of the drivers from using the main drag. This in turn would to some degree solve the problem of excessive campus traffic.
—Del Haley
New Faces On The Campus
On Monday the Kansan will publish the first of a series of cartoons by Jim Sledd, Salina senior.
Sledd has the same sort of talent and dry wit which made another Kansan cartoonist, Dick Bibler, nationally famous. An example of Bibler's work appears on this page.
Jim Sledd spent three years in the Marines,
where he was a staff artist for the magazine Chevron and for various service newspapers.
Sledd is modest about his work and says it "might not work out," but we think you will like his cartoons. He has a lot of funny things to draw and say.
The Editors
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"IT'S ALL RIGHT DEAN WILSON—WE'RE SHOWING A MOVIE."
A pretty young thing's exclamation after reading about the Confidential trial: "For crying out lewd."
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