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Tuesday, September 16, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Speed game gains
There's a new game that's rapidly gaining popularity in America. It's called "Dodge the Cop." All you need to play are a car and a little cunning.
Since the speed limit was lowered to 55 miles per hour, thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens have racked their brains to think of devious methods of avoiding radar traps. Undaunted by the fearsome technology behind drivers continue to speed on and, thanks to modern technology, manage to avoid getting caught.
There are several ways to play "Dodge the Cop." If you're well endowed financially, you can purchase an amusing little toy car. Now you can drive a CB, or truckers have used them for years to warn each other of radar traps ahead.
IF YOU DON'T care to listen to all the chit-chat about the weather, the good truck stops, etc. on a CB radio, you can buy a radar detector device for as little money as possible.
Unfortunately, not all "Dodge the Cop" players can afford these fancy devices. They have other options, however.
resourceful speeders have discovered that pieces of aluminum foil inserted in their hubs caps can foul up those nasty little radar devices. (Of course they put them on your carpet is almost sure to pull them out and ask them to remove the foil.)
Another inexpensive method of avoiding speeding tickets is locating a semi-trailer truck with a CB radio and a siren, slowing down when the driver does.
Anyone who has driven on the highway recently has surely observed several drivers playing this game and resourcefully breaking the law. When so much pressure break a law should frequently perhaps that law should be reexamined.
**WHY WAS THE 55 mph speed limit passed?** Its primary objective was to limit fuel consumption. As you drive along the highway going 55 mph and notice the number of cars that pass you, it's quite obvious that some people
consider it more advantageous to use a
basket and a little less time when
they drive.
If a car that weighs 2,400 pounds gets 22.22 miles a mile of gas going 50 mph, it will get 21.08 miles a gallon at 60. Saving only 1.14 gallons of gas may seem fairly insignificant to some people who place a high value on their time.
Some truckers claim that it is, in fact, more expensive to operate a truck at a maximum speed of 55. When the speed limit on highways and interstates was 70 or 75, truckers could build up enough speed on downgrades to compensate for their loss of momentum while going uphill.
Supporters of the 55 mph speed limit point out that it has reduced the number of traffic fatalities. For a time after the lower speed limit went into effect, there were fewer traffic deaths, but recently, the number has started to rise.
ALTHOUGH HIGHWAY deaths decreased from 1973 to 1974, this decrease can't be wholly attributed to the lower speed limit. In 1973, a stricter recall policy went into effect and over seven million deaths were recorded. General Motors recalled five times as many cars in 1973 as they did in 1972.
Repair of defective cars, more stringent recall and safety policies and the shortage of fuel, which caused people to cut back on their driving for reasons not related to safety. There was a great a rate in reducing traffic fatalities for 1974 as the lower speed limit did.
The fact is that many Americans have not, do not and will not drive below the speed limit unless gasoline becomes so scarce or so expensive that they can't afford it. They may have soared and radar detector ads appear in almost all travel magazines.
Although I don't advocate returning to a speed limit of 70 to 75, I think 65 is reasonable. If the speed limit was raised to 80, the police would now law-breakers could stop playing "Dodge the Cop" and become law-abiding citizens once more.
Jain Penner
Contributing Writer
"NOW ABOUT THAT RAISE..."
Meeting on equal terms
No hotshots at Captain Billy's
He was 26th in line
Another grim evening at the local burger palace. It was the same as it was when he last had been here. These magicians still were creating culinary nightmares for consumption by gullible and poor students who would make them little variety into their dets.
standing in front of him must have been 6 feet 6,285 pounds. What was going on?
This line seemed unusually long this evening at Captain Billy's International Hamburger Horror, Inc. Not only was it long, but its composition was strange, but its guy
"Excuse me, sir," he said
Ward Harkavy Contributing Writer
timidly to the giant student- athlete. "Aren't you a football player?"
"Unhh." he expostulated
"Why aren't you eating at the training table?" Cramden said, joyful that someone else was sharing his misery. "Surely not
Cramden looked farther up the line and saw at least three more likely footballish persons.
He left his place in line—no great sacrifice—and walked toward the "Schrous Salad" restaurant to obtain a position to Captain Bill's place.
because of the pasting you took on the field this afternoon?"
Mary McGrory
Sacre bleu! He spied what looked like a professor. Cranden tried to pinch himself. He grabbed his arm. His arm was too sorey.
"I don't believe that kind of stuff," she murmurs, "and I never expected to hear it from a First Lady."
Washington taints Ford image
THE WEATHER is lovely here, but the maples already are garnished with crimson, and the nights are cold. The Northeast's chronic fear of winter fuel oil shortages are intensified by the threat of price spikes. The states blamed, although one town moderator said he thought Congress was "just as bad."
An 80-year-old Antrim resident, Mary Murdough, said she didn't "go too deep into politics" but definitely thought Mrs. Ford has hurt the President.
seem to have our interests at heart. Why is he selling wheat to the Russians? It's costing us wickedly.
And then there is Mrs. Ford, and her liberated views.
"I hate to turn my back on him," says a Peterborough factory worker, "but he doesn't"
Howard Humphrey Sr., a venerable state representative, says he is "just beginning to realize how much he feels they don't like it too much."
ANTRIM, N.H.-Ronald Reagan has one staggering advantage if he decides to take control of the nation and preside primary here.
He doesn't come from Washington.
The President could expect the usual roaring presidential welcome when he came here earlier. He is not because of his recent peril. But they are talking about him behind his back in southern New Hampton along the parade route. And they say nice things to the president, but Manchester Armory last night in a related effort to pull a
limping Louis Wyman over the finish line in a special Senate election.
FORD WILL Waste his breath on this clear air if he assures the inhabitants of his solicitude for big corporations—industry here with their power. will it do him much good to swear that in his heart he is to the right of New Hampshire's the Gov. Meldrum Thompson Jr., who wants the National Guard equipped with nuclear weapons.
Ronald Reagan has no ties to the loathed city where 'shady deals' demean the congregation; they raises, the place where they welcome Vietnamese refugees, locally known as "those towns."
"The they hate Washington," muses John Durkin, Wyman's Democratic rival.
"I have no use for him," fumes a Keene High School teacher, "when he keeps reaching into my pocket. I have to commute, and you know what I'm naving for gas?"
The complaints about the President are not ideological. They are specific.
The universal, high-octane contempt for all politicians somehow stops short of California's former governor. Obama is a common sense who understands common people, especially New Hampshire retires who turn purple as they talk of "all the money Congress voted itself over," smacked off on vacation."
"EM EVEN tarred with the brush because I spent so long down there trying to get the Senate to decide the election."
"He ran that state pretty good, didn't he?" asked a white-haired Republican woman. "He
low. However, I'm quite sure the I'll be allowed to eat at home next week. My 'hostile toward students' quotient was very satisfactory . . That should help me."
Cramden looked around. The place was full of teachers—profits, TAS, the works. He spotted one of his own teachers, a female assistant, instructor for ideological considerations.
He sidled up to the distinguished looking gentleman and nudged him.
got those people off welfare,
didn't he?"
Just how such sentiments would translate in a primary is not known. Some people think Republicans are just trying to scare Gerald Ford into lowering gas prices and filling fuel tanks. The Republican's comparative measurements of ovations andceptions was no help, since the President would surely win on that scale.
Some locals caution that Barry Goldwater, the Tory idol, was lured into the state under comparable circumstances in 1964 and was promptly tripped up. But that was because a sports coach had been offered Lodge, offered the perfect opportunity to indulge in the favorite native sport of cutting front-runners down to size.
A recent poll of New Hampshire voters, which is guardedly discussed at Wyman headquarters—strictly neutral in the potential contest—show both the President and Reagan voters in job approval. The President, however, gets an "add-on" of 10 percent among independent voters.
"Oh . . . heh, heh, heh"
Smith produced a wan smile. He was just finishing a gizzard soda, two for 48 cents.
"You certainly are a bright young man," Smith said, summoning his best PR stance. "I can see this fine institution, and..."
legislative repartee, aren't you?"
There are people who tell you that the exile at San Clemente could beat both Ford and Tory in a primary here next March.
Say, aren't you infinite Aquinas Wolfe, professor of scientiology miracle in the mind, never trying to think that he may be right.
New Hampshire is feeling pretty cramy these days. It still misses Richard Nixon, its lost prince. Ford is no substitute for Nixon, who never pretended to be a nice guy.
"Mmmm . . . yass, that is true," the urbane gentleman said, apparently embarrassed at the question.
(C) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
"Can you keep a secret?" Wolfe said, savoring his poached apple sandwich. "I am being punished for that." He was teaching the teaching survey. My rapper was okay, but my 'seemed informed' was
BUT IF THE reluctant Reagan decides to take on Ford, New Hampshire's primary, which is first, might be best. The Republican Washington taint, he has the vociferous backing of Gov. Thomson. The state's largest newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, could be expected to operate under his brochure. The paper's hard-breathing publisher, William Loeb, is championing at the bit and has taken to prodding Reagan into the race by printing front page articles conservative, George Wallace
"Mr. Fingle, I'm surprised to see you here," Cramden said, knowing that Fingle was independently wealthy and altogether above the disgrace of eating at Captain Billy's. Fingle was eating a chocolate moose, another of Captain Billy's
"Cut the malarkey!" Cramden said. There were no hotshots or bigwigs at Captain Billy's. Everyone suffered equally here. "What was your sin this week, Smith?"
"I DON'T MEAN to be impartiment," Cramden said, meaning to be just that, "but we students don't often see distinguished professors at Captain Billy's Enormous Enchilida, Inc. (a subsidiary of Chemarto, Inc.)"
"I, TOO, AM being punished," Fingle said. "I was strong on 'illustrated generalizations,' but my reference to related fields" was a little weak. Unfortunately, that was enough to land me here—at Captain Billy's."
As he walked away from Fingle, Cramden noticed several campus administrators sitting in a corner booth and furtively slurping what looked like scallion maits.
"That false nose didn't fool me," Cranden said to one of the administrators, growing confident with each foray into this phenomenon. "You're' C. Aubrey Smith, director of
"WELL, I will be frank, man," Smith said. "My smile' glittered as ever, but my 'handshake' received only a 4.8 on a scale of 10. And here I am . . . Captain Billy's."
Cramden didn't feel so bad after all. Professors, football last on equal terms. No matter that he was ordering from a menu inspired by "One Day in Denisovich." He wasn't alone.
"Omigid!" Cranden said to himself, "I'd better order that Randolph Roeburger and get out of here. I've got a test tomorrow. If I get a C or lower on it, they might mean me to go to Pizza Palace. Tasty Pizza Palace and Bromide Center next week."
He and his distended stomach left.
Readers Respond New practice unjustified
I am more surprised that it has taken so long for someone to raise the issue. Welcome to the University of Kansas, Coach Moore
There are many things that are done at these institutions that may not be appropriate to them, such as the University of Kansas. No one, for example, would suggest that racial policies that were in effect at the University of Missouri should 'and 'obs should be tried here.
When criticism of the "winner's table" was made by some members of the football team, Coach Moore said, "This is the first time an issue has been made of it in 18 years."
In defense of establishing a "winner's table" in the football team dining room coach, Coach Moore says, "Every room that I've ever coached, it's been done." It is noted that Moore coached at Kentucky, Texas A&M, North Carolina and Alabama.
To the Editor:
Richard Elsner
Assistant Professor of
Architecture and Urban Design
To the Editor:
The awarding of an extra thick hunk of meat to "winning" football players has been a *thrash* (a) **proof** that winning is more
Football loser
important than team spirit; (b) a good application of Pavlov's theory; (c) a measure of the state of civilization realized in we definitely shouldn't advertise; (e) all of the above.
Stephen Grabow
Assistant Professor of
Architecture and Urban Design
Bookstore
To the Editor:
I have some follow-up information concerning textbook ordering at the bookstore that Jon Josner's letter of Sept. 8 had been delivered in plenty of time for a course in contemporary music given last spring wasn't available at the beginning of the semester, and a number of times, I was told that it would be available "soon."
Finally, at spring break, I checked with the assistant manager of the bookstore, and saw a book that was with the distributor. But he wasn't aware that the book hadn't come in. He said he'd make another attempt to get the book and let me know when it arrived.
In short, the book never came. I never received a note or phone call explaining why.
I hope that the bookstore will initiate a practice of informing an instructor when a textbook isn't available; and if it comes late, I would hope the instructor can be notified so this instruction can be made to the students. Many compaints can thus be eliminated. Clearly, some improvement is necessary.
J. Bunker Clark
J. Bunker Clark
Associate Professor of Music
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