THIS WILL BE HOME TO ABOUT ONE FIFTH OF OREAD STUDENTS
This fall McCollum Hall, far right on Daisy Hill, will become a coeducation residence hall. Other halls include (left to right) Templin, Lewis, Hashinger and Ellsworth
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
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CITY GIVES GREEN LIGHT
15th and Iowa to have signals
By Emery Goad Mid October is the date.
The State Highway Department has given their approval and the Lawrence City Commission has okayed installation of a traffic light at the intersection of 15th and Iowa Streets.
Directly adjacent to the Daisy Hill residence hall complex, which houses over 3,000 students, the corner has long been a source of confusion and the scene of many accidents.
FIRST RECOGNIZED in the March 17 issue of the Daily Kansas last spring, the corner has since been the topic of discussion at commission meetings several times.
Ernest Pulliam, KU's assistant director of dormitories and former Lawrence Mayor, admitted the corner had been a problem for a long time and said he was glad the commission recognized it.
Not only will the one light be installed at 15th Street, but also at the corner of Harvard Road and Iowa, five blocks North.
RAY S. WELLS, city manager, said that the city is waiting final approval of the state on the second light and that bids on the equipment will be accepted on Sept. 27. The date was originally set for Sept. 13, but was expected to be postponed.
James Schubert, Mayor, said that the current widening of 15th Street west from the intersection had delayed the project slightly so that the signal would be adapted to the latest improvements in the area.
Last spring city and campus officials had discussed several types of controls at the corner including a cloverleaf, additional exits from Daisy Hill, and even an overpass.
Frequent Daily Kansan photos showed numerous cars, trucks, and buses, waiting on 15th as the lead car searched for a "hole" to make a left turn.
TRAFFIC COUNTS last fall showed 10,345 cars passing the corner on Iowa daily and another 3,200 motorists using 15th Street.
At the time of the original studies, Chief of Police William Troelstrup said that nearly every accident at that corner and the one at 19th Street and Iowa were rear-
end collisions in that 45-mile-per-hour zone.
FOR SOME TIME this corner rated among the highest in number of injury accidents in the city of Lawrence. In the Spring last year an officer of the Campus Traffic and Security was injured at the intersection.
One of the most rapidly growing areas of the city, there will soon be several more residence halls built on the Daisy Hill area, adding to the some 1,200 vehicles registered last year.
THREE TO FOUR thousand home sites are currently being constructed and laid out on 15th Street on the west side.
The University as well as private housing corporations are also expanding west of Iowa Street.
Bob Sutton, Junction City junior, said he was glad to hear the commissioners had decided to install a light at the corner.
This seemed to be the typical reaction of the students who frequent the area, a single major outlet from the west side of campus to the shopping centers and U.S. highway 59.
LAWRENCE CITY GOVERNORS
From left to right, Commissioner Richard Ran y, former Mayor Ernest Pulliam, Mayor James Schubert, City Manager Ray Wells, and City Attorney Charles Stough. Not pictured are Commissioners Mike Gatto and John Emick.
Co-ed living back at Hill
The University of Kansas will again experiment with coeducational residence halls this fall, as 300 women have been assigned to live in McCollum Hall.
McCollum Hall, which was co-educational during summer school, officially opened last fall to 1,000 men. Plans had called for it to again be a men's residence hall this fall, until applications for space from women overflowed the planned housing.
THE WOMEN WILL occupy the west wing of the three-wing residence hall, largest on Mount Oread. Their living quarters will be separated from those for the more than 600 men by partitions, but men and women will share common lounges and dining rooms.
Co-education arrangements are not new at KU, but this will be the first semester this decade, that men and women have shared the same hall during the regular school term.
Carruth-O'Leary Residence Hall was designed for this type of living, but in the last few years of operation as a residence hall it has housed just women. Last year and this, the hall has served as a temporary home for offices moved out of the old Fraser Hall.
NAISMITH HALL, the privately financed dormitory on Naismith Drive, will also offer co-education living this fall.
A larger-than-expected increase in applications for housing by women, up approximately 200 from last year, caused the shift. Contracts received for housing from men are about the same as last year.
"Nearly 400 men have submitted applications but have not completed contracts. What this means is that students will have a greater choice of housing this year than ever before—apartments, rooming houses, fraternities and sororities, and, in addition, University residence halls.
"We're faced with the unusual situation of having a modest amount of uncommitted housing this time of year," J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, said. "Perhaps it is due to the uncertainty of the draft.
The residence halls at this time are about 95 to 96 per cent full, according to Fred McEllenhie, assistant dean of men. He said that this is the first time since he has been here there has not been a need to overcrowd housing in the halls.
"WE ANTICIPATE A substantial number of last-minute applicants—something we have had little experience with in previous years because we have not had the housing to offer. Last year, for instance, we had to put three men in some 200 rooms meant for two students—something we will not have to do this year."
The men's residence director at McCollum will be Jon Howell. Carolyn Powers will supervise the women.
MEN, BESIDES LIVING in McCollum, will live in Templin, Joseph R. Pearson, and Ellsworth Halls. Upperclass women will be living in Hashinger and Lewis Halls.
Wilson said the reaction of the students to the co-educational arrangement generally is favorable and sometimes enthusiastic. Many comment that meeting the opposite sexes regularly in lounges and at meals makes for more careful grooming and dressing and better manners, and is part of a broader educational experience. Some do not appreciate the extra effort involved, but others find this more than compensated by the ease in getting acquainted and getting dates.