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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 30, 199
KU Car Boom Hitting; 8.171 Cars Registered
The post war baby boom seems to have brought the post war car boom with it to KU.
So far, there are 8,171 automobiles registered with the KU traffic department.
This means that 8,171 cars could be crowding the campus' main streets and parking lots.
Before the fall of 1962, traffic restrictions were minimal. It was almost impossible to cross the street at "banzai" which started at 20 minutes after every hour. Parking was only for a fortunate few.
IN JANUARY 1962, the legislature approved the idea of control points to cut down the daytime crush of traffic.
KU was to finance the construction and provide the added manpower. KU's only traffic fee was the $4.00 parking registration fee and the money collected in fines.
Due to the lack of money, the control booth system could operate only by assigning most of the campus policemen to traffic duty during the day and cutting the night patrol.
"WE WERE ROBBING our night staff for traffic control." explained Vice-Chancellor Keith Lawton in charge of operations.
Instead of operating the booths from 7:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m., as the legislature had planned, the booths could operate only until 3:30 p.m. because of the lack of men, he said.
The mass of traffic was kept off the campus for nine hours, but the familiar jam was only postponed until 3:30.
Teachers could not get to the lab
facilities of Malott, Snow or Summerfield because of the student cars parked there at night.
TO COMBAT THESE problems, this year the registration fee was raised to $10.00, parking restrictions were extended until 11:00 p.m. on lots in the central area, and cars were not permitted on campus until 4:30 p.m.
Since only drivers were affected by the new laws, it was felt they should be the ones who should finance their own control.
"The legislature and the board of regents believes in the policy of 'the user pays'" explained Lawton.
Apparently the new traffic laws are working as they were planned.
THERE HAS BEEN a lot of complaint about the six dollar increase in registration fee.
Lawton explained that the eight new policemen that had been hired with the fee increase also provide the benefit of adequate night coverage of the campus.
The new parking hours are not causing a rash of tickets as some people predicted. The lines outside of the traffic and security office window are no greater than last year.
E. P. Moomau, KU police chief,
said, "We are very happy the way
the new parking laws are working
out so far."
Dostoyevsky Discussed
"The psychiatrist can never take the place of the literary critic in analyzing literature."
Court's Agenda Set
This observation was made by Dr. Bernard Hall, of Menninger Foundation in Topeka, as he discussed the works of Feodor Dostoyevsky. He presented his lecture as part of the Newman Club Forum, "The Twentieth Century Quest for Meaning," in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The agenda of the first session of the student court will concern traffic ticket appeals filed last spring, this summer, or this fall.
Good Time Singers
Dr. Hall said that Dostoyevsky was always contemplating sin and the solution of sin. Dostoyevsky included biographical data from his own life in his stories, he said.
Dr. Hall said that many critics have studied Dostoyevsky to see if he was an atheist or a believer of God. "Dostoyevsky suffered an inner torment trying to decide if God existed, but I think he was a believer. He had some periods where he swayed back and forth trying to conclude whether God existed."
Dr. Hall said that a record kept by Dostoyevsky was found in 1879 in which he stated that he planned to write a volume on the life of Jesus Christ. Dostoyevsky died before he could undertake this task.
Dr. Hall said the greatest influence on the life of Dostoyevsky was the death of his mother and a few years later the murder of his father. Dostoyevsky suffered from an Oedipus complex and had thought of killing his father and when the actual murder occurred it gave rise to deep seated feelings of guilt, Dr. Hall said. This in turn brought on epileptic fits in the opinion of some historians although others disagree on this point, he explained.
"Dostoyevsky was able to create characters who came alive," Dr. Hall said. "This is why Dostoyevsky is so important from the clinical point of view," he explained.
The court will meet in the court room of Green Hall at 7:00 tonight instead of 7:30 which had been previously reported.
The Good Time Singers will appear at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium rather than Friday as was reported in yesterday's Kansan.
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