Life in Lawrence
The hippies are heading for the Holiday Inn. Lawrence is going to fall in the Kaw River.
The town will fall into the river as a result of the tire-flattening split running down the middle of 23rd street.
One dares not predict when the split will occur, for with present street conditions it could happen any time. Pick any Lawrence street and try to drive on it without destroying your tires. It cannot be done. After you hear the sound of air escaping from your tires wait a few moments for the sound of your muffler, which has just been broken off as the result of a confrontation with one of the street's many chuckholes.
Coupled with snow removalproblems, driving in Lawrence has become a death-defying adventure.
This area of the state was fortunately blessed with a great deal of sunshinine this winter. If it hadn't been for the sunshine, the streets would still be covered with snow.
During the winter the city snow removal team chose to ignore the problem of snow. They did however make one concession to acknowledge its existence. They covered the city's streets with sand, more sand and still more sand.
And now that spring has arrived, the sand still remains as Lawrence residents skid to and from various points in the city.
Street conditions are abominable. The city street department is always working on some street in futile efforts to repair it. In a matter of months, however the street usually returns to its former, car-damaging dangerous condition.
It will take money, and lots of it, to remedy the poor street conditions. The wheel tax, which would have cost Lawrence residents and KU students, $10 per year, per car was defeated, and justly so. Transient students, who keep this town financially sound should not be forced to bear the burden of the tax. Students get soaked in too many other ways.
It would appear that the materials used to repair the streets are inferior. Streets should not revert back to their former sad state of affairs so quickly.
The Kansan does not attempt to offer a solution to the problem of poor street conditions. We are not experts in street repair and city planning-that's what city mayors, city commissions and city street departments are for.
Leaders of Lawrence, will the city's streets ever be repaired? (JKD)
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To the Editor:
One of the few rationalizations for paying the high prices at the bookstore was that if I saved my little blue slips long enough, I got some money back. Although it wasn't much, it made paying the high prices a little more tolerable.
Now, a group of well-intentioned people has decided to reduce my refund in order to set up a scholarship fund. The goal is laudable; the method stinks. The reduction of these refunds falls on all students without regard to the student's financial condition. Why should a student who is struggling financially to stay in school be expected to contribute to a scholarship fund? He probably needs the money just as much as anyone else.
A scholarship fund is a good idea. I only ask that the instigators of the plan keep their hands out of my pockets! I have the right to decide whether or not to contribute to the fund and not be coerced into doing so.
Dennis P. Wilbert
Pittsburg junior
To the Editor:
I was in class in Strong Hall Wednesday afternoon when a great noise (drums beating, cap guns shooting, and people shouting) broke out in the hall. This noise was so loud that class had to be dismissed because no one could hear what the teacher was saying. This disturbance was caused by participants in a march protesting military violence.
I would like to protest the academic violence which these demonstrators committed. However, I will not protest in a noisy, immature manner of screaming in people's faces and forcing them to listen, but rather through a letter which they are free to read if they choose to do so.
The purpose of the University is to help the student learn by providing classes with teachers to instruct the student. This is why the taxpayers' money is spent to build classrooms and pay teachers' salaries each year. If there is so much noise and disturbance that these classes cannot be held, then the student's right to learn has been taken away. Why should these demonstrators be allowed to take away the student's right to learn and his purpose for attending the University?
In my opinion, they should not be allowed to do this; and the administration and Student Senate should enforce punishment on such demonstrators and prevent them from disturbing the peace.
Margaret Jakobe Leawood junior
To the Editor:
While I was watching the protest march on campus last Wednesday, I saw something that cleared my thoughts on this SDS-ROTC controversy.
As the marchers noised their way to the M.S. building, an NROTC midshipman cut the line and crossed Jayhawk Boulevard. Sparked by this cadet's questionable action, a great moan, more like a howl, went up, and the protesting, peace seeking, war stoppers (for that's what they have chosen), immediately leveled and hipfired their scope-mounted, hair-triggered, high-powered, repeating cap rifles at the midshipman target.
And then the spit-polished, pressed-uniformed, hair cut, establishment midshipman (for that's what he has chosen), instead of escalating this unwarranted, armed attack, or maybe falling dead on the pavement as his persecutors might have wished, just smiled a human smile.
Kind of humorous, I think.
Paul D. Rushing La Grange, Ill. sophomore
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