Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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'lphins don't get hostile, he explained. l've never seen ostile dolphin. riey are very conscious animals, he noted. They are oably the most conscious and highly evolved animal in the ii BD. :phins have a superior echo-ranging device similar to sonar, by explained. He knows where he is and what's around at all times. As a result, a dolphin is never in a dangerous . II lation, he added. Cause of this device he is practically guaranteed his l tence, Truby noted. lean life is rough. The majority of dolphins are 'roughing ll the time, he explained. I suppose the life span of 1 lphin in its natural environment is at least 40 years, most lly more, he said. fever, he added that in captivity the life span of a dolphin ,ss than ten years. ii dolphins have been used on the Flipper television show now all of them are dead, he noted. lTruby, professor of linguistics at the University of lVliami, ked with dolphins in the area of communications for lO l's, which included work with Dr. John Lilly at the nmunication Research Institute in Coconut Grove. Man uses 6,000 different languages throughout the world, yet people can't get along in one language, he asserted. People NEED to know how to obtain food, water and a means to live. They don't need to know what is happening elsewhere. Dolphins communicate only the things necessary to live, not superflous ideas, he claims. Truby explained that the dolphin which has a hearing ability 10 times higher than man's hearing, has four methods of communication, including sonar and three techniques of vocalization which can be used under water as well as in the 3ll'. The three methods of vocalization are whistles and click train, both used by dolphins to communicate with other nearby dolphins, and humanoids, a term invented by Dr. Lilly which describes the dolphins' imitative vocalizations of human language. I don't think the dolphin can learn human language because he has no incentive to learn it and lacks the necessary equipment to learn the language, Dr. Truby claims. The dolphin doesn't learn, he mimicks. lf he learns, why would he choose English? Why wouldn't he choose to learn dolphinese or whaIese? he added. Dolphins. What do you think of when someone mentions dolphins now? xg - ,.... H Q f , ,,,. --5, sv r- , evil' V'---gr, J.. . W e , L . 1 ua 111.1-1 Y ,,,,,,,.. e -gulf' :H l . QF x 1 i jf-F' i -, d

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BIKE PATHS CN THE WAY to get to and from work, especially in the large cities that suffer from acute congestion. They have found it a pleasant alternative to the aggravating and expensive automobile commuting ritual. Also, many school children are dependent on the bicycle as a means of transportation. With the increased use of bicycles in Broward County and the rest of the United States, there has been a Surge in accidental injuries and deaths related to their use. Especially vulnerable in a collision because of the lack of protection for the rider, bicycles are not highly visible to the motorists at night, even with lights and typical reflectors on the bicycle. Cyclists, who have as much right to the road as the automobile and its driver, often suffer from the lack of respect given to them by motorists. On the other hand, because many cyclists are young and inexperienced, they are unaware that they must obey all the traffic regulations and signals that motorists must obey. The result is tragic in many cases, with injuries that could be avoided if provision was made for the bicycle within the structure of the city, both in terms of physical facilities and information programs designed to educate the motorist and cyclist to their respective responsibilities. Broward Community College is a stronghold of bicycle transport. Just recently, BCC has constructed an elaborate network of pedestrian or by Debbie Dishman bicycle paths connecting all parts of the campus. However, there are no bike pathways, as of now, along State Road 84 to provide for the college bicyclists a safe passage with minimum conflict to the motorized public. On streets, such as State Road 84, having speed limits in excess of 45 miles an hour, a separate Bicycle Safety Trail facility, adequately protected from motorized vehicles should be provided. These Bicycle Safety Trails must be sufficiently wide so that motorized vehicular traffic can be excluded from the designated lane. A step in this direction is being taken by the Florida Department of Transportation lFDOTl. Under a new project called The State Road 84 Improvement Project, they are extending 84 from University Drive to Andytown into a four-lane highway. The FDOT has decided to include a bicycle path as an integral part of the transportation network. Having reached an agreement with the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, they plan on building a bicycle trail along their canal bank that parallels State Road 84, intersecting Markham Park. James B. Earle, an environmental specialist from the FDOT, says that bicycle paths are being constructed in urban areas wherever a bicycle trail is feasible and logical. However, a bike path from Fort Lauderdale to the college would prove to be one of particularly high use.