University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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universi- quality that hours. However, this action has caused students to seek other means of making the lengthy ten minute treks across campus; their solution, the bicycle. Bikes have become so popular that new regulations di- recting their use must be sought to insure the safety of the fading pedestrian. There has been an alarming amount of bicycle rip-offs to which there seems no immediate stopping. At the present rate of growth and the distances between classroom buildings increasing, 17

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The bigger the universi- ty. . .the better quality of education at that uni- versity. 16 could never be recruited while of- fering the Bear Down Gym as their hall of glory. The dedication of those buildings is only the beginning of their in- fluence upon the university. Their role can take either of two basic directions: one, create space in which present programs and policies can stagnate or truly pave the way to a new educational concept and, two, open the door to unconventional exploration of knowledge. With its expansion, the university will confront many unforseen pro- blems and be required to cope with some which have already presented themselves. Traffic is now, and will become even more so, a prime concern of university administra- tors. The increase in enrollment has shown a proportional increase in the number of automobiles driven by students. The immediate solu- tion to the issue of traffic con- gestion was to prohibit student driving on campus during class

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M 18 the only security of the weak- legged is the purchase of bigger and better locks and chains in attempts to discourage the big busi- ness bike burglars. The creation of a pedestrian mall in the Park Avenue, University Bou- levard area has brought reasonable objection by merchants who fear a decline in business will follow the exclusion of vehicular traffic. This seems rather narrow since ob- viously the students are the major- ity of the buying public. The mall, however, seems to be the only plausible way to lessen the hazard- ous walking conditions. The suc- cess of one pedestrian mall would most likely implement the institu- tion of others as the university expands into the surrounding neigh- borhoods. Schaefer is quite pleased with the present system of traffic regula- tions but then he rarely has an 8:40 in Bio West and a 9:40 in