University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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The campus has gotten too big to handle the amount of vehicular traffic during a day. - . Psychology, and he doesn ' t park his bike miles from his office. Dormitories are another area where an extreme revision in policy is needed. They have long been held as a positive aspect of a college education; as a place to learn about people. This, they surely are, but outmoded regulations have stifled the potential experience. Besides being archaic, rules against free visitation are also incongruous with the mature devel- opment of students. This involve- ment would facilitate more social and intellectual encounters between males and females and the sponta- neity would afford more casual re- lationships among them. Granted, open visitation would provide added opportunities for sexual encounters, but then it is time for the present policy of en loco parentis to be abolished. The rules prohibiting cooking equipment and such things as refrigerators are also high on the list of reasons for the migra- 19

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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

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At present, students have to run around and fill out too many cards, etc, etc, etc. i THE DIRECTIONS MTHE SCHEDULE OF HOURS n MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR OWN PACKET tion into Pertaining to me suoject or co-e dorms, there has been speculatio.. that one or more trial situations will soon be introduced. Fortu- nately, the overcrowding and the inane rules are recognized as pressing problems by Schaefer as well as other officials and there is hope for changing our living facilities. Graduation and Registration have ; Mv T