The Foot Is Back

ONE of the headaches this mechanized age has brought to Hanover is the problem of controlling student cars and finding places to park them. Not only has the number of student cars increased (745 were registered last year) but their daily use has grown almost beyond reason. One undergraduate arriving late at his class in Dartmouth Hall gave the excuse that he had trouble starting his car at Middle Mass, just across the campus.

Waiting for the upperclassmen when they returned last month was a new and more stringent set of "Regulations Pertaining to Student Motor Vehicles at Dartmouth," promulgated by the administration upon recommendation of the Undergraduate Council and the Commission on Student Life and Its Regulation.

A revised driving code is part of the new regulations and will be enforced in cooperation with local and state authorities. The required registration of student cars will involve a $5 annual fee for seniors and graduate students, $10 for juniors and $15 for sophomores. Freshmen are not permitted to have cars and upperclassmen under 21 must have written permission from a parent. The registration fee will include an assigned parking space in one of the seven parking lots constructed this summer for the exclusive use of students, who are forbidden to park elsewhere on college property. Campus parking areas formerly filled day and night with student cars now bear the sign "Faculty and Visitors Only" and it is expected that staff members will retreat from the streets during working hours. The streets in front of Dartmouth Hall and the main entrance to Baker Library will be cleared of congestion anyway, because all parking is prohibited there - to the enhancement of campus beauty.

Coach Earl Blaik used to complain that college men today have weak legs because they never walk anywhere. By next spring, when Bermuda shorts blossom forth again, Dartmouth men should display more muscular legs, and maybe even the faculty will be swept along in the New Pedestrianism.