AN EDITORIAL...
It is five to five and there is a
light snow falling, not enough to
amount to anything, but enough to
cover the highway. It has been a
long day for you; you are tired and
a bit irritable. Dusk now lures the
shadows from the corners making
them playmates of reality.
You go to the parking lot, start
your car and proceed down the hill
to the highway. Very conscien
tiously you stop your car at the
bottom of the hi ll -you ease it for
ward so you can see what is com
ing-NOW! As the word comes to
your mind, you decide to play the
game—you are going to cross four
lanes of highway on which the
speed limit is posted as fifty-five.
(How fast did you come up that high
way this morning?)
The fact that we have had acci
dents at that intersection is not
amazing; that there have not been
more, and more serious ones, is.
Right now I could relay the sta
tistics on when accidents happen,
at what type of intersections they
occur, and why preventative meas
ures were never taken. I could give
you facts from the National Traffic
Sjafety Council on what proper vis
ual clearance is, what proper brak
ing distance is, and what snow does
to the friction between tire and road
surface. I could te|l you what the
incline of that highway is and tell
you, in feet, how far away a car is
when you are first noticed crossing.
All this I could do, but will not.
For it has been said that I try to
lead people into my conclusions,
and I know all of us here are in
telligent enough to See what really
is and draw our own conclusions—
especially where our lives are con
cerned.
Our student government is pre
sently trying to get the state to e
valuate the situation and install a
semi-automatic traffic light. This
move is being fully supported by
the administration. But adminis
tration support is not enough. It
needs your support! Your support
is important, and without it the job
might not get done.
Support this move! By support I
do not mean pat Joe Lamont on the
back and tell him it is a good idea.
Those of you who read this, tell
your friends what is happening.
Then sit down and talk it over..
Find out the facts and relate them
to your parents (traffic lights come
out of tax money.) If you can spare
five minutes, write a letter of com
plaint to the Traffic Bureau, Harris
burg, Pa.
Perhaps if you start talking about
it now, the day will never come
when you will have to sit down with
the parents of your friend and try to
explain to them why nothing was
ever done to prevent the accident
which took your friend’s life, -
perhaps.
George M. Kashi
Attention
All
Students
The Collegian Staff is searching
for recruits. Any interested stu
dents can contact the editors or our
advisor, Miss Goodman, for further
information.
Belles-Lettres
News
Belles-Lettres club held its first
meeting of the Winter Term on Jan.
29, president John Gallagher pre
siding. Five new members have
joined the club which demonstrates
a growing interest in the group.
Some of the points discussed at the
meeting were the interest in intro
ducing a literary magazine at High
acres, the plans for the Dramatic
Reading Festival on March 5, and
the highschool reading festival on
April 24th. In addition, the scrap
book which was made by one of the
club members, Kathy Gibson, was
shown to the members.
Mrs. Bodenstein, Professor of
German and English, was the club’s
first in a series of faculty speak
ers. She gave a chronology of his
toric and cultural Germany.
Mr. Alan Price, English Instruct
or, will give a talk entitled “Ca
reers in the Humanities’’, on Feb
ruary 12 in Me-104. Belles-Lettres
is looking forward to a good aud
ience.
Bell Telephone
Sponsors
Lecture
On Tuesday, February 13, 1968,
at I P.M. in the Student Union
Lounge, the Bell Telephone Com
pany sponsored a lecture entitled
“Language of Sight.’’ Miss Sprah
M. E. Martin, public relations rep
resentative of the Beli Telephone
Company In Harrisburg, discussed
vision and use of the eye. In Her
lecture, she illustrated the con
struction of the human eye, des
cribed problems of the mind, and
demonstrated optical illusions.