Monday, Oct 21, 1963
The Daily Nebraskan
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Time-Distance
EDITOR'S NOTE: Expnndlnt facil
ttlea (or collefiate education have
Cttiued probiema far students trying
to let from one class to another in
time. Jim Forest, writer of this depth
tory. tells about this shortage of walk
Inf time on the Big Bight and Big
Ten campuses.
By Jim Forrest
"Who says we don't have a
physical fitness program?"
asked Mike Miller, snnhnmnre
at the University of Nebras
ka, as he supped into his seat
as the bell rang beginning
class.
"Our education system has
one of the most rigorous ones
yet. It gives us ten minutes
to get across campus to
class," he whispered with a
marked shortness of breath,
"and it's hourly."
"If this place keeps sprawl
ing out, then there is going
to be a sudden increase in the
popularity of roller skates."
The realities of the physi
cally expanding university
campus cannot be argued. On
one Big Ten campus alone
there are 54 miles of side
walk, 26 miles of roads and
422 buildings, spreading over
more than 4,000 acres. The
population of just the m a i n
dormitory and housing area
on a Big Eight university
campus cannot be matched by
11 counties in the state. The
total enrollment of another
Big Ten campus Is just over
35,000 eating, sleeping, mov
ing students eager for an edu
cation. And while it might be in
teresting and perhaps useful
to speculate on facilities that
are bursting their seams, or
on the strains to academic
standards, or on the need for
more money, the subject here
is how long it takes a student
to walk across a campus.
A student at Michigan State
University credited the rising
popularity of tennis shoes and
sneakers with both men and
women on campus to this
problem. Better traction over
the school's 4,250 acres of
East Lansing campus, he
said.
A survey of the Big Ten
and Big Eight universities in
dicated that beyond all else
the physically exploding cam
pus an off-detonation of the
now-inushrooming population
explosion is making the
basic requirement of getting
to and from classes more dif
ficult, if not impossible.
This has caused universities
to alter class schedules, to
change the length of the
school day, and to create in
tercampus bus systems. It
has influenced curriculums,
credit hours, attendance, and
the utilization of facilities.
Simply stated it means that
no matter how fast a student
can walk, or run, he can cov
er only so much distance in a
given amount of time.
Among America's megalo
maniac universities in the Big
Ten and Big Eight, all but
three have a 10-minutes allow
ance for travel between 50
mlnute classes.
But is the 10-minute inter
val sufficient? It was after
World War II, but is it still
today? If it is, will it be next
fall.
At the University of Nebras
ka, the interval was put to
the test The distance be
tween the academic area and
a new building which opened
for classes this fall was step-ped-off
against the sweeping
hand of a stopwatch.
The 10-minute Interval at
NU last year was sufficient,
but the results of the test
showed it is not this fall for
students with classes in the
new building.
It took 14 minutes from the
new building on the north
east corner of the campus to
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the farthest building In t h e
southwest corner; it took 9
minutes from the center of the
academic area. But these
times represent only door-to-door
distance. Delav in set
ting in and out of congested
buildings or failure of profes
sors to dismiss class exactly
on time is not included.
The standard 10-minute in
terval between 50-minute
classes was abandoned at the
University of Wisconsin, Ohio
State University and the Uni
versity of Indiana.
These three Big Ten schools
are more than just deivations
from the norm. They repre
sent three options which oth
er schools have if they decide
to give students more travel
ing time. Wisconsin has a 50
15 split in the school hour;
Indiana has a 45-15 split hour;
and Ohio State has a compro
mising 48-12 split.
But giving students more
travel time is the exception
and far from the rule at most
Big Ten and all Big Eight
schools. These universities
view the idea of taking away
class time to extend the tra
vel allowance with objections.
"When you take off five
minutes from the class per
iod," says University of Ne
braska registrar, Dr. Floyd
Hoover, "you short - change
thousands of students of val
uable education time they not
only need, but have paid for."
For example, at Indiana
where they changed this year
from the traditional 50-10 to
the 45-minute class, 15-mintue
interval five minutes of edu
cation time per each of its 17,
829 students is lost per hour.
This is the equivalent of some
90,000 minutes (1,500 hours,
625 days) of instruction time
lost every hour.
Since World War II, the li
mits of campuses in gener
al have been expanding much
faster than a student can
walk. This is what happened
at Wisconsin, Ohio State, and
Indiana.
Assistant Registrar at Wis
consin, Thomas L. w. jonn-
son, explained it this way:
"Prior to the summer of
1946, only 10 minutes "were al
lowed between classes. The
change to 15 minutes came
about with the expansion of
facilities and enrollment fol
lowing World War II."
The truth of the matter is
that there are no quick, easy,
and sure solutions to this
time-d 1 s t a n c e problem on
America's expanding univer
sity campuses. And to give
the impression that there are
is to do the problem no ser
vice. On the other hand, an even
greater disservice can be
done, by giving the impres
sion that this problem is louna
wherever a student must
walk a distance between
classes. It is not. even on Big
Ten and Big Eight campuses.
But in everv response where
there was no indication that
the problem had planted its
tired feet on a campus, the
administration qualified its
answer by saying they couia
see the possibility of change
in the future.
Purdue University is one of
these schools:
"If the campus spreads a
lot in the future we m I g h t
change the length of c 1 a s s
periods and class break," said
Registrar N. M. Parkhurst.
University of Michigan ad
missions assistant, Stanley A.
Ward, gave a similar ex
planation: "We are now building a new
School of Music on the north
campus and chances are this
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will influence our scheduling
somewhat."
But once the problem is rec
ognized by school administra
tors, solutions fall like rain
and soak in to fit the particu
lar facet of the problem as
found on the individual campuses.-
For example, at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, a new
building opened for class this
Kail. It is the first one outside
the 10-minute limit of the
main academic area. Only a
small percentage of studeits
will use this facility.
Solution? The students who
have classes in the new build
ing have their schedules
"blocked" enabling them to
attend classes in the main
academic area in the morn
ing, eat lunch, and then come
to the new building for the
rest of the afternoon.
At the State University of
Iowa, the campus is sprawl
ing and is divided by the
Iowa River. Primarily,
classes on the west side are
on the graduate level; and
on the east, undergraduate.
But there are undergraduate
classes in men's physical ed
ucation and ROTC on the
west side.
Solution? Richard Gibson,
administration assistant, ex
plains, "Men's P.E. and
ROTC classes are cut by five
minutes from the normal 50
minute period to allow a 15
minute break between
classes for traveling time."
At Wisconsin another solu
tion has been adopted. Thom
as L. W. Johnson, assistant
registrar, said, "Some de
partments are using periods
of one hour and 15 minutes
twice a week in lieu of three
50-minute periods." This is
the technique of concentrat
ing students in a particular
area of the camDus. thus cut
ting down the distance and
tne trequency of changing
class:.,
At the University of Minne
sota class periods are stag
gered. Recorder T. E. Petten
gill explained it this way:
"Although there are no dif
ferences in the length of class
period and the interval be
tween classes, we have differ
ences in the starting time of
classes. Some begin on the
hour, others on the h a 1 f
hour." All these orobiems and ex
amples of solutions are con
cerned with only a single
spread-out campus. It is very
common, however, for these
Big Ten and Big Eight schools
to have more than one cam
pus.
In such cases the time-distance
problem can appear on
one but not the others, as at
Indiana, where the interval
between classes was extended
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on the Bloomington campus,
but not on the other smaller
campuses.
On other multi-campus
schools such as Nebraska in
the Big Eight and Ohio State
in the Big Ten there is a prob
lem of students having to
commute, sometimes hourly,
between campuses
At Nebraska, two solutions
have been initiated this year.
First, classes on the agricul
tural campus are scheduled
to begin on the hour while
the city campus shifts to the
half hour. Second, an inter
campus bus now runs hourly
to meet the demands of a reg
ulated university clock.
This inter-campus bus sys
tem idea has also been in use
at Big Ten schools, such as
Ohio State and the University
of Michigan.
These are some of the solu
tions. Are they the answer?
The administrators would like
to know, too. Some have been
successful on some campuses.
Some have failed.
It is a problem complicated
by the fact that a solution to
day may be inadequate next
year. Wisconsin, which
switched to a 15-minute inter
val to relieve the problem
following the great expansion
during the post-World War II
years, now faces the problem
again. Due to a second surge
to peak growth in enrollment
and physical size, the long
er interval is indicating inad
equacies. Mike Miller's antecedent,
"If this place keeps sprawling
put ..." is certainly destined
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KSU Confab
Eighteen senior men and
two staff members of the de
partment of Agricultural Ed
ucation at the University at
tended the National Confer
ence of Teachers and Edu
cators in Agriculture at Kan
sas City, Mo., this week.
The staff members were
Dr. J. T. Horner, associate
professor of agricultural edu
cation, and M. G. McCreight,
assistant professor of agri
cultural education. Dr. Horn
er assisted with the national
Voc-Ag judging contests and
Prof. McCreight helped direct
the conference program.
Students in attendence
were: Myron Carlson, Eu
gene Cook, Alton Crook,
Charles Eggers, Leroy Frie
sen, Donald Friedricksen,
Douglas Genereux, Paul Gust
man, Larry Hammond, Lyle
Hermance, George Hermone,
James Kent, Findrew Nelson,
Robert Poison, Carl Sojka,
Ray Robertson, Lawrence
Umland and Ronald Meinke.
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to validate its consequence,
"... then there is going to
be a sudden increase in the
-popularity of roller skates."
If t h e r e is anything edu
cators are sure of, it is that
American universities will
continue to grow at a fright
ening rate.
Nebraska's land grant uni
versity is an example in point:
During World War II its en
Ag Young Adult Program
Closed Until Second Term
For the first time in its
three ypar history. the Mid
west Institute for Young
Adults (MIYA) has attracted
more students than it can
handle during the first term,
December 2 to February 7.
First term enrollment had
to be closed with 60 students
registered, according to Dr.
Otto Hoiberg, head of the
Hall of Youth at the Nebraska
Center for Continuing Educa
tion where the institute is
held. Nine names are on a
waiting list to replace any
late cancelations.
There arc plenty of open
ings as yet for the second
term, Dr. Hoiberg said, with
16 registered and nine indi
cating an intention to register.
The second term runs from
February 10 to April 3, 1964.
MYIA is designed to give ad
vance education to young
men who cannot take the time
for a four year college course
but are mature enough and
determined enough to make
use of what they learn at the
institute.
The student, if he decides
to register later for the reg-
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rollment dropped to only
2,200. In 1963 it has swelled
over the 11,500 mark. By
1970, administrators expect
20,000 students on campus.
Forty years ago, NU's cam
pus was four square blocks.
In 1963 it has nearly fifty. In
the future, it will spread two
and a half miles and tie in
with the school's agricultural
campus.
ular college courses in agri
culture, can ask to be ex
amined on the MYIA course
and receive college credit if
he passes.
Agriculture courses offered
are: Animal Husbandry, Ag
ricultural Engineering, Agron
omy, and Farm Management.
All students are expected to
register for these courses.
Optional courses for which
no college credit can be given
are Marriage and the Family
and the World of Music.
Grants and scholarships are
available for young men who
might not be able to attend
without financial help.
Funds for the Hall of Youth
grants and scholarships are
provided by the Woods Char
itable Fund Inc. Dr. Hoiberg
said that seven aid commit
ments have been made for the
first term.
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