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Show U. of U. Approves Earlier Classes To Ease Traffic University of Utah students probably will be setting their alarm clocks earlier this spring. As a result of a request from the Salt Lake City Traffic Advisory Ad-visory Council, the Deans Council Coun-cil of the university has approved the starting of classes at 7:45 a.m. rather than 8:00 a.m. The Faculty Council is expected to consider the proposal this week. In making the announcement Sunday, Dr. A. Ray Olpin noted that early morning traffic on Foothill Drive had made some knid of community action necessary. neces-sary. A letter from Darrel Welling, Traffic Advisory Council, to President Olpin said, "The vehicle ve-hicle volume from the southeast section of the city has increased to the extent that it is considered critical. A practical remedy would be to stagger the opening hours of business in the city, or to change the class time at the university." To alleviate the traffic congestion con-gestion just prior to 8 a.m.. the Deans' Council considered the changing of starting time of some classes. Because starting classes later would make a much to short lunch period and also would interfere in-terfere in some respects with parents who drive their sons and daughters to the university en-route en-route to work, the decision was to begin the day 15 minutes earlier. With traffic beginning at 7:45, traffic . to the campus would be 15 minutes earlier. Afternoon classes would still begin at 1 p.m., providing a full hour for lunch (from 11:50 a.m. to 1 p.m., actually). Activities now put in the lunch time would receive a more equitable attention under the proposed class starting time. "We at the University of Utah are pleased to be able to cooperate cooper-ate in helping to solve problems in the community," Dr. Olpin declared. de-clared. "With the Deans' Council having approved the change, we are certain the faculty and students, stu-dents, too, will favor the traffic advisory council's proposal." |