| Show 4 Smoking cc Off 0 0 The Campus Carri nis 1 f t J. r I Because of the edict against smoking on the cal campus lp s most 5 of the s students arc are forced forced to go behind the Park Building road r f r when they wish to smoke The fhe smoking ground around behind the thet t Park B Building is not actually off the tle C campus but but th the gesture cV iu S of across the tle road before lighting up aP Indicates indicates respect Y for the ruling and is IS thus equivalent to walking the mile half 3 from the Park to the gates before smoking rg But the students who smoke behind the Park are put to fJ great discomfort and inconvenience For them there are arc the r.- r. x P problems of oho how to get an inhalation and still stilt make their classes lass class lassar ar- ar es on n time of how to avoid sore throats from dust and dirt fir in dry weather and of how to avoid colds from exposure in f wet vet weather Smokers are denied the relaxation of reclining t or or even of sitting as th they y smoke The whole system is IS a major f S a irritation to several hundred smoking students sj 7 So for the comfort of smokers we e suggest a new v of the rule against sm smoking king on the campus y s 1 Smoking is only forbidden on the campus It is permitted off the campus Now the reason students must go so far to f. f i smoke e is is' that th the they y have interpreted off in the horizontal jT r sense sense Assuming the campus to be a plane they have gotten r off the campus by moving horizontally to its limits r Now why shouldn't off be interpreted in the to u L' L lar ar sense Why shouldn't stud students get et off the campus b bL by L f moving perpendicularly The p perpendicular rp means of escape could be effected ti with stilts If a all l the students who smoke were to bring stilts to school with them they could mount them to walk between classes and thus mounted they could enjoy a quiet smoke serene serene ser ser- J. J ene in in the knowledge that they were off the campus campus' and therefore not v violating in any way the rules of discipline As to the length of the stilts we think hink that that matter sh should be left entirely to the discretion of the individual cr er We Ve suggest twelve inches as being a safe distance off the he i campus tt t. t c 3 x i 1 7 r I r H 1 rg r y 11 H f 6 i rf 6 But ct i 1 if this leg length g seems too foe s short h oe t an and d therefore pr sit 71 rl Y tius of the smoker then the Regents themselves should hould determine deter- deter Ii i r i v mme mine mine exactly how long the stilts should be to keep the smoker i 1 a proper and decorous distance off the campus Z This plan effect ft ought to an adjustment |
