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PAGE TWELVE THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1951
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Squabbles Mark History of Driving Ban
By DIANE DECKER
As Christmas vacation draws
near, students are beginning to
look forward to no classes, later
hours and driving the family car.
For 24 years, with the exception
of a few proud holders of driving
permits, student driving has been
limited to such vacation periods.
Although this restriction is ac-
cepted passively now, this was not
always the case.
WHEN THE Driving Ban hit
campus for the first time in 1927,
student outcry was loud and sen-
sational. Transported by roller-
skates, they paraded back and
forth in front of the Administra-
tion Building, then located in Uni-
versity Hall, while the Student
Council resoluted, The Daily edi-
torialized and the Adelphi House
of Representatives Debating Socie-
ty orated.
Although the ban stunned the
student body that fall, they
were not altogether unfore-
warned. The preceeding spring
a serious automobile accident
culminated in President Clar-
ence E. Little asking the Re-
gents for action on the matter.
Prior to this time, driving had
been forbidden only to students
with less than a "C" average,
freshmen and sophomores. All
persons under 21 years old needed
Written permission from their par-
ents and all drivers were registered
by the Dean of Students. Enforce-
ment of these regulations was in
the handsofsa student committee.
ALARMED by the pending ac-
tion of the Regents, The Daily pro-
posed a counter-measure to Presi-
dent Little. It suggested a plan for
stricter enforcement of the exist-
ing rules by a new committee. The
suggestion was tried, quite suc-
cessfully.
Nevertheless, in June of that
year, the Regents passed a reso-
lution, stating: "no student in
attendance at the University
shall operate any motornvehicle
except in exceptional and ex-
traordinary cases at the discre-
tion of the Dean of Students."
Uproar ensued because the ban
was, according to The Daily, in di-
rect violation of the agreement
made by President Little that the
ban would not be leveled if the
counter-measure proved effective.
The student body felt that it had.
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DESPITE denials of the admin-
istration that the ban was an at-
tempt to curb "flaming youth," a
report made by Dean of Students
Harvey C. Emery at this time in-
dicates that more than tighter en-
forcement of the existing regula-
tions and concern over deaths in
the past years was involved in the
Driving Ban.
Emery stated that the ban
was "not a hysteria move moti-
vated by the number of student
deaths." It was passed in order
to eliminate wasted student
time, overstressing of social dis-
tinctions, and to improve the
existing moral conditions, ac-
cording to Emery.
Commenting on the latter point,
Emery said, "Anyone will admit
that people will do on back coun-
try roads that which they would
not do on State Street." He ex-
plained that the function of the
University was to act "in loco
parentis."
AS STUDENTS attempted to
find loop-holes in the regulation,
the Dean's office issued a state-
ment that "the employment of
chauffeurs by students to circum-
vent the ban" was "illegal."
In reply to a personal letter, the
State Attorney General W. W. Pot-
ter upheld the constitutionality of
the act. "The rule of school au-
thorities extends beyond the class-
room," Potter pointed out.
Little by little, the Regents re-
laxed the ban to allow students
over 28 years old, married stu-
dents, local and part-time stu-
dents limited driving permission.
The Daily instantly predicted a
marked upsweep of student
marriages.
"Toasted Rolls," a popular col-
umn of 1928, broke into verse in
honor of the permits:
Sing paeans to the hardy souls,
Who've told him their tales of
woe,
Sing of their tears and their
downcast eyes,
As out of Emery's office they go.
Sing softly, muse, of departed
ones,
Who ingenuity lacked
To drive their cars and not get
hooked
On Emery's Auto Act.
* * *
ALTHOUGH student protesta-
tion over the Driving Ban contin-
ued to flourish, only one case of
near-violence was reported. Two
members of the newspaper staff,
Benjamin Bolt, author of "Toast-
ed Rolls," and Cora the Coed of
the women's page slugged out the
controversy in print.
Cora kicked things off by say-
ing that, with the cars gone,
she had had to look at the men.
"I never realized," she confided,
"what a bunch of dumb soaks
there were among the masculine
population on campus until I
had to start walking with them."
In response, Bolt merely said,
"In an institution such as this,
where the average of feminine
beauty would scarcely cause boast-
ing at the old folk's home, such a
subject is a delicate one."
Cora managed to avert blood-
shed by admitting she finally
had realized that "the number
of women blockheads on campus
equals the number of masculine
ones."
University officials remained
pleased with the ban, it is indi-
cated in a 1928 report on causes
and effects, because they felt that
it increased a trend toward in
tellectual and cultural effort.
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