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He said there would be a sigâ€" nificant reduction in pedestrian road deaths if such persons wore shoes and clothing with reflectâ€" or â€"material. Manufacturers misht ultimately be required to equip their products with such safety material so that the purâ€" chaser had no option. Family Y To Be Built In 1989 If plans proceed they would be built as a separate project, under provisions of the Ontario Housing _ Mortgage _ Corporation and not through finances from a fund campaign. "A pedestrian has no business out on the street without being marked," he said. remarking that even cattle are protected by {ences. Studies showed that while 15 per cent of drivers inyolved in daytime _ pedestrian _ fatalities, At a news conference priot to his address he showed newsâ€" men samples of a shoe reflectâ€" or which he claims would greatâ€" ly decrease pedestrian fatalities. These account for 20 per cent of road deaths in the United States. « Dr. Allen contends that drivâ€" ers have a right to see road obâ€" structions, such as bridges, curves and other vehicles. He claims pedestrians should come under this classification too. Twin â€" Cily _ YÂ¥MCA _ officials have _ announced an â€" exlensive program of expansion and develâ€" opment. The new family YMCA will be built on Lincoin Road, across from Moses Springer Park on land donated by Kâ€"W industrial ist A. R. Kaulman and his f{aâ€" mily. It will offer programs for women and girls as well as men and boys. The building will have a fullâ€" size indoor swimming pool. gymâ€" nasium. health club, steam room, clubrooms and a large genecralâ€" purpose room for meetings, dinâ€" nors, dances and similar events. Dr. Allen was in Canada to speak on Vision and Highway Safety at the University of Waâ€" terloo. His lecture was one of a series sponsored by the school of optometry. The _ campaign _ for _ capital building funds will begin Jlater this year. Cost of the Waterloon building has not yet been determined. Iniâ€" tial plans are being drawn up by the national YÂ¥MCA building and services bureau, which will proâ€" vide a space budget, for submisâ€" sion to a local architect. While residence facilities are not included in the present plans, residences for men and women are underconsideration. R eflectors for pedestrians, "skirts" for trucks and tinted windshields for no one were adâ€" vocated by Dr. Merrill J. Allen of Indiana, an authority in the ficld of automotive safety reâ€" search, when he spoke in Waâ€" terloo last week. Renovations will also be made to the Kitchener building and a now gym, special exercise room,. and locker space will be added to service~ the growing YMCA youth membership. YMCA officials plan to begin building in Waterloo as soon as possible in 1969 The Queen Street Kitchener building will be renovated in stages to allow a minimum disturbancee to YMCA members. DOWN ON TINTED WINDSHIELDS He‘d Brighten Pedestrians It is not ambiguous in thresâ€" hold situations, as are blue and yellow. Hooked inio a giant, IBM comâ€" puter in Toronto through a typeâ€" vriter like terminal, students in the school have the advantage ol dealing with the most sophâ€" isticated equipment as they learn how to utilize computer knowâ€" ledge in their studies. "We are not training our stuâ€" dents in computer science as such," explained James E. Kitâ€" chen. assistant professor of ecoâ€" nomics. "Rather, we see the comâ€" puter as an adjunct to any proâ€" fessionally â€" oriented. course _ in business and economics." Dr. Allen, long an advocate of green tailights on automobiles, favors green because its position in the middle of the color specâ€" trum produces a strong visual impact. Currently it is offered as a safety option, which costs more, and for this reason he would like to see manufacturers include it as standard in their products. Red was originally chosen for its â€" prettiness, said Dr. Allen. Asking people to distinguish beâ€" tween two degrees of red, as at present, is ridiculous. Waterloo Luthcran‘s school of business and economics, a key Students in Waterloo Lutheran University‘s school of business and economics are learning a new language these days â€" how to talk to a computer. Even .04 alcohol affects eyeâ€" sight and causes some impairâ€" ment, although at this point the driver is unaware of this. Dr: Allen said pedestrian proâ€" tection concerned him, because such persons were involved in 50 per cent of all nightâ€"time acâ€" cidents in big cities. The reflector material which could afford protection comes in a synthctic fibre. It is not visible in daytime and will withstand cleaning. claimed they did not see the perâ€" son, the figure jumped to 85 per centâ€"at night and 50 per cent at twilight. Other studies showed drivers with the legal .15 alcohol level farled to see one in every three pedestrians when driving at 40 miles per hour. When pedesâ€" trians were fitted with reflectors an intoxicated driver missed only one in 10, even at speeds of 80 m.p.h. â€" This WLU Computer Is Practically Human Assistant Economics Prof, James Kitchen (left) briefs student from Toronto. a baschball woulid strike the ground. One student typed out a veliâ€" city for the thrown ball of 400 feet a scecond. The: computer gulped. then typed out this mesâ€" sage: "Come on, thats over 100 miles an hour." When crossing the highway trucks have the semblance of a cable â€" too high to be seen, too low to run under. he said. The chances of seeing one at night are very bad. . Dr: Allen said the problem was that truckers had no real oblisation to do anything about it. When accidents occurred the fact that lights were in the wrong place or that the truck was very dirty did not enter into the investigation. For example, one exercise used to demonstrate the use of the computer. determines where faculty in the limitedâ€"enrolment And when the student typed inslitution, is the first in the jn a lower speed, the computer province fo install a COMPULCT | said the ball would strike the console for full use in a wide h ad diversity of courses at the un 8"0und 7.07 feet out, then addâ€" dergraduate level. ed: "Put a little muscle behind Aund while the purpose is a _ it." Aud while the purpose is a serious one, since a knowledge of computer science is becoming a necessity in today‘s business world, there is a lot of fun inâ€" volved as students grapple with computers and their operations. He attributed the number of readâ€"end â€" collisions, which reâ€" present the highest freeway acâ€" cident rate, to the use of red lights. "The least the industry could do is put a "skirt" or barricade round trucks to prevent one unâ€" derâ€"running them," claimed Dr. Allen, referring to the number of people killed in truck colliâ€" sions. The average truck is very dirâ€" ty and is followed by a backâ€"end trailer, so elevated that an auâ€" tomobile can go undernceath beâ€" fore striking the wheel structure, he said. This accounts for the large number of decapitations. He blamed the prevalence of associating green tailight conâ€" cepts with oddballs for the autoâ€" mobile industry‘s failure to instiâ€" tute them, but admitted the idea was under consideration at some levels. It has only one fifth the brightâ€" ness for two per cent of the population he said, w herecas green has the same degree of sensitivity for everyone. Students can program a subâ€" routine decision to establish proâ€" duction levels and raw material orders for a manuflacturing proâ€" White these "conversations" with the computer help the stuâ€" dent to grasp the methods of utilization, there are a host of practical applications in the field of business and economics. The computer does analysis computations in _ seconds â€" that would take more than 100 hours on a desk calculator, which means that more time can be spent on the interpretation and meaning of the analysis. Rear truck lighting has no connection with ground level, he pointed out. From eye level, lights that are dim, close togethâ€" er, and high up give the impresâ€" sion that the vehicle is far away. In addition everyone‘s visual performanc decreases with age Speaking on tinted windshields Dr. Allen said they have no place in automobiles, since they cut vision by 50 per cent. Tinted windshields are out, says Dr. M. J. Allen. He added that the universdy was not lrainins its students to becoime _ operators _ but giving them the backgzround they will need as they enter upon careers as cxccutives in husiness. "The computer is a tool of business. o with limnitations â€" and strengths." _ Prof=_ _ Carroll said. "We are striving to keep the schaol in the forsfront by proâ€" viding _ increased â€" understanding of business cancepts through use of new techniques. "Students type out the proâ€" gram they want answered in the correct form,. have the material checked by the machine, they actually discuss it with the machâ€" ine. then get answers back. This is impact.‘* He added that WLU‘s new inâ€" stallation _ will provide students with the best possible type of experience, since they can work directly on the keyboard and not simply prepare the material and pick up the results a day later. "Every student in business and economics need this understandâ€" ing if he is to be properly preâ€" pared for the demanding roles in business and industry just alicad," he said. "Prospective emâ€" ployers are making this incteasâ€" ingly clear." Prof. Glenn Carroll, director of WLU‘s school of business and economics. said the "hands on" expericnce that students will re ceive actually working with the computer and its card punching equipment will be invaluable to them. It takes twice as much light to see a larget for every 13 years of age. A 46â€"yearâ€"old driver with a tinted windshicld will thereâ€" fore reduce his vision to what he may expect at 59. Dr. Allen‘s reputation precedâ€" ed him to Canada and attractâ€" ed the interest of the department of transport in Ottawa, which sent two members of the departâ€" ment to attend his lecture here. Prof. Paul Albright, for a finâ€" al example, will use the compuâ€" ter in his quantilative analysis lectures, where student underâ€" standing of statistical techniques is sometimes clouded by the imâ€" mense number of calceulations necessary to use them. The comâ€" puter can facilitate understandâ€" ing by eliminating computationâ€" al errors. cess with known costs and unâ€" known demand. It takes the cxâ€" ercise out of the reaim of arithâ€" metic and makes it a real learnâ€" ing experience in the manageâ€" ment of a process.