Just as a certain animosity exists between drivers of cars and cyclists over control of the roads, a similar inherent tension arises between pedestrians and bikers over the use of sidewalks and paths.

Jack Morse, deputy chief of the Harvard Police Department, says keeping cyclists from riding in heavily used pedestrian areas poses a constant problem. "I don't think anyone wants to hurt anyone," Morse says. "Bikers have great faith in their ability to avoid a pedestrian but no matter what, riding at high speeds offers a constant danger to people walking."

Morse says that while administrative rules prohibit riding on any Harvard properly which is specifically designated for foot traffic, the main concern over bicycle traffic centers around the Yard.

One frequent Yard walker notes that "I'm all for bike riding, but I'd just like to drop kick the bikers who ride through the Yard."

He adds, "Most bikers are pretty conscientious, but it's an isolated few who make life difficult lot everyone."

Morse says the guard at Johnston Gate, and other police throughout the Yard, constantly stop students and ask them to walk their bikes.

"There is no clearly defined punishment but we take it very seriously," he says, but Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 says, "I would be awfully reluctant to get into the business of using the administrative board to persuade people merely to use common sense."

"The problems of bicycle rider are continuing ones, this is not a new situation." For continues, noting that unlike many other universities, the bulk of student cycliny occurs not on Harvard property, but on public streets.

"This would seem a smaller continuous people were free to use bicycle's counyemcutly and safely all the time, but its just not simple," he adds.

Aside from providing lock and store bicycles, boy say the administration continues to look into ways of facilitating bicycle use.

Last spring a subcommittee of the Committee on Housing began investigating creation of a bike path between Mather and the Quad, via the Yard.

Arline G. Heimeil, co master of I hot House and a member of this committee, says little progress has been made on the project due to questions of cost, student interest and jurisdiction problems with the City of Cambridge.

Despite the plethora of cycling problems injuries are uncommon. Dr. Dr. Watten Wacker, director of University Health Services (UHS), says. "For the number of people riding bikes, the number of bike related in juries is surprisingly, and lountrately low."

According to the UHS Environmental Health and Safety Office, 89 bike related injuries were treated during the last school year, a slight increase from 82 the previous year.

Raymond L. White, senior safety engineer, says most accidents involve automobile cutting off cyclists at corners, opening door in front of them, or hitting a cyclist suddenly emerging from an unexpected place, such as a one-way street or a red light.