Registration troubles many students; new system due
By Ingrid Petersen
Emerald Reporter
At the end of every vacation,
returning University students
prepare themselves for that
troublesome task commonly
known as registration.
Students often enter the ap
propriately titled '‘Pit'' only to
find crowds, perennial lines
and closed courses, which can
prove frustrating particularly
for those students planning to
graduate in the near future.
“If some students hadn't
dropped particular classes I
needed, my graduation would
have been jeapordized,” jour
nalism major Megan Alexander
said.
“As l was getting up to where
you register, all the classes I
needed closed.” Alexander
said. “So as I waited in line I
had to make an alternative
schedule. I had to sign up for
classes that I normally wouldn’t
have wanted to take,'' she
added.
Paul Hoobyar, a first year
graduate student, also had
scheduling difficulties during
registration. All of Hoobyar's
first and second priority classes
were closed, he said.
"I had three classes that I
wanted to get into." said
Hoobyar, who is getting a
master's degree in creative
writing. One of the classes is
taught only once a year, he
added.
“When I showed up at 1:30
p.m. on Monday, all of the
classes I needed to take were
full,” he said.
One of Hoobyar’s main com
plaints was that undergraduate
English majors can pre-register
for 400-level courses while
graduate students cannot.
“I am precluded from pre
registration for those 400-level
classes as a graduate student,”
Hoobyar said.
The English department does
in fact allow seniors to pre
register for 400-level courses,
but they must be within three
terms of graduation, said
Marilyn Raid, the department’s
administrative assistant.
In addition, the department
will only allow two-thirds of the
class enrollment to be
undergraduates. Roid said.
According to the depart
ment’s statistics, about two
thirds of the enrollment in
400-level courses are
undergraduates and one-third
graduate students.
Besides not getting into any
of the classes he needed.
Hoobyar complained about hav
ing to wait in the add-drop line
at the English department the
Wednesday following registra
tion hoping that students would
drop the courses he needed.
"1 got there at 7 a m. and
there were nine people in front
of me Why do you have to wait
in line in Mac court and why do
you have to wait in line on a
subsequent day for the waiting
list?" Hoobyar asked.
A great deal of these problems
could be avoided if the Univer
sity had a computerized pre
registration system, according
Musician examines stereotypes
Men Against Rape is sponsor
ing a concert to be given by
Geoff Morgan, a musician who
addresses gender stereotypes.
Morgan will perform his brand
of “men’s music” in the EMU
Forum Room tonight at 8:30.
In 1976, Morgan was a suc
cessful songwriter and musi
cian in Nashville. Tenn., com
posing for performers such as
Barbara Mandrell and Ronnie
Milsap. However, as feminism
and the women’s movement
began to influence his work, he
began to write songs that
challenged the tough image he
fell society had created for men.
"One of (he messages he tries
to get across to the audience is
that it's important for men to
think about their placo in socie
ty." said David Tebben-Snell,
of Men Against Rape. "They
should be open to newer, less
oppressive roles."
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stealing the animals). This is
the first time the choice of evils
defense has been used to justify
such a crime.
The prosecuter, Lane County
Assistant District Attorney
Frank Papagni asked, "What
evil are they talking about that
justifies this sort of action?"
Papagni pointed out that ALF
"went a step further” in van
dalizing laboratory equipment.
After the opening statements.
Lane County Circuit Judge Ed
win E. Allen made a com
promise ruling on whether the
choice of evils defense could be
used. Allen ordered Houze to
present his evidence before him
prior to jury selection, either in
writing or by summoning
witnesses.
Allen explained this would
allow him to see how many ob
jections would be raised, saving
a future jury from sitting
through a protracted courtroom
struggle.
“I choose the middle
ground," Allen said, adding
that he was avoiding a situation
where the jury could be
distracted "from what the trial
is all about.”
Houze chose to present his
witnesses, including the ar
resting officer and psychology
professor Richard Marrocco, a
researcher at the University .
Houze asked Marrocco about
his "form perception" vision
research with monkeys and
whether the monkeys possessed
similar vision to humans, osten
sibly to prove the legitimacy of
the research. Marrocco also was
asked to confirm that various
degrees of surgery had been per
formed on the monkeys.
Pre-trial activity continues
tomorrow when Marrocco will
finish his testimony and ilouze
will present further witnesses,
after which Allen will rule on
whether the choice of evils
defense meets his requirements.
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Olson, who has served as ex
ecutive director for 13 years and
has worked under four gover
nors — Tom McCall, Bob
Straub, Vic Atiyeh and
Goldschmidt — said now that
he has passed “the magic age of
50” it was time to rethink his
career plans.
Olson supervises a
10-member staff and manages a
two-year budget of $750,000.
As executive director of the now
defunct ECC — abolished in
1975 and replaced by the OEPP
— Olson mostly worked behind
the scenes, providing informa
tion and analysis on a wide
range of educational issues for
the executive office.
He said his most notable
achievement as executive direc
tor was his office's ability to
“sustain the agency's reputa
tion and standing as the place
that people turned to for ac
curate and objective informa
tion and analysis.”
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Computerized pre
registration, which Chereck
says the University will have
within the next three years,
allows departments to have stu
dent demand information
before a term begins, which
shows trends in students'
demands for classes.
“You can get enrollment de
mand. You can get it broke
down by class level so you can
have that information in ad
vance,” Chereck said.
This information can aid
educators in making decisions
such as whether to add addi
tional sections of particular
courses, move a course from a
smaller to larger room or cancel
a course with a low enrollment,
Chereck said.
"The best way (to register) to
day. as far as 1 am concerned, is
the new touch-tone telephone
system." he said. The system
allows students to register at
any time from any whore in the
country provided they use a
touch-tone telephone.
Automated tuition assess
ment is also another advantage
of computerized registration, he
said.
Hundreds of registration
statements, which provide the
students, cashiers and tuition
assessors with financial aid in
formantion. are left on the floor
of MacArthur court, Chereck
said.
He said he suspects
"thousands of dollars” are paid
just in the printing and reprin
ting of those statements.
Lane Community College, as
well as 40 universities across
the nation, currently are using
the touch-tone registration
system, said LCC Registrar Hob
Marshall.
The system went into effect
last summer and has cost about
$80,000. Marshall said.
"We recover that with a $1
student fee basically for their
conveninoce of not having to
drive to campus,” he said.
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