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Show Comment 1 ssssssssssssssssssssa By Mike Heywood We have all been told how much money, time and effort ef-fort the coming age of computer com-puter registration will save. Faced with facts and figures, fig-ures, it's rather hard for a mere human to argue with the binomial beasties. Fortunately for those who resist the trend to putting everything on little punched cards, an occasional computer compu-ter goes berserk and proves that the numerical syndrome isn't all it's made out to be. For instance, Life magazine maga-zine recently reported the first results of a computer registration scheme at a Palm Springs, Calif., High School. The school's principal, princi-pal, Webster Wilson, found himself trying to untangle a master schedule in which one student was listed for 27 courses, a male student had 11 classes including girl's gym and another boy was listed list-ed for a full day of lunch periods. |