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Show X( I-.. v ) yrj 1 V- - v - I - ill it I V ! -l t 0 V University upperclassmen found themelves back picking up class cards and fighting to reach the front of the line before the section closed. Maximum Maxi-mum Advanced Registration (MAR) by computer, introduced last winter, was absent but will return i.miiiti mm . ... .: C 1 A mnnmrff Wr -Tmi tr -a rii next quarter, according to University Registrar Clarence Reader. Students and counselors were occupied most of each day going through registration reg-istration processes. 15,000 .Registered Utes Fix Fall Schedules students before they could register. There are three suggested alternatives: alterna-tives: checking with counselors in the Spring, improving the system, or eliminateing counseling for fall quarter. Counselors would be available avail-able for advice during the registration registra-tion period. A decision will be made in the near future. One of Ten Dissatisified A survey taken last year when computer registration was first used showed that only one out of every ten students was dissatisfied. (Continued on page 7) By DAVE BLOCK Chronicle Staff Writer The scene: A large building with thousands of people wandering around in a seemingly aimless manner. man-ner. They look as though they haven't slep for days and maybe they have only been there a few hours. The one thing that seems to be on their minds is "All I want to do is get out of here!" A refugee center for disaster victims? vic-tims? Many people probably felt like a disaster, but in reality it was only fall registration. Don't feel bad if you got your toes stepped on thirty times and bumped into someone everytime you turned around. There were close to 15,000 day students in the same predicament. There will also be approximately 3,500 night students stu-dents attending classes. Registration Salt Mines Sept. 1, while most of us were still out having a good time, register Clarence A. Reeder, and his staff began working twelve to thirteen hours a day to prepare for registration regis-tration and will be working just as hard for a few more weeks. VWH.IV UUll 1.111J WLVIV U,JJJ students will decide that they want to make schedule changes and this will put an added burden on the registrar's office. Walk-In Registration "We started the groups through thirty minutes earlier this quarter so that students could come as much as half an hour early and still walk right in. Students who registered regis-tered first in the morning and right after lunch had a short wait," explained Reeder. The computer registration system will be used in all coming quarters despite rumors that there wasn't enough money available for operating oper-ating costs due to the four per cent decrease in funds from the state. Fletcher Misquoted "President Fletcher was misquoted mis-quoted in a story appearing in the Tribune. He said, "We don't intend in-tend to increase the use of the computers. It must be realized that ; the complete changeover to com- ! puters will probably take five years. We aren't actually ready yet," said i registrar Reeder. i Computer registration was not t used fall quarter was because coun- seling procedures were required of |
