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Show PAGE '2' TUESDAY JANUARY SUSC THE THUNDERBIRD 3,-19- classes division closes early enrollment upper Heavy - JODI REINARD As winter quarter registration continues, upper division classes particularly those in the business, communication, and teacher education departments are filling faster than most general education classes. As many juniors and seniors fail to get the classes they need, department heads fear that closed classes may be shutting out the wrong students. Faculty members say lower classmen are trying to take upper division classes 300-an- d early, thus creating an overload in said. There should be some way of Harold Hiskey, dean of SUSCs School of Business, Communication and Technology, said his departments try to bar freshmen and sophomores from upper division classes. We try to close (freshmen and sophomores) out. We Access to leading technology in the microcomputer industry will be available to SUSC students beginning winter quarter through an agreement between the College and American Mitac Corporation. The agreement, signed this month, calls for SUSC to participate in the final stage of a five-paMitac quality assurance testing program. That stage, called the Beta Test, give Mitac feedback from users of its hardware utilizing various software packages at actual worksites. Southern Utah State will be Mitacs first educational beta test site in North America, said John Lowes, SUSC academic computing manage. The academic impact this relationship with Mitac can have is significant. Our students can now have continual access to current microcomputer technology without major expense to the institution. Under the terms of the agreement, Mitac will evaluation units to provide SUSC. Mitac will also cooperate with SUSC in configuring the new systems to allow the campus SUSC students can pick up fall quarter grades today and tomorrow between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Student Center. We will hand out grades in Zion A and Zion B meeting rooms in an attempt to shorten the lines for students who will be registering for winter quarter classes, Kathy Nelson, secretary to the registrar, said. Students must present identification to receive their grades. Grades will not be issued to anyone other than the student, she said. After Wednesday grade results will be issued at the Registrars Office in the Administration Building. SUSCs Division of Continuing Education has scheduled a non-cred- it yoga and relaxation class to begin Jan. 3. The class will continue each Tuesday and meets from p.m. in room 210 of the Physical Education Building. The Thunderbird begins 1989 with a new design and a y publishing schedule. While only one paper will appear this week, the newspaper will be published on Mondays and Thursdays for the remainder of the school year. Beginning next fall, The Thunderbird will publish three rt 30 twice-weekl- micro-comput- issues weekly. ... Bowler and Hiskey both expect the popularity of their areas to continue growing, largely because of the sound employment prospects their programs offer. If you have degrees in these areas, youll gain employment. There are a lot of jobs in these areas, said Hiskey. I think business and education are popular because of the availability of jobs and job security. There are different expanded areas of study in these departments, and the salary isnt too bad, Bowler added. While enrollment grows in the business and teacher education departments, other departments have seen a decline. Some arent growing as fast as others, like industrial education and vocational areas, said Hiskey. He cited two-yeprograms and students gaining employment quickly in vocational fields as reasons for the departments stunted growth. ar SUSC enlists firm input Computer On Campus VX 25-3- verifying juniors and seniors from freshmen, said Quenton Bowler, head of the teacher education department. Im sure the overload of upper division classes is due to some lower classmen sneaking in. Hiskey noted that SUSCs record growth plays an important role in the situation as well. I think upper division classes are filling up more because there are more upper classmen, transfer students and older people coming back to school, he said. classes. 400-lev- el Both Bowler and Hiskey advise seniors to remain calm if necessary classes are filled. If they need it to graduate, well sign them in, said Hiskey. We bend over backwards to accommodate them. If the student needs the class, well get them in. Well sign in 50, said Bowler, noting that maximum enrollment for most classes is generally 0 students. Hiskey sees expansion as the only way to satisfy increasing student demand. There are over 700 students in this school, he said. Until we get more teachers, we cant accommodate more students. Well have to add more faculty to offer more upper division courses. Bowler said the teacher education departments decision to add more sections of classes has received mixed response. We added night sections. Some have proved successful, some havent, he said. have prerequisites in our departments, he said. But, Hiskey added, SUSCs registration system often allows lower classmen to slip into classes designed for juniors and seniors. In some cases, students dont see an adviser, and because they can now register without signatures, sometimes they get in, he er to effectively carry out the testing procedures. This process will provide SUSC students exposure to the procedures and problems associated with installation and management of system networks, Lowes said. we will have access to hardware that hasnt even gone on the market yet. SUSC will be working primarily with new products for use in network fileserver and network workstation applications. Evaluation periods will extend up to six months. Initially, software tested on Mitac products will include Novell Netware, MicroPro Wordstar, and Wordperfect. Hardware tested will include various network devices; among them will be Ethernet and ARCnet network interface cards and hard drives. MicroPro Wordstar apd Wordperfect are word processing programs. Novell Netware is a family of network operating systems manufactured by Novell, Inc., Provo. 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