| Show St VOL 76 NO 21 UTAH LOGAN Pepirh and friend mjojF bit of solitude ctom country akiing on Old Main Hill Friday afternoon during the recent snowstorm majority of Irishmen Hansfer student who were wved indicated the new svste Wnmer registration was outstand U110n food a for and orienor very - by participated in udents who orientation Total Enrollment lWnUpsl'Khtl-vne- 231 the ind students r at University from last year in I tah State are so more married more female student and Rfnts mors leSlIi10-nrollm-nt re are Lasl v‘ar L (a registration 4) percent indicated is down 2 2 enrolled th‘re were 1 quarter enrollment ‘!ue? thl" wwk by Hil Erector of admissions toj U showed 232 Etr °r8 8t w?' student standing Another Josephson jloon sdy launch wiU get USU' ofl the Pound le 8kybound 112 15 sKn®Uing ° business ha a Wl11 W the r"1ege ’SfulUf Prior ahCUvili's Planned kadetriIaunch there will be “"“bby oUhTtS 8t 9 30 " Also L Building m-i- n jJ Nscaw out-- i 47 percent said it Has very good while only eiht percent said it was average and four percent lxlow average The new registration process involved silting at a computer terminal and actually registering last and 24 more from Utah than last vear enroll! this year than recent trend That reverses years in which non L'tah students have been increasing at a faster rate than Utah students at USU Iast year 32 percent of USU students were married The total is up to nearly 41 percent this year Married males make up more than 25 percent of the student body That percentage is up from 22 percent last year and from less than 13 percent in 1974 The ratio of men to women m the student body has changed slightly a Business week 6TRe was for tall quarter Students could make changes on the computer terminal without having to worry alxiut obtaining signatures from instructors The computer could instruct them when a class was fu!l The students also received a printed copy of their m heduie According to Mel Jarsen enrollment down Fall Quarter of s enrollment ore and sur' the actual registration survey completed Jiimmer tW lr Hans shows students like new registration A h MONDAY NOVEMBER 13 1978 M°nday at 2:30 career pm planning and the Business Wriunar in of his 1 Weler and Utah counties contribute the largest numler of students after ('ache starts today Building Auditorium Tuesday is Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Day Starting at 3 pm in the auditorium local professionals and businessmen will interact on a personal basis with students A business machine display will also take place Tuesday in the UC Ballroom vear 41 6 jnrcent of students are women least ear was 40 5 percent The dcrease m total enrollment is ri fbs'ted in every class except seniors where there is a 6 in crease over last year After Utah the slates con tnhuting most students to USU include California with 302 this quarter Idaho with 344 Illinois with 155 and New York with 139 Davis Hox hitler Salt leak I activities include Wednesday's and Intermountian Accounting Seminar and the Beta Alpha Psi initiation banquet Thursday the Intermountain Banking Seminar is scheduled Business students s re also encouraged to attend the Convocations lecture by Howard Jarvis at 1230 pm in the Fine Arts Center Friday Dwight Israleson will speak to the topic “A Comparison of Soviet and U S Economics" at 930 am in the Business Building Auditorium or the Fine Arts Center small theater Academic Servnr Center director v stem prov ided the univerist y with accurate class lists for the first lime and freed more classes for students In the past students have stood in long lines waiting for classes anti signatures There was also a tied up problem of t lasses because students who would take more class than needed to ensure they got the enough credit It Positive remarks ini luded I’ve ever was the fastest registered" and "1 enjoyed the fail that I was able to do it as quu klv ’ as I did" comments included "You need to have more lime to register and "All the classes I wanted were full No the classes that got feel that 1 could have done just as well without But at least now 1 don't have to worry afHiut it " Prior to registering student met with an advisor from their college to plan a class ik heduie Some 23 percent rail'd th assistance from their advisor as outstanding 45 percent very good 24 percent average 6 percent below average and two percent poor According to Iaraen the student Negative 1 1 on advinora increased substantially from past years "W atili have 32 percent of th atudents who weren t satisfied ao we still have work to do in I ha advising portion of registration" he said He aaid he would like to see colleges hire professional advisor in the future and eliminate those rating who are not Interested professor in helping student Nome 79 percent of the survey at udent t said t here wa a suf f u lent numtier of advisor to provide assistance during registration The other 21 percent said there were not enough ad adequate V isor On advisement positive comments included "Mv advisor was very helpful a I wa completely confused" and "Tha groujis were small and workable My counselor was warm and seemed genuinely com erned " A sample of negative remark included ’ Don't allow the advisor to allow a student to overload his schedule with too many c lasses" received almost no help from mn advisor He seemed to know less about the a hoil than I did ’’More advisor were needed for each college” and "My advisor kind of acted like I should hsve known a Urt that dnln t Some 42 student said the entire 1 summer orientation registration program was outstanding while another 53 percent said It was very good Only 8 percent said it was average The survey was prepared by personnel at the Academic Nervue tenter It was mailed to fIK) student selected randomly from thoae attending registration and was completed ami returned by 231 Tha atudents in th survey weia percent freshmen and 1 5 pe: cent transfer students About 47 errant were Utah residents white 41 percent were non residents 85 |
