Show fe We Welcome With Closed Windows When registration at the university stopped last the opaque glass windows of the registrar's office figuratively slammed shut on the fingers of several veterans of World War In other many veterans whose college careers already had been delayed from one to three years were told they must wait until winter quarter to register because they had not been able to enroll during the first On the it probably seems that there is very little to cry about when a handful of veterans are turned away from the But when we realize that these men had been waiting years to get back to school and were unable to get their discharges in time to enroll the first it appears that some provisions should have been made for these s In past any student could regis ter during the first two weeks of the For obvious this was changed autumn As a front page article in this week's Chronicle the registrar's office is in need of help and classes already are there is no good reason why the average student cannot register within a week's In most there is a good reason when a veteran cannot register on And that reason is worth The armed services are notorious for enmeshing members in red and discharges are proceeding But the newly veterans who raced back to the sity Tuesday to find the registrar's office window's sealed with red tape must have been unimpressed with the spirit on the We know professors have to handle classes that are too large already and that they do not want to be bothered with helping late registrants catch But here again it seems to us that veterans arc in a special With a little they could make up two week's And a little help is far less than what we really owe It is all very well to talk about throwing out the welcome mat for veterans at the But why put out the welcome mat and slam the registrar's window at the same This is the An overworked registrar's office was forced to close registration a week early this autumn for reasons we can all But it seems to us that war veterans who were unable to get discharges in time to register during the first week should have been allowed to register until the end of the second The number of veterans wishing to enroll in the second week probably was not large enough to present an impossible But no one can measure what it meant to those who were refused admittance to see their college careers postponed another three Three months an extra year to the makers of red tape it means But if the university really wanted to extend every aid to the returning an excellent chance has been |