Show The Th V L Letters e tt ers T To 0 e L' L Ed Edt Editor t I or r T i 0 y i i. i m J x y Y x o w t x I To the Editor w 4 If you have tried during the week of February 26 22 to phone in I v your choices of classes for next quarter and couldn't get through youre you're not alone You are part ofF of I J. the elite 1000 who were victimized victimized victim- victim 0 by the worst phone-in phone registration x tion system in the college worl world I During this week an average of I five operators worked in the College Col Col- liege t lege Center Parlor A handling 1 1150 calls a day That's calls I per operator Wednesday was even worse because according to Registrar Loren Evans Evans' the equipment equipment equip- equip ment went down and we had to have it repaired got We-got that done rather quickly For those of you Jin the H A-H name range you may snicker if you so desire 1 i Having only five operators per day is unfair to continuing 1 students trying to get through on the phone lines to register for their r chosen classes and fill their twelve- twelve credit hour quota for n next quarter So here are a couple of suggestions f which may prove to be a solution S X tion to the problem First hire five to ten more x- x operators to handle the phone lines If the school budget cannot handle i l five to ten more people x xu ara one G Go o W-H W Horne Home fl w t y J c I I I r j r. r J 1 f t g f 1 r oIl y r I. i J t r j. j it M i fEE E EI v I. I i I t j 4 j t. t 1 M f J p i then let a few students who have a afree afree free hour volunteer to handle phone calls And finally set up a special account account account ac ac- ac- ac count number on VAX in the Computer Lab CT and link the system up with a Leading Edge computer in the Registration Department so that students can register over the computer This f idea may seem a little farfetched t- t but registering through through- a network 1 networked i ed computer will prove prove faster than waiting thousands of years for an operator on the phone to say 1 Good morning morning even afternoon evening even even- ing registration May I have t A your Social Security Number f. f i iI pe please I e. e I David Paul Barnes 1 i |