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Registr tBY 0t'A. Wil.l.AMS Gamecock News Editor The high-flying balloon of registration. carrying the banners ot SG A President Rita McKinney and Ombudswoman Eileen Berlin, uas abruptly shot sown Monday. At a meeting of deans and department heads, the registration proposal that had been passed by both the student and faculty sen tates was referred to the Registration Committee. This came after a motion in the Faculty Senate two weeks ago to refer the proposal to committee was defeated and a subsequent motion to accept it was passed. The proposal from Berlin and .%cKinney sought a specified period of pre-advisement so students could sign up for the courses and sections they desired. When each department saw how many students were advised to take a particular course, the schedule could then be rearranged to provide for them. The meeting Monday was ostensibly for the purpose of hammering out any problems that might come about as a result of the twice-passed proposal . A memc from William H. Patterson, USC provost, stated : - "We have designated November 8 througt Nov. ~21 as the period in whict advisement and PRE ENROLLMENT for the sprinj semester shall take place. Please advise all faculty who shall par ticipate that students are to bf assigned NOT ONLY T( COURSES IN THEIR MAJOF AND COGNATE AREAS BUI' THE SPECIFIC SECTION! (TIME AND PLACE) A! 'ation Bi 'As soon as we rearr for one person we WELL..." Then USC President Thomas F. Jones introduced Luke Gunter of Educational Services and the Registrar's office. Gunter announced that, as stated in Patterson's memo, Nov. 8-21 had been designated as the period for pre-advisement. However, he said the basic change in the present advisement system will be to get computerized lists of the students who want a specific course. No ' went in with the feeling I had quite a few on my side, then they were not speaking up.' Eileen Berlin -""El... .... .. .. ..4 II Abrur ange the master schedt end up screwing three. Dr. Roger Hol mention was made of getting the student into the section he wants. "We will first do a run of what the students ask for," Gunter said. He added that another rePortwill be made to show the sections, the nunber of students advised and the number of spaces available. Then the master schedule will be adjusted "if it is possible." This was diametrically opposed to the original provision. "What Gunter is going to do is necetsary and understandable," Berlin said later. "But it doesn't promise the student a thing. We have got to give the student somehting tangible." "If the student has a seat held," Dr.. W. J. Eccles of compdter sciences said in response to an objection by Berlin, "he will find at registration that no seat was held because there are not enough rooms open at the popular times. "If you hold spaces," he con tinued "you have a situation where a student can't get in for an elective or a cognate because the course is filled with majors. So the student gets screwed by being out of the college. He is forced to take the course in the late afternoon or / )tly Shol Ile mes early morning." Gunter then said after getting the student course preferences, the master schedule "must be ad justed by section until you run out of space." "I've heard this in the past," Berlin countered. "You've tried to offer enough sections, but nothing happened. Students don't care about data." Eccles answered Berlin by 'if one college preregisters It becomes less desirable in other professional schools.' William F. Putnam The Cr Literary A Fiction, film scenarios and criti critisism for its fall Issue. Subm address is : The Crucible Litera For additional info. Call 8365 BICY Quality European E Manufactured By: Psris-Sport. Falcon-1 In 'o1 CA TE'S i Cedar Terrece 6420 Sumte PI .774 1:15 to 8 .m. A tDown saying If advisors guarantee spaces, 50 per cent of the students assigned to a particular sessison did not show up. "And as soon as we do this having each department enroll its majors, the students will want to take the courses at popular hours gecles said.. "What we need is a rubber university," Dr. Roger Holmes of engineering said later. "Who's going to get courses guaranteed? How do we know what courses are closed after majors are pre enrolled in them? As soon as we rearrange the master schedule for one person, we end up screwing three." There was not total unanimity among the faculty, however. "What this seems to be is a regression," said Richard Rempel of the history departmernt. "Majors should have this chance (to pre-enroll). Running this whole thing through getting the data is a waste of time." While various deans and department heads revealed plans their departments follow regar ding advisement, W.F. Putnam of the College of Business. Ad ministration, emphasized that no matter what plan the departments use, it should be uniform throughout the university. "If one college' pre-registers," he said, "it becomes less desirable in other professional schools." Berlin could not understand the sucWen change of events after Monday's meeting. "The support was strong while I was going door to-door to the deans" she said. "I went in with the feeling I had quite a few on my side, then they were not speaking up." ucible Aagazin ads: Sm, plays, poetry, and general ission deadline is Nov. 7th. The ry Magazine, Campus box 5137. PEED 'CLES Icycles From $95.@0 Gitane, Bettecchle. M1aino, Cinelli. Colnago uambla See: shepping Center r W4wy. (29209) w1209 de@n. through Set.