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..GAMI "It is a sewspaper's duty to BILL GRA BIL.L OUTLAW Editorial Page Editor Septemb Regist Now that the physical s removed from the Coliseum look at the registration pro But looking at it from anol why problems resulted and c tained. It it interesting to not was printed and distributed la were orded by various deparl schedule was the one with wl pre -enrolled in last spring. was developed and printed University. But 200 more c departments following the prii by the time students had regi!;tering, it was evident tha and pre-enrolled by was virt One would think the great nt departments concerned. Hoi unu,ual number of course ch officials they decided pre-eni asked seriously if their depar its master schedule. Obviously, if the departme much as they claim to, they v to t e schedule most of us th last ;pring. Needless to say, p sun ner months made some, unz oidable. But the ridic reg tration successfully defe adl Iefhent and pre-enrollmi I. w to make the departmer qu( ion no one seems to kno de; ftments continue to foul nur >er of course changes, no ev the smallest bit of res m( . The departments bla stu nts for not pre-enrollii mi. ;tration refuses to even -tainly the statement by pr. dent for administrative ye: went "relatively smoot] wl spent hours in a psych 'chell, who runs registrat: aci tted problems were cau se itule, but refused to acd sy rn. As toto why the b al' ed to continue without < co ig from his office, one out five years ago corn te >ted at USC and resultedii it (ildn't work, only that it di br fling into progressive sc >ped the whole idea of coi of gradual perfecting of the th decision were painfully e Gamecock has it on go ha *t this time an on-line con re y for use. It was develo hi. ! by administrative ser us with great success for ye U iments than South Car di somewhere in the admi s( -body to take achance i accept and continue to c >ne chaos, incompetent pr nt system is indeed the st ont called it. It' is time I m. stration to admit this oti r systems that can and < ECOCK print the news. and raise hell." WILBUR F. STOREY ANT, Editor ART FRANK Advertising Manager er 9, 1974 ration igns of registration have been floor, it is time to take a critical I.ss. her angle, perhaps the reasons ontinue to exist can be ascer e that after the master schedule st spring, more than 100 changes tments on campus. The master ich students were advised and As a result, a revised schedule all at great expense to the hanges were submitted by the riting of the revised schedule. So returned to school and were t the schedule they were adviesd ually non-existent. unber of changes would have the vever, one department, with an anges, told student government rollment wouldn't "count," and tment was expected to stick to nts care about their students as vould have adhered stringently ought we were pre-enrolling by roblems which crept up over the changes in the master schedule :ulous number at last weeks' ated the purpose of last spring's mnt process for many students. Its stick to a master schedule is a w the answer to. But while the up students wuith the extreme one can be found who will accept ponsibility for the registration me the administration and the ig last spring, while the ad acknowledge a problem exists. Dr.. Nicholas P. Mitchell, vice services, that registration this ," must be a comfort to those ology line. ion with unquestioned authority, sed by revisions of the master mowledge the need for a new i-annual registration debacle is ~ven at token outcry for change can only speculate . puterized registration was at ai total disater. This is not to say dln't work at the time. After that thinking, the administration nputerized registration in favor present system. The results of obvious last week. d authority that the University iputerized registration program ped by a USC graduate student vices and is based on systems ars at schools with much larger olina. And yet, it sits collecting nistration building waiting for md implement it. use the present system is to :e and disorganization. The 'epitome of absurdity" that one or the departments and the ad and begin experimenting with lo work. GPR syq President William H. Patterson is reportedly considering reverting back to the A,B,C,D, and F grading system with D's and F's counting in the computation of students Grade Point Ratios (GPR's). Before half the student body panics in the sudden realization that they just might have to study to earn a degree here, it would be wise to take into consideration why this switch is being contemplated. The A,B,C and NC grading system literally makes a farce out of the GPR system. It is possible for a student to flunk out with a 4.0 GPR. Students taking five courses and passing three of them with B's while flunking the other.two has a higher GPR standing than the student who passes all five courses with three B's and two Cs. The student who passed all five courses deserves a higher rating than the student who only passed three of the five. Since many graduate schools require specific GPR's from students in order to be accepted, one has to wonder the worth of a high GPR from USC when it is compared with the GPR of a person appplying to that same graduate school from a school using the A,B,C,D, and F system. With so much emphasis in recent years to make students education a true learning experience, the evaluation and grading techniques seem to have been neglected. C 0 Crisis leav BY JOE LOGAN In this time of back-to-echool greetings, the Carolina student will increasingly find himself con fronted with a major crisis-what to make of these revolutionary developments on the handshake frontier. While the crisis confines itself chiefly to males, it should not be taken lightly be females. After all, what good is a boyfriend who is downtrodden by a crisis? The crisis in question comes to us in the form of an alteration of that great American institution--the handshake. Imagine for a moment, you're strolling to class when suddenly you see an old buddy you haven't seen since last semt!ster. You smile; he smiles. You walk toward each other, eagerly offer your hand in greeting and suddendly &&!!$sCRASH. What ensued was the muffled sound of human flesh smashing together in some con torted mesh that resembles a worm's nest. The problem--he was shaking "hip" and you were shaking "standard." Your mind whirls, "Oh, no, what happened? He was a "standard" before summer started. I've made a fool of myself." He glares at you, gloating over the fact that he has crossed over into "hipdom" while you are still a mere "standard." In a single handshake you have completely revealed your political leanings, personal philosophy and love of tradition. He seemed to be saying, "Free love, torture Nixon and free the Jackson Five." You seemed to be saying, "Get the boys back in Vietnam, I read the Wail Street Journal and Nixon is an honest man." How could you have left yourself open for such humilation? Why didn't he tell you he was hip? A,.. ;temneeds Bill C Gamecock Another problem in this area which deserves serious con sideration is the grading systems used by each teacher. Some teachers require students to do an enormous amount of work just make a C, while others may give a person an A just for having the courtesy not to fall asleep during. the lectures. A student may ac tually work harder to make a C from one professor than he does to make an A from another. Many students spend more time looking over a schedule trying to find a "crip" course or a "crip" professor than they do applying themselves to that -subject the entire year. The instructors are just as much at fault for this as many not only tolerate it, they encourage it. This is academic excellence? A student's interest in his subject matter has a direct bearing on his grade performance in that class and students should not be made to suffer overall for doing poorly in one or two classes. Students who flunk out under this system literally have to make a 4.0 upon their return to school just tW "raise" their GPR to the 2.0 es campus you the only one on camnus who still shakes "standard?",. Why youl Why you? How will you ever show your face at another beer bust? Of course, many people are free of the handshake crisis, their friends being unmistakedly on one side of the handshake issue. In a single glance, one can tell if they are a "standard" or a "hip." It is those people who have friends in both the "hip" and the "standard" world that the crisis affects most devastatingly. These poor souls must approach friends all the time knowing that a hand shake will follow and that it may very well leave them marked for life. There has never been a period so turbulent or critical on the hand shake scene. Our entire culture, constitution and freedom is threatened. How can Kissinger carry on meaningful foreign negotiatins abroad when the citizenry back home cannot even shake hands. Will everyone turn to the "hip" shake or will we continue in this ridof uncertainty. How em Campus, Opinion The (Ga mecock welcomes lette be limited to a sin ge subject and must be signed withg the write other aliases will not be used, I withheld if circumstances warra identity of writers, please inclui telephone number where you ce right to edit all letters, not for < limitations. Address: Campus oluia 2920n. study ~utlaw Columnist needed to graduate. A student flunking out once should not be made to suffer for his previous failures. . The system does allow a student to "retake" a course he failed and, should he receive a better grade than before, he could replace the new grade for the old one in the computation of his GPR. This still places a vast amount of pressure on a student who is returning to school after having flunked out. What is the fairest and most equitable way to handle GPR's? Perhaps a compromise of the two systems if in order here. Instead of completely switching back to the old system, what about ap plying the old system to a students GPR only in courses in his major. This would eliminate the $tudents argument that he should not be penalized for making a bad grade in a subject he cares nothing about and would not put an undue amount of prefsure on students. While a system of this nature would admittedly cause more red tape in a computerized university system already over flowing with it, it does at least appear to be a fair system. That is what we are looking for here, isn't it? shaking - barrossin would it be to respectfully slap a "standard" on your grandfather just as he is about to offer to sell you some pot? In days gone by there were only two dreaded handshakes--the "limp fish" and the "crusher." Now we must deal with the limp fish, the crusher, the hip, the standard and sometimes even a double ( a tricky maneuver in volving an introductory "stan dard" and then swiftly switching to a "hip." People using the double not only confuse you as to their political leanings but are obviously in the midst of a trying identity crisis. Fortunately, the end to the handshake crisis is in sight because there are solutions. The Gamecock has those solutions. 1. Do not leave your room. 2. On the threshold of a shake, announce yourself by shouting either "hip" or "standard." 3. Wear a complete upper-body cast. 4. Spit at approaching pedestrians. rs from readers. Letters should a maximum of 300 words. They rs true name. Pseudonyms or ut the writer's name will beI Icyu aln drs nnt. To assist us in verifying the n be reached. We reserve the ontent, but to meet our space) Opinion, Drawer. A, U..