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SATURDAY
TIPS update
to improve
registration
Signing up should be
quicker and easier
^ JENlMllUt STANLEY News Editor
Students should notice a change this
semester that will make TIPS access
and class registration a little easier,
according to University Registrar Richard
Bayer.
The university is using part of the
technology fee to increase the number
of TIPS telephone lines from 76 to 108
lines.
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uayer saia scuaenis snouia experience
fewer busy signals during the sign-up
process.
^ Students also will be asked to oomplete
a student health insurance survey the
first time they call TIPS to preregister.
The survey will question students
about their insurance and more
information about health insurance.
The survey should take about 45 to
60 seconds.
"The university is interested in
knowing that students have adequate
_ health insurance," Bayer said.
' Other changes to TIPS include a new
process for May Session and Summer
Session sign-ups.
Students no longer need to obtain
their dean's permission to take three
hours in May session and six hours in
Summer I.
TIPS now includes a separate menu
for May Session so students can pay for
Mav OAOflinn nnH fiiimmpr T aonnrntolu
^ Bayer said students can access their
class schedule, and grades, change their
address and search for open and closed
class sections on ARGO, the university's
registration web site.
The web site address is
http://argo.regs.sc.edu.
The security of student information
on the web has been enhanced, Bayer
said.
^ Bayer highlighted several classes
that will be offered during May Session.
Some of the courses offered include
FILM 566M, "Science Fiction Films;"
THSP 330M, "Rhetoric Study-Star Trek;"
HIST 599M, "Topic/Hispanic
Communities-American Southeast;" and
ENGL 566M, "Topic/Hollywood films of
the '30s and '40s."
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A recent ruling by a Wisconsin federal Rej
judge may have made that process even the
more difficult by finding that the ofs
University ofWisccnsin-Madison violated on
the the First Amendment rights of three viol
students when it required them to pay
activity fees supporting campus La\
organizations which offended their ideas Bar
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C. Shabaz ruled last November that by thei
disallowing the students to opt out of $33
providing activities fees, the university org
was denying the students their rights opp
not to speak and not to associate.
"The University must provide some pay
sort of opt-out provision or refund system Sou
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The UW-Madison Board of Regents
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The UW-Madison lawsuit Mows a
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*ents, the Supreme Court held that
university could not bar the allocation
tudent fees to a religious organization
the basis that doing so would be a
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ir money is spent [when students pay activity
In effect, when you give the school money,
there is no way to dictate
where your money will go
or how it will be spent.
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ROSALEVD HARVEY Staff Writer
!Late nights in computer labs with
no printer access, a busy signal an TIPS
and a limited e-mail system may prompt
students to wonder where and how their
technology fees are being allocated.
Despite what students might think,
the technology fees do not go to just
computer updates, repairs and
replacements.
According to Patrick Calhoun, network
librarian and university officer of
information systems, the fees fund the
Computer Service departments research
into keeping up with the Universities'
technology demands.
Calhoun said ?
Computer Services , , ?
is always researching hope to buili
& new ideas and new a
technologies. The T"^J^8t"1
research enables stu<
them to have the
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knowledge when George Ba
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"We want to be Computer !
able to support the ^ |
computer needs for / 4
students whether it
be Web access or for services," Calhoun i
George Ballington, director of ]
Information Systems and Computer
Services, said the fees not only go to <
research but also to student technology I
services like the Internet, library research ]
and TIPS access.
Richard Bayer, university registrar, i
said Computer Services added 32 more i
TIPS lines with funds allocated from the i
technology fees.
The 32 additional lines bring , a total I
to 108 HPS lines for students to register, i
p According to Ballington, the mission
for Computer Services is to help students, t
"We hope to build and provide a strong s
info-structure with resources for USC f
students," Ballington said. s
Calhoun said the four focus areas
that Computer Service uses these funds c
are for student access to the Web, \
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support and hardware replacements for c
mpus computer labs. ?
P-m- Ballingtan said the student technology (
^U1('' fees are calculated by the amount of $
hours each student takes.
The fee is $3 an hour up to a t
ition to campus or
allocation of $1.25 million ofUSC student
activity fees to campus organizations, s
Student Government and Student Media, r
fees.] agrees that there may be objections to a
how money is spent, but there is no way s
to completely control the direction of r
funds. f
"As far as I feel about it, you cannot h
control how your money is spent [when \
students pay activity fees]," Baxter said.
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there is no way to dictate where your g
money will go or how it will be spent." t
Baxter said she believes the ruling it
will particularly affect large universities
where the responsibility of allocating ft
student activity fees is placed on members tl
of student government.
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open up doors to many other questions o
i objecting regarding fee allocations," Baxter said, c
ion spends "It will be interesting to see how other t!
with it," schools such as ours?where students
^student, allocate funds as opposed to ii
administrations?handle the situation." p
rty Baxter, UW-Madison Associate Dean of
e Finance Students Roger Howard agrees with e
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udent labs
maximum of $35.
The estimated total of fees to be
collected from the student technology
fees in 1997 is around $1.9 million,
Ballington said.
From this budget computer services
allocated $100,000 for TIPS updating,
$158,000 for student e-mail accounts,
$450,000 for the dorm access computer
project, $166,000 for Web access and
library access, $500,000 for info-structure
and $575,000 dispersed among the colleges
for their computer labs.
By 1998 all dorms will be equipped
with computer hook-up because of the
student technology fees, Ballington said.
, Three
p aorms are cuirentiy
.. wired for this
d and provide computer [jnk
structure 8ystem
rces for Rflllingt/m
lento. said the goal for
Computer Services
is for students to be
llington able to register for
on Systems and classes on the Web.
Services Current
H resources for
/ students include the
ability to check
academic schedules, verily grades and
locate USC buildings by using the Web
page designed by computer services.
The estimated $500,000 that is to be
iispersed among the colleges is part of
he funds supporting the computer labs,
Ballington said.
The colleges control that money. It
is up to them to decide what to do with
It and where exactly it goes," Ballington
aid.
"Most colleges have an additional
audget for things like computer
naintenance," he said.
Franke Taylor, director of budget for
he College of Business Administration,
aid the $171,118 they received last year
rom technology fees went to upgrade
lystemS.
"Not all of the money went to the
omputer labs," Taylor said. "Some also
vent to buy faculty computers."
Dianna Huggins, administrative
oordinator for the College of Journalism
ind Mass Communication, said the
College of Journalism received around
>18,000 last year.
Huggins said all of the money went
o buy classroom equipment for the ooflega
ganizations
"We believe that the Wisconsin state
tatutes that provide students with the
ight to govern how fees are collected
nd distributed are very clear," Howard
aid. "We hope that the appellate courts
ecognize the right to allocate student
3es that the Wisconsin State Legislature
tas given students at the University of
Wisconsin."
Many, like Baxter and Howard,
uggest that the ruling threatens student
ovemment and undermines their ability
0 conduct their jobs, which many times
Deludes allocating and distributing funds.
Mary Rouse, dean of students at UWladison
believes that students will feel
he ruling's effect in another way.
"The practical impact will be to
ecrease the number of student
rganizations here," Rouse said. "Many
an survive only if they can get money
hrough fees."
The UW-Madison Board of Regents
1 currently involved in the appellate
rocess.
They are expecting a decision at the
nd of this summer.
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