Western Front - 1991 October 4

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Responses to efficiency of registration process vary
Charity Proctor/The Western Front
Junior Ike Speir took a needed break during registration.
By Lori Corso and Todd
McGee
staff reporters
Final enrollment figures for fall
quarter, 1991, haven't been tallied
yet, but an estimated 10,000 students
have completed a registration pro­cess
which went smoothly for some
and harried for others.
"Actually, this is the best quar­ter
I've been involved," said Cheryl
Gibson, registrar staff. "Rather than
three and a half days, we had four
days to complete registration. We
were able to streamline and smooth it
(registration) out"
After the computers went down
last Friday during add/drop, the
deadline for registration and fees was
extended another day.
"I don't think there was aline (at
registration). I snuck in," said junior,
Kirk Henry who is undecided about
his major. "It was hell getting my
classes though, but that's just kind of
the way it goes."
"We were desperately in need of
additional help," said Gibson. "We
hired students to run the terminals.
They got a new perspective of what it
was like to be behind the teirninal...I
think they did an excellent job."
This was the first quarter the
registrar hired students to help behind
the terminals at registration. Because
of the success, students are being
considered to help with future regis­trations.
Jerry Reller, a senior business
administration major with a concen­tration
in finance, was one of the
students who worked for the registrar
this quarter.
"It was hard to tell people that
they couldn't have aclass they wanted
— that the class was full — because
I've had mat happen to me before,"
Reller said. "It was hard work. I was
pretty exhausted when the day was
over... The understanding I got from
the other terminal operators was that
this was one of the smoothest regis­trations,"
added Reller.
Despite an apparently smooth
registration, many students remained
frustrated. Meredith Smith, a junior
Fairhaven student, felt "rushed."
"There's not much time to go
seekoutprofessors,getblueslips...do
all that kind of stuff before your reg­istration
time," said Smith. "During
registration itself, they always seemed
an hour behind. People were in line
saying,'God, mis happenedlastyear.'
"We found we were trying to
teach more and more students with
less and less faculty. Western has
always been under funded compared
to other state-funded universities,"
Acting Registrar Joe St. Hilaire said.
Rising student to faculty ratio,
increased demand for classes and
budget cuts have made the task of
accommodating more students in­creasingly
difficult, St. Hilaire said.
"It's a game you play to keep all the
numbers on an even keel, not to
mention all the political implications
that factor in."
Lyle Grouse, a senior majoring
in journalism, transfered to Western
this fall. He believes Western treats
community college transfers well.
"They had a special orientation
for us," Crouse said. "I feel kind of
special transfering with my commu­nity
college degree. At Western, the
two-year degree means everything to
them. It really freed me up to pursue
my degree and get out of school."
However, Crouse agrees with
many students concerning the "ar­chaic"
registration system at Western.
Before transfering to Western, Crouse
attended the University of Oregon
where registration is conducted by
phone.
"Students received a card from
the school telling them when to call.
Registration took about 10 minutes.
Registration continued on
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Pizza delivery car rolls down hill, crashes into Gamma
By Chong Kim
staff reporter
Domino's pizza delivery took on a
whole new look early last Saturday
when one of its delivery cars was
pushed down a hill and into a
Ridgeway residence hall.
Domino's driver Pat Ferguson
delivered a pizza to the Gamma resi­dence
hall, then came back to discover
his car had hit stack nine of the
Ridgeway complex.
According to the incident report
made by campus police, the vehicle
was parked on the south side of Col­lege
Parkway facing east, when the
driver returned he had found his car
had hit the residence hall.
The car hit approximately a foot
to the leftof the window of room912.
No damage was reported due to the
impact.
At the time of the accident,
Claudine Jeuris and Rachel Bradford,
who occupy the room, were both
sleeping. Jeuris said she thought the
crash sound came from someone up­stairs
throwing something out the
window. Bradford said the crash
sounded like a door slamming. The
two women did not feel the impact.
Instead, they were awakened by the
crowd that gathered in front of their
window.
photo courtesy of Rachel Bradford
Claudine Jeuris glances at the crowd outside her window who gathered to see the smashed delivery car.
Pizza crash continued on
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