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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
New Automated Registration
Reduces Time And Trouble
“You can't blame them for pattinf orange dye in th*
fountain—they’re trying to compensate for their effec
tiveness on the football field!**
-John McCarroll-
“fe// you what Vd do* 9
Finding myself at the Tug-of-War was like stumbling
into a coffeehouse in Austin and having my "I Like Dow
Chemical” button accidently fall from my shirt pocket. I
was noticed.
Jack Abbott and Harry Snowdy with the MSC’s Summer
Directorate thought some picture of the second “Qroad-
hole” contest would be interesting. So did we.
As I got to the spot next to the Cyclotron, I happily
began snapping the shutter as team after team was pulled
into the near-stagnant pit of mud. As the “contest” con
tinued, people randomly were being plucked from the throng
of on-lookers and heaved into the mess by those who thought
they were just too clean.
There I stood, in slacks and sport shirt with a camera
(worth more than everything 1 owned) slung casually
around by neck. I looked like I had just stepped from tbe
pages of a Penny’s catalog or something. ^ . >
Before long gll the film was gone, along with the other
people in clean clothes. As the milling groups got closer
to the area where I was situated, well—panic was near.
. Then it hit me: “Throw somebody in so we can get
another picture,” says I. It worked. They would select
someone and have a great time throwing him In for the
benefit of the camera—two, three, even four times.
This reporter backed all the way to the car with the
empty camera clicking madly away. It’s amazing; the
camera is even mightier than the pen. Everyone wanted
his picture taken. / •' .
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Literacy Council
Named Citationist
Texas A AM’s new automated
registration system passed Its
tests this summer with flying
colors, university officials report
While AAM’s big IBM SSO/66
computer has been successfully
gobbling up freshman enrollment
data since early June, its big
teat came this month when it
was called on to “build” sche
dules and tabulate fees for stu
dents who had participated in
summer conferences.
Rising to the occasion, the
computer produced registration
material for 782 students in 18
minutes, with only one reject
Elliott Bray, system analyst
for the university’s Office of Aca
demic Affairs, thinks the time
can be reduced for the next com
puter run later this month.
Average time per student for
the first computer run was just
a fraction over a second.
Bray notes the time required
for the computer to “build” the
schedules -determine class time
for courses requested—took only
one and one-half minutes.
The lone rejection, he adds, was
the result of a time conflict in
the student’s class schedule.
Registrar H. L. Heaton plans
to install the automated regis
tration system for all students
during regular semester, begin
ning at mid-term.
Freshman conferences this sum
mer provided the university an
opportunity to check the com
puterised technique.
- The enrollment process aver
aged about SO minutes for the
typical student
Registration normally requires
several hours, with much of the
time spent waiting in line.
Heaton notes the automated
system will actually eliminate
the standard two-day registra
tion period, substituting pre-reg
istration in which a student en
rolls at his convenience during
S six-week period the preceding
semester.
In addition to “bniiding” a
class schedule for each student
on the basis of data compiled dur
ing the student’s conference with
his counselor, the computer fig
ures all financial considerations
- room and board, tuition, lab
fees and such variable as credit
for scholarships.
An itemised fee statement is
then fommrded to the student,
who returns his reiutianee and
is promptly provided his class
schedule for the next semester.
“A student could conceivably
be anywhere in the country Sun
day, the day before the semester
starts, and be in dims Monday,”
Heaton observes.
Aside from being more con
venient for the student, the auto
mated registration system has
several other advantages.
One major advantage of the
new system is its emphasis on
faculty counseling.
“Stadewts will have to meet
face-to-face with their advisors
to devise their schedules for the
next semester,” Heaton empha
sises. “This automated system
will come nearer than any other
method of assuring the student
he gets the courses he needs—
when he needs them.
“Every student wil thus have
an equal oportunity for place
ment in one of the choice time
slots, whether he registers first
or last,” the registrar notes.
The system also will allow ad
ministration officials to add more
classes in advance if the number
of students requesting a certain
course exceeds expectations.
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BATTALION CLASSmeM
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THE PIZZA HUT
2610 Texas Ave.
The Braxoe Valley Literacy
Council has just been named a
citationist in the Lane Bryant
Volunteer Awards competition for
1968 and has been honored with
'a citation in recognition of out
standing community service per
formed in 1967.
A&MCrad Student
Dies This Week
Air Force Capt. William O.
lehle, a meterorology graduate
student at Texas AAM, died Tues
day morning of an apparent heart
attack at his home, announced
university officials.
Local funeral arrangements are
being handled by Hillier Funeral
Home, with services pending at
Campbell Funeral Home in Phila
delphia, Pa.
Capt. lehle, of 2307 Cindy Lane,
enrolled at AAM last fall. The
31-year-old officer was a graduate
of Florida State University.
Survivors include his widow;
two children, Norbert Wendell and
"'Kristin Elena; and parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Wttliam M. lehle of
Villas. N. J.
The citation is a commendation
of the nominee’s outstanding
achievement and means that
Banos Valley Literacy Council
is being actively considered for
one of two awards of $5,000 given
annually to encourage volunteer
work designed to benefit the
American community. One award
is made to an individual, and
one to a group. “To achieve the
status of Citationist is in itself
an honor,” Jerome E. Klein, di
rector of the Awards Committee,
pointed out. “Fewer than 20 per
cant of those nominated survive
the rigid preliminary screening
performed by a panel of faculty
from Long Island University, to
become so designated.”
Nationally, the activities of
the citationists reflect a growing
concern on the part of the Ameri
can public for the well being of
its youth. Nearly 30 per cent of
those cited are doing voluntary
work in education and other areas
essential to youth development.
Race relations and poverty are
also high on the list of the Ameri
can volunteer’s priorities. Other
general categories include civic
and/or community services, com
munity betterment, work with the
aged, mental and physical health.
S At The Grove!
TONIGHT — “The Appalooea”
starring Marlon Brando.
FRIDAY —“A Tale of Two
Cities” starring Dirk Bogarde.
SATURDAY — “The Long
Ships” starring Richard Wid-
mark and Sidney Poitier, plus the
concluding chapters of the serial
“The Phantom Creeps.”
SUNDAY — “Tobruk" starring
Rock Hudson and George Peppard.
MONDAY—“Ivy" starring Joan
Fontaine and Herbert Marshall.
TUESDAY—“Under the Yum
Yum Tree” starring Jack Lem
mon and Carol Lynley.
WEDNESDAY — “The Lost
Weekend” starring Ray Milland
and Joan Fontaine.
Bryan Kivyanis Set
2nd Antique Show
The second annual Bryan Ki-
wanis Antique Show is scheduled
for Saturday and Sunday, accord
ing to Sanders Letbetter, presi
dent.
Everyone ie invited to attend
the show and sale at the Ramada
Inn. Saturday the doors will be
open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and
Sunday from 1 p m. until 7 p.m,
he added.
THf BATTALION
Opinio/'s expressed in The Battalion
ure those of the student writers only. The
Battalion is a non tax-supported non
profit, self-supporting educational enter
prise edited and operated by students as
a university and community newspaper.
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