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Local Registration for fall term starts April 20 By CAROLYN BARNES and fields J • BETH GIBSON !r e “ Battalion Reporter ) the bovif; Preregistration for the fall imans dot semester will be held April 20-24 irily thiii : ; in the Rudder Exhibit Hall, eachers f Copies of the Fall Class Schedules itary peft' ^e available beginning next i , r week at the Office of the Registrar L , 0 ' in Heaton Hall, Associate Regis- uie toas? ^ Donald Carter said, lead toa; Preregistration schedules vary caused ( fr om department to department, Iran. Wit Carter said, so students need to ?ign studs check to find out when to preregis- ible resot’, ter in their department, scorned ! Some departments have stu- d knowU dents sign up the week before; some sign up on just one specified A&M sr, fores jfe only requirements segreeab * lited Slat tor preregistration pri- nistoexpj vileges are current en- d a lovei ro IJ men f Texas A&M the qualih University and meeting aim thato- minimum grade point way in eve ions of Tut isagree. H speech a ly thinks i ightless (qj ^y. some sjgu U p the whole week of preregistration, ” he said. “We don’t care, as long as they have ratio standards of a stu dent's individual col lege. account^ those card packets in by April 24. ” The only requirements for pre registration privileges are current enrollment at Texas A&M Univer sity and meeting minimum grade point ratio standards of a student’s individual college. Carter said the University has no policy on a minimum GPR for preregistration, but most colleges require their students to have at t* least a 2.0 to be eligible. ■* To preregister a student must first go to his major academic de partment and get his card packet, n Weiricl After completing the cards it con tains and receiving approval of course requests from a depart ment adviser, he must turn the packet in at the Rudder Exhibit Hall. Texas A&M Registrar R.A. Lacey said the card packets will be run in the order in which they are turned in, so the earlier the pack ets are turned in, the better the chances are of getting the courses requested. Students can expect to receive a fee statement in the early part of rped riticism oftl jommatesi •ongest mo de today is. i swear by i will never!: man, nor line.” We hes of othfl / to obliteri ley are ash es for theit- Ae do not? 'inform to II we ban a because and pari it out for ipposed to! ide what I -ead andwt nd express' always ing it, we"' mt ®; i iat The Bait 4, in our of iree out oft! >r any mistf :or the use lereof, in itten appro' 1 jy C. E0 ane Robin* 1 Zimmer® July, Lacey said, and the Fiscal Office requires payment in early August. Students will not know which courses they were assigned until they pay their bills. If the bill is not paid by the due date, the student’s schedule will be canceled and he will have to re-register during delayed regis tration Aug. 24-28. It is not fair to hold the space when some people have to register late, Lacey said. Students with grade problems need to check with their academic departments to see if they will be blocked from preregistration. Carter said. He said students who cannot preregister may go to de layed registration. Other possible reasons for blocking a student from preregis tration include unpaid parking tickets, hot checks and library fines, Lacey said. Once they are cleared up, however, the student can register during delayed or late registration, he said. Not all universities have prere gistration; however. Carter said it is a boon for both students and the University. “By having preregistration ... a student can preregister in the spring, pay fees by the deadline in August and then come up to school the weekend before classes start,” he said. Preregistration is also a great planning tool for the University, helping show what courses are in demand, Carter said. “We have what is called a simu lation run two weeks after prere gistration,” he said. “We are able to tell each department, ‘This is how your department schedules will look. ” He said such a simulation run gives departments the option to open up more sections in case of full capacity loads in classes or to drop others which do not have enough students enrolled in them. Students, as well, drop out be tween semesters. Carter said 200 to 300 students who preregister in the spring each year fail to show up in the fall. Summer school registration will be June 1 for the first term which begins June 2 and ends July 8. Second term registration is July 9. Classes begin July 10 and end Aug. 14. Summer commence ment is Aug. 15. Freshmen troubled by drinking bill By MICHELE ROWLAND Battalion Reporter If the government takes away her drinking privileges, Sandi ~ year- difference i Parriott, along with many 18- old college students, will look for other means to obtain liquor, or watch their social lives deterio- I waited 18 years to be able to drink,” Parriott, a freshman pre- med major, said. Adding that if the new minimum age drinking |,| uic new liumiiium age uiiuiviiig a they ! lawpasses, she would try sneaking into clubs. The target of Parriott’s frustra tion is the bill now being consi dered by the Texas Legislature, which would raise the minimum drinking age to 19. One major ob- v be a till! ’ i ect ' ve t ^ ie i s t0 isolate liquor from the high schools, Karen Bailey, a legislative administrative assistant in Austin, said. However, high school students will not be the only ones affected. Many Texas A&M University freshmen question the fairness effectiveness of the bill, as well as its potential impact on their own social lives. “If the government gives 18- year-olds the responsibility of electing the president, why can’t they be allowed to handle the re sponsibility of alcohol?” Andrea Lopes, a freshman microbiology major, asked. Freshman geology major Larry Huff agreed: “The law is stupid, even from the government’s point of view because it will take away a lot of their tax money.” Concerning the high school drinking problem, freshman Helen LeMaistre, 17, said she understood the bill’s objective, but said she didn’t feel it would be effective in curbing the problem of teen drinking. “Some kids start drinking in elementary school,” she said, adding that if students wanted to drink they would do so despite the new law. Agreeing that high school stu dents who wanted to drink would do so either way, Robert Parker, tory newspapf hoto/rraphy tionu. my editorial^' ICY ceed 300 wof! ley are longer 11 letters for st)t f * aintain the autl 5 , show the 8^ > welcome, id straints as le# ice to: Editor. A&M Univer** ig Texas A&M*' ty and examin 3 '’ ;r semester, $ Advertising ^ 1 McDonald 8' tation, TX 1 exclusively B ches credited 18 er herein rese<f Station, TX 1 19, said, “The problem the gov ernment should be concentrating on is drugs in high schools. “They (high school students) don’t come to school drunk; kids come to school high,” he said. Taking an opposing view, however, Jackie Fredrick also a freshman, said she favored the law since it would deter high school students from drinking. “I would stop drinking and obey the law totally,” Fredrick said. Lopes said because of her con science she wouldn’t drink, wouldn’t go to the Dixie Chicken, and in short “wouldn’t have a so cial life.” However, rather than letting their social lives rot, as they de scribed it, most freshmen said they would still try to get into clubs or try to obtain liquor. “I’ll spend 10 cents, get my birth certificate, Xerox it with a different birth date and get a new license,” John Wade, 18, a civil engineering major, said. Because of the new law, howev er, Huff said he wouldn’t go to as many clubs. For the 18-year-olds who have been able to drink, the sudden deprivation of liquor. Huff said, would be like “taking candy from a baby.” Motorcycle registration correction The Battalion erroneously re ported Tuesday that registration for a “Learn to Ride A Motorcy cle” course will be held through today in the Memorial Student Center. To the contrary, registra tion for the course will continue through today in Room 118 Thompson Hall. 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