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
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nistoexpj vileges are current en-
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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
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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
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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,
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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. It was held in the
M SC only last week.
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