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system to fit their needs.
“The system we are now
operating under, which is a
patchwork of what we started
with in ’69, is just about patch-
worked out.”
Shoup agreed.
“It’s Band-Aid upon Band-
Aid,” he said. “If you look at the
system we’re now using, it’s
state-of-the-art for about 10 to
15 years ago at most universities.
We probably outgrew it when it
ceased to be state-of-the-art.”
The changes in the Purdue
registration system since Texas
A&M’s purchase of the program
support this, he said.
Purdue redesigned its prog
ram to use scanning sheets in
1972, Assistant Registrar Camil
la Lawson said, and that system
was replaced three semesters
ago with on-line computer regis
tration. In the newest system,
the student’s schedule is keyed
into the computer while he waits
and immediate feedback is given
on the availability of classes, she
said.
Shoup said: “We’re two
generations away from state-of-
the-art.”
Massey said changes at the
Data Processing Center, from
which the University leases com
puter time to run its programs,
also have forced the search for a
new registration package.
“We are primarily a card re
gistration system,” he said. “The
DPC is phasing out its card
reading system.”
The registrar’s office has
spent the last 14 months exten
sively researching alternative re
gistration systems, Lacey said.
V. Thomas Rhyne, coordina
tor of computing for the Univer
sity, said it was important to re
search all possible systems to get
exactly what the University
needs and wants.
Shoup said he hopes the Uni
versity moves quickly to get a
new system.
“We need to be careful that
we don’t overstudy the problem
at the expense of getting on with
the activity,” he said. “Probably
buying a system that is not quite
as good as we could get is not as
devastating as buying no system
at all.
“I’m not suggesting that we
run out and buy the first thing
that comes along; however, the
need is very, very strong, and
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often you can upgrade or im
prove a system if it has some
basic capabilities to it.”
Rhyne said the University is
“moving as fast as we can to do
the right kind of thing.”
He said the new registration
system must be approved by the
registrar’s office, his office, Van
diver, the System Information
Management and Policy Com
mittee, Hansen, the Texas A&M
System Board of Regents and
Info
the Automated Information
Systems Advisory Committee, a
nine-member panel in Austin
that must approve computer
appropriations for state institu
tions.
Because of the approval pro
cedure, Rhyne predicted a new
system couldn’t he implemented
before the 1984 fall semester.
Shoup said he would hate to
see it take that long.
“We’ve already seen a great
deal of deterioration in what’s
happening, and we’ll see con
tinued deterioration in the qual
ity of student interactions if that
were to take place,” he said.
Associate Dean of Liberal
Arts Candida Lutes said she
didn’t know if the current sys
tem could last two years.
“But on the other hand,” she
said, “it’s held up so long already
with so many Band-aids on it
that I suppose if we have to deal
with it that much longer, we will.
But we’ll be griping about it for
the next two or three years while
we wait, and students will con
tinue to have problems with it.”
Lacey said the system chosen
would provide for on-line regis
tration. But he said it hasn’t been
decided if the computer termin
als will be located in the depart
ment offices, the deans’ offices
or the registration headquar
ters.
“Right now, our planning re
volves around getting the soft
ware for the kind of system we
want,” he said.
The cost of such a software
package could run from
$350,000 to $500,000, Massey
said.
Support is great for on-line
registration.
Associate Dean of Agricul
ture Dwayne A. Suter said: “Our
advisers and faculty are strongly
urging an on-line system with
terminals in the departments.”
Suter said he would prefer
that kind of system to one in
which the computer terminals
would be located in the registra
tion headquarters.
“The only disadvantage!
to that (terminals in theregis
tion headquarters) is that if
particular grouping of coi
that have been agreed upoi
the adviser and the studei
not workable, the student h:
go back to the departi
again,” he said.
On-line registration
coidd help the colleges
planning changes, Lutess
If deans knew at theeni
the first day of registration
course was full and another
empty, she said, they could
fie personnel and classroom
add new sections and
others.
“Right now, I think m
problem that the feedback
partment heads and deans
slow that they can’t realii
by
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don’t thin
alter the schedule,” she saidj.^j "
in r**»vn**nt’* ■CntlHl-
becomes set in cement.” _
An on-line system also shi 1 . 01 !! 1
reduce errors. Carter said. R , a 1
Human error causes mo® 1 . re on
the problems in the currentj£' c ’ P"
tern, he said. I budl a
“It’s easy to blame thecomfif ,lta
ter,” he said, "but the faultiB r . tec 11
with the computer.” Bckei
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pie pulling class cards usi», 0l ! 1 ''
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responsible for mislj^. a , (
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and s.nl tthat
li ter at
during registration, he saH ®
An on-line system oR, .
point out errors immediai ""
Carter said,
wouldn’t have to wait untilL
next day to see if a mistaken"’ ai !- (
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been made. ■ . ,
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Everyone agrees an on*ith a kn
system woidd cut the times® But tl
in the registration process. Mays b
About 20 percent of thefirdenoi
faculty members spend onrc®t it.
n ation could he saved witkB"! gue
on-line system, Gillespie s®
Students also could see as
stantial decrease in the amoj
of time spent registering j
classes, he said.
Lawson said Purdue’s sy:
has cut the time students si
in registration from aboutt!
hours to 10 minutes.
“There would beastreat
ing,” Shoup said. “Morethoi
than time, it would save a'
headaches and ill feeling on
part of the people involve^^.j
the process — both the studei y j -
and the advisers. It’saveryB^f^.^
trating procedure now at l®j n ot ^
and it’s a pity the system Iniij
be driven bv the hard"
rather than by the need.”
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the 259th day of 1982 with 106
to follow.
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new phase.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mer
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