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NEWS
THE BATTALION
ThursU
Early registration may end
after AOC votes for changes
B> ROLANDO GARCIA
The Battalion
I The elimination of early registration
1 for student workers came one step clos
er to reality after the Academic Opera-
j tions Committee (AOC) voted Wednes-
1 day to recommend changes to the
registration process.
Under the AOC’s proposal, student
! workers and co-op students would lose
early registration status, but a grandfather
clause will allow those who registered
early this spring to continue doing so.
Honors students, currently among the
first group to register, would now regis
ter before other members of their class, as
opposed to being able to register before
the entire student body does. Also, those
honors students designated its committed
to and milking progress toward Universi
ty or Foundation Honors would register
before other honors students.
Athletes and students w ith disabilities
will keep their early registration status.
Dr. Edward Funkhouser, interim ex
ecutive director of the Office of Honors
Programs and Academic Scholarships and
AOC member, said the committee con
sidered the plight of student w orkers but
decided the status quo was unacceptable.
“It was thoroughly discussed, and we
wanted a fair and equitable policy,”
Funkhouser said. "I would ask students
to look at the issue beyond self interest.”
Funkhouser added that the Faculty
Senate and Student Senate would have
the opportunity to weigh in on the mat
ter before administrators make any fi
nal decisions.
‘‘I’ve realized that when one com
mittee looks at things, we might over
look a concern or perspective. It takes
time to have all the voices heard,”
, Funkhouser said.
Leanna Divine, Student Govern
ment Association representative on the
AOC and a junior international studies
major, said the proposals are still works
in progress.
“It’s kind of a rash decision, and
there’s still a lot to talk about. This is just
a starting point.” Divine said.
Divine said she supported the rec
ommendations because the current sys
tem created unfair advantages for stu
dent workers.
“There are people who can't get the
classes they need to graduate on time.
This would make registration more equi
table,” Divine said.
Brent Spencer, Student Senate repre
sentative on the AOC and a senior mi
crobiology major, who also supported the
proposal, said the grandfather clause was
a fair compromise.
“It’s the best students can hope for.
Current student workers can retain early
registration, but there’s definitely in
equalities that needed to be addressed,”
Spencer said.
Funkhouser said the committee re
visited the issue of early registration af
ter several groups asked for early regis
tration status.
“We needed a reasoned policy for
deciding w ho needed to register early,”
Funkhouser said. “The advantage of
registering early is lost if half the stu
dents can do it.”
Funkhouser could not elaborate on
any specific problems with the current
system but said the early registration pol
icy was long overdue for a review.
Student Body President Forrest
Lane, a senior political science major,
said he is still studying the issue and
hopes to get more student input before
any decisions are made.
Blue lot parking chanjj;.
OK’d by Student Senr
enters tl
BY JEANETTE SIMPSON
The Battalion
As students return from summer va
cation, they may learn that parking areas
on campus have been reassigned.
Due to concerns about conges-
tion and safety hazards, the Student
Senate approved a bill which rec
ommended that parking areas 48,
49,62,69 and 91 be changed to red
lots. Red lots are designated for res
ident parking only.
Parking areas 61, 63 North and
63 South — the lot across from Fish
Lot and the lots near Olsen Field,
respectively — would be blue lots,
reserved for commuter parking
only. The bill also recommended
that Parking, Traffic and Trans
portation Services (PTTS) provide
“Our first priority is the safety of the
resident students as they move from their
cars to main campus,” Wine said. “We
want the student body to understand as
we develop plans [that] we are not mak-
road closures and constaJ
[century.
W
mgerou
,ng, sad Peter ScMt* mid|i
tor and a senior inform!!:
major. “Even the Universi
detu its citiz
“Our first priority is
the safety of the resi
dent students as they
move from their cars
to main campus. ...”
— Sherry Wine
PTTS executive associate director
reliable and appropriate transportation to
main campus for commuters.
PTTS Executive Associate Director
Sherry Wine said that they w ill take these
recommendations into serious consider
ation as they design the plan to accom
modate the traffic problems caused by the
construction of the West Campus garage
and road work alone Wellborn Road.
ing arbitrary' decisions; we are making
decisions that w ill help e\eryone.”
Not everyone at Wednesday’s meet
ing supported the changes to the com
muter lots.
“I feel we did not have enough in
formation to make this decision on
parking areas for next year because w e
do not have any idea what impact the
knouu hut impacttL ownatlons -
is going to have.” it$ s k s I os in
Student Body Fret l influence, b
Lane, a senior politic iefend abrou
jor, must approve the Alflok at the
is officially passed, nt out that th
“I Lei that before, g er feels just
cision on this bill,!; ] C ual ai
sues addressed by thi S * /u ^ thet
be considered. Lanes* * . ,
n,andcror l heCo T ,, :, f ec !y el yj
don't feel tta alltit * erVVllsl '"
questions have been w 'fl' not
swered.” Perhaps the
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