| September 21, 1994

      
 

| by Dug Hébert

Registration had its ups and downs
. this year. As usual, there were a lot of
first year students wandering around
with confused looks on their faces.
“Where is room 2001?” has to be
the hardest question that I have heard
during these first couple of weeks. The
look of disappointment on a fellow
_ student's face when you tell them that
| they are 5 minutes late for a class in Maple
Ridge is the most empathically draining
experience I have had since my ride on
_ the Scream Machine at Expo 86, after
| which I realised I had utterly demolished
| my Revello, which cost me about $5,
and had to walk out of the ride with a
_ wet brown spot all over my shorts.
If you felt that your dignity was
| similarly crushed, relax, it’s over, after
| all you’ll have time to read the Other
Press.
When asked how their registration
| went students had mixed opinions:
Roger Sehra described his registration
’ experiences as “crappy; telereg sucks.”
Fran Ray cheerfully glowed as she
described her experience as “Fine because

| well though. I just waited until everyone
dropped out of their classes [this year].

it's my 3rd year. The first year didn’t go.

That's the easiest way. "

RobWeeks said it went “Pretty good
actually. It didn’t take that long I got
most of the ones I wanted except for Bi
109.1 got through in 5-10 minutes.” Last
year he was in Newton (Surrey) and this
year I called from Guilford.

Sandy Salivaras stated the the whole
experience was' * Really terrible because
I was in Greece and they didn’t have touch
tone phone lines. I called the help line
and they told me to come back and get
on wait lists.

Katrina Lennax finds that registration
goes “wonderfully because I don’t bother
with the phone system.” She just sits in
on classes.

“It's slow. 1 don’t wanna listen to that
little man.” said Taryl Smith neé Speirs.

“Tt was horrible and I was on holiday
in Montréal. I didn’t get anything. My
mother called and told them off.”
recounted Cleo Richards.

Some facts and fictions about
teleregistration (and registration in
general) were exposed during interviews
with Patricia Angus, the registrar, and
Brad Barber of the public information
office.

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students and international students
registering before the student body at
large?

Brad Barber confirmed that those
three groups of students do indeed have
special privileges. “Ifa student is on an
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around team activities.

"There is more demand than spaces
available for some of our programmed
courses than for open enrollment
courses.

"Limited enrollment courses are
courses with waiting lists such as Nursing

  

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or Stagecraft. We limit international
students to 5%, but the ones we accept
come from between 5000 - 10,000 miles
away and we accept them and have to
make sure they get classes.”

When asked about all the other
students accepted to the college that can’t
get courses, Barber stated that “Because
of open enrollment, University Transfer
students may only get a couple of courses.
We are trying to meet the demand. That's
why we are offering more night and
Saturday courses.”

Patricia Angus, the registrar,
suggested that before registering for
courses, students should do some
research. “I have dealt with students who
don’t even have a [$4] calendar. Detailed
course outlines are available in the library
and the Career Resource Center.

When asked about the $100
processing fee for course dropping,
Angus replied that it is intended “To
discourage students from dropping
courses once they are in. We don't
penalize a student if they drop and add
[courses] of equal value.”

For relief, check out our new
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