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'Organized mob' enrolls
As 650 students filed through the Nebraska Union Ball
room Wednesday morning, a girl in charge of keeping stu
dents from entering the exit ventured a definition of
general registration.
"It's a pain," she said.
About one-fifth of this semester's student body were in
lines Wednesday through Friday to sign-up for the spring
semester. '
There were time card lines, cashier lines, checking
station lines, class card lines and, . of course, the
formidable ballroom entrance lines. But complaints about
long lines this year were minimal as every 100 students
usually made it into the ballroom during the half-hour
allotted on their time cards, according to Lou Ellen
Krohn, a ballroom entrance guard and UNL student.
"Usually they got in then or earlier if we were ahead,"
she said.
She added that the whole thing seemed to run well
when people knew what they wanted.
A few operational changes were made this year to
make the system run easier. Streamlined procedures were
not readily apparent, however, partly because they slowed
things a little rather than speeding them up.
The replacement of cash registers with computerized
cashier equipment necessitated keying-in social security
numbers and various payment codes. An old fashioned
cash register was used periodically to speed the line.
The changeover might enable students to receive their
tuition statements earlier, according to Gary Fouraker,
director of student accounts.
"Now that we capture all computer information on
these cassettes we get it sooner," he said.
The only other changes in the basic "get-your-time-card-wait-in-line"
procedure were small adjustments in the
positioning of class card trays to help traffic flow.
Officials reported that registrations went smoothly
and students commented that the operation was relatively
hassle free "as these things go."
"It's the most organized mob scene I've ever
witnessed," said one registrant.
Nearly 16,500 students scheduled second semester
classes during prcregistration, about 1,000 more than last
year, according to Gerald Bowker, dean of admissions.
Bowker said enrollment is expected to be considerably
higher than the 20,196 enrollment during second semester
of the 1974-75 academic year.
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