1968_09 The Daily Collegian September 1968

              J0,300 EXPECTED AT FSC
HEADACHE HAVEN
Although
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lere are a couple of major changes in registration
. this familiar scene will be revived on Thursday,
ur targets.     You can score only If you gel to the
. Actually, registration this semester should
men. Freshman and some sophomores my h ave a tussle
ill have already have been picked over.
The Daily Collegian
LXXIV/ 1    FRESNO STATE COLLEGE, FRESNO, CALIFORNIA    MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1968
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Registration   procedure revised
Priority change-,   alphabet scramble
gives way to unit accumulation policy
DR. FREDERIC W. NESS
BRUCE BRONZAN
College's two presidents offer
word for incoming students
Editor's Note: The following
are messages of welcome to
Fresno State College students
from, college president Dr.
Frederic W. Ness, and student
president   Bruce  Bronzan.
Dr. Ness' statement:
The beginning of each academic
year provides a varied combina¬
tion of anticipation, apprehension
and expectation tor every com¬
ponent of a college community.
The one certainty Is that no new
year wiU be exactly like the one
just passed.
During the summer months
while you have been working,
studying, or (for the fortunate
few) relaxing, your faculty, and
staff have been busy preparing for
the largest enrollment lnthehls-
tory of the college — an es¬
timated 10,300 full and part-time
students. The faculty, too, Is
larger than last year by some 75,
bringing the total to more than
By Dennis McCall
Registration procedures at Fresno State College
this fall have taken a dramatic turn from the cus¬
tomary alphabetical priority method.
College officials expect enrollment this semester
to total 10.300. Registration activities begin Thurs¬
day at 8 a.m. in the Men's Gymnasium.
Students this year will enroll according to the
total number of units they had completed as of the
end of the sementer last spring; Units completed
during summer school may not be counted.
Those students with the most number of com¬
pleted units will get top priority. This new method
should Insure senior students of being able toenroll
In the classes they want and need.
Frosh May Suffer
Those who suffer the most from the new procedure
will undoubtedly be the freshmen. However, many
of the first-year students will have already been
pre-reglstered in some of trje basic courses they
will be required to complete during their Initial
year.
By adopting the new registration procedure based
on units completed, FSC has taken a major step-
from the alphabetical puzzle attendant to previous
registrations. The alphabet rotation method always
left .many undergraduates on the lower end of the
list with a few Excedrln headaches as they juggled,
sweated, begged or did whatever necessary to
emerge with a schedule of courses that resembled
the one they had planned. Some didn't even come
All freshmen will {agister at the times specified
on lists that are to be posted at various locations
around campus. For those students who are not sure
Just how many units they have completed, .istswill
The other dramatic change in registration Is that
each student must have his photograph taken before
receiving a registration booklet. The photos will be
taken at no cost as each student appears at the
Arena Theatre to receive the booklet.
The reason for the photograph Is part of a two-
year pilot program at FSC to determine If It Is
feasible to computerize much of the paper work at
the state colleges.
Each student will receive an identification card
that has all the appearances of a gasoline credit
card. His photograph will be on the card along with
an Identifying number.
The card will be used In the future for such items
as adding, dropping or changing the status of a
course, checking out library books and so on.
Robert R. Board, FSC registrar, explained that
the card procedure "Is the first step In helping
automate   the total college services program.'
He said the program will be conducted for two
years on an experimental basis. If the plan Is suc¬
cessful, all state colleges will shift to the new sys-
Elfantnate Paper Work
. Board said the cardsjwtU eliminate much of the
paper work Involved In normal college business. Hj
explained that once the operation is begun, students
will handle some of their own paper work.
As an example, a student wishing to add or drop
a class would Insert Ms card in a machine along with
the proper form, and activate the machine with a
hand lever. He than would keep one copy of the
transaction and leave the other portion of the form
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