CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, January 11, 1984___ Page 7
Changes made in add-drop system
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Students line up to pay tuition in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Fee payments began at 8 a.m. Monday and continued through yesterday afternoon as students returned from Christmas break.
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Spring enrollment traditionally goes smoother than fall enrollment, but the administration has made two changes this spring intended to make the process even more smoothly, the director of the office of student records said yesterday.
Gary L. Thompson, the director, said that this semester the University had begun a new system for adding classes and changing sections. Students who need to add or change courses now must follow an appointment schedule that is based on the last two digits of their student numbers.
THOMPSON SAID STUDENTS who needed only to drop courses were encouraged to do so right away and did not need to follow the appointment schedule. He said the University administration wanted to know if space was available in a class as soon as possible, so that students could get into a class that opened during the add/drop period.
The new procedure for adding and changing courses came about because officials saw long lines in Strong Hall. The committee needed to be changed. Thompson said.
Last fall, Thompson said, students who wanted to make schedule changes had to begin waiting in line at 7 a.m. to get an appointment card. Some students were missing classes in order to obtain a card, he said, and the instructor didn't want the add/drop process to interfere with attendance.
"Pre-assigning the appointment time means that the student does not have the additional step of picking up an appointment card." Thompson said.
He said the only disadvantage of the pre-assigned appointment times would be that he might add or change courses on the last day probably could have obtained an
earlier time under the old system.
ROI PARAJON, Prairie Village junior, said he thought the new add/drop system was good because his appointment was on the first day
"I think the new system is better because it will save time," he said. "Anything that will speed things up, I'm for."
He said that if his appointment had been on the last day, he probably would not like the new system as much.
Thompson said the number of students dropping and adding courses had decreased, but not as much as had been expected, since the new computer enrollment system was established in fall 1982.
The other change to smooth the enrollment process is a program designed to let departments know when questions are almost full. Thompson said.
He said that last fall his office gave
written reports twice a week to inform departments about the number of students in each course during the three weeks of enrollment.
BUT WITH THE OLD system, departments did not know about class closings during the two days of late enrollment, when many classes closed.
"With the new system, the departments have the ability to look up the inventory instantly at any time," Thompson said.
Death and traffic highlight holiday news
By the Kansan Staff
Although most KU students weren't around during Christmas break, news didn't stop in Lawrence. Here is a roundup of the top stories:
- Richard Raney, 28, died Dec. 24 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after surgery for severe cuts on his neck and right arm.
ran out of the house and jumped through the windows of three houses in the neighborhood, police said.
Raney injured himself, around midnight, after he threw a flowerpot to her. She was taken by 2400 block of Winterbrook Court where he was attending a party. Raney then
Witnesses told police Raney seemed deressed when he came to the party.
The police report said that some people at the party had been drinking but that there was no apparent drug use.
Richard was the son of Richard H. Raney, former Lawrence mayor, and city commissioner and owner of Raney Drug Stores.
Police have been unable to determine the motive for Raney's actions.
- The Lawrence City Commission received the results of a traffic safety study by TrafTran Engineering, 2500 W. Sixth St., which suggested that the city make improvements at 20 intersections to increase speed limits on certain streets.
The study also recommends that traffic signals be installed at the intersections of 11th and Kentucky streets and 11th and Tennessee streets. To install the light would slow traffic through this heavily residential area.
*The Kansas Department of Corrections decided not to build a prison
An autopsy is still in progress.
honor camp at Clinton Lake after the Clinton Landowners Association voice
Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, requested that Michael Barbara, Secretary of the Department of Corrections, look for another site.
- Robert Glass, KU researcher for the Institute for Economics and Business, reported that young people were migrating toward 'the loop' in Kansas. 'The loop' is the triangular area Kansas City, Salina, and Wichita.
The abundance of jobs in that region is the reason for the concentration
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