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University Daily Kansan, September 9, 1983
Add/drop changes explored
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Although KU students are still adding and dropping classes for the fall semester, the office of student records is already exploring ways to shorten add/drop lines for the spring semester.
With one week to work add a class and two weeks to drop a class before withdrawal is noted on University websites. Strong Hall have nearly disappeared.
However, Gary Thompson, director of the office of student records, said that his office would be making some improvements in long add/drop lines next semester.
"We're going to be doing a little bit of fine-tuning," he said.
Next spring, Thompson said, appointment cards to add or drop a class will be distributed all day.
ON THE FIRST day of add/drop this semester, cards were distributed only
until about 8:30 a.m., when all of the appointments for the next two days had been assigned, Thompson said.
He said that because distribution of the appointment cards stopped at an unspecified time — and only a number of appointments were given out same
- most students came at the same time, creating long lines.
time, creating long,
two day链长 when enrollment
of distributed appointment cards
until 5 p.m., long lines were not a
problem, Thompson said.
problem. It was almost a jog going through the line," he said.
Appointment times for adding and dropping classes were used for the first time this semester. On the first day for picking up appointment cards, some students began waiting before daylight to reserve a spot in line.
THOMPSON SAID he expected some students would still line up early in the morning next semester for appointment times. However, he said, most will realize that they don't need to line
up before 7:30 a.m. by appointment cards will be distributed all day.
Another change, he said, would be shortening the appointment times to
Instead of 20 minute appointments with 10 minute lags in between, appointments will be 10 minutes each with no break.
With fewer students having appointments at the same time, Thompson said, the lines should be shorter.
As a result, computer controllers should be able to handle 25 students every 10 minutes, Thompson said, instead of 75 students every 30 minutes, which was the pace this semester.
In addition to the changes already planned, a University Senate Executive Committee will be working on a plan to reduce the large number of add/drop transactions each semester, Thompson said.
said,
bout 45.000 schedule transactions are made each semester, Thompson said. Every class that is added or dropped is counted as one transaction.
Bookstores raise banned-book issue
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
In recent years hundreds of books have been banned from libraries across the nation. Last year, in an effort to fight book banning, a nationwide effort was made to start Banned Books Week, Sept. 10-17.
But Lawrence residents will have to look closely next week to see any sign of local participation in Banned Books Week.
The Lawrence Public Library, Watson Library and four other area bookstores haven't planned anything to mark the week.
Three area bookstores are preparing displays of banned books, but other than that the week will go unnoticed in the city.
"People across the country consider it their right to protect the rest of us from certain acts," said Caldwell, the owner of Act One Llc Ltd. 1025 Massachusetts St. before the Commission on Tuesday that the commissioners to officially proclaim Banned Books Week in Lawrence.
Although hundreds of books have been banned from public and school libraries in some U.S. cities, no organized efforts have surfaced to ban books in Lawrence, said Lance Repert, reference librarian at the Lawrence Public Library.
BUT CALDWELL says she still wants the people of Lawrence to be aware of the problem.
"It's something I feel very strongly about," she said, "I don't doubt these people's motives, but they don't have the right to tell me what I can and can't read, and they have no right to say what my children can and cannot read
"The whole issue leaves me shocked and feeling anger, disbelief and resentment."
Some books, such as "Lady Chatterly's Lover," "Catcher in the Rye," "Huckleberry Finn," "Catch-22," "Slaughterhouse Five," and "The Grapes of Wrath," have a long history of being banned from libraries.
But other books that have been subject to banning include "Charlotte's Web." The "Wizard of Oz." "The Good Earth." three plays by Shakespeare,
and the American Heritage Dictionary. The books are being banned in both large and small cities including Des Maines, Iowa; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Niles, Mich.; and Aniston, Ala.
BANNED BOOKS WEEK has been organized nationally by the Media Coalition, an organization made up of many groups directly affected by bookishment, including the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association and the American Association of Publishers.
Caldwell said the coalition's original list of banned books, compiled last year, was 17 pages long and included hundreds of books. An updated list, covering May 1982 to May 1983, was eight pages.
Caldwell said she would like to do more to recognize Banned Books Week but said just the display in the window of her business had a positive effect.
of her business people. "It stops people cold when they see the poster and look at the books," she said. "People can't believe it. Until they saw the display, many of them weren't aware of the problem.
"If we just make people aware of what's happening we have done some good."
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