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University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
Shutdown slows process
Registration goes well
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Fall registration went smoothly for most students last week, although a computer shutdown Thursday caused some problems for people who did not pre-enroll last spring, enrollment officials said yesterday.
Computer problems led to the shutdown of the enrollment system for about two hours on Thursday and prevented students from enrolling in their classes at normally scheduled times.
Gary Thompson, director of the office of student records, said that despite the delay, all students who were going through the process, called residual enrolment, were able to have their schedules processed by 10 p.m. Thursday.
BUT RESIDUAL enrollment for some students was still frustrating.
"First they said it would be a half of an hour, then one hour and now two. It's been real frustrating," said Mike Leis, Wichita freshman.
Although the delay was tiresome for students, most were able to enroll without serious problems, Thompson said. Special arrangements were made for students who were unable to wait the extra two hours.
Pre-enrollment in the spring was designed to help reduce feelings of frustration, Thompson said. Because students had enrolled months earlier they dealt with problems about classes, the tension level has been reduced.
"You really don't see a lot of people today with high anxiety," he said. "At the Field House you could really feel alone if none of them were at the cashier's table."
MARY SAUDR, a St. Louis junior who has worked enrollment for five
semesters, said she preferred the current system over the old system of enrollment and registration on the same day at Allen Field House.
"It is a lot cooler, the lines are shorter and everyone is in a better mood."
Students who went through pre-enrollment agreed that registration had gone very smoothly.
"It was effortless," said Jim Rambootten. Belleville senior.
The only big problem with the registration system, Thompson said, occurred at the fee-adjustment station on Friday.
Because all teaching assistants must have a fee adjustment and many of them could not pre-enroll because they had not yet been assigned in April, the number of fee adjustments was much higher on Friday, he said.
"We had as many in the last half-day as we had both Wednesday and Thursday combined," Thompson said.
WASHINGTON — The region's federal wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries and research centers face a wide range of environmental problems ranging from poaching to habitat destruction to serious pollution, an Interior Department report shows.
Problems beset federal lands
Officials at all of the nation's wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries, research centers and laboratories were surveyed about the problems their facilities face. They listed more than 7,000 environmental headaches ranging from littering to radioactivity.
By United Press International
In the region, the Sequoyah Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma listed 41 problems, which ranked it 11th in the nation among the refugees most hurt by environmental problems. Texas' Rio Grande Valley Wildlife Refuge ranked 14th in the survey with 40 different problems.
OTHER REGIONAL refuges listing
more than 30 problems included Flint Hills, Kan. (32); Delair, Mo. (38);
Laguna Atascona, Texas (31); Clarence Cannon, Mo. (37); Aransas,
Texas (35); Desert Delta, N.M. (33); and Bia Lake, Ark. (32).
However, other regional wildlife refuges reported remarkably few problems. Grulla in New Mexico and Kirwin in Kansas listed only two problems each, ranking 367th and 370th among the nation's 373 refuges.
Robert Jantzen, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said, "We wanted to identify in a systematic way the various difficulties encountered at field stations so that we can better address and resolve these problems."
Jantzen said information gathered in the survey was being used to aid decisions about the service's diving program. The nominal would be allocated in the future.
HOWEVER, HE cautioned that the Interior report could be misleading.
"For example, the most frequently reported problem on national wildlife refuges was littering," he said. "But in reality, we know it poses no serious threat. It is not a serious problem, only a typical one."
The Columbia National Fishery Research Laboratory in Missouri reported only two problems, among the lowest of the 11 refuges.
The report said that more than half the environmental problems could be solved within the field stations. However, 41 percent are so large and pervasive that they cannot be approached on a site-specific basis.
"They require broad actions at all levels of government," the report said.
MOST OF the most serious problems relate to air and water pollution. About 68 percent of the nation's field stations reported that waterborne disease was endangered were listed as threatened in half of the installations.
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