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Just Like an IBM Card
The just-completed registration was as complicated as an IBM machine, but the card signing seemed to flow along with the same efficiency the mechanical brains are noted for.
By George DeBard
Reports are that things were really smooth Thursday, with a minimum of line standing. I got here Friday in time to join several hundred patient enrollees who were packed into the waiting space in the main lobby of the Kansas Union.
This seemed to be the main jamming station. Picking up the enrolling materials had been easy: No lines, no fuss, no corrections. The walk to the Union was pleasant, if a little cold.
But once inside, I encountered one of the two bottlenecks in the enrollment process. The wait was at the end of a line leading to a table where enrollment materials are checked. No Telenhone Number
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A sign nearby said to form two lines. There were five. I followed along in one of the center lines and eventually reached the desk near the stairs.
Upstairs, things were efficient. My adviser advised me I was deficient 11 hours in division II. I don't care much for science.
The card pulling on the Pen was a snap. Until I hit the sciences
The card pulling on the Pen was a snap. Until I hit the sciences.
"You can't have this lab. It is full."
"This is the only time I can take it."
Start from Scratch
I either got this 1 o'clock lab ov threw out my entire schedule and started from scratch. I looked him right in the eye and remained silent.
"All right. We'll fit you in at 1 o'clock. But you are positively the last."
"Thanks." I headed for the exit. The enrollees were sitting on the stairs filling out their copies of schedules.
I sat down on the steps and arranged the cards. At the bottom of the stairs were a number of lines. I joined one. After about ten minutes of waiting, I stood at the table where applications were taken for some sort of social organization.
I joined another line. I was quickly checked out by an efficient young man in an Ivy League shirt.
John Eagle, Atchison sophomore appears exasperated after enrollment.
e: the bookstore.
Sandra Day, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, figures hard.
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