Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Registration o, ' rientation Assistants advised us that it would be a good idea to go through Mock Registration so we wouldn ' t get lost in the registration maze the next day. As we were all new to the university system — freshmen and transfer students — we decided to follow their advice. It really paid off. Or so we thought. The one-hour walk-through fea- tured explanations of what was in- volved at each stop, what to bring the next day, and, most important, how simple the whole thing really was. We left the fieldhouse feeling quite confident. But the moment of truth arrived August 26. What had seemed easy just the day before proved to be just the opposite. No one told us now many lines there were: lines to get inside the fieldhouse, lines for class cards, lines to get into the financial aid area, and, finally, lines to pay fees. We also lacked information on exactly where the checkpoints were, and how to step around those sitting on the floor, frantically searc hing through course-selection books. We were the unlucky ones — those who hadn ' t preregistered classes in the summer. That glaring mistake haunted us everytime a class closed or a line stretched com- pletely around the fieldhouse. But it was not the time for self-castigation. Morning registrants saw fewer problems. Some were even sur- prised by stories of afternoon stu- dents who needed up to three-and- a-half hours to register. The registration workers also felt the impact of the masses, as they received complaints and insults from impatient students. Said one worker looking up from her typewri- ter at the endless mass of bodies: ' T ' ve never seen it this bad. But others had — and probably would again, for each year seems the worst. That is, until the next August, when the temperature rises, and the num- ber of students in line grows. Ellen Fowler

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phoios Dennis Chamberlin

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4 7 ■«. . -«. inu ' rtr Sfltfflf ;dL Fall news E gyptian president Anwar Sadat did not want to attend the October 6 parade commemorating the 1973 Egyptian invasion of Israel. He was complaining of fatigue to his vice pres- ident, Hosni Mubarak. Sadat did attend, though, only to be gunned down by four Egyptian soldiers who jumpecf from a passing army truck. The soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of dignitaries, killing six people and injuring dozens more. One of those assassin- ated, the main target, was Sadat. The world was stunned. U.S. President Ronald Reagan called Sadat a champion of peace. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said that he had lost not only a part- ner in the peace process but also a friend. However, in Libya and in other Arab nations that opposed the Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, people poured in- G to the streets to celebrate the death of Sadat. At Sadat ' s funeral, the United States was represented by three for- mer presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Mubarak, Sadat ' s successor to the presidency, vowed to carry on the peace process. I will continue the olicy President Sadat started, ' ubarak said. We are going on with Camp David and the autonomy talks. Israel, however, put strains on the peace process in December when it annexed the Golan Heights, a strip of land it had occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War with Syria. Begin moved the annexation bill through the Knesset, Israel ' s parliament, in only six hours. Normally, a bill re- quires at least three days of delibera- tion. The angriest reaction came from the Reagan administration, it sus- pended the U.S. -Israeli strategic cooperation agreement signed just three weeks earlier in Wasnington. Most of Washington ' s attention, however, focused on the situation in Poland, where the government im- posed martial law on December 13 to crack down on the Solidarity trade union. Hundreds of Solidarity lead- ers were jailed while restrictions were placed on the people. (See page 24.) X he Reagan administration also stepped up its rhetoric against Libya ' s Muammar Gaddafi follow- ing reports that Gaddafi had sent a team of assassins to the United States to kill government leaders. Among those allegedly on the hit list were President Reagan, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alex- ander Haig, and Secretary of De- fense Caspar Weinberger. U.S. in-