Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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After a long day, a registration worker waits for the next student. Lines are a part of registration as students wait to see the representative from their college. y -.w .1 li R r 'if fl- 4- MA V 1. 'rw T' ' A nl Registration is a long story of schedule struggles The shortest line is 300 people long and every class at Marshall is closed. You must get at the end of the line even though you stood in the wrong one for three hours. The guy in front of you is cussing and girl behind you is going out with your boyfriend. You have a headache. You're miserable but you can't leave. You have to register. Even thoug the situation always seems much worse at the time than it really is, most students agree registration is a hassle. Other schools report more problems with registra- tion than Marshall faces. This year, the use of time cards and the place- ment of Deans in the registration room helped eliminate some of the problems. Students can be seen giv- ing improvised stories over filled classes and asking if one more would really hurt when others were drop- ping the class anyway. Sometimes it is hard to get the classes that are needed. Kim Wehner, whose parents live in Belgium, lost her pre-registration when the money did not arrive from home in time. In regular registration, all of the classes were filled and Wehner had to go to the head of each department and ask for overloads. I finally got them all but I cried a lot, she said. Many students report that department heads give them a hard time before giving them an overload. Freshmen can easily be spotted carrying their green orientation folders. They usually can be found in pairs or groups having dragged a friend or the gang along for moral support. Upperclassmen can be found doing the same thing. Many students try to plan their classes to avoid Fridays, eight o'clocks and before noon classes on Thursdays. Many of the usual prob- lems are found with not getting the classes wanted even if the student pre-registered. Some students get stuck with schedules that spread over the entire day with large breaks between them. After registration is complete, the student can head for Stationers or the bookstore to spend a small life's savings on books. Many unprepared, unsuspecting freshmen may be sur- prised to find he can't carry his 30 new books back to the dorm. Next week he'll be bringing some of them back since the class requirements will have changed. It's time to begin the new year. Campus springs to life after a quiet summer and social life opens in full swing as a result of parties and no classes. It's time to meet people. - 23 Registration

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fztolfyhassle you, plan ahead. Get some .false LIE NNE T E E FIEHLIE HEY As our new president, jimmy Carter, said . . . We ahr guin to cut thru the red tape and compounded bureaucracy tha' cuhhently chokes this great nayshun of ahrs. Now, the question comes to mind: What does that mean? How should I know? I voted for Ford. But now one phrase you can pick out of that grinning, mumbling state- ment is 'red tape'. If you live in this world and are not an Aborigine or something, you battle red tape everyday, and more often than not, you lose the battle. Even here on campus, you are almost choked by the crimson tapers. Any- body who has ever gone to add-drop knows what I mean. Now this little ditty is not to con- demn or commend 'red tape. It's just an effort to show youidifferent ways to get around these problems. il. The old Pretend-you're-some- body-important trick. When dealing withfsome big shot in the adminis- tratioitj -and you know he's going credentials, wear a disguise if-noses and glasses are out year, make sure your disguises A accordance with Mr. Black- 'bf' Best:'Disguished Peoplej 'office like you're ,very popular dis- e you don't vdq you Shot's office. you're trying your composure when really some great personal tragedy is putting you through the wringer. Start off with your voice just quavering a little bit as you begin to make your plea to Mr. Shot. Then as your speech continues, make sure your cool starts to break . . . preferably around the part of your pitch where you tell him about your mother's incurable disease or your brother's airplane- glue habit. Finally end the scene, winding up with tears streaming down your cheeks, your fingers tugging at your dishevelled hair and your fingernails cutting gouges into your palms from making such tight fists. Even if you don't get what you want from him, you've still got a great shot at an academy award. 3. Bribery 4. Threats of violence falways a bissyl- 5. The old Ask-for-the complete- opposite-of-what-you-want trick. The name more or less tells the tale. When you go into Mr. Big Shot's office, ask for the one thing you don't want, then, Mr. Big Shot being a crea- ture of habit, will give you just what you do want. See? 6. I've saved the best for last lfor you brave souls who didn't skip ahead to the pictures of the cheer- leaders or the kooky, crazy, cut-up candid pics.l This is known as the Larry Purdy Ploy. When I lived in Hodges Hall, iand I use the word 'lived' looselyj we created 'Larry Purdy' quite by accident. One of us got into trouble during a class in which a substitute teacher was filling in. Well, this sub called the Hodges resident down and demanded his name. The resident responded with the name Larry Purdy, when his real name was something like Gobz Grabdzbdawadz. We never heard another thing about the incident. occurred to us that Larry would a pretty convenient guy to have around, so we pooled our money and enrolled Larry in school with just enough hours to make him full for him, and Larry was doing alright. lNow if you think what I just de- scribed is impossible, check it out, Ace. You will be surprisedj We used Larry whenever one of us would get in trouble KWe each had an I.D. with Larry's name and Our own pic- tures on them . . . we just kept going back and saying we had lost the old one and needed a new one made.j Due to this, Larry began to get a lot to speed letters and other such evil zlocuments. Not only that, but Larry's attendance was pitiful. As a matter of fact, it seemed he only showed up on test days. he got A's on the exams, but if he wanted anything more than a one-point average, he would have to get his act together. As if that weren't bad enough, we began expanding Larry's horizons. In the space of about three weeks, he joined the science club, the chess club, three fraternities and two sororities fdon't askjp he joined the soccer club, the fencing club, signed up for all intramurals, glee club, Sigma Delta Chi, the Lambda Society, the Dromedary Club and Alcoholics Anonymous. He never went to any meeting or paid his dues but he was in. Well, as all things must, Larry's time came. I-Ie was valiant up to the very end, talking back to teachers and security agents, laying incredibly outrageous lines on pretty girls, pulling unbelievable stunts Qlike ty- ing a Volkswagen to the shower ceilingj . . . yes, Larry really knew how to live but he was spreading himself too thin. To this day we still miss him and we still wonder what happened to him . . for you see, one day Larry just disappeared. I told him to stay away from the Talahachee Bridge. l 25 Bureaucracy