Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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TECH RUN-AROUND It has been called many things — the Tech run-around, red tape, the bureaucracy, some obscenities - but whatever you call it, it is an experience every Tech student encounters more than once. It — hereafter referred to as the run-around — is sometimes enough to turn a calm, patient, tolerant student into a perspiring, confused, raving lunatic. The run-around has many facets, some of which are described below. Registration — The first run-around a college student encounters is the registration game Take notes, because your knowledge of this process will be tested every semester. 1. Co to a designated area in West Hall to pick up a schedule of classes, registration forms, and a counseling list. Find your counselor on the list, call him to make an appointment, or stand in line outside his door. Some professors do not make appointments, in which case you should skip the phone call and go straight to the line 2. Put together a tentative schedule, convince your counselor you are taking all the right classes, and let him sign your schedule card. 3. Proceed to the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum on the day and time designated. Make sure you have the following items: student data card, signed schedule card, fee billing state- ment, student data sheet, schedule of classes, catalog, checkbook, writing utensil and the desire to stand in lines. 4. Wait patiently until your time is c alled, then stop at every checkpoint to make sure everything gets stamped. If something does not get stamped, you will not be registered, you will not pass Go, and you will not collect $200. 5. Enter the coliseum floor and look confused. Walk around collecting class cards until you run into a hitch. A hitch can take many forms. The section you want might be closed ALL sections of the class you want might be closed, (if the closed class is the one you need to graduate, go back to Start). The class you want may have a lab or a prere- quisite that you did not know about. The bored-looking person handing out class cards might ask you a question such as, ' T3id you sign the listT ' (This happened to several unfortunate souls who planned to take upper-level business courses in the spring, and found that they could not unless they had signed up the previous semester.) When you run into a hitch such as those above, sit down on the floor, look disgusted, and rework your schedule several times. 6. After you receive all your class cards, sign them. If you forget to sign them, you will not be enrolled. Co directly to Jail. If you remember to sign them, gather items mentioned in step No, 3 and pro- ceed to Final Checkout. 7. Ah, the last step. Take out your checkbook and spend all your money at the tables for parking stickers, football coupons. La Ventana and other necessities. Walk out of the coliseum and grab your Free Beer coupon from Town Draw — you are the winner The registration game can last from 30 minutes to several hours. Tech of- ficials have spent years trying to obtain a computer system that would do away with the two-day walk-through process. Gene Medley, associate director of ad- missions and records, said he was hop- ing for computer-aided registration by the spnng semester of 1982. Drop-Add — Student-initiated drop- add offers recourse for those students who were not successful at registration The process is a little different in each college, lunior Kathy Hartman related her experience with drop-add: My registration time was 5 o ' clock the se- cond day. 1 registered for four hours, and had to drop-add everything else. I went to the College of Arts and Sciences and got eight drop-add slips; they looked at me kind of funny Then I had to go find out what prot taught what class, and practically beg them to let me in their classes. Half the time, they said, ' Well, we ' ll put you on a list ' One day I went back every hour trying to add mass comm law, I finally ended up taking some other class It took me a whole week to drop-add to 15 hours, and by then I had missed the first three sessions of every class. Parking — To condense a complicated handbook of regulations into one sentence: a student cannot park anywhere on campus (see note). If he does, he finds a f)ink slip tucked under his car ' s windshield wiper blade. He then has 72 hours to pay $5 to the Of- fice of Traffic and Parking (yes, they ac- cept checks) After 72 hours, the price goes up to $6. If the student still does not pay, he will not be allowed to register (this may be a blessing in disguise). The student will receive a total of three notices from the Office of Traffic and Parking, and the third notice will be a summons to appear in municipal court. At this point the cost of the ticket IS $ 10. If the student does not answer the summons, the city will put out a warrant for his arrest. NOTE: An on-campus resident has the opportunity to purchase a parking sticker, which gives him the right to park in a certain lot relatively near his residence hall. However, the number of available stickers is often less than the number of car owners who need them. Financial Aids — Thousands of students receive grants, scholarships and loans through the Financial Aids office every year. Although getting the money may seem easy, it involves filling out com- plicated reports, sending forms home for signatures, getting references, get- ting transcnpts, waiting for notices, and, of course, standing in lines. It is wise to start the application process at least six months before the money is needed. Once the student is awarded some form of financial aid for a semester, he must wait to receive his tuition and fees statement. He takes a copy of the fee statement to the financial aids office, waits in line, and receives a voucher. The next day, he takes the voucher to the Bursar ' s office, waits in line, pays his registration fee, and receives a check for any left over Then he goes to the bank, waits in line and well, you get the general idea Degree Plan — A student approaching graduation is accustomed to the Tech run-around - he stands in lines and completes forms almost mechanically. He does not complain while he waits in line to see his major counselor to till out a degree plan He grumbles just a little when he waits in line to see another counselor for his minor. He merely rolls his eyes every time he has to go to his college dean and change his degree plan Everything is fine until the semester ol graduation, when he tiles his intent to graduate. Then the notice arrives in the mail Dear senior, this is 18 - La Ventsna

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AS WALTER CRONKITE WOULD SAY, And thafs the way it was A not-so-newsy review of the year ' s news A DAY AT THE RArpS Hide and seek September issues of Playboy were sure hard to find in Lubbock when four Tech coeds posed in the Girls of the Southwest Conference feature. Funny thing, those four girls were sure hard to find in Lubbock, too. Wonder what they were trying to hide(! ' ) Obituary New West, an up-and- coming young club, died in a tragic fire Dec 30, 148(1 New West had opened its doors in the summer, offer- ing lonely students a chance to make quick friends. Sur- vivors includeci Stardust, Cold Water Country and Ur- ban Cowboy See ya later. Alligator The year brought a plague of topsiders, button-eiowns, Izods, polo shirts and prep- py nicknames to the Tech campus. Amidst the influx ot prep wear, ardent GDIs were seen leading the anti- prep movement by wearing anti-alligator buttons (lell) Roses are red Violets are blue Don ' t give us a test Or we ' ll bomb you There is nothing more heavenly than sitting in a classroom, taking a test you haven ' t studied for, and hearing those wonderful words — evacuate the building; there ' s a bomb threat. This happened many times during the two weeks before fall semester finals. However, the threateners did not seem to have it together, because some buildings were called twice in the same day. Therefore, we suggest that someone start a new service (you could call it Bombs Away) that will coordinate bomb threats with test schedules Students could simply notity Bombs Away when a test is upcoming, pay a small fee, and have their bomb threat guaranteed Even a bomb threat didn ' t stop this Engliih teacher (below) from gi ing her ddss a test Mystery of the year: Who shot )R? it s as Kristen — )R s secretary, bed partner, and wife Sue Ellen s little sister The Nov 21 episode ot the nighttime soap Dallas told people throughout the na- tion what they had waited seven months to hear Then Kristen was sent to another soap, Knots Landing, to have IR ' s baby, and all the Who Shot )R ' buttons, shirts, pencils, etc., were sent to Goodwill. Since Dallas was such a suc- cess, a whole slew of night- time soaps came on the air with their own share of divorces, extra-marital af- fairs, shootings and other dastardly deeds Those who got bored with Dallas could watch such intellec- tually stimulating shows as Flamingo Road, ' Dynas- ty, and Secrets ot Midland Heights. KK receives prestigious award The award for most hard- working Kampus Kop goes to officer C Riggs, who put a real cramp in the style of Tech bicyclers On one Fri- day, Riggs gave out 10 mov- ing violation citations and more than 100 warnings tor reckless bicycling The Underground Organiza- tion for Bicyclers published an assortment ot escape routes to help the bicycler avoid otlicer Riggs and his tickets The booklet contains such chapters as the follow ing; 1 How to run stop signs legally. 2 What to do if you are stoppe(J innocently riciing the wrong way on a one-way street i How to ride with no hands and c reate the illu- sion that vi u JfP using l)t)th hands A How to (iisguise your bike as a person so you can r i (le on the sicJevvalks 20 - la Venlana