University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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BELOW LEFT: Registration lines seem never- ending to impatient students. ABOVE LEFT: Keaney Gymnasium holds more perpetual lines inside. BELOW: Freshman co-ed re- flects reaction to Registration 1968.

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REGISTRATION: Convention of the Confused Every year September brings what has to be the convention of the confused — other- wise known as registration. Here as nowhere else, a student can face the “Establishment” in lines and signs and computer goofs. Slips to get in — cards to fill out — cards for sleep- ing — cards for eating — cards for cars — “Deposit at Station 4, proceed to . . .” Name — College — Curriculum — 024-40-7960. Your life story told in a serial number. En- couraging? Inspiring? Hardly. When you reach the final station you can buy a calen- dar for 25c and get a blotter free. Somehow it doesn’t quite blot out the haunting feeling that the whole experience is all a nightmare, a reoccuring one at that. 28

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RODMAN: Confusion and Aggravation For those of indomitable spirit and pa- tience Rodman is the epic test. Students wishing to drop and add courses congre- gate here. Endless lines, confusion, disgruntled peo- ple, red tape, drop cards, add cards, sec- tion cards all make the process of changing courses unique. The experience of waiting in line for an hour only to find the section closed shouldn’t be denied to anyone. The system at Rodman Hall is URI at its worst: mechanized, dehumanized and im- personal. Thankfully it doesn’t represent the usual way of life here.