University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

Not finding it easy to (ill out IBM cards while sitting on chairs, registration worker Dodi Keith spreads out materials on the tloor to help a student. STUDENT LIVING J Waiting and hoping After waiting for ten hours in the glaring sun, the petite sun-tanned sophomore finally inched her way around to the west door of Bellmont Hall. Biting down hard on a number two pencil and straightening out a bent, folded and mutilated IBM card, she forced her chin onto her chest and squeezed in the door. Four thousand screaming, trampling students rushed toward one gray-haired 20-year old. " Oh why didn ' t I preregister? " the economics major moaned as she saw the scene which resembled the New York Stock Exchange during 1 929. She got lost in the traditional fall registration shuffle but managed to sign up for three classes in a mere four hours. Exiting Bellmont, she saw tables across the street where the Ex-Students ' Association members served tea to quench the thirsts of exhausted students. Dodg- ing cars as she crossed San Jacinto, the newly-regis- tered student gratefully gulped down the iced tea. She sighed when she remembered that, haggard as she looked, she still had to get an ID picture taken at Greg- ory Gym. Just one of 41 ,387 going through the same process, she trudged up the hill to stand in the day ' s final line. 32 Registration Exhausted students wait in line to have their registration materials processed.