University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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IN ORDER—Three sophomores hold their collective breaths as checkers give them an okay or send them back to their advisers. THERE IT IS—A panorama of heads bent diligently over enrollment cards, of hurried consultations, of worried scannings of closed classes: Enrollment, 1953. Closed class boards ringed the balcony, so all students knew as soon as a class closed. And the pressure of time was eased as the registration forms could be ob- tained and filled out at leisure three to five days before enrolling. In the past, sweating over the yard-long reg- istration forms in Strong hall base- ment with visions of classes closing by the minute in Robinson gym was a major complaint. A new time schedule permitted any student to finish enrolling once he was in the process. Previously, an enrollee caught during the lunch hour had to start all over again. The enrolling student entered the south door of the Union according to the customary alphabetical schedule. In the main lounge area, portions of his completed registration forms were taken, fees were collected, and ID photos shot. Then up to the ballroom where he filled out the enrollment cards at his school ' s area. From there he went to the balcony to have class cards filled out, and it was all over. After sailing through the new pro- cedure, most students were doffing their hats to planners James K. Hitt, registrar, and George B. Smith, dean of the University. 0 I

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IT Hitt ' s B G SHOW hump in be- coming a student at KU—confusing, noisy, exasperating enrollment — was smoothed out this fall when a simpli- fied enrollment procedure was inau- gurated. The new process, completely housed in the air-conditioned Student Union, was given an initial run during sum- mer session enrollment, but for two- thirds of the 6,817 students who en- rolled in the three-day period, it was something new and greatly wel- comed. The revisions were sweeping. All students enrolled in the Union except graduate students who remained in Strong hall. All classes were printed in a combined class schedule. Stand- ardized class cards and enrollment cards were introduced. Telephone networks relayed infor- mation on closed classes from the ballroom floor to the mezzanine. NEXT, PLEASE—Enrollment workers at the first stop relieve a student of some of her registration forms. LINE UP—In photographing some 7,000 persons in three days, no works of art are produced—but mug shots are. IF I WERE YOU —One wonders how faculty advisers live through the enrolling process, but they seem to thrive on it. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS C01.1.IS( Y. UNIVERSITY uF 2959

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SUMMER SESSION: Sa101, ,71.-Yeact, n 69 on) IS -7•11,11••• CO ure, go ahead and go. Classes are more fun, and you can have lots of fun on the side. And after all it ' s only for eight weeks, and you do need the hours and grade points. . . That ' s the classic, perhaps misleading, answer to the query about summer school, but coming from one who had gone the summer before— well, maybe it wouldn ' t be too bad. . . So the summer scholar enrolled himself in two of the more fascinating courses taught in sum- mer school—Prehistoric Man, Trees and Shrubs —and settled himself for another eight weeks in Lawrence. It is fun, he discovered. Studying was impos- sible in the steaming atmosphere of the library and improbable in the air-conditioned coolness of the Student Union. That left one possibility — getting by without studying. He made a valiant effort in that direction, rather than admit defeat. . an innocent walk across the green . . by MARY BETZ Professors didn ' t carry out the promises of former summer schoolers that they would be easier in the summer. In fact, there some- times seemed to be more work than one would find in a course during the regular school year. But you ' ll have afternoons free and that ' s lots of study time even if you want to party every night! the informant had told our luckless scholar. But the scholar had reckoned without the in- fluence of the swimming pool and lakes within a han dy distance . . . and besides, the heat was sleep-inducing, even in classes. What a herkimer he ' d been to listen to anyone else! summers of sleep The campus was very beautiful, though, he had to admit. It abounded with shady places to study on its acres of ground—but everyone else seemed to have gotten to them first. Winters of classroom sleep had been replaced by summers of sleep under the shade trees. Teachers were happier about this, except when the sleeper failed to wake himself to go to class, there to sit propped up and endure the lecture only until he could return again to his shady spot. Summer school brought a constant stream of visiting delegates to the campus, he found. In early June there was the unending (for a week of din, anyway) clatter of Girls Staters as they practiced government on the campus. Cam- paign speeches and posters cluttered the atmos- phere, as the pseudo-politicians reached full stride and went charging ahead, tracking down 13