Portland State University - Viking Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Came winter-and spring, and the registrar's office was h'isted on another statistical petard-in reverse. Instead of the usual five to seven percent a quarter attrition, each quarter's drop was nearer nine percent. And no one had an explanation for boom or drop. If it was the Viet Nam draft scare that upset what has been a pretty steady fall increase of 'IOOO a year, the male-female ratio didn't reflect it. If it was tougher grading by an overloaded faculty that thinned the ranks, the flunk-out percentages didn't show it. Which leaves for Registration 1965-66 only one new and one old verity on record. New is forecast for next fall when, for the first time, PSCers will not have to push through three blocks of buildings to sign up for classes. The whole thing will be in one center ring-the gymna- sium in the new P. E. building. The old verity is the registrar's word that the long-forecast day of registration by mail is as remote as ever-still under discussion.

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'Qs so T Lt xy l'llUlSll'illlIlll Portland State took the Big Three statistical-image scrim- age fall quarter in a registration upset that left the tatistical brass as red-faced as a Northwest forecaster he day after the 1962 windstorm. The State Board had covered its 1965-66 budget bet on n 8300 enrollment at PSC. Registrar Baumgartner said he final tab would be 8500. The registrar stuck to his igure all through the pre-registration press forecasts End finally was stuck with it when the total hit 9125- 0 percent over fall 1964. The 9125 were stuck with it when they found the field f interference through the halls all but impossible to un, the lines to the section-stamp goals harder to buck. o add to the fun of registration, 1965, this was the fall he academic headquarters staff chose to hold tough on ection enrollment maximums. By Friday, mid-morning, nglish, history, poli sci and other heavy enrollment ourses were turning away customers, and the sound f Closed Section keening could be heard in the Park locks. By mid-afternoon the wail had reached head- uarters and a two-day extension of registration was rdered.

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