University of Hawaii Honolulu - Ka Palapala Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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l'hc ubiquitous Here's: slop here, sign lierc. claim such-and-such here, wail here, repot! here, pay here. risers for signatures of approval for class changes . . . Silent pictures run through the registrant's mind as he fills out his orange class cards. Three boring hours a week with a drone-mumble professor. The prospect of a starvation existence: classes Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. wiihout a lunch break . . . The waste of bus tickets to attend a lone 3 p.m. class on Tuesday and Thursday. A semester of embarrassment, of walking in late every Saturday morning to an 8 a.m. 200-student lecture class . . . But the lamp of education is not wholly extinguished. For occasionally the favorite professor's section is still open, the perfect class at 10 is available. Most students do manage to have decent lunch hours every day. Some arc lucky enough to have three-hour lunch breaks—long enough for a nap . . . Registration Day, a challenge in itself, also presents prom- ises. Optimists see their academic slate wiped clean; they are making a new start, have at least a 50-50 chance of raising that grade-point average. An elective course may open up a new field of idea and experiences. Campus activities will move slowly, then more and more rapidly into high gear. There’ll be new faces in new classes. Perhaps a beauty queen to sit next to, or an interesting and interested Prince Charming in disguise. Registration Day means sore feet, short tempers, and de- pleted bank accounts. Registration Day promises new friends, new interests, and a «-acquaintance with old friends, old in- terests. Frustration, antiripation—registration—life. New this year, registration materials were stationed in the ping-pong room. Hemcn- way second floor was less congested but the wait in the sun wasn't serv pleasant. Rows and row of new texts, wailing for sharp red pencils to undcilinc pcilincnt points. Piles of brand-new notebooks waiting for a name written with ballpoint pen to claim ownership. Behind these rows and plies arc heaps of packing boxes and long hours of checking, marking, and stacking to prepare lor the streams ol buyers which flow in on registration day.

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REGISTRATION The beginning of beginning , the alpha of college education: Registration Day. Walk, walk, write, write, walk—a dayful. A grueling, confusing dayful, after which the student, finally and officially registered. with five pound of book on each arm, feels he is somewhat akin to live psychology text' white mice. He ha been run through a complicated maze that tests learning speed, physical and emotional endurance, and motivation. The maze-like quality of regi tration procedure can be attributed chiefly to the students' building-to-building course that crosses and recrosse itself. A welcome improvement this year wa the change in stationing the card distribution point from upstairs Hemenway to the ping pong room. Lines moved twice as fa t under the new system. But the rest of the trying procedure remained the same: after the cards and ncce ary schedules are secure in Hemen- way, the route leads to various buildings at all points on the campus for faculty advising and program planning. The wise student, if unhampered by a block schedule, has made .out his schedule of classes ahead of time, and needs only to convince the faculty adviser of its suitability—or even its plausibility. Then there is something of a climax of confusion on the second floor of Hemenway where orange IBM class cards are distributed. There arc long waitings in lines; section after sec- tion “closed ; innumerable trips back and forth to faculty ad- Instruction sheets. IBM cards, forms, envelopes are separated from their orderly masses and form one large mass in alphabetical order. Waiting can be a tedious experience but the line begins to forfl an hour early and winds its way around she Hemenway patio.

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Classroom buildings on the UH campus reached new brig his this xar with the Completion of Keller Hall. The four slots building houses the College of Engineering and department of mathematics. A stained glass panel three stories high anil 12 feet wide lights the fewer. Window louscrt along the southern exposure arc regulated by a solar (ell. N ew Buildings Unique 16