University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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After a lazy summer of no classes and no studying, fall finds this boy in a state common to most of us; until mid-terms and hourlies hit us, we go to football games, have fun, and just plain relax with scarcely any thought to the opening of books. We Happily Return To Fall and Football September arrives and we return after a lazy summer vacation to fall and school. What new sights greet our eyes? A hole in the quad where green grass once grew. Three thou- sand new faces and four thousand new bikes. A flying saucer being erected near the stadium. MRH girls. Illi buses. Lovely fall, where girl meets boy, and boy meets girls ; where professors meet students and intel- lects meet instructors. But after we've battled the registration lines, had a last laugh at our new ID cards and a last cry at our bills from the book stores, we peer out among the fallen leaves and everything's the same: Eight o'clock classes are still offered only in the Natural History Building; Ox is still working toward his degree ; ROTC is still here ; it still rains every day; the undergrad li- brary is still not the place to study; and Homecoming, Dad's Day, and ev- erything fall is still fun. Fall is the time to renew old friendships and make new acquaintances.

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Registration Dilemma Reaches All Time High Students doggedly await their turn to engage in the battle to obtain a desired section — Not quiz every Friday at five! Armory guide Joan Schmidt, junior in LAS, points out proper stations to perplexed coeds during registration. During Registration Week students get into the groove of college life. Even though everyone has heard about the massive confusion and tired feet, it takes a firsthand experience in this endurance test to really initiate the new school year. The required standard equipment for the event is the student's I.D. number, comfortable shoes and per- severence, with an emphasis on the latter. The first step involves meeting an appointed college adviser to secure approval of the trial reg- istration form. Now the student tentatively sched- ules the courses and sections which he has planned. At set of IBM cards, the first of many, are filled out with schedule, housing, I.D. number, and other general information. Departmental ap- proval for each course is the succeeding project. The student proceeds to the Armory, where the sectioning areas are located, in order to obtain a class card for each of his courses. The big prob- lem now is to beat the clock and to register for the scheduled course section before the section closes. This is the longest and most nerve-racking process in registration. After submitting the cards to clerks for final checking, the student passes on to a specified sta- tion where the cards are exchanged for a fee card, then proceeds to the cashier's window. The bonus is a free trip to the photographic section for an I.D. picture, which captures the end product of an encounter with registration. 10