University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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Photographs by Tom Moran 24-BUREAUCRACY Add Drop? Drop Add? Regardless of the name, it still means lines to most students. Hoping to change their schedules, hundreds wait patiently in Memorial Coliseum. Some probably wish their line would move as fastas those basketball players who secured the banners banging on the back wall. Lining up to wait At the beginning of the school year, every UK student is exposed to the lines and signs syndrome. Regardless of the task, whether waiting to pay tuition fees or health fees, obtaining a parking sticker, getting an ID made, making schedule changes, or buying books and school supplies, signs directed students where to go and lines almost always awaited them. Most often, the end of the line brought paperwork and bureaucratic questions. These photographs show the syndrome at work in various places during the first weeks of school. Eventually, everyone settled into the routine of academic life while thoughts of next semester's lines and signs seemed far away. Hallways in the Student Center become a haven for those who wait during the first weeks of school. Here, the goal is to obtain a parking sticker. Realizing the wait, Joe Bernstein decides to sit down while filling out the proper forms; perhaps be had the right idea since some had to wait for up to four hours.

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For the seventh straight semester, Candy Roberts flips burgers and runs the cash register at UK’s K-Lair grill which serves 2,500 students daily. While senior Kenny J. Rice completes the check-out card for a reserved reading at the main circulation desk at M.I. King Library, sophomore Leigh Ann Robinson waits to complete the transaction. In addition to answering requests for reserves, Robinson punches date-due cards for general circulation books and figures fines for overdues. JOBS-23 T. Moran Checking the sound mix on a recorded commercial, WBKY-FM sports director Mack Calvert waits for a phone call in his McVey Hall office. M. Bolin

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Virtually swamped with wbat feels like reams of paperwork, Anthony Bigbee tangles with the familiar process of pre-registration. Bigbee, shown ironing out a tenative schedule for the fall semester, described his work as a chore. ” Besides the more official lines in which students must wait, there remain the book store lines. At Kennedy’s Book Store special checkout lines are set up to accomodate the extra heavy customer load. Tiena Bentley, an animal sciences major, discovers that the biology lab she is required to take is closed. Bentley, a transfer student from the University of Louisville, is pleased with her move. It’s more professional here. I enjoy going to classes and that’s unusual for me,” she said. Her first experience with Add Drop had a happy ending when she discovered she could schedule around the lab. BUREAUCRACY-25