University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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IN LINEWAITING INLINE Registration workers John Williams, a freshman in liberal alts and Bill Harrell, a senior in liberal arts, take a moment to rest before letting a new surge of students into Stokely Athletic Center. Students who came in early morning hours were turned away if they did not possess a white card which signified a scheduling problem. wammm - E. Gnins , -L. Maloney Computer registrant Claudia Warick helps Robert Cantrell, a freshman in advertising, complete his schedule by feeding his desired course into the computer. Although he braved the lines of the University Center, Cantrell could have es- caped much of me crowd by going over to the Agricultural campus for drop and add as many upperclassmen do. Sitting at an information table, Wayne Jenkins, a senior in pre-med, anxiously offers information toistudents who wan- dered by. The tables that were set up answered questions ranging from where to buy a parking sticker to where to find the nearest deli. gE. Goins - L. Maloney Academics h 9

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WAITINGINLINEWAITING A neatly dressed young man squeezed cautiously through the east entrance doors of the athletic center and addressed the crowd. uWhite cards only! he shouted. ilNo one with orange cards will be allowed until later. Groans of disgust arose from the throng of students clustered around the entrance steps. Clutching their orange schedule pick-up cards, many disappointedly walked away. But those with white cards, who had not received all of their classes, and some deter- mined others with orange cards, began shuff- ling in toward the entrance. Fall quarter evoked in each student that special sense of excitement that comes from the newness of everything - from the first round of sorority rush, to moving into che dorm? to even standing in line for classes. There was at least one experience that each student shared. Each one waited in at least two lines. Though the same faces were seen in several lines, each row served a different pur- pose. It all started at 8:10 on a clear Monday morning, September 17. By the first day of classes on Thursday, Sep- tember 20, some 28,925 students had passed through the athletic center to pick up schedules, pay fees, have l.D.s validated and receive a wide assortment of printed materials concerning school activities and the sale pitches of local businesses. Although a tiresome, familiar ritual to upper- classmen, it was a confounding maze to freshmen. lt was baffling to students register- ing for the First time to knowjust which hallway to take after picking up a schedule, or just which of the many fee-paying rows they should choose to stand in. Most students, however, went through registration with few problems and, upon leav- ing Stokely, went on to yet other lines, in- cluding of course, the most famous line of all on campus w Drop and Add. It started as a small line, but soon grew into a giant string of bodies that wound its way through the right-wing hallway of the student center. It caused confusion for a week. Although some students were lucky in receiving what they wanted in a class schedule, others were not so fortunate. They joined the well-known, dreaded phenomenon on campus - drop and add - a place where students dis- satisfied with their schedules could change them to a more desirable program. Such dissatisfaction was a common oc- curence when students found they did not get the classes they had wanted, or at the times they had preferred. In order to make any schedule changes, it was necessary to wait in the apparently never- ending line which led to a room of terminals and a massive computer system. Speeding up the process again this fall were the Hexpressl' terminals in the hallway, where students could quickly drop classes or check to see if a certain section of a course was still open. Larry Styles, director of computer registra- tion, said that although 14,000 singular names were recorded on me computer by October 1, a turnstile counted 40,000 students who passed through the drop and add door. Despite all of its bad points, the drop and 8h Academics add line was also a unique social event, offer- ing students a chance to meet new friends. So many students congregated in the hallway of the student center that there was almost always a familiar face somewhere in the line! - L. Maloney Oblivious to the sign above him, Kevin Thompson, a junior in political science figures out his schedule This guard was posted to discourage those who are tempted to sneak into the exit instead of waiting in the line, Equipped with all the essentials for registration - a checkbook, schedule, and munchies, Rosemary Burnett, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, prepares her drop and add slip before she enters the line for the computer.

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-L Maloney Examining their schedules for needed textbooks, Nancy Mathews, a freshman in communications, and Paula Linde, a freshman in eduction, help each other find history books. Fall quarter Mathews spent $80 on books. Before the rush starts. University book store workers, Carol Gorghis and Kimberly Helton, price history books. The book store offers 6500 different books selling sometimes as many as 3,000 copies of one book.