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Registration outdated, inefficent
The campus
is abuzz this week as students traipse about searching for college
faculty members to sign schedule cards so they can pre-register
for classes. Every semester Hillsdale students go through the
same strange process of shuffling about slips of paper from
one administrative office to another, as though we do not have
the technology to accomplish these tasks using "laser beams"
and "computer chips."
One example will suffice: A student
applying to take an independent study must track down and obtain
actual signatures from as many as five different faculty and
staff members before bringing the application back to the registrar.
We think a system of Internet
or telephone registration, widely employed by community colleges
and universities nationwide, is long overdue at Hillsdale College.
The current system is an unnecessary burden on students, faculty
and staff. Let the laser beams and computer chips do this work
for us. They get the job done quickly, those lasers.
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Editorial
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