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The Red and Black
Friday, April 2,1182
Break may be cut to 5 days
By SUSAN BRANDT
Krd and Black Wall Writer
University students may
have a shorter Thanksgiving
break than usual if the pro
posed academic calendar is
approved. Registrar Bruce
Shutt said
A calendar committee,
made up of faculty members
from each school, Shutt,
Housing Director Dan
Hallenbeck and Associate
Vice President for Academic
Affairs Louise McBee, sug
gested that the Thanksgiving
break be changed from the
present full week to a
Wednesday through-Sunday
schedule This action would
shorten the break by four
days.
Faculty members on the
committee were very much
in favor of the change, Shutt
said. He said many instruc
tors felt that the week-long
break prior to the end of fall
quarter created a "lame
duck" session following the
break which students had
trouble getting back to their
studies
“Many universities only
get Thursday and Friday off
We want to give Wednesday
off so students can travel if
they wish,” Shutt said
The proposed 1983-85
schedule is now before the
Academic Affairs Advisory
Committee and the commit
tee expects to vote on it at its
April 12 meeting. If passed,
Registration fine, despite snafu
ByC.E. REINEKK
MaWHutMItMa
Despite computer pro
blems during drop-add at
Chicopee Wednesday,
University officials said they
are satisfied with the overall
performance of the OpSTAR
computer system during spr
ing registration
"Registration has gone
pretty well," said Assistant
Registrar Gary Moore, "but
the students down there
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Wednesday might
disagree "
The OpSTAR system
broke down late Wednesday
afternoon during the peak
period of the final day of
drop-add, leaving an
estimated 1,000 students
waiting for periods of two or
more hours in long lines at
the Chicopee building
Assistant Registrar Ron
Delaiy described the pro
blem as a malfunction in the
computer-information disk
that forced officials to halt
registration for approx
imately an hour and-a half.
Delray said the malfunc
tion was unexpected but not
unusual.
“It happens to all com
puters — no one knows when
or why they break down,” he
said "Wednesday it happen
ed at the worst possible
time."
Registration workers
allowed 100 students into the
scheduling area of the com
plex every 10 minutes after
the probWtn was corrected,
but during its “down time"
students had already flooded
the facility and forced it to
remain open until six
o'clock
"It seemed like there were
5,000 out there to me,"
DeLay said, “but I’m sure it
wasn't quite that many.”
Preliminary figures com
piled after the completion of
drop-add showed spring
quarter enrollment totaled
21,806 — a drop of over 2,600
from winter quarter Enroll
ment traditionally drops
from winter to spring
quarters.
Memorial
A memorial service for Ed
Weeks, unofficial poet
laureate of Athens, will be
held Friday, April 2, at 2
p.m. at T.K. Harty’s in the
Station complex.
Weeks, a popular Athens
figure, was found dead in his
apartment March 18.
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the Thanksgiving-break plan
would not go into effect until
1983
Another proposal that
came up for discussion while
the committee was planning
the schedule was changing
the calendar to a 47<lay
quarter with 55 minute
classes Currently the
University runs under a 50-
day quarter with classes
running 50 minutes
Clifford Lewis, associate
dean of education and chair
man of the calendar commit
tee, said: “Many issues had
to be looked at, including
having to change the bus
schedule, the possibility of
losing 10th period and the
feeling that students still
need 15 minutes in order to
get to class.”
One of the major factors
was objections to the pro
posal from faculty
members, according to
Shutt. “They feel they need
the days worse than they
need the extra five
minutes," Shutt said. “The
proposal was discussed at
great length but was voted
down unanimously ”
No allowances have been
made in the proposed calen
dar for snow days but Shutt
doesn’t forsee any problems.
“Snow days are only a pro
blem every five or six
years,” Shutt said. “This
year is the first time it has
happened since I came here
in 1975.”
If snow does cause classes
to close before 1984, students
will either have to attend
Saturday classes as they did
this winter, or the days just
won’t be made up, he said.
Financial computer
to be working by ’83
By EVE MAJOR
Bed and ltl.nk Staff Wrilrr
A new computer that will reduce paperwork and allow
quicker handling of financial aid requests arrived earlier this
week and is expected to be fully operational by 1983, Ray
Tripp, director of student financial aid, said.
Four of the computer's eight modules are ready for testing,
Tripp said, and will be tested and put into operation in the
next 45 days The other four modules will be tested and im
plemented later this year, and the whole system will be
operational for the 1983-84 school year. Eventually a printer
will be added to the system for printing out award letters.
The financial-aid office currently handles applications
from about 12,000 students yearly, each including from two to
five pieces of paper About 80 percent of the paperwork is
now handled manually, said financial-aid counselor
Marguerite Bruce. By cutting down on paperwork the new
computer will improve the efficiency of the office and allow
more time for counseling, she said.
The University’s computer center is in charge of testing
the modules "We hope to be operational by the first week in
May, so testing will have to be finished before that,” Bruce
said.
Tripp, Bruce, and information analyst David Straub began
developing the computer system two-and-a-half years ago
They were faced with two options, Tripp said: buy a
"complete package" or develop a computer system on cam
pus. After attending a week-long seminar on computer
development and looking at other schools with computerized
financial-aid systems, they put together a system suited to
the University’s particular needs.
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Rex Dunn faces an angry bull
Rodeo clown’s job
not all fun, games
By TERRI BLACKWELL
Krd and Black Staff Writer
At one time or another
almost every child thinks
of running away to join the
circus as a clown. But how
about joining the rodeo to
become a clown? Sound
exciting? Sound
dangerous? Sound stupid?
For Rex Dunn, one of this
year’s rodeo clowns, being
a bullfighter was a
childhood dream.
“I grew up around the
rodeo and my dream was
to be a clown/bull
fighter," Dunn said.
It takes a certain type of
person to endanger his life
to protect that of the bull
rider. The clown’s job is
probably the most im
portant one in the rodeo,
as he must lure the bull
away from the fallen
rider.
In the course of his 12
years as a bull fighter.
Dunn has broken his arm,
nose, collarbone, ruptured
his neck and broken so
many ribs he’s lost count.
Dunn said he felt
satisfied after facing an
angry 1,800-pound bull and
coming out victorious. He
plays a game of hide-and-
seek with the animal. He is
a master at disguise and
deceit, and uses his skill to
draw the bull from its
former passenger.
The 27-year-old
professional now makes
his home in Hastings,
Oklahoma. Dunn averages
about 35 rodeos a year in
every part of the country.
He was selected to com
pete in the Wrangler Bull
Fighting competition as
one of the top 12 clowns in
the world Dunn competes
against the other mem
bers for points based on
style, ability to get around
the bull, how close to the
bull he gets and how well
he pleases the crowd. In
his first Wrangler match,
Dunn won second place.
On the average, Dunn
estimates he earns about
$36,000 a year. He receives
$400 per performance, but
also has many expenses,
including traveling and
equipment, not to mention
the eight insurance
policies he carries.
He obtained his
professional license and
became a member of the
Professional Rodeo
Cowboys Association in
1977.
He was also involved in
making some com
mercials for the Ford
Motor Company, and in
1980 was selected by the
governing board of
directors of the American
Biographical Institute as
an "International Youth in
Achievement."
“I’m doing something I
truly love," Dunn said.
“I’m making a livin’ at it
and lovin’ it."
RODEO
From Page I
The students must water down the ring, usually every
six hours to hold down the dust, which means someone is
there around the clock. About 80 members turned out
Wednesday night for a rock-picking-up party inside the
Coliseum. This is necessary so that the area is smooth
and the animals don’t stumble, Gotti said.
Profits from the rodeo go for service projects,
scholarships, and other agriculture-related projects,
said Rodeo chairman David Gazda.
"The rodeo is something different for the people of
Athens to see,’’ Gazda said. "We enjov doing it and the
folks like to see it."
Nationally "more people bought rodeo tickets last
year than (they) did for pro football and basketball
games, ” said Gotti.
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