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About The Maroon tiger. (Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1998)
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EDITORIALS
ATale of Two Registrations
By Brian L. Thompson
Editor-In-Chief
They claimed it to be the
best of times. It was the worst
of times. It was the age where
the innocent were
marginalized by the
administration and staff. Yet,
the bigwigs over in Gloster
Hall still remain under the
illusion that the current
registration system works.
Dean Sterling Hudson
asserted that if everything was
done correctly (telephone
registration, tuition paid),
registration should take no
longer than 10-15 minutes. Of
course, a feather and a rock
placed into a vacuum will fall
at the same rate.
However, while a vacuum
is an ideal environment, this
is not. People bristle when
confronted by a confused
student who obeyed an
administrator by coming back
later only to find that the
guard would not let him in.
Administrators take hour or
more lunches. Someone
decides that trying to register
close to three thousand people
in twelve hours is a good idea.
It would be more
beneficial to make registration
four days instead of two so
that hundreds instead of
thousands are registering a
day. Only 1900 students were
registered as of the end of
registration week anyway, so
... the bigwigs over in
Gloster Hall still remain
under the illusion that
the current registration
system works.
something needs to be done.
Also, hiring more help to take
over when people go to lunch
would insure that the lines
kept moving. But most of all,
a little understanding might be
nice. I implore you to find me
the person who would be
perfectly composed after
being told several different
things, sent in several different
directions, standing in several
long lines and getting
absolutely nothing done.
My experience was better
than that of others because I
had everything done. My
tuition was lost in a time of
thirty seconds and it ended up
taking me twice the time
Hudson suggested to register.
I'm sure there are students out
there right now that were
without a single class to their
name and others who could
not register for days because
the system was down. Any
changes that will be made will
be done after my time, but
change has to be made. When
asked about Morehouse, most
of us (the honest ones) will not
give you a brochure of verbal
information. You might hear
about how the step show was
systematically erased from
campus activities or how it
took you a week to register
because your financial aid did
not come through. No one
said that the system is ideal. It
should just stop being
portrayed as such.
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Mark Allwood
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A&E Editor
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