Volume 61 Issue 15
Loyola Marymount University March 5, 1984
The clock tower pierces the morning silhouette of Whelan Hall. Loyolan, photo by Paul Bemai
The Los Angeles
Registration Revolutionized
By GINA MANCHA
Loyolan News Writer
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his April will mark the beginning of
computerized, advance registration
at LMU. The Registrar’s office is im¬
plementing a new system intended to
greatly change and improve the present
format of registering for classes.
Students will no longer have to run for
cards and battle the long Ijmes in St*.
Robert’s Auditorium.
Instead, all registration which will
take place from April 3 to May 10 will be
handled quickly and efficiently in the
Registrar’s office on-line computer ter¬
minals. According to Rose St. Onge,
University Registrar, “You shouldn’t
see a line at all.”
In March, students will be mailed
their registration materials. The registra¬
tion form will be somewhat altered, and
it will now be necessary to fill in the line
numbers. Line numbers correspond to
the class listings (e.g., department,
number, section).
When it is time to register, the student
will go to a computer terminal and the
computer operator will key in only the
line numbers. Therefore, it will be
crucial to list the correct numbers on the
course request cards. Once a schedule
has been successfully entered in the com¬
puter, the student will receive a com¬
puterized copy and will then know his or
her class schedule for the fall.
“This advance registration should be
a big help in pre-planning such things as
work hours,” Commented James Kelly,
Director of Management and Informa¬
tion Systems, who has been working
with the computers.
During the registration period, the
choice appointments will be assigned to
students on the basis of seniority. First¬
time freshmen will not register until
August 28.
There will be absolutely no early
registration for anyone including service
organizations, because registration dates
and times will be logged into the com¬
puters. Students attempting early
registration will simply be told to come
back at their scheduled time.
There is to be no advance registration
fee, but there will be a very strict
deadline for clearances. If clearance is
not received by August 16, registration
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Stacy Lewi*
Afro
/
Chicano Studies Given Autonomy
By CHRIS KEARLEY
Loyolan News Writer
During the past year the fate of
the departments of Chicano and
Afro-American studies has been
unknown. Many students and faculty
felt the departments should be main¬
tained separately while others felt the
courses in these disciplines should be in¬
tegrated into other mainstream depart¬
ments such as history, political science,
or sociology .
On February 9, Fr. Albert Koppes,
academic vice president, established
three basic guidelines under which the
goals of both Chicano Studies and Afro-
American Studies will be implemented.
This letter was sent to Fr. Anthony
Brzoska, dean of the college of Liberal
Arts, Dr. John Davis, chairperson of
Afro-American Studies and Dr. Teresita
Venegas, chairperson of Chicano
Studies.
Koppes received input from a number
of sources, but primarily from a faculty
committee he developed to study the
available options of where to classify
Chicano and Afro-American courses in
the curriculum. This committee con¬
sisted of Seth Thompson of the political
science department, Graciela Limon of
the Spanish department, Sr. Marie
Mayeski of the theology department,
Ron Barrett of the psychology depart¬
ment, and Theodore Erlandson of the
English department.
The three guidelines issued through
Koppes’ office state in summary:
“First, both Afro-American and
Chicano studies will be maintained as
separate departments.. The questions of
majors in these departments need to be
addressed in the larger context of the
University, namely, policies relating to
all departments where majors are under-
subscribed.
Second, staffing in both departments
will be on the basis of joint appoint¬
ments with another academic depart¬
ment. A faculty member will be hired to
teach a given number of courses per year
in one department and a given number
in another. (For example one faculty
member might teach both a history
course and a Chicano Studies course.)
Third, cross-listing of courses will
continue. These procedures will be
simplified to guarantee an easy choice to
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