Word: registrar
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...boasting that Arkansas has 'the biggest watermelons in the world,' " Hillary says. A few months later, she ran into him again while registering for classes. "He joined me in this long line, and we talked for an hour. When we got to the front of the line, the registrar said, 'Bill, what are you doing here? You already registered...
THERE ARE a number of benefits from self-scheduled exams. First, they would eliminate the arbitrariness and unfairness of the present system. Exam times aren't holy; they are decided by when the registrar can cram what where. The result is that some students get screwed over with multiple exams on the same or consecutive days, or have useless gaps before exams for which they don't need to study. What's even worse is when--like me--you have a four-day intersession while your roommate runs off to Puerto Rico for two weeks of sun. Having students decide...
Finally, there is a benefit for the registrar, TFs and professors: self-scheduled exams eliminate the bogus sick-out. Instead of walking into UHS with a cough, students would need to produce a disease that incapacitates them for two weeks. The 24-hour flu approach to postpone that Math 21a final until March just...
...potential for mistakes in the transition process of getting exams through the registrar is scary, but not very large. Every time we hand in a midterm or register for classes the bureaucracy has our lives in its hands, but costly errors are infrequent...
...only real problem with self-scheduled exams is the mess it would create for the registrar. But if we turned our present exam proctors into assistants for the registrar, the office could easily handle the sudden upsurge in work. In fact, net bureaucratic administration might even be reduced, as a proctor who would normally waste three hours watching one class could easily monitor exams for several classes at once...