The DePauw | Friday November 2, 2012

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Course registration system proposal goes public By Nicky Chokran news@thedepauw.com

The new course registration system proposal went public on DePauw’s website Monday evening. A dozen students joined Registrar Ken Kirkpatrick for an open forum about the highly anticipated system Tuesday afternoon. “We’ve been looking at different systems for a long time now, since I’ve been Registrar actually,” Kirkpatrick said. Kirkpatrick described the current system as a batch system, meaning students submit a group of primary courses and alternatives. The system then uses those requests and pre-set priority conditions to place them in classes. Kirkpatrick said the strength of the current system is that it allows for a lot of control over priorities during course registration. However, the downside is the system lacks transparency for students to see why or why not they end up enrolled in the courses they request. Kirkpatrick called it “a black box” system. The proposed system is instead a direct enrollment system comprised of three phases: advising and enrollment preparation,

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priority registration and open enrollment. “It will basically take the black box out of [the registration process],” Kirkpatrick said. “With this kind of system, you should know either at the time of registration or shortly after why you didn’t get into a course if you don’t get in one that you wanted.” Senior Casie Sambo learned about the proposal from a student government email sent on Oct. 29 to organizations around campus. “There’s nothing worse than getting your schedule back and realizing you only got half the classes you need,” Sambo said. “So I think that we should do it, let’s give a new system a try.” During the advising and enrollment preparation phase of course registration, students will have around two weeks to assemble a course watch list — a sort of “shopping cart for registration,” Kirkpatrick said. During this time, the system will check student eligibility in order for courses to be added to the watch

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Advancement office loses another as Petrovich leaves for position at Valpo Left: Jason Petrovich. Courtesy photo By Joseph Fanelli news@thedepauw.com

Another key player in the university’s upcoming financial campaign announced his resignation this week. Jason Petrovich ’93, execu-

By Joseph Fanelli news@thedepauw.com

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tive director of Development and current interim vice president of Development, confirmed that he will leave DePauw at the end of the calendar year to take a position at Valparaiso University in northern Indiana. Petrovich is the second top administrator on the Advancement staff to resign from the university in the past two months. Marcia Latta announced in early

September she was leaving the position of vice president for Advancement at the end of the calendar year. Latta, who lives in Ohio and commutes weekly to Greencastle, cited family reasons. She will

Petrovich | continued on page 4

Monon ticket sales down from previous years

Courses | continued on page 3

Field hockey Sandy affects season continues DePauw students

Vol. 161, Issue 18

Above: Monon Bell tickets are for sale online and can be picked up in the Old Gold room in the Lily Center. Online purchasing ends tomorrow at noon, but tickets will be available for purchase during this Saturday's football game. Isabelle Chapman / The DePauw

Ticket sales to the Monon Bell Classic football game at Wabash College are struggling as this year’s matchup rapidly approaches. About 1,000 of the 3,200 allotted tickets have been sold for the Nov. 10 game, according to Athletic Director Stevie Baker-Watson. That number is down from previous years, according to Director of Media Relations Ken Owen. There are 2,199 tickets left for students and alumni to buy from the university. Typically around this time, the game is either sold out or there are only a few hundred tickets left, Owen said. The last time DePauw played the bell game at Wabash in 2010, only around 300 tickets were left unsold. Baker-Watson was not sure why ticket sales were so low, but said that traditionally DePauw

does not sell out when the game is at Wabash. She also said that students may not realize that they have to buy the tickets. She stressed that tickets for away games are never free, but that the university usually handles the cost for students at home games. Owen said that less alums may travel to the game because Percentage of available tickets sold as of Nov. 1

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the game is now easier to access online. Tickets can still be purchased online at the DePauw football homepage until to noon today. Tickets, which went on sale Oct. 22, will be sold at this Saturday’s home football game and at the Lilly Physical Fitness Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for $15. These sales will be cash only.


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